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Last Chance Harvey gets world premiere at AFI FEST
Joel Hopkins's romance Last Chance Harvey will receive its world premiere on November 8 after joining the AFI FEST 2008 line-up as a late entry.Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson star in the London-set tale of an unhappy man whose fortunes change when he discovers an unlikely companion at his daughter's ...
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Isidore Mankofksy to receive ASC Presidents Award
Isidore Mankofsky will receive the American Society Of Cinematographers Presidents Award at the 23rd Annual American Society Of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards on February 15 2009 in Los Angeles.Mankofsky began his career making documentaries and shooting newsfilm at a television station in Reno, Nevada. He made more than 100 educational ...
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Hoffman, Brolin, Scott Thomas to be honoured at Hollywood Awards
In the latest round of honourees announced by the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, Dustin Hoffman will receive the career achievement award while Josh Brolin is named actor of the year and Kristin Scott Thomas is feted as actress of the year.Hoffman won two Oscars for Kramer ...
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Regent takes US rights from Fortissimo to The Song Of Sparrows
Regent Releasing has acquired US rights from Fortissimo Films to Iranian foreign-language Oscar submission The Song Of Sparrows from Majid Majidi.Regent plans a limited release in spring 2009 on the contemporary drama, which premiered at Berlinale last winter and tells of a poor man whose personality changes when he acquires ...
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Colin Stanfield takes over as executive director of Nantucket festival
Independent producer and festival veteran Colin Stanfield is taking the reins at the Nantucket Film Festival after founder and current executive director Jill Burkhart announced she was relinquishing oversight of day-to-day operations to chair the festival's board of directors.Stanfield will commence work immediately in advance of the 14th edition that ...
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Penelope Cruz to receive Santa Barbara's top award in Jan 2009
Penelope Cruz will receive the 24th Santa Barbara International Film Festival's (SBIFF) Outstanding Performer Of The Year Award on January 31, 2009.Cruz is currently filming Nine for the Weinsteins and starred this year in Woody Allen's comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona and the Philip Roth adaptation Elegy.She was nominated for an ...
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Guillaume Depardieu dies tragically at 37 from pneumonia
Guillaume Depardieu, the actor son of Gerard Depardieu, died on Monday [October 13] in a French hospital from pneumonia. He was 37.Depardieu died at the Raymond-Poincare hospital west of Paris after he was flown back from Romania, where he contracted a pulmonary illness during filming.Despite winning the Cesar for the ...
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WBITV strikes licensing deal with On Demand Deutschland
Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITV) continued its expansion into subscription VOD today [October 13] with a licensing deal for On Demand Deutschland (ODD) to carry between Warner TV in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland.ODD, a joint venture between On Demand Group (ODG) and Tele Munchen Gruppe (TMG), will carry ...
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Screen Media Films takes domestic rights to Lymelife
Screen Media Films has picked up US rights to Derick Martini's drama Lymelife following its world premiere at Toronto last month, where it won the FIPRESCI Discovery AwardLymelife takes place in the 1970s in a Long Island community afflicted by an outbreak of Lime Disease. The ensemble cast features Alec ...
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DreamWorks and Universal sign distribution deal
Universal and DreamWorks have signed a seven-year worldwide distribution deal in a much anticipated move that is understood to cover up to six films a year commencing sometime in 2009.Speculation had been rife in recent weeks as to which studio would distribute the DreamWorks slate following the recent departure from ...
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Evans, Jurjens launch sales outfit Tavix Pictures at AFM
Producer Casey Evans and director Brad Jurjens have announced they will launch the distribution company Tavix Pictures at AFM, which runs from November 5-12 in Santa Monica.The inaugural slate includes Jurjens' action thriller Hired Gun starring Michael Madsen, John W Kim's Hitchcockian thriller Blur and Michael O'Brien's baby boomer documentary ...
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Chihuahua bites $17.5m for number one spot at domestic box office
Historically American audiences have been happy to anoint talking animals as their champions and so it was little surprise that Buena Vista's Beverly Hills Chihuahua was the top dog in its second week of release.The family film added an estimated $17.5m to raise the running total to $52.5m and had ...
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Russia's Admiral has huge local bow for Fox International
A local Russian hit and a Hollywood paranoia thriller knocked Mamma Mia off its perch after a grand five-week reign as international champion.The Russian market has yielded mighty returns this year for local titles in particular and the trend continued as Fox International opened Channel 1/Solyaris' Admiral (Kolchak) in Russia ...
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Theresa Peters leaves WMA to become partner at UTA
United Talent Agency (UTA) has scored a coup and lured Theresa Peters following a 14-year stint at the William Morris Agency.Peters becomes the 18th partner and an agent in the UTA talent department and brings a client list that includes James McAvoy, Kirsten Dunst, Mads Mikkelsen, Mandy Moore and Hugh ...
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Bell, Lucas join voice cast of Imagi Studios' Astro Boy
Kristen Bell and Matt Lucas have joined the voice cast of Imagi Studios' CG-animated Astro Boy which has been set for a domestic release through Summit on Oct 23, 2009. Summit is also handling international sales except for Japan, Hong Kong and China.They join the previously announced cast of Nicolas ...
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Dennings joins Harrelson, Oh in Darius Films' Defendor
Kat Dennings, starring alongside Michael Cera in this weekend's release Nick And Nora's Infinite Playlist, has signed on to play the role of Kat in Defendor opposite Woody Harrelson and Sandra Oh.Harrelson will playing Arthur, an ordinary man who believes he has asecret identity as the superhero Defendor. Oh plays ...
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Martinsons' Loss selected as Lithuania's Oscar submission
Maris Martinsons' debut feature Loss from ART&A Film Production has been selected as Lithuania's foreign language Oscar submission.Loss intertwines the stores of six people whose destinies overlap after a tragic accident that occurred more than 20 years earlier.Martinsons co-wrote the screenplay with Raimondas Paskevicius and produced with Linda Krukle and ...
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Seven Arts begins shooting Night Of The Demons remake
Principal photography has commenced in New Orleans on Seven Arts Pictures' horror remake Night Of The Demons.Adam Gierasch wrote the screenplay with his longtime partner Jace Anderson and is directing the story of a Halloween party that turns into a nightmare when a group of teenagers find themselves being stalked ...
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Che, The Wrestler named centrepiece screenings at AFI FEST
The West Coast premieres of Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler and Steven Soderbergh's Che have been selected as the AFI FEST 2008's centrepiece screenings.Soderbergh's Che Guevara films starring Benicio Del Toro premiered at Cannes and will screen on November 1 while The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke will screen on November 6 ...
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Fox Walden restructure sees Godsick move back into Fox
Fox Walden chief Jeffrey Godsick is rejoining Fox Filmed Entertainment as executive vice president of marketing and digital content as Fox and Walden Media streamline the joint venture to take greater advantage of Fox's marketing expertise.Both Walden and Fox will continue to develop family films separately with the option of ...