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Toronto names 13 new titles in Discovery programme
The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled 13 films in the Discovery programme to accompany the previously announced Those Three.The new titles are: David Ross' US drama The Babysitters, about a teenager that turns a babysitting service into a call girl ring; Tamar van den Dop's Netherlands/Belgium/Bulgaria romance Blind; Israel ...
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Cinema Epoch picks up US rights to Limousin's Young Yakuza
US distributor Cinema Epoch has picked up Jean-Pierre Limosin's Young Yakuza, which played in official selection at Cannes this summer, and plans a January 2008 release.Filmed over an 18-month period, Young Yakuza explores the Japanese criminal underworld by contrasting the lives of a 20-year-old initiate and his boss.Celluloid Dreams' Hengameh ...
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Maryam Keshavarz gets inaugural Adrienne Shelly grant
The Sundance Institute in collaboration with The Adrienne Shelly Foundation has awarded the inaugural Adrienne Shelly Foundation Women Filmmakers Grant to Maryam Keshavarz.The Adrienne Shelly Foundation will provide a $5,000 grant to be awarded by Sundance Institute each July to a film-maker coming out of the Feature Film Progamme's June ...
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IFC acquires domestic theatrical and TV to Joe Strummer doc
IFC Entertainment has acquired North American theatrical and television rights from Sony BMG Music Entertainment to Julien Temple's documentary Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten.The film launched at Sundance and chronicles Strummer's life from diplomatic corps brat to influential band leader of The Clash and The Mescaleros, before his death ...
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Ben Kingsley to head cast of Levine's The Wackness for Occupant
Los Angeles-based Occupant Films has cast Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Mary Kate Olsen, Olivia Thirlby and Method Man in its upcoming comedy The Wackness.Jonathan Levine, whose debut feature All The Boys Love Mandy Lane was Occupant Films' hit maiden launch at Toronto 2006 and will now be released ...
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Oscar-nominated writer, director Shavelson dies at 90
Film-maker and former Writers Guild Of America, West president Melville Shavelson has died at his Studio City, Los Angeles, home. He was 90.Shavelson passed away from natural causes on Aug 8 and made a name for himself as a skilled Jack Of All Trades.He shared two Best Screenplay Oscar nominations ...
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Shaevitz, Schaefer join Summit's production team
Summit Entertainment has hired production executives Geoff Shaevitz and Michael Schaefer as the company continues to expand its in-house film-making activities under production chief Erik Feig.Shaevitz will serve as senior vice president of production and Schaefer will serve as vice president of acquisitions and co-productions. Both report to Feig.'It's been ...
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Quinn, Reichert promoted to share releasing duties at Magnolia
Magnolia Pictures department heads Tom Quinn (pictured right) and Jeff Reichert (left) have been promoted to the roles of senior vice president and will share all major responsibilities surrounding releases.Quinn previously focused primarily on acquisitions, while Reichert oversaw theatrical publicity and marketing on all distribution efforts.'Tom and Jeff have been ...
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Academy encourages studios to cut down on mailouts
New regulations that govern marketing campaigns for the upcoming 80th Academy Awards have blocked companies from sending out 'For Your Consideration' CDs of soundtracks to members.Following a meeting of the board of governors of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, companies will no longer be allowed to send ...
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Global Film Initiative announced films for 2008 Global Lens series
Award-winning films from Argentina, China, Croatia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, Philippines and South Africa will headline the Global Film Initiative's Global Lens 2008 film series.'The films selected for Global Lens 2008 are beautiful, powerful stories that represent the best of cinema from around the world,' Global Film Initiative chair of ...
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Chris Carlisle takes over from Schwartz at New Line
Former head of marketing for FOX Broadcasting and the FX Network Chris Carlisle has been named as Russell Schwartz' replacement as head of domestic marketing at New Line.Carlisle will report directly to Rolf Mittweg, New Line's President and chief operating officer of worldwide marketing and distribution, and will co-report to ...
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Meyers promoted to evp, business affairs, at Focus Features
Focus Features has promoted Howard Meyers to executive vice president of business affairs.Meyers will serve as co-head of the department alongside executive vice president of strategic planning, business affairs and acquisitions Avy Eschenasy. Based in the company's West Coast offices, he reports directly to Focus ' chief executive officer James ...
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Bright promoted to vice president and partner at LA's Insignia Inc
Eddie Michaels, chief executive officer and president of Beverly Hills-based publicity and marketing firm Insignia Inc, has promoted the company's six-year senior associate Erik Bright (pictured) to vice president and partner.Bright will continue to head the company's film and television production publicity division as well as manage and oversee media ...
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US Women In Film teams with GM for Emerging Filmmakers Award
Women In Film (WIF) and the General Motors Corporation (GM) have announced the second annual WIF/GM Acceleration Grant for Emerging Filmmakers.The 2007 WIF/GM Acceleration Grant for Emerging Filmmakers will again be presented to five up-and-coming female film-makers, chosen through an application process overseen by a WIF selection committee comprised of ...
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Kuffman, Boyd, Pereira, Kim join Odd Lot executive ranks
Odd Lot Entertainment has bulked up its executive suite, hiring Keith Kauffman as senior vice president of business and legal affairs, Andrew Boyd as director of marketing and publicity, Yvette Pereira as manager of accounting, and Shirley Kim as manager of international business affairs.Natalya Petrosova, formerly vice president of finance, ...
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Sony Classics takes North and South America on Brick Lane
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North and South American rights from The Works International to Sarah Gavron's London-set immigrant romance Brick Lane.Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson, Harvey Virdi and Zafreen star in the tale of a Bangladeshi woman who struggles after she comes to London to be in an ...
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Harrison, Perkins join LA-based Fifteen Minutes PR
Former Paradigm corporate communications chief Bill Harrison has resurfaced at Howard Bragman's LA-based consultancy Fifteen Minutes PR. Lisa Perkins has also joined the Los Angeles-based company from Creative Public Relations, where she served as senior publicist since 2002. Bragman has also promoted Gabriel Serrato to partner.'Bill Harrison is one of ...
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Hairspray honoured with ensemble acting nod from Hollywood Awards
Hairspray will be honoured with the 11th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards' Hollywood Ensemble Acting Of The Year Award - Musical/Comedy.The awards will be handed out at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony on Oct 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.'We are very proud that we will be recognising ...
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Steve Coogan to play Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards on screen
Steve Coogan will star in Eddie The Eagle as the eponymous British ski-jumper whose last place ranking in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary endeared him to tens of thousands of fans and came to epitomise British eccentricity and spirit.Producers John Heyman and Rupert Maconick are lining up a January ...
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Credit crunch may squeeze slate funders, says Fazio
The rising cost of credit in the US sparked by the recent collapse of the mortgage sector has made film financing a more precarious business, according to Deutsche Bank's new global head of media and entertainment structured finance Laura Fazio.'People are concerned that the debt costs around these transactions have ...