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Emerging to screen Global Film Initiative programmes in US cinemas
Distributor Global Film Initiative (GFI) is expanding its reach through a deal with Emerging Pictures that enables GFI's touring Global Lens 2007 series to screen in digitally equipped cinemas. 'Up to now we have been limited by the costs and logistics of screening only 35mm film,' GFI executive director Kristin ...
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Harper named Regency chairman and CEO
Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE) vice chairman Robert Harper has been named chairman and chief executive officer of Regency Filmed Entertainment. He replaces David Matalon who left the company earlier this month to return to his own production company.Harper will oversee Fox-based Regency's film production unit, New Regency Productions, as well ...
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Sweet Mud, Cashback share top prize at Bermuda Fest
The 10th Annual Bermuda Film Festival came to a close at the weekend, with the Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Award for Best Narrative Feature going to Dror Shaul's Israeli drama Sweet Mud and Sean Ellis' UK comedy Cashback.Linda Hattendorf's Cats Of Mirikitani won best documentary honours, with special mentions going to ...
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WBPI's 300 has earth-shaking $48m international weekend
The Spartan army continued to sweep all before it as 300 grossed an estimated $48m through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI), an exceptional result from 5,000 prints in 33 markets that raised the overseas tally to $79m.The epic opened at number one in 20 markets, led by $8.9m in the ...
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Turtles take the lead from 300 at domestic box office
Warriors continued to hold sway at the North American box office but this weekend the Spartan heroes of 300 were usurped by the might of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.The computer-animated stars from the 1980s claimed the number one post with a solid $25.4m estimated launch through Warner Bros.Kevin Munroe ...
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SPC acquires North American rights to Coppola's new film
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has acquired North American rights to Francis Ford Coppola's first film in 10 years, the mystery Youth Without Youth.Coppola directed, produced and adapted the screenplay from a novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade about an elderly professor who undergoes a mysterious rejuvenation that makes him a ...
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Gen Art to open with Crashing, closes with Quiet Man
The Gen Art Film Festival, set to run from Apr 11-17, will open with the New York premiere of Gary Walkow's drama Crashing starring Campbell Scott, Lizzy Caplan, Izabella Miko and Alex Kingston.Crashing follows a struggling writer who gets to live out the middle-aged man's fantasy when he moves in ...
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Sundance At BAM series includes Savages, Delirious
The Sundance Institute and BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) have unveiled select programme highlights from the upcoming annual Sundance Institute At Bam series of arts event, set to run from May 31-Jun 10.The series presents 21 features and 27 shorts handpicked by Sundance Film Festival's director of programming John Cooper ...
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Norton, Koppelman to be honoured at ninth Sarasota festival
Edward Norton will receive the Humanitarian Award and writer-producerBrian Koppelman the Excellence in Screenwriting Award at the upcomingninth annual Sarasota Film Festival, set to run in Florida from Apr13-22.Executive director Jody Kielbasa, director of programming Tom Hall andtheir team have assembled 207 films for the event encompassingcompetition strands for best ...
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First Look International will continue as normal, says Nu management
First Look Studios (FLS) interim chief executive officer Trevor Short and First Look International (FLI) president Stuart Ford have moved quickly to confirm that FLI will continue to operate as normal heading into Cannes following Nu Image's acquisition of a controlling interest in FLS. Ford said last night [March 22] ...
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Warner's 300 goes to battle in nine new markets
Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) top brass are eyeing another successful overseas campaign as the Spartan warriors of 300 prepare to unleash hell in nine new territories.The military epic has amassed $32m from foreign revenues in less than three weekends and should prove too strong for its rivals yet again.Zack ...
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The Canton Chronicles - interview with 300 producer
'It's the anti-epic,' Atmosphere Entertainment founder Mark Canton says of 300, which opened on March 9 to an astonishing $70.9m three-day gross, setting a new record for a March release.'I call it the 'new-fashioned' way of making an epic movie because it combines the artistry and the emotion you get ...
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2008 Academy Awards will take place on Feb 24
The 80th Annual Academy Awards will take place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on Sunday, Feb 24 2008 following a timetable announcement by the Academy today.Nomination ballots for the upcoming awards season need to be posted by Dec 26, 2007, and the nominations polls close on Jan 12, 2008, ...
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Maddin's Brand to get US release in live and pre-recorded versions
Guy Maddin's 2006 drama Brand Upon The Brain! will be presented as a live event in select cities featuring an 11-piece live orchestra, a five-person live foley team, and a live celebrity narrator.Maddin will appear in person to present the film at the live engagements in May in Chicago (The ...
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Tribeca All Access names 32 projects in 2007 programme
Organisers at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival have announced the selected projects for Tribeca All Access (TAA), the programme designed to foster relations between industry executives and film-makers from traditionally underrepresented communities.Tribeca All Access will present 32 new projects at the five-day event, which runs from Apr 25-29 during this ...
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Volland named head of WBPI publicity department
Lance Volland has been promoted to senior vice president of publicity at Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).Volland, who joined the studio in 1998 as a director and most recently served as vice president, will head up the studio's international publicity department.Based in Burbank and reporting to marketing president Sue Kroll, ...
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Williams to receive achievement award at San Francisco
Robin Williams will receive the Peter J Owens Award at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival on May 3.The Owens Award, named after the local cultural benefactor and longtime San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) board member, honours an actor whose work exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity.Williams will also appear ...
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Provoked to open, Vanaja to close LA Indian Film Festival
Jag Mundhra's drama Provoked starring Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews, Miranda Richardson and Nandita Das will open the 5th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) on Apr 17.The six-day festival will close on Apr 22 with Rajnesh Domalpalli's Vanaja, winner of the Best Debut Feature award at Berlin.The festival will ...
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Kristen Stewart joins Yellow Handkerchief cast
Kristen Stewart, whose credits include Panic Room, Fierce People and The Messengers, has joined the cast of producer Arthur Cohn's remake of the 1977 Japanese comedic drama Yellow Handkerchief. Udayan Prasad is directing.William Hurt, Maria Bello and Eddie Redmayne are set to star in the film, which is scheduled to ...
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Palm picks up Erickson music doc You're Gonna Miss Me
Palm Pictures has picked up North American rights to Keven McAlester's directorial debut documentary You're Gonna Miss Me.Recently nominated for a 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, the film details the rise and fall of rock legend Roky Erickson, whose band The 13th Floor Elevators coined the 1960's term ...