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Berri's latest wins audience award at LA's COLCOA
Claude Berri's Hunting And Gathering starring Audrey Tautou and Guillaume Canet was presented with the 2007 City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COLCOA) Audience Choice Award.'This year's festival is the most successful in the history of COLCOA,' festival director and programmer Francois Truffart said of the event, which ran from ...
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Waitress wins narrative award at Sarasota Film Festival
Adrienne Shelly's final film Waitress won the narrative competition award and Benjamin Niles' Note By Note: The Making Of Steinway L1037 took the documentary prize as the Sarasota Film Festival closed at the weekend.Each award carried a $5,000 cash prize for the film-makers. Olivier Meyrou's Beyond Hatred received a special ...
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H20 picks up two in advance of Cannes
H2O Motion Pictures has picked up international rights to Ashley Baron Cohen's black comedy Poor Things starring Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis.The Los Angeles-based company has further bolstered its Cannes slate with the drama Feel, which is being directed by music video director Matt Mahurin.Poor Things, which is currently shooting ...
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Disturbia wards off two other thrillers opening in North America
Paramount's thriller Disturbia held on to the top spot for the second weekend in a row in a weekend that saw four new releases breaking into the top 10.The film added an estimated $13.5m for $40.7m, one place ahead of New Line's thriller Fracture with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling, ...
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BVI's Wild Hogs leads lacklustre international weekend
John Travolta and his biker friends in Wild Hogs roared up to the top of the international charts over the weekend as an estimated $11.5m haul from 3,046 screens in 38 territories raised the overseas tally to $43.5m.The comedy opened through Buena Vista International (BVI) at number one in a ...
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Silverdocs conference to explore 'filmanthropy' docs
AOL vice chairman Ted Leonisis will give the keynote address at the Silverdocs International Documentary Conference that runs in Maryland from Jun 13-16.The conference will explore the 'filmanthropy' wave of documentaries that attempt to effect social change and raise awareness of important issues. Examples include Participant Productions' eco-warning An Inconvenient ...
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amFar sets Cannes event for May 23 with Stone, Weinstein
Sharon Stone, Harvey Weinstein, and M·A·C AIDS Fund chairman John Demsey are among chairs of amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS event that will run during the Cannes International Film festival on May 23.Elizabeth Taylor, AIDS research and advocacy organisation amfAR's founding international chairman, and founding chairman Dr Mathilde Krim will serve ...
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Sharkwater wins Gen Art Film Festival in New York
Rob Stewart's Sharkwater won the 12th Annual Gen Art Film Festival's Acura Grand Jury Feature Film Award and a $10,000 prize, while Phillip Van's High Maintenance took home $5,000 and the Acura Grand Jury Short Film Award.Both film-makers also claimed the audience Gen Art Film Festival Audience Awards as the ...
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Wild Hogs bikes into 22 territories for BVI
Mr Bean's Holiday, 300, Perfect Stranger, Wild Hogs and Shooter are all in wide release in what should be a tight weekend at the overseas box office.Universal/UPI's reigning champion Mr Bean's Holiday has no major releases on the schedule in the immediate days ahead, but the $128.6m perch should bring ...
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MGM unveils straight-to-DVD slate
MGM will further leverage its extensive library by developing a slate of home entertainment product that will focus primarily on youth markets.The new division, MGM Home Entertainment Productions, plans to release 12 or more projects a year and has earmarked a new instalment in the 2002 police thriller Dark Blue ...
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GreeneStreet ties up MIP deals with LAPTV, Star TV
GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) has tied up a slew of deals at MIPTV with Latin American Pay Television (LAPTV) for Pan Latin America, Star TV for Pan Asia and Entertainment In Motion for airline rights.LAPTV picked up rights to the crime thriller Slow Burn starring Ray Liotta and L L ...
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Cotter teams with Citi for new production, finance, sales outfit
Initial Entertainment Group partner Colin Cotter and financial conglomerate Citi have formed the full-service film production and finance company Continental Entertainment Group (CEG).Cotter will remain a partner in IEG and will serve as president and chief executive officer of CEG and its subsidiary Continental Pictures, a global sales company backed ...
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Valderrama, Fishburne head cast of Days Of Wrath
Production started in Los Angeles this week on the crime drama Days Of Wrath starring Wilmer Valderrama, Amber Valletta, and Laurence Fishburne.Celia Fox is directing the Foxy Films production from a screenplay she co-wrote with Michael Markee and Mitchell Kapner based on a true story.Valderrama plays a Latino mobster who ...
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Mandate seals Helm, Garavente for first-look deal
Mandate Pictures has signed a first-look deal with Zach Helm and producing partner Jim Garavente following the parties' collaboration on Stranger Than Fiction and the upcoming Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium.Mandate will fully finance the new venture - called gang of two - and will look to produce films written by ...
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Villa Muse studio concept announced in Austin, Texas
Texas state and industry leaders have unveiled the $1.5bn Villa Muse mixed-use development that will break ground in East Austin, at the heart of which will be a $125m, 200-acre studio.The Villa Muse Studios will serve the film, television and video game industries, and will be surrounded by architecturally diverse ...
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O'Brien, McDowell, Singh get honoured at Palm Beach
Margaret O'Brien, Malcolm McDowell, South African producer Anant Singh and actress Q'Orianka Kilcher will receive honorary awards at the 12th Annual Palm Beach International Film Festival (PBIFF), which runs from Apr 19-26.Former child star O'Brien will collect the Legend In Film Award and will appear at a screening of Meet ...
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Johnny Slade leads winners at 10th Sonoma Valley Festival
Larry Blamire's crime caper Johnny Slade's Greatest Hits took top honours for best feature at the 10th Annual Sonoma Valley Film Festival, which came to a close at the weekend after five days of film, wine, panels and galas.Cristina Khuly's Shoot Down, which chronicles a little known political firestorm surrounding ...
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Berger & Yerxa sign two-year first-look deal with WIP
Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) has signed a two-year first look deal with Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa's Bona Fide Productions.Berger and Yerxa are preparing an adaptation of The Abstinence Teacher for the studio, with Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris set to direct in their follow-up to Little Miss Sunshine.Tom Perrotta, ...
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Doc on Israeli-Palestinian conflict wins Beverly Hills festival
Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish's Occupation 101 won the Golden Palm Award for best film in all categories at the 7th Annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival (BHFF), which wrapped at the weekend.The documentary charts the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the US Administration's role and also won the ...
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Intermedia plans new international sales company with Ford at helm
Intermedia Films unveiled a new international sales and distribution venture yesterday with former First Look International (FLI) president Stuart Ford installed as president and managing director. Ford arrives at the unnamed Los Angeles- and London-based company with the bulk of the core team he assembled over the past year at ...