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Nina's Heavenly Delights to close LA Fusion festival
Ray Yeung's comedy Cut Sleeve Boys and Ashish Sawhny's documentary HappyHookers are among theline-up of the 4th Annual Fusion: the Los Angeles LGBT People of Color FilmFestival.The event will kick off with a selection of international shortsand closes with the US Premiere of Pratibha Parmar's romantic comedy Nina'sHeavenly Delights.The festivalincludes ...
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Matt Williams launches film development fund Wind Dancer
Matt Williams, who produced What Women Want and created the hit TV show Roseanne, has launched the feature developmentcompany Wind Dancer Films.Backed by private equity investors through a deal brokered byMerrill Lynch, Wind Dancer Films will develop 12 to 15 features in the $15m to$30m range over the next three ...
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MarVista moves into theatrical with Sasquatch Dumpling Gang
Los Angeles-based TV programming production and distribution houseMarVista Entertainment is moving into the theatrical arena with the acquisitionof all international rights excluding the UK and Canada to The SasquatchDumpling Gang.MarVista will introduce the project to buyers at AFM inSanta Monica next month. Company president Michael Jacobs said the venture wasthe ...
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Lightning takes on psychological thriller Killing Floor
Los Angeles-based Lightning Entertainment has picked upinternational sales on recently completed psychological thriller The KillingFloor.Lightning will commence sales at AFM on the picture, which countsAvi Arad and Doug Liman as executive producers and was produced by EdenWurmfeld.Gideon Raff wrote and directed the story set in the Manhattanpublishing world where a ...
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Shooting Dogs wins $100,000 top prize at Heartland Film Festival
MichaelCaton-Jones' Shooting Dogs won the$100,000 grand prize for best dramatic feature and Matt Ruskin's The Hip HopProject received the inaugural $25,000award for best documentary feature at the Heartland Film Festival.Shade won the $10,000 Vision Award for best short film, whileproducer Debra Martin Chase, whose credits include The Sisterhood Of TheTraveling ...
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Prada struts past $100m after stylish $19m weekend
Fox International's The Devil Wears Prada swept past $100m on the back of anestimated $19m weekend overseas haul.The comedy now stands at $104m thanks to strong holds in theEuropean markets and a $617,000 number one debut in Sweden on 66 screens.Prada added$3.4m from 606 in its second weekend in Germany ...
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IFC takes US rights to Von Trier's Boss Of It All
IFCEntertainment's prolific acquisitions streak continued this week as the companyannounced it had taken all US rights to Lars Von Trier's Danish comedy Bossof It All.Thefilm was produced by Vibeke Windelov, Meta Foldagers and Von Trier's ZentropaEntertainment and will open through IFC First Take in spring 2007. IFC Filmspreviously handled Von ...
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Screenwriting guru Field to receive honour from Big Break Awards
Syd Field will collect Final Draft's 2006 Hall Of FameAward at the 7th Annual Big Break! Awards in Hollywood on Oct 26.Winners of the Big Break! International Screenwriting Contest willalso be announced at the event.The Hall of Fame Award recognises entertainment industry luminarieswho foster the art of scriptwriting and nurture ...
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Henson's Fraggle Rock headed for the big screen
The Jim Henson Company is developing a full-length feature basedon its 1980s television show Fraggle Rock.The story will follow the adventures of Fraggle Rockresidents Gobo, Wembley, Mokey, Boober and Red as they venture outside theirhome and encounter new creatures.Ahmet Zappa is writing the screenplay and will serve as executive produceralongside ...
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Bigelow enters The Hurt Locker for Voltage Pictures
Kathryn Bigelow has begun pre-production on Iraq-set action drama TheHurt Locker, whichVoltage Pictures will commence selling at AFM next month.The Hurt Locker follows the exploits of an elite bomb disposal unit and is basedon a screenplay Bigelow co-wrote with war reporter Mark Boal.Greg Shapiro is producing and principal photography is ...
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Frank Stirling leaves Boeing for digital cinema unit at Panorama Labs
Frank Stirling has been named president of Panorama Labs' digital cinemastrategic business unit.Effective immediately, Stirling becomes responsible for managing day-to-dayoperations, including overseeing development of a digital cinema projector fortheatrical exhibition. He will be based in Los Angeles.Stirling previously served as executive director of Boeing DigitalCinema, where he deployed 31 operational ...
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Lien's Bothersome Man takes top honours at The Hamptons
Jens Lien's Norwegian comedy-horror movie The Bothersome Man won the Golden Starfish for bestnarrative feature at the 14th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival,while Georgi Lazarevski's Voyage In G Major won corresponding documentary honours.The Bothersome Man also won the Kodak Award For Best Cinematography for JohnChristian Rosenlund.The Zicherman Family Foundation Award ...
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Brazil's Two Sons wins music-themed Turks & Caicos festival
Thefirst annual Turks & Caicos International Film Festival closed at theweekend [21] as Breno Silveira's Brazilian drama Two Sons Of Francisco was named best feature and The Hip Hop Project, on which Queen Latifah and Bruce Willis served asexecutive producers, won best documentary honours.MarkBecker was named best director for Romantico, ...
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Fireworks from Iran wins Gold Hugo at Chicago Film Festival
Asghar Farhadi's Iranian drama Fireworks Wednesday won the Gold Hugo for bestfilm at this year's Chicago International Film Festival.The Silver Hugo Special Jury Prize went to Rachid Bouchareb'sAlgerian foreign-language Oscar submission Days Of Glory, and the Silver Hugo was awarded toGyorgy Palfi's Hungarian drama Taxidermia.The Gold Hugo award for best ...
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MPAA teams up with City Of New York to crack down on piracy
TheMotion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has teamed up with the city of NewYork to crack down on piracy through new legislation and noise abatement laws.Thecity will introduce legislation to criminalise illegal recording of copyrightedworks and will coordinate with the MPAA to use nuisance abatement laws to shutdown piracy operations ...
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Gothams honour Winslet, Norton, unveil nominations list
KateWinslet and Edward Norton will receive 2006 Gotham Tributes at the upcoming16th Annual Gotham Awards in New York on Nov 29.TheGotham Awards will also honour multiple filmmakers with its first annual WorldCinema Tribute. This year, the tribute will be presented to the Mexican trio ofAlfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and ...
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The Prestige opens top for Buena Vista in North America
Christopher Nolan's period mystery The Prestige starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackmanbeat out Clint Eastwood's wartime saga Flags Of Our Fathers at the domestic box office over theweekend.The Prestige is an intrigue-laden tale about rival magicians and opened numberone domestically through Buena Vista on an estimated $14.8m.Flags Of Our Fathers, ...
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Academy Foundation gives $290,000 to US-based film festivals
The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts andSciences has allocated $290,000 in grants among 27 US festivals for calendaryear 2007.Separately three festivals - the Los Angeles Film Festival, theSan Francisco International Film Festival and Telluride Ð have received $50,000each under a multi-year grant programme to fund long-term ...
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Pacino to receive AFI's 35th Life Achievement Award
Al Pacino will receive the 35th AFI Life Achievement Award at agala tribute in Los Angeles on Jun 7, 2007."Al Pacino is an icon of American film," HowardStringer, chair of the AFI board of trustees, said. "He has created someof the great characters in the movies Ð from Michael Corleone ...
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IFC Films goes AMERICANese
IFC Entertainment has taken all North American rights to EricByler's AMERICANese,and will release the relationship drama through IFC First Take in 2007.Byler wrote and directed the feature, which receives itsEast Coast premiere this weekend at the Hamptons International Film Festivaland earlier this year won the audience award for best narrative ...