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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 ...
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Santa Barbara festival names Will Smith a Modern Master
Will Smith will receive the 2007 Santa Barbara International FilmFestival's Modern Master Award.Smith stars in this season's upcoming drama The Pursuit OfHappyness and hiscredits include Men In Black, I Robot, Independence Day, and Hitch.Previous recipients of the award include Michael Douglas,Peter Jackson, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn, Jeff Bridges, ...
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61 films submitted for foreign language Academy Award
A record 61 countries have submitted films for consideration inthe foreign language film category for the 79th Academy Awards.As previously reported, Finland had submitted Aki Kaurismaki's LightsIn The Dusk, which thedirector subsequently said he wanted to withdraw, claiming his permission tosubmit was not sought. At time of going to press ...
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Children Of Men multiplies in four major territories
Fox International's overseas champion The Devil Wears Prada stands a chance of crossing $100m thisweekend as it launches in four territories.The comedy has amassed $83.5m and goes out in smallermarkers this weekend including Sweden on Oct 20. Decent holds in previouslyopened territories should account for another strong weekend haul.Little Miss ...
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New York Film Critics Circle welcomes four new members
VA Musetto and Kyle Smith from The New York Post, and David Fearand Joshua Rothkopf from Time Out New York have been invited to join the NewYork Film Critics Circle (NYFCC).The organisation has also voted Stephen Whitty from the StarLedger and Newhouse News as vice-chairman. He will replace Marshall Fine ...
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Fenkel moves from domestic to international at THINKFilm
Former THINKFilm vice president of marketing David Fenkel has beenpromoted to vice president of international as the company continues to ramp upits overseas sales business.Fenkel will represent the company at all markets and festivals andwill play a key role in international acquisitions. He will report toTHINKFilm's senior vice president Randy ...
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Schorr, Hildebrand and Zipser take on roles at River Road
Bill Pohlad's Minneapolis and Los Angeles-based production companyRiver Road Entertainment has hired three key hires as it expands its LosAngeles operations.Former Sobini Films production chief Robin Schorr joins as head ofcreative production, producer Frank Hildebrand arrives as head of physicalproduction, and former Film Finance Corporation Australia's Deborah Zipser hasjoined as ...
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Davis joins Liberation as head of worldwide business affairs
J Alan Davis has joined Los Angeles-based distribution and saleshouse Liberation Entertainment as vice president and head of worldwide businessaffairs.Davis previously served as head of business affairs at Warner BrosInternational Television Production, and was a principal of media consultingcompany Periscope.Liberation Entertainment was launched earlier this year by mediaentrepreneur Jay Boberg, ...
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Amy Redford heads cast of Finding Fate for MacArt, Bootstrap
Amy Redford has joined the cast of Jack Conroy's family drama FindingFate, which is set tobegin filming in Ireland and New York in early 2007.Patrick Bergin, Hugh O'Conor, Jamie Harris, and John Keating alsostar in the story of a woman who embarks upon a search for the truth when herlife ...
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Breaking And Entering to open, Rescue Dawn to close Denver Film Festival
Anthony Minghella's London-set drama Breaking And Entering and Werner Herzog's Vietnam POW thrillerRescue Dawn bookendthe 29th Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF29).Minghella will receive the Mayor's Career Achievement Awardfollowing the opening night screening on Nov 9.Breaking And Entering stars Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Ray Winstoneand Martin Freeman and ...
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Fire, Evil take audience awards at Mill Valley
Phillip Noyce's Catch A Fire took home the audience award for best dramatic feature atthe Mill Valley Film Festival, which ran from Oct 5-15.Amy Berg's Deliver Us From Evil won corresponding honours in the documentarysection and Wolfgang Murnberger's Lapislazuli: In The Eye Of The Bear took the award for best ...
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SPRI and BVI team for distribution joint venture in Korea
Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) and Buena Vista International(BVI) have formed a joint venture to distribute their pictures and localproduct in South Korea, effective Nov 30.The set-up allows the companies to streamline their operations inone office, and reflects similar arrangements between SPRI and BVI in Mexico,Brazil, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Switzerland, ...
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VOD service Eurocinema signs to handle First Run catalogue
US video-on-demand service Eurocinema has signed an exclusive dealwith independent film distributor First Run Features to handle First Run'scatalogue of titles.Premiere First Run Features titles launching on Eurocinema inDecember include Claude Chabrol's Merci Pour Le Chocolat, Ludivine Sagnier's La Petite Lili, Dani Levy's Go For Zucker, and Ole Christian Madsen's ...