All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1321
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Digital Watermarking Alliance formed to promote content protection
Twelve companies including Cinea and Philips Electronics haveformed the Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) to promote content protectionwithin the industry.'Digital watermarking is enjoying a steady resurgence ofinterest now that the media industry is finding more and more applications forit throughout the content lifecycle - from creation through toproduction, packaging, distribution, and ...
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Black Book to be opened by Sony Classics
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American, Australian,New Zealand and Indian rights to Paul Verhoeven's WWII thriller Black Book.Black Bookis based on true events involving the Dutch Underground and in particular thestory of a Jewish girl who falls for a Gestapo officer while seeking revengefor her family's murders. Carice ...
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New soundstage complex breaks ground in New Mexico
Albuquerque Studios has moved ahead with plans to build NewMexico's first major soundstage complex.Pacifica Ventures, which will own and operate the new complex andalso operates Culver Studios in Los Angeles, reported that construction hasbegun on the $74m, 28-acre film and television production facility at Mesa DelSol.Phase One, which is scheduled ...
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Fox launches faith-based US home entertainment label
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has launched the labelFoxFaith, which plans to take at least six pictures specifically targeted atChristian film-goers into limited theatrical release each year.The roster kicks off on Oct 6 with Love's Abiding Joy, the fourth instalment in the LoveComes Softly seriesbased on Janette Oke's bestselling books ...
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New international film festival launched in Dallas with AFI
The inaugural AFI Dallas International Film Festival will run inTexas from Mar 22-Apr 1 2007.Approximately 150 features and shorts will screen at the event andco-sponsor Target has endowed $25,000 cash grants for the best narrative anddocumentary entries."The AFI Dallas International Film Festival is a result ofDallas's love of film and ...
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Miller's follow-up to Capote lands at Vantage
Bennett Miller has teamed up with Paramount Vantage to develop TheImmortalist, the Oscarnominated director's follow-up to Capote.It is understood the drama centres on several characters involvedin life extension research. "It's not a science-fiction film," Millersaid. "It's a drama set in the very real world of those pursuing'biological immortality'."It's a pursuit ...
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Spurlock confirmed, panels lined up for SXSW 2007
Morgan Spurlock will discuss his career in one of several liveevents planned for the 2007 South by Southwest (SXSW) film conference andfestival.Panel highlights include an assessment of non-profit initiativesdesigned to help film-makers; the impact of emerging technologies on cinema;and depicting on-screen sex.Among the speakers lined up for the event are ...
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Estevez's Bobby to open LA's AFI FEST
The US premiere of Emilio Estevez's ensemble drama Bobby will open AFI Fest 2006 on Nov 1.Festival organisers also unveiled 13 world premieres, among themChad Lowe's comedy Beautiful Ohio starring William Hurt, Rita Wilson and Julianna Margulies; DavidCunningham's thriller After; and David Stenn's documentary Girl 27, about a former dancer ...
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Stefanac named director of AFI Digital Content Lab
Journalist, author and interactive media and web design pioneerSuzanne Stefanac has been appointed director of the American Film Institute'sDigital Content Lab (DCL).The DCL has worked with many leading entertainment companies andcreated more than 75 interactive prototypes since its inception nine years ago.Stefanac's team includes newly appointed production manager LisaOsborne and ...
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Smith, Ricupero promoted in production/acquisitions at Myriad
Myriad Pictures has boosted it production and acquisitions team,promoting Matthew Keene Smith to the role of director and naming Luiza Ricuperomanager.The LA-based company has got involved on several high profileprojects in the recent past, including Brad Silberling's comedy 10 Items OrLess, which stars MorganFreeman and Paz Vega and was bought ...
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Blue Valentine wins $1m Chrysler Film Project contest
Derek Cianfrance has won the 2006 Chrysler Film Projectscreenplay competition for his project Blue Valentine.Cianfrance will receive $1m towards financing the story of acouple that breaks up and meets up ten years later only to fall in love again.Lynette Howell is producing along with Jamie Patricof and Alex Orlovskyof Hunting ...
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IFC Films steps up to buy Dahl's You Kill Me
IFC Films has picked up all North American rights in Toronto fromICM to Code Entertainment's upcoming mob comedy You Kill Me.John Dahl directed the picture, which is currently inpost-production and stars Ben Kingsley as an alcoholic hitman sent to the WestCoast to dry out. Tea Leoni, Luke Wilson, Dennis Farina, ...
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Pirates breaks record in Italy, with $12.8m in five days
Buena Vista International(BVI) reported its second consecutive one-two punch overseas as Pirates Of TheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest crossed$600m and usurped Cars to returnto the top.DeadMan's Chest used a late Italiandebut to boost its already formidable box office, and set a new five-dayindustry opening record in the territory of $12.8m.The result ...
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Qantas named best inflight entertainment airline by WAEA
Qantas has been named thebest inflight entertainment airline of all large fleets by a 23-personinternational media panel.The panel, sponsored by theWorld Airline Entertainment Association's Avion Awards, declared KLM and CathayPacific runners-up.Jet Airways (India) Ltd wonthe Small Fleet category, followed by Hawaiian Airlines and Sri LankanAirlines.The best inflight magazineaward went to ...
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Gridiron Gang tops lacklustre North American box office
Sony set a record tenth number one release for a distributor in asingle year as the American football drama Gridiron Gang starring The Rock opened top on anestimated $15m.Four new pictures were not enough however to rouse the businessfrom its early autumnal slumber as the top 12 pictures trailed the ...
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Barker & Bernard, Murphy to receive honours at HFA ceremony in Oct
Sony Pictures Classics' (SPC)co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard will receive the Hollywood LeadershipAward at the Hollywood Film Awards on Oct 23 in Los Angeles.Running With Scissors director Ryan Murphy will collect the Hollywood BreakthroughDirector of the Year Award.Barker and Bernard formedSPC with Marcie Bloom 15 years ago and their ...
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IFP Filmmaker Conference kicks off Monday, keynote speakers include Battsek, Sehring
IFP's1st Annual Filmmaker Conference, formerly known as the IFP Market &Filmmaker Conference, will kick off in New York today and last for the rest ofthe week.Eventsinclude panel discussions, on-stage interviews, networking opportunitiesfor filmmakers, and screenings.Panelists scheduled to speakinclude Forest Whitaker and his The Last King Of Scotland director Kevin Macdonald, ...
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Picturehouse takes Lopez/Anthony starrer El Cantante
Picturehouse has swooped on North American rights to ElCantante following itsworld premiere at Toronto in what sources close to negotiations said was thebiggest deal of the festival so far.The distributors' senior vice president of acquisitions Sara Roseand New Line's executive vice president of business affairs and co-productionsCarolyn Blackwood concluded marathon ...
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Fox, MySpace launch preview screenings programme with Borat
Twentieth Century Fox and corporate sibling MySpace have teamed upon a new promotional tool that will enable MySpace users to see previewscreenings of upcoming features.The Black Carpet scheme will kick off with the preview screeningof Toronto hit Borat.MySpace users in six countries Ð the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany andCanada ...
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Bunny Chow's Dv8 renews slate deal with South Africa's NFVF
Joel Phiri and Jeremy Nathan's Dv8 Films, the production companybehind John Barker and Dog Pack's Toronto world premiere comedy Bunny Chow, have renewed their slate deal with theSouth African government's entertainment industry agency NFVF.The deal commits to the production of at least fourfeatures over the next 18 months, with a ...