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Shaevitz, Schaefer join Summit's production team
Summit Entertainment has hired production executives Geoff Shaevitz and Michael Schaefer as the company continues to expand its in-house film-making activities under production chief Erik Feig.Shaevitz will serve as senior vice president of production and Schaefer will serve as vice president of acquisitions and co-productions. Both report to Feig.'It's been ...
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Louis Belanger starts shooting The Timekeeper
Quebecois filmmaker Louis Belanger has commenced principal photography on his first English-language feature, The Timekeeper, for Real Chabot of the Coop Video de Montreal. Adapted by Belanger and Lorraine Dufour from the novel by Trevor Ferguson, the film stars Roy Dupuis, Craig Olejnik, Julian Richings, Gary Farmer, Wayne Robson, Gaston ...
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Oscar-nominated writer, director Shavelson dies at 90
Film-maker and former Writers Guild Of America, West president Melville Shavelson has died at his Studio City, Los Angeles, home. He was 90.Shavelson passed away from natural causes on Aug 8 and made a name for himself as a skilled Jack Of All Trades.He shared two Best Screenplay Oscar nominations ...
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The Price of Sugar
Dir: Bill Haney. US. 2007. 90min One the stand-out documentaries at Austin's SXSW festival this past spring was Bill Haney's The Price of Sugar, a sobering and well-done examination of the unpleasant realities behind the sugar tens of millions of Americans innocently sprinkle over their cereal in the morning. A ...
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BBC's Alexei Boltho takes Paramount acquisitions post
Alexei Boltho, who is currently business development manager for BBC Films, will take on a newly created acquisitions post at Paramount Pictures International (PPI). As of Aug 20, Boltho will be PPI's Director Co-production and Acquisitions, working out of Paramount 's London headquarters, which will in September move from Hammersmith ...
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AFC confirms Zeccola, Barron appointments
Australia's arts minister Peter McGauran has announced that Antonio Zeccola, who founded and owns local distributor Palace Films and co-owns Palace Cinemas with Village Roadshow, has been appointed to the board of the Australian Film Commission (AFC). He also confirmed that Southern Star executive Maureen Barron is to stay on ...
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Editorial opinion: rise of the machines
The increasing use of CG and green screen shows it ain't what you've got, but how you use it, says Lee Marshall.In one of this autumn's most hotly anticipated releases - Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf - Angelina Jolie plays a sexy seductress who attempts ...
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Features
Is the summer market flooded'
The summer box office is an unforgiving battlefield. This year, the pre-season war cry was more aggressive than ever: 2007 would be the summer to beat all summers. Major worldwide releases such as Spider-Man 3, Shrek The Third, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End and Harry Potter And The ...
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Alternative view - Which local films have withstood the blockbusters'
In North America, the vast majority of non-blockbuster product has not lasted more than two weeks on screen this summer. There have been exceptions, including Universal's Knocked Up and MGM's horror 1408. And there was good news for a few niche movies including Waitress, La Vie En Rose, Sicko, Once ...
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Breaking the language barrier
Sony Pictures Entertainment's local-language activities have been consolidated under the newly minted International Motion Picture Production Department, with a new president in Deborah Schindler. Mike Goodridge spoke to Schindler and the group's godfather Gareth Wigan about new moves into Russia and India. Gareth Wigan and Deborah Schindler have just concluded ...
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Canada - A catalogue of innovation
An Oscar, two prizes at Cannes, two top feature awards at the Hot Docs documentary film festival in Toronto, the GSM Award for original mobile content and a nomination for an International Interactive Emmy Award: Tom Perlmutter reels off the successes of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the ...
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Belgium - Sacrifices made for the gods
The news their debut feature Small Gods has been selected for Venice's Critics' Week will have come as a huge boost to the Karakatsanis brothers. Dimitri and Nicolas, who come from a Greek-Belgian background, have not had an easy ride with their movie, which took three years to complete. Like ...
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United Kingdom - Capture the zeitgeist
Film4 is grabbing headlines as its biggest film yet, Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lovely Bones, gears up to shoot this autumn. It is just one of 12-14 films that Channel 4's film division is making this year - even more that the usual six to eight per year.Peter Carlton ...
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United Kingdom - Straight to Market
In contrast to major film studios, book publishers have been reluctant to use consumer research to trial content or marketing approaches. But that is changing and the new properties emerging through such research could be fertile ground for TV and film producers seeking proven formulas.Children's publishers, with their closely defined ...
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Why buy British'
UNITED STATES'I'm a huge fan of British film' - Tom Quinn, head of acquisitions, Magnolia Pictures"Acquiring films is about what's available on the circuit and giving ample priority to our native tongue. I've always been a huge fan of British film. There's traditionally been a typical type of British film, ...
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Best of British: the Michael Powell Award
Named in honour of one of Britain's most original film-makers and judged this year by an international jury, including Sundance Film Festival director Geoff Gilmore and author Jonathan Coe, the Michael Powell Award carries a cash prize of £5,000. Since its inception in 1993, it has singled out some of ...
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Fintage House to make InternetStudios e-safe
UK-based Fintage House, which provides financial services to the entertainment industry, has reached an agreement with InternetStudios under which it will handle all financial transactions for the company's OnlineFilmSales web-site.Fintage's e-safe service, launched at Cannes, will handle all transactions resulting from sales and acquisitions of film and TV rights on ...
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Edinburgh Film Festival: by populist demand
With a new director, the Edinburgh Film Festival (Aug 15-26) is hoping to enhance its reputation as the home of British film. Allan Hunter reports. Everything is different and everything is the same at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) this year. The first festival under artistic director Hannah McGill ...
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Imax at 40: the bigger picture
IMAX started out as a niche in the exhibition business. Forty years on, the company has created its own distribution window. Now it just needs more screens. Denis Seguin reports.When the Imax Corporation was founded 40 years ago at the Universal and International Exhibition (Expo 67) in Montreal, its creators ...
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Ecce Homer
The Simpsons Movie held the top spot for a second week as it continues to lay siege to the international box office, driven by a robust $6.9m top slot in Mexico. Transformers, closing fast on $300m overseas, added $30m from 6,118 venues in 53 territories to move into second. Ratatouille ...