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Laurence Fishburne to be honoured at Bahamas festival
Laurence Fishburne will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Career Achievement Award in Nassau in December 7. Festival patron Sean Connery will present the honour, which was set up to recognise film-makers whose work has had a 'major impact and has advanced the frontiers of cinematic artistry around ...
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AFI Awards to celebrate 50th edition with audience vote
The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, The Castle, Gallipoli, Lantana and Muriel's Wedding have been voted Australia's favourite films in an online poll conducted to celebrate 50 years of Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards. The films are listed alphabetically, not in order of their popularity; the biggest vote ...
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The Band's Visit takes top prize at Cinemanila fest
The 10th Cinemanila Film Festival awarded its top prize to Israeli film The Band's Visit, directed by Eran Kolirin, it was announced on Monday night (Oct 20). The bittersweet comedy about an Egyptian police band arriving at a wrong destination in Israel beat six other films in the main competition ...
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MTG buys worldwide rights to Crown Film Library
Modern Entertainment, part of Sweden's Modern Times Group, has acquired worldwide distribution to the Crown Film Library.The 110-title catalogue spans English-language pictures produced between 1960 and 1990 and includes several early films by Danny DeVito and Kevin Costner.Modern Entertainment, which is part of the Modern Studios division and which was ...
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Mickey Rourke and Jason Statham among cast for 13 remake
Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Sam Riley and 50 Cent will star in 13, Gela Babluani's remake of his 2005 French thriller 13 Tzameti that Paramount Vantage will begin to pre-sell at AFM. Endeavor represents North American rights on the story of a young man who steals a mysterious package ...
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Protti renamed president ofItaly's cinema body with reform agenda
Paolo Protti has been reappointed president of Italy's exhibitor organisation ANEC or the National Association of Cinema Exhibitors for a second three-year term.Protti, who oversees the concerns of the nation's some 3,000 screens, says his aims include restructuring ANEC by merging ANEM (National Association of Multiplex Exhibitors) into ANEC. FICE ...
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ScreenDaily to host live webcast of digital conference
ScreenDaily will carry a live webcast of the Power To The Pixel conference in London - one of the world's leading events on digital distribution.The two-day event, which begins tomorrow, is one of the industry highlights of the Times BFI London Film Festival.The conference of industry experts will address ...
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TIFFCOM: Tokyo delegates talk Japanese remakes
US studio and independent producers spoke about the challenges and realities of negotiating, buying and producing remakes based on Japanese properties at the 'Hollywood Remake Business Talk Session' held in Tokyo today. The seminar was conducted under the umbrella of the TIFFCOM contents market, now in its fifth edition, which ...
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Dir: Kenny Ortega. US. 2008. 109 mins.Testing the maxim that happiness can't be contrived, High School Musical 3: Senior Year sets off a joy bomb, and attempts to charm tween audiences through an explosion of primary colours, bright production design and sheer, indefatigable force of will. The first film in ...
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Rio International Film Festival
Should Nothing Else Work Out (Se Nada Mais Der Certo)Brazil. 2008. 120 mins. Director: Jose Eduardo Belmonte. Production company: Film Noise. International sales: Film Noise (+ 55 11 2589-2098). Screenplay: Jose Eduardo Belmonte, Luis Carlos Pacca. Main cast: Caua Reymond, Caroline Abras, Joao Miguel, Luiza MarianeCuriously pertinent in light of ...
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Canada's Telefilm anoints Gross, Martinelli, Vince for slate development
Telefilm Canada has selected three Canadian production companies for its Slate Development Pilot Program (SDPP): Gabriella Martinelli's Capri Films, Paul Gross' Whizbang Films and Robert Vince's Keystone Pictures.Financed under the Canadian Feature Film Fund (CFFF), the slate development pilot program was established last year to match Canadian producers with Canadian ...
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Lost Killers wins main award at Cottbus
Georgian director Dito Tsintsadze's Lost Killers was awarded the $8,800 (DM20,000) top prize at the 10th annual Cottbus Film Festival in Germany, which spotlights Eastern European films.The German production, recently acquired by German distributor Advanced (see separate story), qualified for the festival because of the director's nationality as well as ...
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Czech documentary Rene wins Prix ARTE
The European Film Academy has announced that Rene, by Czech director Helena Trestikova, will receive the 2008 Prix ARTE for documentary film.The recipient of the award is chosen by an independent jury, which this year was made up of Danish producer Karoline Leth, Moscow Film Festival programme director Kirsi Tykkyläinen, ...
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Strong European representation under EFP's AFM umbrella
28 European sales agents and production companies from 13 countries have registered at European Film Promotion's (EFP) umbrella office in Santa Monica's Loews Hotel for the forthcoming AFM.The companies working out of the European Film Promotion office will include: the UK production houses Zephyr Films, Foundation Films and Reach Up ...
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Fortissimo to handle worldwide sales for Telstar
Fortissimo Film will handle worldwide sales for Nick Moran's directorial feature film debut Telstar. Fortissimo will take the film to the upcoming AFM in November and the world premiere will take place at The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival on October 25.Directed by Nick Moran and financed and produced ...
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The Man Who Loves and Eight/Huit open International Rome Film Festival
Actor Al Pacino provides star presence for the festivities of the International Rome Film Festival, which kicks off its third edition today, October 22, in the Italian capital.Pacino will receive the Gold Marco Aurelio career honours and appear at a sold out panel in front of the local cinema-going community ...
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Lightning Entertainment picks up crime thrillerLa Linea
Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has acquired international rights to the crime thrillerLa Linea starring Andy Garcia and Ray Liotta.Lightning Entertainment co-president Richard Guardian will commencesales at AFM next month on the story of a veteran assassin on thetrail of a Mexican cartel leader. Endeavor holds North ...
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Magnolia claims YouTube success with Wayne Wang's Princess
Magnolia Pictures' The Princess Of Nebraska from Wayne Wang drew more than 165,000 hits in its first two days following its launch on YouTube on October 18. The free release was launched on YouTube's Screening Room, a new channel dedicated to premium film content, and explores the bonds of ...
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Mike Gabrawy named head of production for ambitious Arclight
Constantin Film production executive Mike Gabrawy has been named head of production for Arclight Films as the company steps up its slate. Gabrawy will be based in Los Angeles and oversee development and production of the company's slate of eight-to-10 productions per year and co-ordinate Arclight's international productions in ...