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Favorite Film Pitch contest returns to AFM 2010
The People’s Choice Awards (PCA) and AFM are teaming up again to host the second annual Favorite Film Pitch contest during the AFM that runs from November 3-10 in Santa Monica.
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Phase 4 claims industry's first 3D VOD release
Phase 4 Films will launch what it claims to be the first stereoscopic 3D VOD release this week [October 1].
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Voltage expects surge of interest on thriller Escapee
Production has started on the psychological thriller Escapee from Hollywood Media Bridge and Tall Tales Entertainment in association with Voltage Pictures and Nantucket Productions.
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NewsLucas to give Star Wars franchise the 3D treatment
George Lucas is going ahead with his plan to retrofit all six Star Wars films in 3D and has earmarked a 2012 launch.
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NewsHollywood Film Awards to fete Bening, Duvall
Annette Bening and Robert Duvall will receive the Hollywood Film Festival’s best actress and actor awards at the gala night in Beverly Hills on October 25.
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NewsArtificial Eye buys 11 including Essential Killing, Silent Souls, Route Irish
Artificial Eye has been on a buying spree. The voracious UK distributor has announced 11 high profile acquisitions including a number of award winners from the recent Cannes, Venice and Toronto Film Festivals.
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NewsCarl Clifton leaves The Works to join expanding K5
Also, K5 to open a Los Angeles office in addition to Munich and London.
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NewsWild Bunch to release Jack Cardiff doc in France and Germany
Craig McCall’s feature documentary is being sold internationally by High Point Films.
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NewsContentFilm takes on Welsh films Separado!, A Bit of Tom Jones?
ContentFilm International has acquired international rights to two new films, documentary Separado! and comedy A Bit of Tom Jones?, ahead of MIPCOM.
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NewsItaly selects The First Beautiful Thing for Oscar race
Paolo Virzi’s bittersweet comedy The First Beautiful Thing (La Prima Cosa Bella) has been selected as Italy’s candidate to the foreign Oscar.
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Latido takes sales rights to Ventura Pons’ A Thousand Fools
Juan Torres joins Latido’s international sales team.
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FeaturesWeekly international box office Sept 24 - 26
Resident Evil: Afterlife became only the third film released this year to spend three consecutive weeks at number one on the international chart.
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Don Carmody shoots hockey drama Breakaway starring Rob Lowe
Don Carmody, producer of the international box office hit Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D, is one of five producers on the cross-cultural hockey drama Breakaway starring Rob Lowe, which has begun principal photography in Toronto.
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ATO Pictures swoops on US rights for comedy Terri
ATO Pictures has acquired US rights to the upcoming coming-of-age comedy Terri starring John C Reilly and newcomer Jacob Wysocki.
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Israel Film Festival in LA to honour Dreyfuss, Landau
Richard Dreyfuss and Jon Landau will be honoured at the Israel Film Festival when it kicks off in Los Angeles next month.
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Bonnie And Clyde director Arthur Penn dies at 88
Arthur Penn, whose startling work on Bonnie And Clyde ushered US cinema into a new age of awareness, died from heart failure at his Manhattan home on Tuesday [28], one day after his 88th birthday.
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NewsSpain's Lolafilms option film rights to best-selling trilogy of novels
Major Spanish producer Andres Vicente Gomez through his outfit Lolafilms has optioned the film rights to the best selling Spanish thriller trilogy series The Dark Door (La Puerta Oscura), written by David Lozano.
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NewsBrazil picks Lula for Oscar race
While Fabio Barreto remains unconscious after a car accident, his Lula, the Son of Brazil has been chosen to represent the country in the Foreign Language Oscar race.
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Academy sets October 1 deadline for foreign language submissions
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has set an October 1 deadline for submissions in the foreign language film and the live action short film and animated short film categories.