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Shut Up And Shoot Me, New Year Baby win AFI Dallas
Steen Agro's Shut Up And Shoot Me won the AFI Dallas International Film Festival's Target narrative feature award while Socheata Poeuv's New Year Baby took corresponding documentary honours.The HDNet Award for the best feature shot in HD went to Rob Stewart's documentary Sharkwater.Additional Awards went to Eric Chaikin's A Lawyer ...
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Start-up outfit F.A.M.E. teams with Becker
F.A.M.E. Film & Music Entertainment - the latest German production outfit destined for the Neuer Markt - has sealed a three-year agreement with Australia's Becker Entertainment to jointly develop and produce a raft of features over the next three years. The first project under the agreement will be Esben Storm's ...
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Ken Kwapis to direct He's Just Not That Into You
New Line Cinema and Flower Films have hired Ken Kwapis to direct the comedy He's Just Not That Into You.Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's bestselling novel of the same name serves as the inspiration for the project about cross-gender misunderstandings in love.Flower Films principals Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore are ...
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CR Land, Shanghai Film Group invest in Jia Zhangke's 24 City
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke has announced that he is set to direct a film project, tentatively titled 24 City, in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan province. The project, which includes a feature film and documentary, will be jointly financed by Shanghai Film Group, Jia's Xstream Pictures and real estate ...
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Imagica Robot acquires majority share in animation company
Japanese post-production giant Imagica Robot Holdings (IRH) has acquired a majority share in animation company Genco, which now becomes a subsidiary in the company's contents division. IRH announced the investment as part of its strategy to strengthen its animation production and licensing business. Genco will collaborate with IRH group company, ...
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Jeonju fest to open with Offroad, close with Exiled
The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) today announced the line-up for its eighth edition, which will kick off with the world premiere of Offroad by Han Seung-ryong and close with Johnnie To's Exiled. Han was previously a co-editor on films such as E J-yong's Untold Scandal and Jang Sun-Woo's Resurrection ...
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Aardman signs exclusive three-year, first-look deal with Sony Pictures
UK-based Aardman Features will enter a three-year, exclusive first-look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) for all of Aardman's features in development. Aardman, known for Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and Flushed Away, ended its increasingly tense partnership with DreamWorks in late January 2007. The new pact was struck with ...
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Park Circus joins UK trade group FDA
Park Circus Films has joined the UK's Film Distributors' Association (FDA), the trade body of UK theatrical distributors. The Glasgow-based company is the UK's only commercial distributor specialising in classic films. It becomes the FDA's 18th member and one of 12 indies on the FDA Council. 'As the UK market ...
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Rogers & Cowan divides London office into UK and international units
PR company Rogers & Cowan's London branch has launched two separate business units: a UK division for film, video and TV promotion solely in the UK, and an internatioal division to handle worldwide publicity campaigns. The London office has been open for a year, and both divisions will continue to ...
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AAM signs downloadable content deal with Revolver Entertainment
UK-based digital distribution services company Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has struck a deal with distributor Revolver Entertainment for Revolver's content to be offered for download on AAM 's Vizumi Network. The deal covers an initial 30 titles for download-to-rent and download-to-own through AAM 's distribution partners including LoveFilm and Empire. ...
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Buenos Aires to welcome 150 international guests to first Inter-Cine
The 9th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) will kick off tomorrow with plans to show 470 features and shorts in 13 days. The Event will open with two films running out of competition: Mauritian Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and Argentinian Ariel Rotter's Berlinale double award-winning El Otro. The ...
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Pinewood launches website for rebuilt 007 Stage
The Pinewood Studios Group has launched an official website for the rebuilt 007 Stage, located at www.007stage.com. Europe 's largest sound stage has been rebuilt and reopened following the July 2006 fire that made the stage unusable. Currently, the internal area of 59,000-square-feet makes it the biggest stage in Europe. ...
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Hollow Man
Dir: Paul Verhoeven. US. 2000. 114 mins.Prod co: Columbia Pictures. Worldwide dist: Columbia/Columbia TriStar. Exec prod: Marion Rosenberg. Prod: Alan Marshall, Douglas Wick. Scr: Andrew W Marlowe, based on a story by Gary Scott Thompson & Andrew W Marlowe. DoP: Jost Vacano. Prod des: Allan Cameron. Ed: Mark Goldblatt. Mus: ...
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Overture teams with Echo Lake on 105 Degrees And Rising
Fledgling studio Overture Films is partnering with Echo Lake Productions on its first in-house title 105 Degrees And Rising, a drama about the fall of Saigon drama.Jon Amiel will direct the project, named after the code used by Armed Forces Radio in 1975 to alert citizens to evacuate the former ...
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Meet The Robinsons
Dir: Stephen Anderson. US. 2007. 94mins. Walt Disney Feature Animation's second computer-animated outing is a hyperactive mix of retro sci-fi, physical comedy and family drama. As zippy and colourful as it is, though, Meet The Robinsons is not as entertaining or endearing as the division's CG feature debut Chicken Little. ...
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One Hundred Nails (Centochiodi)
Dir/scr: Ermanno Olmi. It. 2007. 92mins. Veteran Italian filmmaker Ermanno Olmi is a devout Catholic, and his work has long had a spiritual agenda. But even in such obvious parables as The Legend Of The Holy Drinker (which won a Golden Lion in Venice in 1988), the message is generally ...
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3-D screens account for 30% of Robinsons opening US gross
Meet The Robinsons became the largest digital 3-D opening in domestic box office history at the weekend as the platform accounted for nearly 30% of the film's $25.1m overall three-day gross.The 581 screens - each of which was formatted by Los Angeles-based Real D - generated $7.1m for the weekend.Furthermore ...
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Stonelock, Cheyenne team up to produce, acquire, sell
Stonelock Pictures president Beni Atoori and Cheyenne Studios president Al Jayez have formed the joint venture Tripod Pictures to produce, acquire and sell films.The Los Angeles-based company claims that it has secured a $200m credit line from a European bank to fund productions, although it refused to name which bank. ...
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Golden Door, La Vie En Rose set for San Francisco
Emanuele Crialese's Italian immigrant drama The Golden Door will open and Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose will close the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival, set to run from April 26-May 10.Festival organisers have culled 108 features and 92 shorts for the event, and the centerpiece ...
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Paris Je T'Aime to open RiverRun festival in North Carolina
The portmanteau feature Paris Je T'Aime and a Technicolor print of 1938's The Adventures Of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn bookend the 9th RiverRun International Film Festival.Mark Evan's drama Snow Cake is the centerpiece premiere at the festival, set to run from Apr 18-23 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.Overall 34 features ...