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El Sistema to open Nyon's Visions du Reel 2009
Paul Smaczny and Maria Stodtmeier's El Sistema will be the opening film at the 2009 Nyon International Film Festival. El Sistema looks at the work of Venezuelan pianist and activist Jose Antonio Abreu, focusing on the network of children's and youth orchestras and music centres to provide a route out ...
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Lionsgate takes film rights to Shange's 1975 play For Colored Girls
Lionsgate has acquired worldwide film rights to Ntozake Shange's 1975 stage play and Nzingha Stewart's adapted screenplay of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf.The play was first performed in California at the Bacchanal women'sbar near Berkeley and first produced in 1975 at New York's ...
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NewsOscars move one week later in 2010 to avoid Olympics clash
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards will take place on Mar 7th 2010, a week later than usual to avoidthe closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver on February 28.
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Babelgum takes online/mobile rights to Workbook's Radar
Online content platform Babelgum has acquired the worldwide exclusive Internet and mobile rights to weekly video series Radar.The three-minute episodes, which examine innovative projects across creative disciplines, are produced by WBP Labs, the experimental lab division of the Workbook Project.The deal was negotiated by Babelgum's GM and publisher - film ...
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Patricia Clarkson to get ShoWest Independent Award for Acting
Patricia Clarkson will receive the ShoWest Independent Award For Excellence In Acting at the Las Vegas event on April 2.Clarkson is honoured for what ShoWest co-managing director MitchNeuhauser called 'a diverse resume that includes work on stage,television and the big screen' that had earned her 'great accoladesand success around the ...
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Summit takes on Tommy O'Haver'sthriller Golden Gate
Summit Entertainment has acquired rights to the thriller Golden Gate that Tommy O'Haver will direct from a screenplay by Charles Bohl.The film centres on an athletics star on the verge of success who ishelped by a dangerous new friend when a secret from her past threatensto unravel her dream.Craig Zadan ...
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RiverRun to open with Mark Webb's (500) Days Of Summer
The RiverRun International Film Festival will open its 11th-annual event on April 22 with Mark Webb's (500) Days Of Summer. The Winston-Salem, North Carolina, event will close April 29 with a screening of Harold Lloyd's classic 1928 silent comedy Speedy accompanied by the Alloy Orchestra.Ramin Bahrani will receive RiverRun's first ...
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Overseas Filmgroup acquires rights to Swimming
Overseas Filmgroup has acquired international sales rights to Swimming, a drama about friendship and love set in a small Carolina town. Starring Lauren Ambrose, Jennifer Dundas Lowe and Joelle Carter, the film is directed by Robert J Siegel and has played at a host of film festivals including Rotterdam, Seattle, ...
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Tribeca Sloan fund to offer $170,000 for science/tech projects
Promising film-makers whose projects relate to science and technology stand to receive $170,000 in funding from the Tribeca Film Institute through the return this year of the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund.Announcing a further grant initiative, Institute staff said four youngfilm-makers would each be eligible for a $1,500 scholarship throughthe Youth ...
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IFC takes US rights to Unmade Beds from Protagonist
IFC Films has taken US rights from Protagonist Pictures to the romance Unmade Beds from Argentinean director Alexis Dos Santos and plans to release later this year via IFC In Theaters or IFC Festival Direct.Dos Santos wrote the screenplay about two ex-pats living in EastLondon who embark on journeys of ...
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Gran Torino poised to cross $70m internationally with Mexico launch
Gran Torino should march on towards the $70m mark this weekend through strong holdover business and a debut in Mexico on March 27 through Warner Bros Pictures International.Clint Eastwood's drama has reached $63.9m to date and crossed $210mworldwide and its prospects are looking formidable with roughlytwo-thirds of international markets yet ...
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Paramount and Abrams' Bad Robot extend deal til 2013
Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams' Bad Robot Productions have extended their first-look deal through 2013 ahead of the summer release of Abrams' Star Trek.The partners first collaborated on Cloverfield, which scored thebiggest January opening weekend in history when it took $40.1m overthree days. They are scheduled to begin production in ...
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ShoWest Triumph Award for directing to go to Kathryn Bigelow
Hollywood's top female action director Kathryn Bigelow will receive the ShoWest Triumph Award For Outstanding Direction in Las Vegas on April 2.Bigelow's latest film The Hurt Locker, an Iraq-set thriller about abomb disposal unit that stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and BrianGeraghty, will open through Summit Entertainment on June 26.Her ...
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Boyle to chair Shanghai film festival jury
The Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has announced that Danny Boyle will chair the international jury at the upcoming 12th edition of the festival (June 13-21). Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire had its China premiere in Beijing yesterday (March 26) and the film is opening on more than 1,000 screens this weekend. ...
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Waltz With Bashir producer boards Turkish project
Razor Film is to produce Turkish filmmaker Asli Özge's next feature film Asphyxia (working title). The Berlin-based production house was co-producer on Ari Folman's Oscar-nominated Waltz With Bashir. Speaking at the German - Turkish Delight Co-Production Meeting in Berlin, Razor Film's Roman Paul revealed that he met Özge at the ...
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Opinion: the troubled star system in the tabloid era
If movie stars are what sells movies, movies might be in trouble. The coverage of celebrities not just in the tabloids but in the mainstream media and the unregulated online universe has now become so relentless that any actor who steps out of line in public runs the risk of ...
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In Focus: What has Almodovar done to deserve this'
Pedro Almodovar's 17th feature, Broken Embraces, has been poorly received by Spanish critics and opening weekend figures have suffered. But is the territory's most famous auteur critic-proof' Barry Byrne looks at the evidence.At the end of Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces, blind movie director Mateo Blanco (played by Lluis Homar) tells ...
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Local heroes - the hitmakers in key territories
Screen looks at local film-makers helping drive the box office in key international territories.GERMANYGerman cinema-owners look forward to packed screens when a new film from comedy director Michael ‘Bully’ Herbig is on the release schedule. Constantin Film is opening his next film, Wickie The Mighty Viking, in September. Promotion has ...
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Civilian Content appoints Auty as director
In a key managerial move at UK National Lottery studio franchise The Film Consortium, chief executive Chris Auty has become a director of Civilian Content, the media operation which agreed to buy the franchise this year.The appointment, which takes place with immediate effect, is expected to bolster the franchise's position ...
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Joe Dante on the set of The Hole
The Hole isn't Joe Dante's first 3D film but it might as well be. In 2002, the director was hired by Florida-based amusement park Busch Gardens to shoot a 25-minute ride film entitled Haunted Lighthouse. 'They called it 4D,' says Dante. 'The film was 3D and then they threw stuff ...