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NewsMaria Hannah joins The Hive
Scottish post-production facility also appoints Emma Henderson as a runner.
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NewsArash & Arman T. Riahi's Everyday Rebellion wins ARTE Pixel Pitch Prize
Project saw off seven others to scoop the £6,000 award at the sixth annual Power to the Pixel cross-media forum.
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NewsHamster Film now shooting family project Sputnik
Currently shooting in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Markus Dietrich’s debut feature tells the story of the German reunification from a child’s perspective.
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NewsCam di Prata, Scott Henderson join Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television board
Former investment banker di Prata joins as an independent director alongside Henderson, Bell Tower’s VP of communications.
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NewsDavie hired as BBCW CEO
Tim Davie [pictured], the BBC’s director of Audio & Music, is to replace John Smith as the chief executive of BBC Worldwide.
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NewsCreative England's final Film Culture Lottery Fund opens for applications
A total of £700,000 is available for cinema projects in the English regions; responsibility for this strand of funding to transfer to the BFI as part of their Film Forever plan from next year.
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NewsMountain Road strikes German deal for The Rotterdam Blitz
As it becomes more aggressive in handling Dutch feature films in the international market, Hilversum-based sales and production outfit Mountain Road Entertainment has closed an all rights German deal on Ate De Jong’s wartime drama The Rotterdam Blitz (formerly titled Bombardment) with distributor KSM Film.
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CommentCreative England: The First Year
John Newbigin, Chair of Creative England assesses the first year of operation and notes that the outfit has worked with more than 500 companies so far.
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NewsXLrator Media launches Screamfest and Macabre labels
The multi-platform releasing labels will cater to the horror and genre demographics.
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NewsWell Go USA takes Tai Chi Hero, Cinedigm finds Call Me Kuchu
Tai Chi Hero is the second in a trilogy from director Stephen Fung, Detective Dee And The Mystery Of Phantom Flame producer Chen Kuofu and action director Sammo Hung.
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NewsThe Door, Just The Wind to open Hungarian Film Festival Of LA
Bunyik Entertainment presents the 12th Hungarian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, to run from Nov 15-22.
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Tokyo International Film Festival gets underway
The 25th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) opened on Saturday night (Oct 20) with the world premiere of 3D extravaganza Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away, executive produced by James Cameron.
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NewsParanormal 4 edges out Taken 2 to rule international arena
UPDATED: Paramount Pictures International (PPI) reported on Sunday (21) that Paranormal Activity 4 launched day-and-date with the number one North American weekend on a confirmed $26.2m, narrowly beating EuropaCorp’s thriller on $25.4m through Fox International. Meanwhile The Impossible has become the biggest release of the year-do-date in Spain on $25.5m ...
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NewsBollywood icon Yash Chopra dies aged 80
Indian director, producer and studio head Yash Chopra died today in Mumbai where he was being treated for dengue fever. He was 80 years old.
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NewsParanormal 4 rules US box office with $30.2m debut
Horror returned to the top of the North American charts over the weekend as the prevailing genre franchise stormed to the top through Paramount. Overall box office for the top 12 releases climbed approximately 12% against the same period last year when Paranormal Activity 3 opened top on $52.6m.
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Fort Lauderdale to screen The Sapphires, Quartet
Stefan Ruzowitzky and actors Dabney Coleman and Garret Dillahunt are set to attend this year’s Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
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Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures moves ahead
Award-winning architects Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali have designed the first major US museum dedicated to the history and ongoing development of motion pictures.
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NewsHoly Motors earns three awards at 48th Chicago Int’l Film Festival
Leos Carax’s surreal drama won the international competition Gold Hugo for best film and Silver Hugos for best actor Denis Lavant and cinematographers Yves Cape and Caroline Champetier.