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Switzerland's Ascot Elite picks up 8 titles including Milk and Red Cliff
Leading Swiss independent distributor Ascot Elite Entertainment has announced eight new acquisitions for its release lineup. As part of a strategy to consolidate its market position, theZurich-based company has secured all rights for Focus Features' HarveyMilk biopic Milk, directed by Gus van Sant and starring Sean Penn andJosh Brolin, the ...
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Hastings, Lemos named VPs at British ratings board
After an open competition, Alison Hastings and Gerard Lemos have been appointed as vice presidents of the British Board of Film Classfication (BBFC), which rates UK film and video releases.They will take their posts in November when Janet Lewis-Jones and John Taylor step down after ten years in the same ...
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Netherlands festival to open with Westdijk's In Real Life
Robert Jan Westdijk's In Real Life, a story of a film within a film, will open the 28th Netherlands Film Festival (Sept 24-Oct 3).Westdijk's Little Sister won the festival's best feature prize and City of Utrecht Prize in 1995. Also, his 2003 Phileine Says Sorry also opened the festival and ...
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Dorothy
Dir. Agnes Merlet. 2008. France. 102 min. An isolated Irish island whose wary residents don't like outsiders - or any developments in interior decorating since 1920 or so - is the creepy setting for supernatural thriller Dorothy, Agnes Merlet's first film in 11 years. Placing a female psychiatrist from the ...
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Jerry Cotton, Flucht Aus Tibet gets top funding from FFF Bayern
New feature films by Joseph Vilsmaier, Margarethe von Trotta, Rainer Matsutani and Maria Blumencon are among the projects awarded a total $10m (Euros 6.26m) by the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern at its latest sitting.The largest amount - $ 1.1m (Eu 700,000) - went to Phillip Stennert and Cyrill Boss’ ...
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Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann to leave Constantin for Telepool
Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann will join Munich-based Telepool as head of acquisitions and sales for German-speaking territories. She takes the post as of January 2009, and will resign as head of licensing of Constantin Film, where she had been since 2005. She is also a veteran of Prokino Filmverleih.Higuchi-Zitzmann will report directly ...
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Local writers take prizes at Cheltenham's recent Screenwriters Fest
The third Screenwriters' Festival (July 1-3) announced awards for its workshop schemes for local writers Script_1 and Future Street, with competitions sponsored by LSC, South West Screen and Gloucestershire County Council.The Script_1 winners were: Marc Griffiths for The Storm Watch, Carol Sheppard for Grey and Steve Edwards for Shopping Addict. ...
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Fox, Lloyd reteam on Fireworks' Interstate 60
Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd, the two stars of the Back To The Future trilogy, are reteaming in supporting roles in Fireworks Pictures' coming-of-age fantasy Interstate 60 which marks the directorial debut of Back To The Future writer-producer Bob Gale. James Marsden, Gary Oldman and Amy Smart are in ...
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Arts Alliance joins anti-copyright theft group Industry Trust
Digital film services company Arts Alliance Media has become a member of the Industry Trust for IP Awareness.The industry group battles copyright theft.AAM joins the Trust as it starts on the second phase of a new communications campaign, launched in July 2007. Its 2008 anti-copyright theft message will move from ...
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Hindi films have tough half year at domestic box office
Hindi films have seen an unarguably poor run at the Indian box office in the first half of 2008, according to local analysts. Although there are no official half-yearly figures for combined box office receipts, most of the big-budget, big-hype films, whether from small or large production houses, have failed ...
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DeVito to direct Charlotte Doyle for HandMade, Plaza Productions
Danny DeVito will direct The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle from his own screenplay for HandMade Films and El-Ad US Holding's Plaza Productions International.The family action adventure will star Morgan Freeman, Pierce Brosnan and Saoirse Ronan, who earned an Oscar nomination this year for her role in Atonement.DeVito, who will ...
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Films from McGowan and Skogland lead Canadian charge at TIFF
Michael McGowan's One Week starring Joshua Jackson, Liane Balaban and Campbell Scott and Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking with Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Rose McGowan and Kevin Zegers have joined the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival's line-up of Canadian gala presentations.Special Presentations include Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth, Fernando ...
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Cantet's The Class to open New York Film Festival
Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or The Class (Entre Les Murs) will open the New York Film Festival, set to run from September 26-October 12.Two showcases at the Film Society's Walter Reade Theater will round out the festival's main line-up with historical and alternative perspectives.The first, In The Realm Of Oshima, runs ...
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Tracy Falco joins Universal as evp of production
Producer Tracy Falco has been named executive vice president of production at Universal Pictures.For the past year Falco has had a first-look deal at United Artists, where she produced Robert Redford's Lions For Lambs. She will report to Universal's president of production Donna Langley.In her new position, Falco will support ...
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Rosenberg hired to adapt BBC series Second Sight for Universal
Universal Pictures has hired Craig Rosenberg to adapt the BBC series Second Sight as a thriller for producers Don Murphy and Susan Montford.The project is based on the UK crime drama that gave Clive Owen his breakout role as a hard-living homicide detective suffering from a rare degenerative eye condition ...
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Amy Israel out, Guy Stodel in as Vantage changes direction
Paramount Vantage has undergone a further sea change this week with the announcement yesterday that Amy Israel is leaving the company and Guy Stodel has been appointed in her stead as executive vice president of production and acquisitions.The move appears to confirm speculation that Vantage is moving away from the ...
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The Mummy 3 cleared for mainland China release
The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor has been cleared for release by Chinese film censors and will be released in mainland China after the Beijing Olympics, according to local distributor Edko Films. Edko Films' chief Bill Kong, who helped to set the film up as a full US-China co-production, ...
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Space Chimps
Dir: Kirk De Micco. US. 2008. 81 mins.An amiable animated tale in which a group of chimpanzees is sent to a faraway planet to test its viability for life but ends up freeing an enslaved alien populace, Space Chimps is, in terms of plotting, a throwback to the animation of ...
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UK's Carlton acquires HTV franchise
UK media concern Carlton Communications has confirmed it is buying the HTV TV franchise from rival Granada Media. Carlton is paying just over $263m in cash for HTV and its 20% stake in Meridian, the ITV broadcaster for south-east England. Granada had to sell HTV to satisfy competition requirements after ...
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