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NewsNew Moon casts historic shadow over pack with $142.8m US launch
The hype and anticipation surrounding Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon paid off handsomely as the vampire sequel delivered $142.8m from 4,024 theatres in the third highest North American opening weekend in history.
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NewsDisney partners with Huayi and SMG on High School Musical: China
The Walt Disney Company in China is partnering with China’s Huayi Brothers Media Corporation and Shanghai Media Group to co-produce Disney High School Musical: China, a Chinese version of Disney’s High School Musical franchise.
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NewsNew Moon eclipses 2012 with heavenly $132.1m overseas launch
Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon delivered an astonishing $132.1m weekend launch including previews from 6,873 prints in just 24 markets, a result made all the more remarkable by the fact that this was an independent release.
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NewsSanta Barbara to honour Farmiga, Sarsgaard, Tucci and Waltz
Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Stanley Tucci and Christoph Waltz will each receive the 25th Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Cinema Vanguard Award on February 12.
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NewsFido Awards announce winners
The winners of the Fido Awards – the Oscars of the canine world - were announced in London on November 22.
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NewsAjami and Medal Of Honor win at Thessaloniki as festival faces big changes in 2010
Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti’s dynamic debut feature Ajami and Calin Netzer’s Romanian drama Medal Of Honour took the top prizes at the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece on November 22.
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Crossroads Co-Production Forum awards project prize to Marinovic's Pasqua
Thessaloniki’s Crossroads Co-production Forum, headed by former Directors’ Fortnight chief Marie-Pierre Macia, presented the €10,000 Crossroads award to Ivan Marinovic’s project Pasqua.
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NewsGermany’s Senator launches Cologne production arm
German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment is launching a Cologne-based production arm to be called Senator Film Koln Produktion to take advantage of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) as an international production hub.
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NewsCairo festival hands main prizes to Letters To Father Jacob and The Hedgehog
The main awards at this year’s Cairo International Film Festival, which ran from to November 10-20, were shared by two European fables of spiritual growth and redemption.
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FeaturesTake 12: Metrodome
As part of Screen’s year-long series tracking the progress of Nesta and the UKFC’s Take 12 digital innovation programme, Sarah Cooper talks to Sara Frain (pictured) and Jezz Vernon of UK indepependent distributor Metrodome, about the challenges facing the distribution sector in the digital age.
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NewsUK short film fest Encounters rewards Princess Margaret
Kazik Radwanski’s short film Princess Margaret Boulevard picked up the top prize at the UK’s Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol on November 21.
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NewsPalm Springs to honour Mariah Carey with breakthrough award
The 21st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Mariah Carey with the Breakthrough Performance Award for her role in Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire.
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NewsPGA to honour Joss Whedon with 2010 Vanguard Award
Joss Whedon will receive the Producers Guild Of America’s (PGA) 2010 Vanguard Award in Hollywood on January 24, 2010.
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NewsGravity Films signs Katherine Brooks to direct female jockey biopic Freak
LA-based Gravity Films has attached Katherine Brooks (pictured) to direct its first film Freak, based on the life of Julie Krone, the only female jockey in the US to win a Triple Crown race.
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NewsOlivia Thirlby to star in Sherry Hormann's The No Game
Olivia Thirlby (pictured) will star alongside Marcia Gay Harden and Shohreh Aghdashloo on Sherry Hormann’s drama The No Game, set to commence shooting in New York and Israel in March 2010.
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NewsGirlfriend Experience, Sin Nombre among 38 features to screen in Bahamas
Steven Soderbergh’s drama The Girlfriend Experience and Joshua Goldin’s dark comedy Wonderful World starring Matthew Broderick are among the line-up of 38 features at the sixth Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF).
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NewsProtektor, The Good Soldier among winners at Starz Denver Film Festival
Marek Najbrt’s Protektor (still pictured) won the Starz Denver Film Festival’s (SDFF) Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for best feature film as the event came to a close on November 22.
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NewsMarrakech announces line-up
Marrakech film festival has selected 15 films for its competition line-up.