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NewsThe Cove, 12 Notes Down take Silverdocs audience awards
Silverdocs, the AFI/Discovery Documentary Festival, still has one more day of festival favourite screenings today, but the audience award winners have now been announced.
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NewsProtagonist boards Warp X’s All Tomorrow’s Parties
London-based Protagonist Pictures will be handling international sales on Warp X’s All Tomorrow’s Parties.
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NewsMedia 8 picks up My Last Five Girlfriends
Los Angeles-based Media 8 Entertainment has acquired all worldwide rights to the British comedy My Last Five Girlfriends.
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NewsWoo, Yeoh set to collaborate on martial arts project
Michelle Yeoh is set to star in a martial arts film, Jianyu Jianghu, which will be co-directed by John Woo and Taiwanese director Su Chao-pin.
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NewsJan-Pelgrom de Haas to step down from Kinowelt
Kinowelt chief executive Jan-Pelgrom de Haas is stepping down from the company at the end of this month for family reasons.
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NewsPatrik, Herb & Dorothy win audience prizes in Provincetown
At the 11th annual Provincetown International Film Festival in Massachusetts, the HBO Audience Awards were presented Sunday with Ella Lemhagen’s Patrik, Age 1.5 taking the best narrative feature award.
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NewsStern says indies are hurting, but have huge opportunities online
Despite the economy, there was a slightly sunnier outlook at the Los Angeles Film Festival’s Film Financing Conference this weekend.James D. Stern, chairman and CEO of LA-based production and financing company Endgame Entertainment, struck a more positive note than 2008’s famous keynote speech by The Film Department’s Mark Gill.In his ...
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NewsOriginal wins top prize at Shanghai film festival
Danish-Swedish co-production Original won best feature in the Jin Jue Awards of the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), which wrapped on Sunday night (June 21).
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NewsJDC Trust forced to suspend business for three months
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has suspended ailing film and contents fund management firm Japan Digital Contents Trust Inc (JDC) from doing business for a period of three months.
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NewsGoodman promoted at Paramount as Grey ousts Lesher, Weston
In a major shakeup at Paramount Pictures on Friday afternoon, studio chairman Brad Grey fired Paramount Film Group president John Lesher and president of production Brad Weston.
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NewsBullock has biggest opener as The Proposal hits $34.1 in North America
Romantic comedy The Proposalwooed plenty of North American moviegoers over the weekend, opening with an estimated gross of $34.1m to top the domestic box office chart.
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NewsTransformers 2 off to strong start with $20m from two territories
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen made a powerful early start in the international marketplace this weekend, grossing an estimated $20m from 846 locations in just two territories.
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NewsNantucket honours The Cove, Dabis and Deller
The 14th annual Nantucket Film Festival closed tonight with Showtime’s Tony Cox Screenplay Competition award going to Jenny Deller for her script Future Weather.
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NewsOctober Country, Mugabe take top awards at Silverdocs
Silverdocs, the AFI/Discover Channel Documentary Festival, has given out $80,000 in prizes along with its top awards this afternoon.
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NewsLAFF's Fast Track includes Rodney Evans, Matthew Bissonette
Today Film Independent, the non-profit organisation that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, has selected the projects for its seventh-annual Fast Track programme, sponsored by Eastman Kodak.
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NewsSpain reveals plans for $125m film fund
Ignasi Guardans, the new director general of Spain’s Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), has announced plans for a new $125m (€90m) film funding scheme.
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NewsMike Mitchell to direct MGM's Once Upon A Time
MGM has tapped Shrek veteran Mike Mitchell to direct the live action fantasy Once Upon A Time.
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NewsTelstar rocks the UK, Three Monkeys in Spain
ScreenDaily’s weekly round up of the local and independent openings in key markets this week.
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NewsHigh Point signs deal with India’s Pritish Nandy
London-based distributor and sales agency High Point Media Group has formed an alliance with Indian production outfit Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC).
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NewsTransformers sequel stomps into Japan, UK ahead of US launch
Expected global blockbuster Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen lands in two major international markets this weekend, almost a week ahead of its North American debut.