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  • Toni Servilo
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    Italian actor/director Toni Servillo to be honoured at Locarno

    2009-04-08T20:11:00Z

    Italian actor/director Toni Servillo will receive an Excellence Award at the 62nd Locarno International Film Festival (August 5-15).

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    Elephant Eye takes North American rights to Sundance winner La Nana

    2009-04-08T19:31:00Z

    Elephant Eye Films has made its first narrative acquisition, swooping on North American rights to Sebastian Silva’s Chilean filmLa Nana(The Maid) following its award winningpremiere at Sundance.

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    Austrian Film Institute backs new projects by Seidl, Svoboda, Roehler

    2009-04-08T18:23:00Z

    New films by Antonin Svoboda, Ulrich Seidl, Harald Sicheritz and Peter Patzak are among the projects supported by $8.9m (Euros 6.7m) of funding from the Austrian FilmInstitute (ÖFI).

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    My Life In Ruins to close Tribeca Film Festival on May 2

    2009-04-08T18:07:00Z

    Playtone and 26 Films' $20m comedy My Life In Ruins starring My Big Fat Greek Wedding's Nia Vardalos will get a special presentation screening as the closing night film at Tribeca.Several cast members are expected to attend the May 2 event ahead of the comedy's nationwide North American release through ...

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    Telefilm appoints de la Varende as business development chief

    2009-04-08T17:37:00Z

    Telefilm Canada has announced the return of Sheila de la Varende to its ranks. The culture industry veteran will act as the agency’s director of national and internationalbusiness development, effective 20 April.

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    Swedish films take 40% market share in first quarter

    2009-04-08T14:00:00Z

    Swedish cinema got off to 'an incredibly strong' start in 2009, according to the Swedish Film Institute's head of statistics Thomas Bryntesson. The preliminary figures for the first quarter of the year estimate a local market share of 40% with total ticket sales exceeding 4.6m, up 17% on 2008. Bryntesson ...

  • Wouter Barendrecht
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    Cannes' Gilles Jacob pays tribute to Wouter Barendrecht

    2009-04-08T13:45:00Z

    Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob has paid a moving tribute to Wouter Barendrecht, the co-founder of Fortissimo Films, who died on Sunday (April 5).

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    Usen's GyaO, Yahoo! Japan merge online distribution portals

    2009-04-08T11:02:00Z

    Yahoo! Japan and Usen-owned online contents portal GyaO have announced a merger of their movie and video broadband internet content portals. Yahoo! Japan has acquired a 51% controlling share of wholly-owned Usen subsidiary GyaO. Yahoo purchased 4,998 shares at a cost of $5.32m (Y529,778,009). The shares will be transferred on ...

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    Tokyu to screen Transformers in Imax digital format

    2009-04-08T10:49:00Z

    Japanese exhibitor Tokyu Recreation will release Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen in the Imax digital formatin June, marking the first time the format has been used in Japan. Three sites in Tokyu's 109 Cinemas chain will screen the film in Imax digitalfrom June 20- which also marks the film's earliest ...

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    Sony takes international media rights to Class 5 Films' Obama doc

    2009-04-08T05:55:00Z

    Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has swooped on all international media rights (excluding UK TV) and North American home entertainment rights to the previously untitled documentary By The People: The Election Of Barack Obama.

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    The Necessities Of Life takes world feature prize at Sonoma

    2009-04-08T03:36:00Z

    Benoit Pilon's Canadian drama and closing night film The Necessities Of Life won the 12th Annual Sonoma International Film Festival best world feature prize at the weekend.Karen Kingsbury's Like Dandelion Dust won best narrative feature and Andy Abrahams Wilson's Under Our Skin took corresponding documentary honours.Ethan Peck was named best ...

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    9th Annual Int'l Beverly Hills Film Festival unveils winners

    2009-04-08T03:02:00Z

    Andrea Pellizzer's Italian comedy Tre Lire, Primo Giorno and Michael Feifer's serial killer horror story Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas dominated the awards ceremony as the 9th Annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival came to a close over the weekend.Tre Lire, Primo Giorno won the best in show Golden Palm Award ...

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    Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles announces seminar line-up

    2009-04-08T02:23:00Z

    Producing Indian content for the Indian and international market and film financing options will be on the agenda at the 7th Annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles’seminar series In Prime Time: Hollywood’s Spotlight On India on April 24.

  • Tracey Ullman
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    BAFTA/LA to honour Tracey Ullman with inaugural Charlie Chaplin award

    2009-04-07T23:17:00Z

    Tracey Ullman will receive BAFTA/LA’s inaugural Charlie Chaplin Lifetime Achievement Award For Comedy at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles on May 8 marking the culmination of BritWeek 2009.

  • Paper Heart
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    Overture to handle Sundance screenplay winner Paper Heart

    2009-04-07T22:31:00Z

    Overture Films has taken over financing and worldwide theatrical distribution on Nicholas Jasenovec’s award winning comedy Paper Heart from sister company Anchor Bay Entertainment.

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    Weinsteins promote Laine Kline to evp business and legal affairs

    2009-04-07T20:29:00Z

    Laine Kline has been promoted to executive vice president of business and legal affairs at The Weinstein Company, president of business and legal affairs Andrew Kramer announced today [April7].

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    GC Corp, Killer Films take over Betsy And The Emperor

    2009-04-07T20:15:00Z

    New York-based Killer Films has boardedBetsy And The Emperorbased on Napoleon’s final years in exile, which Patrice Chereau had previously been lined up to direct for AzorFilms and BackUp Films.

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    Pact chief to give evidence to House of Lords inquiry

    2009-04-07T17:56:00Z

    John McVay, the chief executive of cinema and TV industry body Pact, will give evidence to the House of Lords Communications Committee inquiry into British Film and TV.

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    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo drives Danish box office

    2009-04-07T17:31:00Z

    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Niels Arden Oplev’s film, has single handedly driven ticket sales in Denmark over the first quarter of the year. The movie accounted for 20% ofall ticket sales in the first three months of 2009 and led to a 3% rise compared to the same ...

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    Cannes Marche scraps 2.5% exhibitor price increase

    2009-04-07T16:54:00Z

    Cannes Marche has scrapped plans to levy a 2.5% increase on exhibitors and will revert to 2008 prices for this year’s market.