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    Babelgum takes online/mobile rights to Workbook's Radar

    2009-03-25T22:41:00Z

    Online content platform Babelgum has acquired the worldwide exclusive Internet and mobile rights to weekly video series Radar.The three-minute episodes, which examine innovative projects across creative disciplines, are produced by WBP Labs, the experimental lab division of the Workbook Project.The deal was negotiated by Babelgum's GM and publisher - film ...

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    Oscars move one week later in 2010 to avoid Olympics clash

    2009-03-25T22:17:00Z

    The 82nd Annual Academy Awards will take place on Mar 7th 2010, a week later than usual to avoidthe closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver on February 28.

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    Lionsgate takes film rights to Shange's 1975 play For Colored Girls

    2009-03-25T20:21:00Z

    Lionsgate has acquired worldwide film rights to Ntozake Shange's 1975 stage play and Nzingha Stewart's adapted screenplay of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf.The play was first performed in California at the Bacchanal women'sbar near Berkeley and first produced in 1975 at New York's ...

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    El Sistema to open Nyon's Visions du Reel 2009

    2009-03-25T17:21:00Z

    Paul Smaczny and Maria Stodtmeier's El Sistema will be the opening film at the 2009 Nyon International Film Festival. El Sistema looks at the work of Venezuelan pianist and activist Jose Antonio Abreu, focusing on the network of children's and youth orchestras and music centres to provide a route out ...

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    Venice names Horizons and Lions of the Future jury presidents

    2009-03-25T16:35:00Z

    The Venice Film Festival has named independent filmmaker Pere Portabella as president of the Orizzonti (Horizons) Jury, while director Haile Gerima will preside over the Lion of the Future Jury.

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    Gabriele Salvatores to play Happy Families

    2009-03-25T16:12:00Z

    Oscar winning director Gabriele Salvatores will shoot his next feature, the comedy Happy Family in Milan from June. Salvatores' long time producer Maurizio Totti of Colorado Films will produce. The budget and cast have yet to be confirmed. Speaking to Screendaily, Totti confirmed that the project has been in development ...

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    Mugabe doc to premiere at Canada's 2009 Hot Docs

    2009-03-25T15:06:00Z

    Mugabe And The White African a British made theatrical documentary from Arturi Films, will premiere at the 2009 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival which runs from April 30 to May 10, 2009. It will be presented in the International Spectrum programme, the official competition for International productions and is ...

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    UK's Exhibitors' Association to explore digital funding options

    2009-03-25T14:50:00Z

    The Cinema Exhibitors' Association (CEA) today started to explore the possibility of collective negotiation with studios and distributors for the funding required to move to digital cinema. The UK Film Council-funded Digital Screen Network has equipped 238 screens across the UK and some operators such as Odeon, UCIand Cineworld have ...

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    Young's Christmas Rose receives full financing at HAF

    2009-03-25T11:52:00Z

    Charlie Young's Christmas Rose received the HAF Excellence Award at the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) today, for managing to raise its entire $2m budget at the three-day event. Beijing-based Orange Sky Entertainment stepped up on the second day of the market to fully finance the film - ...

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    Filmart takes on regional flavour

    2009-03-25T03:57:00Z

    As Filmart reached the half-way point on Tuesday, sellers were reporting that the market was relatively busy but much more Asia-focused than in previous years.'We've been quite busy but most of our meetings have been with Asian buyers - there are fewer companies from the US and Europe and substantially ...

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    Rachel McAdams named Female Star of the Year at ShoWest

    2009-03-25T02:58:00Z

    Rachel McAdams has been named the 2009 ShoWest Female Star Of The Year and will be honoured at a ceremony in Las Vegas on April 2.McAdams broke through with star turns in The Notebook and Mean Girls and will next be seen in Universal's thriller and BBC series adaptation State ...

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    Breitman's Someone I Loved will open COL-COA in Los Angeles

    2009-03-25T02:43:00Z

    The world premiere of Zabou Breitman's Someone I Loved (Je L'Aimais) starring Daniel Auteuil and Marie-Josee Croze will open the 13th Annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COL-COA) film festival to run from April 20-26.Backed by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, the festival will present 50 films, including 30 features ...

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    Jose Martinez Jr promoted to executive VP at Maya Entertainment

    2009-03-24T23:05:00Z

    Jose Martinez Jr has been promoted to executive vice president of Maya Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based vertically integrated company targeting the growing US Latino market.Since joining Maya Entertainment a year ago as general counsel andhead of acquisitions, Martinez has led company efforts to acquire suchnotable films as How The Garcia ...

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    Cast lines up for wolf pack in Summit's New Moon

    2009-03-24T23:03:00Z

    Native American/First Nation actors Chaske Spencer, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Tyson Houseman have signed on to star as the members of the wolf pack in Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: New Moon.Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner reprise theirroles from Twilight. The sequel finds Bella, played ...

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    E1 Entertainment ships 1m DVD units of Twilight

    2009-03-24T21:23:00Z

    E1 Entertainment has shipped 1m DVD units of the vampire love story Twilight for its March 21 release. According to the company, the film is setting records for fastest sell-through at most major retailers. Twilight fans have taken part in late-night parties at locations across Canada, queuing to be among ...

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    Jon Hamm joins Howl cast for Werc Werk Works

    2009-03-24T21:18:00Z

    Golden Globe winner and star of TV's Mad Men Jon Hamm has signed on to Werc Werk Works' Allen Ginsberg project Howl currently shooting in New York City.Hamm will star as the Beat Gernation poet's celebrated defenceattorney Jake Ehrlich in the story about the obscenity trial thatsurrounded Ginsberg's eponymous poem.James ...

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    Saint John Of Las Vegas to open CineVegas on June 10

    2009-03-24T21:14:00Z

    The world premiere of Hue Rhodes' insurance fraud comedy Saint John Of Las Vegas starring Steve Buscemi, Sarah Silverman, Peter Dinklage and Tim Blake Nelson will open the 11th annual CineVegas Film Festival on June 10.Eight other films in competition get world premiere berths at the LasVegas event that runs ...

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    Locations trade show slated for April 16-18 in Santa Monica

    2009-03-24T21:11:00Z

    The Association Of Film Commissioners International’s annual locations trade show will take place in Santa Monica from April 16-18.More than 3,000 industry professionals and 240 exhibitors representingmore than 30 countries are expected to attend the event.Seminars will cover Candid Conversations, in which studio executivesdiscuss their film-making experiences, as well as ...

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    Relativity extends Tucker Tooley's contract through 2011

    2009-03-24T21:09:00Z

    Relativity Media has extended president of production Tucker Tooley’s contract through 2011.Along with CEO Ryan Kavanaugh, Tooley has helped to grow the company and played a critical role in developing the single pictures filmsdivision into an entity that fully finances and produces eight to tentitles a year. Tooley also oversees ...