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NewsMoneyball, Hugo, The Artist among 2012 PGA nominees
Categories include the Darryl F Zanuck Producer Of The Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, The Producers Guild Of America Producer Of The Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures and previously announced documentary contenders.
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NewsLatido to handle international sales of Violeta Went To Heaven
Francisca Gavilán stars as famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra in Sundance-bound drama.
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NewsParamount slate generates $5bn worldwide in 2011
Paramount celebrated another table topping performance for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in the week the studio announced its films crossed $5bn worldwide in 2011.
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NewsDemi Moore, Eric Roberts, Adam Brody join Lovelace
The publicity machine behind the upcoming biopic about the porn star Linda Lovelace has unveiled the latest round of casting.
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NewsJessica Chastain, Howard Shore to receive PSIFF honours
The Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) has announced its final two honours of the current awards season.
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Breakaway Media on board world sales of Dolphin Boy
Mark Austin’s Breakaway Media and Pamela Rosenberg’s Hemisphere Productions in association with First Hand Films are handling worldwide sales on the documentary, which will screen at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January.
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NewsGhost Protocol leads US holiday weekend on $27m
The fourth entry in Paramount’s Mission: Impossible action franchise climbed two places after expanding wide just before the holiday weekend and added an estimated $26.5m for $58.9m.
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NewsStephen Daldry to receive Palm Springs director honour
Daldry, whose latest film Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close opens in the US on Dec 25, will collect the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) Director Of The Year Award on Jan 7.
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NewsNat Geo Films segues into joint venture with Hyde Park
UPDATE: Daniel Battsek has transitioned to a consultancy role and will advise a new partnership between Hyde Park / ImageNation and National Geographic Features Group.
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NewsSPC acquires Nero Fiddled for North America, UK
Sony Pictures Classics to release Rome-set Woody Allen comedy in summer 2012
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NewsSlamdance unveils special screenings, shorts
The roster of narrative special screenings comprises the national holiday anthology Holiday Road, Pema Tseden’s Tibetan-set Chinese drama Old Dog and Bryn Higgins’ UK psycho-love story Unconditional.
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FilmFunds expands portfolio with Duran Duboi US acquisition
LA-based market research and production service FilmFunds has acquired the California-based company which owns a visual effects and conversion business.
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MIFF unveils Lexus Ibero-American Opera Prima Award
Six films from Spain, Portugal or Latin America will compete for the inaugural $5,000 award.
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NewsLovelace cast bulks up with Azaria, Cannavale, Patrick
Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth and Robert Patrick have joined Amanda Seyfried (pictured) and Peter Sarsgaard as production on the Millennium Films production got underway in Los Angeles today (20).
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NewsNic Crawley to head international marketing at Paramount
Crawley most recently served as svp of international marketing for Walt Disney Studios and commences work immediately.
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NewsThirty-nine songs vie for Academy attention
On Jan 5 2012 voting members of the music branch in Los Angeles will view clips featuring each song, in random order, prior to determining the nominees by an averaged point system of voting.
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NewsSundance adds four to January selection
Philip Dorling and Ron Nyswaner’s Predisposed joins the Premieres section, while Spotlight welcomes Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st and Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be The Place and the late Park City At Midnight entry is Don Coscarelli’s John Dies At The End.
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NewsThe Film Sales Company embraces Back To Your Arms
Andrew Herwitz has acquired worldwide sales rights to Lithuania’s official Oscar submission.
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NewsPSIFF launches Arab Cinema programme
The 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) announced on Monday (19) a new programme highlighting Arab Cinema as well as films selected to compete for the FIPRESCI Award, New Voices/New Visions Award and John Schlesinger Awards.
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NewsFocus Features unveils early 2012 digital slate
President Andrew Karpen has announced the films selected for the first quarter of next year that will go out through Focus World, the digital platform that launched earlier this year to champion international filmmakers.