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Miami Film Festival to open with Valentino: The Last Emperor
Matt Tyrnauer's documentary Valentino: The Last Emperor and Daniel Burman's comedy Empty Nest (El Nido Vacio) bookend the 26th Annual Miami International Film Festival, set to run from March 6-15.All in all the 137 selections represent more than 40 countries offering four world premieres, 22 North American premieres and 18 ...
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Paramount extends deal with Montecito, Cold Spring to 2012
Paramount Pictures has extended its agreement with The Montecito Picture Company and Cold Spring Pictures to run through February 2012.The arrangement gives the studio an exclusive first look at Montecito's diverse productions, as well as the non-exclusive opportunity to co-finance films through Montecito's financing facility, Cold Spring Pictures.The Montecito Picture ...
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Warner Bros steps in for domestic on Edge Of Darkness
Warner Bros has taken North American rights to GK Films' upcoming Mel Gibson thriller Edge Of Darkness, which is currently in post-production.GK had financed the film without a US distributor attached.Martin Campbell directed the story based on the BBC mini-series of the same name. Gibson plays a Boston homicide detective ...
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International premiere of Ong Bak 2 toopen midnight strand at SXSW
The International premiere of Tony Jaa's martial arts action romp Ong Bak 2 will kick off the South By Southwest festival's inaugural midnight section next month, SXSW Presents Fantastic Fest At Midnight.The line-up of six pictures includes the world premieres of Pierre Laffargue's blaxploitation homage Black starring MC Jean Gab'1, ...
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IFC Films takes US rights to Canadian zombie movie Pontypool
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Bruce McDonald's Canadian zombie horror Pontypool starring Stephen McHattie.Meanwhile the picture's international sales agents Forward Motion Entertainment have sold rights to the UK (Kaleidoscope), South Korea (Mirovision), the Middle East (Eagle/Phonenicia Pictures), Hungary (Cinetel) and Malaysia (VSG).Tony Burgess adapted the screenplay from his ...
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Berlin Bear winners sell well for Match Factory, Bavaria
Sales have been strong for Berlin Bear winners handled by German-based sales agents The Match Factory and Bavaria Film International.
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Mexico and Canada are film piracy hotspots, says IIPA
The copyright industries that make up the International Intellectual Property Alliance have recommended that Mexico and Canada be among a list of 13 countries that be placed on a priority watch list.In a submission to the Office of the US Trade Representative filed today [February 17] in the annual Special ...
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Kampe and Tron's Visit Films closes key territories on EFM titles
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's New York-based sales company Visit Films has closed key territories on its EFM slate, led by the noir mystery The Missing Person starring Michael Shannon and David Russo's comedy The Immaculate Conception Of Little Dizzle.Rights to The Missing Person sold to Australia (Palace Films), Turkey ...
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Fabian's Skin takes audience, jury prizes at Pan African Festival in LA
Sean Baker's drama Prince Of Broadway won the 17th Annual Pan African Film And Arts Festival's narrative feature competition but the audience award went to Anthony Fabian's drama Skin starring Sophie Okonedo and Skin was also named Jury Favourite.Jihan El-Tahri's French production Cuba, An African Odyssey was named best documentary ...
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Robert Towne to receive AFI Dallas Star Award at late March festival
Robert Towne will receive the AFI Dallas Star Award in recognition of his career as a film-maker and screenwriter on the 35th anniversary of Chinatown.The festival also announced ten new additions to the line-up, among them Scott Hamilton's documentary Oscar nominee The Garden, Kazuya Tsurumaki's Japanese anime adaptation Evangelion 1.0 ...
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Dod Mantle takes ASC feature film prize for Slumdog Millionaire
Anthony Dod Mantle won top feature film honours for his work on Slumdog Millionaire at the 23rd Annual American Society Of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards on Sunday [February 15].Mantle's victory served as the latest reminder - not that any were needed - that the Mumbai-set rags-to-riches tale approaches Oscar weekend ...
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BritWeek to kick off on April 21 with a gala dinner for Blair
BritWeek 2009 will kick off on April 21 with a gala dinner honouring former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in support of the charity Malaria No More.The programme for the third annual networking and fundraising event includes a film-makers forum for Los Angeles and London-based creatives.'We Brits love Los Angeles ...
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Benjamin Button scores another stunning weekend for WBPI
If there were any doubts that The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button lacked the momentum to replicate its impressive North American success overseas those were dispelled at the weekend as David Fincher's Oscar-nominated drama stayed ahead of the Hollywood pack and soared past $100m with another dominant display.An estimated $31m ...
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Marcos De Oliveira named head of MPAA's Brazil operations
Marcos De Oliveira has been named managing director of the Motion Picture Association's Brazil operations, a role that will place him front and centre of the body's government relations and anti-piracy initiatives in the territory.De Oliviera will assume his new position on February 16 and will report to Motion Picture ...
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Keri Russell joins Fraser, Ford in CBS Films' first feature
Keri Russell has signed to star opposite Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford in The Untitled Crowley Project, CBS Films' first feature that is set to go before the cameras on April 6.In the drama Russell and Fraser will play parents of children with a rare genetic disorder who hook up ...
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Friday The 13th remake sets horror opening record with $42.2m
Horror has a new champion as remake specialist Marcus Nispel's Friday The 13th (2009) scored the biggest launch weekend in the history of the genre thanks to an estimated $42.2m three-day haul, breezing past the previous mark set by The Grudge on $39.1m in October 2004.That the number one launch ...
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ShoWest to honour Sienna Miller as supporting actress of year
Sienna Miller will be anointed as ShoWest 2009's supporting actress ofthe year when the annual convention runs from March 30-April 2 in LasVegas.Miller, who will star this summer in Paramount/Spyglass' spy actionpicture G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, will accept the accolade at thefinal night banquet and awards ceremony on ...
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Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhind-Tutt are Meant To Be for Corsan
Belgian production, finance and international sales company Corsanannounced that production began this week in Puerto Rico on theromantic comedy Meant To Be.Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhindt-Tutt, Mia Maestro, Santiago Cabrera andKris Marshall star in the tale of a guardian angel who risks becominga fallen angel when he comes to earth in ...
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Paramount scares up 30+ territory opening for Friday The 13th
Paramount and New Line's horror remake Friday The 13th will be the oneto beat when it opens day-and-date with North America in more than 30territories through PPI this weekend.Highlights are expected to come from France on February 11, Germanyand Russia on February 12 and the UK, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Spain,Brazil ...
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Dimension networks with Sara Rue, Robert Green
Dimension Films is developing an untitled thriller based on anoriginal idea about a social networking website from actress Sara Rueand producing partner Robert Green.Rue and Green will produce and T S Faull will write the script, whichis being kept under wraps and centres on high school students and issaid to ...