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Kielbasa steps down from Sarasota Film Festival
Jody Kielbasa is leaving his post as executive director of the Sarasota Film Festival after ten years in charge to pursue other artistic challenges.Mark Famiglio, executive board member and one of the founding members of the festival, has been unanimously elected president and succeeds Ian Black.Famiglio paid tribute to Kielbasa, ...
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3D Journey to premiere at LA Film Festival
Walden Media and New Line's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 3D will receive its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Family Day on June 29.Eric Brevig directed the classic tale of adventure that stars Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, and Anita Briem.The occasion marks the first ...
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Interview:Oliver Stone
'America has defined itself in the early 21st century as a cowboy state. George W Bush has hyperbolically expressed all the cowboy mentality the world holds of America.'So says Oliver Stone from Louisiana, three days before he starts shooting W, his serio-comic look at the 43rd president of the USA ...
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Cannes buyers snatch up Michael Moore's latest polemic
Michael Moore's follow-up to Fahrenheit 9/11 led a strong Cannes sales market for Paramount Vantage, solidifying its credentials as an emergent heavyweight supplier.Moore descended on the Croisette to personally introduce the project - which he is now understood to be filming at undisclosed locations - and described it as a ...
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CBS Films hires Sullivan as CFO
Reid Sullivan has been named CFO at CBS Films, the broadcasting giant's theatrical off-shoot that launched last year with the aim of making four to six films a year budgeted at up to $50m each.Sullivan arrives from First Look Studios where he also served as CFO.Prior to that he served ...
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Magnolia charmed by Great Buck Howard
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Bristol Bay Productions and Playtone Pictures' The Great Buck Howard starring John Malkovich, Colin Hanks and Emily Blunt.The drama about a mentalist who tries to revive his career with the help of a novice road manager was one of the high profile ...
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Cornish, Wasikowska honoured at Aussie Breakthrough Awards in LA
Abbie Cornish and Mia Wasikowska will be the centre of attention at the Los Angeles-based Australians In Film's (AiF) fourth annual Breakthrough Awards on June 5.AiF president Susie Dobson announced she has established the Heath Ledger Scholarship Fund, which will be presented annually to a young Australia-based actor to help ...
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Regent to handle release of Pendergast's Kabluey
Regent Releasing will partner with Whitewater Films to release first-timer Scott Prendergast's comedy Kabluey starring Lisa Kudrow, Teri Garr and Christine Taylor.Prendergast himself plays a man who helps his sister-in-law care for her unruly children while his brother is off fighting in Iraq.Rick Rosenthal, Gary Dean Simpson, Rhoades Rader, Jeff ...
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The Secrets to open Israel Film Festival in LA
The US premiere of Avi Nesher's The Secrets will open the 23rd annual Israel Film Festival, which is set to run from June 12-26 in Los Angeles, before moving to New York and Miami at the end of the year.The event, which is the largest showcase of Israeli cinema in ...
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Graphic novels get the Disney treatment through Kingdom Comics
The Walt Disney Studios has signed a multi-year deal with Ahmet Zappa, Harris Katleman and Christian Beranek's graphic novel imprint Kingdom Comics to create stories with adaptation potential.Kingdom Comics, a new wholly owned Disney company, will develop original graphic novels and reinvent live-action brands from the Disney's film library. Disney ...
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Cantet's The Class takes top honours from Screen's Critics Jury
Laurent Cantet's The Class not only won the jury's Palme d'Or in Cannes, it also is the top-rated film from Screen International's Cannes critics jury. It scored an average of 3.3 out of a possible 4.0, making it the most popular of the 22 films in Competition.This year's jury votes ...
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X Verleih takes German-language rights to Egoyan's Adoration
Germany distribution company X Verleih has picked up all German-language rights to Atom Egoyan's Cannes competitor Adoration. Written, produced and directed by Egoyan, the film won the Ecumenical Prize at the festival. It stars Arsinee Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard and Devon Bostick.As well as a key sale to Sony ...
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Brandauer joins cast of Coppola's Tetro as Gallo's father
Klaus Maria Brandauer is the latest addition to the cast of Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro which is in its ninth week of shooting in Buenos Aires.He plays Carlo Tetrocini, a symphony conductor and the father in the story. 'The father is a man of great complexity, arrogance and cruelty,' explained ...
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SPC confirms double acquisition from Match Factory
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up US and Latin American rights to Ari Folman's Cannes competition entry Waltz With Bashir and North American rights to Bent Hamer's Un Certain Regard screener O'Horten.For more Cannes sales click hereSPC negotiated both deals with The Match Factory.In Waltz With Bashir, Folman, a former ...
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Starz lays out Table For Three starring Routh
Filming began in mid-May in Los Angeles on the Starz Productions comedy Table For Three starring Brandon Routh, Sophia Bush, Jesse Bradford, Jennifer Morrison, Johnny Galecki and Liza Lapira.Michael Samonek is directing from his screenplay about a young man who invites a seemingly perfect couple to share his apartment. Nathan ...
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CineVegas honours career of Anjelica Huston
The 10th CineVegas Film Festival will honour the career of Anjelica Huston with the Marquee Award and present Don Cheadle, Rosario Dawson, Viggo Mortsensen and Sam Rockwell with a Half-Life Award for their careers-to-date.James Caan will receive the festival's Vegas Icon Award, presented to an actor 'who embodies the spirit ...
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Veteran publicist Friedkin dies at 81
John Friedkin, a veteran publicist and studio executive who started out as an adman and moved into publicity to represent Tony Bennett, died of respiratory failure on May 11 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81.Friedkin was born in New York on December 9, 1926, and graduated ...
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IFC makes another Cannes killing with Italian Mafia tale
IFC Films has swooped on US rights to Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone's Cannes Grand Jury Prize winning Italian Mafia tale that drew wide acclaim following its competition screening.For more Cannes sales click hereThis is IFC's fifth acquisition of Cannes 2008 entry following last week's deal for Steve McQueen's Un Certain Regard ...
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FilmSharks International closes more deals on The Desert Within
Buenos Aires based FilmSharks International has sold Rodrigo Pla's Cannes critic's title The Desert Within to seven more territories following its screening at Cannes.Pla's anti-religious parable has been picked up by Action Film for Finland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden, Pantheon Entertainment for Portugal, Seven Films in Greece and Alliance Lumiere ...
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Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at age 73
Film-maker Sydney Pollack died of cancer in Los Angeles on Monday, aged 73.He had been diagnosed with cancer about 10 months ago.The Oscar winner was a director, producer and actor; his best-known films include Out Of Africa, The Way We Were, Three Days Of The Condor, Tootsie and They Shoot ...