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Profile: The Latin Amercian Film Company
Eduardo Costantini Jr first met Harvey Weinstein at a dinner during the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.Costantini is the son of an Argentinian tycoon who made his fortune in asset management and commercial real estate. At the time of the Weinstein meeting, Costantini Jr was running the Museum of Latin American ...
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13 projects line up for Sundance Directors & Screenwriters Labs
The Sundance Institute has selected 13 projects for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, which will take place at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 26- June 26.Under the leadership of Michelle Satter and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year's residency include ...
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LongTale International picks up world rights to Palladin
LongTale International has acquired worldwide rights to Pine Hill/Tousi's comedy Looking For Palladin starring Ben Gazzara, Talia Shire and David Moscow.Andrzej Krakowski wrote and directed the story of a brash Hollywood talent agent who travels to Guatemala to track down a retired Oscar-winning actor.LongTale International will screen the film to ...
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Hollingsworth named MD of Warner Home Video Mexico
Schuyler Hollingsworth III has been promoted to managing director of Warner Home Video Mexico.Hollingsworth will manage all operations including DVD, video games and digital revenue streams and will work closely with senior management in the US and Canada to streamline the business.Schuyler previously served as vice president of sales, theatrical ...
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Canadian finance minister wades into C-10 fray
Canadian finance minister Jim Flaherty has entered the ongoing film tax credit fray, saying the proposed tax law should not be amended and suggesting the issue will be a confidence vote of the Conservative minority government he represents.The minister's comments followed an appearance before the Senate banking committee studying the ...
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Phathanavirangoon appointed TIFF South-East Asian programmer
Former Fortissimo Films executive Raymond Phathanavirangoon has been appointed South-East Asian programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival. His selection remit includes Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. His co-programmer, TIFF veteran Giovanna Fulvi, will continue to programme titles from mainland China, Japan and ...
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Universal, Focus bolster relationship with Almodovars' El Deseo
Universal Pictures' International Studio and Focus Features International have announced strengthened ties with Spain-based production company El Deseo, run by Pedro and Agustin Almodovar.Universal has signed on to co-finance Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotaos) and also Focus Features International is selling worldwide rights, excluding Spain (retained by El ...
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The Works International takes on sales for Palka's Good Dick
UK-based sales company The Works International has taken on rights for Good Dick, which premiered at Sundance.Glasgow-born Marianna Palka directed, produced and stars in the Los Angeles-set film, about an awkward romance between a porn-addicted loner and a video-store clerk. The cast also features Jason Ritter, Eric Edelstein, Mark Webber, ...
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Ann Dubinet takes full-time position at Unified Pictures
Ann Dubinet has joined Keith Kjarval's Los Angeles-based production, distribution and sales company Unified Pictures as head of strategic planning, acquisitions and distribution after spending a period consulting for the company.Dubinet will report to Kjarval and will oversee the company's international sales and distribution operations as well as domestic distribution ...
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Katapult picks up international to Madonna's Filth And Wisdom
Katapult Film Sales has acquired international rights before Cannes to Madonna's feature directorial debut Filth And Wisdom, Richard Ledes' whistle-blowing drama The Caller that premiered at Tribeca last week and Boaz Yakin's drama Death In Love.Filth And Wisdom received its world premiere at Berlin and charts the everyday lives of ...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films, SPWAG team for Lakeshore's Elegy
Samuel Goldwyn Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) have picked up rights from Lakeshore Entertainment to the drama Elegy starring Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz.Samuel Goldwyn Films will release the film theatrically in the US in August and SPWAG will handle home entertainment. SPWAG, which had been tracking ...
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THINKFilm takes US theatrical, home video rights to Polanski doc
THINKFilm has acquired US theatrical and home video rights from HBO to Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired, arguably the most admired film to emerge from a lacklustre Sundance earlier in the year.THINKFilm will launch the film in New York on July 11 following HBO's initial broadcast on June 9. The ...
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Martin Kelley promoted to svp of publicity at Paramount Vantage
Paramount Vantage has promoted Katie Martin Kelley to senior vice president of publicity.She will report to executive vice president of marketing Megan Colligan and executive vice president of marketing and creative advertising Guy Endore-Kaiser.Martin Kelley joined the company in 2006 as vice president of publicity and will continue to work ...
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Forbidden Kingdom kicks into top international spot on Screen's chart
Martial arts adventure The Forbidden Kingdom came up trumps this weekend with a $16.8m take from 10 territories, making it this weekend's number one international film. The top 40 international films generated $104.2m across 36,933 screens from the period of April 25-27.For the full chart, compiled by Len Klady, click ...
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Venice adds US reps D'Agnolo Vallan and Di Paola
The Biennale has announced Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan and Margherita Di Paola will be the new US programmer and correspondent, respectively,for the 65th Venice Film Festival.Both D'Agnolo Vallan and Di Paola are charged with assisting Venice Film Festival artistic director Marco Mueller in the selection and searching process of American films ...
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Miramax partners with Vaughn's MARV for The Debt
Miramax Films is partnering with Matthew Vaughn and Kris Thykier's London-based MARV Films on The Debt. Miramax has acquired world rights to the screenplay, which reunites Vaughn with his Stardust co-writer Jane Goldman.The film is a re-make of the Israeli film The Debt (Ha-Hov), a spy thriller about three Mossad ...
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Tribeca Film Institute names winners of annual fellowships
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) has announced the recipients of its 2008 Media Arts Fellowships founded and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.This year TFI awarded $715,000 to 22 film-makers and media artists. The Fellowships offer financial support for artists working in the narrative, documentary, experimental, installation and computer-generated media genres.The ...
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Five finalists named in Foreign category of student Academy Awards
Five finalists selected from 45 entries representing 29 countries will compete for the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' 2008 Honorary Foreign Film award in the 35th Annual Student Academy Awards.The winning student film-maker will be brought to Los Angeles, along with US-based Student Academy Award winners, to participate ...
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Lightning adds Forever Strong to Cannes sales slate
Santa Monica-based sales agency Lightning Entertainment has added Ryan Little's sports drama Forever Strong to its Cannes slate.Sean Faris stars as a brash rugby talent who winds up in detention centre following a DUI and joins a rival team under the guidance of a counsellor. Sean Astin and Neal McDonough ...
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Pagliuca leaves Nu Image/Millenium for The Film Department
Inc Pagliuca has joined The Film Department from Nu Image/Millennium as vice president of international business affairs and will report to international president Steve Bickel.Pagliuca will assume responsibility for the company's foreign distribution agreements and related documents and will work closely with international clients as well as finance, business and ...