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Palm Pictures acquires Anita O'Day documentary
Palm Pictures has added Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden's documentary Anita O'day The Life Of A Music Legend to its line-up.The film charts the rise of the renowned jazz singer known as 'the Jezebel of Jazz' who achieved international stardom in the 1940s and eventually died in 2004.Ed Arentz brokered ...
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Bromily, Elberg get senior executive roles at Image Entertainment
Bill Bromiley has been appointed chief acquisitions officer and Rick Eiberg has been named executive vice president of operations and chief technology officer at Image Entertainment.Bromiley spearheaded Image's feature film initiative as a consultant from June 2007 until he was hired by Image in January of this year. He reports ...
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Wigan shifts to strategic advisor role for Sony
Gareth Wigan is stepping back from day-to-day operations of Sony's International Motion Pictures Production Group (IMPPG) and has been named strategic advisor to the studio's international film enterprises.The 21-year Columbia Pictures veteran will continue to play a significant role in the studio's overseas operations, which will now rest in the ...
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Minister will consult Canadian film industry on tax credit guidelines
Canada's Heritage Minister has agreed to consult with the nation's film and television production community in drafting new tax credit guidelines. The move comes in wake of producers' complaints that proposed amendments to Canada's tax law could threaten their access to production tax credits should a production be deemed 'contrary ...
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Australia's FFC to clamp down on US studios taking tax rebate
US studios and other international players who plan to take films they have developed to Australia to shoot, then claim the new 40% producers rebate for Australian films rather than the 15% location offset designed for foreign films, are very unlikely to be successful under yet-to-be-released new guidelines.The Film Finance ...
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Working Title signs newtwo-picture deal with Edgar Wright
Working Title has confirmed a new two-picture deal with UK hotshot director Edgar Wright.He will write and direct two projects for Working Title, starting with Baby Driver, described as 'a a wild spin on the action and crime genre which will be set in the US.'The second project under the ...
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Vilcek offers funding for immigrant film-makers in US
The Vilcek Foundation has invited filmmakers who have had an impact in the US but were born outside that country, to apply for the $25,000 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise.'After researching a multitude of arts categories, filmmaking seemed to be an incredibly flourishing field, and we thought it would be ...
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Carmen Maura takes key role in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro
Carmen Maura has stepped in to replace Javier Bardem to play a character which has switched gender in Francis Ford Coppola's new film Tetro.Maura will shoot for two weeks in the key supporting role as the mentor to the title character, who is played by Vincent Gallo.Coppola made the following ...
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LA-based Pangea Pictures merges with Direct Response Media
Los Angeles-based technology and production company Pangea Pictures Corporation and South Carolina's Direct Response Media announced today [April 2] the status of a share-for-share exchange.The transaction is expected to be complete by Apr 15. In conjunction with the transaction, Direct Response Media undertook a 1-for-3 reverse split which was effective ...
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Speed Racer to close Tribeca Film Festival on May 3
The Wachowski Brothers' family action extravaganza Speed Racer will closes the Tribeca Film Festival on May 3.Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Matthew Fox, Susan Sarandon and John Goodman star in the adaptation of the 1960s Japanese anime TV series Mach GoGoGo about high speed racing cars.Joel Silver reunites with the film-makers ...
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Sony to distribute Anchor Bay's library on DVD around the world
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has signed a deal to distribute Anchor Bay Entertainment's library around the world.The three-year agreement will include worldwide rights excluding North America, Australia and the UK to a variety of releases such as the Hellboy animated films, manga entertainment titles like Ghost In The Shell ...
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Rick Sands resigns as COO of MGM
Rick Sands has stepped down as COO of MGM in the wake of Mary Parent's recent appointment as head of the worldwide motion picture group as the studio's move back into production.Sands served as COO since January 2006 and official word from MGM said he was leaving 'to pursue other ...
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Long, Panetierre lined up for Lionsgate/Crest Animation CGI film
Justin Long and Hayden Panetierre have been cast in the lead voice roles in Lionsgate and Indian animation studio Crest Animation Partners' CGI family film Alpha And Omega.Christina Ricci, Danny Glover, Dennis Hopper and Larry Miller round out the key voice cast in the story of bickering wolves who are ...
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Klein leaves SJ Berwin in London for Sheppard Mullin in LA
Robb Klein has joined the Century City office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton as special counsel in the firm's entertainment and media practice group.Klein joins from the London office of leading European law firm SJ Berwin where he was a partner in the media and communications group.Klein specialises in ...
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Jason Brenek to oversee global digital strategy for Disney
Jason Brenek, who most recently served as Walt Disney Studios' vice president of distribution strategy, has been promoted to the newly created position of senior vice president of worldwide digital cinema and cinema programming.Brenek will oversee digital cinema deployment across the globe and develop and oversee cinema programming in digitally ...
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John Smith's $6m Love And Savagery rolls in Ireland
John N. Smith's Canada-Ireland coproduction Love And Savagery begins shooting today in County Clare, Ireland. The $6.3m (C$6.5m) production reunites Smith, screenwriter Des Walsh and director of photography Pierre Latarte, the creative team behind the acclaimed 1992 production The Boys Of St. Vincent.Set in 1968, Love And Savagery follows a ...
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Denton to head new sales arm for Bold Films
Stephanie Denton has resurfaced as president of worldwide distribution at Bold Films following her former employer Lionsgate's merger with Mandate Pictures.Effective immediately, Denton will head Bold's newly formed international division and oversee domestic, marketing, business affairs, delivery and collection.She is assembling her team and reports to Bold co-presidents Gary Michael ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes world rights to Kuras doc The Betrayal
Celluloid Dreams has acquired worldwide rights excluding North America to award-winning film-maker Ellen Kuras' The Betrayal. The film, which ran in the documentary competition at Sundance, recently took the top prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.The epic odyssey follows a family from war-torn Laos to New York over the ...
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Canet's Tell No One gets US distribution deal with Music Box
Music Box Films has acquired all US rights to Guillaume Canet's French box office hit Tell No One, based on the bestseller by Harlan Coben.The thriller earned Canet the best director Cesar and brought the best actor trophy to Francois Cluzet.Tell No One centres on a doctor who gets implicated ...
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Jeff Sakson joins Participant as vice president of publicity
Jeffrey Sakson has joined Participant Media as vice president of publicity and will report to executive vice presidents of marketing Buffy Shutt and Kathy Jones.Sakson will oversee publicity on all Participant releases and social action campaigns related to its films and will also take charge of corporate communications.Sakson is a ...