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American World takes on Alan Cumming's Ghost Writer
Los Angeles-based American World Pictures (AWP) has boarded international rights to Alan Cumming's solo directorial debut Ghost Writer (aka Suffering Man's Charity) and will begin sales at AFM. Cumming stars in the comedy-horror film as a predatory music teacher who attempts to take the credit for a book written ...
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Capitol bolsters AFM slate with new films from Redford, Hackford
Capitol Films has announced several high-profile new projects on its slate for next week's American Film Market.Capitol will introduce buyers to Robert Redford's next directorial project, Against All Enemies, which will star Bruce Willis; as well as Taylor Hackford's next film Love Ranch, starring his wife, Oscar winner Helen Mirren ...
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ContentFilm promotes Harry White to head of sales
ContentFilm International has promoted Harry White to head of sales.White has been with ContentFilm International since 2002 and has worked on Black Book, Thank You For Smoking, Nightwatching, Transamerica, and Closing The Ring.He is based in ContentFilm's satellite office in Los Angeles. He will be attending next week's AFM along ...
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Schamus calls Oscar snub of Lust, Caution 'unjust and capricious'
James Schamus, CEO of Focus Features, has expressed his dismay at the decision last week of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) in Los Angeles to reject Ang Lee's Lust, Caution as Taiwan's official submission for the Foreign Language Oscar.'I am sure there is some ancient and ...
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IMAX moves into Morocca with Al Amine Casablanca deal
IMAX Corp. has signed a deal with Moroccan retail developer Al Amine Investissement to install a giant-screen cinema in a new retail facility in Casablanca, the first in the country. Set to open in early 2009, the cinema will be the anchor attraction at the new Morocco Mall, expected to ...
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Mungiu's 4 Months takes Hollywood World Award
Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days won the Hollywood Film Festival's fourth annual Hollywood World Award backed by Screen International. Mungiu's film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year and is Romania's submission for the foreign-language Academy Award. Mungiu was unable to attend the Hollywood ...
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Hans Zimmer to score Sony's Mexican comedy Casi Divas
Sony Pictures Entertainment's (SPE) local production arm Columbia Pictures Producciones Mexico has hired Hans Zimmer to score the music for its comedy Casi Divas (Road To Fame). Currently in post-production, Casi Divas is the second film to come from Columbia Pictures Producciones Mexico after Ninas Mal and was written ...
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Original Chicano and Guru take awards at Turks & Caicos
Dan Guerrero's Lalo Guerrero The Original Chicano was the star of the show at the Third Annual Turks & Caicos International Film Festival closing night ceremony on Oct 21. The film chronicles the life and music of the celebrated so-called 'Father of Chicano music' and won best documentary, best ...
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Zobel's Great World Of Sound leads Gotham nominees
Craig Zobel's Sundance hit Great World Of Sound earned three nominations yesterday for IFP New York's upcoming 17th Annual Gotham Awards. The comedy is in the running for best feature, best director, and best breakthrough actor for Kene Holliday.Three films received two nominations each: Day Night Day Night by Julia ...
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British Columbia extends 30% tax credit through 2013
British Columbia has extended until 2013 its 30% labour-based tax credit for film and television production shooting in the province.The move, announced by BC premier Gordon Campbell on Friday, comes as the Canadian dollar pushes past US$1.02.The other industry tax credits in the province, a 12.5% regional credit for productions ...
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THINKFilm International goes Under The Mountain with Jonathan King
THINKFilm International has come on board for world sales (excluding Australia and New Zealand for Under The Mountain, to be directed by Jonathan King. King's most recent film is the international hit Black Sheep. Fantasy adventure thriller Under The Mountain is based on the novel by popular New Zealand author ...
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UK producers need to think globally and diversify
The UK film industry would be in great shape - if only it was based in the US. That was the somewhat daunting message for delegates at the UK's first Production Finance Market, which kicked off today, organised by Film London in partnership with the Times BFI London Film Festival.The ...
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Argentina's Gaggero to direct Wildlife for Point Road Films
John Moore and Peter Veverka's Point Road Films has hired Argentinean film-maker Jorge Gaggero to direct the adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winning Richard Ford's coming-of-age novel Wildlife.Producers Moore and Peter Veverka are aiming for a late summer 2008 shoot in Montana on the $3m tale of a 16-year-old who learns ...
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THINKFilm on board for Argentina-set thriller The Appeared
THINKFilm International has taken on international sales rights (excluding Spain) to supernatural thriller The Appeared (Aparecidos). THINKFilm will screen the film at next week's American Film Market. Paco Cabezas wrote and directed the Argentina-set supernatural ghost story about a brother and sister who discover an old family diary ...
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ContentFilm takes international rights to documentary Trumbo
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights to documentary Trumbo.Peter Askin directed the project, which premiered in Toronto. The project is about Oscar-winning blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. The film is based on the original play by his son Christopher.The film includes performances of Trumbo's letters from the likes of Joan ...
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Birgit Moller's Valerie wins Hamptons' top feature prize
Birgit Moller's German drama Valerie won the Golden Starfish for Best Feature and an awards package of more than $185,000 of in-kind production services as the 15th Annual Hamptons International Film festival came to a close on Oct 21.Matthew Galkin's US entry I Am An Animal: This Story Of Ingrid ...
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Longoria, Biggs star in theatrical comedy for Starz Media, Ambush
Eva Longoria, Jason Biggs and Rob Corddry will star in Starz Media and Ambush Entertainment's comedy Lower Learning.Starz Media will handle the worldwide theatrical release. The film will get a domestic theatrical release through an as yet undetermined distributor, and will launch on DVD through Starz Media subsidiary Anchor Bay ...
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Summit reunites with Aronofsky on 1980s-era wrestling drama
Summit International has reunited with Darren Aronofsky and will commence international pre-sales at AFM on the drama The Wrestler starring Nicolas Cage.Aronofsky will direct and is producing alongside Cage and Norm Golightly's Saturn Films and producer Scott Franklin. Jean-Luc De Fanti and Jeff Sagansky's Winchester Capital Partners is financing the ...
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Richard Edlund wins ASC Presidents Award
Richard Edlund will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Presidents Award at the 22nd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on Jan 26.Edlund earned four Academy Awards for his visual effects work on Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) ...