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Nimoy, Quinto to play Spock in Paramount's new Star Trek
Leonard Nimoy will reprise his role as Mr Spock in J J Abrams' upcoming Star Trek feature for Paramount, the director announced on the opening day of Comic-Con in San Diego.Meanwhile Zachary Quinto, one of the stars of this year's hit US television series Heroes, will portray the Vulcan in ...
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Simpsons take on the world in 71 territories
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix will surge past $400m this weekend in what will be a tightly contested bout with the global release of The Simpsons Movie.Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) fifth Potter episode has raced to $395m and should continue to make strong gains in its ...
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Toronto confirms Special Presentations from Venice
The Toronto International Film Festival today augmented its September line-up with a number of Special Presentations, many of them world premiering at Venice. Among the titles are Andrew Dominik's The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan picture I'm Not There and Paul Haggis' ...
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Lionsgate takes minority stake in Roadside Attractions
Lionsgate announced today that it has bought a minority ownership stake in Howard Cohen and Eric D'arbelloff's distributor Roadside Attractions.The passive investment means Roadside will remain an autonomous entity and plans 12 to 14 annual theatrical releases in North America, with Lionsgate handling home entertainment and ancillary markets.Cohen and D'arbeloff ...
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Venice lines up strong English-language programme
Hollywood will be jetting to the Lido for the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival where a cluster of top shelf US directors are unveiling their current projects in a festival that underscores the force of English-language cinema.While six American pictures have made the competition cut, they are flanked ...
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Cactus Three: reality check
New York-based Cactus Three has become a key player in the growing market for documentaries. Wendy Mitchell meets its founders. Having worked together at the now-defunct US indie distributor Wellspring, Julie Goldman, Caroline Stevens and Krysanne Katsoolis established their New York-based non-fiction mini-studio Cactus Three in 2003. It proved fortuitous ...
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Mandalay to produce comedy Mental for Summit
Summit Entertainment has acquired Bear Aderhold and Tom Sullivan's speculative comedy screenplay Mental.Mandalay Pictures will produce and Summit's production president Erik Feig and vice president of production Jean Song will oversee for the company. Summit holds worldwide rights.The story centres on a harried orderly who has 10 hours to transport ...
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50 shorts programmed for third annual HollyShorts in LA
Adrien Grenier's coming-of-age tale Euthanasia is among more than 50 entries from seven countries that will screen at the third annual HollyShorts Film festival, which runs from Aug 11-12 in Hollywood.The line-up of events include two industry panels looking at how experience on short films can benefit a feature film-making ...
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Sundance names participants in Documentary Composers Lab
Seven documentary film-makers and six film music composers have been invited to participate as Fellows in the Sundance Documentary Composers Lab, which runs from Aug 5-9 in Utah.The documentary subjects cover an Iraq War training simulation in the US, peace activists in Colombia, and Ethipian teenagers who move to America ...
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Rpin Suwannath to direct The Lotus Caves for Walden Media
Effects pioneer Rpin Suwannath will make his directorial debut on Walden Media's John Christopher adaptation The Lotus Caves.Suwannath, who has worked closely with Walden on pre-visualisaing Walden's The Chronicles Of Narnia films, is currently in development on the project with executive producer Steven Granat.Set in a 2068 when humans have ...
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Utah increases rebate to film-makers from 10% to 15%
The Utah Film Commission has increased by 50% the rebate available to film-makers through the State's Motion Picture Incentive Fund (MPIF).The incentive package rises from 10% to a 15% post-performance rebate for every dollar spent in the state of Utah.The cap on the fund remains at $500,000 and the budget ...
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Global Film Initiative appoints six new board members
The Global Film Initiative has announced the appointment of six new members to its board of directors.The new recruits join the current six-member board in advising the Initiative and its ongoing expansion of the Global Lens touring film series and related programmes.Now in its fifth year, the Initiative recently introduced ...
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IMAX to install cinema in Nanjing multiplex
IMAX Corp and Nanjing Deji Plaza Co, based in the Chinese city of Nanjing, have signed an agreement that will see an IMAX cinema installed in the new Deji Plaza Mall shopping complex. The cinema, which will be capable of playing both IMAX 2D and 3D pictures, will be part ...
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Spottiswoode Rwanda drama to open Atlantic Film Festival
Roger Spottiswoode's Rwanda genocide drama Shake Hands With The Devil will open the 27th Atlantic Film Festival on September 13. Based on the memoir by Canadian Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, leader of the UN force that was unable to prevent the 1994 atrocity, the film stars Roy Dupuis in the lead ...
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Burnett Fefferman gets top publicity job at IDP/Samuel Goidwyn Films
Liza Burnett Fefferman has been named senior vice president of publicity at IDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films.Effective immediately, Fefferman will head the PR department overseeing the company's film slate in addition to managing corporate publicity and branding. Based in New York, she reports to IDP president Michael Silberman.She most recently served as ...
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Walden options family comedy Relativity by Peter Craig
Walden Media has optioned Peter Craig's family comedy screenplay Relativity.The story revolves around parents who on the occasion of their 35th wedding anniversary gather their children to reveal a big secret that sends shockwaves through the family.Vice president of development Evan Turner brought the project to the company and will ...
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Samuel Goldwyn to handle US distribution of Southland Tales
Samuel Goldwyn Films will release Richard Kelly's Southland Tales in the US on Nov 9 in association with Destination Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group.The long awaited release follows the film's world premiere at Cannes 2006, when Kelly's follow-up to his 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko came under fire ...
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Meirelles' Blindness sees start of shoot in Toronto
Fernando Meirelles has begun principal photography on Blindness, a $25m multi-territory co-production adapted from the novel by Jose Saramago by Don McKellar. The film stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Maury Chaykin and Gael Garcia Bernal. McKellar is also a featured player. The ...
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Edith Kramer named guest director at Telluride 2007
Edith R Kramer will be the guest director at the Telluride Film Festival, which runs in Colorado from Aug 31-Sept 3.Kramer is renowned for her work in film preservation and collection development, and previously served as senior film curator and director of the Pacific Film Archive at the University of ...
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ICM, MGlobal Trust team on LA-based Indian Splendor
Prominent Indian film-makers, performers, and business and spiritual leaders will descend on Southern California next month to attend a celebration to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Indian independence.India Splendor will take place from Aug 10-15 and is being hosted by MGlobal Trust in association with ICM and the UCLA School ...