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Valley Of Flowers wins top prize at LA Indian Film Fest
Pan Nalin's Valley Of Flowers won the 5th Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles' grand jury prize for best feature as the event came to a close at the weekend.Paromita Vohra's Q2P won the best documentary award, while Srinivas Sunderrajan's Tea Break took best short honours.The Audience Choice Award went ...
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Coens sign two-picture deal with Focus, Working Title
Joel and Ethan Coen will write, produce, and direct their next two projects Burn After Reading and A Serious Man for Focus Features and Working Title Films following a two-film deal announced yesterday [April 23].Brad Pitt has joined George Clooney and Frances McDormand on the previously announced espionage black comedy ...
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American Pavilion rebrands as AmPav: The Pavilion At Cannes
Entering its 19th year as the Criosette's full-service hospitality and business centre, the American Pavilion has been rebranded as AmPav: The Pavilion At Cannes.'The perception of The Pavilion was that we were being exclusive in our membership, when in fact we're pleased that more than 40% of our membership is ...
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New animation studio Animation Lab gets set for Bunch
Animation Lab, the recently announced Jerusalem and Los Angeles-based studio launched by Jerusalem Venture Partners, has announced its first project.Pre-production is underway on The Wild Bunch (working title), the first of six CGI features that Animation Lab plans to put into production over the next eight years.Jim Ballantine, whose credits ...
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Sundance annual summer Labs unveil projects, participants
The Sundance Institute has announced the 13 projects for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, which run at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 28-Jun 28.The selected projects include: The Cavanaughs (US) by John Morgan (co-writer/director) and Meg LeFauve (co-writer); Circumstance (US/Iran) by Maryam Keshavarz (writer/director); Cold Souls ...
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Berri's latest wins audience award at LA's COLCOA
Claude Berri's Hunting And Gathering starring Audrey Tautou and Guillaume Canet was presented with the 2007 City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COLCOA) Audience Choice Award.'This year's festival is the most successful in the history of COLCOA,' festival director and programmer Francois Truffart said of the event, which ran from ...
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Waitress wins narrative award at Sarasota Film Festival
Adrienne Shelly's final film Waitress won the narrative competition award and Benjamin Niles' Note By Note: The Making Of Steinway L1037 took the documentary prize as the Sarasota Film Festival closed at the weekend.Each award carried a $5,000 cash prize for the film-makers. Olivier Meyrou's Beyond Hatred received a special ...
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H20 picks up two in advance of Cannes
H2O Motion Pictures has picked up international rights to Ashley Baron Cohen's black comedy Poor Things starring Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis.The Los Angeles-based company has further bolstered its Cannes slate with the drama Feel, which is being directed by music video director Matt Mahurin.Poor Things, which is currently shooting ...
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Disturbia wards off two other thrillers opening in North America
Paramount's thriller Disturbia held on to the top spot for the second weekend in a row in a weekend that saw four new releases breaking into the top 10.The film added an estimated $13.5m for $40.7m, one place ahead of New Line's thriller Fracture with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling, ...
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Silverdocs conference to explore 'filmanthropy' docs
AOL vice chairman Ted Leonisis will give the keynote address at the Silverdocs International Documentary Conference that runs in Maryland from Jun 13-16.The conference will explore the 'filmanthropy' wave of documentaries that attempt to effect social change and raise awareness of important issues. Examples include Participant Productions' eco-warning An Inconvenient ...
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Gaumont backs Natali's genetic horror Splice
Vincenzo Natali has begun casting on horror movie Splice, a Canada-France co-production set in the mutable world of genetic engineering. A production of Toronto-based Copperheart Entertainment and France's Gaumont, the film is wrtten by Natali, produced by Copperheart's Steven Hoban and executive produced by Gaumont's Franck Chorot. Guillermo del Toro, ...
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amFar sets Cannes event for May 23 with Stone, Weinstein
Sharon Stone, Harvey Weinstein, and M·A·C AIDS Fund chairman John Demsey are among chairs of amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS event that will run during the Cannes International Film festival on May 23.Elizabeth Taylor, AIDS research and advocacy organisation amfAR's founding international chairman, and founding chairman Dr Mathilde Krim will serve ...
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Sharkwater wins Gen Art Film Festival in New York
Rob Stewart's Sharkwater won the 12th Annual Gen Art Film Festival's Acura Grand Jury Feature Film Award and a $10,000 prize, while Phillip Van's High Maintenance took home $5,000 and the Acura Grand Jury Short Film Award.Both film-makers also claimed the audience Gen Art Film Festival Audience Awards as the ...
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IMAX version of Order Of The Phoenix will have 3D finale
The IMAX version of Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix will feature a 3D finale, according to the giant-screen company. The two most recent installments of the franchise - Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban and Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire - were ...
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Tribeca Film Festival: growing gains
Five years ago, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff launched the first Tribeca Film Festival to contribute to the revival of Lower Manhattan after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The five-day festival attracted 150,000 visitors to the downtown neighbourhood.By 2006, Tribeca had grown into an almost two-week ...
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Gold in the vaults
With the growth of digital delivery, film archives are a potential goldmine for US studios and other rights-holders. Denis Seguin looks at the promise of digital, while Screen correspondents (see links, right) explore the distribution opportunities for major public rights-holders...In 1955, RKO Pictures licensed the television rights to its 740-film ...
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New Summit studio launches with over $1bn in funding
Rob Friedman, the former vice chairman and COO of Paramount Pictures, and Patrick Wachsberger, the head of Summit Entertainment LP, have unveiled their long-in-the-works production and distribution company which has immediate access to $1bn in funds from a financing deal led by Merrill Lynch and a consortium of investors.The company, ...
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Speed Dating wins best feature at Malibu
Tony Herbert's Speed Dating was named best feature film at the 2007 Malibu International Film Festival which finished at the weekend.Gideon Raff's The Killing Floor won the prize for best thriller, Reynier Molenaar's Replay was named best action film, while Mick Rossi and Sean Stanek won the best screenplay prize ...
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'A rich year' for Cannes 60th anniversary. promise organisers
The Cannes Film Festival announced this year's line-up at a press conference in Par with, as expected, Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights set to open the 60th edition. The film will screen in competition alongside 21 other films from confirmed talents, as well as some new faces and one debut ...
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Cannes: Un Certain Regard programme
Films selected for Un Certain Regard:Calle Santa Fe by Carmen CastilloMunyurangabo by Lee Isaac Chung Night Train by Diao Yinan El Bano Del Papa by Enrique Fernandez and Cesar CharloneBikur Hatizmoret by Eran KolirinMister Lonely by Harmony Korine Magnus by Kadri Kousaar Mang Shan by Li YangMio Fratello E Figlio ...