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Kristen Stewart joins Yellow Handkerchief cast
Kristen Stewart, whose credits include Panic Room, Fierce People and The Messengers, has joined the cast of producer Arthur Cohn's remake of the 1977 Japanese comedic drama Yellow Handkerchief. Udayan Prasad is directing.William Hurt, Maria Bello and Eddie Redmayne are set to star in the film, which is scheduled to ...
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Palm picks up Erickson music doc You're Gonna Miss Me
Palm Pictures has picked up North American rights to Keven McAlester's directorial debut documentary You're Gonna Miss Me.Recently nominated for a 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, the film details the rise and fall of rock legend Roky Erickson, whose band The 13th Floor Elevators coined the 1960's term ...
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Nu Image acquires control of First Look Studios
Nu Image has acquired effective control of First Look Studios in the wake of Henry Winterstern's recent departure as the latter company's co-chairman and chief executive officer.The companies had been linked for some time and it was originally rumoured that First Look would acquire Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort and Trevor ...
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Nancy Collet leaves AFI FEST after ten years
Nancy Collet has resigned as AFI FEST's director of programming after seven years in the position. No replacement has been announced yet.Collet, who often personally viewed as many as 1,000 films each year, joined AFI as festival coordinator in 1997. Shortly after that she was promoted to programme manager and ...
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Elijah Wood to lead voice cast for Focus Features' 9
Elijah Wood will lead an all-star ensemble on Focus Features' upcominganimated epic 9 from Shane Acker, which is currently in production.Joining Wood on the voice cast are Jennifer Connelly, John C Reilly,Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, and Crispin Glover.Tim Burton is producing with Timur Bekmambetov, the Russian creator ofthe Night Watch ...
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Shamrock to invest $50m in digital 3-D company Real D
Shamrock Capital Growth Fund, part of Roy Disney's investment vehicleShamrock Holdings, is investing $50m in Beverly Hills-based digital3-D system manufacturer Real D.The deal gives Shamrock Holdings a minority stake in Real D, which hasequipped more than 700 screens in 14 countries and is expected to bein more than 1,000 screens ...
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Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival to screen 12 world premieres
Tribeca Film Festival parent company Tribeca Enterprises and ESPN yesterday announced the screenings for the inaugural Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, which will take place during the 12 days of the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival from Apr 25-May 6.The Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival will screen 14 feature-length films including 12 world ...
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Toronto's Hot Docs unveils lineup with 26 world premieres
The Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival has unveilled the line-up for its 14th edition with 129 films from 30 countries and more than 1,700 industry delegates from around the world. Among the 26 world premieres screening are Oscar-winner John Zaritsky's The Suicide Tourists, an exploration of a Swiss organization ...
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IFC First Take to release Resnais, Honore films in US
IFC Entertainment has acquired US rights to the French dramas Private Fears In Public Places and Dans Paris.Both titles will go out through IFC's day-and-date distribution venture IFC First Take, with Private Fears set for Apr 13 and Dans Paris scheduled to open in late summer.'French cinema maintains a large ...
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Tribeca shorts line-up includes films from Plympton, Stiles
Entries featuring Bob Geldof, Mariel Hemingway and Zooey Deschanel are among 62 short films set to play during the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.Returning directors include Marie Losier, Bill Morrison, Bill Plympton and Jay Rosenblatt, with actor Julia Stiles also trying her hand.Among the progrmammes is the non-competitive section 'We Are ...
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Spike Lee signs on as advisor to Ckrush Entertainment
Spike Lee will serve as an advisor to entertainment group Ckrush Entertainment and will select projects and serve as executive producer on certain releases.The arrangement is for an initial period of two years. Ckrush had previously announced Lee 's involvement in the LiveMansion: The Movie director competition, in which he ...
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SPC takes on Ruzowitzky's Lola-nominated The Counterfeiter
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American rights from Beta Cinema to Stefan Ruzowitzky's Nazi drama The Counterfeiter, which is nominated for seven Lola awards including best film, actor and screenplay. The film recently received its world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival and tells the ...
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Spartans hold off domestic challengers
Like the formidable band of Spartan warriors that holds off a massive invading army in the film, Warner Bros' 300 resisted the advances of a wave of new releases to stay top and cross $125m. The effects-heavy action epic added an estimated $31.2m following last weekend's record March launch ...
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Europeans dominate Mar del Plata prizes
European films dominated the awards at the 22nd Mar del Plata Film Festival, which closed yesterday with a record attendance of 190,000 spectators.Catalan film-maker Cesc Gay received the Golden Astor prize for Fiction, a drama about a director trying to finish the script of his next movie at a friend's ...
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Gordon, Podeswa named as Film Independent teaching fellows
Film Independent has announced the fellows for its seventh-annual Directors Lab, which runs in Los Angeles until April 16.Keith Gordon, who directed the feature film version of The Singing Detective and also Waking The Dead, will teach the Lab along with The Five Senses director Jeremy Podeswa.Guests speakers include Bill ...
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Junior NASCAR doc revs up for Good
Production has begun in New York on the NASCAR documentary Racing Dreams from US media company Good.Marshall Curry is directing the film, which follows three young drivers aged 11-13 who race extreme karts in the World Karting Association's National Pavement Series, regarded as a feeding pool for future NASCAR talent.'The ...
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Hot-zone Louisiana unveils its largest studio complex yet
Construction work will begin later this year on the $500m River Studios and FilmPort film and television studio on the Mississippi River in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana.The 925,000 sq ft complex is the largest studio project in the state and will offer one-stop studio services, product development, and distribution and ...
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300 boosts US's box office, Mexico notes 118% year-on-year increase
Collective box office revenue of nine territories was up 29% last weekend compared to the same weekend in 2006, according to Screen International's Screen Index. North America led the increase - the territory saw a 41.1% year-on-year increase and took $149.6m at the weekend. Top film 300 - an adaptation ...
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Guadalajara Film Festival to boast over $600,000 in cash awards
Guillermo del Toro, Costa Gavras, Antonio Banderas, Viggo Mortensen and Nelson Perreira dos Santos are some of the celebrities who will attend the Guadalajara Film Festival (March 22-30), which boasts a strong Iberoamerican selection of no less than 140 full length and 106 shorts in its various strands. Del Toro, ...
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Tribeca announces final films for key sections
2007 Tribeca Film Festival organisers have announced the third and final group of feature selections for the Discovery, Showcase and Family Film Festival sections. Discovery includes 39 narrative and documentary features from up-and-coming directors from 12 countries. The line-up encompasses Matthew Barbato's sex reassignment documentary Alexis Arquette: She's My ...