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Screen's Mike Goodridge takes ICG international journalist prize
Screen International and ScreenDaily.com's US editor Mike Goodridge has been named international journalist of the year at the 44th annual ICG Publicists' awards in Los Angeles. Top film honours went to Fox's publicity team for Borat and TV prize to ABC/Touchstone for Ugly Betty. Other awards were the ICG President's ...
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120 features, 180 shorts to screen at Mar del Plata
The 22nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival (March 8-18) has announced its line-up.In his fifth and final year as Argentina's main festival director Miguel Pereira told Screen the event is increasing its focus on Latin America's emerging talents with a new cash award of $50,000 for the best film ...
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Optimum picks up Rocket Science
Optimum has taken UK rights to Jeffrey Blitz's Rocket Science, which won the Directing Award - Dramatic at Sundance 2007.Charles Schreger, president of programming sales for HBO Enterprises, struck the deal for the HBO Films project with Optimum's managing director Will Clarke.Spellbound director Blitz makes his fictional debut with the ...
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Fortissimo to sell LIVE! worldwide
Fortissimo Films is handling worldwide sales rights excluding North America for Academy Award-winning director Bill Guttentag's LIVE! which is produced by Mosaic Media Group. A satire on the modern obsession with reality TV, the film follows an ambitious TV network executive played by Eva Mendes (Training Day, Hitch), who wants ...
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Essential picks up Solomon Kane, Killing Suki Flood
Fledgling US consultancy, financier and sales agency Essential Entertainment has picked up international rights from producer Samuel Hadida to Solomon Kane and Killing Suki Flood.Solomon Kane is an epic adventure based on the classic comic book by Robert E Howard about a mercenary who strives to redeem himself after selling ...
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Koch Lorber wins US rights to U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha
US distributor Koch Lorber Films has picked up all US rights to the 2005 Golden Bear winner U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha.Mark Dornford-May's inventive adaptation transplants Georges Bizet's French opera Carmen, about a femme fatale who leaves a string of devastated men in her wake, to modern-day South Africa.Lorber has set a March ...
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Shoreline bags worldwide rights to Man In The Chair
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights from Elbow Grease Pictures to Michael Schroeder's drama Man In The Chair, set to play on Saturday [10] in the Generation 14plus programme at the Berlinale.The film stars Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, and M Emmet Walsh and tells of an aspiring teenage film-maker who ...
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Occupant starts production on Peep World
Los Angeles-based Occupant Films, whose horror film All The Boys Love Mandy Lane was picked up by Dimension Films at Toronto, is ramping up production on the comedy Peep World. Peter Himmelstein will direct the film and recently wrapped production for Occupant on thriller The Key Man starring Jack Davenport, ...
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Kuyper joins Warner Premiere as vp, physical production
Warner Bros Entertainment's recently formed direct-to-platform unit Warner Premiere has hired Jon Kuyper as vice president of physical production.Kuyper will oversee all aspects of physical production, including locations, construction, transportation, property and crew staffing.He reports directly to division president Diane Nelson and will work closely with other Warner Premiere executives ...
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Massis takes worldwide on Czech comedy Close To Heaven
Alex Massis' The Film Source has made its first acquisition of 2007, taking worldwide rights to Dan Svatek's Czech comedy Close To Heaven.Svatek also wrote and produced the film, which is said to be the first English-language film produced in the Czech Republic.The story centres on a diverse group of ...
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Miami Film Festival takes focus on documentaries
92 documentaries will screen at the upcoming 24th Annual Miami International Film Festival, set to take place in Florida from Mar 2-11.The overall selection comprises 23 non-fiction entries, 21 of which have made it into the world competition category.These include: Carles Bosch's Spanish entry Septembers (Septiembres), about a prison song ...
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Film and TV production output worth $60.4bn in 2005, says MPAA
Film and television production in 2005 generated more than 1.3m American jobs and $60.4bn in output to the US economy, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) chief Dan Glickman told delegates at a symposium in Washington DC yesterday [Feb 6].Glickman was speaking before the start of 'The Business Of Show ...
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Biel steps in for Lohan in A Woman Of No Importance
Jessica Biel has replaced Lindsay Lohan as the lead in the contemporary version of Oscar Wilde comedy A Woman Of No Importance, which Los Angeles-based Myriad Pictures is selling at the European Film Market in Berlin.Biel, who recently starred opposite Edward Norton in The Illusionist, will play Hester Worsely and ...
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Summit tempts EFM buyers with Lindsay Lohan, Tarsem
Leading LA production, financing and sales outfit Summit Entertainment arrives in Berlin with a slate of new pictures led by Lindsay Lohan thriller I Know Who Killed Me, Berlin Generation 14Plus entry The Fall, Sundance award winner Once, and the previously announced John Woo epic Red Cliff. 360 Pictures' I ...
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Weiss to head MGM direct-to-video division
In a move designed to leverage its much coveted library, MGM has hired Jason Weiss to head a new division dedicated to creating direct-to-video content. As vice president of the new group Weiss will oversee an annual slate of 12 or more films. He will report to Charlie Cohen, MGM's ...
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SXSW announces complete feature line-up
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced its complete lineup of features, for the 14th edition to be held in Austin, Texas on March 9-17, 2007. The newly announced additions to the 'Spotlight Premieres' section of the festival, include: Judd Apatow's Knocked UpKaty Chevigny's Election DayJonathan ...
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Sony closes third co-financing deal with Relativity
Sony Pictures has been revealed as the beneficiary of the recent co-financing facility structured by Relativity Media.The new independent co-financing package, which is separate from the previously announced Gun Hill 1 and Gun Hill 2 deals, will be a five-year revolving credit facility. The new venture, called Beverly Blvd LLC, ...
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Santa Barbara gives top international prize to Beauty In Trouble
Jan Hrebejk's Czech ensemble drama Beauty In Trouble won the Best International Feature Film Award at the 22nd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Jan 25-Feb 4). The American Spirit Award went to Michael Schroeder's Man In The Chair starring Christopher Plummer and Michael Angarano. The Gold Vision Award for ...
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Fog City, Caviar roll cameras on San Francisco romance
Principal photography has begun on Around June, a romance being jointly produced by San Francisco-based Fog City Pictures and Los Angeles-based Caviar Films.Samaire Armstrong, Brad William Henke, Jon Gries and Puerto Rican newcomer Oscar Guerrero star in the story of a downtrodden young woman who falls for a penniless immigrant.The ...
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Goldstein joins HBO Films as SVP
Julie Goldstein has joined HBO as senior vice president of HBO Films, where she will assume responsibility for overseeing the development and production of the slate for theatrical release through Picturehouse. Goldstein will remain in New York to boost HBO Films' East Coast presence and will report to HBO Films ...