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Academy sets Sept 1 short doc deadline
To be eligible for consideration in the 84th Academy Awards, the documentaries must complete a seven-day commercial run in a theatre in either Los Angeles County or in the Borough of Manhattan in New York from Jan 1-Dec 31 2011.
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Jeb Brody named president of production at Focus Features
The executive arrives from his parallel role at Vendome Pictures and replaces John Lyons, who is returning to work as a producer and devoting more time to philanthropy.
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Tribeca Film launches VoD slate Tomorrow's Cult Classics Today
The line-up launches on demand on Aug 25 and includes Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, a documentary that resulted from a series of tape recordings of noisy neighbours by a pair of friends.
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NYFF to screen revised Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory with new ending
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Toronto-bound miscarriage of justice documentary will receive its US premiere with the fresh new ending that includes the release of the West Memphis 3.
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Chazz Palminteri to play mafia boss in Levinson's mob feature
Palminteri will star alongside John Travolta, Al Pacino and Ben Foster in Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father.
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Wiley joins eOne's revamped US theatrical division
Canada’s leading entertainment company, Entertainment One, is launching into the specialised US theatrical market with a new division, eOne Films North America through an expansion of its Los Angeles-based eOne Films US.
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Legendary East unveils Ed Zwick adventure as first project
Zwick will direct The Great Wall and is co-writing with longtime writing and producing partner Marshall Herskovitz based on a story by Legendary Entertainment chairman and CEO Thomas Tull and Max Brooks.
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Ben Stiller to receive BAFTA LA’s Charlie Chaplin comedy award
The actor will collect the honour at the 2011 BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards on Nov 30 in Beverly Hills.
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Beth Minehart, Dylan Wilcox swell ranks at Miramax Films
In two significant hires that speak to the company’s ambitions, CEO Mike Lang (pictured) has brought on NBC Universal’s former evp of international new media Minehart and installed Universal’s former director of acquisitions Wilcox.
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Films announced for San Sebastian’s Films In Progress, Cinema In Motion sections
Films from Marcelo Gomes, Annemarie Jacir, Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas among selections.
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Universal signs production deal with Justin Lin’s Barnstorm
Hot on the heels of the $607m global smash Fast Five the studio has wasted little time cementing a formal partnership with the filmmaker and announced that the Lin-directed Fast And Furious 6 will open on May 24, 2013.
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Shooting begins on comedy 21 And Over
The Hangover and The Change Up writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore will direct from their own screenplay. Mandeville Films is producing in association with Richard Branson’s Virgin Produced and Relativity will handle worldwide distribution.
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Production underway on Big Beach Johnny Knoxville comedy
Knoxville and Patton Oswalt star in Todd Rohal’s untitled follow-up to this year’s Sundance entry The Catechism Cataclysm.
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Berlinger, Sinofsky shoot footage as West Memphis 3 freed
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory already lined up for Toronto premiere.
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Hannibal Classics sails to Toronto with $25m WWII naval project
USS Indianapolis: Men Of Courage recounts the story of a rescue mission to salvage a terrifying weapon on board the stricken US battleship.
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Carmike Cinemas acquires three Atlanta-area theatres from MNM Theatres
Carmike Cinemas acquires three Atlanta-area theatres from MNM Theatres
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ARPA unveils 30-strong roster for September festival
The annual ARPA International Film Festival will take place from Sept 22-24 in Hollywood and will open with Braden King’s Sundance premiere Here starring Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal.
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Miramax partners with Facebook on digital delivery
CEO Mike Lang has cut his latest deal in ongoing efforts to promote the storied library following pacts earlier in the summer with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and iTunes.
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Prolific film and TV director Reza Badiyi dies, aged 81
The Iranian-born, US-based director set a record for directing the most hours of episodic series television.
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Disney thrills convention with news of two new Pixar films
The studio revealed all to attendees at weekend’s D23 / Expo event in Anaheim, California.