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NewsGothams ring the changes
Top brass at the Independent Filmmaker Project will host the 2013 awards show on Dec 2 and have introduced best actor and actress categories, scrapped Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You and renamed the Breakthrough Award in honour of Bingham Ray.
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NewsAFI boosts scholarships
AFI executives announced on Wednesday [31] a scholarship funding hike at the AFI Conservatory, the institute’s two-year graduate programme, that they said would raise funding to nearly three times previous levels.
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NewsIsaacs named Academy president
Marketing executive Cheryl Boone Isaacs has become the first black president of the Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences and the third woman to hold the post in the body’s 86-year history.
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NewsStuder rises at Paramount
Syrinthia Studer has been promoted to svp of marketing and acquisitions for Paramount Home Media Distribution.
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NewsDigital launch for Dick Figures film
Cinedigm announced on Tuesday [30] that Dick Figures: The Movie, based on the animated YouTube series created by Ed Skudder and Zack Keller, will open on Sept 17.
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NewsDimension buys Pest for US
TWC’s genre label negotiated the deal with IM Global for Mark Tonderai’s virus thriller.
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NewseOne acquires Teen Lust
The Canadian giant has taken English-speaking territories to Blaine Thurier’s upcoming comedy Teen Lust.
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NewsICM Partners names lit heads
The agency announced on Tuesday [30] that Doug MacLaren and Harley Copen have been named co-heads of the partnership’s motion picture literary department.
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NewsArtist Services to support 15
Sundance Institute announced 15 films that will receive their digital debuts this autumn through the Institute’s Artist Services programme.
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NewsToronto reveals documentary line-up
New work from Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman will screen in the Toronto International Film Festival’s TIFF Docs strand, while City To City spotlights Athens and Alex Aja’s Horns is among the Vanguard offerings.
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NewsToronto unveils Midnight Madness line-up
The 25th anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival’s genre strand to open with Chris Silvertson’s All Cheerleaders Die and feature the world premiere of Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno.
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NewsZero Hour to open Hollyshorts
HollyShorts has announced that Dan Carrillo Levy’s Zero Hour will open the 9th annual HollyShorts Film Festival on Aug 15.
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NewsArtemis Fowl lures Weinstein, Disney
Harvey Weinstein is teaming up with his old associates The Walt Disney Studios on an adaptation of children’s book Artemis Fowl. Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal serve as executive producers.
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NewsYellow Sun to open ttff
Nigerian drama Half Of A Yellow Sun starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor will open the 2013 trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff), festival top brass announced on Monday [29].
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NewsTwo IMAX sites set for Ecuador
Executives at IMAX and Supercines, Ecuador’s largest exhibitor, announced on Monday [Jul 29] the construction of two theatres in the city of Guayaquil, the country’s largest and most populous city.
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NewsWWZ to get domestic IMAX release
Paramount executives said on Monday [29] they will re-release World War Z in North America in IMAX 3D for a one-week run beginning Aug 2.
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NewsCaptain Phillips to open NYFF
Another awards season hopeful has slotted into the calendar after it emerged on Monday [29] that the world premiere of Paul Greengrass’ Somali hijacking thriller starring Tom Hanks will open the 51st New York Film Festival on Sept 27.
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NewsSPC acquires Tim’s Vermeer
The distributor, riding high on a mighty launch for Blue Jasmine over the weekend, said on Monday [29] it had taken worldwide rights to the documentary.
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NewsCast join Welcome To Me
Wes Bentley, Joan Cusack, James Marsden and Alan Tudyk have joined the cast of Gary Sanchez Productions and Bron Studios’ comedy starring Kristen Wiig.