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John Bailey receives Kodak Mentorship Award
John Bailey received the Kodak Mentorship Award over the weekend in recognition of his dedication to educate the next generation of filmmakers.
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Inferno, Breaking Glass strike US deal over 5 Star Day
Danny Buday’s debut feature stars Cam Gigandet and Jena Malone and will open in theatrically through Check Entertainment on Nov 2 followed by VOD roll-out two days later and DVD in the first quarter of 2012.
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TIFF elects four new members to the board
Chetan Mathur, Geetu Pathak, Rod Phillips and Wayne Purboo join as Helen Burstyn, Brendan Calder, Ralph Lean and Dan Tanenbaum retire.
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NewsGKIDS picks up US rights to Chico & Rita
Director Fernando Trueba and illustrator and designer Javier Mariscal’s film premiered at Telluride and played in official selection in Toronto.
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NewsSierra/Affinity to handle key sales on Robert Zemeckis’ Flight
Nick Meyer is understood to have cut a deal with Paramount to pre-sell a handful of major territories on the live-action film starring Denzel Washington, in a development that further underscores the ability of the independent market to support prestigious commercial fare.
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NewsSPC takes all US rights to Where Do We Go Now?
Nadine Labaki’s film recently claimed the Cadillac People’s Choice Award in Toronto and will represent Lebanon in the foreign language Academy Award race.
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NewsSingapore overhauls film and media funding structure
Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) has announced that it will be streamlining its funding schemes from 46 to five, effective immediately.
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CommentTearjerker trailer of the week
Getting weepy in advance of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
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CommentRise Of The Gatekeeper Brands
As consumers embrace new ways of finding and watching movies, independent distributors need to make sure that audiences know their brand.
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NewsUPDATED StudioCanal announces €150m slate financing deal
Pan-European major StudioCanal has announced a three-year, €150m slate financing deal with London-based private fund Anton Capital Entertanment [ACE], bringing its total production and acquisitions budget for the period to €500m.
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NewsCountries of former Yugoslavia choose Oscar candidates
Serbia goes for crowdpleaser period piece Montevideo, Slovenia opts for high-brow art with Silent Sonata, Macedonia selects Karlovy Vary prizewinner Punk’s Not Dead, Bosnia delves back into war with Belvedere, and Croatia chooses rural comedy 72 Days.
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NewsNew Zealand submits its first film for Foreign Language Oscar race
New Zealand has picked Samoan-language feature The Orator (O Le Tulafale) to represent the country, the first submission ever from New Zealand. Plus submissions from South Africa and Uruguay.
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NewsHalo Post Production ramps up film operations
TV post production company to work on sound for Arthur Christmas and The Bachelor King; moves to Noel Street.
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NewsSPC expected to announce Hysteria deal shortly
The distributor is understood to have acquired domestic and possibly select territory rights to Tanya Wexler’s period rom-com in a deal that Screendaily first learned about on Wednesday (28) but is yet to be confirmed.
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NewsProtagonist to sell most int'l rights on Your Sister’s Sister
Lynn Shelton’s Humpday follow-up premiered in Toronto recently and stars Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass.
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NewsHot-selling thriller Last Passenger starts UK shoot today at Shepperton
BFI-Pinewood backed thriller starring Dougray Scott, described as “a micro-budget Tony Scott film”, gets underway today.
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