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NewsWriter/director Paul Cox turns liver transplant into film idea
Writer/director Paul Cox is planning to make a new film, Force of Destiny, about an artist who survives a liver transplant and falls in love.
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India's NFDC unveils 22 projects for Film Bazaar
India’s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) has unveiled the 22 projects that will take part in this year’s Film Bazaar co-production market (Nov 24-27) in Goa, including projects from Danis Tanovic and India’s Dibakar Banerjee and Ketan Mehta.
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NewsSolid $32m launch secures US box office for Immortals
Relativity’s fantasy epic directed by Tarsem and starring Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke and Freida Pinto slew the competition, opening on a decent $32m.
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NewsImmortals storms to $38m international debut
Relativity’s fantasy generated a notable first wave of launches outside North America, combining with the number one domestic debut for a $71.3m worldwide opening weekend.
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NewsThessaloniki industry award winners include Frantzis' Virus
Works in Progress award goes to Annemarie Jacir’s When I Saw You.
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NewsCPH: DOX winners include Ben Rivers' Two Years At Sea
The year’s winners of the eight competition awards at Copenhagen’s CPH: DOX festival were announced at the festival’s closing gala at the city’s Teater Bremen.
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NewseOne, Village Roadshow flock to Myriad's Goon
The ice hockey comedy starring Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber and Jay Baruchel drew the buyers at AFM.
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NewsAmerican Film Festival in Wroclaw to open with Solondz's Dark Horse
Todd Solondz and Joe Swanberg to attend for retrospectives.
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NewsBlack Rabbit Film, Impatient Pictures to co-produce Made In China
Isabelle Obadia and Adeline Monzier’s new production company Black Rabbit Film is teaming up with Canadian outfit Impatient Films for the drama, to be directed by Frédéric Colier.
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NewsSpivak earns digital distribution stripes at SPHE
Jason Spivak has been promoted to the newly created role of svp and general manager of worldwide digital distribution at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE)
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NewsFinnish Film Foundation to speed up process for film funding
New scheme has four features in the works.
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NewsUTV, Imtiaz Ali team for My Girlfriend Is An Agent remake
Mumbai-based UTV Motion Pictures and Indian filmmaker Imtiaz Ali [pictured] will co-produce an official Hindi remake of Korean romantic action comedy My Girlfriend Is An Agent.
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NewsTintin to soar past $150m mark internationally
The Adventures Of Tintin has grossed more than $125m in two weeks in release and the family spectacle opens in India through Sony Pictures Releasing International this weekend, as well as in a host of markets through PPI.
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NewsBilly Crystal returns to host 84th Academy Awards
The entertainer will host the show for the ninth time in his career after recently telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer made the announcement on Thursday (10).
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ASC unveils quartet of honourees for February gala
Dante Spinotti, William Wages, Francis Kenny and Fred Godfrey will be celebrated at the American Society Of Cinematographers (ASC) awards night on Feb 12 in Hollywood.
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First Run acquires documentary Wish Me Away
The distributor plans a spring 2012 theatrical release for Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf’s award-winning film with VoD, video and television to follow.
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NewsHabemus Papam, Quando La Notte among Cinema Italian Style 2011
As previously announced, Emanuele Crialese’s Italian foreign language Oscar submission Terraferma (pictured) will open the event, which runs in Los Angeles from Nov 10-15 and is dedicated to the work of Dino De Laurentiis.
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Shorts International acquires LA Love Story
UK-based Shorts International has acquired director Sergio John Myers’ LA Love Story for one year for distribution on iTunes.
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NewsSundance, President’s Committee select 10 for Film Forward
Sundance Institute and the President’s Committee On The Arts And The Humanities have renewed their initiative to promote cinema to diverse global audiences.
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Emmett/Furla team up with Epstein, Witherspoon on Rule # 1
Newly capitalised Randall Emmett and George Furla are partnering on the comedy with Brad Epstein of Panther Films and Reese Witherspoon through her Type A Films.Courtney Hunt, who won wide acclaim for Frozen River, will direct the story from a screenplay by Terrel Seltzer about an OCD woman who takes ...