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NewsHuman Rights Festival joins forces with Dogwoof's Pop Up Cinema
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival (HRWFF) is teaming up with film distributor Dogwoof’s Pop Up Cinema to highlight social issue documentaries in non-traditional venues around the UK.
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NewsTerraferma chosen as Italy's foreign Oscar submission
Emanuele Crialese’s Terraferma, the director’s third film about immigration which just scooped up the Jury prize at the Venice Film Festival, has been selected by the Oscar commission to represent Italy as a foreign Oscar hopeful.
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NewsSimon Rumley to direct thriller chase movie Stranger
The Living And The Dead director Simon Rumley has also written the script for the China-set thriller, which is inspired by Steven Spielberg’s 1971 film Duel.
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NewsSomeday This Pain set for Rome premiere
Italian director Roberto Faenza’s English language project Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You will have its world premiere at the upcoming edition of the International Rome Film Festival (Oct 27-Nov 4).
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NewsDirector Yann Samuell ahead in first week of the war of The War of the Buttons
Rival adaptations of French literary classic The War of the Buttons battle it out at the box office in France on more than 500 prints each. Version directed by Yann Samuell some 130,000 entries ahead in first week.
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Record breaking opening weekend for Where Do We Go Now?
Toronto winner achieves biggest ever opening weekend for any Arabic-speaking film in Lebanon.
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NewsKormakur dives into post for The Deep for end-of-year release
Baltasar Kormakur’s The Deep is one of a number of hot Icelandic titles, also including thriller Black’s Game, that are in post production now.
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NewsCripps ponders LA move as Paramount consolidates distribution
Update: The Paramount Pictures International chief is considering a relocation from London under a strategic shift that also sees the former president of worldwide home entertainment Dennis Maguire head the freshly minted Home Media Distribution, operation encompassing global home entertainment, digital licensing and television licensing.
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WIFF Finishing Fund announces grant recipients
Women In Film’s Finishing Fund co-chairs Betsy Pollock and Nancy Rae Stone have announced the recipients for the annual fund grant programme.
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CMG takes on int’l sales for doc Forks Over Knives
Ed Noeltner’s Beverly Hills-based sales company will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming AFM in November.
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NewsMiramax signs Hulu deal for Japan, eyes Asian expansion
The studio has announced the latest move in its digital expansion strategy, closing a multi-year deal with the subscriber service that covers such library titles as Pulp Fiction, Chocolat and There Will Be Blood (pictured).
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NewsMomentum wins big at Screen Marketing & Distribution Awards
Momentum, Warner Bros, Universal, Fox among winners at gala event in London.
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Image Entertainment launches faith label Slingshot Pictures
Suzette Schafer has joined as Image’s svp of specialty product and will manage the line-up. Slingshot will premiere in November with the release of period romance Alleged.
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Academy sets Oct 3 deadline for three categories
Live action short film, animated short film and foreign language film entries must be submitted by 5pm Pacific Time that day.In the short film categories, filmmakers must submit an entry form, one film print or copy in an approved digital format and all other required materials by the deadline. Foreign ...
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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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Illumination brings in two new key executives
Chris Meledandri’s animation company has hired Brooke Breton as a senior production executive while Kit Giordano is named director of development.
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NewsDrive, Faust, George Harrison set to screen in Rio
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive (pictured), Aleksander Sokurov’s Venice Golden Lion winner Faust and Asghar Farhadi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner A Separation are among the line-up in the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, set to run from Oct 6-18.
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NewsAlvernia Studios to partner with co-production market Gotham in Progress
The Krakow based production company is offering up one of the awards.
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NewsKalliope Films to produce Van Gogh biopic feature
The English language feature will focus on the artist’s entire life story.
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NewsTwo years after arrest, Polanski collects Zurich honour
The filmmaker was in Switzerland to accept his lifetime achievement award, two years after he was first invited to collect the honour before being promptly arrested on a 30-year-old charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.