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NewsGood Morning to the World wins Dragons & Tigers in Vancouver
Japan’s Good Morning to the World directed by Hirohara Satoru won the 17th-annual Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema with a cash prize of C$10,000 at the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).
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NewsSarah Bolger cast in lead for 3D fantasy adventure Starbright
Irish actress Sarah Bolger has been cast in the lead of Canadian writer-director Francesco Lucente’s 3D fantasy fairytale adventure Starbright which will begin shooting in the US in early 2011.
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NewsGlobal stars attend 15th Pusan International Film Festival
Stars from most of the world’s major film industries including Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche, Aishwarya Rai, Tang Wei and Jang Dong-gun turned out for the 15th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), the last to be officially presided over by festival director Kim Dong-ho.
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NewsSocial Network debuts on close-fought international weekend
Buzz-producing awards contender The Social Network has its first international opening this weekend, though it is not likely to be among the handful of US studio films dividing up most of the spoils at the international box office.
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NewsMGM details reorganisation plan
MGM has unveiled details of the bankruptcy plan which, if approved, will leave the long-beleaguered studio mostly owned by its lenders and headed, as expected, by Spyglass Entertainment chiefs Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum.
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NewsKino nabs The Robber for US
Kino International has acquired all US rights to Benjamin Heisenberg’s Austrian thriller The Robber (der Rauber), which screened last week at the New York Film Festival.
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Vaughan to direct GreeneStreet/Das' Boomsday
Tom Vaughan (What Happens in Vegas) is to direct GreeneStreet Films and Das Films’ Boomsday, adapted from the Christopher Buckley comic novel.
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Midnight's Children among Greenberg Fund recipients
The Harold Greenberg Fund, run by Canadian media company Astral, has named 18 new and ongoing projects to be funded under its English-language script development program.
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Dorsch leaves German Films
Christian Dorsch has left the German film industry’s Munich-based promotional agency German Films Service + Marketing GmbH “to take up new professional challenges.”
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NewsRome unveils line-up fuelled by young talents
Artistic director Piera Detassis says programme for fifth edition will boast more independent and less studio films; 20 world premieres set.
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NewsTokyo adds Buddha Mountain to competition
The world premiere of Buddha Mountain has been added to the competition line-up for the 23rd Toyko International Film Festival.
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NewsSharp's Sign Language wins Virgin Media Shorts competition
People’s Choice prize goes to Bus Baby by Jason Wingard and Gino Evans.
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NewsScreen Film Summit to offer Vaizey speech online
Ed Vaizey’s speech at the Screen International Film Summit 2010 will be streamed on ScreenDaily.com later that day (Oct 13).
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NewsClare Crean promoted to Head of Sales at The Works
Clare Crean has been promoted to Head of Sales at The Works International.
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NewsAbu Dhabi adds Showcase screening of Autograph
The Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Oct 14-23) has added the international premiere of Srijit Mukherji’s Autograph.
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NewsDetective Dee leads international chart
Detective Dee was the surprise victor of this weekend’s international chart, narrowly preventing Resident Evil: Afterlife from a fourth consecutive week at number one.
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NewsLubeck to show 140 films from Scandinavia, Baltics
Selections include Shameless and Home For Christmas.
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NewsAberg returns with The Stig-Helmer Story
After 11 years off-screen, Swedish writer-director-actor Lasse Åberg – whose comedies have generated over SEK 300 million ($45 million) domestic box office – is back behind and in front of the camera.
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ThinkFilm, Capitol declared bankrupt by US judge
ThinkFilm and Capitol Films Development, two of the companies in financier David Bergstein’s troubled film empire, have been effectively pushed into bankruptcy by a US Federal judge.
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Drake keynote speaker at Filmmaker Forum
Lionsgate motion picture group president Joe Drake will be the keynote speaker at Film Independent’s sixth annual Filmmaker Forum, to be held October 29-31 at the Directors Guild of America headquarters in Los Angeles.