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NewsResident Evil 3 crosses $150m to stay top overseas
Resident Evil: Afterlife reached $150.8m overseas as it brought in $24m through all distributors to hold Inception and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps at bay.
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NewsGekko back on top in US as Wall Street 2 grosses $19m
Gordon Gekko returned to a commanding position in North America as Fox opened Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps at number one on approximately $19m.
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NewsDoha unveils programme including new 10-film Arab competition
The second Doha Tribeca Film Festival (Oct 26-30) has announced its lineup, kicking off with Rachid Bouchareb’s Algerian drama Outside The Law and closing with Justin Chadwick’s The First Grader, about a farmer learning to read in Kenya.
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Abu Dhabi Film Commission launches Education Day
The Abu Dhabi Film Commission has announced its first Education Day will take place at the 2010 Circle Conference on October 14.
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Light Thief strikes at Eurasia International Film Festival
The Light Thief, from Kyrgyzstan director Aktan Arym Kubat, was awarded best film and the FIPRESCI prize at the 6th edition of the Eurasia International Film Festival (Sep 21-25), which was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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NewsPeter Mullan's drama Neds wins Golden Shell at San Sebastian
Neds from director Peter Mullan picked up the Golden Shell award for best film at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival, while Raul Ruiz took the Silver Shell best director prize for his four and a half hour epic Mysteries Of Lisbon.
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FiGa acquires sales rights to San Sebastian highlight A Useful Life
Los Angeles-based sales agency FiGa Films acquired all rights to Federico Veiroj’s A Useful Life (La Vida Util) at San Sebastian before the festival’s finale over the weekend.
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Disney Research gets Swiss innovation award
Disney Research Zurich (DRZ) has been awarded the Tell Award “for most significant Swiss Technology and Innovation Investment in 2009” in recognition of the Walt Disney Company’s inward investment into the Greater Zurich Area.
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NewsNew Indomina acquires True Legend for North America
New Los Angeles and Dominican republic-based distributor Indomina Releasing has picked up all North American rights to True Legend starring Vincent Zhao, Zhou Xun, Michelle Yeoh and the late David Carradine.
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ContentFilm's Fireworks International signs output deal with Vuguru
ContentFilm digital distribution and television arm Fireworks International has signed an output deal with Michael Eisner’s Vuguru.
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Kino International acquires rights to My Joy
Kino International has acquired US rights to Russian documentarian Sergei Loznitsa’s fictional feature debut MyJoy.
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Wiest, Duplass join Likely Story, Werc Werk Works' Darling Companion
Dianne Wiest, Mark Duplass, Ayelet Zurer and Sam Shepard have joined Kevin Kline and Diane Keaton on Likely Story and Werc Werk Works’ comedy Darling Companion.
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NewsAnusha Rizvi’s satire Peepli Live to represent India in Oscar race
The Film Federation Of India has selected Anusha Rizvi’s satire Peepli Liveas the country’s foreign language Academy Awards submission.
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IFC to release Human Centipede sequel in 2011
IFC Films will release Tom Six’s sequel The Human Centipede Part 2 (Full Sequence) through its IFC Midnight label in 2011.
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Besa joins Oscar race for Serbia
The Serbian Academy Of Film Arts And Sciences has chosen veteran director Srdjan Karanovic’s Besa (Solemn Promise) as Serbia’s candidate for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards.
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Dubai Film Festival teams up with San Sebastian's Cinema In Motion
Arab filmmaking promoted in Europe.
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Ukranian government's new laws to boost film industry
New laws, scheduled to come into effect in Ukraine from Jan 1, are expected to help to provide the recovery of the country’s film industry, which has been in decline since the collapse of the USSR.
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London Film Festival adds Inside Job
The 54th BFI London Film Festival has added Charles Ferguson’s documentary Inside Job to its line up.
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NewsNetherlands Film Festival ticket sales up despite Dutch doubts
Netherlands Film Festival Director Willemien van Aalst has called on any new Dutch Government to respect the “social significance” of Dutch cinema.
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Constantin Film and Michael Steiner plan future collaborations
Constantin Film Schweiz and Michael Steiner, director of Zurich Film Festival’s opening film Sennentuntschi, are to collaborate on film projects in the future.