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NewsPalm Springs to honour Mariah Carey with breakthrough award
The 21st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Mariah Carey with the Breakthrough Performance Award for her role in Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire.
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NewsGermany’s Senator launches Cologne production arm
German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment is launching a Cologne-based production arm to be called Senator Film Koln Produktion to take advantage of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) as an international production hub.
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NewsUK short film fest Encounters rewards Princess Margaret
Kazik Radwanski’s short film Princess Margaret Boulevard picked up the top prize at the UK’s Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol on November 21.
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NewsCairo festival hands main prizes to Letters To Father Jacob and The Hedgehog
The main awards at this year’s Cairo International Film Festival, which ran from to November 10-20, were shared by two European fables of spiritual growth and redemption.
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NewsDisney partners with Huayi and SMG on High School Musical: China
The Walt Disney Company in China is partnering with China’s Huayi Brothers Media Corporation and Shanghai Media Group to co-produce Disney High School Musical: China, a Chinese version of Disney’s High School Musical franchise.
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NewsNew Moon eclipses 2012 with heavenly $132.1m overseas launch
Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon delivered an astonishing $132.1m weekend launch including previews from 6,873 prints in just 24 markets, a result made all the more remarkable by the fact that this was an independent release.
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NewsNew Moon casts historic shadow over pack with $142.8m US launch
The hype and anticipation surrounding Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon paid off handsomely as the vampire sequel delivered $142.8m from 4,024 theatres in the third highest North American opening weekend in history.
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NewsNew Moon eclipses launch day record with $72.7m in US
Setting up what will be an astonishing first weekend, TheTwilight Saga: New Moon grossed an estimated $72.7m on its first day through Summit Entertainment to beat the old mark set by The Dark Knight.
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NewsLa Bocca Del Lupo becomes first Italian film to win Turin's main prize
Pietro Marcello La Bocca Del Lupo made history at the 27th Turin Film Festival as it became the first Italian film to win the event’s main competition prize.
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NewsNew Moon rises to great heights in first wave of overseas debuts
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, licensed overseas by Summit International, has got off to a flying start overseas, opening top in France on $4.4m from 751 screens and drawing 488,000 on its first day. By comparison Twilight mustered $1.2m on its first day.
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Crossroads Co-Production Forum awards project prize to Marinovic's Pasqua
Thessaloniki’s Crossroads Co-production Forum, headed by former Directors’ Fortnight chief Marie-Pierre Macia, presented the €10,000 Crossroads award to Ivan Marinovic’s project Pasqua.
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NewsSanta Barbara to honour Farmiga, Sarsgaard, Tucci and Waltz
Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Stanley Tucci and Christoph Waltz will each receive the 25th Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Cinema Vanguard Award on February 12.
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NewsAMPAS names ten on shortlist for animated short Oscar
Ten animated short films have made it on to the shortlist for the 82nd Academy Awards from an original pool of 37 eligible titles.
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NewsThree Cannes competition titles vie for Prix Louis Delluc
The shortlist for the Prix Louis Delluc has been announced with Cannes favorites among the eight films in line for the award.The prestigious prize this year is eyeing, from the Cannes selection, Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet, Alain Resnais’ Les Herbes Folles and A L’Origine by Xavier Giannoli. The five other ...
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NewsNew Moon post biggest midnight opening record in US
Teeing up what looks to become an astonishing opening weekend for The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Summit Entertainment top brass said the film had shattered the midnight opening record with an estimated $26.27m.
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NewsNew Moon eclipses North American midnight opening record on $26.3m
Teeing up what looks to become an astonishing opening weekend for The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Summit Entertainment top brass said the film had shattered the domestic midnight opening record with an estimated $26.27m.
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NewsVenice to screen world premiere of Ray's We Can't Go Home Again
Nicholas Ray’s restored version of the experimental We Can’t Go Home Again will be shown at the 68th Venice film festival in 2011.
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NewsThe Damned United play in France, UK gets Glorious 39
ScreenDaily takes a look at the local and independent openings in key markets this week.
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NewsKorea’s Finecut wraps up pre-sales on action thriller Iris
South Korean sales outfit Finecut has announced a slew of AFM pre-sales deals on the espionage action thriller Iris: The Movie, starring pan-Asian heart-throb Lee Byung-hun.
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NewsFido Awards announce winners
The winners of the Fido Awards – the Oscars of the canine world - were announced in London on November 22.