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Gen Art, Rock Media & Entertainment merge to form Rock Media
Gen Art is merging with Rock Media & Entertainment to create Rock Media, an entertainment company that will continue to produce content and events under both labels.
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NewsGermany gets Summertime Blues, Antichrist invoked in Spain
ScreenDaily takes a look at the local and independent openings in key markets this week.
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NewsMerger is not a "done deal", says BFI's Dyke
The proposed merger between the UK Film Council and the British Film Institute (BFI) will not go ahead unless the BFI’s brand and core activities are protected, according to BFI chairman Greg Dyke
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NewsCameron unleashes Avatar campaign
After 14 years in the works, four years in production and an estimated $250m, global audiences will finally see the first clips of James Cameron’s science-fiction epic Avatar.
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NewsEgoyan’s Chloe to open San Sebastian
Atom Egoyan’s thriller Chloe, which stars Lian Neeson and Julianne Moore, will open this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival.
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NewsOrdinary People wins Sarajevo
Cannes Critics Week entry Vladmir Perisic’s Ordinary People has scooped the Heart of Sarajevo award at the city’s 15th film festival.
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NewsUKFC and BFI merger proposed
The UK Film Council (UKFC) and the British Film Institute (BFI) are to be merged under plans announced by Film Minister Siôn Simon today (August 20).
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NewsRussian cinemas forced to close as economic crisis bites
Russian cinemas have been hard hit by the global recession with 43 out of the country’s 1700 closing down in the first six months of the year.
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NewsAndrea Grau to launch Touchwood PR
Toronto International Film Festival press officer Andrea Gau is leaving after seven years to launch her own full service PR agency.
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NewsIFC Films takes US custody of Police, Adjective
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective, which has been named Romania’s foreign language Oscar submission for the 2009/10 awards season.
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NewsKenny Ortega to direct Jackson tribute film This Is it
Kenny Ortega will direct the Michael Jackson tribute concert film This Is It that Sony will now release early in a limited two-week worldwide run starting on October 28.
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APC Copyright Code extended to cover online content
The Alliance for the Protection of Copyright (APC) has published an updated Code of Practice, which covers online and interactive content.
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NewsGeorge Lucas to present Golden Lion to John Lasseter
Star Wars director George Lucas will present John Lasseter and the directors of Disney Pixar - Brad Bird, Peter Docter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich - with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 66th Venice International Film Festival.
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NewsTIFF adds Gitai’s Carmel, Ozon’s Refuge to world premiere line-up
Amos Gitai’s Israel-France-Italy co-production Carmel will make its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.
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NewsTriumvirate replaces Sloan as MGM CEO in rescue gambit
Embattled MGM CEO Harry Sloan has been replaced by a triumvirate comprising the restructuring specialist Stephen Cooper, production chief Mary Parent and CFO Bedi Singh as the studio struggles to shake off heavy debt.
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NewsTarantino's Basterds looks to set box office alight through UPI
Quentin Tarantino is back and international rights holder Universal wants everybody to know with a wide launch for Inglourious Basterds that sees the war thriller homage infiltrate 22 territories.
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London Good Pitch unveils eight selected films
Organisers at the inaugural London Good Pitch have announced the project line-up for when the event runs from September 7 and 8.
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NewsKore-eda’s Ship, Swarup adaptation among TPG projects
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Brazilian co-production Ship Is Yet To Come and an adaptation of Slumdog Millionaire author Vikas Swarup’s Six Suspects are among the 25 projects that have been selected for this year’s Tokyo Project Gathering (TPG).
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NewsJean-Jacques Annaud to direct Wolf Totem
French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Lover, Seven Years In Tibet) has been brought on board to direct $30m Chinese-language drama Wolf Totem, which is being co-produced by Hong Kong’s Bill Kong and Beijing-based Forbidden City Film Co.
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NewsSundance Institute names 15 doc grant recipients
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program has unveiled the 15 projects that will receive grants and creative support from the Sundance Documentary Fund.