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NewsXDC deal boosts Palace Cinemas' digital expansion
XDC has struck a deal with Palace Cinemas to supply digital projection systems to the company’s cinemas.
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NewsGerman film fund to invest $56m in digital expansion
The German Federal Film Board (FFA) is planning to invest $56m (€40m) to help speed up the development digital cinema.
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NewsBrazilian romcom A Mulher Invisível beats Terminator into second place
Romantic comedy A Mulher Invisível, the second feature from Brazilian director Claudio Torres, has beaten Terminator Salvation into second place at the box office in Brazil.
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NewsKarlovy Vary hosts 19 world premieres
The 44th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival host 19 world premieres at this year’s edition, which will run July 3 – 11.
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NewsUKFC and Nesta call on industry to exploit digital world
The UK Film Council and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is calling on the film industry to expand digital distribution, seek new sources of funding and work with online audiences as publishers not just viewers, as part of series of findings from their digital innovation ...
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NewsTravis modernises Macbeth with Smuggler's Come Like Shadows
Pete Travis has come on board to direct Come Like Shadows for Smuggler Films.
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NewsPula Film Festival to include Almodovar retrospective
The Pula Film Festival, the oldest film festival in Croatia, has introduced a new section focusing on European directors. The first retrospective will be dedicated to Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodóvar.
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NewsAlires, Hirigoyen join Maya while Escobedo promoted
Los Angeles-based Maya Entertainment has expanded its home entertainment division with three executive announcemnts.
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The Long Night wins Golden Tauro at Taormina Film Festival
Hatem Ali’s The Long Night (Al Layl Al-Tawil) won The Golden Tauro for best film in the Mediterranean Competition section of the 55th Taormina International Film Festival.
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NewsNew York Asian fest kicks off with world premiere of Written By
The New York Asian Film Festival will show more than 50 features this year, after opening with the world premiere of Wai Ka-Fai’s Written By.
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NewsTelefilm Canada gives $6.4m to seven French-language projects
New projects from Max Films, Cinemaginaire and Cirrus Communications are among seven French-language feature to be backed by Canadian film finance agency Telefilm Canada.
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NewsSilhol's Dominic wins best live action prize at Toronto's CFC short festival
French director Nicolas Silhol took the C.O.R.E Digital Pictures Award For Best Live Action Short with his psychological drama, My Name Is Dominic as the 2009 CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival wrapped this weekend.
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NewsThe Cove, 12 Notes Down take Silverdocs audience awards
Silverdocs, the AFI/Discovery Documentary Festival, still has one more day of festival favourite screenings today, but the audience award winners have now been announced.
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NewsProtagonist boards Warp X’s All Tomorrow’s Parties
London-based Protagonist Pictures will be handling international sales on Warp X’s All Tomorrow’s Parties.
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NewsMedia 8 picks up My Last Five Girlfriends
Los Angeles-based Media 8 Entertainment has acquired all worldwide rights to the British comedy My Last Five Girlfriends.
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NewsWoo, Yeoh set to collaborate on martial arts project
Michelle Yeoh is set to star in a martial arts film, Jianyu Jianghu, which will be co-directed by John Woo and Taiwanese director Su Chao-pin.
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NewsJan-Pelgrom de Haas to step down from Kinowelt
Kinowelt chief executive Jan-Pelgrom de Haas is stepping down from the company at the end of this month for family reasons.
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NewsPatrik, Herb & Dorothy win audience prizes in Provincetown
At the 11th annual Provincetown International Film Festival in Massachusetts, the HBO Audience Awards were presented Sunday with Ella Lemhagen’s Patrik, Age 1.5 taking the best narrative feature award.
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NewsStern says indies are hurting, but have huge opportunities online
Despite the economy, there was a slightly sunnier outlook at the Los Angeles Film Festival’s Film Financing Conference this weekend.James D. Stern, chairman and CEO of LA-based production and financing company Endgame Entertainment, struck a more positive note than 2008’s famous keynote speech by The Film Department’s Mark Gill.In his ...
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NewsOriginal wins top prize at Shanghai film festival
Danish-Swedish co-production Original won best feature in the Jin Jue Awards of the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), which wrapped on Sunday night (June 21).