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IMAX reorganises management structure
IMAX Corporation is reorganising its management structure with long-time co-chairmen and co-CEOs Brad Wechsler and Richard Gelfond assuming sole title to the respective roles of chairman and CEO.In a release, IMAX said chairman Wechsler will focus on corporate strategy, governance and business development while CEO Gelfond will handle day-to-day responsibilities.The ...
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Raymond Depardon's La Vie Moderne wins France's Louis Delluc prize
The Louis Delluc prize has gone to Raymond Depardon's La Vie Moderne, it was announced in Paris on Friday.The prestigious Delluc award is given to the best French film of the year by a jury presided over by Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob.La Vie Moderne , a documentary, was ...
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Moodysson's MammothjoinsBouchareb, Potter, Ade, Miller at Berlinale
Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth, with Gael Garcia Bernal, Michelle Williams, and Sophie Nyweide, and world premieres of new films by Sally Potter, Maren Ade, Rebecca Miller and Rachid Bouchareb are among ten titles confirmed so far for the Competition programme of the 2009 Berlinale international film.The four world premieres selected for ...
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15 UK production companies receive $1,500,000 in Lottery funding
More than $1,500,000 of Lottery moneyis tobeinvested in 15 British film production companies through the UK Film Council's Development Fund. The new initiative is to help producers to develop projects that broaden the quality, range and ambition of films and talent being developed in the UK.Tanya Seghatchian, Head of the ...
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Summit moves US release of Brothers Bloom from Dec to May 2009
Summit Entertainment has pushed back the North American release of Rian Johnson's adventure romance The Brothers Bloom to 2009. The film was originally scheduled for an Oscar-qualifying run in Dec and an expansion on January 16 but has now been moved to a limited opening on May 15 that will ...
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Fox's Day The Earth Stood Still set for world takeover
Aliens will rule the world this weekend when Fox International unleashes The Day The Earth Stood Still day-and-date with North America in approximately 90 countries.The sci-fi remake stars Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly and touches down in France, Belgium and Switzerland on December 10 and arrives a day later in ...
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Golden Globe nominees respond around the globe
Honourees greeted news of their Golden Globe nominations from locations both exotic and prosaic onThursday in the hours following the dawn nominations announcement in Los Angeles by theHollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).
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BAFTA preview: the Battle of Britain
The British economy may be in crisis but the quality of British film-making has rarely looked healthier.
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BAFTA preview:The Britbusters
Bafta members have never shied away from embracing popular commercial film-making.The awards often salute mainstream favourites and this year sees a slew of high profile UK-US co-productions including Mamma Mia! The Movie and Quantum Of Solace, as well as Hollywood blockbusters with significant UK elements such as Prince Caspian and ...
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BAFTA Preview: Best Film frontrunners
ADULTHOODCipher Films, DJ Films, TMC, UK Film Council, Pathe, LimelightUK DISTRIBUTOR: Pathe.NOEL CLARKE SAYS: 'Technically I'm a statistic - council estate, single parent family. I should be in jail or dead or whatever, but I'm not, I'm making films. Why is it the guy that grew up with me is ...
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Profile: Spain's OscarEntryThe Blind Sunflowers
Harrowing dramas and horror films, including the like of Pan's Labyrinth, (Rec) and The Orphanage, are enjoying their success at the Spanish and international box office. Now Jose Luis Cuerda's The Blind Sunflowers (Los Girasoles Ciegos) has emerged to join that illustrious group.The drama, about a persecuted Republican family in ...
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In Focus: Film Festivals brace for the recession
As the 2009 festival cycle approaches, organisers are huddling down, hoping the economic storms will pass them by. However, at a time when both state funding and sponsorship for arts events is under increasing pressure, most acknowledge film festivals are bound to be buffeted eventually.'In these times, sponsorship is not ...
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In Focus: Cinetic's new world
When Wayne Wang's feature The Princess Of Nebraska streamed for free on YouTube in mid-October, it was not a leak, it was the official digital release - and world premiere - of the film.The YouTube experiment, which attracted 220,000 views in the US (access from elsewhere was blocked), was one ...
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Are there upsides to the downturn for film'
'The film market needs to change. I have been told it will never change but two years ago the same thing would have been said about the financial markets.'So says Gennaro Buonocore, managing director of media markets at electronic interdealer broker Icap. The company has put its money where its ...
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Screen opinion: Transparency is key issue for film
The much-touted notion of recession-proof cinema can look like a bad joke for much of the business. The queues that have been exciting attention at theatres in large parts of the world are a million miles from the experience of most of the industry.There is little more than a passing ...
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Tarantino to receive Legend Award at Capri, Hollywood festival
Quentin Tarantino, currently racing to get his wartime action story Inglourious Basterds ready for a Cannes world premiere, will receive the 13th Capri, Hollywood - Honda International Film Festival's Capri Legend Award.'Quentin Tarantino is one of Hollywood's most prolific film-makers, revered and respected by the entertainment industry and movie audiences ...
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Roissy Films concludes sales on Martin Provost's Seraphine
Roissy Films has concluded sales on Martin Provost's Seraphine; Arsenal Filmverleih take all rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerlandwith Austria goes to Filmladen releasing Seraphine in Austria and Xenix in Switzerland.Other recent sales on the film, which is based on the life of painter Seraphine de Senlis, include Cineplex in ...
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Roadside Attractions takes US theatrical on Alien Trespass
Roadside Attractions has acquired US theatrical rights to RW Goodwin's homage to 1950s sci-fi alien invasion films, Alien Trespass.The film stars Will & Grace's Eric McCormack in his first leading film role since leaving the series and will receive its world premiere at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival ...
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Entertainment One backtracks on DHX acquisition
Canadian entertainment company Entertainment One (E1) has reversed its planned reverse takeover of Halifax production company DHX Media.Announced in September, the move would have given E1 a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange; E1, financed by the UK-based hedge fund Marwyn, currently has a listing on the LSE's AIM.In a ...
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Frost/Nixon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Doubt lead Golden Globe Nominations
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, a co-production between Paramount and Warner Bros, and Frost/Nixon, an Imagine/Working Title production for Universal led the pack in the 66th annual Golden Globe nominations which were announced this morning in Los Angeles. Both films took five nominations each. Benjamin Button, one of the ...