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Dubai International Film Festival and Market opens
The fifth Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) opens today with Oliver Stone's W ., kicking off a week long programme that includes 181 films, 11 world premieres and runs parallel to the inaugural Dubai Film Market. Dubai Film Market For Ziad Yaghi, director of the Dubai Film Market, the market ...
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High-street recession bites backat UK DVD sales
A high street retail crisis in the UK has crashed into what was shaping up to be a bumper holiday season for distributors.UK film distributors were preparing to release DVD titles such as Mamma Mia!-The Movie, Hancock, Wall-E, The Dark Knight, Wanted and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.Mamma Mia! ...
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Firaaq scoops top honours at Singapore's AFFF
Firaaq, directed by award-winning Indian actress Nandita Das, scooped best film and best screenplay at the Asian Festival of 1stFilms (AFFF) in Singapore on Wednesday night (Dec 10).The film, which looks at the impact of the 2002 riots in Gujarat on ordinary people, also took the Foreign Correspondents Association Purple ...
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Jerry Lewis to receive Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Jerry Lewis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 81st Academy Awards on February 22.The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is given to an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry.'Jerry is a legendary comedian who has not only brought laughter ...
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Kate Winslet to receive award at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Kate Winslet will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Montecito Award on January 23.The five-time Oscar nominee is a contender this awards season for The Reader and Revolutionary Road and receives the award in recognition of her 'series of classic and standout performances.'Her credits include Sense And Sensibility, Quills, ...
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Fox, Khanna to receive IFFLA Industry Leadership Awards
Warner Bros International executive vice president Richard Fox and Reliance BIG Entertainment chairman Amit Khanna will receive the 7th Annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles' Industry Leadership Awards.Fox heads up all of the studio's non-US initiatives across all sectors of the entertainment industry.Khanna's Reliance BIG Entertainment is the media ...
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SXSW winning shorts to qualify for Academy Award consideration
Winning short films at the South By Southwest Film Festival will qualify for consideration in the Oscar short films category.The winners will qualify without the standard theatrical run provided the film otherwise complies with Academy rules.The final deadline to submit a film for the 2009 South By Southwest Film Festival ...
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HandMade makes Hedman head of sales
Fred Hedman has been promoted to head of sales at HandMade Films International. Hedman, who has been with the company for six years, will oversee the company's sales operation alongside chairman, Guy Collins, and Marketing Director, Amanda Kenyon.The company has a busy schedule for next year with projects including Eloise ...
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Arts Alliance Media gains $56m boost to D-cinema ambitions
Arts Alliance Media's (AAM) ambitions for digital conversion of Europe's cinemas hasreceived a $56m (Euros 43m)boost with the signing of a financing agreement with European services company Econocom and various private investors.The company has also announced a strategic partnership with Arqiva Satellite & Media for the satellite distribution of content.Bothdeals ...
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Milk, Happy-Go-Lucky are top picks of New York critics
The New York Film Critics Circle has named Milk its best film of 2008 and honoured that film's Sean Penn and Josh Brolin with the actor and supporting actor awards.Sally Hawkins was named best actress for Happy-Go-Lucky and Penelope Cruz best supporting actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Like Penn, both ...
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Eastwood to receive Palm Springs career achievement award
Clint Eastwood will receive the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's Career Achievement Award on January 6.Eastwood directed the current awards season contenders are Gran Torino, in which he stars, and Changeling, which stars Angelina Jolie.He will next direct and produce The Human Factor about Nelson's Mandela's first term ...
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Aida LiPera joins Visit Films as manager of acquisitions, festivals
Former Edinburgh Film Fest programmer Aida LiPera has joined New York-based Visit Films as manager of acquisitions and festivals.LiPera is a native New Yorker who spent five years in the UK and co-produced Edinburgh's Mirrorball strand, curating a variety of cinemas programmes and live events.In September 2007 she served as ...
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Gianni Amelio is new director of Turin Film Festival
Gianni Amelio will replace Nanni Moretti as artistic director of the Turin Film Festival. Amelio has stepped in to lead Turin's 27th edition in 2009 just four days after Moretti stepped down.Filmmaker Gianni Amelio's credentials include winning Venice's 1998 Golden Lion for the Turin-set period drama The Way We Laughed ...
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Moget new managing director of Paramount Pictures France
Andrew Cripps, President of Paramount Pictures International, has announced the appointment of Frederic Moget as Managing Director of Paramount Pictures France (PFF). Frederic Moget will move shortly from 20th Fox (France) where he is currently director of the marketing division. Steve Summersby will continue as Acting Managing Director of the ...
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Fuji TV to produce two-part feature of Nodame Cantabile
Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV has announced details of a two-part feature film adaptation of hit television series Nodame Cantabile. Reprising their roles from the TV version, Nodame Cantabile will star Juri Ueno and Hiroshi Tamaki. Hideki Takeuchi, who directed the television series, will also direct both feature films.The story follows ...
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GDC signs VPF deals for Asia with three US studios
GDC Technology has signed separate virtual print fee (VPF) financing deals with three US studios - Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount Pictures International and Universal Pictures International - for the deployment of digital cinema across Asia. Under the terms of the non-exclusive agreements, the three studios will supply Asian exhibitors with ...
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Quickie Express wins best Indonesian film at JIFFest
Indonesian sex comedy Quickie Express and psychological thriller Fiksi. took top honours at the tenth edition of the Jakarta International Film Festival (JIFFest). A three-member international jury awarded Dimas Djayadiningrat's Quickie Express $2000 as the best Indonesian feature of the past year for 'its mixture of lively irreverent humour expertly ...
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Chen's Forever Enthralled has strong China opening
Chen Kaige's Forever Enthralled, a biopic about Peking opera master Mei Lanfang, grossed $6.13m (RMB42.18m) on its opening weekend, which sets a new record for non-action dramas in the mainland China market. According to China Film Group spokesperson Weng Li, the film took in around $1.45m (RMB10m) on the opening ...
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Untitled Sam Mendes comedy now has a name - Away We Go
Focus Features has announced that Sam Mendes' upcoming contemporary comedy will be called Away We Go.The film follows the journey of an expectant couple as they travel the US in search of a place to put down roots and raise a family.John Krasinski from TV's The Office and Saturday Night ...
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Andrew Rona confirmed as Silver Pictures president
Former Rogue Pictures co-president Andrew Rona has been confirmed as the new president of Joel Silver's Warner Bros-based Silver Pictures.Rona will also join Steve Richards as co-president of Silver's genre banner Dark Castle Entertainment and starts work in his dual post in January 2009.Silver Pictures is currently in production on ...