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Rudin & Weinstein announce that The Reader will be released in 2008
Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin appear to have buried their differences over Stephen Daldry's Oscar contender The Reader starring Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet as The Weinstein Company announced it will release the film in North America on December 12.The move ends debate over whether the drama would get a ...
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Hollywood mourns passing of screen legend Paul Newman
Tributes have poured in all weekend for Paul Newman, who died at his farmhouse home near Westport, Connecticut, on Friday [September 26] following a long fight against cancer. He was 83.'There is a point where feelings go beyond words,' Robert Redford, a longtime friend who famously starred alongside Newman in ...
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Wall to Wall CEO to lead media literacy taskforce
Alex Graham, CEO of BAFTA winning production company Wall to Wall, has been appointed the new Chair of the Media Literacy Task Force.The group was set-up by the UK Film Council, Channel 4, the BBC and the BFI to empower the public to be media literate and participate in today's ...
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Eagle Eye lifts Sept box office in North America with $29.2m opening
The paranoia thriller Eagle Eye starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan stormed to the top of the charts over the weekend, grossing an estimated $29.2m and helping overall box office climb 12.3% against the same weekend last year.Overall ticket sales amounted to $102m compared to $90.8m in the same weekend ...
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DiLorenzo named evp of strategy and business development at FFE
Marc DiLorenzo has been named executive vice president of strategy and business development for Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE).DiLorenzo will take an active role in extending the brand of FFE properties into digital and other revenue channels both inside and outside the studio. He will also oversee deal analyses for all ...
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Second 'Brit List' highlights year's best unproduced scripts
The second annual 'Brit List', which lists the most liked and recommended unproduced screenplays in the UK and Ireland, has begun circulated across the local film community.Compiled from a survey of 40 producers, acquisitions executives, agents, sales agents and public funders, the list is intended to echo the success of ...
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UPI celebrates as Mamma Mia! stays top and passes $350m
Mamma Mia! swept past $350m as yet another dominant display saw Universal's musical adaptation exceed last weekend's gross by 1% and take an estimated $15.3m from 4,562 sites in 48 territories through UPI to raise the international running total to $356.4m.Combined with the $142.2m domestic gross the worldwide figure stands ...
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Pusan tips Korean producers' projects, co-production conference
Pusan's Asian Film Market has announced five projects for its Korean Producers In Focus (KPIF) and events for the Busan 2008 International Co-production Conference, in partnership with the Producers Guild of Korea (PGK). With the goal of supporting the ailing Korean film industry, the KPIF will showcase producers and their ...
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Ghent boasts 130-strongline-up with major film music events
The 35th Ghent International Film Festival (October 7-18) will screen 131 films from 45 countries.The event will also feature industry events, five major film music concerts and an exhibitions devoted to Harold Lloyd.Ghent begins with a screening ofWoody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona before its official opening night film, Tom McCarthy's ...
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Seven world premieres compete in big money MEIFF competition
Seven world premieres are included among the 15 films competing in the $200,000 narrative competition Abu Dhabi's Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) (October 10-19).The world premieresare mostlyfrom film-makers fromthe region, stretching from Lebanon to Morocco, highlighting the festival's aim to be a beacon for Arab and Middle East talent.The ...
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Captain Abu Raed wins inaugural Finnkino Prize
Jordanian film-maker Aman Matalqadebut feature Captain Abu Raed has won the inaugural Finnkino Prize at the Helsinki International Film Festival. Click here to see review.The audience-voted prize- the first to be awarded at what for the last 20 years has been a non-competitive event - includes a Finnish distribution deal ...
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PVC-1 takes top prize at Bangkok's Golden Kinnarees
Colombian feature PCV-1, directed by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, took the grand prix in the main competition of the Bangkok International Film Festival's Golden Kinnaree Awards on Sunday night. The three-person jury, comprising South-East Asian filmmakers Eric Khoo, Lav Diaz and Aditya Assarat, applauded the film for its 'raw, original and relentless ...
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Thanos Anastopoulos' Diorthosi is Greek Oscar entry in policy switch
Thanos Anastopoulos' second featureDiorthosi (Correction) is the Greek official submission for the foreign-language Academy Award.The decision reached by the Cinema Department of the Culture Ministry marks a change from the current film law which stipulates that the filmsubmitted should have won the best film trophy at the State Cinema Awards ...
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Elissa Down wins Australian Directors award for The Black Balloon
The director of The Black Balloon, Elissa Down, has won the highest feature film accolade for 2008 from her peers at the Australian Directors Guild (AWG). Click here for review.But the film's producer, Tristram Miall, collected the award on her behalf at a dinner last night (Saturday) in Sydney because ...
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Thai Entertainment Expo wraps brave but quiet first edition
The first ever Thailand Entertainment Expo (Sep 24-28) wrapped on Sunday, after a slightly busier weekend as the event was opened to the public, but overall business and buyers were thin on the ground. Organised by Thailand's Department of Export Promotion (DEP) and Ministry of Commerce, the five-day event brought ...
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Preview: Pusan International Film Festival
Screen's team looks forward to this year's Pusan. Click on reports for more.Pusan: Asia's Sundance'Pusan Markets: A launch pad for Asian projects Profile: Pusan Promotion PlanInterview with Pusan festival director Kim Dong-hoSPECIAL REPORT: Is Asia credit-proof'
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Pandora's Box wins the Golden Shell at San Sebastian
Yesim Ustaoglu's coming home drama Pandora's Box has won the Golden Shell for best film at the 56th edition of San Sebastian.An international premiere at the festival, Ustaoglu's Turkish-French-German-Belgian co-production tells the story of three siblings forced to put their differences aside to find their missing mother.The film beat off ...
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Atom Egoyan to receive Douglas Sirk award
Filmfest Hamburg will honour Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan this weekend with the Douglas Sirk Award.Egoyan will be recognised for his outstanding services to film culture, with WimWenders speaking in praise of the director.The award will be presented following the German premiere of Egoyan's latest feature Adoration.Commenting on the choice of ...
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Slovenia enters Rooster's Breakfast in Oscar race
Marko Nabersnik's love story is submitted by The Slovenian Union of Film Workers to represent Slovenia as best foreign film at the next Academy Awards. Marko Nabersnik's Rooster's Breakfast (Petelinji Zajtrk) is Slovenia's entry for the best foreign language film at the next Academy Awards.Nabersnik's film is a rare domestic ...
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White Wedding Night is Icelandic submission for Oscar
Comedy White Wedding Nigh, Baltasar Kormákur's fifth feature film, which he scripted, directed and produced, has been submitted as Icelandic Oscar entry Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur's White Wedding Night (Brúdguminn) has been selected by the Icelandic Film and TV Academy as Iceland's official candidate for the Oscar nominations as Best ...