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Media Rights Capital scores $350m revolving credit facility
Media Rights Capital (MRC) co-CEOs Asif Satchu and Modi Wiczyk announced today [September 22] a three-year $350m revolving credit facility for the company's feature, television and digital content business.The arrangement, which comes in the midst of one of the most severe systemic collapses in US financial history, was provided by ...
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HBO's Sheila Nevins will receive Gotham Award Tribute
HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins will be the subject of a Gotham Award Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York.'Sheila has unquestionably been one of the most influential forces in documentary film-making,' IFP executive director Michelle Byrd said. 'She is almost single-handedly responsible ...
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Wide Management sells La Vida Loca to Siren Visual for Australia/New Zealand
Wide Management has sold Christian Poveda's documentary La Vida Loca to Siren Visual for theatrical distribution in Australia and New Zealand.The deal was struck following the film's world premiere at the San Sebastian film festival on Saturday. In addition, Wide Management is negotiating the rights to La Vida Loca for ...
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TwentyTwenty Vision to co-produce Rafi Pitts' The Hunter
Berlin-based production house TwentyTwenty Vision will be the German co-producer on Iranian-British director Rafi Pitts' fifth feature The Hunter.Speaking exclusively to Screendaily.com, Pitts explained that the drama will be produced by AMA Media Productions - which co-produced his 2006 Berlinale competition film It's Winter (Zemestan) - and Aftab Negaran Productions, ...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest's pitching forum attracts record submissions.
Sheffield Doc/Fest's MeetMarket has received 385 entries from documentary film-makers, an increase of almost 200% from last year.The initiative, which launched in 2006, is a pitching forum that uses online systems to match film-makers' project ideas with UK and international buyers.Submissions have been received from first-time and established filmmakers, including ...
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UK effects studio Framestore looks to outside investment
Framestore, the Oscar-winning provider of visual effects, animation and computer generated imagery announced that it plans to consider interest in the company from potential new investors.The company hopes to aid the growth of its business and has instructed Hawkpoint Partners to investigate options, including the introduction of an external investor.William ...
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Award winning director McPherson starts shoot for The Eclipse
Shooting has started on the latest feature-length drama from Tony-award winning Irish playwright and director Conor McPherson.Based on a supernatural love story by Wexford writer Billy Roche, the film stars Aidan Quinn, Ciaran Hinds and Iben Hjejle. Rob Walpole of Treasure Entertainment is producing.Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning costume designer Consolata ...
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Metrodome and Rialto strike double deal for Seraphine
Metrodome has joined forces with Rialto on a deal for Martin Provost'sSeraphine.Metrodome takes on all UK and Ireland rights while Rialto takes on New Zealand and Australia rights.The deal was brokered by Metrodome's CEO Peter Urie, general manager distribution Sara Frain and head of acquisitions James Brown with Yohann Comte ...
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No One's Son enters the Oscar race for Croatia
Ostojic's No One's Son has been nominated as Croatia's entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar despite not having an official distributor. Arsen Anton Ostojic's No One's Son (Niciji Sin) has been chosen by the Croatian Association of Film Workers as Croatia's foreign language film candidate for the 2009 Academy ...
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Serbia adds Markovic's The Tour to the Oscar poll
The Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences has chosen Goran Markovic's The Tour as its submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards.Markovic's film was in competition with 10 other films for the nomination. The shortlisted films were: Berlinale panorama entry Love And Other Crimes (Ljubav I ...
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Serbia adds Markovic's The Tour to the Oscar poll
The Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences has chosen Goran Markovic's The Tour as its submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards.Markovic's film was in competition with 10 other films for the nomination. The shortlisted films were: Berlinale panorama entry Love And Other Crimes (Ljubav I ...
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Mandragora starts production of first feature Dark Nature
Glasgow-based Mandragora Productions has started production on its first feature film, Dark Nature, directed by Marc de Launay.Mandragora's previous productions include shorts such as Contorted Hazel in 2006 and The Last Noel in 2004. De Launey's work as director on Channel 4 television series Vids , earned him a BAFTA ...
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Hammer resurrection as production of The Wake Wood begins
The long-awaited resurrection of British horror label Hammer Films has finally happened. Production has just begun on The Wake Wood. This is Hammer's first horror movie since To the Devil a Daughter starring Christopher Lee in 1976 and its first feature of any sort since The Lady Vanishes in 1979.The ...
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Swiss selectLewinsky'sThe Friend as Oscar entry
Micha Lewinsky's feature debut The Friend (Der Freund) has been selected by an expert group convened by the Federal Office for Culture to be Switzerland's entry for the Foreign Language Oscar.The drama about a shy outsider who poses as the boyfriend of a woman after her sudden death and is ...
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Lotus and Harbour Light announce two Akira Kurosawa projects
Tokyo 's Lotus and Los Angeles-based Harbor Light Entertainment have announced two projects based on Akira Kurosawa properties, slated for release in 2010.One project will be a modern-day Hollywood remake of Akira Kurosawa's famed 1950 film Rashomon. Under the working title of Rashomon 2010 , the action will be relocated ...
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Taare Zameen Par is India's Oscar entry
Hindi language film Taare Zameen Par is to represent India in this year's Oscars.The filmisproduced and directed by and stars Aamir Khan whoseLagaan earned a best foreign film nomination in 2001.Suneel Darshan, chairman of the 10-member jury set up by the Film Federation of India to select the entry said ...
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UPI leads international weekend with Mamma Mia!, Wanted
Mamma Mia! extended its international supremacy courtesy of another solid weekend as Universal's stage musical adaptation reaped a further $14m from 4,359 sites in 48 territories to raise the running total to $334m.The latest estimate combines with the $141m North American tally for a $475m worldwide running total. The film's ...
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Lakeview Terrace tops North American box office with $15.6m
Focus Features' Burn After Reading remained in contention in its second weekend despite slipping to second place behind Sony's thriller Lakeview Terrace, which stars Samuel Jackson as a menacing police officer and launched on an estimated $15.6m.However it is Burn After Reading that will capture the lion's share of attention ...
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Cage, Sena on board for Relativity, Roven's medieval epic
Nicolas Cage will reunite with his Gone In 60 Seconds director Dominic Sena for Relativity Media and Atlas Entertainment's supernatural thriller Season Of The Witch.Production is scheduled to start in Austria and Hungary in early November on the story of 14th century knights who transport a girl suspected of being ...
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Profile: Anne Francois
This is a big year for Anne Francois and her company Tactics. The producer, who divides her time between Los Angeles and Paris, has been actively developing four projects for the last few years and she says the scripts are ready to go; 2009 is her target year to move ...