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Freestyle Releasing acquires domestic rights to Delgo
Freestyle Releasing has acquired North American rights to Fathom Studios' CG animated film Delgo and will release in theatres on December 12.Delgo takes place in a fantasy world where an adventurous teenager and his friends rally to save their planet from internecine warfare. Fathom Studios president Marc F Adler co-directed ...
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UK directors group signs agreement with trade union
Therecently-formed Directors UKhave signed an agreement with 27,000 strong media workers trade union BECTU.The deal acknowledges each others rights to represent their members interests in negotiations with employers and agrees to areas of mutual support.Directors UK, formed in June, has 3,500 members in broadcasting and film.Chair of the group Charles ...
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Elfman, Walker, Greenwood among Hollywood Awards recipients
Danny Elfman will receive the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival's (HFF) Hollywood Composer Of The Year Award, along with similar honours for cinematographer Mandy Walker, editors Daniel P Hanley and Mike Hill, production designer Sarah Greenwood and costume designer Deborah Hopper.Elfman most recently composed scores for Hellboy II: The Golden ...
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Sony rebrands French home entertainment operation
Sony has renamed its French home entertainment operation Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, France (SPHEF), effective September 1.The division was previously called Gaumont Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment.'Our business strategy was to take advantage of the marketing clout associated with the Sony name by including it in our corporate identity,' SPHEF's managing ...
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Sony Classics takes on Almodovar's latest Broken Embraces
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American rights from El Deseo to Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces, which is in production in Madrid and the Canary Islands.Almodovar shot the four-way tale of amour-fou in the style of 1950s American film noir. Penelope Cruz stars in the story of fate and ...
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Canada's Alliance gets New Line reprieve into 2009
Alliance Films and New Line Cinema have extended their output deal into 2009. The extension, rumoured over past weeks, will add at least eight titles to Alliance's Canadian releasing schedule, including the much-anticipated The Time Traveller's Wife from director Robert Schwentke and starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana as well ...
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San Sebastian announces Films In Progress projects
San Sebastian has announced the six titles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina and Nicaragua that will make up this year's Films In Progress section of the festival.The projects are:Carlos Serrano Azcona's Mexican drama El Arbol about a man who has to turn his life around after being prevented from seeing his ...
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Norwegian government affirms commitment to film
Speaking in Venice this weekend, Norwegian Minister of Culture Trond Giske has outlined the country's long-term plans to boost film production and to attract foreign movies.At a time when other Western European Governments are feeling the financial squeeze, Norway is continuing to strike a bullish note about its film policy. ...
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Fine Cut picks up Lee Chang-dong's Poetry
South Korea's Fine Cut has picked up worldwide sales rights for Lee Chang-dong's upcoming film, tentatively titled Poetry. Lee's last film, Secret Sunshine,wonthe best actress award for Jeon Do-hyun in Cannes last year.Poetry will be about a woman in her mid-sixties who lives with her 15-year-old grandson in poverty and ...
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Hyde Park restructures, Steinbauer comes in to replace Wilson
Ashok Amritraj has unveiled Hyde Park Entertainment Group's global expansion plans and confirmed that the Hyde Park Asia head office will open in Singapore in November while another hub will launch in the Middle East later in the year.Seeking to create 'the first global independent', Amritraj, who previously opened an ...
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Hancock, 20th Century Boys knock Ponyo from perch
Sony Pictures Entertainment's Hancock and local broadcaster NTV's 20th Century Boys have knocked Studio Ghibli's Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea down to third place after six weeks in the number one spot at the Japanese box office. Hancock earned $7.67m (Y830m) on 328 screens, including grosses from previews ...
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Takita's Okurbito wins top competition prize at Montreal
The Montreal World Film Festival wrapped on Monday with Japanese filmmaker Yojiro Takita's Okurbito (Departures) winning the top competition prize, the Grand Prix of The Americas. Canadian documentary filmmaker Benoit Pilon won three prizes for his dramatic debut, The Necessitites Of Life, earning a Special Grand Prix of the Jury ...
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Miami Latin Gay Film Festival to launch in April 2009
Indie PR chief Jim Dobson said today [Sept 1] the First Annual Miami Latin Gay Film Festival will run from April 16-19 2009 in Miami Beach.Dobson is festival organiser and executive director and said the competitive four-day event will coincide with Miami Gay Pride Weekend and serve as a springboard ...
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The Film Source acquires horror movie Dark Night
The Film Source has boarded worldwide rights to British film-maker Daniel Grant's Dark Night for its Horror Films Collection.Grant's Spiffing Films produced the story about a group of hedonistic partygoers who encounter monsters and other evil forces during a night of partying. Newcomers Belinda Fenty, Chris Grezo and Adriana Maestranzi ...
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Kramer promoted to president of business and legal affairs at TWC
Andrew Kramer has been promoted to president of business and legal affairs for The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Dimension Films.Kramer will remain in the Los Angeles office and will be charged with overseeing all of TWC and Dimension Films' business and legal affairs and negotiating deals covering all aspects of ...
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Moore leaves Aardman for Abbey Home Media
Stephen Moore is departing Aardman Animations to become a partner and shareholder of children's programming company Abbey Home Media.UK-based Abbey Home Media works on franchises including Horrid Henry, Sesame Street, Paddington Bear and The Magic Roundabout.Moore is also a veteran of 20th Century Fox.He said: 'Since coming back to London ...
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MercuryMedia takes on Toronto doc Sea Point Days
UK-based documentary film sales company Mercury Media has acquired world rights (excluding North America) to Sea Point Days.The film is set to premiere at the forthcoming Toronto International Film Festival.The feature-length documentary is directed by South African film-maker Francois Verster. The film is about a seaside public pool area in ...
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Metrodome takes UK rights to Winterbottom's Genova
Ahead of its premieres in Toronto and San Sebastian, the UK and Irish rights to Michael Winterbottom's latest film Genova have been snapped up by Metrodome Distribution.The deal was done directly with production company Revolution Films, founded by Winterbottom and his producer Andrew Eaton.The deal was negotiated between Metrodome CEO ...
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Dunya & Desie is selected as Oscar entry from The Netherlands
Dunya & Desie, directed by Dana Nechushtan, has been selected as this year's Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.Dunya & Desie tells about Dutch motormouth Desie and her best friend from a Moroccan-Dutch family, Dunya. The two inseparable friends are forced to make some important choices during ...
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Nordic Prize nominees include Andersson, Kormakur
Swedish director Roy Andersson's You the Living, which won Sweden's national film prize, the Guldbagga, for Best Film, Best Director and Best Script, is among the five nominees for the $70,000 Nordic Council Film Prize 2008, the largest film trophy in Scandinavia.Launched last year in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, ...