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Canadian Film Centre, NFB launched theatrical doc programme
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will launch Canada's first programme to develop theatrical documentaries. Announced today at Toronto's Hot Docs festival, the CFC NFB Feature Documentary Program will begin in January 2009 with the goal of developing feature documentaries for international cinema ...
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Hays and Mullen join TIFF Canadian programming team
The Toronto International Film Festival has added two new faces to its Canadian programming team. Montreal-based academic and film journalist Matthew Hays joins Jesse Wente and Steve Gravestock on the feature film selection committee.Programming veteran Kathleen Mullen will handle the Short Cuts Canada selection for TIFF 2008 along with programmers ...
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Telepool takes on sales for German box-office hit Summer
Telepool will handle world sales for Mike Marzuk's Summer (Sommer) which has gone straight to the top of the German box-office chart on its first four days of release with over 230,000 admissions from 407 screens.The Walt Disney release of the SamFilm production had the weekend's best screen average of ...
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Carlos Acosta to star in $3m feature for Rosa Bosch
Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta is set to star in a dramatic feature inspired by his own life story. The film, based on the Acosta biography No Way Home, will shoot in Cuba and the UK. Acosta's nephews will play him as a younger man.The $3m project is being produced ...
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Morales steps down as Miromar CEO, Heizmann to take over
Michel Morales has stepped down from his post as CEO of the Ludwigsburg-based production house Miromar Entertainment to concentrate on the creative aspects of filmmaking and will be succeeded by Peter Heizmann.Morales, who co-produced the Heather Graham romantic comedy Buy Borrow Steal (known as Miss Conception in the US), has ...
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Andre Van Heerden named CEO of Cloud Ten Pictures
Andre Van Heerden has been promoted to CEO at Cloud Ten Pictures, the Canadian producers of the Left Behind series of Christian films.Katherine Kunberger has been brought in as president and Michael Walker as vice president of marketing and operations as the company prepares it upcoming release Saving God starring ...
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Rose and Ravid named to vice presidents at Senator US
Marco Weber's Senator Entertainment has promoted Rachel Rose to vice president of production and finance and hired Orly Ravid as vice president of acquisitions and domestic distribution.Rose has been with Senator for two years and most recently served as executive director of production and finance.Ravid, a former Maxmedia executive, will ...
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Mendes starts production on Big Beach/Focus romantic comedy
Production is set to get underway in Connecticut this week on Sam Mendes' untitled contemporary comedy starring Leatherheads lead John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Toni Collette and Cheryl Hines.Novelist Dave Eggers and his wife Vendela Vida wrote the screenplay and Focus Features is co-financing with producers Big Beach and ...
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Disney unveils nature documentary label Disneynature
Walt Disney Studios unveiled Disneynature on Monday [April 21], a dedicated nature documentary label and the first new Disney brand to launch in 60 years since the True-Life Adventures documentary series launched in 1948.The unit will be based in France under the leadership of Jean-Francois Camilleri, the former senior vice ...
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Apatow, Ryan to receive awards at Nantucket Film Festival
Judd Apatow will receive the Suzanne And Bob Wright Screenwriter's Tribute Award at the 13th Annual Nantucket Film Festival in June.Apatow produced Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which opened in second place in the North American charts at the weekend, as well as 2007 hits like Superbad and Knocked Up, which he ...
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The Cavanaughs wins Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship
Sundance Institute and the Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship have announced [April 21] that this year's Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship goes to John Morgan and Meg LeFauve and their project The Cavanaughs.Presented in partnership with the Maryland Film Office, the annual fellowship provides Morgan and LeFauve with a $10,000 grant to help with ...
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Bornedal's The Substitute wins audience award at Sprockets
Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal's The Substitute won the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Film at the 11th Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children. The story follows a group of school children who suspect their substitute teacher may be an alien. Best animated film honours went to US filmmaker ...
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Grain, Ch'tis win critics, audience awards at COLCOA in LA
Abdellatif Kechiche's Cesar-winning The Secret Of The Grain won the first ever critics award at the 12th annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COLCOA) in Los Angeles over the weekend.COLCOA, a week of French film premieres in Hollywood, ended on Sunday and also announced that Dany Boon's smash hit ...
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Momentum signs first-look deal with producers See-Saw
UK distributor Momentum Pictures has signed a first-look deal with the new London- and Sydney-based production company See-Saw Films.Momentum previously worked with one of See-Saw's founders, Iain Canning, with Anton Corbijn's hit Control.See-Saw, formed by Canning and producer Emile Sherman, is concentrating on producing and executive producing UK and Australian ...
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Momentum signs first-look deal with producers See-Saw
UK distributor Momentum Pictures has signed a first-look deal with the new London- and Sydney-based production company See-Saw Films.Momentum previously worked with one of See-Saw's founders, Iain Canning, with Anton Corbijn's hit Control.See-Saw, formed by Canning and producer Emile Sherman, is concentrating on producing and executive producing UK and Australian ...
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London's Salt signs first-look deal with Alcove Entertainment
London-based sales and finance company Salt (formerly Lumina Films) has signed a reciprocal first-look with Alcove Entertainment.Salt will be given first look to take on sales for productions by the London-Los Angeles-Dubai production and finance company. Also, Salt will bring new films into Alcove for production financing.Alcove is finalising the ...
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Princess Ka'iulani wraps in Hawaii and moves to UK shoot
Princess Ka'iulani, formerly titled Barbarian Princess, has ended the four-week Hawaiian leg of its shoot. The production will now move to shoot for 10 days in Norfolk, England by the end of April.Matador Pictures and Island Film Group's project is based on the true story of a Hawaiian princess who ...
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Sarajevo's CineLink adds Austria to regional co-production market
The 14th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has announced the selections for CineLink, its regional co-production market created in co-operation with Rotterdam's CineMart. The market will take place from Aug 20-23 and the 15 projects will be divided in two groups: CineLink and CineLink+.CineLink includes 12 projects that will participate ...
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Korean admissions drop by 10% in first quarter
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced first quarter figures that show an estimated 10% drop in admissions year-on-year. South Korea saw 35.58 million admissions to the tune of $233.13m (KW231.2bn) from Jan 1- March 31, 2008. KOFIC's report notes that, considering the fact that the number of releases for ...
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Redpath steps up to become director of Berlinale's Generation
Maryanne Redpath has been appointed the new director of the Berlinale's children's and youth film section Generation.Dieter Kosslick announced the appointment, which takes effect May 1.Redpath is currently co-director of Generation and has worked for the festival since 1993.Florian Weghorn, who has been with Generation since 2002, will now be ...