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Universal, Working Title seal two-picture deal with Joe Wright
Universal Pictures and Working Title Films have signed a two-picture deal with Joe Wright, whose latest film Atonement was nominated for seven Oscars this week and is in the running for 14 BAFTA awards including best director.Separate from that two-picture agreement, Universal is partnering with Dreamworks and Working Title on ...
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Canada's NFB names Witten to top English language post
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has appointed Cindy Witten to the post of director general of NFB English Program. Witten was previously vice president of content at the Canadian specialty channel History Television. Before that she was vice president of original production at History as well as BBC ...
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Wild Bunch's EFM offerings include James Gray's Two Lovers
Wild Bunch has addednew films from James Gray, Darren Aronofsky, Marco Tullio Giordana and Rintaro, among others, to its slate ahead of Berlin's European Film Market.Gray's Two Lovers reunites the director with Joaquin Phoenix and also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Vanessa Shaw and Isabella Rossellini. The romantic drama is produced by ...
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Jameson Dublin International Film Festival confirm In Bruges as opener
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival has announced that In Bruges the feature film debut from award-winning playwright Martin McDonagh will open the 2008 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival on February 15.In Bruges is a blackly comic drama of Irish hit men (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) told to lie ...
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NDTV, Shetty, Doshilaunch platform for world cinema in India
NDTV Imagine, the entertainment channel recently launched by Indian broadcaster NDTV, has formed a joint venture with Adlabs founder Manmohan Shetty and Alliance Entertainment chief Sunil Doshi to release worldcinema titles in India. The newlabel, NDTV Lumiere,aims to release the best of contemporary world cinema titles in Indian theatres immediately ...
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Grbavica director on Berlinale Best First Feature Jury
Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic, whose feature debut Grbavica won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2006, is one of the three members of this year's international jury for the Best First Feature Award.The other two members are veteran US producer-distributor Ben Barenholtz and French director Dominique Cabrera whose A ...
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San Sebastian adds new coordinators in France, Latin America
The San Sebastian Festival has added two new international delegates to its network.
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Woolliscroft joins post-production company Concrete
London-based post-production company Concrete has appointed Peter Woolliscroft as audio designer.He will run and operate Concrete's audio suite.'I am delighted to be working at Concrete and with such a professional and highly creative company - it is very exciting indeed.' Peter adds.In addition, Concrete is working with HD camera rental ...
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As Goteborg kicks off, 200 people expected at Nordic Film Market
More than 200 international film professionals - producers, buyers, sellers and festival programmers - have registered for the Nordic Film Market, running between Jan 31-Feb 3 during Sweden's 31st Goteborg International Film Festival, which starts today.This year's programme includes 20 recent Nordic features and 12 works-in-progress, such as Danish director ...
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La Vie En Rose leads Cesars with 11 nominations
Olivier Dahan's La Vie En Rose has secured 11 Cesar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress for Marion Cotillard's portrayal of French icon Edith Piaf.Other Best Picture contenders for France's highest film honor include Abdellatif Kechiche's La Graine Et Le Mulet, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parronaud's Persepolis (also up ...
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Locarno's Open Doors turns attention to Latin America
Latin American cinema will be the focus of this year's Open Doors project platform at the Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16).Particular attention will be paid to projects from countries with emerging film production such as Peru, Colombia, Uruguay and Costa Rica, although projects from other Latin American countries where ...
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PACT restructuring is case of adapt or die, says CEO
The chief executive of UK producers body PACT John McVay says the stark choice facing the body has been to adapt or die.The organisation is currently planning a major reorganisation which will mean laying off more than half of its staff, including its specialist executive for film.The move has attracted ...
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British Council suspends arts restructuring
The British Council has suspended the radical review of its arts strategy, which has brought and angry reaction from some film-makers and artists. ScreenDaily reported this week that there were serious concerns that the British Council restructuring, aimed at building a 'multidisciplinary approach', would mean a loss of expertise for ...
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Gilliam's Dr Parnassus put on hold following Ledger's death
The death of Heath Ledger has brought a halt to production on Terry Gilliam's $30m The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus.The Australian actor, who was found dead in a New York apartment on Tuesday, had a lead role in the Canada-UK coproduction. It was on hiatus after recently wrapping the first ...
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Baumberger named president of Paramount Pictures Studio Group
Paramount Pictures has named Randall Baumberger president of the Studio Group.Baumberger will report to Paramount COO Frederick Huntsberry and takes charge of the day-to-day management of Paramount's Studio Group, which includes environmental health and safety, facilities and plant operations, studio group finance, studio group legal, studio operations and technical services.Baumberger ...
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Sony Classics takes Sundance competition entry Frozen River
Sony Pictures Classics has paid high six figures for domestic rights to Courtney Hunt's Dramatic Competition entry Frozen River.SPC had been in talks with William Morris Independent for two days and finally closed the deal at around 8pm on Wednesday night [Jan 23]. The upstate New York-set tale follows two ...
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WGA signs interim agreements with Lionsgate, Marvel Studios
As expected the Writers Guild Of America (WGA) has signed an interim agreement with Lionsgate and with Marvel Studios.The agreement is similar to the deals the WGA struck recently announced with United Artists, Worldwide Pants, Spyglass Entertainment, MRC, Jackson Bites, Mandate Pictures and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.'We are pleased Lionsgate has ...
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Daniel Battsek - talking pictures
In the two-and-a-half years since Daniel Battsek took over the reins at Miramax Films, the British executive has established a corporate culture that is at once fresh and familiar.Gone are the outbursts, publicity stunts and grand plays of the brilliant, larger-than-life mogul Harvey Weinstein.In their place is an equally mesmerizing ...
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Japan - Bringing home the horror
Nikkatsu's legendary film studios in Chofu City, a suburb of Tokyo: a set of a weatherbeaten beach house stands in the centre of the studio as gaffers and set dressers work away. Artificial moonlight bleeds through slats in the structure's opaque roof, illuminating decrepit furniture and marine equipment inside.Once adjustments ...
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Screen Opinion- Time is of the essence for digital change
If the recent flurry of digital download plans does nothing more than force a rethink of the 'wait and see' policy towards digital change in international markets, it will have performed a considerable service. In Europe, in particular, it's time to stop talking the talk and start walking the walk.A ...