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Samuel Goldywn picks up Pieces for US distribution
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Jeremy Podeswa's Holocaust drama Fugitive Pieces, which opened the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.The company plans a May theatrical release following the film's US premiere at the Santa Barbara Film Festival on Feb 2.Fugitive Pieces stars Stephen Dillane, Rade Sherbedgia and Rosamund ...
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Arthouse picks up de Antonio's classic doc Painters Painting
Arthouse Films has picked up worldwide rights excluding Canada to the late Emile de Antonio's documentary Painters Painting - The New York School: 1940-1970.The film has never aired before on TV in the US and Arthouse will release a restored and remastered version for the first time on DVD through ...
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Supporting cast lined up for Kevin Smith's latest at TWC
Craig Robinson, Traci Lords, Katie Morgan, Ricky Mabe, Jeff Anderson and Jason Mewes have joined Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks on The Weinstein Company's (TWC) Zack & Miri Make A Porno, which begins principal production in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Jan 16.Smith wrote and is directing the film, which stars Rogen ...
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Scorsese's Stones documentary to open Berlin on Feb 7
Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones concert film Shine A Light will open the 58th Berlin International Film Festival on Feb 7 with the director and band in attendance.Scorsese used more than 16 cameras to capture more than half a million feet of footage when his crew filmed the veteran rockers over ...
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Persepolis, 4 Months fail to make Oscar shortlist
Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days and Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis both failed to make the cut as the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced its nine-film shortlist for the foreign language category.The films listed in alphabetical order by country ...
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Sue Kroll named worldwide marketing chief at Warner Bros
Sue Kroll has assumed the new role of president of worldwide marketing at Warner Bros Pictures following the departure last week of domestic marketing chief Dawn Taubin.Kroll's broad purview involves creating a seamless interaction between the domestic and international marketing divisions as she oversees strategic creation and implementation of worldwide ...
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Hot Docs honouring Leacock, Baichwall, Fraser
The Hot Docs documentary film festival will honour three notables of the form at its upcoming 15th edition: UK filmmaker Richard Leacock, Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal and the BBC's Nick Fraser, long-time commissioning editor of the UK broadcaster's Storyville documentary strand.Leacock, who will be presented with the Hot Docs Outstanding ...
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Spain's Imagina launches film sales division under Setuain
Spain's leading television distributor Imagina has moved into film sales, handling international rights on films produced by its associated companies, as well as pick ups from other independent production companies.Beatriz Setuain has taken the role as head of the new film distribution division, effective yesterday. She previously worked as an ...
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Japan's IMJ, Dub Incset up production label Smoke
IMJ Group subsidiary, IMJ Entertainment (IMJE), has established a feature film and visual contents company as a 50:50 joint venture with film and TV producer Dub Inc. The new company, Smoke, will be headed by Dub CEO Yasushi Utagawa, who will serve as producer on feature films developed under the ...
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Berlin selects 29 shorts, including 11 in competition
The Berlinale has selected 29 films for its Shorts section, including a special presentation of Serbian director Zelimir Zilnik's 1975 nine-minute film Inventory about housing speculation and foreigners living in Munich.A jury composed of Romanian producer Ada Solomon, French-actor director Marc Barbe and German actress Laura Tonke will have the ...
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Greek box office up 5% thanks to local hits including El Greco
The Greek box office registered a 5% rise during 2007 - up to 13.3m admissions from 12.9m in 2006, according to local experts. US blockbusters continued to perform well, as expected, but the boost was helped by strong performance by local productions.Zack Snyder's 300, although a US production, was a ...
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Berlin's Perspektive Deutsches Kino to include Randl's debut
The Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar has now finalised its 2008 programme with five feature films, four documentaries and four short films.The remaining six films to be confirmed include Lola Randl's feature debut In Between Days which was produced by Herbert Schwering's Coin Film as part of public broadcaster WDR ...
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Metrodome takes UK rights to The Assembly and The Banquet
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights for two new Chinese films, The Assembly and The Banquet. Both are directed by Feng Xiaogang.The Assembly has already taken more than $30m at the Chinese box office. It is based on the true story of one man's journey during the 1948 Chinese ...
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Village, Golden Harvest settle Singapore dispute
Kenneth Tan will step down as head of Singapore exhibitor Golden Village (GV) as the company's co-owners, Australia's Village Roadshow and Hong Kong 's Golden Harvest, settle their dispute over their Singapore business partnership. The partners were at odds with each other when Golden Harvest petitioned to end their Singapore ...
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Village, Golden Harvest settle Singapore dispute
Kenneth Tan will step down as head of Singapore exhibitor Golden Village (GV) as the company's co-owners, Australia's Village Roadshow and Hong Kong 's Golden Harvest, settle their dispute over their Singapore business partnership. The partners were at odds with each other when Golden Harvest petitioned to end their Singapore ...
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UK film industry remains upbeat despite US strike worries
Leading figures in theUK film industryare remaining upbeat about the prospects for the territory despite theimpact oftheHollywood writers' strike on shoots.Ron Howard's Angels & Demons, Ridley Scott's Nottingham and the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Prince Of Persia have either withdrawn from the UK or been postponed.The WGA strike is having an impact, ...
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Iain Smith plans $20m rugby drama The Originals
UK-based producer Iain Smith (Cold Mountain, Children Of Men) is in advanced development on The Originals, a Chariots Of Fire-style drama about the exploits of the famous 1905 New Zealand All Black rugby team during their tour of Great Britain. The team was known as 'The Originals.'Mark Joffe is to ...
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Union Square changes its name to Berk-Lane Entertainment
Union Square Entertainment principals Jason Berk and Matt Lane, whose company produced the William H Macy and Meg Ryan comedy The Deal headed for Sundance, have changed the company name to Berk-Lane Entertainment.Berk-Lane will continue to finance and produce and aims to increase its involvement in feature development and expand ...
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Red Envelope, B-Side team for unusual US release of football doc
Netflix' theatrical distributor Red Envelope Entertainment and independent distributor B-Side Entertainment are to stage the day-and-date theatrical, DVD and internet streaming release of American football documentary Two Days In April.The film will launch as a DVD rental and 'instant view' through Netflix's web-based service and open the same day in ...
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IFC launches new VOD initiative for international films
IFC Entertainment has launched the video-on-demand package Festival Direct that will showcase for a limited time a selection of IFC films that premiered at international festivals.The initiative will launch on Feb 29 on local cable carriers' On Demand platforms across the US for $5.99 each. Titles include Ken Loach's It's ...