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China's Polybona sets up talent management arm
Beijing-based film distributor Polybona Film Distribution has established an artist management wing - Polybona Artist Management - with actress Huang Yi as one of its first signings. Huang stars in the current hit release Brothers, a gangster drama directed by Derek Chiu, and also starring Andy Lau and Eason Chan. ...
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Naomie Harris to receive tribute at Bahamas Film Festival
Naomie Harris will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Rising Star Tribute on December 11.Harris' credits include 28 Weeks Later, Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 and 3, and Miami Vice.Festival organisers also announced that BIFF's Filmmaker Residency Programme will award $10,000 toward development and production on an independent Bahamian ...
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Into The Wild, Sicko take top honours at IFP's Gotham Awards
Sean Penn's Into The Wild won best feature for Paramount Vantage and Michael Moore's Sicko from The Weinstein Company was named best documentary at the IFP's 17th Annual Gotham Awards [Nov 28].Ellen Page took home the Breakthrough Actor Award for her role as a pregnant teen in Jason Reitman's Juno, ...
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Kanter, Malick form I Am Third Productions in LA, Austin
Producers Conroy Kanter and Ecky Malick have formed I Am Third Productions and announced their first two projects.Based in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, I Am Third Productions is developing Father Elijah, based on Michael O'Brien's books about a Carmelite priest sent to defeat a man believed to be the ...
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Control takes top honours at British Independent Film Awards
Anton Corbijn's Control was the big winner at tonight's tenth-annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).Control won Best British Independent Film, Best Director (Anton Corbijn), Best Supporting Actor/Actress (Toby Kebbell), Best Newcomer (Sam Riley), and the Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director (Corbijn). The film, a black-and-white biopic of Joy ...
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More Sunshine in 2008 Sundance Film Festival lineup
Sundance Film festival director Geoff Gilmore and director of programming John Cooper unveiled the 2008 competition line-up today [Nov 28], hailing an eclectic roster of 'passionate and personal' storytelling culled from a record number of submissions.Including the Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontiers and Park City At Midnight selections - all of ...
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Pretty Pictures acquires French rights to Hallam Foe
Pretty Pictures has acquired French rights to David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe from UK-based sales company Independent.Mackenzie's drama, which won the Silver Bear in Berlin, stars Jamie Bell and Sophia Myles.Pretty Pictures head James Velaise negotiated the deal with Independent's head of sales Abigail Walsh. 'We are absolutely thrilled that ...
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UTV scores Goal in 16 territories, while Beowulf keeps hold of top slot
Indian distributor UTV Communications had an international hit this weekend with Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal, which enjoyed a $3.5m take and was the highest non-US entry into the top 40 chart.For the full chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.The film, which is the second feature from director Vivek Agnihotri, ...
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Renny Harlin's $15m Mannerheim to shoot in August 2008
Finnish actor Mikko Nousiainen, who starred in local blockbuster The Restless will play Finnish historical legend Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim in a $14.7m (Euros 10m) biopic, which will mark the return to Finland of Finnish/Hollywood director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2: Die Harder).Principal photography for the film has been scheduled ...
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Coffee company Cafedirect plans series of three features
Cafedirect, the UK fairtrade coffee and tea company, is undertaking a film project that will include three feature-length films.Cafedirect's The Trilogy will be three large-scale productions for commercial release that will reflect future society based on the current social, economic, political and environmental global issues.The company is seeking film and ...
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Marrakech to open with Elizabeth and close with The Neighbor
The seventh edition of the Marrakech Film Festival will open with Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age and close with Eddie O'Flaherty's The Neighbor, organisers have announced.The jury will be headed by Milos Forman who will be backed up by Kapur, John Hurt, Pavel Lounguine, Aissa Maiga, Claude Miller, Parker ...
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Polanski's adaptation of The Ghost to start shooting in summer 2008
UK novelist Robert Harris, in Turin to promote his novel The Ghost, provided new details on the film adaptation of the book which Roman Polanski will direct. The pair are working together on the script now.Harris also discussed Pompeii, the $100m epic that was cancelled last September when Polanski pulled ...
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Malaysia's Golden Screen Cinemas opens luxurytheatre
Malaysia's largest exhibitor Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) is further strengthening itself as a pioneer in South-East Asia with the opening of a luxury-hall-only boutique cinema. GSC Signature consists of two Gold Class and five Premiere Class halls with a combined 572 seats, making it the first such cinema without normal ...
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MPA and Singapore's MDA launch Centre for Content Protection
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) today launched the Centre for Content Protection (CCP) as the first clearing house and resource centre for digital distribution and content protection in Asia Pacific. The centre aims to expand consumer viewing choices through secure distribution of digital television as well as legal downloads, home ...
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Peace Arch's Weapon stars UFC middleweight champion Franklin
Peace Arch Entertainment Group has started principal photography on the action film Weapon in Hamilton, Ontario.UFC Middleweight champion Rich Franklin, Bruce Greenwood and Tiffani Thiessen will star in the story of a US border patrol agent who apprehends a genetically enhanced super-soldier who is being pursued by his creator.John Stead ...
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Drea Clark named executive director of Slamdance Film Festival
Drea Clark has been appointed executive director of the Slamdance Film Festival, which next year runs from January 17-25 2008.Clark has worked her way through the ranks since joining the festival as an intern in 1998 and will now manage all aspects of festival preparation and production and serve as ...
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Strand picks up Fatih Akin's latest The Edge Of Heaven
Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Fatih Akin's official German foreign language Oscar submission The Edge Of Heaven.The film studies how the lives of four Turks and two Germans intersect through love and tragedy and stars Tuncel Kurtiz and Hanna Schygulla.Strand co-president Jon Gerrans struck the deal with ...
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Weinstein Co picks up worldwide rights to novel from Bridie Clark
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has pounced on worldwide publishing, film and television rights to Bridie Clark's novel I Think She's Got It.The company has optioned the right to develop and produce film and television versions of Clark's modern retelling of Pygmalion, which transplants the action to Manhattan where a man-about-town ...
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Haynes, Schnabel, Reitman films lead Independent Spirit nominations
Fox Searchlight led the way at the 2008 Independent Spirit Award nominations earlier today with 11 nods for Juno, The Savages and Waitress, among others, followed by Focus Features and Paramount Vantage on five apiece and Miramax and The Weinstein Company (TWC) on four each.TWC's I'm Not There was the ...
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Creative Soundtracking
The downturn in the fortunes of film soundtracks is not mirrored in the TV industry. The sector is capitalising on its musical muscle, particularly in the US where programmes such as Grey's Anatomy have tapped into a burgeoning indie music market for material and are reaping the rewards through sales ...