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Telepool takes on teamWorx's Mogadishu Welcome
Germany-based sales company Telepool has added Mogadishu Welcome to its sales slate.The deal was done with teamWorx Television & Film before the project started principal photography in Casablanca.Roland Suso Richter will direct the Degeto Film/SWR 90-minute feature, intended for TV. Telepool will handle world sales excluding the co-production territories, France ...
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Rogen, Banks to star in Kevin Smith's next film for TWC, Dimension
Seth Rogen, riding high on the success of this year's sleeper summer hit Knocked Up, will star for The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Dimension Films in Kevin Smith's Zack & Miri Make A Porno.Elizabeth Banks, who along with Rogen appeared in The 40 Year Old Virgin, stars in the story ...
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Kounelias promoted in New Line marketing restructure
Christina Kounelias has been promoted to executive vice president of marketing at New Line and will report to the studio's domestic marketing chief Chris Carlisle.In the newly created position Kounelias will work closely with Carlisle to oversee a newly created marketing department infrastructure and continue to oversee the studio's publicity, ...
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Kristen Stewart gets lead role in Hardwicke's Twilight for Summit
Kristen Stewart will star as Bella Swan in Summit Entertainment's upcoming romantic thriller Twilight to be directed by Catherine Hardwicke.Production is set to begin in February 2008 on the story of a 17-year-old girl who moves to a small town in the state of Washington where she gets caught in ...
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American Gangster goes international in UK, France, Germany
Universal's crime saga American Gangster will make an aggressive foray into the international market this weekend, launching through UPI in 11 territories including France, Switzerland and French-speaking Switzerland on November 14.The film debuts a day later in Germany and German-speaking Switzerland, and opens in the UK on November 16.The US ...
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Shearer, Braun to receive honours from IDA
Jocelyn Shearer will receive the International Documentary Association's 2007 IDA Preservation and Scholarship Award on behalf of National Geographic Digital Motion and Darfur Now director Ted Braun will receive the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.Shearer and Braun will be feted during the 23rd Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award ...
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Magnolia takes Roxburgh's Romulus, My Father to US
Magnolia Pictures has acquired all US rights from Arclight Films to the hit Australian drama Romulus, My Father starring Eric Bana and Franke Potente.Magnolia will offer the film on its new HDNet Ultra Video On Demand platform, which grants subscribers access to films up to three weeks before their theatrical ...
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Truly Indie takes US rights to Fighting For Life
Truly Indie has picked up US rights to Terry Sanders' documentary Fighting For Life, which focuses on the work of military doctors in Iraq.Sanders tracks the careers of students at Uniformed Services University, the de facto West Point of military medicine, as well as a veteran who strives to deal ...
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CMG closes multiple territories on No Man's Land: Reeker 2
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) closed multiple territory sales at AFM on Dave Payne's horror sequel No Man's Land: Reeker 2.Rights went to Germany (Capelight Pictures), Brazil (Flashstar Films), Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines (Suraya Films), Indonesia (P T Rapi Films), and Central America (Passatiempo).Deals closed prior to ...
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The art of film-making
When UK writer-director Penny Woolcock decided to retell a biblical story in Exodus, set in a near-future version of the English town of Margate, she approached UK artist Antony Gormley through Artangel, who co-produced the film with Channel 4. Woolcock wanted Gormley to create a plague of frogs for the ...
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Awards Countdown Golden Globes - Category profile: Foreign language - Second life
The Golden Globes foreign-language category has become the subject of increased scrutiny of late. Take last year when US-made films Apocalypto and Letters From Iwo Jima were nominated alongside foreign-made foreign-language films. Letters, shot in California and backed by Warner Bros, went on to win the category over TheLives Of ...
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Awards Countdown Golden Globes - Category profile: Musical or comedy - Giving comedy a chance
Providing an extra 10 acting slots, and a chance for musicals and comedies to step out of drama’s shadow, the Golden Globes’ musical/comedy category is generally seen as a good thing.
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Critical Mass - Movie myths
You have probably received one of those witty circular e-mails about the ridiculous things that happen only in movies. They do the rounds of the internet on a regular basis, morphing as recipients add their own candidates.The best cliches from the one that dropped into my inbox last week were:- ...
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United States - Sayles talk
In John Sayles' new film Honeydripper, Danny Glover stars as a huckster artist, a barnstorming pianist who conceives a wild and daring plan to revive the economic fortunes of his struggling juke joint in 1950 Alabama by importing a young guitar virtuoso to headline there.It is not a stretch to ...
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Digital distribution - a new world order'
We are in the post-major studio and pre-internet era,' says Ira Deutchman, founder and CEO of New York-based Emerging Pictures. The supposed starting point and destination in his assertion are of course highly debatable. But there is now a clear consensus that this is an industry in transition. And as ...
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Rights options - Material world
In an industry where only the select few can afford to snap up the rights to the latest bestseller-to-be at galley stage or bid for the hottest spec screenplay doing the rounds, producers need to be shrewder, quicker off the mark and more esoteric in their thinking when they are ...
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Golden Globes - Power of the press
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Hfpa) is the little engine that could. Founded 65 years ago by a small group of foreign correspondents, the not-for-profit has gone from strength to strength.
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Indie India - Get set, Goa!
After struggling to find its feet in the past few years, the film market of the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) in Goa is undergoing a radical overhaul this year in partnership with government agency, the National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc). This year, Film Bazaar (November 24-26) will ditch ...
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Sales of New Zealand films up 76% over last year
Sales of New Zealand films have shot up 76% in the past year and have generated a gross income of $5.43m, according to the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC).In its annual report, NZFC found that local films made commissions of $1.12m, up from $207,698 in 2005/06. NZFC-financed films saw international ...
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Pinewood hopes to expand with new live-work media community
Pinewood Shepperton plans to seek planning permission for an extension to Pinewood Studios, on land adjacent to the current Pinewood Studios site in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.The proposed Project Pinewood will include a variety of locations for film and TV, including permanent working sets of streetscapes and location recreations such as ...