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Estonia's Black Nights unveils full competition line-up
The Black Nights Film Festival has unveiled the program for its eleventh edition, to be held Nov 15-Dec 9 in Tallinn, Estonia.This year's event features 205 films from more than 60 countries. Among the 11 titles in the Estonian Feature Film Competition are 186 Kilometers, from Andres Maimik and Autumn ...
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Schuermann steps down as CEO of Intermedia USA
Martin Schuermann has now stepped from his post as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Los Angeles-based Intermedia Film Equities USA to return to 'hands-on' production. In July, Schuermann had cited 'personal reasons' for leaving his other post as CEO of the IM Internationalmedia Group which he had held ...
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Goa fest to open with 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days
Romanian director Christian Mungiu's Cannes Palmes d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days will be the opening film of this year's International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, with Mungiu himself expected to attend. Shah Rukh Khan will inaugurate the festival which takes place Nov 23 - ...
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Korea's Studio2.0 scores sales on Epitaph, Lovers
Korean production and sales company Studio2.0 clinched a string of sales on new titles Epitaph and Lovers Of 6 Years at the recent AFM. Horror title Epitaph, directed by the Jung Brothers and starring Kim Tae-woo and Kim Bo-kyung, was sold to Taiwan 's Scholar Multimedia and Encore for Singapore, ...
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Stockholm kicks off tonight with Josef Fares' Leo
As the world première of Swedish director Josef Fares' Leo opens the 18th Stockholm International Film Festival tonight - the first time a Swedish feature launches the fest - local audiences are facing an 11-day programme of more than 170 features, adding seminars, lectures, Face2Face discussions and workshops, all dedicated ...
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Bill Grantham joins Greenberg Taurig practice in LA
Attorney Bill Grantham has joined Greenberg Traurig's burgeoning corporate and securities practice in Los Angeles.Grantham has extensive experience representing international investors, studios, producers and distributors across a range of entertainment platforms.'Continuing changes in the global entertainment content financing marketplace demand creativity and skill,' Tom Loo, co-managing shareholder of Greenberg Traurig's ...
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Lionsgate picks up Tyler Perry's next two films
Lionsgate has picked up rights to Tyler Perry's next two films, The Family That Preys Together and Madea Goes To Jail.These releases will mark the sixth and seventh titles in Lionsgate's Tyler Perry franchise, which scored its third number one box office hit with Why Did I Get Married, which ...
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Summit buys remake rights to Korean thriller Seven Days
Summit Entertainment has picked up remake rights from Prime Entertainment to the South Korean thriller Seven Days directed by Won Shin-Yeon.Summit is believed to have paid a low six-figure sum at AFM for the story of a defence lawyer who is blackmailed into representing a rape suspect after her daughter ...
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IMAX signs four-picture deal with DreamWorks Animation
IMAX Corporation will release DreamWorks Animation's first three 3D films around the world in IMAX 3D in the company's first multiple film deal with a Hollywood studio.Monsters Vs Aliens will open in March 2009, How To Train Your Dragon in November 2009 and Shrek Goes Fourth in May 2010. A ...
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Spielberg named recipient of Cecil B DeMille Award at Golden Globes
Steven Spielberg is to receive the Cecil B DeMille Award at the 65th Annual Golden Globes on January 13, 2008.
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Gerson, Plouffe promoted in Focus Features production department
David Gerson has been promoted to Focus Features' vice president of production and development and Matthew Plouffe has been named creative executive.Gerson reports to Focus president of production John Lyons and Plouffe reports to Gerson. Both are based in New York and previously worked as assistants to Lyons after joining ...
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Eros' Om Shanti Om tops Ratatouille in international chart
Indian films came up blazing in this weekend's international top 40 with two films - Om Shanti Om and Saawariya - collectively taking $31.5m and accounting for more than 20% of the chart's total revenue. For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.Eros International's Om Shanti Om ...
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Singapore-based Anytime undergoes major restructuring
A major corporate restructuring is underway for Singapore-based VOD content provider Anytime in an effort to find new investors as the company is beset by funding issues and lower than anticipated sales. The exercise, which entails financial and operational changes, is being implemented by an interim management, headed by company ...
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Goteborg Fund selects six projects from developing countries
The Goteborg International Film Festival Fund has named the latest projects it is backing, with cooperation from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA. The fund, set up in 1998, supports film-makers working in countries in transition. The following six projects were selected from around 100 applications to receive development ...
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Sheffield awards include Talk To Me, We Are Together
The Sheffield Doc/Fest (Nov 7-11) handed out its first Grierson: Sheffield Awards as the UK festival closed this weekend. The Green Award went to Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth about the global climate crisis, the Innovation Award went to Mark Craig's Talk To Me about voicemail messages, and the Youth ...
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Norway's Kill Buljo sells to 26 territories for Imagination Worldwide
Norwegian directors Tommy Wirkola and Stig Frode Henriksen's $163,700 (Eu112,600) project Kill Buljo-The Movie has sold to 26 territories following the AFM, including the US, the UK, Australia (The Weinstein Company). The US-based sales agent Imagination Worldwide has also licensed the film to Brazil (Europa Filmes), Japan (New Select), Germany ...
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VIP fund's former CEO sentenced to six years in prison
Andreas Schmid, the former CEO of the German private media fund VIP Medienfonds, was sentenced to six years imprisonment for tax evasion by a Munich court on Tuesday morning (Nov 13). VIP's managing director Andreas Grosch, who had suddenly exited his post from the beleaguered fund in June 2006, was ...
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Final approval set for Brazil-Germany co-production agreement
After more than two years of legislative limbo, the new Brazil-Germany Co-Production Agreement has finally been approved by both houses in Brazil's National Congress and has now come into force. The new accord had been signed by Brazil's Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and Germany's then State Minister of Culture ...
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Dulluc prize shortlists films by Rohmer, Chabrol, and Honore
Eight films have been short-listed for France's prestigious Louis Delluc prize. Half of the nominees hail from confirmed masters and half from younger talent. The films are: Eric Rohmer's The Romance Of Astrea And Celadon , Belle Toujours from Manoel de Oliveira, A Girl Cut In Two by Claude Chabrol, ...
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Fox greenlights Dragonball movie for Aug 08 release date
Twentieth Century Fox has greenlit an adaptation of Akira Toriyama's revered manga comic book franchise Dragonball and set a worldwide release date of August 15, 2008.Production will begin later this year on the sci-fi adventure which Kung Fu Hustle's Stephen Chow will produce and James Wong will direct from his ...