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Disney India taps Samat, Star ups Shankar, Kumar
Walt Disney International president Andy Bird has announced that Mahesh Samat has been appointed as managing director of Mumbai-based Walt Disney Company India. Samat will join the company in January and manage all of Disney's businesses in India excluding the ESPN/Star Sports joint venture with News Corp's Star network. He ...
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Red Eagle set to soar for Thailand's Five Star
Thailand 's Five Star will unveil at AFM The Red Eagle, the latest film by acclaimed Thai director Wisit Sasanatieng and starring Ananda Everingham. The picture about the masked crime-fighter Red Eagle will mark the return of the greatest superhero of Thai cinema in 37 years. The character, taken from ...
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Eurasia film fest on schedule despite Turkish border war
Francis Ford Coppola attended the International Eurasia Film Festival for the gala screening of his Youth Without Youth amid escalating tension in Turkey. Coppola arrived at the Mediterranean coastal town Antalya with his family (wife Eleanor and son Roman) and executive producer Anahid Nazarian. He was presented with an honour ...
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TF1 adds Spike Lee's Miracle and David Morey's Mutants
TF1 International will be present at the upcoming AFM with two important new titles as well as a wolrd premiere and promo reels for several of its highly-anticipated projects. The sales outfit recently signed Spike Lee's Miracle At St. Anna, a film based on the novel by James McBride and ...
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Crossing joins Cineclick Asia's multinational slate
Seoul-based sales agent Cineclick Asia has picked up Crossing, a film from Volcano High director Kim Tae-kyun, for its multinational AFM slate. The film is about a North Korean ex-soccer player who crosses illegally into China, where he desperately tries to find a way to get his son and pregnant ...
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Animation Picture Co gives Spyro The Dragon the 3D treatment
The Animation Picture Company has optioned feature film rights from Vivendi Games division Sierra Entertainment to the hit franchise video game Spyro The Dragon.The Animation Picture Company's principals Dan Chuba, John Davis, Mark Dippe, Brian Manis and Ash Shah will produce the 3D CGI feature.Daniel and Steven Altiere will adapt ...
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Palm Springs honours Into The Wild duo
Sean Penn will receive the Director of the Year Award for his acclaimed latest film Into The Wild at the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival awards gala on Jan 5.Past director honourees at this Oscar bellweather include Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel, Anthony Minghella for Cold Mountain, Alexander ...
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Buzz Projects - The ABC of the AFM
Lakeshore Entertainment is hoping to entice buyers at this year's AFM with Game, an action thriller from Crank directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Now in production, it stars Gerard Butler as a death-row inmate who becomes the cult hero of an online game. Lakeshore will also introduce United Artists' ...
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AFM- Buyers go global in search of spice
Fuelled by fears of an industry-wide strike and financed by Wall Street's billions, Hollywood's production schedules are in overdrive to get projects in front of the cameras before next April. North American and international distributor schedules are already packed with US projects to see them through 2008. Following a sluggish ...
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Lakeshore unleashes Underworld 3: The Rise Of The Lycans
Lakeshore Entertainment is prepring Underworld 3: The Rise Of The Lycans, the prequel to its $200m worldwide franchise about warring werewolves and vampires that will open in North America through Screen Gems.Lakeshore and Sony Pictures Releasing International hold international rights to the film, which is set to begin production in ...
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Magnolia swoops for Spanish time-travel buzz-film
Magnolia Pictures has picked up worldwide rights excluding Spain from producer Eduardo Carneros to Nacho Vigalondo's sci-fi film Timecrimes.Laird Adamson, head of international sales at Magnolia's sister company HDNet, will screen the film and begin international sales at AFM.Timecrimes centres on a man who inadvertently discovers the perils of time ...
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Control wins further prizes at Chicago festival
Anton Corbijn's Control, which earlier this week picked up 10 British Independent Film Awards nominations, is one of three films to be awarded the Chicago International Film Festival's Audience Choice Award.Control shared the honour with Carlitos Ruίz Ruiz and Mariem Perez Riera's Puerto Rican comedy Lovesickness and Jon Dunham's US ...
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Festival Of Discovery: AFI Fest continues to grow at 21
When it kicks off on November 1 with the North American premiere of Robert Redford's Lions For Lambs, AFI Fest will celebrate its 21st year as an American Film Institute event. But coming of age has not meant an end to growth, suggests festival director Christian Gaines.In recent years, he ...
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Helen Lee-Kim adjusts to the increased volume at Mandate International
These are happily hectic times for Helen Lee-Kim, newly ensconced as president of international sales at Mandate International following Lionsgate's $56m acquisition of Mandate Pictures in September.For what was formerly Lionsgate's international division, now read Mandate International. The expanded operation has seen Kim's workload balloon to accommodate films from Mandate, ...
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The Russians are coming' Leonard Klady looks at the 'Russian disconnect' at the international box office.
We all know about the great tradition of Russian cinema that embraces such movie gods as Eisenstein and Pudovkin, Tarkovsky and Bondarchuk. The modern scene post-Glasnost is another matter.The first real sense of a meaningful change might best be encapsulated in a personal anecdote that occurred at Las Vegas' ShoWest ...
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Omega on board for non-US sales of Six Lives Of Henry Lefay
Omega Entertainment is co-financing and handling international sales on the Tim Allen comedy The Six Wives of Henry Lefay. The film, which will be introduced to buyers at the forthcoming AFM, is also financed by Ring Productions and Aramid. Producers are Brillstein Entertainment Partners' David McIlvain and Holly Wiersma. Cassian ...
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Sundance picks seven projects for Middle East Writers Lab
The Sundance Institute has announced the selection of seven projects for the third annual Middle East Screenwriters Lab, which takes place in Jordan Oct 28-Nov 1. Run in collaboration with Jordan's Royal Film Commission, the Lab involves the upcoming directors and writers taking part in an intensive workshop with 'creative ...
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New Zealand Film Commission climbs new Mountain with King
The New Zealand Film Commission and Film Fund are backing Jonathan King's recently announced Under the Mountain. Capitol Films and NZ On Air are also behind the project. As previously reported, Capitol sister company THINKFilm will launch the project to buyers (excluding Australia and New Zealand) at the forthcoming AFM. ...
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Wales agencies plan Greenlighting conference in November
The Film Agency For Wales and MEDIA Antenna Wales are planning a two-day Greenlighting Your Film conference in Cardiff Nov 12-13.The event will consist of talks, panels and case-study discussions. Speakers will include Angus Finney, Graham Begg, Ivana MacKinnon, Tom Roberts, Mare Evans, and Rebekah Gilbertson.'From polishing the script to ...
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Earth to open Brazil's Amazonas Film Festival
Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield's Earth will open the fourth annual Amazonas Film Festival in Manaus, Brazil. The announcement came as the festival unveiled its feature and documentary film competitions as well as its symposium for the 2007 edition which runs Nov 9-15. The UK-Germany co-production, a feature-length companion to ...