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Mungiu's 4 Months takes Hollywood World Award
Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days won the Hollywood Film Festival's fourth annual Hollywood World Award backed by Screen International. Mungiu's film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year and is Romania's submission for the foreign-language Academy Award. Mungiu was unable to attend the Hollywood ...
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Hans Zimmer to score Sony's Mexican comedy Casi Divas
Sony Pictures Entertainment's (SPE) local production arm Columbia Pictures Producciones Mexico has hired Hans Zimmer to score the music for its comedy Casi Divas (Road To Fame). Currently in post-production, Casi Divas is the second film to come from Columbia Pictures Producciones Mexico after Ninas Mal and was written ...
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Original Chicano and Guru take awards at Turks & Caicos
Dan Guerrero's Lalo Guerrero The Original Chicano was the star of the show at the Third Annual Turks & Caicos International Film Festival closing night ceremony on Oct 21. The film chronicles the life and music of the celebrated so-called 'Father of Chicano music' and won best documentary, best ...
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Zobel's Great World Of Sound leads Gotham nominees
Craig Zobel's Sundance hit Great World Of Sound earned three nominations yesterday for IFP New York's upcoming 17th Annual Gotham Awards. The comedy is in the running for best feature, best director, and best breakthrough actor for Kene Holliday.Three films received two nominations each: Day Night Day Night by Julia ...
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British Columbia extends 30% tax credit through 2013
British Columbia has extended until 2013 its 30% labour-based tax credit for film and television production shooting in the province.The move, announced by BC premier Gordon Campbell on Friday, comes as the Canadian dollar pushes past US$1.02.The other industry tax credits in the province, a 12.5% regional credit for productions ...
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Fung appointed as Hong Kong FDC secretary general
Wellington Fung has been appointed as secretary-general of Hong Kong's recently-established film industry support body, the Film Development Council (FDC). One of the co-founders of Hong Kong's Media Asia Group and currently executive director and chief executive officer of Big Media Group, Fung will assume the post on November 16. ...
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THINKFilm International goes Under The Mountain with Jonathan King
THINKFilm International has come on board for world sales (excluding Australia and New Zealand for Under The Mountain, to be directed by Jonathan King. King's most recent film is the international hit Black Sheep. Fantasy adventure thriller Under The Mountain is based on the novel by popular New Zealand author ...
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Adlabs joins UK's Film Distributors Association
Hindi film UK distributor Adlabs has joined the UK's Film Distributors' Association (FDA). The Bollywood distributor becomes the 21st member company in the trade body. Adlabs was founded in India in 1978 and the UK business was established 15 months ago. Its releases include Marigold, Krrish, and Dil Apna Punjabi. ...
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Irish Film Board cautions against expectation of completion funding
With as many as 15 ultra low- and no-budget features being made without official funding 'below the radar' in Ireland each year the Irish Film Board held an information session at the Cork Film Festival to address producers' expectations of receiving completion funding from the agency. Calling it a 'reality ...
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UK producers need to think globally and diversify
The UK film industry would be in great shape - if only it was based in the US. That was the somewhat daunting message for delegates at the UK's first Production Finance Market, which kicked off today, organised by Film London in partnership with the Times BFI London Film Festival.The ...
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Paramount strikes digital download deal with Arts Alliance
After signing a virtual print fee digital cinema deal with Arts Alliance Media recently, Paramount is now also working with the company for digital downloads. Paramount Digital Entertainment International will provide Paramount Pictures films for digital distribution on AAM's Vizumi network (including partner sites such as LoveFilm and Tiscali), both ...
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Momentum restructuring creates new TV/new media role for Dutton
UK distributor Momentum Pictures is restructuring its home entertainment, TV and new media departments. The restructuring was announced by Xavier Marchand, president of international distribution at parent company Alliance Films. Ken McMahon has been named head of home entertainment, and Kristin Ryan will act as marketing manager home entertainment while ...
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Rome Business Street sees several deals in second year
Rome Film Fest's well-attended four-day market event The Business Street came to a close yesterday with a scattering of deals done and an increasingly important profile for European business, buyers and sellers said.Michael Werner of Sweden's Nonstop Sales said he didn't close any deals but found the market useful anyway. ...
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TIFFCOM gets underway with 15% increase in visitors
The fourth edition of the TIFFCOM market (Oct 22-24) got underway in Tokyo this morning with 3,366 registered participants, an increase of 15% from last year, according to organisers. Held on the 40th floor of the Roppongi Hills complex, overlooking the skyscrapers of downtown Tokyo, TIFFCOM is widely regarded as ...
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Argentina's Gaggero to direct Wildlife for Point Road Films
John Moore and Peter Veverka's Point Road Films has hired Argentinean film-maker Jorge Gaggero to direct the adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winning Richard Ford's coming-of-age novel Wildlife.Producers Moore and Peter Veverka are aiming for a late summer 2008 shoot in Montana on the $3m tale of a 16-year-old who learns ...
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Hawaii film fest opens with Flight Of The Red Balloon
The 27th Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) kicked off its 11-day programme with Hou Hsiao Hsien's The Flight Of The Red Balloon on Oct 18. The festival will present more than 150 films from around the world, including Julian Schnabel's Diving Bell And The Butterfly from this year's ...
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THINKFilm on board for Argentina-set thriller The Appeared
THINKFilm International has taken on international sales rights (excluding Spain) to supernatural thriller The Appeared (Aparecidos). THINKFilm will screen the film at next week's American Film Market. Paco Cabezas wrote and directed the Argentina-set supernatural ghost story about a brother and sister who discover an old family diary ...
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ContentFilm takes international rights to documentary Trumbo
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights to documentary Trumbo.Peter Askin directed the project, which premiered in Toronto. The project is about Oscar-winning blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. The film is based on the original play by his son Christopher.The film includes performances of Trumbo's letters from the likes of Joan ...
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blinkBox launches with content from Universal, Paramount, Aardman
Content from the likes of Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Aardman Animations and Discovery Networks UK is available through new service blinkBox.com, which launches Monday.Michael Cornish and Adrian Letts founded blinkBox Entertainment as a platform for downloading films and TV shows and also to customise personal content with existing ...