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Copenhagen children's festival Buster moves back to September
As part of the recent merger of the Copenhagen International Film Festival and NATFilm, the CIFF festival for Children and Youth, entitled Buster, has been moved back to September. In recent years, the festival had moved to March to make the most of festival resources, but the changed landscape in ...
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FACT works with Crimestoppers for anonymous piracy tips
The UK's Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and the charity Crimestoppers are partnering to offer anonymous public reporting of film piracy.Members of the public can report potential piracy issues to Crimestoppers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.FACT had previously run its own tip line to generate intelligence on ...
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Independent takes on sales for Kidulthood follow-up Adulthood
UK sales company Independent has come on board for Noel Clarke's Adulthood, which has now started shooting in London. Noel Clarke, writer and actor of Kidulthood, will make his directorial debut with that controversial hit's follow-up.In Adulthood, Clarke reprises his role as Sam from the first film, picking up as ...
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Government pledges $50m for UKFC to protect BFI archives
As the Times BFI London Film Festival gears up to open its 51st edition tonight, UK Culture Secretary James Purnell has announced that the UK Film Council has been awarded $50.8m (£25m) for the UK's national and regional film archives. The $50.8m allowance comes on top of the UK Film ...
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Meaney, Crook and Staunton line up for 3 and OUT
UK indie comedy 3 and OUT, starring Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Imelda Staunton and Gemma Arterton, will start principal photography Oct 29.Jonathan Gershfield makes his feature directorial debut after working on TV series including Big Train and Dead Ringers.Wayne Marc Godfrey is producing for new production outfit RMPC. Steve Lewis ...
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Sales veteran Adam Wright joins Maverick
Adam Wright has joined Maverick Global, the international sales arm of US home entertainment genre distributor Maverick Entertainment Group, as senior vice president of international distribution and domestic television sales.Wright will report directly to executive vice president Pamela White and will continue to live in Los Angeles, where he most ...
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Arikian leaves EFM to head up Hamptons International Film Festival
Co-director of the Berlin International Film Festival's European Film Market (EFM) Karen Arikian has been named new executive director of The Hamptons International Film Festival.Arikian will assume her duties in March 2008 and will attend the gala opening night on Oct 17 this year as an observer.The executive director's duties ...
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Fogelson, Edgan promoted to president positions within Universal
Adam Fogelson has been appointed to the newly created role of Universal Pictures' president of marketing and distribution and Eddie Egan has been promoted to president of marketing.Fogelson assumes executive oversight of Universal's domestic marketing and distribution divisions as well as marketing and distribution of Rogue Pictures.He reports to Universal ...
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Walter Lassally to receive ASC International Achievement Award
Walter Lassally will receive the 2008 American Society Of Cinematographers' (ASC) International Achievement Award at the 22nd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Hollywood on Jan 26.Lassally's career spanned 50 years and highlights include the 1965 Academy Award win for Zorba The Greek, a BAFTA nomination in 1984 for Heat ...
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Randolph Paul joins Halcyon as COO in LA
Randolph Paul has joined the Halcyon Company as chief operating officer. He will be based in the Los Angeles office and report to Halcyon co-chief executive officers Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson.Paul is an experienced executive who was present at the inception of Miramax Films in the 1980s before moving ...
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Reygadas' Silent Light takes Golden Hugo at Chicago
Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light from Mexico has won the 43rd Chicago International Film Festival's most prestigious award, the Gold Hugo.The Silver Hugo special jury prize went to Wang Quanan's Chinese entry Tuya's Marriage, and the Silver Hugo Award for direction was presented to Roy Andersson's Swedish film You, The Living.The ...
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Denmark's Nordisk buys 50% of Swedish producer S/S Fladen
Copenhagen-based distributor Nordisk Film has formed a strategic partnership with Swedish production company S/S Fladen, acquiring 50% of the company. The deal is the latest in a string of alliances struck by Nordisk over the last two years after similar cooperations with Tre Vänner, Illusion Film, Hep Film and Bob ...
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Ratatouille dominates UK box-office as Resident Evil takes $2m
Ratatouille dominated the UK chart this weekend with a hefty $9m take (£4.4m) from 503 sites in its opening weekend. Click here to see the chart.The Pixar adventure, released through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (WDSMPI), boasted an impressive $18,047 (8,863) site average and beat the next highest entrant, ...
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Eros and Darby set upIndia-based effects companyEyeQube
In yet another strategic expansion, India 's leading integrated media company Eros International is working with international visual effects expert Charles Darby to start a new venture called EyeQube Studios Private Ltd. Eros will make an initial investment of $5m-$7m into EyeQube and each film will bring in its own ...
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Grierson: Sheffield Awards reveals shortlisted documentaries
Sheffield Doc/Fest (Nov 7-11) has announced the nominees for the first Grierson: Sheffield Documentary Awards, which will be presented Nov 10. There are three categories in the awards: an innovation award, a green award for a project about environmental issues and a youth jury award chosen by 16-18 year olds. ...
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Van Dormeal's Mr Nobody ready to move to Germany
Jaco van Dormeal's Mr Nobody, which has already shot in Belgium and Canada, will continue its six-month shoot moving later this month to Germany. The English-language project stars Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham, and Rhys Ifans. Van Dormeal also wrote the screenplay, about a man living ...
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Rithy Panh's Paper takes documentary prize at EFAs
The European Film Academy has announced that Rithy Panh's Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers (Le Papier Ne Peut Pas Envelopper La Braise), a French production, is the winner of the 2007 Prix Arte for best documentary. This year's jury for the Prix Arte was comprised of Francine Brucher, David Fisher ...
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Focus bolsters production, Rogue distribution moved to Universal
Focus Features has bolstered its production department as the company moves toward a bigger slate and eyes greater collaboration with parent company Universal Pictures' overseas production group.Focus Features chief executive officer James Schamus also announced that the distribution and marketing of Rogue Pictures releases will henceforth be handled by Universal.Rogue ...
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Shoreline picks up Franco's Max, Kill Kill Faster Faster for AFM
Heading into AFM, Shoreline Entertainment has announced its acquisition of worldwide rights to James Franco's drama Good Time Max also starring Franco and the noir thriller Kill Kill Faster Faster.Franco wrote and directed Good Time Max, about two brothers who grow apart when one becomes a surgeon and the other ...
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IFP to present tribute to Mayor Bloomberg at Gotham Awards
IFP will present a tribute to the New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the 17th Annual Gotham Awards on Nov 27.Bloomberg will be recognised for his leadership in boosting the city's credentials as a film-making hub and for supporting economic, educational, and cultural initiatives throughout the five boroughs including the ...