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Goa to host new script development workshop with NFDC
India's National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), in collaboration with the Directorate of Film Festivals, will conduct a script development workshop from Nov 18-24 in Goa during the International Film Festival of India. The Indian Script Development Workshop (ISDW) 2007 is designed for Indian scriptwriters who have finalized their scripts for ...
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Slingshot and Screen WM to co-produce seven features
UK regional screen agency Screen WM and new digital studio Slingshot Studios have struck a slate co-financing deal that will cover seven features during the next two years. Screen WM's production funds will finance 25% of film budgets, with the rest covered by Slingshot and its financing partners. Screen WM ...
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Bruce Dickinson-penned Chemical Weddingstarts shooting
London-based Focus Films has started production on supernatural horror film Chemical Wedding. Julian Doyle, who edited Terry Gilliam's Brazil and Time Bandits, will direct. The story is based on an original screenplay by Bruce Dickinson, frontman of Iron Maiden. Dickinson will provide the soundtrack to the film. Warner Music has ...
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Fortissimo takes worldwide sales on Love Comes Lately
Fortissimo has taken worldwide rights outside Germany to Jan Schuette's Love Comes Lately from zero fiction film / zero west filmproduktion.The English-language drama, which will screenas anofficial selection inToronto, is based on short stories by Nobel prizewinner Isaac Bashevis Singer. The film stars Otto Tausig, Rhea Perlman, Barbara Hershey and ...
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Tykwer action thriller gets $5.3m from German fund
Tom Tykwer's action thriller The International has been awarded Euros 4m by the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).It isthe third largest amount allocated by the incentive programme after the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer (£12m) and Bryan Singer's Valkyrie ($6.4m). The 'German spend' incentive scheme has now paid out almost two-thirds ...
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Credit slump hits $1bn studio slate plan, says report
Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank have pulled out of a commitment to underwrite a $1bn MGM slate deal in the wake of a credit crunch in global markets, according to The Financial Times.The planned deal aims to attract private equity, hedge fund and institutional investors to back MGM productions and ...
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16 films feature at Nordic Co-Production Forum
16 new Scandinavian and German feature film projects, with budgetsbetween $1.2 and $9m (Euros 0.9m-7m), will be presented at the second NordicCo-Production Forum, which takes place between Aug 22-23 as part of theNew Nordic Films market during the Norwegian International FilmFestival in Haugesund. Total production volume exceeds $68m (Euros 50m.)Last ...
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IFC takes North American rights to The Last Mistress
IFC Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Catherine Breillat's drama The Last Mistress (Une Vieille Maitresse) and will be release theatrically and on its On Demand platform. The Last Mistress was announced today in the line-up of the 45th New York Film Festival that runs from Sept ...
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Ganis re-elected as AMPAS president
Sid Ganis was re-elected for a third consecutive term as president ofthe Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences this week [14]following a meeting of the board of governors.Robert Rehme, an executives branch governor and previous Academypresident, was re-elected first vice president, while actors branchgovernor Tom Hanks and music branch ...
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Sony Pictures Classics to finance Demme drama
Sony Pictures Classics will fully finance Jonathan Demme's upcoming family drama Dancing With Shiva, which as previously announced will star Anne Hathaway. The company holds worldwide rights to the story, which takes place over the course of a wedding as an estranged daughter returns home to her family and ...
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Sayles' Honeydripper at heart of Clark Atlanta markering course
Independent distributor Ira Deutchman and film-maker Will Packer will launch an educational and marketing partnership with Clark Atlanta University during this autumn. The partnership has developed a marketing course centred on the upcoming theatrical release of John Sayles' Honeydripper starring Danny Glover. The course will be taught through ...
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New York Film Festival reveals line-up
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis will close the 45th New York Film Festival, which runs from Sept 28-Oct 14. As previously announced, Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited is the opening night screening and the Coen Brothers' No Country For Old Men is the Centerpiece selection. Predictably American film-makers ...
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New Thai production outfit Extra Virgin kicks off with media documentary
Thai film-maker Pimpaka Towira has set up a new Bangkok-based production outfit Extra Virgin with former Bangkok International Film Festival programmer Mai Meksawan and former Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) executive Ruengsang Sripaoraya.'The company aims to start with independent and low-budget productions and branch out to a more diverse range ...
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Toronto unveils 73 international titles
World premieres of new work from UK film-makers Nick Broomfield andSarah Gavron, Argentina's Hector Babenco and India's Rituparno Ghoshare among 73 international films unveiled for next month's TorontoInternational Film Festival.The line-up includes the North American premiere of Ang Lee'sShanghai-set wartime thriller Lust, Caution, as well as Ken Loach'ssocial drama It's ...
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Liberation plans Oct theatrical release for Manufacturing Dissent
Los Angeles and London-based Liberation Entertainment is planning a UK theatrical run for the documentary Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore. The film will open Oct 5 at London's Prince Charles Cinema.Director/producers Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine made the film that chronicles Michael Moore's transition from film-maker to liberal icon and ...
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NPA to offer producer training at BFI Southbank
The UK's New Producers Alliance has partnered with the British Film Institute to offer the NPA's 9-Point Producer Training Sessions at the new BFI Southbank's Delegates Centre starting from September 2007.The 9-point programme includes the following sessions: role of the producer, company set-up, developing a project, market and audience, finance, ...
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Film4 partners with Edinburgh theatre for new talents
Film4 and Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre are starting a new $59,800 (£30,000) partnership to explore the crossover between theatre and film.The initiative will let Channel 4, Film4 and Traverse select promising new theatre talents to build long-term relationships working in film and television. The programme includes a first-look deal for plays ...
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LaCour joins Californian bank's entertainment finance arm
Bryan J LaCour has joined Union Bank of California'sentertainment-finance group as vice president and manager.LaCour brings more than seven years of experience in banking andfinance and arrives from Comerica Bank, where he served as vicepresident with the entertainment industries group.Union Bank of California's entertainment-finance business has providedcapital to the film ...
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Murphy PR promotes Edwards and hires Myers
New York independent publicity firm Murphy PR has promoted Jessica Edwards to vice president and hired Heter Myers. Edwards joined Murphy PR in 2004 shortly after the company launched. Prior to that she served as programming producer for Resfest Canada and held a number of production positions on Canadian film ...
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Tooley takes leading creative role at Relativity
Producer Tucker Tooley has joined Los Angeles-based Relativity Mediaas head of creative and will lead development and production forRelativity's single film business and oversee growth of the productionteam.Tooley and Relativity principal Ryan Kavanaugh will work closely onsuch upcoming releases as David Twohy's thriller A Perfect Getaway,James Mangold's Western 3:10 To ...