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Tribeca prize winner We Are Together partners with ONE Campaign
Documentary We Are Together (Thina Simunye), which won prizes at IDFA and Tribeca, is working with the ONE Campaign to promote the film in the US. The film is already partnered with Alicia Keys' charity Keep A Child Alive and now is also working with Bono's ONE organisation, which fights ...
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Busan Film Commission expands support programme
The Busan Film Commission (BFC) has announced changes in its Busan film development support fund programme. The organisation will award a total of $32,300 to two films in development to shoot in Busan, without any conditions attached. The BFC has been awarding the support fund since 2001 but from this ...
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Korea's SM Entertainment launches production outfit
Seoul-based SM Entertainment, talent management agency for pan-Asian pop stars such as BoA, TVXQ, and Kangta, has set up its own production unit SM Pictures. The company will shoot a comic mystery starring the four members of the pop group Super Junior as its first production. The film Ggotminam Yonsweh ...
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China's summer blackout begins following Pirates release
China's 'national film protection month' or so-called summer blackout on foreign films will take place from June 13 to July 13, local cinema owners confirmed this week. Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End , which opens in China on June 13, will be the last foreign film opening this ...
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HandMade books $50m in Cannes, led by Good Friday and Planet One
HandMade Films, the sales arm of the revived HandMade plc, has reported $50m-plus sales at the Cannes Market, the best in the company's history. Sales were led by HandMade's $50m remake of The Long Good Friday and its $54m CGI animated feature Planet One. Paul WS Anderson's contemporary US version ...
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Joost adds short film channel Movieola to line-up
Internet television service Joost has added Canadian short film channel Movieola to its content mix. A unit of Toronto-based Channel Zero, a specialty digital broadcaster, Movieola currently has over 1m subscribers in Canada. The Joost platform uses secure P2P streaming technology to deliver more than 150 channels via broadband. Joost ...
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Slingshot takes on UK distribution for Cannes debut Water Lilies
New UK digital studio Slingshot has picked up all UK rights to Celine Sciamma's debut feature Water Lilies (Naissance des Pieuvres). The film premeried in Cannes Un Certain Regard. Water Lilies follows three 15-year-old French girls who are discovering first love. Slingshot had recently announced that it would branch out ...
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Simple Things takes award as Kinotavr ramps up business
Alexei Popogrebsky's second feature film Simple Things was the big winner at this year's Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi, picking up the Grand Prix for Best Film as well as prizes for Best Direction and Best Actor. Popogrebsky, who came to international prominence and critical acclaim in 2003 ...
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Tarantino wraps scenes in Miike's Sukiyaki Western
Quentin Tarantino has completed his scenes in Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western: Django. The rest of the film had already been completed, with scenes between Tarantino and actress Kaori Momoi remaining to be shot until 7am yesterday (June 11). At a press conference attended by 600 members of the media yesterday ...
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Makhmalbaf to head Pusan's Asian Film Academy
The Asian Film Academy (AFA) has named Mohsen Makhmalbaf as its dean for the year. Run jointly by the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) and Dongseo University, the intensive Talent Campus-style workshop is in its third year. Iranian veteran director Makhmalbaf (Kandahar, Sex And Philosophy), who also runs his own ...
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London Film School to celebrate 50th anniversary in LA
The London Film School (LFS) is celebrating 50th anniversary with a screening and reception at Cine Gear Expo in Los Angeles on Jun 22.The London Film School is calling on all US-based alumni to attend and is asking former graduates who have not received an invitation to email their contact ...
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Justine Gibbs dies in Los Angeles after long battle with cancer
Justine Gibbs, who worked in the entertainment industry for nearly 50 years, died at her Los Angeles home on Jun 6 following a lengthy battle against breast cancer.Gibbs was known for her wit and generosity, traits that burned bright throughout a career that began at Rank Leisure Organisation in 1958.She ...
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Connelly, Bettany reunite on screen for horror film Born
Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany will star in the psychological horror film Born, their first on-screen coupling since 2001's A Beautiful Mind.Guillermo del Toro will produce the ClearVision Media Production Group (CMPG) and Chiodo Brothers Productions project, which is set to begin shooting in mid-August in the UK.Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd ...
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Gen Art Chicago Film Festival launches with Broken
The inaugural Gen Art Chicago Film Festival will take place from Jun 26-30 and will open with Alan White's psychodrama Broken starring Heather Graham, Jeremy Sisto and Linda Hamilton, and close with the drama Numb starring Matthew Perry and Lynn Collins.Screenings include the Sundance hit Joshua starring Sam Rockwell, Vera ...
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Langella, Gould to start shooting On The Hook next week
Principal photography will begin next week in New York on the noir thriller On The Hook starring Frank Langella, Elliott Gould and Laura Harring.Richard Ledes is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Alan Didier-Weill, with Belladonna Productions' Linda Moran and Rene Bastian serving as producers.Langella, hot off a Tony ...
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10 films selected for IFP Narrative Rough Cut Lab
IFP has selected the 10 films for its third annual Narrative Rough Cut Lab, a national programme connecting mentors and projects by first-time feature film-makers before they are submitted to festivals.This year's slightly longer lab has moved up the calendar by three months and takes place in New York City ...
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Film music agency Gorfaine/Schwartz, IMG Artists team up
Film and television music agency The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency andperforming arts management and booking company IMG Artists are teamingup to create a broader platform for their artists.The partners will explore multimedia live events and collaborationsbetween clients culled from a combined roster that includes JohnWilliams, The Bolshoi Ballet, Hans Zimmer, James Galway, ...
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Roadside Attractions buys worldwide rights to Starting Out
Roadside Attractions has acquired worldwide rights to Starting Out In The Evening starring Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Lili Taylor and Adrian Lester.Andrew Wagner directed from a screenplay he adapted with Fred Parness from Brian Morton's novel about a former literary giant whose life of solitude is shaken up by a ...
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Adam Keen heads up worldwide publicity for Overture Films
Adam Keen has left I/D PR to head Overture Films' worldwide publicity department where he will oversee theatrical publicity and corporate communications.Based in Overture's Beverly Hills headquarters as senior vice president of worldwide publicity, Keen reports to the company's president of worldwide marketing, distribution and new media Peter Adee.Keen most ...
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Russian action star Nevsky launches LA production outfit
Russian action star and producer Alexander Nevsky is opening his own production outfit Hollywood Storm in Los Angeles. The move is directly inspired by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to boost film production in the state.Nevsky's previous films Moscow Heat and Treasure Raiders were both produced entirely in Russia in ...