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Klein promoted in domestic distribution department at TWC
Spencer Klein has been promoted to senior vice president andgeneral sales manager of domestic distribution at The Weinstein Company (TWC).Klein will continue reporting to TWC's chairman of domestic distributionSteve Bunnell and immediately gets to work on a slate that includes QuentinTarantino and Robert Rodriguez' double feature Grindhouse, set for release ...
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Overnight's Montana to tackle Israel youth movement in next doc
Tony Montana will begin filming the Israel-set documentary The Epicenter in January 2007.Montana, whose credits include Overnight, seeks to portray the 'unsung faces of theIsraeli youth movement' in his upcoming project, and has set up a productionhub in Tel-Aviv.'This is a generation which is only seen by the West to ...
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UK tax law confirmed to start January 1
The UK's new film tax breaks will indeed start Jan 1, 2007, as expected. The Chancellor of theExchequer Gordon Brown confirmed the date during his annual Pre-Budget Report.The government also confirmed that it will extend the former Section 42 reliefuntil the end of the year. The new rules givesmaller-budget films ...
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Lars von Trier unveils Lookey concept
Aftergiving the film world Dogme and Automavision, Lars von Trier has unleashed hislatest concept: Lookey.TheDanish director describes Lookey as a "basic mind game, played with movies asgame boards."VonTrier explains that a Lookey is an out-of-context visual element added to afilm, with five to seven to be found in each feature. ...
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Cinemart to present 46 projects to 800 partners
The world's largestco-production market, Rotterdam'sCinemart, has announced its line-up for the 24th edition, which will run fromJan 28 to Feb 1, 2007.A total of 46 projects - upone from last year's tally of 45 - have been selected to present to an internationalaudience of up to 800 buyers, sales agents, ...
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Tribeca to launch sports film festival in conjunction with ESPN
Tribeca Enterprises and ESPN Inc will launch The Tribeca/ESPNSports Film Festival during the 2007 Tribeca Film festival, which is set to runfrom Apr 25-May 5.In a multi-year arrangement, The Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festivalwill be programmed and operated by the Tribeca Film Festival with on-airsupport from ESPN.Targeted at both the film ...
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Lucas to receive one-time honour from San Francisco Film Festival
George Lucas will receive the San Francisco Film Society's Irving'Bud' Levin Award, a one-time only honour that will be presented during the50th San Francisco International Film Festival on May 3 2007.Named after San Francisco International Film Festival founder BudLevin, the award recognises Bay Area resident Lucas' 'deep appreciationfor movies as ...
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Slamdance unveils lineups for 13th festival in Jan
The Slamdance Film Festival hasexpanded the 2007 documentary programme and for the first time is presenting anequal number of narrative and documentaries in competition with ten apiece.The festival, whose 13thedition runs from Jan 18-27, received more than 3,600 submissions andwill open with Allan Moyle's screwball comedy Weirdsville starring Scott Speedman ...
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China's production volume up by 27% in 2006
Tong Gang, director of China's Film Bureau, has announced that China produced 330 films in 2006, an increase of 27% fromthe 260 produced the previous year. Speaking at the opening ofthe CineAsia conference which is being held for the second time in Beijing, Tong added that two thirds of these ...
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UK producers elect 2007 Pact Council
UK producers group Pact hasannounced the independent production executives who have been elected to PactCouncil, effective January 2007.Alex Graham will hair withvice chairs Nick Rosen (TV), Andrea Calderwood (feature film), Mike Watts(children's & animation) and Andrew Chitty (interactive). The other council membersare Jane Bevan, Malcolm Brinkworth, Andrew Critchley, Christine Corner, ...
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PLATFORM to launch as North American animation hub
The PLATFORM International Animation Festival will launch in June2007 seeking to make its mark as the first major North American festivaldedicated to the genre.Set to run from in Portland, Oregon, from Jun 25-30 2007, theevent will feature competition screenings, installations, workshops, networkingopportunities, and exhibitions. Cartoon Network is the sole sponsor.The ...
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Love And Honor beats Bond at Japanese box office
Yoji Yamada's Love And Honor, the final film in hissamurai trilogy, ranked number one at Japan's box office on its opening weekend, beating Bondpicture Casino Royale which it openedhead-to-head against. Love And Honor earned $3.8m (Y437m) over the three-day weekend from 354 screens for a$10,734 screen average, while Sony Pictures' ...
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Pakistan's Kara Film Festival introduces cash prizes
Pakistan's Kara Film Festival is introducing cash prizes forthe first time this year, including a $3,500 prize for best feature. The sixth edition of thefestival, which takes place in Karachi December 7-17, will screen 170 films from 37countries, including 40 features, 34 documentaries and 100 short films. A cashprize of ...
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China's digital loop stymied by lack of US product
Chinese cinema proprietorsspoke of the difficulty of securing enough product to make the expansion ofdigital cinema a profitable business, on the first day of the CineAsia conventionand trade show in Beijing. China's State Administrationof Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has recently reiterated its goal to rollout a nationwide network of ...
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Stickmen Pictures to self-distribute ice hockey documentary In The Crease
Matt Gannon and Michael Sarner's Los Angeles-based StickmenPictures will release the ice hockey documentary In The Crease in the US and Canada on Dec 7.The company will primarily handle the release of its debut filmthrough its website www.inthecreasemovie.com as well as through sports stores.In The Crease takes an inside look ...
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Marblestone joins Picturehouse as sevp marketing and distribution
Arthur Marblestonehas joined Picturehouse as senior executive vice president of marketing anddistribution.Marblestone will be based in New York and reports directly to Picturehousepresident Bob Berney.He arrives with more than 25 years of experience in both the distribution andmarketing arenas. He began his career managing a theatre in Long Islandand moved ...
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NBR honours Letters From Iwo Jima, Whitaker, Mirren
Naming the firstwinners of the 2006/07 awards season, The National Board of Review has votedClint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima the best film of 2006, while Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren earnedrespective acting honours for The Last King Of Scotland and The Queen.Martin Scorsese got his awards season campaign going ...
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Bergeron starts Un Monstre A Paris
Shark Tale directorEric "Bibo" Bergeron has begun work on animated feature Un Monstre A Paris,in his new 3-D animation studio in Nice. Monstre is beingdeveloped by Luc Besson's EuropaCorp. with Remi Burahin to produce. The roughly $26m (Euros 20m) comedy/horror film is set to bedelivered in late 2008 or early ...
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Delluc prize shortlist includes Flanders and Coeurs
Rather than being whittled down, the short list forthe Louis Delluc prize has been augmented to six candidates, it was announcedtoday. Along with the previously nominated Bled Number One by RabahAmeur-Zaïmeche, Cannes Palme d'Or winner Flanders by Bruno Dumont, OtarIosseliani's Jardins En Automne, Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterleyand Xavier Giannoli's Cannes ...
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Dogwoof buys Fissures and Stolen Holidays
UK distributor Dogwoof Pictures has acquired two new French titles: Fissures (Ecoute Le Temps) by Alante Kavaiteand Stolen Holidays (Les Petites Vacances)by Olivier Peyon. Both deals were struck with Wide Management in Paris. Thriller Fissures stars Emilie Dequenne, LudmilaMikael, Mathieu Demy, Jacques Spiesser and Etienne Chicot in the story of ...