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Duran named UPI vp, distribution & marketing, Latin America
Mauricio Duran has been appointed vice president of distributionand marketing for Latin America for Universal Pictures International.Duran will oversee the theatrical marketing and distributionstrategies, supervising all aspects of business for the region, including thereview of potential acquisitions. He will oversee all new business initiativesand develop Universal's future distribution plan for ...
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Seattle Film Festival announces year-round screening facility
Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) Group is developing a year-roundscreening facility at Seattle Centre's 400-seater Nesholm Family Lecture Hallat Marion Oliver McCaw Hall.The new theatre will become the flagship venue for the 33rd AnnualSeattle International Film Festival, which runs from May 24-Jun 17 2007.The city of Seattle will contribute $150,000 ...
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Babel gets director, ensemble awards at Palm Springs festival
The 18th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF)will present the cast of Babel with the festival's Ensemble Performance Award and AlejandroGonzalez Inarritu with the Director of the Year Award.Cast members Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchiare expected to attend along with Inarritu. This will be the ...
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Golden Harvest sells stake in Golden Screen Cinemas
Golden Harvest, a HongKong-based regional exhibitor with more than 300 screens across Asia, is set to sell its 40.2% stake in Malaysia's Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) for $25m (RM91m) tofund expansion in China. The Golden Harvest stakewill be acquired by its partner PPB Group, a listed company on Malaysia's stock ...
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Cinemavault closes post-AFM deals with Last Rites
Cinemavault Releasing International (CRI) has closed post-AFMsales on the zombie-sci-fi film Last Rites in Germany (Galileo), Brazil (Nordeste), South Africa (NuMetro), Italy (One Movie), and Japan (Gaga).Offers are imminent in France, Spain, Scandinavia and the Beneluxon the story of two rival LA street gangs forced to assist the police when ...
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Punk to promote The Gigolos with My Single Friend
Punk Cinema is teaming withthe UK dating website My Single Friend to promote their newfilm The Gigolos to single young professionals. The site attracts 300,000visitors per month and has more than 70,000 members, and Punk notes that theseusers are "above-average cinema attendees and fans of intelligent, independentmovies."The campaign, which includesadvertising ...
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Half Nelson dominates New York's Gotham Awards
Ryan Fleck's inner city drama Half Nelson dominated IFP's 16th Annual Gotham Awards last night [Nov 29].The picture won best feature, breakthrough director for Fleck and breakthrough actor for Shareeka Epps, who tied with Babel's Rinko Kikuchi. Half Nelson was released earlier this year in North American through THINKFilm.Alejandro Gonzalez ...
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Belgrade Auteur festival in controversy over Summer Palace
The New Festivalof Auteur's Films (Nov 28- Dec 3) in Belgrade was supposed to open with Lou Ye's Summer Palace but the screening wascanceled after intervention from the Chinese Embassy.However, after the opening-night screening was cancelled, the festival board has responded to negative reactions from general public and the Helsinki ...
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Microwave backs first two micro-budget features
Film London's new low-budget feature film scheme, Microwave, hasannounced its first two projects to go into production. They are Steven Sheil'sMum And Dad, a horror project about amurderous family living near a London airport (to be produced by Lisa Trnovski),and Eran Creevy's Shady (workingtitle), about a charismatic Muslim crack dealer ...
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This Is England wins BIFA Best Film
Newcomers caused a few surprises at the ninth British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) in London Wednesday night, with Red Road's Tony Curran and Kate Dickie taking the best acting prizes over more established names including Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren.No single film swept the top honours -- Shane Meadows' This ...
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Sundance unveils competition section lineups for 2007
Hailing a wider global perspective in American film-making and a compelling array of international work, Sundance festival director Geoff Gilmore unveiled the 64 Independent Film and World Cinema documentaries and dramatic films that will play in competition in the 2007 event, which runs from Jan 18 to 28.'American film-makers are ...
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Nordisk buys 50% stake in DVD company Substanz
Nordisk Film recently bought 50% of production companySubstanz. The Copenhagen-based production company has specialized in transferringold documentary bits of Danish people's everyday lives to the DVD format. The concept hastaken off with the public, with Substanz selling 330,000 DVDs in Denmark and Norway in two years. The company isin the ...
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Half Nelson dominates New York's Gotham Awards
Ryan Fleck's inner citydrama Half Nelson dominated IFP's16th Annual Gotham Awards last night [Nov 29].The picture won bestfeature, breakthrough director for Fleck and breakthrough actor for ShareekaEpps, who tied with Babel's RinkoKikuchi. Half Nelson was releasedearlier this year in North American through THINKFilm.Alejandro GonzalezInarritu's Babel also won bestensemble acting honours ...
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UK shoot starts for BBC and HBO sci-fi comedy
The shoot for Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel has started in the UK and will run through mid-January at Pinewood Studiosand on location.Anna Faris stars alongsideBritish comedians Chris O'Dowd, Marc Wooton and Dean Lennox Kelly.Gareth Carrivick isdirecting from a script by Jamie Mathieson.Neil Peplow and Justin Smithare producing with ...
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This Is England wins BIFA Best Film
Newcomers caused a fewsurprises at the ninth British Independent Film Awards(BIFAs) in London Wednesday night, with Red Road's Tony Curran and Kate Dickie taking the best actingprizes over more established names including Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren.No single film swept the tophonours -- Shane Meadows' This Is Englandwon Best British ...
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IFC, Red Envelope team to acquire An Unreasonable Man
IFC Entertainment and RedEnvelope Entertainment have jointly acquired North American rights fromSubmarine Entertainment and William Morris Independent to the documentary AnUnreasonable Man.The film, which was recentlyshortlisted for the 2007 documentary feature Oscar, will open on Jan 31 2007through IFC's multi-platform division IFC First Take, which to date hasreleased 16 films.Henriette ...
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Eros and ANYTIME agree deal to distribute Hollywood content in India
Bollywood studio Eros International has formed an investment deal worth up to £2.1m with Singapore based ANYTIME, a leading supplier of Video-on-demand, to distribute Hollywood movies on digital platforms throughout India.Subject to final due diligence, Eros will take a minority stake in ANYTIME, which counts 4 major Hollywood studios as ...
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Anderson lines up starry cast for Filmax's Transsiberian
Ben Kingsley, WoodyHarrelson, Samantha Morton, Kate Mara and Eduardo Noriega are set to star inBrad Anderson's upcoming thriller Transsiberian for Spanish mini-studio Filmax Entertainment.The film, a co-productionwith Germany's Universum Film GmbH, is budgeted at $15m-$20m. Shooting will getunderway December 11 in such far-flung locations as Beijing, Russia andLithuania.The story follows ...
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Powell named vp, marketing, for Samuel Goldwyn, Roadside Attractions
Nathan Powell has joined Samuel Goldwyn Films and RoadsideAttractions as vice president of marketing.Powell will be based in the New York offices of IDP, the marketingand distribution arm of Samuel Goldwyn Films and Roadside Attractions, and willreport to IDP president Michael Silberman.'We are delighted and fortunate to have Nathan's talents ...
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Bangkok festival ends contract with FFM
The Tourism Authority ofThailand (TAT) has terminated its contract with Film Festival Management (FFM),the US consulting firm that TAT hired for managing theBangkok International Film Festival (BKKIFF), as a result of a considerablebudget cut.The budget for the nextedition (January 26 - February 5, 2007) has been cut back to $3.6m ...