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Breen named senior vp of marketing at Fox International
Kieran Breen has beenpromoted to senior vice president of marketing at Twentieth Century FoxInternational.Reporting to co-presidentsTomas Jegeus and Paul Hanneman, Breen will develop and supervise strategicmarketing plans of all Fox releases overseas and will oversee the Los Angeles,regional and field marketing operations.He recently moved to LosAngeles and previously served as ...
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Sundance unveils Premieres, Spectrum, Midnight sections
Sundance organisers unveiledthe upcoming Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontier, Park City at Midnight and Fromthe Sundance Collection programmes today [Nov 30].HBO-BBC co-production Longfordstarring Jim Broadbent and SamanthaMorton is the closing night film, while the US premiere of Sarah Polley'sdirectorial debut Away From Herstarring Julie Christie is named the Salt Lake City ...
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The Artist's Cinema is designed to focus on the increasing importance of cinema exhibition for contemporary artists. It's a collaboration to construct, programme and run a cinema for artists film and
The commissions are produced by Frieze Projects (a public arts commissioning opportunity for artist's) and LUX (a charity which exists to promote and support artist's movingimage work) in collaboration with the Independent Cinema Office. Five artists were commissioned by LUX and Frieze projects to make short 35mm films. The films ...
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56 foreign-language films qualify for Golden Globes
Fifty-six foreign-language films have qualified for consideration in the 64th Golden Globes race.
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McAvoy and Minghella on Orange Rising Star jury for Bafta
BAFTA has announced the jury for this year’s Orange Rising Star Award.
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Sunshine , Nelson lead Spirit Award nominations
IFC Films led the Film Independent 2007 Spirit Award nominations with nine nods including three for American Gun.Fox Searchlight earned seven nominations, five of them for Little Miss Sunshine including feature, director for Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, and supporting male nods for Alan Arkin and Paul Dano.First Look Studios ...
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Greenaway plans doc and game after Nightwatching
Peter Greenaway is preparingJ'Accuse, an 80-minute featuredocumentary and a computer game to complement his new film Nightwatching, which recently finished shooting in Poland and Wales (and is being sold internationally by ContentFilm.)Both the doc and thecomputer game are being produced by Amsterdam-based Submarine, run by FemkeWolting and Bruno Felix. The ...
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Argentine actor Darin to direct The Signal
Ricardo Darin, Argentina's most renowned actor, announced he willdirect his first film, The Signal, a film-noir set in 1950s Buenos Aires.The Signal, based on Eduardo Mignogna's 2002 best-seller novel, wasready to begin shooting this December, but Mignogna died on Oct 6.The $2.5m Argentinian-Spanish co-production between Pablo Bossi'snew company Pampa Films, ...
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Baltic Event to host 12 pitches in Estonia
Filmmakers from the Baltic states, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Russia are to pitch 12 new film projects to potentialpartners at the Baltic Event's second co-production market which will be heldin Tallinn, Estonia, next week (Dec 4-5) during the Black Nights Film Festival.This year's lineup includesLithuanian director Sarunas Bartas' $7.6m (Euros ...
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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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Bonkers, Azur & Asmar win prizes at London Children's Festival
The London Children's FilmFestival wrapped Nov 26 with the UK premiere of the digitallyrestored The Wizard Of Oz. The two First Light YoungJuries awarded their top prizes to Martin Koolhoven's Bonkers (Holland) for theage 7-11 jury; and Michel Ocelot's Azur& Asmar (France) for the age 12-14 jury. The audience choice ...
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CJ to distribute Paramount titles in South Korea
Paramount PicturesInternational (PPI) has announced that CJ Entertainment (CJE) will become theexclusive distributor of Paramount titles in South Korea from February 1, 2007. The announcement, which was widelyanticipated, follows yesterday's news that UIP's South Korean branch officewill transition to a Universal Pictures International operation as of Jan 1,2007.CJE was a ...
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Global Film Initiative gives completion funding to eight new films
The Global Film Initiative (GFI) has granted completion funding todramas from eight international film-makers in its autumn granting cycle.The recipients are: Artan Minarolli for the Albanian project Alive; Nedzad Begovic's tale The Day WhenThe Winter Began fromBosnia & Herzegovina; Ravi L Bharwani's Indonesian project Jermal; and Leo's Room from Uruguayan ...
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Fortune Star to co-produce Tong's Rule Number One
Fortune Star Entertainmenthas entered into an agreement with Singapore-based InnoForm Media, KelvinTong's Boku Films and the Media Development Authority (MDA) to co-produce Tong'supcoming Rule Number One.Tong, whose previous creditsinclude The Maid and Love Story, will write and direct the Mandarin-languagehorror cop thriller.Based on the urban myth of supernaturalcalls received by ...
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Singapore, Indonesian producers launch digital film fund
In a joint effort to developtheir local film industries, two production companies from Singapore and Indonesia have created a $3m digital film fund which will beused for the production of 10 digital features over the next two years. Jonathan Foo, managingdirector of Singapore's Mega Media, today signed an MOU with ...
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Hong Kong revs up for first ever drive-in
Hong Kong may be losing its only dedicated arthouse theatre,but is about to gain its first ever drive-in cinema.Located on the Kowloon side of Victoria Harbour, the drive-in will officially open with the premiere of TakashiShimizu's horror film The Grudge 2 onDec 7. It will have one screen at opening, ...
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TWC makes promotions, hires Noble in international unit
Glen Basner has bolstered the international ranks at The WeinsteinCompany (TWC), announcing three promotions and a new hire.Michael Rothstein has been promoted to senior vice president of internationalsales and distribution; Paula Woods has been promoted to senior vice presidentof international publicity; and Jonathan Kier moves up to vice president ofinternational ...
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Perfume has strong Spanish opening for Filmax
Tom Tykwer's Perfume did strong business on itsopening weekend in Spain, landing in second position at the box officetrailing only Casino Royale.Perfume'sper-screen average of $7,047 (Euros 5,355) was just shy that of the new Bondfilm, $7834 (Euros 5,953), according to figures from Nielsen/EDI.According to distributorFilmax, also a co-producer on the ...
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Spain's Notro picks up 10 films at AFM
Two-year-old independentSpanish film distributor Notro Films is flexing its muscle with ten new titlesacquired at the recent American Film Market.The AFM pick-ups includethree titles each from Horizon and HanWay, another two from Shochiku and oneeach from Myriad and Fabrication Films. They range from Anne Hathaway-starrer Becoming Jane and Sarah Polley-directed ...
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Regular Lovers takes EFA FIPRESCI prize
The European Film Academy and the international film critics associationFIPRESCI have announced that the EFA Critics Award 2006 - Prix FIPRESCI will goto Philippe Garrel's The Regular Lovers(Les Amants Reguliers). "Philippe Garrel made hisfirst film when he was 16, and by 20 had earned the reputation of the NouvelleVague's Wunderkind ...