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Abraham and Dornford-May pact for South African stories
Producer EricAbraham and director Mark Dornford-May have announced a new collaboration toproduce theatre and film projects based on South African talent for aninternational audience. South Africantheatre veteran Mannie Mannim will serve as a consultant. The projects currentlybeing developed include theatre co-productions with London's Young Vic Theatre,stage and film versions of ...
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Polish Insitute backs new films from Loach and Zelenka
Newfeature projects by Ken Loach, Petr Zelenka and Oliver Parker are among sixinternational co-productions supported with a total of $4.1m (Zlotys 12.8m) bythe Polish Film Institute in its latest round of funding. Loach's These Times, which hasproducer-distributor SPIInternational as its Polish co-producer, received $176,376 (ZL 546,508)production support. The Polish elements ...
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Diane Keaton to get gala tribute from Film Society Of Lincoln Center in 2007
Diane Keaton will be the subject of the Film Society Of LincolnCenter's 34th annual gala tribute on the closing night on Apr 9,2007."Keaton's career-defining roles in films, directed by WoodyAllen, Francis Ford Coppola, Warren Beatty and Nancy Myers, among others, havemade her one of the most popular and beloved screen ...
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Daviau to get lifetime achievement award from ASC
AllenDaviau will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) LifetimeAchievement Award at the 21st Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in LosAngeles on Feb 18 2007.Daviauhas earned five Oscar nominations in his career for ET - The Extra-Terrestrial,Bugsy, The Color Purple, Empire Of The Sun,and Avalon.'AllenDaviau is still in the prime ...
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Screenwriting software outfit Final Draft acquires Forum Publishing
Final Draft Inc has acquired the assets of Forum Publishing, whichincludes Script magazine, the Scriptwriters Showcase, Take A Meeting andScriptXpert, as well as all related web sites and domains.Terms of the acquisition were undisclosed, however the acquisitionpositions Final Draft as a one-stop shop for screenwriters offering education,software, and support.'We couldn't ...
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Nu Image to start Cusack's $10m parody thriller
Nu Image Bulgaria will begin filming Oct 22 on Brandhauser, an international intrigue parody starring John Cusack,Joan Cusack, Hilary Duff and Marisa Tomei. Josh Seftel, one of the directorsbehind TV series Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, will direct the $10m project, alsoknown as War Inc. The film will shoot ...
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Rotterdam's Bals Fund starts digital production grant
The International FilmFestival Rotterdam (Jan 24-Feb 4, 2007) will introduce a new digital productiongrant to the Hubert Bals Fund.The 36th Rotterdam festival has announced a new $24,980 (Euros 20,000)grant for low-budget digital video productions from developing countries. Thegrants can be used to fund total production costs. During the Fund's autumn ...
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UK piracy operation leads to 10 arrests
Following an undercoveroperation of house raids in North Wales, Cheshire, and Wirral early Oct 15,ten people were arrested for piracy-related crimes in the UK.This operation, codenamed"Buzzard," was a mission to expose merchants who claim benefits while makingmoney selling pirate DVDs to shoppers at Greenfield Market in Flintshire. Themulti-agency task force, ...
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Grudge 2 tops strong weekend at North America box office
Sony registered its 12th number one release of the year as horrorsequel The Grudge 2 launchedon an estimated $22m.The supernatural tale of a rage-inducing curse stars AmberTamblyn and features a cameo by the original's leading lady Sarah MichelleGellar. Overall box office annihilated the same weekend last year,rising 41% as the ...
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Prada continues to lead international pack with $22.7m
Once again Fox International's The Devil Wears Prada dominated the overseas arena as thecomedy grossed an estimated $22.7m from 4,250 screens to raise its tally to$75.5m.Four muscular launches drove the result, led by a $3.7mnumber one Italian haul on 437 screens, and $4.4m from 575 German screens forsecond place.Prada opened ...
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IFC, TWC jointly acquire North American rights to Penelope
IFC Films and The WeinsteinCompany (TWC) have jointly acquired North American rights to Mark Palansky'sfantasy drama Penelope, which receivedits world premiere at Toronto last month.IFC Films will take the leadon the US theatrical distribution and TWC will handle home video andtelevision. Hyde Park is handling international sales.Leslie Caveny wrote thescreenplay ...
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Daniel Thomas and Sue Milford join new Film Agency For Wales
The new Film Agency for Wales has tapped Daniel Thomas and Sue Milford for itsmanagement team.Working with previouslyannounced chief executive Pauline Burt, Thomas will serve as audiencedevelopment manager. He previously worked with UGC and Southwest Scotland on behalf of Scottish Screen.Milford has been named finance manager. She has worked withvarious ...
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Iglesias wins composer and soundtrack of the year at World Soundtrack Awards
Alberto Iglesias won Soundtrack Composer of the Year and BestOriginal Soundtrack of the year awards for The Constant Gardener at the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent,Europe.Inother awards presented during the 33rd Flanders International Film FestivalGhent on Oct 14, Gustavo Santaolalla won the Public Choice Award for thesoundtrack to Brokeback Mountain,while ...
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Cronenberg dominates Directors Guild Of Canada awards
David Cronenberg's AHistory Of Violence was the bigwinner at the 2006 Directors Guild of Canada Awards, winning the prize for allbut one of the feature film categories for which it was eligible, includingOutstanding Achievement in Direction, Team Achievement, Sound Editing andPicture Editing. Phillip Barker won the prizefor Oustanding Achievement in ...
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PUSAN: CJ CGV to open Shanghai multiplex this week
Leading Korean exhibitor CJCGV has announced that its first mainland China multiplex will open in Shanghai on Oct 22.With over 1,000 seats, themultiplex will comprise six screens, including one VIP screen with only 38seats and premium class service that includes food and beverages. CJ CGV saysthe theatre has been certified ...
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Cinema's economic model is dead, says Digimart keynote
The film industry has a great future as long as it realisesthe existing economic order is dead.That was the warning of John Perry Barlow in his keynoteaddress to this year's Digimart conference in Montreal.The co-founderof the Electronic Frontier Foundation and former lyricist of the GratefulDead said the debate about the ...
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Diane Lane takes the lead in Lakeshore's Untraceable
Lakeshore Entertainment hascast Diane Lane in the lead in its thriller Untraceable and will introduce the project to buyers at AFM nextmonth.Gregory Hoblit is attachedto direct the story of an FBI cybercop played by Lane who tracks down aruthless online predator. Allison Burnett wrote the final script from anoriginal screenplay ...
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PUSAN: FDL participants pitch new projects at Pusan
Participants in the KoreanFilm Council (KOFIC)'s inaugural Filmmakers' Development Lab (FDL) are on handin Pusan to pitch the scripts developed at the week-longworkshop.FDL selected five emergingKorean and Korean-American writer-directors and paired each one withestablished film professional mentors from the US and Korea. Modeled on similar creativeprojects such as the Sundance ...
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Letters From Iwo Jima set for Tokyo world premiere
Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima will receive itsworld premiere at Tokyo's Budokan arena on November 15. The multiple AcademyAward-winning director is confirmed to attend the red carpet event at the famedvenue, as well as a press conference with the film's Japanese cast scheduledfor the following day. Lettersfollows Flags Of ...
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German films claim top prizes at Sitges
Two German films, Hans-Christian Schmid's Requiem and Martin Weisz's Butterfly-AGrimm Love Story (Rohtenburg), split most of the top prizes at the 39th edition of thegenre International Film Festival of Catalunya (Oct 6-15), better known as Sitges.Requiem, the story of a woman's dramatic spiral downward,took home the official fantastic competition's best ...