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Hair joins Disney as chief technology officer and senior vp
Arthur Hair has been named chief technology officer and seniorvice president at The Walt Disney Studios.Hair will report to president Alan Bergman and assumesresponsibility for the studio's technology strategies, working closely with thebusiness units to identify opportunities in emerging markets.He previously served since 1995 as chief technology officer forbroadband entertainment ...
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PUSAN: CJ Entertainment joins Focus: First Cuts
Korea's CJ Entertainment has boarded the Focus: First Cuts series of films,launched by Hong Kong star Andy Lau's Focus Films, as a project partnerand will distribute all six films in Korea from early 2007. Focus and CJ are also intalks about the next instalment of the project, Focus: First Cuts ...
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Warner signs multi-year free-TV deal in Ukraine
Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) hassigned a multi-year free television volume deal with Inter TV, ICTV and New Channelin the Ukraine.Titles include Superman Returns, Batman Begins, Charlie And TheChocolate Factory, andupcoming releases such as Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, and Happy Feet.WBITD's vice president of Scandinavia ...
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EFP presents four new films at New York Industry Screenings
EuropeanFilm Promotion is launching its third edition of industry screenings in New York this year. Four newEuropean films will be presented at the Tribeca Screening Room on Oct 23 and 24to US distributors and buyers, festival scouts and cinema programmers.The fourfilms for October are Krisztina Goda's JustSex And Nothing ...
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Lumina takes on worldwide rights to Espectro
London-based Lumina Filmshas picked up worldwide rights to Colombian horror movie Espectro (pictured) and will screen the film for buyers atAFM.The film all takes placeinside an apartment inhabited by an agoraphobic woman called Vega (played byNoelle Shonwald). Sensing she is not alone, she sets up cameras to film herselfsleeping and ...
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Taiwan gears up for five-pronged Film & TV Expo
The second TaiwanInternational Film & Television Expo was officially unveiled at a pressconference in Taipei today.To be held November 8-26, itencompasses five major events: 28th Golden Horse Film Festival, 43rd GoldenHorse Film Awards, 51st Asia Pacific Film Festival, 40th Golden Bell TelevisionAwards and 4th Taipei International TV, Film and Digital ...
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New Line's Shaye gets honour from US literary group
New Line co-chairman and co-chief executive officer Bob Shaye willreceive the Award of Honor at PEN USA's 2006 Literary Awards on Dec 12 in LosAngeles.The award is handed out to a person or institution whose effortshave significantly affected culture. PEN USA is the West Coast centre for writers'organisation International PEN.George ...
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Pusan Promotion Plan
Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP)has announced 36 projects for its ninth edition, to be held Oct 15-18 duringthe Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). Originally a co-productionmarket for Asian projects, the PPP is renewing itself under the inaugural umbrellaof the Asian Film Market with more commercially-oriented fare than in previousyears, along with ...
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Investors plan new $4.4m studio in Bulgaria
A consortium of privateinvestors will break ground in January on a new production facility in Sofia for low-cost Hollywood film and television productions.Financed through privateequity and bank capital, the Bulgarian Film and Television Center will offer four sound stages totalling 5,000 square meters, developerand producer Phillip Roth told ScreenDaily.com.With backlot, ...
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Lucy Thomas takes promotions job at Paramount
ParamountPictures International has appointed Lucy Thomas as vice president, promotions,effective Nov 1.Most recently,she had been director, International Universal Studio Partnerships for theVolkswagen/Universal Partnership, and she also served as head of internationalpromotions for home entertainment for Universal Pictures International, workingin 14 territories.She has worked onpromotional campaigns for titles includingLove Actually, Die ...
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High Point picks up Dutch horror Slaughter Night
UK-based sales company HighPoint Films has nabbed worldwide rights to Dutch horror film Slaughter Night. Directorial duo Edwin Visserand Frank van Geloven created the film about young friends who encounter anevil spirit in a disused mine. Amsterdam-based Martin Lagestee of Lagestee Filmproduced. High Point is sellingthe film in Pusan, ...
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Woolcock directs modern Exodus story
Director Penny Woolcock isfollowing up her new feature MischiefNight with an unusual film project based on the Biblical Book of Exodus.The Margate Exodus is comissioned and produced by arts group Artangel in association withCreative Partnerships Kent, Arts Council England and Channel 4.The story of Exodus isupdated to 20 years in ...
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London Film Fest announces venues for 50-screen event
The Times BFI London FilmFestival (Oct 18-Nov 2) has announced more details of its special 50-screensurprise film event in honour of the festival's 50th anniversary. On Oct 29, 50 venues across London's various boroughs will host a surprise film event.Up to 10 surprise films will be shown at unusual locations ...
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Studios face more anti-competition allegations in Spain
The Spanish Exhibitors'Federation said it is gathering evidence for a new formal complaint to Spain's Competition Defense Service against the Hollywood majors.The Federation, known asFECE, won a case against five multinationals in a landmark ruling by Spain's Competition Defense Court last May. Disney/Buena Vista, Sony Pictures, HispanoFox, UIP and the ...
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Nordic Film Council Prize goes to Fares' Zozo
Swedish director JosefFares' Zozo will receive this year'sNordic Council Film Prize - roughly $59,000, the largest in Scandinavia - it was announced during this morning's pressconference at the Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm.Ten Nordic features werenominated, but the jury chairwoman, Norwegian film journalist Anne Hoff, calledZozo 'a moving and relevant ...
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Hollywood Film Festival unveils lineup for Oct 18 to 23 event
The Hollywood Film Festival has unveiled this year's line-up ofmore than 80 pictures, as well as the Movie of the Year nominees for the publicMovie Of The Year award to be presented on Hollywood Awards night on Oct 23.Gala screenings at the festival are Michael Mayer's family drama Flicka starring ...
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Korea's Screen Quota alliance to stage Pusan protest
Korea's Screen Quota Action Alliance has announced it will hold a silentprotest in the hour before the opening ceremony of the Pusan International FilmFestival (PIFF) tomorrow (Oct12). The protest - to have the146-day local film screening quota reinstated - will be headed by King And The Clown star Lee Joon-ki ...
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Dendy has Consideration for Aus/NZ
Dendy Films has securedAustralian and New Zealand rights to the comedy For Your Consideration from sales agent Fortissimo Films. Dendy joint general managersRichard Payten and Andrew Mackie, who describe themselves as longtime fans ofdirector Christopher Guest and his regular ensemble of collaborators, plan torelease the film early next year.Guest again ...
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Bon Cop passes Porky's as biggest ever Canadian hit
Hit comedy Bon Cop BadCop has become the highest-grossingCanadian film of all time, toppling the 1982 release Porky's from the top spot. Directed by Erik Canuel,produced by Kevin Tierney of Montreal's Park Ex Pictures and released acrossCanada by Alliance Atlantis' Motion Picture Distribution, the film notched acumulative gross of $10m ...
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Weisz to star in Johnson's Brothers Bloom for Endgame
Rachel Weisz will star in the con artist adventure story The BrothersBloom, Rian Johnson'sfollow-up to his high school noir Brick.Jim Stern's Endgame Entertainment is financing the story of siblingconfidence tricksters who attempt to fool a mysterious millionairess (Weisz) and get indeeper trouble than they planned.CAA is representing domestic rights and ...