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Benton and Jeffrey to head new Ingenious Securities
Media infestment group Ingenious has appointed Robert Bentonand Richard Jeffrey as chief executive and head of securities, respectively, ofIngenious Securities. Both had worked at Bridgewell Securities.The new business will launch in 2007 to provide research onthe media sector. The pair have worked closely withIngenious during recent fundraising and the ...
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Robbie Williams hosts short-film competition
Singer Robbie Williams is workingwith film-makers community Shooting People to encourage emerging film-makers tomake short films to complement his new album Rudebox. Responding to a wide brief,film-makers submitted a variety of treatments using as much or as little fromthe album tracks as they wanted. Williams himself selected and green-lit theseven ...
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Resfest to kick off world tour in Chicago
Travelling digital arts andfilm festival Resfest will kick off in Chicago on Oct 19 before travelling to a total of 45 cities onsix continents. The festival, now in its 10th year, has announced dates for citiesincluding Paris (Oct 20-22), Rome (Nov 3-5), Singapore (Nov 10-12), London (Nov 14-19), Montreal (Nov ...
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Grbavica gets another award in Reykjavik
Bosnian director JasmilaZbanic's Grbavica, which won theGolden Bear at this year's Berlinale, received the Discovery of the Year Awardat the third Reykjavik International Film Festival, which ended Sunday. Grbavica follows a mother and her12-year-old daughter struggling to make their way through the aftermath of theBalkan war.In the New Visionscompetition of ...
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Raindance honours The Wind and London To Brighton
The 14th Raindance FilmFestival closed its 12-day event in London with Eduado Mignogna's The Wind, an Argentine family drama, taking its top jury prize.The festival closed with ascreening of Ed Blum's UK feature Scenes Of A SexualNature. Paul Andrew Williamscontinued his winning streak for London To Brighton by claiming Raindance's ...
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Black Book takes best feature and director at Dutch awards
Black Book (Zwartboek) was the big winner as The Dutch Cinema Awards, theGolden Calves, were presented during the Dutch Film Gala at the close of the 26thNetherlands Film Festival. Black Bookwon best feature film, Paul Verhoeven won best director while Carice van Houtenwon best actress. The jury said of Verhoeven:"The ...
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Swedish exhibitor Astoria saved by SF Bio deal
On the verge of bankruptcyfrom a debt estimated around $10.9m, Astoria Cinemas - Sweden's second-largest theatre circuit - was saved in the11th hour by arch rival, market leader SF Bio, which will take over the cinemasoutside the key cities of Stockholm,Goteborg and Malmo.However, in the future SFBio - a part ...
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Rai takes on sales for two Rome titles
Ahead of the Rome Film Fest,Rai Trade has taken on worldwide rights to Eugenio Cappuccio's One Out Of Two and Guiseppe Gagliardi's The True Legend Of Tony Vilar. One Out Of Two, a Rai Cinema/ITC production screening in Rome's Premiere section, is about a sickly lawyer whomakes surprising decisions after ...
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Argentinian director Eduardo Mignogna dies aged 66
AcclaimedArgentinian director and writer Eduardo Mignogna died October 8 of cancer in BuenosAires. He was 66.Mignogna shoteight multi-awarded feature films and was also a published writer and arenowned TV director. Autumn Sun (Sol de Otono), TheEscape (La Fuga), Cleopatra, The Lighthouse (El Faro), Flop and mostrecently The Wind (El Viento) ...
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Yacoubian Building wins best debut in Zurich
Egyptian filmmaker MarwanHamed's The Yacoubian Building (OmaretYacoubian) won the Golden Eye Awardin the Best Debut category at this year's Zurich Film Festival, which ended onSunday.The International Jury,headed by veteran US producer EdwardR. Pressman, noted its appreciation of the film's approach of'using classic melodrama to discuss issues and conflicts in Egyptiansociety ...
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Dinard awards top prize to London To Brighton
London To Brighton won the Hitchcock d'Or, or grand jury prize, of the17th Festival Du Film Britannique in Dinard, France. PaulAndrew Williams' debut feature, a gritty thriller, previously screening in Edinburgh and Toronto. The Dinard prize comes with $3780 (Euros 3000)toward distribution and a $1890 (Euros 1,500) prize tothe director. ...
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Prada has devilish $15.3m weekend for Fox International
Fox International's The Devil Wears Prada wore its style on its sleeve at theweekend as it dominated the overseas arena on an estimated $15.3m from 2,900screens.The weekend result was driven by a superb $6.1m number one UKdebut on 446 screens, which swelled the comedy's total gross to $41.5m overall. The ...
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Fox revises Prada international weekend to $19.4m
The DevilWears Prada was a biggeroverseas hit at the weekend than originally thought and grossed $19.4maccording to revised figures from Fox International.Thecomedy debuted in three major territories and took $2.7m in France, $2.3m inRussia, and $6.1m in the UK as previously reported. The international runningtotal currently stands at $42.2m.SummitEntertainment/Constantin's murder ...
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The Departed opens on career-best $27m for Scorsese
Martin Scorsese's acclaimed crime epic The Departed opened top over the Columbus Day Weekend on anestimated $27m to produce the biggest debut by far of the veteran filmmaker'scareer.The Departed is an adaptation of the 2002 Hong Kong crime story InfernalAffairs about a policemole and undercover cop who race to uncover ...
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Cage to receive Chopard career award at 3rd Bahamas film festival
Nicolas Cage will receive the 3rd Annual Bahamas InternationalFilm Festival (BIFF)'s Chopard Award in recognition of his career.The four-day event runs from Dec 7-10 and will screen a selectionof Cage pictures including Wild At Heart, Adaptation, and Face/Off. The actor and Bahamanian resident willalso take part in an on-stage interview.BIFF ...
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New Welsh Film Agency sets up headquarters in Cardiff Bay
Thenewly established Film Agency for Wales has announced that its headquarterswill be based in Cardiff Bay. The new Welsh filmagency will be based at 33-35 West Bute Street alongside other organisationssuch as Creative Business Wales, Skillset, Cyfle, the Welsh Music Foundation,NESTA and Griff Films. TheFilm Agency for Wales employs five ...
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Michel promoted to head of east coast talent at William Morris Agency
WilliamMorris Agency (WMA) has promoted Randi Michel to head of talent, East Coast.Michel willoversee the growth of the agency's talent operations in New York. BeverlyHills-based Gaby Morgerman heads WMA's worldwide talent operations.'It givesus great pleasure to promote one of WMA's home grown agents,' WMA chiefexecutive officer Jim Wiatt said. 'Randi ...
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Off-Broadway hit Jewtopia to get big screen treatment
Producer Tucker Tooley has optioned the screenplay ChrisO'Connell And Adam Lipschitz Lose Their Religion from actor-writers Bryan Fogel and SamWolfson.The screenplay is loosely based on Fogel and Wolfson's longtimestage comedy Jewtopia,and they will reprise their stage roles in the feature.The story centres on childhood friends who reunite in their early ...
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War Of Flowers tops Korean holiday box office
Local films headed by cardshark drama War Of Flowers took thetop four spots at the Korean box office over the four-day Chuseok holidayweekend.Distributed by CJEntertainment, War Of Flowers has clockedup 2.75 million admissions since it opened on Sept 28, according to the KoreanFilm Council's box office ticketing system.The flashy drama, ...
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Virgin Comics, Kahani World to make feature of Seven Sounds
Richard Branson's Virgin Comics has teamed up with Toronto-basedanimation company Kahani World on the full-length animated adaptation of SecretOf The Seven Sounds.Full production is set to begin in late November and the animatedfeature will be brought to market in the summer of 2007.Based on the epic Indian poem Ramayana, Secret ...