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European Film Academy to honour Polanski
The European Film Academywill give this year's lifetime achievement award to film-maker Roman Polanski. Polanski,who has been an actor, writer director and producer, will receive the honour atthe European Film Awards on Dec 2 in Warsaw.The director himself grew up in Poland. TheAcademy cited Polanski's "impressive contribution tothe world of ...
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Puerto Rico confirms 40 percent tax break
ThePuerto Rico Film Commission revealed full details of its 40% tax credit schemeat an official industry launch here yesterday.Thescheme, which is believed to be the second-largest in the world behindManitoba's 65% facility, will offer a rebate of local spend on features,television productions, miniseries and soundtracks.Qualifyingproductions will need to shoot 50% ...
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Bachchan to join Abraham in Mehta's next Exclusion
Indian megastar AmitabhBachchan is expected to take the lead role in Deepa Mehta's Exclusion, a$15m historical drama about an ill-fated voyage of emigre Sikhs who soughtrefuge but where rebuffed by Canadian authorities in the early part of the 20thcentury. Bachchan, who is in Torontoto promote Never Say Goodbye,will play Gurdit ...
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Ruby Tuesday gets animated with Jagger, Europa
EuropaCorp and Mick Jagger's Jagged Films are preparing a late2006 start on the animated feature Ruby Tuesday in time for a winter 2008 release.The partners are jointly producing the project and EuropaCorp isfinancing and ...
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Kim moves up at Lionsgate
ElizabethKim has been promoted to Lionsgate's senior vice president of internationalsales as the company continues to bolster its international operations.Kim, whois in Toronto with the entire international sales team and handling The USVs John Lennon andworld premiere Fido, oversees sales for Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and keyEuropean territories.Her ...
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Cairo festival resurrects market as Egyptian production grows
The organisers of the CairoInternational Film Festival, now in its 30th year, are launching afilm market to run alongside the main festival. It will take place in the CairoOpera House, Dec 2-7."We had a market a few yearsback but it stopped for various reasons. This seemed the year to bring ...
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AAM signs Newman deals for four more cinemas
UK-based film distributionservices company Arts Alliance Media (AAM), has signed deals to provide its Newman cinema management system tofour new cinemas. The Renoir, Chelsea Cinemaand Richmond Filmhouse (all part of the Curzon group) and the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley willall use the Newman solution, which manages businesses including booking, ...
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Apple announces US download service for iTunes, iPod
Apple will start selling downloads of feature-length WaltDisney titles that can play on any computer loaded with iTunes software as wellas the new 80GB iPod.The company will offer features from Buena Vista, Pixar, Miramaxand Touchstone, priced at $12.99 in the first week and rising to $14.99 afterthat.Speaking at a conference ...
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BME chooses not to renew first-look deal with Samaha's Gibraltar
Bauer Martinez Entertainment (BME) has decided not toexercise its option to extend its first look deal with Elie Samaha's Gibraltar Entertainment,which expired on Jun 1.Under Samaha's deal with Bauer Martinez the company producedthriller The Flockstarring Richard Gere and Claire Danes and set to open next year in NorthAmerican, and acquired ...
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Newmarket boards US rights to Death Of A President
Newmarket Films has snappedup US rights to Death Of A President as a flurry of territory deals collectively worth $3m closed on the George W Bush assassination drama last night [11].Gabriel Range's hotly anticipated picture sold within 24 hours of its Sundayworld premiere, with rights also going to Maple Pictures ...
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Magnolia, Optimum, Madman reteam to buy To's Exiled
Magnolia Pictures in North America, Optimum in the UK and MadmanEntertainment in Australia and New Zealand have jointly bought allEnglish-language rights to Hong Kong director Johnny To's action thriller Exiled.The distributors recently teamed up to buy the South Korean boxoffice smash The Host and Magnolia plans to release in North ...
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Schumacher to direct Gold Circle's Town Creek
Joel Schumacher willdirect Gold Circle's upcoming supernatural thriller Town Creek, with Lionsgate on board for domestic and MandatePictures handling international rights.Production is set to begin on Mar 1 2007 on the story of former abductee andhis brother who return to the site of the kidnapping and become trapped in anoccult ...
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Newman named deputy director of US National Video Resources
Former National Board of Review (NBR) executive director EileenNewman has been appointed deputy director of National Video Resources.In her new role Newman will serve as the organisation's chief programmaticand operating manager, overseeing all NVR programmes including the Media ArtsFellowships, which award approximately $800,000 annually to artists.Newman served as the NBR's ...
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Berlinale plans shorts, childrens changes in 2007
The Berlinale has announced two structural innovations for itsnext edition which will be held from Feb 8-18, 2007.Thefestival's Kinderfilmfest/14plus section will held in future under the name ofGeneration, with the two competitions renamed as Generation Kplusand Generation 14plus. 'Renaming the section in this way enables us tocommunicate and define our ...
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Australian Film Commission's script lab chooses eight projects
Director Fred Schepisi will be one of the mentors at SP*RK, theAustralian Film Commission's script lab, and eight projects have been chosen toparticipate.They include An Imaginary Life, an adaptation ofDavid Malouf's novel of the same name being producedby Penny Chapman, a former head of drama at national broadcaster the ABC, ...
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European Film Awards picks longlist of 49 films
The European Film Academy has announced the 49 European films on the selectionlist for the 2006 European Film Awards. EFA members in 20countries have voted one national film into the selection list, and then theEFA board and experts add further films to the list. The Academy's 1700members will select films ...
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Arts Council, Film Council launch Single Shot programme
The Arts Council England and the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund have launched Single Shot, a multi-platform touringprogramme of moving image projects. Single Shot will commission film and video projects - based on theconcept of a single unedited shot - by established artists and new talents.Also the Arts Council ...
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Luc Besson says he will stop directing after Arthur
Unveiling the names of the French actors who willvoice the lead roles in his upcoming Arthur And TheMinimoys, Luc Bessonconfirmed Monday morning that the film will be his last as director.Arguably one of the best known and most successfulfilm-makers to come from Francein the past 20 years, Besson made the ...
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Asif Kapadia to start True North shoot in Denmark
Shootingis set to commence in Norway next week on Asif Kapadia's new feature TrueNorth. StarringMichelle Yeoh, Sean Bean and newcomer Michelle Crusiec,True North will be sold internationally byFrench label Celluloid Dreams.Based ona script by Kapadia and Tim Miller from a story by Sara Maitland, True North is produced by Film4, ...
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Vesper soars at Sundance Channel
ChristianVesper has been promoted to senior vice president, acquisitions, programplanning and scheduling at Sundance Channel. He continues to report to LauraMichalchyshyn, executive vice president, programming and marketing at thechannel.In hisexpanded role, Vesper will manage the channel's international sales activityand work closely with the digital media team, licensing content for the ...