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UK Post announces more Conch nominees
Industrygroup UK Post has announced the remaining shortlists for its inaugural audioawards The Conch. Judges areDavid Brady of Soho Editors, Delissa Needham ofUnicorn, Nick Godwin of WAGtv, Paul Mac of AudioMedia Magazine, Ray Gillan of Warner Bros, John Andrews of InstituteBroadcast Sound, Ben Nemes of Scrub, Jules MacDonald,Neil Draper of ...
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Appleton leaves W&A for LA law firm Sheppard Mullin
Former Writers and Artists Agency general counsel Dina Appletonhas joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's entertainment media and communicationspractice group.Appleton has extensive experience in entertainment transactions includingfilm and television development, production, financing and distribution.She is a co-author of Hollywood Dealmaking: Negotiating Talent Agreementsand teaches an annual entertainment deal making class ...
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Montreal's FNC gets shot in the arm from Langlois
Montreal's Festival duNouveau Cinema has signed a ten-year partnership with software magnate DanielLanglois that will cement the festival's place within Langlois' Ex-Centrismedia centre in the city's downtown. Langlois is also forgivingthe FNC's long-term debt and committing to provide a long-term venue forCanada's oldest film festival. The 35th edition of the ...
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London's Frieze Art Fair comissions five short films
The annual London-based FriezeArt Fair's Frieze Projects will this year include commissioned films from Dutchartist Manon de Boer, Mexican artist Miguel Calderon,London-based Bonnie Camplin,Glasgow-based Phil Collins and Thai film-maker ApichatpongWeerasethakul. The Artists Cinema,presented in partnership with LUX, willscreen the films as before they tour UK cinemas to show before features. ...
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Weinsteins buy into independent US TV channel Ovation
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has take it s first step into cable televisionas part of a consortium of private investors that has bought the independentcable channel Ovation, The Arts Network.Television executives Ken Solomon will oversee the network's relaunchas chairman, alongside chief executive officer Charles Segars, chief operatingofficer Ron Garfield, and ...
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European Film Promotion continues Toronto initiatives
European Film Promotion,supported from the European Union's MEDIA Programme, will for the second yearoversee the Film Sales Support initiative at the Toronto International FilmFestival.At Toronto (Sept 7-16), EFP will be part of the expandedEuropean group at the Festival's Sales and Industry Office in the Sutton PlaceHotel. The Film Sales Supportinitiative ...
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Rockets Redglare! documentary film-maker dies
Film-makerLuis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, died Aug 14 after amotorcycle accident in New York State.Hedirected the 2003 documentary Rockets Redglare!, which featuredinterviews with actor, comedian and downtown New York icon Redglare himself (aka Michael Morra) as well aswith collaborators including Jim Jarmusch, MattDillon, Steve Buscemi and Willem Dafoe. The ...
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San Sebastian selects projects for funding initiatives
The Donostia-SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30) has unveiled the filmsselected to participate in its popular completion financing initiatives Filmsin Progress and Cinema In Motion.Now in its 10thedition, the Films in Progress program aims to attach financiers to LatinAmerican and Spanish films currently in post-production. Cinema in Motion,launched last year ...
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Germany's Schlingensief starts feature about Princess Di
German"enfant terrible" Christoph Schlingensief has grabbed the headlinesonce again, this time with the announcement that he plans to make a featurefilm about the last hour in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. Speaking toGermany's leading tabloid Bildjust two days before the ninth anniversary of Diana's tragic death in Paris, ...
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Sarajevo's CineLink winners include Bosnian Nedzad Begovic
The Sarajevo Film Festival'sregional co-production market CineLink has awarded funding to three projects. Each will receive $12,812 (Euros 10,000) in cash provided by partners and $3,203 (Euros 2,500) in services provided by Synchro Studio Vienna. The projects are awardedaccording to criteria of artistic potential and feasibility. The Hubert Bals Fund ...
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IFM to handle world DVD and TV sales on 16 vintage Australian titles
IFMhas signed an exclusive distribution deal with Australian DVD distributorUmbrella Entertainment for a package of 16 Australian pictures from the 1970sand 80s.Theagreement is for worldwide representation excluding Australia and New Zealandfor DVD and TV.Titlesinclude the Bruce Beresford classics The Getting of Wisdom and Puberty Blues,The Picture Show Man starring RodTaylor ...
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AFI FEST schedules programme to celebrate 20th anniversary, predecessor Filmex
The Los Angeles AFI FEST islining up a series of events commemorating the 20th anniversary ofAFI FEST and 15 years of its predecessor Filmex.The commemorative programmeTake The Journey will run during the upcoming AFI FEST from Nov 1-12 at theArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood.Events include a screeningof Sacred Monsters presented byPeter ...
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Theatrical revenues surge in Canada in 2005
Canada's distribution business saw a strong surge in2004/2005 with revenue from theatrical releasing increasing by 16.6 per cent to$401m (C$446.3m).According to data released by Statistics Canada, revenuefrom home video wholesaling remained firm at appoximately $1.62bn, representingroughly 51% of the industry as a whole, while exports of Canadian contentproduction rose marginally ...
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Dubai announces hefty prizes with new Arab competition
The Dubai International Film Festival has announcedthat its new Muhr Awards For Excellence In Arab Cinema will carry prize moneyof $325,000 (AED 1.2m).The Muhr awards, whose name means young horse inArabic, will honour film-makers in feature, documentary and short categories. The top prize for best feature will come with $50,000(AED ...
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First And Goal named as first private backer for Cruise/Wagner
Less than one week afterViacom chief Sumner Redstone banished Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner from theParamount kingdom, the pair has struck a development deal with an investmentfirm headed by Washington Redskins owners Daniel Snyder.The deal with First AndGoal, which is also headed by Dwight Schar, chairman of the homebuildingconglomerate NVR, ...
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Lumina gets sales on Toronto Discovery Glue
London-based Lumina Filmshas picked up worldwide sales rights to Alexis Dos Santos' Glue, which plays as a Discovery in the forthcomingToronto International Film Festival.Set in Patagonia, the filmis a comedy drama about a 15 year-old and two friends who cope with the trialsof burgeoning adolescence by getting high and getting ...
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Mulroney joins Shues in Picturehouse drama Gracie
DermotMulroney has joined Elisabeth Shue, Carly Schroeder and Andrew Shue on the castof Gracie, which begins shooting in NewJersey this week.Shue'spartner Davis Guggenheim is directing the drama based on a tragedy thataffected the Shue family and inspired a teenage girl to fight for the right forgirls to play competitive football.AndrewShue, ...
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Outfest, UCLA to restore Parting Glances, Word Is Out
Outfest and the UCLA Film& Television Archive have announced the first two pictures to be restoredas part of their film preservation partnership unveiled last year.The pictures are BillSherwood's 1986 AIDS drama Parting Glances starring Steve Buscemi and Word Is Out: Stories Of Some Of Our Lives, a documentary about gay ...
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Haas-directed Iraq thriller has world premiere at Hamptons
Theworld premiere of Philip Haas' Iraq-set thriller The Situation will open the 14th Annual Hamptons International FilmFestival, which runs from Oct 18-22.TheSituation centres on an Americanjournalist covering the conflict in Iraq whose life becomes endangered aftershe gets personally involved in a story. Connie Nielsen and Damian Lewis star.ShadowDistribution will release ...
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Korea's Mediaplex sets up production outfit
Korean major investor,distributor and exhibitor Mediaplex is stepping into production with a new unitcalled Motion 101, which will produce four to five films a year while also handlinginvestment and distribution.Mediaplex announced todaythat Motion 101 has been established with investment of $2.6m split 80:20 with computersystems firm Innet. Earlier this month, ...