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British Film Institute launches download service for archive
The British Film Institute (BFI) has launched a download-to-own service.BFI Online now includes paid-for access to features and shorts taken from the national archives that include 230,000 fiction and non-fiction films and 675,000 television programmes.The money is reinvested in the insititute's work."The BFI's archives have been revolutionised so that, for ...
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Poitier to receive lifetime award from BAFTA/LA
Sidney Poitier will receive BAFTA/LA's Cunard Britannia Award forlifetime contributions to international film at the 15th annual BAFTA/LA CunardBritannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 2.Anthony Minghella will collect the John Schlesinger BritanniaAward for artistic excellence in directing, and Rachel Weisz will receive theBritannia Award for artist of the year.Poitier ...
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Walden, Fox give birth to family film label
Walden Media has set up a joint venture with Fox FilmedEntertainment (FFE) to release family pictures that encompasses all of Walden'sfuture slate and current and new work from Fox.A dedicated marketing, publicity and promotions team at the as-yet-unnamedcompany will work on the titles, which initially include Mr Magorium'sWonder Emporium, TheDark ...
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Montreal World Film Fest unveils complete line-up
The Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF) has unveiled thecomplete line-up for its 30th edition, including 13 world premieresand six international premieres in its key World Competition programme.In all, the festival will present 215features, 106 world or international premieres and 58 North American premieres.As in past years, the World Competition has ...
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Shyama Friedenson promoted to SVP at Lionsgate Int'l
Shyama Friedenson has been promoted to senior vice president of internationalmarketing at Lionsgate.Friedenson joined the company in 2000 and is responsible for overseeingmarketing and publicity for Lionsgate's international film division includingfestivals, and also serves as the strategic corporate liaison for publicity andmarketing with Lionsgate UK."Shyama has been instrumental in the ...
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UK's Uli Meyer starts production on $30m MonsterMania!
London-based Uli Meyer Animation has started production on MonsterMania!, a $30m computer-animatedfeature. MichaelMarshall Smith and Stephen Jones wrote the script for the monster comedy/adventure,which is based on an idea by Uli Meyer, Jones andSmith. MonsterMania! has beenin active development for three years. Uli Meyer Animation will co-produce withIndia's Ittina Animation ...
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Swiss cinema market share grows to 18%
A current wave of local box-office successes provided a welcome stimulantfor Locarno Film Festival's first Day of SwissCinema, which is being held today. Accompanied by Jean-Frederic Jauslin,the head of the Federal Office for Culture (BAK), and the Film Section chiefNicolas Bideau,Switzerland's Interior Minister Pascal Couchepinrevealed that the Swiss cinema's market ...
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Kazakh epic Nomad racks up sales in Locarno
It may have had threedifferent directors and an immensely complex birth, but bloodcurdling Kazakhepic Nomad has caught buyers' hearts.The $35m epic, which received its international premiere in Locarno's Piazza Grande at the weekend, has been bought in anumber of international territories. In France, Nomadwill be co-distributed by Rezo and Wild ...
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Toronto festival 'ratchets up acquisition frenzy'
Seeking to stoke up even more potential acquisitionactivity this September, the Toronto International Film Festival has announced15 world premieres and five international premieres it has identified asbuyer-friendly - that is, with major rights available -- including newfilms from Werner Herzog, Margarethe von Trotta, Hal Hartley, Tarsem Singh,Alek Keshishian, Scott Caan, ...
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Pusan adds Midnight Passion section
The PusanInternational Film Festival has added a new section called Midnight Passion. Thesection will present a programme of 12 features from variousgenres including horror and comedy.Midnight screenings were held unofficially in 2004 but this year's programme launches officially.The screenings will be held from Oct 13-16 atMegabox Theater in Haewoondae.Three movies ...
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Marcus Alexander joins CFX digital intermediates division
Marcus Alexander has been named senior digital intermediate producerfor UKpost-production house Capital FX. He had been working at FramestoreCFC and will take the new post as of mid-September.Alexander will be working closely with CFX'sAdam Inglis, who also joined from Framestore.Alexander previously worked on films including The Queen, The LastKing of ...
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Bon Cop Bad Cop makes Alliance Atlantis' day
Quebecois action comedy Bon CopBad Cop became the first Quebec-made filmto break into the North American box office Top 20, all of it garnered withinthe province's exhibition circuits in Eastern Canada. Released by Alliance AtlantisVivafilm in the Quebec province August 4, the film pulled in over $1.27m(C$1.43m), the largest ever ...
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Amazon offers movie download service in US
Online retailer Amazon has launched a download-to-own service in the US. Amazon Unbox is to offer films, TV and other video entertainment from more than 30 studios and networks.Paramount, Fox, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros., Lionsgate and MGM have signed up.Disney, whose chief shareholder is Apple CEO Steve Jobs, is not ...
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Focus, AOL partner up for The Ground Truth
Focus Features hasentered into a strategic online marketing partnership with AOL for PatriciaFoulkrod's Iraq War documentary The Ground Truth.As part of the initiative AOL willcreate a customised profile of the film on its new AIM social networking service.Featured soldiers in the documentary will write blogs and war testimonies, andusers will ...
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Giamatti eyes lead role in Philip K Dick biopic
Paul Giamatti is lining up a possible lead role as Philip K Dick in a biopic of the influential sci-fi writer whose novels havespawned such adaptations as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and thecurrent release A Scanner Darkly.Giamatti will produce through his newly formed Touchy Feely Films incollaboration with Anonymous Content's ...
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Online pirate DVD seller busted in London
A pirate DVD seller in Hackney, London,has had her house raided and will be summonsed to appear in court. The raid wasconducted by Hackney Trading Standards and the UK's Federation AgainstCopyright Theft (FACT).The woman, age 55, had beenselling pirate DVDs online. Officers found more than 3500 discs at her house, ...
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Spanish film wins Europa Cinemas Label
Daniel Sánchez Arevalo's Dark Blue Almost Black (Azul Oscuro Casi Negro) has won the Europa Cinemas Label at Venice Film Festival.The award, judged by a jury of exhibitors, will be handed out at the closing ceremony tomorrow.The film is a Producciones Cinematográficas production, sold internationally by Sogepaq, which has already ...
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Wysiwyg plans Oct UK release for Hall's The Plague
UKdistributor Wysiwyg Films, formed by Tom Swanston and Cauri Jaye, has announced several films in its forthcomingrelease slate. The filmsinclude Greg Hall's The Plague, duefor a Digital Screen Network release on Oct 6. The London-set urban drama hasbeen praised by Mike Leigh. Neil Oseman's SoulSearcher, a sci-fi adventure, will be ...
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European partners start new initiative for minority film-makers
The Locarno Film Festival has joined France's CNC, theUK's British Council, bfm International Film Festival, Screen East andGermany's Goethe Institut among the initial partners for a new European film developmentinitiative, Babylon. Fiona Howe and Gareth Jones of the UK production houseScenario Films and Thierry Lenouvel of France's Cine-Sud Promotion unveiled ...
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Im Kwon-taek recruited for Asian Film Academy
The Asian FilmAcademy (AFA) has announced master Korean cineaste ImKwon-taek as this year's dean for the TalentCampus-style intensive program for young filmmakers from Asia. In its secondyear, AFA is co-hosted by the Pusan InternationalFilm Festival, the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), and Dongseo University. The event, aimed at creating ...