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Bigfoot extends film fund to Singapore
LA and Asia-basedproducer/investor Bigfoot Entertainment plans to invest in Singapore-producedfeatures through its Bigfoot Partners Film Fund.The fund, which aims tosupport high-quality independent productions from emerging and established filmmakers,will pump between $200,000 and $2m into individual Singapore projects. According to Bigfoot directorof creative development, Timothy Doolen, the fund is looking for ...
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City Of Violence star set to make Comeback
Korea's LJ Film has announced plans for its first English-language actionfilm Comeback to be the directorialdebut of Jung Doo-hong, who also stars in recent The Weinstein Company pick-up The City OfViolence.Jung is well-known as amartial arts expert and action choreographer for box office hits such as KangWoo-suk's Silmido and upcomingswordplay ...
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Solo Dios Sabe kicks off NY latino festival
The 7thAnnual New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) kicked off on Jul25 with Carlos Bolado's mystery Solo Dios Sabe and will close on Jul 30 with RichardGlatzer and Wash Westmoreland's drama Quinceanera.Programme highlights include the world premiere of Alfredo de Villa's musicaldrama Yellow, KevinJames Dobson's drama The Virgin Of ...
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Forester, Kessler join Myriad executive suite
Myriad Pictures hasmade two key hires, naming Kevin Forester vice president of finance andcontroller and Craig Kessler vice president of business and legal affairs.Both appointments are effective immediately and the executives will report toMyriad president and chief executive officer Kirk D'Amico.Forester joins Myriad following an 11-year tenure at The Bubble ...
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Gruesome notches up string of overseas sales
CinemavaultInternational has closed key territory sales on Joshua and Jeffrey Crook'sSundance horror picture Gruesome(formerly Salvage), which hasjust been accepted to the upcoming Fantasy Filmfest tour of Germany.Rights have gone to Galileo in Germany, LPR in Brazil, One Movie in Italy,Spenzos in Greece and Cine Video & TV in Mexico.Gruesome charts ...
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Congorama to open 35th Montreal festival
Montreal's Festival duNouveau Cinema will screen a selection of titles from the Cannes festival,including Ken Loach's Palmed'Or-winner TheWind That Shakes The Barley, Pedro Almodovar's Best Screenplay-winner Volver and Philippe Falardeau's Congorama, whichhas been selected to open the Montreal festival. The FNC said it expects both Loach and Almodovar to be ...
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Borat to premiere in Toronto's Midnight Madness
Killersheep and Sacha Baron Cohen are highlights of aseriously upgraded Midnight Madness programme at theupcoming Toronto International Film Festival. The late-night cult-themedsidebar has been graced with five world premieres including the docu-spoof Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make BenefitGlorious Nation Of Kazakhstan, starring the Ali G star Cohen in ...
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Venice Days line-up includes new films from Boe and Lerman
Christoffer Boe's Offscreen andDiego Lerman's Mientras Tanto are among the films that willscreen in Venice's Director's Fortnight,known as Venice Days. Offscreen is the third feature fromDanish director Boe, after his acclaimed Reconstruction and Allegro, which screened in the section last year. Produced by Alphaville Pictures, Offscreen focuses on an actor,played ...
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Sarajevo's CineLink partners with The Netherlands
TheNetherlands will be the countrypartner of Sarajevo's CineLink(August 23-27) after the co-production market's previous collaborations with Austria in 2004 and Germany in 2005.Adelegation of around two dozen representatives from film institutions,production companies, distributors, broadcasters and sales companies will betravelling to Sarajevo to meet filmmakers from South Eastern Europe whose projects ...
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Pirates bounty gives boost to UK box-office
Box-office figures from thefirst half of 2006 may have seen a 3% year-on-year deficit in the UK but Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has almostsingle-handedly turned fortunes around in just two weeks. After its third weekend (18days on release) Buena Vista International's sequel had already become thehighest-grossing film ...
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Cambridge festival sets attendance record
The 26thCambridge Film Festival saw more than 14,500 admissions, a new festival record,during its run from July 6-16. The event hosted 225 screenings and events. Audience awards went toPedro Almodovar's Volver and Mike Flores's short Waiting/Hoping. The young person's jurywinner was 14-year-old Melinda Barber from Parkside Community College. The festival ...
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Academy tweaks marketing rules
The Board ofGovernors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has made a slightchange to the regulations governing marketing campaigns for the upcoming 79thAcademy Awards.Going forward notifications about screening schedules may include informationabout regular theatrical release screenings alongside details of private,invitation-only screenings, as long as they conform to ...
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Ostrow, MarVista agree terms on Surfer King
Producers representativePage Ostrow has closed an international distribution deal for Bernard Murray'steen comedy The Surfer King withLos Angeles-based MarVista Entertainment.MarVista will handle international theatrical, television and video distributionon the story, which stars Lindsay Wagner, Randy Wayne, Ben Ziff, Alan Thicke,and Cerina Vincent.The Surfer King charts the exploits of a 17-year-old ...
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UK Post announces shortlist for new audio awards
Industrybody UK Post has announced the shortlist for its inaugural Conch awards, whichwill honour the audio industry. The audioindustry nominated the shortlist, who will now be asked to submit material forjudging. Winners will be announced on Sept 21. The PinewoodStudios Group has come on board as a headline sponsor of ...
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Arrests made in north London pirate DVD operation
Authoritieshave arrested 11 pirate DVD sellers working in Leyton Mills Retail Parkin northeast London.Theshopping area had had an ongoing problem with pirate DVD sellers and members of the public had complained to the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). The operation was jointly organised by FACT, the Metropolitan Police, Waltham Forest ...
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Magnolia sees light in The Hero of Colour City
Magnolia Pictures hasacquired North America rights to Exodus Film Group's CG-animated feature TheHero Of Color City.The story follows a group of crayons as they strive to save a vibrant land from a tyrant who clearly subscribes to the monochrome school of interior design.J P McCormick and Rich Raczelowski co-wrote the ...
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Pinball Films wraps UK, German shoot for Horner's KAZ
UK-basedPinball Films has wrapped principal photography on KAZ, which marks director Ashley Horner's feature debut. Theproject shot for six weeks in Newcastle upon Tyne and Berlin. KAZ stars Nora Von Waldstatten as a German music journalist who discoversshe's inherited a blood disorder from a rock musician father she never knew. ...
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Ireland establishes new Academy to run awards
Ireland's arts minister John O'Donoghue has announced the creation of a new Irish Film and Television Academy. The body will take over the running of the Irish Film and TV Awards from previous organisers The Irish Film and Television Network. The timing of the awards will be move to February ...
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Ireland's BCI backs Lenny Abrahamson's Garage
Garage, Lenny Abrahamson's second feature following Adam & Paul, has been awarded $833,513 (Euros 660,000) in the second round of funding from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland's (BCI) Sound & Vision fund. Garage is the only feature project to have been backed by the BCI in the second round of ...
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French distributor Bac posts strong revenues
Bac Majestic has announced a marked increase in revenues for the first half of 2006. With $15.1m (Euros 12m) in income, the French distributor saw a 56.6% rise over the same period last year. Figures were especially notable in theatrical distribution with $7.8 (Euros 6.2m) in revenues for 12 films ...