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Miami fest names Ibero-American programmer
Monika Wagenberg has been appointed senior programmer of Ibero-AmericanProgramming at the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF).Wagenberg arrives from Cinema Tropical, which she co-founded and currentlyco-manages, and for which she serves as director of programming andacquisitions.'Monika's programming experience, her relationships withLatin American filmmakers, her expertise and her knowledge all will support ...
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Picture This! picks up A Love To Hide
Picture This! Entertainmenthas picked up North American rights to Christian Faure's period drama A Love ToHide, which recently shared the OUTstanding narrativefeature award at Outfest.Jeremie Renier, Bruno Todeschini and Louise Monot star in the story setin German-occupied France of a gay couple's secret romance that is complicatedby the arrival in ...
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Britdoc speakers include Broomfield and Maysles
The firstBritdoc festival, in association with Nokia, has announced some top documentaryfilm-makers participating in masterclasses and panels. Thefestival (July 26-28) at Keble College in Oxford will welcome speakersincluding film-makers Albert Maysles, Alex Gibney, Kevin Macdonald, Pawel Pawlikowski, Mike Figgis, Nick Broomfield, and Penny Woolcock. Industryspeakers include Sundance's John Cooper, SXSW's ...
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Universal partners with Telefonica for Spain downloads
Universal Pictures Iberia is partnering with Telefonicade Espana to launch the first legal download-to-own filmservice in Spain. The service, which launches today on Telefonica'snew Pixbox portal, will use Avartopeer-to-peer technology. The model will provide users with access to two digital files, one for aPC or laptop and one for a ...
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BBC veterans plan feature based on Shoebox Zoo
Drama veteransClaire Mundell and Justin Molotnikovhave set up a new production company, Synchronicity Films, to produce featurefilms and TV drama series. Mundell has worked for BBC television as a producer/director andhead of department. Molotnikov has a total of 11years TV experience, including three years of drama development at the BBC. ...
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Locarno buyers grow to 150 from 28 countries
Distributors from the UK, US, Russia, Spain and Romania are among theincreased numbers of internationalbuyers attending this year's Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com,Nadia Dresti, head of the festival's industry office, revealed that more than25 new companies will be coming to Locarno for the first time in 2006, ...
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Buscemi, Slater, Cleese add voice to Igor
Christian Slater,Steve Buscemi and John Cleese will lend their voices to Exodus' CG-animatedcomedy Igor, which is beingdistributed by The Weinstein Company (TWC).TWC holds North American rights and completed international sales in most territoriesin Cannes.The story centres on a mad scientist's hunchbacked lab assistant who dreams ofwinning first place award at ...
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FilmFour moves from subscription to free channel
Channel 4's film channel FilmFour will transition from a paid subscription serviceto a free channel with a relaunch on July 23.Satellite TV and Freeview customers will now be able to watch the channel,renamed Film4, without subscribing, making it the UK's biggest film channel. Advertising will be runduring the films, a ...
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Bond 22 to open on May 2, 2008
Columbia Pictures willrelease Bond 22 on May 2, 2008,franchise producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli confirmed in a jointannouncement yesterday [20] with Sony and MGM.Daniel Craig will reprise his role as the British super-spy in an announcement that precedes his first outing as 007 in the highly anticipated Casino ...
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Toronto makes song-and-dance about Bollywood
TheToronto International Film Festival will present world premieres from fourIndian filmmakers along with a Gala presentation of Karan Johar's New York City-set Bollywood-Hollywood romancer NeverSay Goodbye whose superstar cast thatincludes both Amitabh Bachchan and Shak Rukh Khan. The premieres include Kabir Khan's multiingual KabulExpress. Starring John Abraham, the film wasshot ...
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Hadida signs Bassett to direct Solomon Kane adaptation
As the COMIC-COM comic-book convention gets underway in San Diego,Paris-based producer Samuel Hadida has announced his Davis Films is movingahead on the epic adventure adaptation Solomon Kane.Based on the fantasy bestseller The Savage Tales Of SolomonKane by Robert E Howard,whose creations include Conan The Barbarian and King Kull, the story ...
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AFM expands as record numbers expected
Anticipating recordattendance at the upcoming American Film Market (AFM) in November, organisersIFTA have added a full floor of offices at Le Merigot Hotel in Santa Monica.The expansion supplements the offices added in 2004 and 2005, and marks themost exhibit space ever provided by the AFM in its 27-year history.The AFM's ...
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Loewy, Theroux out at Alliance Atlantis' MDP
Victor Loewy, the long-time head of Alliance AtlantisCommunication's distribution business, has resigned from his position ofchairman and director of Motion Picture Distribution LP (MPD). Also exiting thecompany is Patrice Theroux, another long-serving senior distribution executive,who leaves his post as president and CEO.MPD is the leading Canadian film distributor, with sub-distributiondeals ...
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Unfinished Sky secures FFC backing
Peter Duncan's romanticthriller Unfinished Sky, about afarmer and an Afghani illegal immigrant who fall in love, is one of threefeatures to receive production finance from Film Finance Corporation Australia this week. Australian actor WilliamMcInnes (Look Both Ways) will playthe farmer and Dutch actress Monic Hendrickx has been cast as the ...
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Barbican to present season devoted to Jeremy Thomas
UK producer Jeremy Thomas will be honoured with a season of films at London's Barbican. "Jeremy Thomas - 30 Years A Maverick" will run Sept 7-12 including screenings andtalks with Thomas and directors Nic Roeg and Stephen Frears. The retrospective opens witha gala presentation of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987Oscar winner The ...
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Stormbreaker hopes to steal some Buena Vista bounty
Buena Vista International top brass will be looking to extendtheir dominance of the last couple of weekends thanks to the one-two punch of PiratesOf The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Cars.After amassing $141m from international markets so far, Pirates sets sail further in a number of newterritories this weekend, beginning ...
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Rosenfield joins Fifteen Minutes PR as entertainment chief
Zachary Rosenfieldhas left Insignia PR and joined Fifteen Minutes PR as the head of its entertainment division.In his new capacity Rosenfield will handle a roster of corporate clients,producers, personalities and consumer product-entertainment crossover."Zach is a young man of immense skill and character and I know he will make agreat addition ...
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Sheffield DocFest unveils early plans for autumn event
The Sheffield DocFest 2006 (Oct 30-Nov 5) hasannounced several films in this year's programme. The 13th festival will include Paul Watson's Making a Documentary, MAD; Joe Angio's How To Eat YourWatermelon In White Company (And Enjoy It); Alan Berliner's Wide Awake; Anna Bucchetti'sDreaming By Numbers; and Sergei Loznitsa's Blockade.Also, the ...
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Disney to cut 650 jobs in restructuring
The WaltDisney Co. will cut 650 jobs worldwide as part of a major new restructuring.The studio will now focus on more Disney-branded family films, aiming to produceand distribute about 10 Disney live-action andanimated titles per year, but only two to three more adult Touchstone titles per year. Amongthose leaving will ...
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Hannah McGill tapped for Edinburgh post
The Edinburgh International Film Festival(EIFF) has appointed Hannah McGill as its new artistic director. She replacesShane Danielsen, who will step down after nextmonth's festival as his five-year tenure comes to its scheduled end. McGill starts her post on Sept 1. She hasbeen working with EIFF since 2001 as a programme ...