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World Cup fans get documentary treatment from Visser
Rosenbloom Entertainment andFlashpoint Entertainment are in production on Fan-Demanium, a timely feature-length documentary chronicling the2006 World Cup as seen through the eyes of ten sets of national fans.Matthias Visser is directingthe project, which among others focuses on an Australian fan following his teamin their first finals, and Uzbek uncles who ...
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Schwartz joins IFC Entertainment to develop day-and-date programme
IFC Entertainment has appointed Lisa Schwartz as senior vicepresident of sales and business development and charged her with the task ofdeveloping the company's IFC In Theatres day-and-date releasing model.Reporting to IFC Entertainment president Jonathan Sehring,Schwartz will serve as the senior strategist for distribution platforms andbecomes the point person on IFC ...
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Domestic rights to Snoop's Hood land with Xenon at LAFF
Xenon Pictures has acquiredNorth American rights to Snoop Dogg's Hood Of Horror and has tentatively scheduled an autumn theatricalrelease followed by DVD.The project, which premieredat the Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) on Jun 27, comprises three creepy talesinvolving the residents of an inner city neighborhood whose actions determinetheir fate in ...
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Karlovy Vary kicks off with Garcia, Kim Ki-duk
Andy Garcia received aCrystal Globe award for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema at the openingceremonies of the 41st Karlovy Vary International Film.The festival will see theEuropean premiere of Garcia's directorial debut, The Lost City, about a family torn apart by the communistrevolution in Cuba. Garcia's own family fled the island ...
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Paramount on board for feature based on Olympic short
Paramount and Nickelodeon have signed on to turn Moongate Films's three-minutepromotional short Inspiration into afull-length feature tentatively titled LegendOf The Rings. UK-based Moongatecreated Inspiration for London's 2012 Olympic Bid, and the promo was shown to theInternational Olympic Committee meeting in Singapore last July. The short is about inspiring children ...
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Universal brings downloads to own to France
Following similar deals inthe UK and Scandinavia, Universal Pictures has struck a deal to offerdownload-to-own movies in France.Universal Pictures VideoFrance is partnerning with TF1 Vision to offer a"three-copy" download service. For a price of $12.54 to $25.08 (Euros 9.99 toEuros 19.99) consumers will get one digital copy for their PC ...
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Irish Film Board outlines new policies
TheIrish Film Board (IFB) will encourage funding applicants to submit projectsearlier in the development process, its executives announced at a presentationyesterday evening. IFBchairman James Morris and CEO Simon Perry introduced a range of new policiesand procedures that will come into effect July 1. Inaddition to setting out some core principles ...
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James Cameron to shoot Avatar next
Director James Cameron hasbeen in pre-production on his next two features, Avatar and Battle Angel,but Avatar has won the race and willbe the first to shoot.Cameron told Cine Expoattendees in Amsterdam that he plans to continue to work in the 3D digitalformat for both projects. Cameron hopes to have Avatar, ...
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Gretchen, Evil take top prizes at LAFF
Steve Collins' high school comedy Gretchen won Film Independent's Target FilmmakerAward for best feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival's Spirit ofIndependence event tonight.The Target Documentary Award went to Amy Berg for Deliver UsFrom Evil, whichexplores paedophilia in the Catholic Church. Virginia Madsen and Jimmy Smitspresented the awards, which each ...
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New US independent Outsider Pictures launches in Los Angeles
Former studio marketing and distribution executives Paul Hudsonand Peter Peterson have announced the launch of Outsider Pictures, a SantaMonica-based distributor of independent features and documentaries in North andLatin America.The self-financed company plans to release six to eight pictureseach year and will handle theatrical, home video, and television distribution.Peterson said the ...
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New Line sets $150m Compass for Sept 4 UK start
New Line has greenlit production on its ambitious children'sfantasy project The Golden Compass following the casting of British newcomer 12-year-old Dakota BlueRichards in the lead role as Lyra Belacqua.Production on the $150m first instalment of Philip Pullman's HisDark Materials trilogyis scheduled to get underway on Sept 4 in the UK ...
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Cambridge Festival to open with UK premiere of Volver
The Cambridge Film Festivalwill host more than two dozen UK premieres at its 26th event, running July 6-16.The festival, headquarteredat the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse under festivaldirector Tony Jones, will open with the UK premiere of Pedro Almodovar'sCannes award winner Volver. Tidelandwill close the festival with director Terry Gilliam in attendance. ...
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Blaine Lourd sets up investment consultancy in LA
Investment advisor Blaine Lourd has left AG Edwards to launch hisown investment consultancy Lourd Capital Management (LCM) in Beverly Hills.The company says that it will provide "objective and expert"investment counsel on asset allocation, investment manager selection, andcoordination of client's strategic advisors.Fidelity Investments will act as LCM's primary custodianand will provide ...
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FBI claim to have smashed global camcorder piracy ring
FBI agents claim to have smashed a global piracy ring followingthe arrest of 13 members of an organised network in the New York area.The individuals were part of an international ring allegedlyresponsible for one-half of all camcorded copies of films available on theblack market and on the internet in the ...
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Withoutabox hires three international festival liaisons
Withoutabox, the worldwide online network whose services include afilm festival submission system that connects filmmakers to more than 2,000events including AFI FEST, the Edinburgh International Film Festival and theDubrovnik International Film Festival, is expanding its reach with theappointment of three international festival liaisons.Mary Davies will oversee the UK and Europe ...
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Mueller tapped to head production at Senator
Christoph Mueller, producer of Marc Rothemund'sOscar-nominated Sophie Scholl - The Final Days and managing director with Sven Burgemeister of Munich-based GoldkindFilm, has been appointed as the new head of Senator Entertainment's productionarm Senator Film Produktion as of July 1.Accordingto Senator Entertainment's Marco Weber, Mueller was 'from the outset ourabsolute ideal ...
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New Rome festival to honour Sean Connery
SeanConnery will receive the new Rome Film Festival (Oct 13-21)'s first Acting Award,which pays tribute to a major living actor.Connerywill be the subject of a retrospective of 14 films, from his James Bond movie From Russia WithLove (1963) to Finding Forrester (2000).'Iam greatly honoured to be the first actor to ...
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Happy Feet draws strong response at Cine Expo
Followingthe UIP and Fox presentations, Warner Bros was next in line to present itsproduct reel to exhibitors at Cinema Expo in Amsterdam. WarnerBros Pictures International's Monique Esclavissatrevealed that in the last five years 60-62% of Warner Bros theatrical revenuehad come from international box office. She also stressed the importance oflocal ...
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Serotonin, Hope & Glory and Spice Factory partner for Bhopal
TheUK's Serotonin Films isworking with partners Hope & Glory Pictures and Spice Factory to producethe drama Bhopal.Ravi Kumar is writing and directing his feature-lengthdebut, with Serotonin's Dominic Norris producing.Thestory follows a young rickshaw puller who gets a menial job at a chemical plantamidst the 1984 Union Carbide industrial disaster in ...
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Justus von Dohnanyi makes directorial debut with Hartz 4.2
LeadingGerman actor Justus von Dohnanyi, who has appeared in such films as Oscar-nominatedDownfall, WWII drama Napola andthriller The Experiment, is makinghis directorial debut with the road movie-black comedy Hartz 4.2 (working title) which is shooting on location in Germany andSwitzerland until July 15.The$878,955 (Euros 700,000) production by Lars Buecheland Bernd ...