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Wagner & Cuban to receive tribute at Nov Gotham Awards
2929 Entertainment founders Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban will bepresented with a Gotham Award tribute at the IFP's 16th Annual Gotham Awards onNov 29.The honour will be handed out at the annual awards ceremonyalongside six competitive awards for ensemble cast, breakthrough actor anddirector, documentary, feature, and Best Film Not Playing ...
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Bird's Eye View takes women's shorts on UK tour
The Birds Eye View FilmFestival, held in London earlier this month, is taking highlights of itsprogramme on a summer tour of the UK. The tour, which presents shorts made by women, willgo to cinemas in East Finchley, Dalston and Croydon and will bepresented at the Cambridge Film Festival, Rushes Soho ...
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Fox Korea chief Lee to take over at Fox Japan
Fox Korea managing director Jesse Lee has been named generalmanager for Fox Japan and will replace Toshiharu Karaki, who is leaving to pursueother interests.Lee's appointment will take effect on Jul 1. He has served asgeneral manager for both the theatrical and home entertainment divisions of FoxKorea since 2000, starting at ...
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Ganz to receive tribute at Montreal World Film Festival
The Montreal World FilmFestival will pay tribute to veteran German actor Bruno Ganz. The star of suchfilms as Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall and Silvio Soldini's Bread And Tulips will be on hand to celebrate the MWFF's 30thanniversary. The festival will present the North American premiere of his latest film, Fredi M. ...
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Piracy in China cost the industry $2.7bn last year
The Motion Picture Association (MPA)released a new research result on piracy in China onMonday, which suggested that local filmmakers and industry players are sufferingmuch more from widespread film piracy than foreign film companies. Few localindustry members, however, expect the situation to improve anytime soon.The research suggests that in 2005, thetotal ...
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Bawke and The Danish Poet among top winners at Worldwide Short Film Festival
The Canadian Film Centre'sWorldwide Short Film Festival wrapped this weekend, handing out 10 awards andmore than $125,000 in cash and prizes. Best Live-Action Short wentto Hisham Zaman's Bawke from Norway, with an honourable mention to Charles Williams' The Cow Thief from Australia. The C.O.R.E. DigitalPictures Award for Best Animated Short ...
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French court says no plagiarism in Syriana
Paris' high court has handed down a decision in favour ofWarner Bros. and George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh'sSection Eight, knocking down a French screenwriter's claims that theirOscar-winning production Syrianahad plagiarised her work.Stephanie Vergniault had brought the suit earlier this year claimingthat the script for Syrianawas based on her original screenplay ...
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Steinbichler's Winter Journey to open Munich Filmfest
HansSteinbichler's second feature Winter Journey (Winterreise) will be theopening film of this year's Munich Filmfest (July15-22) just a week after the film had has its world premiere in Karlovy Vary's InternationalCompetition.Thiswill be a kind of homecoming for Steinbichler whosedebut Hierankl,which also starred Bavarian actor Josef Bierbichler,was shown in Munich in ...
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Huesca's top prizes go to Melodramat and Electrodomestica
Spain's Huesca International Film Festival closedits 34th edition Saturday night with top honours going to Poland's Melodramat and Brazil's Electrodomestica, qualifying both automatically in thepre-selection for the Oscar for best short film.Director FilipMarczewiski's short Melodramat took the Danzante Prize and its $11,332 (Euros 9,000) purse in theinternational competition, while Kleber ...
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$1.2m Gaelic language feature shoots on Scottish island
BAFTA-nominated producer Chris Young is currently shooting the Gaelic language feature Seachd-The Inaccessible Pinnacle on the Scottish island of Skye. The $1.2m (£655,000) production is being financed by BBC Alba, Serbheis Nam Meadhannan Gaidlhlig(GMS), Scottish Screen and the Glasgow Film Office.Directed by Simon Miller is tells of a young boy ...
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EFP adds four more European films to New York screenings
Another four new European films will be shown to select US buyers, festival scouts and important cinema programmers in European Film Promotion's (EFP) third Industry Screenings in New York.The four titles chosen for the screenings from June 27-28 at the Tribeca Grand Hotel's screening room are David Lammers' Northern ...
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Lionsgate International reports monster sales business at Cannes
Lionsgate International hasjoined the list of US sales agencies reporting an unprecedented volume ofbusiness at Cannes last month, led by monster sales on Saw III and the recently announced vampire project Daybreakers. Saw III inspired a flurry ofdeals on the Croisette as rights went to: Japan (Asmik Ace), Germany(Kinowelt), Australia ...
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Turkish distributor embarks on Winter Journey
Turkish producer-distributor Limon Program Yapim Tanitim has picked up Hans Steinbichler's second feature film (Winter Journey (Winterreise) which will have its world premiere in the International Competition of the forthcoming Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.Beta Cinema's Andreas Rothbauer told ScreenDaily the film had been sold on the strength of the ...
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Aardman content goes to M1 in Singapore
Mobile content company Starcut has struck a deal on behalf of AardmanAnimations for Singapore-based M1 to distribute Aardmancontent.M1's Watch-A-Video service,available to 3G customers, will now carry Aardman clipsfrom Wallace & Gromit,Angry Kid and Creature Comfortsas part of its distribution deal with Starcut formobile content in Southeast Asia. "Aardmanhas looked to ...
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Wednesday, June 28 - Professsional Day 1
The programme is subject to changes09:30 COMMERCIAL BREAKSFestival Director David Pearson opens the festival followed by Oscar Winner Julian Fellowes in conversation with Colin Brown ofScreen International on why writers should become morecommercially minded.Sponsored by BAFTA & South West Screen10:30 TELLING THE TRUTH IS TOUGHScreenwriter Jimmy McGovern ( Hillsborough, Bloody ...
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France's OSS 117 wins top audience prize at Seattle
The 32nd annual Seattle International FilmFestival (SIFF) closed its epic, 25-day run on Sunday with a gala screening ofMichel Gondry's The Science Of Sleep atwhich Gondry was in attendance.418 films were screened at the festival, 19 of them worldpremieres and 41 of which were North American premieres. The festival isexpecting ...
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Cars finishes first on $31.2m in US, despite stiff competition
Buena Vista/Pixar's Cars remained in pole position in its second weekend onan estimated $31.2m, despite respectable debuts for Paramount's comedy NachoLibre on $27.5m in second place andUniversal's The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift in third on $24.1m.Overall business climbed forthe fifth consecutive weekend as the top 12 titles grossed ...
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Thursday, June 29 - Professional Day 2
The programme is subject to changesSWF 2006 // THURSDAY 28 JUNE 2006 OVERVIEW09:00 TESTING THE WRITERMarket testing of films before release is increasing. SeanSteele of test screening company NRG, who test for all themajor studios, joins Writer/Director (TBC), to explore what testing revealsabout screenplays and the implications it holds for ...
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Tuesday, June 27 - New Writers Day
The programme is subject to changes10:30 NEW WRITERS DAY - OPENING SPEECHVeteran comedy writers Lawrence Marks and Maurice Gran are responsible fromsome of British television's most enduring comedies. FromBirds of a Feather to The New Statesman, the pair discuss their successful careers and offer new screenwriters advice on the business ...
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Friday, June 30 - Professional Day 3
The programme is subject to changesSWF 2006 // FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2006 Overview10:00 PRESSURES FOR CHANGEWriter Terry Loane,Producer Mark Huffam (Goal, Goal II) andScript Developer Fiona Kinsell of Moonstonediscuss the issues they facedmaking Terry's contentious film Mickybo And Me, setaround the Northern Ireland divide.10:00 GETTING A HOLLYWOOD DEAL (Masterclass)Industry Lawyer ...