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Zauner promoted to vp, Asia sales, at Fox TV Distribution
Brendan Zauner has been promoted to vice president of sales forAsia for Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution.Zauner,who has held the post of director of sales for Asia sincejoining the company in May 2003, will remain in the company's Australianoffices in Sydney. He will continue to report to Richard Samuels, senior ...
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Berk re-elected as president of Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) members re-electedPhilip Berk as president for the 2006-07 session at the group's annual electionmeeting on Tuesday.Berk has belonged to the association for 30 years and is servinghis sixth term as president. He writes for FilmInk in Australia and Galaxie inMalaysia.Mahfouz Doss was re-elected vice president, ...
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New US distributor Teton buys rights to Shadowboxer
TetonFilms has picked up domestic rights to Lee Daniels Entertainment's noir drama Shadowboxer starring Cuba Gooding Jr and Helen Mirren. Tetonhas earmarked a Jul 21 release through Freestyle Releasing on Daniels'directorial debut about two assassins who take pity on a pregnant hit and runaway with her. VanessaFerlito, Macy Gray and ...
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Laura Hardman rejoins Cornwall Film Festival
LauraHardman has rejoined the Cornwall Film Festival as festival director aftertaking maternity leave during the 2005 event. The festival, in its fifthyear, will move its main venue to Falmouth's Princess Pavilion. This year's event will be heldfrom November 16-19 at various Falmouth locations including the National Maritime Museum and University ...
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Nair's Namesake to open New York's IAAC festival in Nov
Mira Nair's The Namesake will open the Indo-American Arts Council's 6th IAAC FilmFestival in New York on Nov 1.Adapted from Jhumpa Lahiri's book of the same name, TheNamesake charts the upsand downs of an Indian family transplanted to Boston, and stars Kal Penn, Tabu,Irfan Khan, Jacinda Barrett and Zuleikha Robinson ...
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KOFIC to support overseas filmmakers
The Korean Film Council(KOFIC) is launching an initiative to offer funds to overseas Korean filmmakersthrough three support programmes - Low Budget Production Support, a ScriptContest and an Independent Film Contest.Overseas ethnic Koreanfilmmakers, such as Korean-Chinese Zhang Lu and Korean-American Grace Lee, haverecently enjoyed a rising profile. Zhang's GrainIn Ear premiered ...
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Peter Taylor returns to head SPRI UK
Peter Taylor has rejoined Sony Pictures Releasing International(SPRI) as managing director of the UK Office.Taylor will report to Paul Smith, president of worldwideoperations at Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, and assumes the dutiesheld by Richard Napper, who is leaving after seven years to pursue fresh challenges.Taylor most recently served at ...
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Puerto Rico shoot kicks off for Maladies Of Love
Donald Ranvaud's Buena Ondahas unveiled Maldeamores (Maladies Of Love), the first film from thefund set up by its parent company IFC and the Puerto Rico Film IndustryDevelopment Corporation.The film, which iscurrently in production, stars Luis Guzman among other Puerto Rican actors in aseries of darkly humorous stories about the quest ...
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Carolina Herrera starts new film awards with UK's NFTS
Fashionbrand Carolina Herrera New York is launching its new 212Innovation Awards, with the first year to focus on film.Thedesign company is working with the National Film and Television School in the UK for the awards, with support fromthe UK government's Arts & BusinessNew Partners scheme.The competitionis open to aspiring film-makers ...
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Pathe's busy Cannes led by Loach's Barley
Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes TheBarley came away from Cannes with the Palme d'Orand a slew of sales for Pathe Pictures International.Pathe sold rights to Cinequanon for Japan, Triangel Film for Sweden, Shani Films for Israel, Dongsoong Art Center for South Korea, Best Film for Poland, Ster-Kinekor for South ...
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TWC picks up Korean action title City Of Violence
The Weinstein Company (TWC) hasacquired all North American rights to Korean action film The City Of Violence, directed by Ryoo Seung-wan. Known for martial artsfantasy Arahan and last year'sDirector's Fortnight entry Crying Fist,Ryoo also stars in The City Of Violence,alongside martial arts choreographer Jung Doo-hong.Jung plays Tae-soo, a Seoul police ...
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SKE gets Yelchin, Downey for Charlie Bartlett
SidneyKimmel Entertainment (SKE) is preparing to shoot the coming-of-age story CharlieBartlett this month starring AntonYelchin, Robert Downey Jr and Hope Davis.Theproject is the latest title to join MGM's burgeoning domestic distributionpipeline and will be sold overseas through Kimmel International.DavidPermut, Barron Kidd, Jay Roach and Sidney Kimmel are producing and SKEpresident ...
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Deals flurry for Darclight on Hood Of Horror
ArclightFilms' genre imprint Darclight Films concluded a raft of sales in Cannes on thehorror-comedy package Snoop Dogg's Hood Of Horror.Dealsclosed with Presidio in Japan, Tiberius in Germany, Dutch Film Works inBenelux, Gulf Films in the Middle East, and MFI in Thailand.Directedby Stacy Title, Snoop Dogg's Hood Of Horror comprises three ...
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Miramax develops US satire Homeland Insecurity
MiramaxFilms is developing the satirical comedy Homeland Insecurity with the former editor-in-chief of The Onion RobertSiegel.Basedon a screenplay by Siegel, the project will be produced by David Miner and 3Arts Entertainment, and follows two ordinary Arab-Americans who get mistakenfor terrorists while on a business trip to Texas.Miramax'sdirector of production David ...
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Dentsu, Mitsubishi launch $18m animation fund
Japan's largest advertising firm Dentsu and trading house Mitsubishi Corp areestablishing a $17.8m (Y2bn) investment fund to produce and distribute Japaneseanimation. The fund will be managed byDentsu subsidiary Geneon Entertainment and Mitsubishi subsidiary d-rights. Dentsu is contributing 30%,Geneon 20% and d-rights 50% of the fund which will underwrite 15 to ...
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Janus Films to get 50 year celebration during New York Film Festival
TheNew York Film Festival will hold a retrospective of the films released by 50year-old US specialized distributor Janus Films during its 44thedition which runs from Sept 29 to Oct 15 this year.Theretrospective will kick off with Jean Renoir's seminal La Regle Du Jeu (1939) on Sept 30 and will continue ...
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here! acquires worldwide rights to Brown's Race
Regent Releasing will release Russell Brown's Race You To TheBottom in early 2007after sister company here! Films acquired worldwide rights.The feature directorial debut stars Cole Williams as a gay traveljournalist who invites his female lover, played by Amber Benson, on a romantictrip to California's Napa Valley wine country.Jeremy Lelliott, Danielle ...
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TWC close to three-picture deal with Zhang Ziyi
Harvey and Bob Weinstein are in negotiations with Chinesesuperstar Zhang Ziyi to star in three pictures.It is understood the deal includes a live-action version of Mulanand a remake of AkiraKurosawa's 1954 action classic The Seven Samurai. The third project remained unknown attime of writing.The brothers are likely to seek local ...
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Nantucket Film Festival gets political with God Spoke, Ground Truth
Politics is writ large over this month's 11th Annual NantucketFilm Festival, with Liberal commentator Al Franken and a contingent of Iraq Warveterans set to make appearances.Franken is supporting Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus' documentary GodSpoke, which chronicleshis ongoing fight against the Right Wing.The Centrepiece screening is the Iraq War documentary ...
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UK producers plan remake of The House On Straw Hill
New London-based production company De Naray Sothcott Entertainment plans to shoot its first featurethis summer. The project is a $1.5m remake of 1975 British horror film The House On StrawHill. Bob Keen, who has worked asa crewmember on Hellraiserand Dog Soldiers, will direct. Jonathan Sothcott and Constantine de Naray will ...