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Mackiewicz leaves First Look to join Media 8
LizMackiewicz is leaving First Look Studios and will start work at Media 8Entertainment on May 1 as senior vice president of worldwide distribution.Mackiewicz(pictured), who previously served at First Look Studios as senior vicepresident of worldwide sales and distribution, will represents the company'sslate of titles at Cannes next month.Thatslate includes the ...
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Mezzogiorno bags lead role in Newell's Cholera
Italy'sGiovanna Mezzogiorno (pictured) has joined Javier Bardem on the cast of Stone VillagePictures' Love In The Time Of Cholera,adapted from the bestselling novel by Gabriel Marcia Marquez.StoneVillage Pictures will fully finance and assume all international rights to the$35-40m project, which is set to begin in Brazil on August 15.SummitEntertainment is ...
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New head named for Greek Film Centre
Film producer George Papalios has been appointed tolead the state-subsidised Greek Film Centre (GFC), replacing novelist and screenwriter ThanassisValtinos.The GFCplays a key role in the Greek industry making funds available for development,co-production and promotion.Papalios isa businessman and producer who during the 70s and early 80s personally financeda number of important ...
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Arclight grabs worldwide rights to India-set Rajapur
Arclight Films has picked up worldwide rights to Nanda Anand's romanticepic Return To Rajapur andwill commence sales at Cannes.The US-India co-production, a story of love and destinywhich takes place in a Northern India desert city, makes its world premiere atTribeca on Apr 26.Lynn Collins, Kelli Garner, Justin Theroux, Manoj Bajpai, ...
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Capital festivals benefit from Film London fund
A dozen London film festivals areto benefit from Film London's Audience Development Fund over the next sixmonths.They are:Black FilmmakersMagazine International Film Festival (September 8-16) £5,000Bird's Eye View(March to September) £7,500 Fashion In Film Festival (May 12-21) £4,000Short Film Summer School (July 12-15) £3,000 African Film Festival (May 30 - June ...
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Zucker named president of distribution at SPRI
MarkZucker has been promoted to president of distribution at Sony PicturesReleasing International (SPRI).Zucker,who previously served as senior executive vice president, will continue tomanage the international distribution of all titles in the Sony fold, includingColumbia Pictures, Revolution Studios, TriStar, Screen Gems, and Sony PicturesClassics.Basedin Los Angeles, he reports directly to Columbia ...
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Dombivli-Fast wins top jury prize at LA Indian fest
NishikantKamat's Dombivli-Fast won the grandjury prize for best feature and Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal's BombayCalling took corresponding documentaryhonours as the 4th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles closed at the weekend.PrakashKovelamudi's Belly Full Of Dreams wonthe audience award for best feature and Ali Kazimi's Runaway Grooms won the award ...
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Ten Canoes to open Sydney Film Festival
Un Certain Regard Cannes entrant Rolf de Heer's TenCanoes is to open the 53rd Sydney Film Festival (SFF) on June 9."We are absolutely thrilled to have such an exciting anddistinctively Australian film open the festival," said SFF artistic directorLynden Barber in the statement."It is fitting that such a beautifully poetic ...
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Zentropa goes solo in Danish distribution
Zentropa willdistribute its own films in Denmark starting from this autumn. For some yearsthey have had an unusually friendly deal with primary Danish competitor in filmproduction, Nordisk Film, about distributing Zentropa's films. Nordisk willstill send out the next couple of Zentropa movies, but in future PeterAalbaek Jensen and Lars von ...
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Ice Age 2 cracks $300m at international box office
Fox International's Ice Age 2: The Meltdown remained the runaway number one title in theinternational marketplace as it swept past $300m.The hit animated sequel added $40.3m on 8,964screens to raise the international cumulative tally to $333.1m.It opened number one in Italy on a superb $6.2m on 644 screens,and scored a ...
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Estate of late Disney animator endows $5m to LA film school
Theestate of Disney animation artist John C Hench has made a $5m endowment gift tocreate the John C Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts at theUniversity of Southern California's (USC) School of Cinema-Television.Theendowment will support several key initiatives including funding faculty andstudent assistant positions, updating technology, underwritingartists-in-residence, hosting symposia, ...
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TriStar tops North American box office with Silent Hill
TriStar's horror tale Silent Hill emerged as the North American weekendchampion on an estimated $20.2m while Fox's thriller The Sentinel opened third on $14.7m and Universal's AmericanDreamz flopped in eighthplace on $3.7m.Meanwhile last weekend's top title Scary Movie 4 from Dimension Films fell to second placeon $17m for a $67.7m ...
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Cannes competition entry faces Chinese censor
LouYe's Summer Palace, the sole Chinese film incompetition at Cannes this year, will be screened for the China Film Bureaulater this week in what should be an interesting test case of the country'scurrent censorship environment.Thefilm was approved at script stage and filmed through official channels, butaccording to Chinese regulations, the ...
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DeVito stars in Kindred Media Group's One Part Sugar
Jeffrey D Erb's US-based Kindred Media Group has startedproduction on Hart Bochner's comedic fable One Part Sugar starring Danny DeVito and Dylan Walsh.This is the second project to secure financing at the productionstage from Kindred following the thriller Southern Gothic, which went into production in January.Hart Sharp has come aboard ...
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Mertes named head of documentaries at Sundance
AmericanDocumentary Inc executive director and PBSexecutive producer Cara Mertes has been named director of the SundanceInstitute's Documentary Film Program.Merteswill oversee all of the Documentary Film Program's projects, including theSundance Documentary Fund, the annual Documentary Edit and Story Laboratory,the annual Documentary Composers Laboratory, the House of Docs programming, andyear-round support for ...
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SquareOne adds five genre films to theatrical slate
German independent distributor SquareOne Entertainment hasacquired five new high-profile films to boost its theatrical slate:* Roland Joffe's Mark Damon-produced intense thriller Captivity,from a script by Larry Cohen and starring Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gillies,Pruitt Taylor Vince and Michael Harney;* Daniel Myrick's horror film Solstice, produced byEndgame Entertainment and starring Shawn Ashmore, ...
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Mexican documentary wins Buenos Aires top prize
Mexican Juan Carlos Rulfo's documentary In the Pit (En elHoyo)won the prize for best film in the internationalcompetition at the eighth Buenos Aires International Festival of IndependentCinema (BAFICI), while German Valeska Grisebach's Longing took theSpecial Jury Award, Argentinian Lorena Munoz's painting documentary LosProximos Pasados (Next to be Gone) received the ...
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DeA Planeta to launch new international sales arm
Spanish-Italian media venture DeAPlaneta will launch a new international sales department at Cannes, headed by CFOGonzalo Martin.Current acquisitions directorYolanda del Val and sales manager Laia Medina will handle day-to-day work.The company's slate will spanin-house productions, co-productions and third-party pick-ups from Spain andLatin America.Among DeA Planeta's recent featurefilm productions are psychological ...
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Moretti tops golden week with Donatellos triumph
Nanni Moretti's The Caiman was named best picture at the 50th David di Donatello film awards, and took home six prizes. Its main rival, MichelePlacido's Crime Novel, walked away with eight Donatellos, including best screenplay and supporting actor.The Caiman, which screens in competition in Cannes, is a mix of marital ...
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Chadha to shoot JR in Dallas remake
Gurinder Chadha has confirmed that she is to direct Twentieth Century Fox's screen adaptation of TV series Dallas(which ran from 1978-1991.)Thefilm, scripted by Robert Harling (Steel Magnolias), will star JohnTravolta as Texas oil magnate JR Ewing and Jennifer Lopez as hishard-drinking wife, Sue Ellen. Luke Wilson and Shirley Maclaine are ...