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THINKFilm swallows Candy for North America
THINKFilm has picked up North American rights from FortissimoFilms to Neil Armfield's drug drama Candy, which received its world premiere in competition at Berlinin Feb.Heath Ledger and fellow Australian and rising star Abbie Cornishplay young lovers torn apart by heroin addiction. Geoffrey Rush plays a morallydubious friend and dealer.Australian stage ...
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Pressman picks up rights to Indian maths genius bio
Edward R Pressman Film Corphas picked up feature rights to The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life Of TheGenius Ramanujan, Robert Kanigel's1991 biography of the self-taught Indian maths prodigy Srinavasa RamanujanIyengar.Ramanujan left the slums ofMadras during the First World War to study at Cambridge, where he partneredwith the brilliant professor ...
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Publicist Drutz joins Jeremy Walker in New York City
Judy Drutz has joined New York-based Jeremy Walker + Associates asa senior publicist following a six-year stint at Dan Klores Communications.Drutz spearheaded release campaigns at DKC for such clients as Lionsgate,The Weinstein Company, and Wellspring. She also handled corporate, unit andfilm publicity for clients.Drutz most recently served at DKC as ...
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Kramer leaves Warner Independent for Dimension
Andrew J Kramer has been named executive vice president ofbusiness and legal affairs for Dimension Films.Kramer will oversee Dimension veterans Sarah Sobel and LumumbaMosquera, who are senior vice presidents of business and legal affairs.In his new role Kramer will oversee the division and negotiatedeals covering all aspects of the feature ...
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Soderbergh, Wagner, Glickman to discuss distribution platforms on Tribeca panel
Steven Soderbergh, MPAA chief Dan Glickman and 2929 co-head ToddWagner will take part in a panel discussion on evolving distribution platformsin the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival's Talks Panel Series from Apr 29 to May6.Other discussions include Rosie Perez and Mia Maestro on the riseof Latina women in entertainment, T-Bone Burnett ...
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Seldin stays at Miramax to oversee international distribution
Colleen Seldin (pictured) is staying inthe Miramax fold as senior vice president of international distribution andoperations beyond the company's transitional period.She will be based in NewYork and reports to Miramax president Daniel Battsek.Seldin has been a member ofthe Miramax team for the past six years and will oversee all aspects ...
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Scorsese to be honoured for documentary work at Silverdocs
The Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival willhonour Martin Scorsese at the third annual Charles Guggenheim Symposium on Jun15 in Maryland.The symposium will celebrate the filmmaker's status as adocumentary filmmaker and a chronicler of American art and culture with aseries of excerpts from his documentary work followed by an on-stage discussionof ...
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Shipps promoted to senior vp of marketing at WBITD
Andrew Shipps has beenpromoted to senior vice president of marketing at Warner Bros InternationalTelevision Distribution (WBITD).Shipps will develop andimplement global marketing strategies for all of the studio's content in theinternational television marketplace.He will oversee campaignsfor original series produced by Warner Bros Television, TelepicturesProductions and Warner Bros Animation, as well as ...
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Budapest festival opens with Three Burials
Budapest deputylord mayor János Schiffer isscheduled to open the 13th Titanic Budapest International FilmFestival on March 29 with a gala screening of Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of MelquiadesEstrada.For the firsttime in the festival's history, an international jury will choose a competitionwinner from among nine contenders which have already ...
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Scapel Films scores raft of sales for football drama
Pierre Menahem's Paris-basedScalpel Films has scored a raft of sales on Icelandic gay football comedy-dramaEleven Men Out following its Berlinale Panorama screening.Currently playing at New Directors, New Films in New York, ElevenMen Out has been picked up by Here! Films for the US, France'sSwift, Vertigo in Spain, Salzgeber in ...
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Ninja-style Romeo & Juliet drama bought for North America
US-basedNavarre subsidiary FUNimation Entertainment has acquired North American rightsto Shochiku's Shinobi. No theatrical release date has beenset, but the film will open sometime before its DVD release in autumn.Broadcast rights were also included in the deal.Describedas a ninja film meets Romeo and Julietand starring Joe Odagiri (Suite Dreams,Blood and Bones) ...
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UK publicity firm Premier PR acquires McDonald & Rutter
UK public relations agency Premier PRhas acquired another London-based publicity company, McDonald & Rutter. The two willmerge under the Premier PR name, and will be jointly run by Premier's chiefexecutive Sara Keene and McDonald & Rutterfounding partners Charles McDonald and Jonathan Rutter.Premier hasabout 40 staffers in its London headquarters and ...
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Film London launches trainee programme
Film London has now opened traineeapplications for its new Company Placement Scheme, which is offering six-monthpaid posts at film and TV production companies. Film London already has thescheme's six companies on board: Karen Hamilton Productions, TwofourProductions, Diverse Productions, Number 9 Films, Tigerlily Films, andAdventure Pictures."It is often incrediblyhard for people ...
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Russian and Polish films are the focus of goEast festival
Filmmakingfrom Russia and Poland will be the focus of this year's goEast- Festival of Central and East European Cinema in Wiesbaden (April 5-11).Apart from athree-day symposium on mainstream Russian cinema and a roundtable on new trendsin the Russian film industry, the festival will include a homage to Polishactor-director Jerzy Stuhrand ...
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Greengrass-directed United 93 to open Tribeca
In a distinctly personal selection that reflects the origins ofthe Tribeca Film Festival, organisers have chosen the world premiere of PaulGreengrass' United 93to open next month's annual event.Greengrass' homage to the passengers and crew of United AirlinesFlight 93 that crashed outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11 2001was filmed in real ...
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Railroad All Stars to open Hot Docs in Toronto
Chema Rodriguez's TheRailroad All Stars will open the13th Hot Docs Toronto International Documentary Film Festival on April 28. The Spanish title, whichpremiered at the Berlinale, tells of the efforts of Guatemalan prostitutes whoform a football team in an effort to raise awareness and support. It's one of 99 titlesannounced today, ...
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Ford, Hopper, Kingsley join awards roll call at LA's Russian Nights
Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper, Ben Kingsley, filmmaker Roger Cormanand cinematographer Andrzej Bartkowiak will receive the fourth annual RussianNights Festival's Tower Awards during the Los Angeles event, which runs fromApr 2 to 8.Previous Tower Award recipients include Ray Bradbury, Francis FordCoppola, William Friedkin, Dustin Hoffman, Nastassja Kinski, Milla Jovovich andOliver Stone.The ...
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Beecroft promoted to vice president at First Look International
Amy Beecroft has been promoted to vice president of international theatricaldistribution at Los Angeles-based First Look Studios.Beecroft reports directly to executive vice president of worldwidesales Ken DuBow and will oversee an expansion of the international salesoperation and play a key role in development and acquisitions. DuBow's First Look International team ...
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Beijing Rosat lines up three-picture slate
Beijing-based Rosat Film andTV Productions is lining up a slate of three films including period martialarts drama Green Dragon Scimitarwhich is scheduled to start shooting in September. Budgeted at $12.5m, the filmis about the life of Guan Yu, a general in China's Three Kingdoms period. Rosat founder Li Shaohong is ...
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Rare Fellini doc to open Beverly Hills Film Festival
Organisers at the 6th AnnualInternational Beverly Hills Film Festival have lined up the world premiere ofEugenio Cappuccio's documentary Verso La Luna Con Fellini (Towards The Moon With Fellini) as the opening night film.Verso La Luna Con Fellini, which will screen on Apr 5, offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse ofFederico Fellini at ...