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NewsAcademy unveils 15 doc feature contenders
The Academy has announced the documentary hopefuls for awards consideration, with Charles Ferguson’s financial crisis investigation Inside Job, Shlomi Eldar’s human drama Precious Life and Davis Guggenheim’s education jeremiad Waiting For Superman (pictured) all in the mix.
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Eight projects selected in recent Sundance / Rawi Screenwriters Lab
Artists from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories and Saudi Arabia participated in the recent sixth annual Rawi Screenwriters Lab run by the Royal Film Commission in consultation with Sundance Institute.
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Film Sales Company acquires trio of docs for IDFA
The Film Sales Company president Andrew Herwitz has acquired sales rights to three documentaries ahead of their premieres at IDFA in Amsterdam this week.
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The 5th Quarter gets US release through Rocky Mountain
The distributor will release Rick Bieber’s true-life drama starring Andie MacDowell and Aidan Quinn in March 2011.
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NewsDeathly Hallows takes over 18,000 screens in 91 markets
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 descends upon the world this weekend like a plague of Death Eaters in what is expected to become one of the biggest launches in history.
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Hot projects on Screenbase this week
New productions from France, Spain and Germany can be found on Screenbase, including Livide, Grupo 7 and Halt Auf Freier Strecke.
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NewsAustralian features in good shape, according to conference
More films of scale are emerging, thanks to the 40% producer offset, and they are making an impact locally and abroad, delegates were told at the SPAA conference, although the jury is still out on their profitability.
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NewsIDFA kicks off with pleas against Dutch cultural budget cuts
The 23rd International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) opened this week with Festival director Ally Derks making an impassioned plea for the new Dutch coalition Government to rethink its planned budget cuts in the cultural sector.
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FeaturesKim Dong-ho honoured
Pusan IFF’s council made Kim Dong-ho an honorary festival director upon his retirement. He is pictured with mayor Hur Nam-shik who is also head of the organising committee.
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NMA partners with Bellwood Media
Los Angeles-based entertainment promotions and publicity firm Norm Marshall & Associates is to partner up with UK company Bellwood Media, which specializes in production resources, film clearances and celebrity events.
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Zoe Brown promoted at BBC Films
Zoe Brown has been appointed as senior legal and business affairs manager in fiction at BBC Films.
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Day-Lewis to play Lincoln for Spielberg, DreamWorks
The announcement that Day-Lewis will play the 16th President of the US brings together the Oscar winning actor and director for the first time in their careers.
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NewsDeathly Hallows races to $50m worldwide by Friday
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 has already amassed $49.3m heading into the weekend.
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NewsTaiwanese films lead Golden Horse Awards winners
Taiwanese films dominated the 47th Golden Horse Awards with three Taiwanese films: When Love Comes, Monga and The Fourth Portrait taking home major awards at the awarding ceremony on Saturday Nov 20 in Taiwan’s Taoyuan City.
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NewsPotter takes $205m overseas, record $330.1m globally
Harry Potter mania swept across the globe as the penultimate film in the series plundered an estimated $205m from 19,200 screens in 54 countries and 91 markets.
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NewsDeathly Hallows launches on franchise record $125.1m in US
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 blew away the competition as it stormed to the top of the charts on an estimated record $125.1m from 4,125 theatres.
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NewsKidman to receive SBIFF Cinema Vanguard Award
Nicole Kidman will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s (SBIFF) Cinema Vanguard Award at the 26th edition of the festival on February 5, 2011.
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NewsIndustry bids emotional farewell to Ronni Chasen
Hundreds of family, friends, associates and well-wishers attended the publicist’s Los Angeles funeral on Sunday [21].
