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NewsSpanish prime minister appoints film-maker as culture minister
Spanish film-maker Angeles Gonzalez Sinde has been appointed as the new minister of culture for Spain in a radical shake-up of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’scabinet.
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Cannes Marche scraps 2.5% exhibitor price increase
Cannes Marche has scrapped plans to levy a 2.5% increase on exhibitors and will revert to 2008 prices for this year’s market.
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo drives Danish box office
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Niels Arden Oplev’s film, has single handedly driven ticket sales in Denmark over the first quarter of the year. The movie accounted for 20% ofall ticket sales in the first three months of 2009 and led to a 3% rise compared to the same ...
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Pact chief to give evidence to House of Lords inquiry
John McVay, the chief executive of cinema and TV industry body Pact, will give evidence to the House of Lords Communications Committee inquiry into British Film and TV.
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GC Corp, Killer Films take over Betsy And The Emperor
New York-based Killer Films has boardedBetsy And The Emperorbased on Napoleon’s final years in exile, which Patrice Chereau had previously been lined up to direct for AzorFilms and BackUp Films.
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NewsWeinsteins promote Laine Kline to evp business and legal affairs
Laine Kline has been promoted to executive vice president of business and legal affairs at The Weinstein Company, president of business and legal affairs Andrew Kramer announced today [April7].
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NewsOverture to handle Sundance screenplay winner Paper Heart
Overture Films has taken over financing and worldwide theatrical distribution on Nicholas Jasenovec’s award winning comedy Paper Heart from sister company Anchor Bay Entertainment.
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NewsBAFTA/LA to honour Tracey Ullman with inaugural Charlie Chaplin award
Tracey Ullman will receive BAFTA/LA’s inaugural Charlie Chaplin Lifetime Achievement Award For Comedy at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles on May 8 marking the culmination of BritWeek 2009.
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Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles announces seminar line-up
Producing Indian content for the Indian and international market and film financing options will be on the agenda at the 7th Annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles’seminar series In Prime Time: Hollywood’s Spotlight On India on April 24.
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9th Annual Int'l Beverly Hills Film Festival unveils winners
Andrea Pellizzer's Italian comedy Tre Lire, Primo Giorno and Michael Feifer's serial killer horror story Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas dominated the awards ceremony as the 9th Annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival came to a close over the weekend.Tre Lire, Primo Giorno won the best in show Golden Palm Award ...
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The Necessities Of Life takes world feature prize at Sonoma
Benoit Pilon's Canadian drama and closing night film The Necessities Of Life won the 12th Annual Sonoma International Film Festival best world feature prize at the weekend.Karen Kingsbury's Like Dandelion Dust won best narrative feature and Andy Abrahams Wilson's Under Our Skin took corresponding documentary honours.Ethan Peck was named best ...
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Sony takes international media rights to Class 5 Films' Obama doc
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has swooped on all international media rights (excluding UK TV) and North American home entertainment rights to the previously untitled documentary By The People: The Election Of Barack Obama.
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Crouching Tiger sweeps Golden Horse Awards
Ang Lee's Oscar-tipped Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon walked away with six awards including best picture at the Golden Horse Awards - Taiwan's equivalent of the Oscars - on Saturday night.The picture's other five awards were all in the technical categories and included best sound effects, best action choreography, best ...
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Tokyu to screen Transformers in Imax digital format
Japanese exhibitor Tokyu Recreation will release Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen in the Imax digital formatin June, marking the first time the format has been used in Japan. Three sites in Tokyu's 109 Cinemas chain will screen the film in Imax digitalfrom June 20- which also marks the film's earliest ...
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Usen's GyaO, Yahoo! Japan merge online distribution portals
Yahoo! Japan and Usen-owned online contents portal GyaO have announced a merger of their movie and video broadband internet content portals. Yahoo! Japan has acquired a 51% controlling share of wholly-owned Usen subsidiary GyaO. Yahoo purchased 4,998 shares at a cost of $5.32m (Y529,778,009). The shares will be transferred on ...
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NewsCannes' Gilles Jacob pays tribute to Wouter Barendrecht
Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob has paid a moving tribute to Wouter Barendrecht, the co-founder of Fortissimo Films, who died on Sunday (April 5).
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Swedish films take 40% market share in first quarter
Swedish cinema got off to 'an incredibly strong' start in 2009, according to the Swedish Film Institute's head of statistics Thomas Bryntesson. The preliminary figures for the first quarter of the year estimate a local market share of 40% with total ticket sales exceeding 4.6m, up 17% on 2008. Bryntesson ...
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Other Angle picks up rights for Bus Palladium and Les Beaux Gosses
Other Angle Pictures, the new Paris-based sales company, has picked up the international rights to Bus Palladium and Les Beaux Gosses.
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Telefilm appoints de la Varende as business development chief
Telefilm Canada has announced the return of Sheila de la Varende to its ranks. The culture industry veteran will act as the agency’s director of national and internationalbusiness development, effective 20 April.
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