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TIFFG names Karen Black director, Canadian initiatives
The Toronto International Film Festival Group has named Karen Black as director, Canadian initiatives, for the organisation. Black has served as acting director for the past year, following Cam Haynes' departure in 2008.Her remit includes TIFFG's Film Circuit, Canada's Top Ten and the Student Film Showcase. She will also be ...
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Shoreline cleans up with The Maid deals at EFM
Shoreline has closed several key territories at EFM on SebastianSilva's Chilean drama The Maid (La Nana) on the back of its grand jury prize win in Sundance's world cinema dramatic section.Rights have gone to Golem Distribucion in Spain, Bolero Films inItaly, Ost For Paradis for Denmark, Action Film for Norway, ...
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Dimension networks with Sara Rue, Robert Green
Dimension Films is developing an untitled thriller based on anoriginal idea about a social networking website from actress Sara Rueand producing partner Robert Green.Rue and Green will produce and T S Faull will write the script, whichis being kept under wraps and centres on high school students and issaid to ...
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Paramount scares up 30+ territory opening for Friday The 13th
Paramount and New Line's horror remake Friday The 13th will be the oneto beat when it opens day-and-date with North America in more than 30territories through PPI this weekend.Highlights are expected to come from France on February 11, Germanyand Russia on February 12 and the UK, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Spain,Brazil ...
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Working Title closes its Australian doors - again
Working Title will be closing the doors of its Australian office as of today, sources have confirmed. Deborah Balderstone has been the head of the Sydney office since relocating from the UK in late 2004. It is understood that things between her and head honchos Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan ...
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First Film Foundation launches Feedback initiative
The UK's First Film Foundation and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation are launching a screenwriting programme, entitled First Feedback, which will provide development support for 12 writers.The writers will take part in five free workshops over an period of eight months, which will be led by script tutor Phil Parker of ...
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Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhind-Tutt are Meant To Be for Corsan
Belgian production, finance and international sales company Corsanannounced that production began this week in Puerto Rico on theromantic comedy Meant To Be.Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhindt-Tutt, Mia Maestro, Santiago Cabrera andKris Marshall star in the tale of a guardian angel who risks becominga fallen angel when he comes to earth in ...
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ShoWest to honour Sienna Miller as supporting actress of year
Sienna Miller will be anointed as ShoWest 2009's supporting actress ofthe year when the annual convention runs from March 30-April 2 in LasVegas.Miller, who will star this summer in Paramount/Spyglass' spy actionpicture G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, will accept the accolade at thefinal night banquet and awards ceremony on ...
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Film Critics honour The Black Balloon as best Australian film
The Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) tonight in Sydney presented its annual best Australian film award to The Black Balloon and voted the film's director, Elissa Down, the best in her category.Slumdog Millionaire topped the category for English-language foreign films and The Diving Bell And The Butterfly for foreign ...
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Indiestory's Old Partner becomes Korea's top independent film
Korean film distributor Indiestory's Old Partner, an ultra-low-budget documentary about an octogenarian man, his wife and his loyal, hard-working cow of 30 years has become South Korea's biggest independent film hit on record.Focusing onthe relationship between theman and his cowand thevalue of humble labor, Lee Chung-ryoul's 78-minute HD documentaryhas taken ...
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Berlin's EFM a 'mixed bag', according to market director Beki Probst
'It has been a mixed bag this year' was market director Beki Probst's verdict on the 2009 edition of the European Film Market (EFM) which finally closed its doors on February 13.'Some people would say it was good, some better than what they expected and some that it was not ...
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Peru's The Milk Of Sorrow wins Golden Bear at Berlinale
For the second year running, the Berlinale's Golden Bear has gone to Latin America with the International Jury led by Tilda Swinton selecting Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa's second feature The Milk Of Sorrow for the top honours this year.Sold internationally by The Match Factory and supported by the Berlinale's World ...
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Friday The 13th remake sets horror opening record with $42.2m
Horror has a new champion as remake specialist Marcus Nispel's Friday The 13th (2009) scored the biggest launch weekend in the history of the genre thanks to an estimated $42.2m three-day haul, breezing past the previous mark set by The Grudge on $39.1m in October 2004.That the number one launch ...
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Keri Russell joins Fraser, Ford in CBS Films' first feature
Keri Russell has signed to star opposite Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford in The Untitled Crowley Project, CBS Films' first feature that is set to go before the cameras on April 6.In the drama Russell and Fraser will play parents of children with a rare genetic disorder who hook up ...
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Marcos De Oliveira named head of MPAA's Brazil operations
Marcos De Oliveira has been named managing director of the Motion Picture Association's Brazil operations, a role that will place him front and centre of the body's government relations and anti-piracy initiatives in the territory.De Oliviera will assume his new position on February 16 and will report to Motion Picture ...
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Benjamin Button scores another stunning weekend for WBPI
If there were any doubts that The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button lacked the momentum to replicate its impressive North American success overseas those were dispelled at the weekend as David Fincher's Oscar-nominated drama stayed ahead of the Hollywood pack and soared past $100m with another dominant display.An estimated $31m ...
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Ardmore lands Spyglass' Reign Of Fire
Dublin's Ardmore Studios is to host the biggest ever production to shoot in Ireland - Spyglass Entertainment's $80m sci-fi actioner Reign Of Fire - which is set to star Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale.Rob Bowman, whose credits include The X Files movie, is lined up to direct the film, about ...
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BritWeek to kick off on April 21 with a gala dinner for Blair
BritWeek 2009 will kick off on April 21 with a gala dinner honouring former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in support of the charity Malaria No More.The programme for the third annual networking and fundraising event includes a film-makers forum for Los Angeles and London-based creatives.'We Brits love Los Angeles ...
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Rai sells Fausto Brizzi's Ex to Notro for Spain
Rai Trade has seen a flurry of interest in Ex, the new romantic comedy directed by Fausto Brizzi. The film is currently at the top of the domestic box office, grossing $6.1m (Euros 4.76m) off its first seven days in Italian cinemas.During Berlin's EFM, Rai Trade sold Ex to Notro ...
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Chan, Polybona establish production company Cinema Popular
Beijing-based Polybona Film Distribution, Hong Kong film-maker Peter Ho-Sun Chan and Chinese producer/director Huang Jianxin have jointly established Beijing-based film production company Cinema Popular, as part of Beijing-based Bona International Film Group.The company has set up a film fund of $73.1m (RMB500m) and plans to produce 15 films in the ...
