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CommentBoycott the boycotts
The recent spate of cultural boycotts across the festival circuit may start with good intentions but it’s that film-makers the ultimately feel the impact.
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NewsBalkan Script Development Fund selects 11 projects for 6th edition
Eleven projects from have been selected for the upcoming 6th Balkan Script Development Fund, which runs November 14 – 16.
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CommentWhere have all the screenwriters gone?
The decline in UK productions based on original screenplays has been caused by a misguided film-industry culture says development consultant Phil Parker
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FeaturesDealmakers kick heels at slow Tiff
Although North American business was thin on the ground at the Toronto International Film Festival, foreign buyers were displaying less caution,no longer waiting for domestic deals to be done.
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NewsIranian film-makers lead pro-democracy protest at San Sebastian
Iranian film-makers Hana and Samira Makhmalbaf will lead a protest today (September 24) at the San Sebastian Film Festival. against the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presence in the UN Council in New York.
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FeaturesVenice and Toronto show their different strengths
The two festivals worked well together this year, says Fionnuala Halligan.
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NewsLatin family values on the rise
Venezuela may be a growing territory, with a love of family blockbusters, but local films are struggling.
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FeaturesWeekly international box office – September 25
Screen brings you the weekly international box-office news.
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NewsNewmarket takes US rights to Toronto opener Creation
Newmarket Films has acquired US rights to Jon Amiel’s Creation, following its world premiere as the opening night gala at Toronto.
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NewsAFI to unveil top ten films, TV programmes of 2009 on December 13
The American Film Institute will announce its top ten films and television programmes of the year on December 13 and honour the selections at a lunch ceremony in Los Angeles on January 15, 2010.
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NewsMagnet launches Six Shooter V2 genre series with Ong Bak 2
Magnet Releasing will launch the second volume of its Six Shooter Film Series with Ong Bak 2: The Beginning on VOD this week.
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NewsKathryn Bigelow, Working Title among Gothams honourees
Kathryn Bigelow, Natalie Portman, Stanley Tucci and Working Title founders Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will receive career tributes at the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on November 30 in New York.
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NewsDisney unleashes Surrogates in nine key markets
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (WDSMPI) launches sci-fi thriller Surrogates day-and-date with North American in nine territories this weekend.
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NewsSAG votes in Ken Howard as president, Amy Aquino secretary-treasurer
Ken Howard has been elected president of the Screen Actors Guild and Amy Aquino will serve as secretary-treasurer. Both will serve two-year terms starting on September 25.
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Huayi Bros plans to raise $91m in ChiNext listing
Huayi Brothers Media, one of China’s largest private film companies, is planning to raise $91m (RMB620m) via a listing on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s ChiNext board for smaller companies.
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NewsMumbai police make arrests in piracy crackdown
Mumbai police have arrested employees of UFO Moviez, Reliance Big Cinemas, Adlabs and Shemaroo Entertainment in connection with a plot to pirate UTV Motion Pictures’ What’s Your Rashee?, which is being released today.
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NewsScreen Australia announces funding for 12 companies
Hopscotch Features and Jan Chapman’s Waking Dream Productions are among the 12 production companies that will receive a combined $7.8m (A$9m) under Screen Australia’s much touted Enterprise Program.
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NewsMorris dances in UK, France opens The Hurt Locker
ScreenDaily takes a look at the local and independent openings in key markets this week.
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FeaturesThe great entertainer
Ivan Reitman has directed some of the biggest comedies of the last 30 years,but he is more focused these days on producing films for the likes of hisson Jason and auteur Atom Egoyan, writes Denis Seguin.
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NewsCroatia sends Donkey to the Oscars
Antonio Nuic’s Donkey, one of the hits of this summer’s Pula International Film Festival, has been chosen as Croatia’s entry to the foreign-language Academy Award.