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NewsDanny Boyle to give master class at inaugural Doha Tribeca festival
A Danny Boyle master class, a panel on the new wave of Arab film-makers and two Q&A sessions with Mira Nair and Elia Suleiman are among the highlights of the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival’s (DTFF) series of dialogues.
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NewsA Prophet star Tahar Rahim joins The Eagle Of The Ninth
Tahar Rahim, riding high folloing his star turn in A Prophet, has joined the cast of Focus Features and Film4’s Roman Britain epic The Eagle Of The Ninth that is currently shooting in Scotland.
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NewsMonica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn join The Whistleblower
Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci and David Strathairn have been cast alongside lead Rachel Weisz in Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower, a Canada-Germany co-production.
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NewsFukuda to head home video and digital for WB Japan
Taichi Fukuda has been appointed as general manager for Warner Home Video (WHV) and Warner Bros Digital Distribution (WBDD) in Japan.
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NewsSpain launches new film commission to tackle piracy
The Spanish government is ramping up its efforts to combat piracy with the launch of a new film commision that will focus on protecting intellectual property rights.
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ReviewsThe Concert (Le Concert)
Dir: Radu Mihaileanu. France-Romania-Belgium-Italy. 2009. 123 mins.
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NewsDutch film body merger confirmed
Plans to create a single nation film agency for the Dutch industry have been confirmed by Ronald Plasterk, the Dutch minister for Education, Culture and Sport.
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NewsDDA announces management buy-out
DDA Public Relations’ Lawrence Atkinson and chief financial officer John Stannard have acquired a substantial equity stake in the company as part of a management buy-out.
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NewsMumbai Film Festival to open with The Informant!
The 11th annual Mumbai Film Festival (Oct 29-Nov 5) will open with a screening of Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! and close with The Dust Of Time, from Greek master Theo Angelopoulos.
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NewsSales and co-production under the spotlight at TIFFCOM
The Japanese film industry grappled with how to sell films to the international market and collaborate with its neighbours in East Asia on the opening day of the TIFFCOM market in Tokyo (Oct 20-22).
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NewsPolanski bail appeal turned down
Imprisoned director Roman Polanski has lost his appeal to be freed on bail from a Swiss prison ahead of his possible extradition to the United States.
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NewsGraham King switches from Warner Bros to Sony
Graham King has diverted his film-making priorities away from Warner Bros to Sony after signing a three-year, multi-film output deal with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group.
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NewsBabelgum, Metacafe launch iPhone application
Web and mobile premium content platform Babelgum and video site Metacafe have launched the Metacafe iPhone application powered by Babelgum.
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NewsITVS selects six doc projects for production support
The Independent Television Service (ITVS) has leant its support to six international documentary projects from its 2009 International Call, providing production funding and eventual US TV broadcast.
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NewsWelcome wins Heartland's best dramatic feature award
Philippe Lioret’s Welcome won the Heartland Film Festival’s $100,000 Grand Prize Award for best dramatic feature and P-Star Rising by Gabriel Noble took the $25,000 Award for best documentary feature.
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NewsCamelot Distribution Group to unveil slate at AFM
Camelot Entertainment Group has officially launched Universal City-based Camelot Distribution Group (CDG) headed by Jamie R Thompson.
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NewsNew Video to handle Arthouse Films DVD output
New Video has signed a deal to act as the US DVD distributor for Arthouse Films, with the documentary Herb & Dorothy set to kick off the collaboration on December 15.
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NewsLightning bulks up AFM slate with Verso
Lightning Entertainment has acquired international sales rights excluding Switzerland to Tarantula Productions’ police thriller Verso.
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NETPAC members launch Asian cinema web-site
Members of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) have set up an English-language streaming website of award-winning films at AsiaPacificFilms.com.