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NewsTelefilm Canada gives $6.4m to seven French-language projects
New projects from Max Films, Cinemaginaire and Cirrus Communications are among seven French-language feature to be backed by Canadian film finance agency Telefilm Canada.
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NewsSilhol's Dominic wins best live action prize at Toronto's CFC short festival
French director Nicolas Silhol took the C.O.R.E Digital Pictures Award For Best Live Action Short with his psychological drama, My Name Is Dominic as the 2009 CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival wrapped this weekend.
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NewsNew York Asian fest kicks off with world premiere of Written By
The New York Asian Film Festival will show more than 50 features this year, after opening with the world premiere of Wai Ka-Fai’s Written By.
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NewsAlires, Hirigoyen join Maya while Escobedo promoted
Los Angeles-based Maya Entertainment has expanded its home entertainment division with three executive announcemnts.
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NewsTravis modernises Macbeth with Smuggler's Come Like Shadows
Pete Travis has come on board to direct Come Like Shadows for Smuggler Films.
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NewsUKFC and Nesta call on industry to exploit digital world
The UK Film Council and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is calling on the film industry to expand digital distribution, seek new sources of funding and work with online audiences as publishers not just viewers, as part of series of findings from their digital innovation ...
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NewsBrazilian romcom A Mulher Invisível beats Terminator into second place
Romantic comedy A Mulher Invisível, the second feature from Brazilian director Claudio Torres, has beaten Terminator Salvation into second place at the box office in Brazil.
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NewsGerman film fund to invest $56m in digital expansion
The German Federal Film Board (FFA) is planning to invest $56m (€40m) to help speed up the development digital cinema.
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NewsXDC deal boosts Palace Cinemas' digital expansion
XDC has struck a deal with Palace Cinemas to supply digital projection systems to the company’s cinemas.
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NewsZac Efron signs on for Dixon's Mandate thriller
Zac Efron has signed on to star in an untitled thriller for Mandate Pictures. Leslie Dixon, the veteran screenwriter behind Freaky Friday and The Thomas Crown Affair, is writing the script.
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NewsTransformers 2 heads into 60-territory launch for Paramount
Giant robots invade the international marketplace this week as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opens with 10,769 prints in 60 markets day-and-date with its North American launch.
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NewsJon Amiel to direct hitman comedy for Sidney Kimmel
Jon Amiel has come on board to direct comedy Old Timers (working title) for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.
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NewsCreative Kingdom plans $650m Thai studio complex
Los Angeles-based themed architecture designer, Creative Kingdom, has unveiled plans for a $650m movie studio and residential development, CNXMovie World Studios, in Chiang Mai province in northern Thailand.
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NewsKadokawa slate heavy on local productions
Kadokawa Pictures has unveiled a 12-picture distribution slate for 2009-10, headed by in-house productions such as $20m drama Shizumanu Taiyo starring Ken Watanabe.
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NewsUK film censor takes softer view on drugs
The British Board of Film Classification has revised its guidelines to allow references to drugs in ‘U’ rated films, if they are ‘infrequent and innocuous’. In the past such reference would have earned a film a ‘PG’ classification.
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NewsStephen Fry to star in Dardentor
Three aspiring teenage film-makers have scored a coup after British writer and actor Stephen Fry signed on to act in their debut project.
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NewsNorwegian cinemas sign digital roll-out deal with US studios
The Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino, has signed a virtual print fee (VPF) agreement with five Hollywood studios, to help finance the world’s first non-commercial national digital expansion.