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    Cast assembles for UA's The Cabin In The Woods

    10 March 2009

    Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz and Jesse Williams will join previously announced Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford in UA's horror project The Cabin In The Woods.Drew Goddard is directing from a screenplay by Goddard and Joss Whedon, who is also producing. Details of the plot ...

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    Spanish outfit Avalon Distribution picks up In The Loop for Spain

    10 March 2009

    Spanish indie production and distribution outfit Avalon has picked up rights for Spain to Armando Iannucci's political comedy In The Loop from Protagonist Pictures. Based on the popular British TV comedy series The Thick Of It, Iannucci's In The Loop charts the progress of a fictional Secretary of State for ...

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    Sprockets to host North American premiere of Letter For The King

    10 March 2009

    Two Dutch child-oriented features will make their North American premiere at the upcoming Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children. The festival unveiled its line-up of 29 features and 41 short films in an announcement today.Most prominent is Dutch filmmaker Pieter Verhoeff's period adventure Letter For The King, reportedly the ...

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    Sass, Peterson hired in key postions at Werc Werk Works

    10 March 2009

    Elizabeth Redleaf and Christine Kunewa Walker's production and finance company Werc Werk Works has appointed Geoff Sass chief marketing officer and Andrew Peterson (pictured) vice president of production.Sass will oversee strategic development of the Werc Werk Works brand as well as all marketing and advertising on all company projects, which ...

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    Kirch in talks to buy majority stake in EM.TV

    28 November 2000

    Germany's Kirch Group is in negotiations to acquire a majority stake in local family entertainment rights trader EM.TV & Merchandising, which earlier this year swallowed The Jim Henson Company and 50% of Formula One motor racing company SLEC.EM.TV's shares rebounded slightly on Tuesday to close at Euros21.50 on news ...

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    Redford to receive honour from San Francisco Film Festival

    10 March 2009

    The San Francisco Film Society will honour Sundance founder Robert Redford with the Peter J Owens Award at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival on April 30.The Owens Award, named after the longtime arts patron, philanthropist and Film Society board member, honours an actor whose work exemplifies 'brilliance, independence ...

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    Hawaii Film Partners set to start shooting romantic adventure

    11 March 2009

    Hawaii Film Partners will begin principal photography on March 16 in Hawaii on the romantic adventure You May Not Kiss The Bride.Set in Chicago and Tahiti, the picture stars Dave Annable, Mena Suvari, Katharine McPhee, Vinnie Jones, Tia Carrere and Ken Davitian.Annable plays a Chicago pet photographer who accidentally maims ...

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    Anil Kapoor to receive tribute at Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles

    11 March 2009

    The 7th Annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles will pay tribute to Bollywood star Anil Kapoor, now famous in the west for his role in Slumdog Millionaire. The festival will close with Megan Doneman's documentary Yes Madam, Sir.The festival will be held from April 21-26 at The ArcLight in ...

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    Shetty, Yip join Marvel's new international advisory board

    11 March 2009

    Marvel Entertainment has formed an international advisory board as it seeks to export the brand to key foreign markets in the wake of the global success of films like Iron Man.James F Halpin, a Marvel director since March 1995, will chair the board, while Marvel's president of worldwide consumer products ...

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    Hong Kong's Celestial strikes Canadian licensing deal

    11 March 2009

    Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures has signed a licensing deal with Canada's Rogers Cable Communications under which select titles from its Shaw Brothers library will be available on Rogers' On Demand digital cable platform. Initially, over 20 titles of different genres - kung-fu, thriller, action and musical - will be offered ...

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    Sutherland, Hurt, Stone to attend 33rd HKIFF

    11 March 2009

    The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) has announced that Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt and Oliver Stone will be attending the33rd edition of the festival which kicks off later this month (March 22-April 13). Sutherland and DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg will be on hand to present Monsters Vs. Aliens ...

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    Cattleya's Tozzi re-named head of Anica's producers section

    11 March 2009

    Ricardo Tozzi has been unanimously re-named head of the producers section within Anica, the organization representing Italy's cinema and audiovisual industry. This will be the third time that the prominent Italian film producer has held the role. Accepting the post Tozzi urged the Italian industry to work together in confronting ...

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    Sony Pictures Releasing Italia signs deal with indie Mediafilm

    11 March 2009

    Sony Pictures Releasing Italia has signed a deal to add 13 titles acquired by independent company Mediafilm to its own line in 2009, with additional titles expected in 2010-2011. The first Mediafilm title to come under the agreement is the mystery-thriller Franklyn starring Eva Green and Ryan Phillippe. Franklyn is ...

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    Tribeca adds world premieres by Steven Soderbergh, Cheryl Hines

    11 March 2009

    The Tribeca Film Festival has unveiled the remainder of its 2009 programme with the out-of-competition selections for its Encounters, Spotlight, Showcase, Restored/Rediscovered and Midnight sections.In Encounters, 10 of the 11 narratives and documentaries are world premieres. Those include Cheryl Hines' directorial debut Serious Moonlight written by the late Adrienne Shelly ...

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    Sarasota to open with Oren Moverman's The Messenger

    11 March 2009

    The 11th-annual Regal Entertainment Group Sarasota Film Festival will kick off in the Florida city on March 27 with a screening of Oren Moverman's The Messenger. The military-themed drama, which won the Berlinale's Silver Bear for Screenwriting, stars Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton and Jena Malone. Foster, Harrelson and ...

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    Nordisk Film & TV launches feature production unit

    28 November 2000

    Norway's Nordisk Film & TV, owned by Copenhagen-based Nordisk Film, is establishing a feature film production division that aims to have an output of two titles a year that will travel across Scandinavian borders.The new outfit, to be headed by producer Rune Trondsen, will run parallel to Nordisk Film's other ...

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    Shochiku unveils new studio facilities in Kyoto

    12 March 2009

    Japanese major Shochiku has officially opened its upgraded and expanded Shochiku Kyoto Studios, which the company describes as a 'one stop total film management package'. In addition to improvements made to the original six studios and outside set, first opened in 1946, two new high-ceiling 500 square-metre (5,381 square-foot) studio ...

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    Mobile sector, Asia, Middle East trumpeted as new finance sources

    12 March 2009

    With the hedge funds gone and banks fleeing the scene like rats from a sinking ship, the next wave of capital for a largely cash-strapped film industry will come from the mobile telephony sector, according to a leading Hollywood executive.'A lot of it will be tied to technology and the ...

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    Pusan appoints new executives and programmers

    12 March 2009

    The 14th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has appointed new executives to the Asian FilmMarket and programmers for the World Cinema and Asian Cinema sections.

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    Joe Wright to direct Indian Summer for Working Title and Universal

    12 March 2009

    Joe Wright will direct Indian Summer for Working Title and Universal with the screenplay being adapted by William Nicholson from the book of the same name by Alex von Tunzelmann. Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Hilary Bevan Jones are producing the film.Itmarks Joe Wright's fourth collaboration with Working Title and ...