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Akin's Heaven wins top honours at Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven won the best juried fiction feature award at the tenth annual Miami & Fort Lauderdale Gay & Lesbian Film Festivals over the weekend.Guido Santi and Tina Mascara's Chris & Don: A Love Story about the love affair between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy won ...
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New York's NewFest bookended by Tru Loved, Were The World Mine
Stewart Wade's Tru Loved will open the 20th annual New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Film Festival (NewFest) on June 5, and Tom Gustafson's Were The World Mine will close it ten days later on June 15.Tru Loved is the story of a teenage girl raised by lesbian mothers ...
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Aubry promoted to vp, theatrical marketing, at Regent Releasing
Jonathon Aubry has been promoted to vice president, theatrical marketing, at Regent Releasing, the US independent distributor which is owned by Paul Colichman and Stephen P Jarchow's Regent Entertainment.Aubry, who was formerly director, marketing and corporate communications, at Regent Entertainment, will report to Mark Reinhart, general manager, west coast operations ...
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Ellen Page signs on for Jane Eyre with Ruby, BBC
Ellen Page, hot off her Oscar nomination for Juno, is set to take the title role in a new adaptation of Jane Eyre for BBC Films and Alison Owen's London-based Ruby Films.'She put a whole different complexion on Jane Eyre,' Christine Langan at BBC Films told ScreenDaily.com.The projects are out ...
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Horizon picks up worldwide sales on Taking The Face
Vancouver-based Horizon Motion Pictures has added Portuguese bullfighting documentary Taking The Face to its Cannes slate.Horizon will represent worldwide sales excluding Portugal on Juliusz Kossakowski and Matthew Bishop's investigation into Portugal's love-hate relationship with the sport.Shot in HD over the 2007 season, the film includes action footage and interviews with ...
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Eva Mendes to play Queen Of The South for Essential
Jere Hausfater's worldwide sales, development and production company Essential Entertainment will introduce Cannes buyers to the drug drama Queen Of The South starring Eva Mendes, Ben Kingsley and Josh Hartnett.Essential is handling international sales on the film which is based on the novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte and will be directed ...
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Disney to make 3D film revolving around The Jonas Brothers
Disney has augmented its recently announced 3D line-up with a film about the Jonas Brothers, the Disney Channel boy band and tween idols who are one of the corporation's key revenue drivers.The untitled film is expected out in 2009 and will feature footage from the recording artists' upcoming Burning Up ...
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US channel Eurocinema to launch film festival in Miami
Eurocinema, the US VOD and cable film channel dedicated to foreign films, is preparing to launch its first festival to run next year in Miami.The First Annual Eurocinema European Film Festival will play at indoor and outdoor venues throughout the greater Miami area from February 6 to February 15 2009.'Not ...
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Visit Films takes international on Quinzaine closer Pleasure
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's boutique New York-based sales company Visit Films has acquired international rights to Josh Safdie's Director's Fortnight closing night film The Pleasure Of Being Robbed.The film stars Eleonore Hendricks as a young woman who often brings joy to strangers' lives while robbing them of their possessions.Kampe ...
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Bangkok film festival pushed backto September
The organisers of the 6th Bangkok International Film Festival (BKKIFF) have revealed that the event will be rescheduled to September from the previously announced dates in late July. Previous organisers, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) will take a backseat this year, and let the Federation of National Film Associations ...
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Lightning launches US distribution outfit Lightning Media
Santa Monica-based international sales agency Lightning Entertainment has launched US distribution company Lightning Media and hired Paul Gardner to head it up.The long-in-the-works move will see the new unit selectively target and acquire rights to commercial titles across multiple platforms in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.Gardner will serve as ...
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Sony signs three-picture deal with Pritish Nandy
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) Films India and Indian company Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC) have entered into a three-film first-look deal. 'All three films will be commercial blockbusters in thetrue Bollywood tradition with songs and dance etc,' PNC creative director told Screendaily.In a separate deal, SPE Films India has picked up ...
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Adlabs acquires majority share in Malaysian cinema chain
Continuing with its global expansion plans, Adlabs Films, part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is set to acquire a majority and controlling interest in Malaysia's Lotus Five Star Cinemas. As per the agreement, Adlabs will operate the 51 screen cinema chain in Malaysia. The cinemas will be programmed ...
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Wanted to open Los Angeles Film Festival, Hellboy II to close it
A Universal Pictures double bill of Timur Bekmambetov's graphic novel adaptation Wanted starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy and Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army bookend the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs from June 19-29.Sacha Gervasi's Sundance hit Anvil! The Story Of Anvil is the centrepiece ...
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Hamptons Festival screenwriters lab sets participants for 2008 event
The Hamptons International Film Festival will host its 8th Annual Screenwriters' Lab co-sponsored by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation from May 9 to 11 in East Hampton.Over the course of one weekend emerging screenwriters will benefit from the expert tutelage of mentors who will advise them on how best to ...
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Savanna Films to produce documentary Madame Presidents
Konda Mason and Eva Georgia's US-based Savanna Films, a production company set up to create socially conscious films and television, will produce the documentary Madame President about the world's female heads of state.Los Angeles-base FilmBankers International (FBI) will assist in seeking financing and distribution for the project, which is planned ...
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Matrix signs with Wong Fu to produce Sleepwalker in China
Matrix Capital Entertainment has signed a deal with Wong Fu Productions to produce the tentatively titled Sleepwalker in China.Philip Wang, Ted Fu and Wesley Chan will direct the project, the first feature to emerge from the recently launched Matrix.Sleepwalker follows a young man who tapes his sleepwalking and learns his ...
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Bavaria takes on sales for Critics Week title Moscow, Belgium
Bavaria Film International is handling international distribution on Christophe van Rompaey's feature debut Moscow, Belgium (Aanrijding In Moscou) which has been selected for this year's Critics' Week sidebar in Cannes.Produced by A Private View, the Flemish romantic comedy about a woman (played by actress-director Barbara Sarafian) whose life is full ...
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Fortissimo takes on Madonna-produced I Am Because We Are
Fortissimo Films has acquired the documentary I Am Because We Are, which is produced, written and narrated by Madonna.The deal, for all rights outside of North America, was brokered between Fortissimo's Senior Vice President, Sales & Acquisitions Winnie Lau and Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which represents the film.I Am Because ...
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Premieres from Vito Rocco and John Maybury top Edinburgh line-up
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced its full line-up, including the world premiere ofVito Rocco's Faintheart at the closing night gala on June 29.The romantic comedy, starring Eddie Marsan and Jessica Hynes, is set in the world of Viking battle re-enactments and follows a man's efforts to win ...