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San Francisco Film Society secures $3m in funding over next five years
The San Francisco Film Society has secured $3m in funding over the next five years from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation to support narrative features made in the San Francisco Bay Area.The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants support films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, anti-discrimination, ...
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Four producers named in The Reader's best picture Oscar nomination
The producers branch executive committee of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has ruled that the late Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack shall be credited with producing The Reader alongside Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris.The executive committee convened because four producers were listed on the credits form submitted ...
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Jetzt Oder Nie bags Luenen audience award
Lars Buechel's Jetzt Oder Nie won the audience award at this year's Kinofest Luenen (November 16-19). The comedy, about three elderly ladies who decide to rob a bank in order to finance a cruise, received DM10,000 in cash from sponsors and DM5,000 in subtitling costs from the German Federal Film ...
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Myriad sets Puerto Rico shoot for comic book adaptation Hybrid
Principal photography will commence in May in Puerto Rico on Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Myriad Pictures and Studio 407's live-action comic book adaptation Hybrid.The horror story falls under the first-look deal between Myriad and Studio 407 and is being directed by Ernie Barbarash. Myriad is handling worldwide ...
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LA's Principal Communications Group allies with Abrams Research
Paul Pflug and Melissa Zukerman's strategic corporate communications firm Principal Communications Group has struck an alliance with new consultancy Abrams Research Group.Principal will identify new clients in the media and entertainment fields for Abrams, which offers business leaders industry insight through its network of freelance media professionals.Abrams Research was founded ...
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Kerasotes Showplace Theatres heads to be honoured at ShoWest
Kerasotes Showplace Theatres chairman and CEO Tony Kerasotes and president and COO Dean Kerasotes will be honoured as 2009 ShoWesters Of The Year in Las Vegas on March 31.Tony Kerasotes has more than 40 years of experience in exhibition and sits on the executive committee of the National Association Of ...
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E1 picks up Lone Scherfig's An Education for the UK and Ireland
E1 Films has taken UK and Irish rights for An Education, the Nick Hornby adaptation of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir. An Education is directed by Lone Scherfig (Italian For Beginners). BAFTA nominated Finola Dwyer (Backbeat, Me Without You) of Finola Dwyer Productionsand Amanda Posey (Fever Pitch) produced the film ...
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E1 picks up Sundance winner An Education for UK and Ireland
E1 Films has taken UK and Irish rights for An Education, the Nick Hornby adaptation of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir. The film is fresh from its success at this year's Sundance where it won the world cinema audience award, dramatic and the world cinema cinematography award, dramatic. The deal ...
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Reviews
The Uninvited
Dir: The Guard Brothers . US. 2009. 87 mins. A pedestrian horror enlivened by some better-than-expected performances, The Uninvited doles out its scares and twists in a rather predictable narrative template. Respected actors Elizabeth Banks and David Strathairn give it an added gravitas, but this umpteenth remake of an Asian ...
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Fassbender, West and Kurylenko to headline Neil Marshall's Centurion
Pathe and Celador have confirmed casting on Neil Marshall's Roman era Centurion with Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, Hunger), Dominic West (300) and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) to headline the film. Shooting begins next month on February 22. The script is written and will be directed by Marshall, whose The ...
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Finecut picks up new feature from Hong Sang-soo
Seoul-based Finecut has picked up worldwide sales rights for Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo's upcoming feature Jal Aljido Mot Hamyeonsuh (original title). Currently in post-production, the film has yet to settle on an international title, although the original Korean title means 'as if you even know properly' or as Finecut puts ...
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Two new awards for Edinburgh international film festival in 2009
The Edinburgh international film festival has announced the introduction of two new significant international awards; best new international feature award and best international short film at this year's festival. The film festival prides itself on its focus on the discovery and recognition of British film, and the Michael Powell award ...
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Charles Dance to direct The Inn At The Edge Of The World
Charles Dance ( Ladies In Lavender ) is to direct The Inn at the Edge of the World , from his screenplay based on the Alice Thomas-Ellis' novel of the same name. The Inn at the Edge of the World tells the story of a group of people who go ...
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Fortissimo to start pre-sales at EFM on Todd Solondz's Forgiveness
Fortissimo Films has confirmed that it has acquired international rights from Werc Werk Works to Todd Solondz's Forgiveness and will commence pre-sales at EFM next month on the loose sequel to the director's 1998 dark comedy Happiness.Fortissimo has always been connected to the project but the film has undergone several ...
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UK's Shine Pictures to produce 1066
Shine Pictures, the newly created joint venture between Shine Group's Kudos Pictures and New Regency has hired William Nicholson (Gladiator, Elizabeth: The Golden Age) to write an epicscreen version of the battle between King Harold and William the Conqueror, for the throne of England. The project, 1066 is expected to ...
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UK Film Council search engine for audiences in the digital age
The UK Film Council (UKFC) has launched the film search engine FindAnyFilm.com. in a response to audience needs in the digital age. The engine enables users to find out when, where and how a film is legally available anywhere in the UK, across all formats and platforms - cinema, TV, ...
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International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009 update
More than midway through the 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), there is a clear feeling of relief among industry delegates. Some had feared that thanks to the global economic downturn, even an event as well-established as IFFR's coproduction market CineMart might have fallen completely flat. However, despite a cautious ...
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Suso D'Amico to receive first WGAW Jean Renoir Award for screenwriting
Italian screenwriter Suso D'Amico will receive the inaugural Writers Guild Of America West's Jean Renoir Award for screenwriting achievement.D'Amico is credited with writing more than 100 films including The Bicycle Thief, Rocco And His Brothers and Big Deal On Madonna Street.The lifetime achievement award will be given on an occasional ...
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Amanda Seyfried takes the lead in A Woman Of No Importance
Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried has signed on for the leading role of Hester Worley in Myriad Pictures' Oscar Wilde adaptation A Woman Of No Importance.Bruce Beresford is directing and Donald Zuckerman producing, with Myriad president and CEO Kirk D'Amico serving as executive producer.Annette Bening and Sean Bean also star ...