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A.Film restructures following Help! success
Danish animation studio A.Film has appointed Henrik Edeltoft as managing director. He replaces Anders Mastrup who will now focus on the company's international development following the worldwide sales and local box office success of its latest project Help! I'm a Fish.Edeltoft recently worked for Scandinavian major Egmont which owns 50% ...
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Magnet draws Thai martial arts hit Chocolate
Magnet, the recently launched genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired North American rights to Thai martial arts action title Chocolate from Sahamongkolfilm International. Directed by Prachya Pinkaew (Ong Bak) and starring newcomer Jeeja Vismistananda, the film recently screened in the Midnight Madness section at Toronto and took the Audience ...
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Dark Knight producers, Shanley among Hollywood Awards honourees
The 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards has addedThe Dark Knight film-makers Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven and EmmaThomas to its lineup of honourees.All three will receive the Hollywood Producers Of The Year Award whileJohn Patrick Shanley will receive the Hollywood Screenwriter Of TheYear Award for his adaptation of ...
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Two films from Ole Bornedal set for US remakes
Two features from Danish director Ole Bornedal have been sold for US remakes.Mandate Pictures have secured rights to Just Another Love Story and The Substitute. Both films were shown at the Sundance Film Festival.Mandate Pictures will co-produce the remakes with Thura Film's Michael Obel whose work with Ole Bornedal goes ...
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Relativity Media, Universal extend, expand co-financing partnership
In the third major financing deal to be announced this week against a backdrop of tumultuous financial upheaval in the US markets, Relativity Media and Universal Pictures have extended and expanded their co-financing partnership.Under the terms of the arrangement Relativity Capital Holdings, the financing entity Relativity set up with New ...
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Filmaka teams with Ford, JWT for Mustang short film contest
Online film destination Filmka has teamed up with Ford Motor Company and advertising agency JWT Team Detroit on a short film competition to mark the launch of Mustang's 2010 model.Nearly 400 Filmaka community members have already submitted scripts reflectingpersonal stories chosen by Mustang enthusiasts or based on thefilm-makers' original ideas.Twenty-two ...
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Speech: Ingenious boss Patrick McKenna on the digital future
Ingenious chairman Patrick McKenna has spent 30 years on the finance and business side of the UK film and television industries. His BAFTA Annual Television Lecture looks at the landscape for the creative sector in a rapidly changing business environment.I'd like to discuss four interconnected subjects but in no particular ...
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Jack Green to receive ASC Lifetime Achievement Award
Jack Green will receive the American Society Of Cinematographers' (ASC) 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on February 15, 2009.Green earned an Oscar nomination for Unforgiven in 1993, and an ASC Outstanding Achievement Award nomination for The Bridges Of Madison County ...
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Magnet acquires North American rights to Thai Chocolate
Magnolia Pictures' Magnet has acquired North American rights to Prachya Pinkaew's martial arts action film Chocolate following its recent world premiere in Toronto's Midnight Madness genre sidebarThe film played in Austin's Fantastic Fest last weekend and took runner-up prize in the Audience Award.Magnet closed the deal on Monday night for ...
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AFI FEST will open on Oct 30 with Joe Wright's The Soloist
Theworld premiere of DreamWorks and Universal's drama The Soloist starring Robert Downey Jr and Jamie Foxx will open AFI FEST in Los Angeles on October 30.Joe Wright directed the story of a journalist who comes across a former musical prodigy living rough on the streets of Los Angeles.The Working Title-produced ...
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Johnny Depp to star in The Lone Ranger, Pirates 4 for Disney
Johnny Depp will play Tonto in Disney's previously announced The LoneRanger project and has signed on to reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in a fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean instalment, attendees heard at today's [September 24] Walt Disney Studios Showcase in Hollywood.Depp, who will also star as The ...
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Masterpiece (Obra Maestra)
Dir: David Trueba. Spain. 2000. 115mins.Prods: Fernando Trueba PC, Buenavida Producciones. Backers: Amiguetes Entertainment, TVE, Via Digital. Domestic dist: Lola Distribucion. Intl sales: Lolafilms (34) 91 436 7400. Prod: Cristina Huete. Scr: David Trueba. DoP: Javier Aguirresarobe. Sound: Pierre Gamet. Music: Roque Banos. Ed: Pablo G. Del Amo. Main cast: ...
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Paramount signs digital production deal with Milchan/Van Eyssen
Paramount Digital Entertainment has signed a three-year digital production deal with the producing team of Milchan/Van Eyssen to create exclusive original genre content for the internet and other digital media platforms.Milchan/van Eyssen is led by Alexandra Milchan and David Van Eyssen. Milchan's producing credits include the current release Righteous Kill, ...
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Parking to open Taipei Golden Horse film festival
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival is stepping outside the art house for its 30th edition. Taiwan's main film festival will introduce crowd pleasers alongside award-winning art house titles from the Berlin, Cannes and Venice film festivals under new programming director Patrick Jia, formerly a senior marketing publicist at the ...
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Hong Kong submits Painted Skin as Oscar entry
Hong Kong has selected Gordon Chan's fantasy epic Painted Skin as the territory's contender for this year's foreign-language Oscar, the Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong (FMFP) said at a press conference on Wednesday. 'We think this film has something very special,' FMFP chairman Crucindo Hung said. 'It ...
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Dream Weaver selected as China's Oscar entry
China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has announced that it has selected documentary Dream Weaver - Beijing 2008 as the country's contender for best foreign-language film at the Academy Awards. It is the first time China has chosen a documentary for the category. The film, produced by ...
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UK's independent film sector still failing, warns Ingenious Media boss
Ingenious Media chairman Patrick McKenna has warned that UK film lacks the business model to match a wealth of creative talent.Delivering the Annual Television Lecture at BAFTA, the entrepreneur and financier, warned that film was stuck in the same rut identified five years ago in a highly-critical select committee report ...
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Cloverfield's Matt Reeves to direct Let The Right One In remake
Cloverfield director Matt Reeves (pictured) will write and direct the English-language adaptation of Tomas Alfredson's acclaimed Swedish contemporary vampire feature Let The Right One In for Overture Films and London-based Hammer Films.Let The Right One In will be the first in a new two-film co-production, financing and distribution deal between ...
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Focus names five winners in Africa First programme
Focus Features CEO James Schamus announced late today [September 24] the five winners in Focus' Africa First Programme designed to support emerging film-makers of African nationality and residence.Earlier this year Focus offered participating film-makers the chance to win financing for production and/or post-production on their narrative short films made in ...
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San Sebastian deals for Still Walking and Pandora's Box
Golem Distribucion has acquired the Spanish theatrical rights to Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Still Walking (Aruitemo, Aruitemo). The deal was done with Celluloid Dreams at the San Sebastian film festival. The film had its international premiere at Toronto.Still Walking is a family drama about grown-up siblings returning to their family ...