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Producers Guild honour Marshall & Kennedy
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has chosen to honour longtime producing partners Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy with its 2008 David O. Selznick Achievement Award.Marshall and Kennedy's current assignments include David Fincher's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones ...
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Ottinger named EVP at MGM's worldwide TV group
Christopher Ottinger has been named executive vice president of international television distribution at MGM Worldwide Television Group, effective immediately.The 14-year veteran of the global television industry will be based at MGM's headquarters in Los Angeles and reports to MGM Worldwide TV co-president Gary Marenzi.Ottinger will assume direct oversight of MGM's ...
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Squires receives IDA cinematography award
Buddy Squires will receive the International Documentary Association's (IDA) Outstanding Documentary Cinematography Award at the 23rd Annual IDA Awards Gala Benefit in Los Angeles on Dec 7.Squires' credits number into the eighties and include The Statue Of Liberty, which earned him an Oscar nomination in 1986, as well as Civil ...
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Brotherhood's local debut pushed back to next year
The French release of StudioCanal's eagerly-awaited The Brotherhood Of Wolves (Le Pacte Des Loups) has been postponed from an autumn 2000 slot to the end of January 2001 due to an extended post-production period.The $25m fantasy period piece involves a high degree of special effects. Shot in Super 35mm and ...
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Sundance, Time Warner establish writing 'advancement' fund
Sundance Institute and Time Warner have established the Time Warner Storytelling Advancement Fund to support up to 20 Fellows each year with their writing projects.Selected Fellows will each receive a grant to further projects that embody timely and innovative narratives. The inaugural Fellows are film-maker Patricia Benoit for her project ...
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Sony Pictures extends Lynton's contract to 2012
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has extended the contract of chairman and chief executive officer Michael Lynton to 2012.Lynton joined Sony Pictures in January 2004 and steered the studio to an industry record $1.7bn domestic gross and a record 13 number one debuts in 2006 alongside co-chairman Amy Pascal, whose contract ...
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Q&A with Assembly director Feng Xiaogang
Renowned for his Beijing-style humour and satirical comedies, Feng Xiaogang has been a local box office champ with films such as Cell Phone (2003) and A World Without Thieves (2004). In 2005, Feng began to work with an international production team on $20m period drama The Banquet, starring Zhang Ziyi, ...
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Feng to tackle China's nouveau riche in The Nobles
Chinese director Feng Xiaogang, whose Assembly opens the Pusan International Film Festival tonight (Oct 4), is planning to shoot a $5m satirical comedy The Nobles about China's 'nouveau riche'. Beijing-based Huayi Brothers is producing the film, set to star Ge You, while state-owned China Film Group will also invest in ...
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Hong Kong's HAF projects market open for submissions
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) has made its first call for project submissions, which it will accept until November 15. The sixth edition of the financing and co-production market is scheduled to take place March 17-19, 2008, concurrently with the four-day contents market Filmart. Organised by the Hong ...
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Tsi joins Soft-Trek as head of content production
Former Hong Kong International Film Festival director Peter Tsi has joined Chinese production and artist management company, Soft-Trek Media, as general manager of content development and production. Tsi will be overseeing the production of TV and new media content at Soft-Trek, which is part-owned by Hong Kong-based media investment group ...
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Kormakur follows Jar City with Ivanov film and theatre project
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur plans to follow up his recent thriller Jar City, the country's Oscar submission and a local box-office hit, with an innovative cinema/theatre project based on Chekhov's classic Ivanov. Last summer, Kormakur shot a film based on the work (not a filmed play but a feature on ...
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Warner Bros in Spain to develop and co-produce El Deseo films
Pedro and Agustin Almodovar's El Deseo has further strengthened its partnership with Warner Bros International in Spain by agreeing to develop and co-produce film projects with the studio, including El Patio De Mi Carcel, currently shooting in Madrid.Warner Bros already distribute El Deseo's films in Spain.'Since we are particularly close ...
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Icon takes on sales of library titles from NZ Film Commission
Icon Entertainment International has struck a deal with the New Zealand Film Commission to represent 24 library titles for world sales outside of the Asia Pacific region. The Commission expects that Icon will represent many other library titles after agreements have been struck with relevant producers. Titles covered under the ...
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Haggis' Elah to close inuagural Abu Dhabi festival
Abu Dhabi's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (Oct 14-19) has announced its line-up of Arab films, plus its closing night gala - Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah. The Venice critics' favourite adds to an international line-up of Iraq-themed, festival hits; other 'special presentations' (gala screenings) include Todd ...
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Bayona's The Orphanage opens Sitges Film Festival
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the International Film Festival of Catalonia will open in Sitges with a screening of Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage.Competing in the Official Fantastic programme are Tom Shankland's WAZ starring Stellan Skarsgard, Inside from France, Mitchell Lichtenstein's vagina dentate story Teeth, Park Chan-wook's latest I'm A Cyborg, ...
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Beatty to receive 2008 AFI Life Achievement Award
Warren Beatty will receive the 36th AFI Life Achievement Award at a gala tribute in Los Angeles on Jun 12, 2008.Beatty won the best director Oscar for Reds in 1982 and earned four acting nominations for Bonnie And Clyde, Reds, Heaven Can Wait, and Bugsy.'Warren Beatty has charmed movie-goers as ...
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Italy, Brazil sign co-production treaty in Rio
Brazil and Italy have signed an agreement in principle on film co-production. Announced yesterday at the Rio International Film Festival, the deal between Istituto Luce and Cinecitta Holding from Italy and Ancine, the Brazilian National Cinema Agency, is designed to facilitate co-production of both features and documentaries. The final document ...
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PUSAN: PIFF hasrain-soaked but star-studded opening
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) kicked off its 12th edition last night with a rain-soaked but star-studded audience and Feng Xiaogang's Assembly as opening film. Rain spattered down on enthusiastic fans cordoned off by police from the red carpet, where guests such as veteran actors Shin Sung-il, Kang Soo-yeon ...
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Mutum wins top prize, but Estomago dominates at Rio
Marcos Jorge's Estômago - A Gastronomic Story won four prizes at the Première Brazil awards ceremony at the 9th Rio International Film Festival tonight. The awards were handed out at the historic Odeon BR theatre, where a special Fipresci Lifetime Achievement award was presented to Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro, nominated ...
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Hirsch, Blonsky to be honoured at Palm Springs
Emile Hirsch and Nikki Blonsky will receive the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Rising Star Awards at the festival's annual awards gala on Jan 5, 2008.Hirsch stars in Paramount Vantage's drama Into The Wild and recently wrapped production on Warner Bros' Speed Racer for directors Andy Wachowski ...