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Kounelias promoted in New Line marketing restructure
Christina Kounelias has been promoted to executive vice president of marketing at New Line and will report to the studio's domestic marketing chief Chris Carlisle.In the newly created position Kounelias will work closely with Carlisle to oversee a newly created marketing department infrastructure and continue to oversee the studio's publicity, ...
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Telepool takes on teamWorx's Mogadishu Welcome
Germany-based sales company Telepool has added Mogadishu Welcome to its sales slate.The deal was done with teamWorx Television & Film before the project started principal photography in Casablanca.Roland Suso Richter will direct the Degeto Film/SWR 90-minute feature, intended for TV. Telepool will handle world sales excluding the co-production territories, France ...
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After record 2007, Babelsberg eyes more European projects in 2008
The looming threat of Hollywood actors and directors going on strike from mid-2008 has prompted Germany's Babelsberg Studios to concentrate more on enticing European and German feature film projects to shoot on its sound stages next year. Speaking on Berlin's InfoRadio on Thursday afternoon, Studio Babelsberg's President and CEO Carl ...
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Concrete adds Genetic Engineering system, pacts with Axis
London-based post-production company Concrete is becoming the first facility in Soho to install Quantel's new Genetic Engineering system. Genetic Engineering will be used for eQ systems at Concrete to access to shared projects, and for data transfer between other systems. Also, Axis Post has become the first European post facility ...
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Switzerland to lead European Audiovisual Observatory in 2008
The European Audiovisual Observatory has announced that Switzerland will hold the group's presidency in 2008.The Strasbourg-based Observatory, which is part of the Council of Europe, elected Switzerland its president as the executive council on Nov 9.The country is represented on the executive council by Frederic Riehl, deputy director of the ...
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UKFC backs development of Bruce Robinson's Peculiar Memories
The UK Film Council has announced the first awards from its Development Fund since Tanya Seghatchian took over as head of the Fund on April 1. The UKFC has backed six films with $930,000 - with more than half of the funding, or $509,700 - going to Bruce Robinson to ...
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Alliance Atlantis bags Villeneuve, Freundlich pics
Denis Villeneuve, director of Toronto festival hit, Maelstrom, has signed to direct a new production to be co-financed by Alliance Atlantis and Toronto-based Rhombus Media, the producers of Francois Girard's The Red Violin and Don McKellar's Last Night. The new film, Boyd, will roll next spring. It will be Villeneuve's ...
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Tom Yoda named chairman of Tokyo International Film Festival
Tatsumi (Tom) Yoda has been named chairman of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). The announcement was made at the monthly board of director's meeting of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren). Yoda will chair the 21st edition for an unspecified term. Yoda holds many powerful public and ...
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The Jammed named best film at Australia's Inside Film Awards
The Home Song Stories, The Jammed and Happy Feet were the three films that went home with the most honours from the Inside Film (IF) Awards, held tonight on Queensland's Gold Coast.The self-financed film The Jammed won best film, and best script for writer-director Dee McLachlan, while The Home Song ...
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Happy Feet's George Miller creates joint venture with Omnilab
A very significant deal was announced today that gives director George Miller access to significant finance and the digital technology and hardware, personnel, and management skills, enabling him to make more films of the scale of his most recent hit, Happy Feet.His company, Kennedy Miller Mitchell, has joined forces with ...
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Vikram Bhatt shoots supernatural love story in Yorkshire
Yorkshire, which hosted this summer's Indian International Film Academy awards (IIFAs), is now hosting a new shoot by Indian film-makers. Vikram Bhatt is directing 1920 with a 17-day shoot in Bolton Abbey, Allerton Castle, Bramham Park and Ripley Castle. The film is a supernatural love story about an Anglo Indian ...
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Jude Law appears in Real Time Movie short
Jude Law stars an inventive short film being launched in the UK. Starting Monday, UK cinemas will screen the short film directed by Jason Martin on behalf of Polish artist Pavel Althamer. It will show during trailer presentations, subverting the notion of trailers because the film it promotes doesn't exist. ...
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Pathe's hot AFM sellers include The Duchess and Eden Lake
In addition to the recently announced sales for Walter Salles' Linha De Passe, Pathe International has announced a slew of further sales done at the recent AFM. Saul Dibb's The Duchess, which Pathe launched in Toronto, sold to Benelux (Cineart), Poland (Best Film), Greece and the Balkans (Audiovisuals), Portugal (Lusomundo), ...
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Focus, Groundswell team to finance Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic
Sean Penn will star in Gus Van Sant's biopic of the gay rights icon Harvey Milk for Focus Features and Groundswell Productions, which has been set for a January 2008 start date.American Beauty producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen will produce Milk through The Jinks/Cohen Company with Michael London, whose ...
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Sounds Of Sand takes top prize at Amazonas Film Festival
Marion Hansel's Belgium-France coproduction Sounds Of Sand won the Grand Prize at the fourth annual Amazonas Film Festival in Manaus, Brazil. The jury, headed by filmmaker John Boorman, split its second prize between Micha Wald's Belgium-France-Canada coproduction Horse Thieves and Feng Xiaogang's The Assembly. The Audience Prize winner was Brazilian ...
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Warner's Beowulf leads international box office with $17m
Beowulf destroyed the competition as the animated epic saga grossed an estimated $17m through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).The film drew approximately 1.7million admissions from 2,500 prints in 13 markets led by a $4.4m (£2.2m) second place launch in the UK in 552 sites that included previewsBeowulf ranked top in ...
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Paramount scores US number one with Beowulf on $28.1m
Beowulf ruled the world at the weekend as Robert Zemeckis' animated adaptation of the epic English poem launched at number one in North America with an estimated $28.1m haul that complemented the table topping overseas tally of $17m.Well over one-third of the domestic gross came from 3D screens through Real ...
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Lions Gate starts Canadian production services arm
Lions Gate Entertainment and Vancouver-base CineGate Holdings have formed an equal joint venture production services company. CineGate Production Management Services which will cater to those film and television projects shooting in Canada that are accessing tax credits, particularly US studio productions. In a statement, Lions Gate vice chairman and CEO ...
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Broadbent, McCrory join regulars in Harry Potter VI
Jim Broadbent and Helen McCrory have joined the regular Harry Potter cast on the upcoming sixth episode Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince.Broadbent will play the potions professor Horace Slughorn, who gives Harry an old tome with a mysterious past. McCrory will play Draco Malfoy's mother Narcissa.Newcomers Jessie Cave, Hero ...
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Last King Of Scotland reigns at Scottish BAFTAs
Kevin McDonald's Last King Of Scotland took three top honours at this year's TSB BAFTA Scotland Awards.The film set in Idi Amin's Uganda picked up prizes for best film, best screenplay (Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock) and best actor for James McAvoy.Sophie Myles was named best actress for her part ...