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Former CinemaVault executive Arroyave launches new sales outfit
Former Cinemavault Releasing executive Steve Arroyave has launched a new world sales outfit, Arrow Entertainment. Based in Toronto, Arrow will make its debut at the European Film Market with writer-director Stewart Raffil's Mysterious, a supernatural thriller starring James Brolin, Antonio Sabato and Annalynne McCord and produced by Diane Kirman of ...
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London Film Commission appoints Hayes as head
The London Film Commission (LFC) has appointed Sue Hayes as its commissioner and announced that Richard Attenborough will be its first patron.Hayes worked as a documentary producer in the UK and US and has been director of the Edinburgh International Television Festival. The commission has also appointed Graham Anderson, managing ...
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Maike Haas rejoins Sony in international production unit
Maike Haas has returned to Sony following an eight-year stint at Buena Vista International Germany and has been named vice president of international production, Europe, for Sony Pictures Entertainment's International Motion Picture Production division.Haas will oversee European operations from Berlin and identify and develop projects with a focus on German-language ...
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Alan Amman promoted at LA PR firm mPRm
Alan Amman has been promoted to executive vice president and COO at Los Angeles-based publicity firm mPRm Public Relations.The move recognises Amman's growing managerial role and expands his remit to encompass the events/lifestyle practice and the recently formed viral marketing and PR service mPRm sPRead Solutions alongside his ongoing commitment ...
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Dark Matter finally gets domestic deal with First Independent
First Independent Pictures has picked up Dark Matter and will release it in North American in April.The drama premiered at Sundance 2007 and won the Alfred P Sloan Award for its portrayal of a brilliant Chinese cosmology student who is marginalized when he goes to the US to study for ...
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Gay drama Misconceptions starts shooting in Florida
Principal photography began on Jan 14 in St Petersburg, Florida, on the independent feature Misconceptions.Ron Satlof is directing from the script he co-wrote with Ira Pearlstein that examines the ongoing culture war between same-sex parents and Christian conservatives.Steven J Brown is producing and Ted Perkins and J A Bremont act ...
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Benso named to senior financial position at Paramount Home Entertainment
Gaspare Benso has been appointed senior vice president of international finance and planning at Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE).Benso is responsible for all international financial functions, including planning and forecasting, financial reporting and business support and will report to PHE president Dennis Maguire and executive vice president of finance and planning ...
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IFC launches new VOD initiative for international films
IFC Entertainment has launched the video-on-demand package Festival Direct that will showcase for a limited time a selection of IFC films that premiered at international festivals.The initiative will launch on Feb 29 on local cable carriers' On Demand platforms across the US for $5.99 each. Titles include Ken Loach's It's ...
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Red Envelope, B-Side team for unusual US release of football doc
Netflix' theatrical distributor Red Envelope Entertainment and independent distributor B-Side Entertainment are to stage the day-and-date theatrical, DVD and internet streaming release of American football documentary Two Days In April.The film will launch as a DVD rental and 'instant view' through Netflix's web-based service and open the same day in ...
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Union Square changes its name to Berk-Lane Entertainment
Union Square Entertainment principals Jason Berk and Matt Lane, whose company produced the William H Macy and Meg Ryan comedy The Deal headed for Sundance, have changed the company name to Berk-Lane Entertainment.Berk-Lane will continue to finance and produce and aims to increase its involvement in feature development and expand ...
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Village, Golden Harvest settle Singapore dispute
Kenneth Tan will step down as head of Singapore exhibitor Golden Village (GV) as the company's co-owners, Australia's Village Roadshow and Hong Kong 's Golden Harvest, settle their dispute over their Singapore business partnership. The partners were at odds with each other when Golden Harvest petitioned to end their Singapore ...
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Village, Golden Harvest settle Singapore dispute
Kenneth Tan will step down as head of Singapore exhibitor Golden Village (GV) as the company's co-owners, Australia's Village Roadshow and Hong Kong 's Golden Harvest, settle their dispute over their Singapore business partnership. The partners were at odds with each other when Golden Harvest petitioned to end their Singapore ...
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Shot In Bombay
Dir: Liz Mermin, UK/US 2007. 99mins.Fact proves racier than fiction in Shot In Bombay, Liz Mermin's documentary on the filming of a Bollywood action movie based on true events. The film in question is Shootout At Lokhandwala, director Apoorva Lakhia's 2007 thriller inspired by a real-life Mumbai gun battle between ...
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Metrodome takes UK rights to The Assembly and The Banquet
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights for two new Chinese films, The Assembly and The Banquet. Both are directed by Feng Xiaogang.The Assembly has already taken more than $30m at the Chinese box office. It is based on the true story of one man's journey during the 1948 Chinese ...
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Berlin's Perspektive Deutsches Kino to include Randl's debut
The Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar has now finalised its 2008 programme with five feature films, four documentaries and four short films.The remaining six films to be confirmed include Lola Randl's feature debut In Between Days which was produced by Herbert Schwering's Coin Film as part of public broadcaster WDR ...
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Greek box office up 5% thanks to local hits including El Greco
The Greek box office registered a 5% rise during 2007 - up to 13.3m admissions from 12.9m in 2006, according to local experts. US blockbusters continued to perform well, as expected, but the boost was helped by strong performance by local productions.Zack Snyder's 300, although a US production, was a ...
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Berlin selects 29 shorts, including 11 in competition
The Berlinale has selected 29 films for its Shorts section, including a special presentation of Serbian director Zelimir Zilnik's 1975 nine-minute film Inventory about housing speculation and foreigners living in Munich.A jury composed of Romanian producer Ada Solomon, French-actor director Marc Barbe and German actress Laura Tonke will have the ...
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Japan's IMJ, Dub Incset up production label Smoke
IMJ Group subsidiary, IMJ Entertainment (IMJE), has established a feature film and visual contents company as a 50:50 joint venture with film and TV producer Dub Inc. The new company, Smoke, will be headed by Dub CEO Yasushi Utagawa, who will serve as producer on feature films developed under the ...
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Spain's Imagina launches film sales division under Setuain
Spain's leading television distributor Imagina has moved into film sales, handling international rights on films produced by its associated companies, as well as pick ups from other independent production companies.Beatriz Setuain has taken the role as head of the new film distribution division, effective yesterday. She previously worked as an ...
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Hot Docs honouring Leacock, Baichwall, Fraser
The Hot Docs documentary film festival will honour three notables of the form at its upcoming 15th edition: UK filmmaker Richard Leacock, Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal and the BBC's Nick Fraser, long-time commissioning editor of the UK broadcaster's Storyville documentary strand.Leacock, who will be presented with the Hot Docs Outstanding ...