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Breakfast With Scot to open 10th Miami Gay & Lesbian festival
The East Coast premiere of Laurie Lynd's comedy Breakfast With Scot and Thomas Gustafson's Were The World Mine bookend the 10th Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, which is set to run from Apr 25-May 4.Avi Nesher's drama The Secrets starring Fanny Ardant is the centerpiece screening. Killer Films ...
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SBS plans digital expansion in Eastern Europe
Mediatrade president Maurizio Costanzo has been appointed head of Veleno (Venom), the new company recently launched as Cross Media Factory by Italian media giant Fininvest, with the aim of seeking synergies between its publishing, internet, film and television arms.Veleno aims to be a 'factory of ideas,' that will draw on ...
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Belgrad & Tolmach named presidents of Columbia Pictures
Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach have each been named president of Columbia Pictures and have extended their contracts to 2011.The executives have been running production at the studio since 2003 and overseen titles such as the Spider-Man franchise, Casino Royale, Superbad, The Da Vinci Code, Hitch, Ghost Rider and many ...
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Bird, Kandhari to share the Leadership Award from IFFLA
Walt Disney International chairman Andy Bird and PricewaterhouseCoopers India partner and leader of the entertainment media practice Timmy Kandhari will share the 2008 Industry Leadership Award from the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles' (IFFLA).The award was created to recognise the achievements of industry executives who have had 'a substantial ...
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Meistrich's NEHST unveils development slate
Larry Meistrich has unveiled the 2008 slate of features being out together at his NEHST Studios, which launched at Cannes 2007.President of NEHST Creations - production group Dana Offenbach will oversee production on the titles, which includes Sridhar Reddy's India-set martial arts adventure The Killing Moon, Ron Kanecke's supernatural drama ...
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Guadalajara to open next week with El Cafe De Los Maestros
The 23rd Guadalajara International Film Festival will open next Friday with Mguel Kohan's El Cafe De Los Maestros, a documentary about the glory days of Argentinian Tango.Argentina is the featured country this year and ten Argentinian films will screen this year, while the festival will also act as a meeting ...
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Religare, Vistaar launch India's first film fund
Religare Enterprises and Vistaar Entertainment Ventures have joined hands to launch the Vistaar Religare Film Fund (VRFF), touted as India’s first regulated film fund.AMC Vistaar Religare Capital Advisors Limited has filed for approval with the Indian stock exchange board as a venture capital fund (VCF). The fund will be close-ended ...
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Wilco Wolfers confirmed as managing director of A-Film
Confirming recent reports in Screen, Wilco Wolfers has been appointed managing director of Netherlands-based A-Film Distribution.He succeeds Pim Hermeling, whose departure was announced last week when his shares were transferred to investment company W2Media.Wolfers is currently managing director of Warner Bros Netherlands and will take up the new post as ...
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Jerwood hands out three prizs to UK moving image artists
The Jerwood Charitable Foundation has announced the three winners of the inaugural Jerwood Moving Image Awards.The winners are Evensong by Sophie Clements, Procrastination by Johnny Kelly and Sea Change by Rosie Pedlow and Joe King. Each gets an award of $19,783 (£10,000).The awards are for artists working in digital moving ...
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Alex Hamilton appointed director of UK's Contender Films
Alex Hamilton, the former president of Icon Film Distribution, has joined growing UK distributor Contender Entertainment Group.He has been appointed director of Contender Films, the company's feature film theatrical distribution and operations division for the UK and Ireland.He takes the post as of April 1 and will report to CEG ...
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French films, led by Ch'Tis, lead the international box office
French films accounted for nearly a quarter of the international top 40 revenue this weekend, spearheaded by a whopping $32.5m opening from top film Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis.The top 40 films generated $188.5m from 45,384 screens for the period of February 29-March 2. For the full international chart, compiled by ...
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Eurimages backs new projects from Danis Tanovic, Marco Bellocchio
The Council of Europe's Eurimages co-production fund has backed 10 new features for a total of $5.4m (Euros 3.57m).The supported projects are:3 Sezony V Pekle by Tomas Masin (Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia) EEP by Rita Horst (Netherlands, Belgium) Europolis, The Town of the Delta by Kostadin Bonev (Bulgaria, Austria) Forgotten ...
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Zee Telefilms to offload stake in cable network
Indian cable and satellite broadcaster Zee Telefilms plans to sell up to 20% of its fully-owned cable network, Siticable. According to chairman Subhash Chandra, the company has appointed investment bank AIA Capital to oversee the sale.The move will help finance Zee's ambitious expansion plans which include investing $1bn in building ...
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Managing director Stephan Schesch takes over Animation X
Managing director Stephan Schesch has taken over control of the Berlin-based production house Animation X Gesellschaft zur Produktion von Animationsfilmen following the exit of the shareholders X-Filme creative pool and David Groenewold's Promedium from the joint venture.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com on the eve of this year's Cartoon Movie co-production market ...
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Jason Neff starts production on female jockey documentary
Los Angeles-based film-maker Jason Neff has started production for his new documentary Jock for Innerview Entertainment and Ellman Entertainment.The feature-length documentary about female horse racing jockeys will be directed by Neff and produced by Neff and Linda Ellman (On Native Soil).Jock is planned for a 2009 release to celebrate the ...
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William Ireton: the interpreter
First he brought the Hollywood A-list to Japan. Now the head of Warner Entertainment Japan is turning his attention to stars closer to home. Jason Gray reports.In 2006, when Japanese films took a larger bite of the pie than Hollywood imports for the first time in more than two decades, ...
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Brideshead Revisited: world of Waugh
Edward Lawrenson visits the set of Brideshead Revisited and talks to director Julian Jarrold about his fresh approach to the classic story. It's early June and a hunting party is assembled outside Castle Howard in Yorkshire, UK. Glancing at the sight of 20 or so mounted riders, impeccably attired in ...
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Locarno: nurturing the new
For its 60th anniversary edition, the Locarno International Film Festival (August 1-11) is underlining its strengths as an event of discovery. Geoffrey Macnab reports. Now in its 60th year, the Locarno international film festival is one of the oldest and grandest festivals in the world.Its open-air Piazza Grande screenings are ...
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Lebanon hits the road
It may be at the whim of political and economic upheavals, and have a population of only 3.9 million, but Lebanon's film-makers are punching above their weight. Antonia Carver reports. It used to be possible to count on one hand the Lebanese films that had broken out internationally. But despite ...
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Cause and effects
From Harry Potter to Sunshine, the UK's post houses are creating world-class effects work. But how is the sector being affected by the exchange rate and increasing competition from India' Geoffrey Macnab reports. The past 12 months has been something of a banner year for the UK post sector. From ...