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Happy-Go-Lucky, Stardust up for Conch soundtrack awards
Industry group UK Screen has announced the shortlisted nominees for its sound prizes, The Conch Awards.The awards are now in their third year, honouring audio post-production in film, TV and commercials.The industry nominated the shortlisted candidates, and now those contenders will submkit material for judging. Winners will be announced at ...
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Chew takes Singapore-based role for Global Networks
Christopher Chew has been appointed Affiliate Sales Director Asia Pacific Global Networks, an international division of NBC Universal.He takes the newly created role effective immediately.The announcement was made by Raymund Miranda, Managing Director Asia Pacific Global Networks to whom Chew will report.Chew will be based in Singapore. He previously was ...
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Match Factory handles Venice competitors Jerichow, Teza
Cologne-based The Match Factory will handle international sales on two Venice competition titles - Christian Petzold's Jerichow and Haile Gerima's Teza - screening as world premieres at the festival.Jerichow marks The Match Factory's second collaboration with Petzold after his Berlinale 2007 competition film Yella which won lead actress and Petzold ...
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UKFC backs 56 independent cinemas with $940,000
The UK Film Council's Capital and Access Fund for cinemas has awarded $939,400 (£475,000) to 56 independent cinemas across the UK. Grants ranged from $1,008 (£510) to $69,221 (£35,000) per cinema.Some of the largest awards went to Aberystwyth Arts Centre Cinema, Cardiff's Chapter Cinema, the Glasgow Film Theatre, the RBS ...
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Xingu partners with comic kingpin Pat Millsfor American Reaper film
Repeat Offenders, a new UK company developing graphic novels with cinema potential, is at work on its first two projects, both based on the work of lauded comics duo Pat Mills and Clint Langley.Trudie Styler's Xingu Films has acquired big-screen rights to upcoming graphic novel American Reaper created by writer ...
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Warner Bros takes North America on The Dish
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired North American rights to The Dish, the Australian comic drama which opened last weekend in its home territory with the highest opening for a local film in history.The deal marks a rare independent pick-up from Warner, coming at a time when rumours are swirling about ...
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HFPA gives $0.76m in grants to film schools and non-profits
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented $759,865 in financial grants to film schools and non-profit organizations at its annual installation luncheon in Los Angeles today (Wednesday).
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Russian box-office sales boom in first half of 2008
Cinemas in Russia and the CIS saw a 3.7% year-on-year increase in admissions in the first half of 2008 while sales in the first six months of the year ballooned 38.2% over the same period in 2007. According to Russian Film Business Today, more than 56m tickets were sold in ...
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Disney takes New Zealand rights to Under The Mountain
Walt Disney has signed on with sales agent NZ Film to distribute Black Sheep director Jonathan King's scary teen adventure Under The Mountain in New Zealand. Sam Neill has been cast in the film, an adaptation of a 1979 Maurice Gee novel about teenage twins who battle the dark forces ...
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Adlabs commissions studyof Indian cinema audiences
Mumbai-based Adlabs Cinemas has commissioned India's leading research agency, IMRB International, to carry out research that will probe the Indian cinema audience on parameters such as advertising exposure, cinema habits and exposure to media. Adlabs Cinemas is a part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, while IMRB International is ...
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Korea's constitutional court rules against restricted rating
South Korea's Constitutional Court has ruled against the Korea Media Rating Board's 'Restricted' classification, effectively compelling the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to create a revised law proposal for the legislative body. Local importer World Cinema filed suit in February of this year after its Cannes 2005 pick-up Battle ...
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Projects by Fliegauf, Alvart, Sax receive backing from German funds
New productions by Benedek Fliegauf, Christian Alvart, and Geoffrey Sax are among 35 projects receiving over $12m in support from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and Leipzig-based Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung (MDM).At its latest sitting the Berlin-based FFA supported such projects as Hungarian director Fliegauf's first English language production, Womb, produced ...
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China Film, Enlight team to produce new media shorts
Chinese state-owned China Film Group Corporation and private media group Enlight Media are teaming up to produce short films for new media platforms. The two groups aim to produce 100 short films in the coming year. According to Wang Changtian, president of Enlight Media Group, the films will be three ...
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Screen opinion:A double take on piracy
The UK government took its swig from the poisoned chalice of film and music piracy this week. The result, of course, was a fudge. Most attempts to take on counterfeiting have proved either incoherent or unworkable. Sometimes both.Like the 'war on drugs' the prospects for a knock-out blow are limited ...
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Venice Film Festival: Italian squad takes on rest of world
The Italian flag will fly high over the Lido this year. Following a strong showing at Cannes, four local titles will screen in competition at the 65th Venice film festival, with the Italian industry out in force with 20 films.Artistic director Marco Mueller reportedly had to make an official request ...
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Postcard from Karlovy Vary
Karlovy Vary is known as a relaxed setting, ideal for renewing contacts. A little business was done in the pine-fringed Czech spa town during the festival (July 4-12), four films picked up local distribution, and the Eastern European line-up went down well with enthusiastic audiences, many of whom were backpacking ...
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Filmax partners with Miramax on Darkness
In the highest-profile pre-sale during the London market screenings so far, Spanish mini-studio Filmax Group has partnered with Miramax Films on Jaume Balaguero's horror flick Darkness for English-speaking territories including the US. Miramax snagged the English-language title during the London screenings after a bidding war for US rights on the ...
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Postcard from Britdoc
It is only in its third edition, but the UK's Britdoc festival (July 23-25) is a major draw for the international documentary community.Last week's instalment attracted more than 950 delegates, including film-makers Larry Charles, Nick Broomfield, and Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, otherwise known as anti-capitalist activists The Yes Men, ...
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Canada - Fantastic Forum
It's sure not your Uncle Walt's Fantasia. Swedish vampires, contagious Spanish cannibals, feudal female Korean crime-solvers and general Japanese insanity have never been a big part of the Disney world, but they are the meat and potatoes (mostly meat) of Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival, the 12th edition of which ...
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Joshua Michael Stern pushes political buttons
Joshua Michael Stern's broad political satire Swing Vote, which opened through Disney's Touchstone label on Aug 1, is about as timely as it gets.With Barack Obama and John McCain both campaigning to take control of the White House in November, Stern's tale of a hapless single father who through a ...