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Cast lines up for New York feature Fighting Fish
Val Emmich, Anna Moore and Halley Feiffer will star in Slew Pictures' family drama Fighting Fish, set to begin principal photography in the Woodstock/Saugerties area of New York state on Aug 11.The story tells of a brother and a sister from a troubled family who struggle to stay close.Annette Apitz ...
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John Riccitiello joins USC Cinematic Arts board
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has joined the USC School Of Cinematic Arts board of councillors.The 25-member board offers insight on industry trends, developing resources and setting long-term goals for the school.Members include George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Robert Zemeckis, Brad Grey, Brian Grazer, Laura Ziskin and Barry Diller.Riccitiello ...
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Floods delay Italy's St Vincent Prize
Italy's prestigious St. Vincent Prize for Italian cinema, scheduled to be held this week, has been postponed due to the heavy flooding that has swamped north-western Italy in the last couple of weeks. Felice Laudadio, director of the Valle d'Aosta-based St. Vincent festival, said it would be "inopportune" to hold ...
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Stephen Cookson attached to direct UK feature Acts Of God
Stephen Cookson is attached to direct Acts Of God, a new UK feature now in development.Joe Stephenson and actor Ryan Sampson (Doctor Who) are writing their first feature screenplay.UK equity financier CKM Entertainments Ltd is financing the development and the production could be shooting in spring 2009.The road movie is ...
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Melbourne's Emerging award goes to Jonathan auf der Heide
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) tonight presents the Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award to director Jonathan auf der Heide for his short film Hell's Gate, one week before he goes into production on a feature-length version.The low-budget privately-financed feature, like the short, is a dramatic thriller about the human instinct ...
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Julieanne Crothers-Gibson appointed new chair ofBFFS board
The British Federation of Film Societies (BFFS) has announced several new appointments to its board. Each term runs for three years.The new board is comprised of:Julieanne Crothers-Gibson (chair), Director of Policy Development, Northern Ireland ScreenDonna Anton, (vice-chair), editor and business executive, Secretary to Penwith Film Society, Penzance, CornwallRichard Grayson, (vice-chair), ...
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Le, Gigandet, Moehring join cast of Alvart's Pandorum
Martial arts world champion Cung Le, US actor Cam Gigandet (winner of the MTV Movie Award for Best Fight Scene for his performance in Never Back Down), and German actors Wotan Wilke Moehring and Andre Hennicke have joined Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster in the cast of Christian Alvart's futuristic ...
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Avex Group, Media Asiaestablish $50 film fund
Hong Kong's eSun Holdings, parent of the Media Asia Entertainment Group, and Japan's Avex Group have announced the creation of a film fund of $50m over five years, to be jointly financed by both parties. The two companies have formed a joint venture company, PAMIEM Film Fund Limited, incorporated in ...
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The Mummy opens tops in 16 of its 22 new markets
The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor kept The Dark Knight at bay for a second consecutive weekend and earned its stripes with another eye-popping result thanks to an estimated $56.1m from 6,453 sites in 49 Universal/UPI territories. The adventure sequel stands at $141.1m after two weekends and led ...
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Box Office: Knight flies ahead of Pineapple Express
The Dark Knight clung on to the number one spot at the North American box-office for the fourth consecutive weekend and edged out Sony's stoner comedy Pineapple Express thanks to an estimated $26m haul that boosted the film to within touching distance of Star Wars' second spot in the all-time ...
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Japan's Fuji TV to produce third Umizaru film
Fuji TV producer Hirotsugu Usui has announced a third sequel in the hit Umizaru marine action franchise. The news comes after two years of petitions by fans for a continuation in the story, leading Usui and the network to start work on a third installment. Umizaru 3 will again be ...
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M-Appeal takes on sales for Locarno title Yuri's Day
Berlin-based sales agent M-Appeal has picked up international distribution rights for the Russian-German co-production Yuri's Day (Yuriev Den) which has its international premiere in Locarno's Official Competition tomorrow.The fourth feature by Kirill Serebrennikov - his 2006 film Playing The Victim became a favourite on the international festival circuit - was ...
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Thoeren steps down from IM Internationalmedia
Konstantin Thoeren has stepped down from all of his responsibilities in the Internationalmedia Group with immediate effect.The veteran producer with a track record of over 30 years as an independent producer had been appointed CEO of the beleaguered IM Internationalmedia AG last October in what was described at the time ...
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Kinowelt sells piece of AAC to feed Momentum
Germany's Kinowelt Medien has sold close to one million shares of Alliance Atlantis Communication (AAC) worth approximately $13m, part of which it will funnel into Momentum Pictures, the UK distribution company it controls equally with AAC.Paul Laberge, AAC senior vice president of corporate development and general counsel, told ScreenDaily ...
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Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen start shooting Isitt's Nativity
Debbie Isitt has started principal photography on comedy Nativity, starring Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Jason Watkins and Mark Wootton.Backers are BBC Films, Screen West Midlands and Limelight. Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales.Isitt, who last directed Confetti, is again directing an improvised comedy.Nick Jones is producing.The film will shoot throughout ...
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Dir. Dave Filoni. US. 2008. 98 mins Action-packed and visually impressive it may be, but CG-animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Wars still feels like what it essentially is - a supercharged TV pilot designed to help George Lucas' venerable Star Wars franchise make the transition from the big to ...
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Goran Paskaljevic to shoot Honeymoon from October
Veteran Serbian film-maker Goran Paskaljevic (How Harry Became a Tree, The Optimists) will begin shooting his next feature Honeymoon from mid-October as the first film co-produced between Albania and Serbia.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com at this week's Locarno film festival where he is a member of the International Jury, Paskaljevic said ...
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Fly Me To The Moon
Dir: Ben Stassen. US. 2008. 85 mins.The first computer-generated animated feature conceived and produced exclusively for a 3-D release, Fly Me to the Moon also represents one of the strangest misfires in recent animation history. The story of three young flies who stow away on the Apollo 11 space flight, ...
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National Board of Review sets 2009 awards for January 14
The National Board Of Review Of Motion Pictures (NBR) will hold its annual awards gala on January 14, 2009 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. This year's gala will celebrate the NBR's centennial year. The body's president Annie Schulhof said members 'could not be prouder to continue ...