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Mar Del Plata attracts record numbers
The 21st Mar del Plata Film Festival has attracted morethan 100.000 spectators in its first seven days, confirming its place as LatinAmerica's leading film event.The Argentinian festival, running until next Sunday, hasalso seen an unprecedentedly large number of international guests; Tim Robbins,Susan Sarandon, Michael Winterbottom, Abel Ferrara and Juliette Binoche ...
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A dialogue with Marc Shmuger and David Linde
Marc Shmuger and DavidLinde (pictured), the new co-chiefs at Universal Studios, spoke to Screen yesterday abouttheir new roles at the company, the future of Focus Features and theinternational distribution arm which begins operating in Jan 2007.Screen: First, what will happen at Focus, David' Will JamesSchamus be sole president'Linde: I'm not ...
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BVI hires production and acquisitions head in India
Shyam PS has been named head of film production and acquisitionsat Buena Vista International (India) as The Walt Disney Company moves toexplore synergies with Bollywood.Based in Mumbai, Shyam will take the lead on creating original andacquiring original Indian-language films that combine Disney storytelling withIndian sensibilities.He will report directly to Rajat ...
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Bobby goes to North America through Weinsteins
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has acquired domestic rights from LosAngeles-based Bold Films to Emilio Estevez' keenly anticipated Bobby Kennedyassassination drama Bobby.Bobbyrevisits the night Kennedy was shot dead at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in1968 and presents a tapestry of interwoven stories about the people at thehotel that night.The star-studded ensemble piece ...
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Kenny moves to US to head up Warner digital arm
Simon Kenny has been appointed president of the newly formedWarner Bros Digital Distribution, part of the sprawling Warner Bros Home EntertainmentGroup (WBHEG) division announced last October.Kenny will manage the worldwide electronic distribution streams ofcontent across a wide array of platforms that includes pay-per-view, electronicsell-through, video-on-demand, subscription-video-on-demand, and wireless,among others.He will ...
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Ozon, TLA to get tributes, Reinas to open Miami gay and lesbian fest
Manuel Gomez Pereira's ensemble comedy Reinas (Queens) and Todd Stephens' comedy AnotherGay Movie bookend theeighth Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, which runs from Apr 21-30.Amnon Buchbinder's rites of passage comedy Whole New Thing has been named by organisers as thecenterpiece gala screening.The festival will pay tribute to distributor ...
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Shaft
Dir: John Singleton. US. 2000.Prod cos: Scott Rudin Productions, New Deal Productions, Paramount Pictures. US dist: Paramount. Int'l dist: UIP. Exec prods: Adam Schroeder, Paul Hall, Steve Nicolaides. Prods: Scott Rudin, John Singleton. Scr: Richard Price, Singleton & Shane Salerno, story by Singleton & Salerno based on the novel by ...
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Puiu, Weerasethakul among film-makers in Cannes Atelier
The Cannes Film Festivalhas selected 18 filmmakers to participate in the second annual Atelier duFestival.Under the aegis of theCannes Cinefondation, the workshop began last year in an effort to aide youngfilmmakers with their projects. During the festival, May 17 28, the selectgroup will meet with producers and distributors in order ...
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Tribeca Spotlight, Discovery sections announced
High profile independenttitles including Mini's First Timestarring Alec Baldwin and Nikki Reed, Five Fingers with Ryan Phillippe and Laurence Fishburne, ComebackSeason with Ray Liotta and EdwardBurns' latest film The Groomsmenstarring Burns and Britanny Murphy will all have their world premieres in theSpotlight or Discovery sections of this year's Tribeca Film ...
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MPA to host film production workshops in Beijing
The Motion PictureAssociation (MPA) is holding a series of workshops on film production andscreenwriting in Beijing starting this weekend. Organised with the supportof the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), the five-daycourse offers 20 Chinese producers and 20 screenwriters the chance to developtheir projects with help from established ...
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Former President of UIP dies of a stroke
Industryveteran, Pano Alafouzo,died of a stroke in London on March 10. Pano Alafouzowas born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1918. He started his film career at 20th Century Fox in Cairo beforerelocating to Warner Bros in London in 1966, where he became European Supervisor. Two years later, he moved to Universal'snewly ...
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Script Factory, Skillset start programme for crossover film writers
UK training organizations The Script Factory and Skillset have announced a new initiative, Writers' Circle,to find new screenwriters from the worlds of theatre, literature, TV, radio,and stand-up comedy. The programme will support eight'conversion' writers who have already had success in other fields andwant to cross over into film. ...
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American Dreamz opens ninth Bermuda festival
The ninth Bermuda International Film Festival willkick off tonight with a screening of Paul Weitz's American Dreamz,a satire of American politics and show business starring Dennis Quaid, Willem Dafoe, Hugh Grant and Mandy Moore. The festival has expanded to a nine-day event thisyear, and will close March 25 with Julian ...
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The government link with creative industries for biggest ever UK crackdown on counterfeiting and benefit fraud
The government and creative industries announced onMarch 16 the completion of the biggest crackdown on counterfeiters and benefitfraudsters ever seen in the UK.The operation was conducted by the Department forWork and Pensions (DWP) in conjunction with British record industry associationthe BPI, film industry anti-piracy body the Federation AgainstCopyright Theft (FACT) ...
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Strong documentary presence at Diagonale
The documentary genre willbe particularly strong at this year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinemawhich is being opened in Graz on March 21 with FlorianFlicker's No Name City about a WildWest town theme park south of Vienna.Among the 22 newdocumentaries selected to screen are Elisabeth Scharang'sTintenfischalarm (which had its world ...
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Biopic spies North Korean location shoot
A biopic about a Korean composer who was found guilty of spying for the North while in Germany is about to become the firstSouth Korean film to shoot on location in North Korea's capital city. LJ Film, with the backing ofparent company Innotz/Prime Entertainment, looks set to film Yun Isang, ...
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Fortissimo game for Tian's Go Master
Fortissimo Films has boardedTian Zhuangzhuang's highly-anticipated The Go Master, taking international rights outside China.Fortissimo co-chairmenMichael Werner and Wouter Barendrecht are executive producers on the $6mCannes-tipped epic, which is currently in post-production in Beijing.The Go Master stars Chang Chen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Sylvia Chang (Eat Drink Man Woman) and Xin ...
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Crawford to quit Village Roadshow
The future of Village Roadshow's international exhibition arm looks uncertain following the surprise decision of chairman and co-chief executive officer John Crawford to leave the company. Crawford is quitting Village's UK-based international arm in December after deciding not to renew his contract. The UK headquarters will relocate to Melbourne, despite ...
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HK's Focus cultivates ties with emerging filmmakers
Affirming its commitment togrooming new talents, Hong Kong's Focus Film is producing new feature films bythree directors that emerged through its First Cuts low-budget filmmakinginitiative that was unveiled last year.Robin Lee, who shot theTaiwanese episode The Shoe Fairy,will now direct My DNA Says I Love You, a new quirky romantic ...
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Chinese studio start-up hires sales veteran
Korean sales executive Bill Hwang has moved to Meridian Pictures Group(MPG) as Director of International Distribution. Formerly of Tube Entertainment and KangJeKyu Film, Korean-AustralianHwang has relocated to Shanghai to join the newly formed Chineseinvestor/distributor.MPG is currently in the process of completing output deals for mainlandChina and international distribution from leading ...
