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SPTI signs day-and-date VoD deal with KT Corp
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed a day-and-date video-on-demand (VoD) licensing deal with South Korea's KT Corporation (KT). Films covered by the deal willbe shownon KT's internet protocol TV (IPTV) service MegaTV on the same day as local home video/DVD release. Titles include Vantage Point, The Water Horse, Across ...
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Warner Bros boards Indian title Saas Bahu Aur Sensex
Warner Bros India has announced its second local Indian film production, Shona Urvashi's sophomore effort Saas Bahu Aur Sensex (SBS).Principal photography on the film, produced by PLA Entertainment and Warner Bros, has been completed and post work has begun. The film is slated for release on September 12.Saas Bahu Aur ...
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Richie Mehta's Amal wins Grand Jury Prize at IFFLA
The sixth annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles finished on Sunday with the announcement that Richie Mehta's Amal, which opened the festival last Tuesday, won the Grand Jury Prize for best narrative feature and Yunus Vally's The Glow Of White Women won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary.Shivajee ...
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RiverRun top prizes go to Edge Of Heaven, Up The Yangtze
The tenth annual RiverRun International Film Festival ended on Sunday (April 27) with the announcement that Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven had won the narrative juried competition and Yung Chang's Up The Yangtze had won the documentary competition.RiverRun takes place in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.The audience award for best narrative ...
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Chaplin Film to back competition winners
Hungarian production company Chaplin Film and web-site www.magyar.film.hu have selected five treatments from their joint screenwriting competition which Chaplin plans to develop into full-length screenplays.The winning projects include Propulsion by Balazs Loth, Dead Channel by Miklos Varga and Andras Horvath, Champion Factory by Istvan Bernath and family dramas Lajcsi, The ...
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Filmaka names first annual contest winner as 21 year-old Londoner
Filmaka, the digital entertainment studio and online creative community, has announced the winner of its first annual feature film competition as the UK's Nuru Rimington-Mkali for his short film And I Refuse To Forget.The 21 year-old will be awarded the opportunity to direct his first feature, which Filmaka will produce.Founded ...
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Magnolia picks up North American rights to Red
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Red, the revenge thriller directed by Trygve Allister Diesen and Lucky McKee which had its world premiere at Sundance this year.The film stars Brian Cox, Robert Englund, Amanda Plummer and Tom Sizemore in the story of an elderly recluse (Cox) who tracks ...
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Rob Williams gets key acquisitions job at Liberation Entertainment
Rob Williams, formerly an acquisitions executive at Netflix/Red Envelope Entertainment, has been named vice president of acquisitions and theatrical distribution at aggressive new US independent Liberation Entertainment.Williams will develop and oversee the company's US acquisitions strategy for film and TV across multiple platforms.The announcement was made by Jay Boberg, the ...
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Coach 14 and Orly join forces on films from Resnais, Huster and Miller
French sales companies Coach 14 and Orly Films are teaming upto handle three films from producer Jean-Louis Livi going into the Cannes Market.The association is a one-off but is designed to bring together the two outfits' know-how and to provide buyers with a double interlocutor on these particular projects which ...
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Three newcomers claim UK Film Council Development Fund awards
The first awards from theUK Film Council's new Development Fund for first features include three complete newcomers to the industry.The trioare all screenwriters working on features: Neil Knowles for slacker comedyThe Bailey Method; Elena Fuller fordramaGreener about ayoung woman coming to terms with the death of her mother; and Richard ...
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Liz Friedlander to direct film of Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons
Liz Friedlander, a veteran music video director who made her feature debut last year with Take The Lead, will direct a film of Tom Wolfe's best-selling novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, marking the first time Wolfe has allowed one of his novels to be optioned since The Bonfire Of The ...
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Roth's The Little Traitor to open third LA Jewish Film Festival
The third annual Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival will take place May 8-15 with special honours being presented to Theodore Bikel and Joan Rivers and screenings of over 30 features, documentaries and shorts.Opening the festival is Lynn Roth's The Little Traitor, a drama set in 1947 Israel starring Alfred Molina, ...
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Irish Film Board proposes new Irish and world cinema TV channel
The Irish Film Board (IFB) has announced a proposal for a new Irish TV channel, using new digital infrastructure, which will be dedicated to broadcasting the best of Irish, European and world cinema.The proposal has been made to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for inclusion in Ireland's ...
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Pyramide's Cannes line-up calls for Snow
Pyramide International has announced the addition of Critics Week title Snow to its line-up for the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. The film is directed by Aida Bejic and focuses on residents of a small village whose lives are disrupted by visiting businessmen just before a storm hits. Also on the ...
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A Shot At Glory
Dir: Michael Corrente. UK-US. 2000. 114 mins.Prod Co: Eagle Beach Productions, Butcher's Run Productions. Int'l Sales: Seven Arts International (1) 323 467 1822. Prods: Michael Corrente, Robert Duvall, Rob Carliner. Exec Prods: Billy Heinzerling, Steven Bowman, Denis O'Neil. Scr: Denis O'Neil. DoP: Alex Thomson. Prod des: Andy Harris. Ed: David ...
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Blindness to open Cannes Film Festival
Fernando Meirelles' Blindness is to open the Cannes Film Festival and will join the Competition line-up, it has been confirmed.The film, about a city hit with a plague causing most of the population to go blind, was adapted by Don McKellar from the novel by Jose Saramago.The cast is led ...
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Babelsberg posts most successful financial year since privatisation
Studio Babelsberg has posted its most successful financial year since the privatisation of the production complex in 1992 thanks, in particular, to such international co-productions as the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer, Bryan Singer's Valkyrie and Tom Tykwer's The International.On the publication of its annual report for 2007 on Tuesday morning ...
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Critics Week adds special screening of Swiss Home
Paris-based Memento Films has confirmed that its Swiss black comedy, Home, has been added as a special screening in Critics Week.Directed by Ursula Meier and starring Isabelle Huppert and Olivier Gourmet, the film has been scheduled into the prestigious Sunday night slot which was reserved for Juan Antonio Bayona's The ...
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Hunger to open Cannes Un Certain Regard
Steve McQueen's Hunger about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands is to open the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes. The film was a surprise ommission when the festival line-up was announced last week but its presence was confirmed today.British artist McQueen co-wrote the screenplay with award-winning playwright Enda Walsh (Disco ...
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Filmax takes international rights to Colombian hit Paraiso Travel
Filmax has acquired international sales rights and Spanish theatrical rights to Simon Brand's Colombian smash Paraiso Travel, which had its US premiere at Tribeca at the weekend.The Paraiso Pictures and Grand Illusions Entertainment production was adapted from Jorge Franco's novel of the same name and centres on a lovelorn teen ...