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Pagliuca leaves Nu Image/Millenium for The Film Department
Inc Pagliuca has joined The Film Department from Nu Image/Millennium as vice president of international business affairs and will report to international president Steve Bickel.Pagliuca will assume responsibility for the company's foreign distribution agreements and related documents and will work closely with international clients as well as finance, business and ...
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Lightning adds Forever Strong to Cannes sales slate
Santa Monica-based sales agency Lightning Entertainment has added Ryan Little's sports drama Forever Strong to its Cannes slate.Sean Faris stars as a brash rugby talent who winds up in detention centre following a DUI and joins a rival team under the guidance of a counsellor. Sean Astin and Neal McDonough ...
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Five finalists named in Foreign category of student Academy Awards
Five finalists selected from 45 entries representing 29 countries will compete for the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' 2008 Honorary Foreign Film award in the 35th Annual Student Academy Awards.The winning student film-maker will be brought to Los Angeles, along with US-based Student Academy Award winners, to participate ...
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Tribeca Film Institute names winners of annual fellowships
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) has announced the recipients of its 2008 Media Arts Fellowships founded and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.This year TFI awarded $715,000 to 22 film-makers and media artists. The Fellowships offer financial support for artists working in the narrative, documentary, experimental, installation and computer-generated media genres.The ...
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Chinese video site Tudou receives $57m in financing
Chinese video-sharing web-site Tudou.com has secured $57m in its fourth round of financing from investors including previous backers IDG, Granite Global Ventures and General Catalyst. The company also has financing from two new investors from the US and Singapore, according to Tudou press representative Lily Gong in a statement.Tudou previously ...
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Lightning picks up Aussie horror Gates Of Hell
US sales agent Lightning Entertainment has picked up world rights to horror film The Gates Of Hell just in time for Cannes. Australian writer/director Kelly Dolen met all but one of the private investors that put up the $1.1m (A$1.2m) to make the film while installing theatre systems in their ...
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Beijing government establishes copyright trade centre
Beijing's municipal government has established a unit called the Beijing International Copyright Trade Centre, which is China's first cross governmental unit focusing on copyright trade and protection services. Established as Beijing's first ever one-stop shop for full copyright-related services, the centre will provide copyright registration, legal services on intellectual property ...
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Miramax partners with Vaughn's MARV for The Debt
Miramax Films is partnering with Matthew Vaughn and Kris Thykier's London-based MARV Films on The Debt. Miramax has acquired world rights to the screenplay, which reunites Vaughn with his Stardust co-writer Jane Goldman.The film is a re-make of the Israeli film The Debt (Ha-Hov), a spy thriller about three Mossad ...
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Irish Film Board appoints O'Neill and Notley to business roles
The Irish Film Board (IFB) has appointed Patrick O'Neill to the new position of industry affairs executive and Laura Notley to the role of business affairs co-ordinator.O'Neill will work closely with IFB head of business affairs and deputy CEO, Teresa McGrane, on IFB policy and will manage one-off IFB projects ...
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Venice adds US reps D'Agnolo Vallan and Di Paola
The Biennale has announced Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan and Margherita Di Paola will be the new US programmer and correspondent, respectively,for the 65th Venice Film Festival.Both D'Agnolo Vallan and Di Paola are charged with assisting Venice Film Festival artistic director Marco Mueller in the selection and searching process of American films ...
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Bekkie Sunley named brand manager for LoveFilm
Bekkie Sunley has joined LoveFilm as brand manager.She joins LoveFilm from Universal Music Group, where she had product manager and marketing coordination roles across Universal Classics & Jazz, and Universal Music TV.Sunley will report to head of brand marketing Fliss White, who said: 'Bekkie is a welcome addition to the ...
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Kinowelt International unveils 'long-lost' Lubitsch
Kinowelt International will be unveiling a 'long-lost' film by Ernst Lubitsch and the 'Director's Cut' of Percy Adlon's 1987 international hit Bagdad Cafe as market premieres at the forthcoming Marche du Film in Cannes.Made in 1921, Lubitsch's The Loves Of Pharaoh (Das Weib Des Pharao) was his last large-scale production ...
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Senator to bring horror video game Clock Tower to big screen
Senator Entertainment will bring the Capcom survival horror video game Clock Tower to the big screen under the direction of Martin Weisz (The Hills Have Eyes 2) from a screenplay by Eric Poppen (Borderland).Principal photography is set to begin in July on the psychological thriller which will be produced by ...
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James, Machin, Davies join Film Agency For Wales board
The Film Agency For Wales has added three new board members. They are journalist/producer Alison James, THINKFilm International's Will Machin and Welsh media studies lecturer Cath Davies.The appointments were announced by Agency chairman Peter Edwards.Edwards said: 'The first 18 months of the life of the Film Agency has been an ...
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Nine get funding from London Artists' Film and Video Awards
Nine London-based film and video artists will receive funding to produce new work through the 2008 London Artists' Film and Video Awards (LAFVA), supported by Film London in partnership with Arts Council England.This year's award recipients, each receiving up to $40,000 for proposed projects, are: Luciano Zubillaga; Stephen Connolly; Sarah ...
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Norwegian government axes Norsk Film
In a move widely supported by the local film industry, the Norwegian culture ministry has decided to close state-owned production company Norsk Film and replace it with a new financing body The Norwegian Film Fund (NFF).Norsk Film has suffered a string of box office and critical disappointments over the last ...
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The Works International takes on sales for Palka's Good Dick
UK-based sales company The Works International has taken on rights for Good Dick, which premiered at Sundance.Glasgow-born Marianna Palka directed, produced and stars in the Los Angeles-set film, about an awkward romance between a porn-addicted loner and a video-store clerk. The cast also features Jason Ritter, Eric Edelstein, Mark Webber, ...
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Sky works on new simultaneous deal for Lionsgate titles
Sky Movies and Lionsgate UK are offering two Lionsgate titles, 3:10 To Yuma and War, free to Sky Movies subscribers on Sky Box Office the same time they are available for all other Sky Box Office viewers at a cost of about $8 (£3.99).The move is unusual because of the ...
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Fox picks up Australian rights for Children Of Huang Shi
Australia producer Jonathan Shteinman has extricated The Children Of Huang Shi from Icon's take-over of Dendy Films and done a deal that will see 20th Century Fox Film Distributors release the film in Australia.The film premiered in China in early April and Fox will release the film in Australia in ...
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Bitter & Twisted
Dir. Christopher Weekes. 2008. Australia . 88 mins.It's a miracle when an untracked English-language film arrives on the scene - and a special joy when said movie is smashing. The 28-year-old Weekes and some of his friends made Bitter & Twisted themselves for around $200,000. With no institutional support, they ...