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Murdoch lines up Sky Global partners
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is reportedly close to acquiring a minority stake in Kirch Media, raising speculation that the German media giant will in turn become a shareholder in Murdoch's proposed international pay-TV platform Sky Global Networks. Telecom Italia may also take a stake in Sky Global in return for ...
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Palm picks up Erickson music doc You're Gonna Miss Me
Palm Pictures has picked up North American rights to Keven McAlester's directorial debut documentary You're Gonna Miss Me.Recently nominated for a 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, the film details the rise and fall of rock legend Roky Erickson, whose band The 13th Floor Elevators coined the 1960's term ...
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Kristen Stewart joins Yellow Handkerchief cast
Kristen Stewart, whose credits include Panic Room, Fierce People and The Messengers, has joined the cast of producer Arthur Cohn's remake of the 1977 Japanese comedic drama Yellow Handkerchief. Udayan Prasad is directing.William Hurt, Maria Bello and Eddie Redmayne are set to star in the film, which is scheduled to ...
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Provoked to open, Vanaja to close LA Indian Film Festival
Jag Mundhra's drama Provoked starring Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews, Miranda Richardson and Nandita Das will open the 5th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) on Apr 17.The six-day festival will close on Apr 22 with Rajnesh Domalpalli's Vanaja, winner of the Best Debut Feature award at Berlin.The festival will ...
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Williams to receive achievement award at San Francisco
Robin Williams will receive the Peter J Owens Award at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival on May 3.The Owens Award, named after the local cultural benefactor and longtime San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) board member, honours an actor whose work exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity.Williams will also appear ...
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Volland named head of WBPI publicity department
Lance Volland has been promoted to senior vice president of publicity at Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).Volland, who joined the studio in 1998 as a director and most recently served as vice president, will head up the studio's international publicity department.Based in Burbank and reporting to marketing president Sue Kroll, ...
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Tribeca All Access names 32 projects in 2007 programme
Organisers at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival have announced the selected projects for Tribeca All Access (TAA), the programme designed to foster relations between industry executives and film-makers from traditionally underrepresented communities.Tribeca All Access will present 32 new projects at the five-day event, which runs from Apr 25-29 during this ...
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Maddin's Brand to get US release in live and pre-recorded versions
Guy Maddin's 2006 drama Brand Upon The Brain! will be presented as a live event in select cities featuring an 11-piece live orchestra, a five-person live foley team, and a live celebrity narrator.Maddin will appear in person to present the film at the live engagements in May in Chicago (The ...
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2008 Academy Awards will take place on Feb 24
The 80th Annual Academy Awards will take place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on Sunday, Feb 24 2008 following a timetable announcement by the Academy today.Nomination ballots for the upcoming awards season need to be posted by Dec 26, 2007, and the nominations polls close on Jan 12, 2008, ...
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Del Toro's 'Tres Amigos' question Mexican production incentives
As Pan's Labyrinth took nine awards at last night's Ariel awards ceremony - the Mexican film industry's top awards - director Guillermo de Toro was already using his industry influence to petition the government with a proposal to amend the country's tax-shelter laws.Del Toro made the trip to Mexico City ...
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Bruno Ganz cast in adaptation of Swiss bestseller
Veteran Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who delighted international audiences with his performance as the grandfather in Fredi M Murer's Vitus, has been cast for the lead role in an adaptation of Thomas Huerlimann's 1998 bestselling novel Der Grosse Kater.The co-production between Benito Mueller's Barry Films and Claudia Wick's Abrakadabra Films ...
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Media Asia unveils flotation plans
Hong Kong-based Media Asia is on course for a stockmarket flotation at the end of the year following last week's cash injection from hotels to internet group eSun. The new finance will underwrite expansion of the group's distribution and production operations. "We wanted a strategic investor, not just a financial ...
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Abigail Walsh joins Independent from Goldcrest Films
Abigail replaces Ana Ayesta as head of sales at Independent, the international sales and production company established by Luc Roeg.Walsh, who was previously director of sales at Goldcrest Films, will work alongside managing director Andrew Orr and head of marketing Sarah Goodwin, heading the company's sales operations. The first round ...
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Big Media Group unveils plans to produce 100 movies
In defiant response to Hong Kong 's falling production levels, local producer BIG Media Group has unveiled a strategy to produce 100 movies in five years. The company, which has recently undergone a restructuring, is also setting up an investment fund with IDG China Media Fund, while talks with further ...
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Lotte sells three films to Thailand and Malaysia
Korean sales agent Lotte Entertainment has sold three films to Thailand and Malaysia at the HK Filmart. J Bics picked up Song Kang-ho starring drama The Show Must Go On for Thailand, directly after the world premiere at Filmart. Song, who plays a father torn between his family and his ...
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Messenger, Night-fragrant Flower among winners at HAF
Hong Kong-born director Clara Law's The Messenger clinched the HAF award for a Hong Kong project at the awards ceremony of the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum on Thursday (March 22). Part-love story and part-mystery drama, the project also won the Technicolor Thailand's post-production service award. Kore-eda Hirokazu's Night-fragrant Flower ...
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Lotte Entertainment sells three to Thailand, Malaysia
Korean sales agent Lotte Entertainment has sold three films to Thailand and Malaysia at Hong Kong Filmart. J Bics picked up Song Kang-ho-starring drama The Show Must Go On for Thailand, directly after the world premiere at Filmart. Song, who plays a father torn between his family and his job ...
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UK film industry warns kids about film piracy
Schools across the UK have been provided with teaching packs compiled by industry-backed charity Film Education in a bid to raise awareness of film theft, which cost the UK film industry $1.4 billion (£719m) in 2005. The pack is aimed at 11 to 14-year-olds, a group that a Film Education ...
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Pang Ho Cheung's Now Showing is coming soon
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) announced today at its award ceremony that Pang Ho Cheung's Now Showing has secured finance from Hong Kong 's Sundream Motion Pictures and Beijing-based Huayi Brothers. Huayi Brothers' Chen Kuo-fu, the Taiwanese director of Double Vision, is producing the film. Shooting is expected ...
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Scandinavia invests in Spain 's Palma Pictures
Mallorca-based production company Palma Pictures has recently been acquired by Scandinavian investors Joachim Odqvist and Ture Stendahl. Odqvist and Stendahl are entrepreneurs who have interests in many businesses, including the hotel sector. They recently sold Scandinavia's largest amusement park group, Parks and Resorts. A management team of Palma CEO Mike ...