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Nome Proprio, Cochochiwin atBrazil's Gramado festival
Murilo Salles' Nome Proprio, the story of an intense young woman who dedicates her life to writing, won the award for best Brazilian film at the 36th Gramado film festival.Held in a small town in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, the festival highlights Brazilian, Latin American and ...
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Britfilms launches DVD label with Aussie hits, Black Sheep
Website BritFilms.tv has launched a new DVD label.The first four titles for the label are Henri Safran's classic Australian family film Storm Boy, John Curran's Australian drama Praise, Chris Kennedy's Australian road movie/musical/romance Doing Time For Patsy Cline, and Oliver Rihs' Swiss/German dark comedy Black Sheep. The original website is ...
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Focus Features takes on world sales for Lance Daly's Kisses
Focus Features International has come on board to handle world sales on Lance Daly's festival crowdpleaser Kisses. The film, which won the Best Irish Film Award at the Galway Film Fleadh, screened earlier this month in competition in Locarno and will also show in Toronto.'The film had freshness and honesty. ...
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Elstein exits UK's Channel 5
UK broadcaster Channel 5 has parted company with its chief executive David Elstein, in a shock move announced to staff on Friday afternoon. Channel 5's director of programmes Dawn Airey is to take over from Elstein, who leaves immediately after four years with no other job to go to.In a ...
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Thomas Turgoose takes lead role in Tom Harper's Scouting Book
Rising UK actor Thomas Turgoose has signed on for the lead role in Tom Harper's feature debut The Scouting Book For Boys.Turgoose, who has drawn rave reviews in This Is England, Somers Town and Eden Lake, will play a troubled teenager who helps a young girl run away from home.Jack ...
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Rena Ronson wins WIF Business Leadership Award
William Morris Independent co-head and William Morris Agency senior vice president Rena Ronson will receive Women In Film's (WIF) Business Leadership Award later this year.Ronson will receive the honour along with Lifetime Television Network consultant Susanne Daniels at the Business in Leadership Awards on November 1 in Century City.The second ...
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Virtual studio Indiepix invests in first five productions
IndiePix Studios, the virtual studio and IndiePix production arm that launched in June, has unveiled the five films on its inaugural slate.IndiePix has invested more than $700,000 in the projects and will serve as executive producers on every title. IndiePix Studios chief Ryan Harrington said he planned to release the ...
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Virtual studio Indiepix invests in first five documentaries
IndiePix Studios, the virtual studio and IndiePix production arm that launched in June, has unveiled the five films on its inaugural slate.IndiePix has invested more than $700,000 in the projects and will serve as executive producers on every title. IndiePix Studios chief Ryan Harrington said he planned to release the ...
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Bona Group set toraise $30m in second funding round
Beijing-based producer-distributor Bona International Film Group is set to raise $30m in its second funding round from venture capital groups Sequoia Capital China and SIG Asia Investments. The funding comes ahead of a planned overseas listing for Bona Group, which is the holding company of distributor Polybona, talent management company ...
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Pusan Promotion Plan reveals line-up of 30 projects
The 11th Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) has announcedthe official line-up for this year's projects market - 30 projects from 17 countries selected from 200 submissions. The line-up includes work from China's Zhang Yuan, Japan's Sabu and Chinese-Korean filmmaker Zhang Lu. Of note, Lee Chang-dong (Secret Sunshine) will not only be ...
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Screen Australia hands out funding to four projects
Australian director Simon Wincer, who made the iconic US miniseries Lonesome Dove, is saddling up for a new feature that will carry his trademark: plenty of horses. The Cup, an against-all-odds true story featuring Australia's most famous horse race, was one of four films that won investment from Screen Australia ...
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Watchmen rights spur legal debate between Warner/PPI and Fox
The fate of Warner Bros/Paramount Pictures International's scheduled spring 2009 release of Watchmen hangs in the balance after it emerged yesterday that Twentieth Century Fox may still hold distribution rights to the graphic novel adaptation.On Friday a US federal judge threw out a motion by Warner Bros to dismiss a ...
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Five animated shorts nominated for Cartoon d'Or
Five animation shorts from Belgium, France and the UK have been nominated for this year's Cartoon d'Or prize which will be announced at an awards ceremony during the forthcoming Cartoon Forum (Sept 16-19) in Germany's Ludwigsburg.The finalists are:The Bridge (Le Pont) by Vincent Bierrewaerts (Belgium/France)Breakout (L'Evasion) by Arnaud Demuynck (Belgium)The ...
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Polish Film Festival in Gdynia announces competition
The 33rd Polish Film Festival (PFF) has announced its line-up, with Polish director Robert Glinski as president of the main competition jury.Sixteen films compete for the festival's main grand prize, including Jerzy Skolimowski's Quinzaine title Four Nights With Anna; A Warm Heart, from European Film Academy co-founder Krzysztof Zanussi; and ...
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Joint Security Area a hit for South Korea
South Korea's current local box office hit, Joint Security Area (JSA), has attracted 1.875 million admissions in Seoul and over 4.1 million admissions across the country since its release on September 9. Set in one of the most militarised frontiers in the world, the film tells of the friendship between ...
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MercuryMedia on board for Dominick Dunne: After The Party
MercuryMedia has taken on worldwide distribution rights (excluding Australia) to Kirsty de Garis and Timothy Jolley's feature documentary Dominick Dunne: After The Party.The 84-minute feature recently premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival.Jolley and de Garis made the film through their own Australia-based company Road Trip. Executive producers are Sue ...
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Toronto unveils rest of line-up for a total of 249 features
World premieres from Paul Schrader, Neil Burger, Rod Lurie and Anne Fontaine were among the titles unveiled as the Toronto International Film Festival released the balance of its 2008 line-up.Screening in the Masters programme, Schrader's Adam Resurrected stars Jeff Goldblum in an adaptation of Israeli writer Youram Kaniuk's story of ...
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Star group to sell its 26% stake in India's Balaji Telefilms
Regional broadcaster Star Group and India's Balaji Telefilms have agreed to terminate the deal signed in August 2004, in which Star bought a 26% stake in the Mumbai-based film and TV producer. Balaji Telefilms is now entitled to buy back the shareholding itself, or sell it to a third party, ...
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IM Internationalmedia filing for insolvency
The beleaguered IM Internationalmedia filed for insolvency proceedings in Munich today since pending illiquidity was putting continued business operations at risk.According to an adhoc communique, the reason for the illiquidity could be traced back to an investment group around David Bergstein, Eluvium Holdings, not paying for exercised options.But Bergstein's R ...
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Jackson, Walsh & Boyens to work with Del Toro on Hobbit scripts
New Line has signed deals with Peter Jackson and his Lord Of The Rings screenwriting team Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens to collaborate with Guillermo del Toro on the screenplay adaptations of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and its sequel.Del Toro will shoot simultaneously. Principal photography has been tentatively set for ...