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Weinstein keynote gives strong start to Abu Dhabi festival
Abu Dhabi 's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) got off to an extravagant start on Sunday evening with a ceremony that included an Academy Awards-style opening number choreographed by Broadway veteran Otis Sallid. A lavish party at the opulent festival centre, Emirates Palace, followed the screening of opening ...
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Arts Alliance adds download deal for ITV library titles
Arts Alliance Media has struck a deal with ITV DVD, part of Granada Ventures, to offer downloads-to-own. A range of film from the ITV DVD archive - ranging from Brief Encounter and the Carry On films to The Shawshank Redemption - will be available via AAM's Vizumi download site and ...
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Singh's The Fall takes best film prize at Sitges
The Sitges film festival has awarded its Best Film prize to The Fall by Indian-born director Tarsem Singh. This is the story of a stuntman who ends up in hospital, where he recounts a long tale to a young girl. That wasn't the festival's only winner, as Rec won a ...
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Gail Heaney named senior vice president of media at Summit
Summit Entertainment has hired Gail Heaney as senior vice president of media.Heaney will strategise the media mix in support of Summit releases in all major distribution windows and supervise the studio's media buying agencies to deliver marketing materials to the consumer via print, broadcast, outdoor and online outlets.She will report ...
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FFA supports Princess, Dancer's German release
Tom Tykwer's The Princess And The Warrior and Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark are among eight titles to receive distribution funding from the German Federal Film Board (FFA). Dancer is being distributed by Constantin while Tykwer's film will be released by X Verleih.The other titles to receive support ...
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Sal Ladestro promoted to executive vice president at SPRI
Sal Ladestro has been promoted to executive vice president of marketing, acquisitions and local productions at Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).Ladestro has been working in his new capacity since February and will continue to develop, implement and supervise international marketing campaigns for films from all Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) divisions ...
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Jolie gets outstanding performance award from Santa Barbara
Angelina Jolie will be honoured at the 23rd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) on Feb 2 2008 with the Outstanding Performance Of The Year Award for her role in A Mighty Heart.Jolie plays Mariane Pearl, the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Michael Winterbottom's film ...
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Patrick Smith Kelly hired to write GK Films' Benighted
Patrick Smith Kelly has been hired to write the screenplay adaptation of GK Films' adaptation of Kit Whitfield's supernatural novel Benighted.Graham King acquired rights to the book in 2006 and will produce with Andrew Adamson for Warner Bros.Adamson is in talks to direct the story about a minority human population ...
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Casting Society Of America announces annual Artios nominees
The Casting Society of America has announced the annual Artios Awards nominees, set to be handed out in Los Angeles on Nov 5.In the dramatic feature film category Debra Zane and Jay Binder for Dreamgirls will battle it out with Joanna Colbert for Hollywoodland, Amanda Mackey and Cathy Sandrich Gelfond ...
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US Women In Film name emerging film-maker grantwinners
The national alliance organisation of US Women In Film (WIF) has announced the winners of the second annual WIF/GM 2007 Acceleration Grant For Emerging Filmmakers.The winners are: Jamie Taucher from Sedona, Arizona; Julia Kots from New York, New York; Connie M Florez from Honolulu, Hawaii; Joyce Lee from San Francisco, ...
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Harry Potter 5 breaks $100m gross mark in UK
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix has crossed $100m in the UK, according to fresh data from Warner Bros Pictures International released on Monday [Oct 15].The film reached the milestone in its 14th weekend on release and has grossed $645.2m internationally.The distributor also released final figures for the ...
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IFP to present tribute to Mayor Bloomberg at Gotham Awards
IFP will present a tribute to the New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the 17th Annual Gotham Awards on Nov 27.Bloomberg will be recognised for his leadership in boosting the city's credentials as a film-making hub and for supporting economic, educational, and cultural initiatives throughout the five boroughs including the ...
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Shoreline picks up Franco's Max, Kill Kill Faster Faster for AFM
Heading into AFM, Shoreline Entertainment has announced its acquisition of worldwide rights to James Franco's drama Good Time Max also starring Franco and the noir thriller Kill Kill Faster Faster.Franco wrote and directed Good Time Max, about two brothers who grow apart when one becomes a surgeon and the other ...
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Focus bolsters production, Rogue distribution moved to Universal
Focus Features has bolstered its production department as the company moves toward a bigger slate and eyes greater collaboration with parent company Universal Pictures' overseas production group.Focus Features chief executive officer James Schamus also announced that the distribution and marketing of Rogue Pictures releases will henceforth be handled by Universal.Rogue ...
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Rithy Panh's Paper takes documentary prize at EFAs
The European Film Academy has announced that Rithy Panh's Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers (Le Papier Ne Peut Pas Envelopper La Braise), a French production, is the winner of the 2007 Prix Arte for best documentary. This year's jury for the Prix Arte was comprised of Francine Brucher, David Fisher ...
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UA Theatres files for bankruptcy protection
United Artists Theatres Company has become the latest US exhibitor to run into financial trouble, filing for protection from creditors under US bankruptcy law while it reorganises to reduce debt and expenses. In its filing, the company said it intends to reduce debt of about $720m to about $260m. The ...
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Van Dormeal's Mr Nobody ready to move to Germany
Jaco van Dormeal's Mr Nobody, which has already shot in Belgium and Canada, will continue its six-month shoot moving later this month to Germany. The English-language project stars Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham, and Rhys Ifans. Van Dormeal also wrote the screenplay, about a man living ...
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Grierson: Sheffield Awards reveals shortlisted documentaries
Sheffield Doc/Fest (Nov 7-11) has announced the nominees for the first Grierson: Sheffield Documentary Awards, which will be presented Nov 10. There are three categories in the awards: an innovation award, a green award for a project about environmental issues and a youth jury award chosen by 16-18 year olds. ...
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Eros and Darby set upIndia-based effects companyEyeQube
In yet another strategic expansion, India 's leading integrated media company Eros International is working with international visual effects expert Charles Darby to start a new venture called EyeQube Studios Private Ltd. Eros will make an initial investment of $5m-$7m into EyeQube and each film will bring in its own ...
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Ratatouille dominates UK box-office as Resident Evil takes $2m
Ratatouille dominated the UK chart this weekend with a hefty $9m take (£4.4m) from 503 sites in its opening weekend. Click here to see the chart.The Pixar adventure, released through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (WDSMPI), boasted an impressive $18,047 (8,863) site average and beat the next highest entrant, ...