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Sundance names documentary film-makers for Aug lab
The Sundance Documentary Composers and Story Lab has named the seven film-makers and six composers invited to the lab Aug 3-8 at the Sundance Resort in Utah.The lab, which will explore the creative process in sound and story and the role of film music in nonfiction storytelling, is a collaboration ...
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here! acquires North American rights to Yen Tan's Ciao
here! Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Ciao, a gay-themed drama directed by Yen Tan which won the jury prize for best feature at the recent Philadelphia International Gay And Lesbian Film Festival.here! sister company Regent Releasing will distribute the film in theatres later in 2008.The film follows ...
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Borman, Graves license movie rights to The Seven Sins
Producers Moritz Borman and Peter Graves will produce a film based on The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending, a book by Jon Land which is inspired by the life of Fabrizio Boccardi.Borman will produce and Graves will executive produce the film and have acquired rights to two sequels (subject to ...
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Sarajevo documentary competition includes five world premieres
The Sarajevo Film Festival's documentary competition is to include five world and three internationalpremieres.The programme opens with Slovenian film Sky Too High, Soil Too Hard by Rudi Uran, which looks at the lives of young people in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, scene of the brutal massacre of 8,000 men ...
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Moviemobz takes Brazilian rights to The Sandman
Moviemobz, the first distribution operation which programmes its titles in theatres equipped with digital projection technology supplied by Rain Network, has acquired theatrical rights in Brazil to Jose Manuel Gonzalez's Spanish romantic drama The Sandman (El Hombre De Arena).Moviemobz plans to release the film in theatres in the next six ...
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Endgame to produce, finance A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
LA-based Endgame Entertainment is to produce and finance A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, a comedy to star Jason Sudeikis and Will Forte from US TV's Saturday Night Live, and Leslie Bibb.Pete Huyck and Alex Gregory will make their directorial debut on the film which is based on their screenplay.Endgame CEO ...
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New York's NewFest bookended by Tru Loved, Were The World Mine
Stewart Wade's Tru Loved will open the 20th annual New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Film Festival (NewFest) on June 5, and Tom Gustafson's Were The World Mine will close it ten days later on June 15.Tru Loved is the story of a teenage girl raised by lesbian mothers ...
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Fortissimo picks up Mendoza's Cannes-bound Serbis
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights outside of France and the Philippines to Brillante Mendoza's Serbis, the first Filipino film to screen in competition at Cannes in 24 years. The last Filipino film to screen in Cannes competition was the late director Lino Brocka's Bayan Ko: My Own Country. The ...
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Cannes unveils competition line-up of 19 titles
CompetitionLaurent Cantet - Entre Les Murs (France)Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Three Monkeys (Turkey-France-Italy)Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne - Le Silence De Lorna (Belgium-France-Italy-Germany)Arnaud Desplechin - A Christmas Story (France)Clint Eastwood - Changeling (US)Atom Egoyan - Adoration (Canada)Ari Folman - Waltz With Bashir ( Israel-France-Germany )Philippe Garrel - La Frontiere De L'Aube ...
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Hyde Park's Street Fighter starts shooting in Thailand
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and Capcom have begun principal photography in Thailand on action film Street Fighter - The Legend Of Chun-Li which is based on the popular Japanese video grame franchise.20th Century Fox has domestic distribution rights through its first look, co-production deal with Hyde Park; Hyde Park ...
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Gibney's Gonzo to close San Francisco Film Festival
Alex Gibney's Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr Hunter S Thompson has been selected as the closing night film of this year's San Francisco International Film Festival on May 8.The film, which will be released by Magnolia Pictures in North America in July, focuses on Thompson's life from 1965 ...
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The Deal to open Sarasota Film Festival on April 4
The Sarasota Film Festival, which runs April 4-13, will open with Steven Schachter's comedy The Deal starring William H Macy and Meg Ryan and close with Stuart Townsend's Battle In Seattle set as the closing night film. Stanley Tucci's Blind Date has been named as the centerpiece film.The Lives Of ...
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Peace Arch acquires worldwide rights to A Lobster Tale
Toronto-based Peace Arch Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to family film A Lobster Tale starring Colm Meaney as a struggling lobster fisherman in Maine whose life is turned upside down when he discovers a strange moss with magical healing powers.Peace Arch Home Entertainment will release the film on DVD ...
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No Country For Old Men wins top Producers Guild Award
Scott Rudin and Ethan and Joel Coen took home the top prize from the Producers Guild Of America (PGA) Awards on Saturday night, winning the Darryl F Zanuck award for producer of the year for No Country For Old Men.The award, which puts No Country further on track to win ...
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Iger signs new five-year contract as CEO of Disney
Robert Iger has signed a new five year contract as chief executive officer at The Walt Disney Company. His previous contract would have expired on Sept 30, 2010, but the new contract takes him through to Jan 31, 2013.Iger became CEO at Disney on Sept 30, 2005, taking over from ...
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Chinese government lauches anti-porn campaign
A group of 13 Chinese government departments are clamping down on pornographic content on the internet and mobile phones, in a nationwide campaign which will last until after the Beijing Olympicsare finished in September. The 13 departments, including the Ministry of Public Security, the Propaganda Department, the State Administration of ...
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Golden Globe Awardsfate to be decided today
An announcement is expected later today (Monday) in Los Angeles concerning the fate of this year's Golden Globe Awards in the midst of the Hollywood writers' strike. Stay tuned to ScreenDaily.com for breaking news.There is rampant speculation of several outcomes concerning the Globes: that the ceremony could be postponed in ...
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IFP hands out $100,000 in annual artist grants
IFP, the nation's largest membership organization of independent filmmakers, named the recipients of its annual grants to individual artists at the conclusion of its 2007 Independent Film Week in downtown New York City. Cash, in-kind product donations and mentorship services were valued at more than $100,000.A grant of $10,000 was ...
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Universal and Paramount partner up in Russia
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) and Paramount Home Entertainment International (PHEI) announced a union for Russian distribution. Eddie Cunningham, President, UPIE and Dennis Maguire, President, PHEI say that from 2 October 2007, Universal Pictures Russia will handle Paramount's DVD for marketing and distribution throughout the country.Product includes titles from MTV ...
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Harry Potter has a $6m Chinese opening despite local pressure
Despite some restrictions on the release print numbers, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix had a strong opening in mainland China, grossing $5.94m (RMB 45m), according to Beijing and Shanghai-based cinema owners. The figure is the best first-week gross of all Harry Potter movies in China. State-owned China ...