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Hollywood Film Festival unveils first wave of honourees
The Hollywood Awards ceremony will take place in Beverly Hills on Oct 24.
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Head Over Heels, The Cake among winners at Miami’s Brazilian Film Festival
The 15th annual Brazilian Film Festival held in Miami’s Art Deco Colony Theatre has come to an end. The festival ran from Aug 19-27 and included features and shorts vying for Crystal Lens Awards in a variety of categories.
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NewsPedro Almodóvar named AFI FEST guest director
The feted filmmaker, whose latest work The Skin I Live In is likely to figure in the upcoming awards season, will present a screening of his 1986 film Law Of Desire and curate a sidebar of films that have inspired his work.
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CMG, producer Chad A Verdi team up on Loosies
Ed Noeltner’s Beverly Hills–based sales company Cinema Management Group will commence talks with buyers in Toronto on Michael Corrente’s Manhattan-set romantic thriller which IFC will release in North America.
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NewsThe Help weathers storm to rule North America on $14m
Domestic box office took a battering from Hurricane Irene as audiences on the storm-lashed East Coast hunkered down, allowing The Help to consolidate its grip and surge towards $100m as reports claimed box office dropped by more than 23% compared to the same session in 2010.
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SF Film Society executive director Graham Leggat dies at 51
Leggat, who died on Aug 25 following an 18-month battle with cancer, was a widely admired and beloved figure who transformed the Society.
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NewsFilmNation hires Paul Solet to direct The Faces
FilmNation Entertainment and Sonny Mallhi are producing the story of newlyweds who escape a brutal kidnapping and unwittingly fall into the clutches of a shadowy group that uses terror as a means of entertainment.
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NewsOlivia Wilde gets taste for Occupant’s Chemistry
The star of Cowboys & Aliens and Tron: Legacy is understood to have joined Sam Rockwell and Michelle Monaghan on the darkly comedic Better Living Through Chemistry, set to shoot this autumn in Maryland.
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Miramax hires Adrienne Gary as svp organisational strategy and admin
The third announced hire in a week sees the “human capital executive” come aboard to oversee all recruiting, organisational structure, global HR and corporate administration.
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NewsQuinto's Banshee Chapter finds cast ahead of New Mexico shoot
Ted Levine, Katia Winter and Michael McMillian will star in horror feature The Banshee Chapter, which Zachary Quinto is producing through his Before The Door Pictures alongside Sunchaser Entertainment and German producer Christian Arnold-Beutel.
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NewsBethan Dixon to run Organic Marketing's new international PR division
She was most recently senior VP at The Weinstein Company in New York.
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NewsAcademy sets Sept 1 short doc deadline
To be eligible for consideration in the 84th Academy Awards, the documentaries must complete a seven-day commercial run in a theatre in either Los Angeles County or in the Borough of Manhattan in New York from Jan 1-Dec 31 2011.
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FeaturesMaryam Keshavarz
Writer and director Maryam Keshavarz talks about Circumstance, her directorial debut that stars newcomers Nikohl Boosheri, Sarah Kazemy and Reza Sixo Safai. The film premiered at Sundance earlier this year where it won the audience award.
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NewsJeb Brody named president of production at Focus Features
The executive arrives from his parallel role at Vendome Pictures and replaces John Lyons, who is returning to work as a producer and devoting more time to philanthropy.
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CommentAfter 18 years, a documentary gets a happy ending
A tribute to the work of Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky and HBO Films, as the West Memphis 3 are freed.
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NewsTribeca Film launches VoD slate Tomorrow's Cult Classics Today
The line-up launches on demand on Aug 25 and includes Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, a documentary that resulted from a series of tape recordings of noisy neighbours by a pair of friends.
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NewsNYFF to screen revised Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory with new ending
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Toronto-bound miscarriage of justice documentary will receive its US premiere with the fresh new ending that includes the release of the West Memphis 3.
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Kino Lorber takes US rights to Moroder's Metropolis
The distributor will open Giorgio Moroder’s version of Fritz Lang’s classic in more than 20 markets before it launches on Blu-ray and DVD on Nov 15. The official title will be Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis.
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NewsChazz Palminteri to play mafia boss in Levinson's mob feature
Palminteri will star alongside John Travolta, Al Pacino and Ben Foster in Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father.
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NewsWiley joins eOne's revamped US theatrical division
Canada’s leading entertainment company, Entertainment One, is launching into the specialised US theatrical market with a new division, eOne Films North America through an expansion of its Los Angeles-based eOne Films US.