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NewsDouglas Trumbull to receive Academy’s Gordon E Sawyer Award
Trumbull will receive an Oscar statuette at the Scientific and Technical Awards presentation on Feb 11 in Beverly Hills in recognition of a “lifetime of technical contributions and leadership in the motion picture industry.”
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NewsRelativity promotes Gregory Shamo, Happy Walters
Evp of corporate affairs and general counsel Shamo and Relativity Music Group and Rogue Sports president Walters [pictured] are named co-COOs while former Loeb & Loeb senior counsel Michael Rosner joins as general counsel.
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NewsMapplethorpe among Tribeca All Access grantees
A jury of industry professionals has culled 11 works in progress from a record breaking 690 submissions for the ninth annual programme.
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NewsHot Docs, Shaw disperse $198k in eighth funding cycle
The Canadian documentary festival and Shaw Media will hand out grants and no-interest loans to 11 projects.
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NewsLynette Howell, Jamie Patricof spark to Electric City
The veteran independent producers are formally joining forces after working together on such films as Blue Valentine and the upcoming The Place Beyond The Pines.
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NewsFilm Independent appoints co-presidents to replace Dawn Hudson
Senior director Sean Mc Manus [pictured] and director of artist development Josh Welsh will fill the vacancy left by Hudson, who last June became CEO of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
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NewsUniversal, Imagine extend partnership through 2016
The once exclusive production arrangement between the parties has been changed to a first-look deal.
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NewsGoDigital swoops on digital rival Might Entertainment
The expanded company controls a library of more than 1,000 films and creates a powerful West Coast digital entity to rival East Coast competitors like SnagFilms and Cinetic Rights Management.
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NewsMark Mikutowicz earns production stripes at SKE
The creative executive is promoted to vp of production and continues to report to Sidney Kimmel Entertainment production president Matt Berenson and company president Jim Tauber.
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NewsBerlinale partners with MoMA for Retrospective section for 2012 and beyond
Festival’s 2012 Retrospective is The Red Dream Factory. Mezhrabpom-Film and Prometheus 1921-1936.
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NewsSeven make it on to Academy make-up shortlist
Albert Nobbs (pictured), Anonymous, The Artist, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2, Hugo and The Iron Lady are in contention.
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NewsLisa Wilson, Myles Nestel offer The Solution to sales, financing
The partnership between the two vastly experienced Britons is backed by private equity and Wall Street and will commence pre-sales in Berlin on Writers and Hector And The Search For Happiness.
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Odyssey hires production and finance veteran Ralph Boral
The new arrival will serve as COO and executive in charge of production and is already involved on Odyssey’s in-the-works animation Hank The Cowdog.
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NewsJinga takes rights to US comedy-horror Black Forest
US Hansel and Gretel update stars Lara Flynn Boyle, Michael Welch and Molly C. Quinn
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NewsMelancholia wins NSFC award for 2011
The National Society Of Film Critics anointed Lars von Trier’s apocalyptic drama the best film of the year and named Brad Pitt best actor for Moneyball and The Tree Of Life and Kristen Dunst best actress for Melancholia.
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NewsParamount be-Devils US box office with $35m launch
Paramount’s poorly reviewed horror The Devil Inside stormed to the top of the first full weekend of 2012 in a full-blooded debut that surprised rival executives.
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NewsNew Europe Film Sales boards Rotterdam selection Now Forager
EXCLUSIVE: The co-directors are frequent collaborators Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin.
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NewsGhost Protocol, Sherlock Holmes head for int’l showdown
PPI’s fourth Mission: Impossible episode faces its stiffest test yet from WBPI’s Holmes sequel as it reaches $254m outside North America.
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NewsWGA announces 2012 screenplay nominations
The Artist is snubbed in the original screenplay category but Bridesmaids makes the cut. Shame, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Margin Call and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy were ineligible for consideration because they were not made in compliance with Guild rules.
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NewsFoundation For Jewish Culture backs six documentaries
The New York-based organisation grants finishing funds to six projects, selected from 80 applications.