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FeaturesCredit crunch
Is there a better method for assigning screenplay writing credits than the WGA’s controversial and complex arbitration procedures? John Hazelton talks to writers
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NewsNatural Selection wins SXSW Grand Jury prize
The Austin festival unveiled jury and audience award winners in the narrative and documentary feature, Spotlight Premieres and Emerging Visions sections on Tuesday night [15].
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NewsRobert Kessel named svp production for Matt Tolmach
Kessel most recently worked as evp production and acquisitions at Overture Films.
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NewsNigel Clark promoted to Sony president of international marketing
Clark previously served as senior executive vice-president of the department and will continue to direct the home office team overseeing Sony’s international theatrical launches.
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NewsLionsgate partners with Janet Jackson’s jdj Entertainment
In her first outing as a film producer, Jackson has signed a deal with the studio to select, develop and produce a feature project.
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NewsMitchell, Bean, Unger return to Silent Hill
The franchise’s original stars Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean and Deborah Kara Unger are returning to the horror property and will star alongside previously announced Adelaide Clemens and Kit Harington.
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NewsMichael Shannon to receive RiverRun’s Emerging Master Award
The Oscar nominated scene stealer from Revolutionary Road and Boardwalk Empire will collect the honour on Apr 11.
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FeaturesThe prize fighters
David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, who together run Mandeville Films and Television, tell Jeremy Kay about the challenges of bringing two wildly different projects — The Fighter and The Muppets — to the screen
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NewsIFC Midnight takes Wheatley's SXSW horror Kill List
The genre label said last night [14] it was in the process of acquiring North American rights to Ben Wheatley’s Down Terrace follow-up which screens in Austin in the SX Fantastic sidebar.
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NewsAT&T, Magnolia team up for SXSW doc Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
AT&T becomes p&a and multi-platform distribution and marketing partner alongside Richard Abramowitz’s theatrical pipeline Abramorama as Magnolia Home Entertainment takes remaining VOD and home entertainment rights for the new documentary Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop.
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Indian Film Festival Los Angeles to honour business trio
Sony Pictures Television Networks president Andy Kaplan, Multi Screen Media Private Limited CEO Man Jit Sing, and PVR Cinemas chairman and managing director Ajay Bilji are in line for honours.
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Gravitas picks up A Matador’s Mistress
The film formally known as Manolete stars Adrien Brody and Penelope Cruz and chornicles the life of one of Spain’s great cultural icons.
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Zac Efron to play romantic action lead for Mandate
Commercials director Fredrik Bond will direct the untitled project from Matt Drake’s Black List screenplay originally titled The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman.
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NewsDallas to honour The Interrupters director Steve James
James, riding high following his competition award at Miami over the weekend for The Interrupters (pictured), will become the Dallas International Film Festival’s first documentary filmmaker to receive the Dallas Star Award.
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2929 Productions to finance Tim And Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy’s Gary Sanchez Productions and its Funny or Die Films label will co-produce the film. 2929’s sister company Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights.
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NewsTribeca unveils Spotlight, Cinemania, special screenings
World premieres for A Good Old Fashioned Orgy and documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne are Tribeca-bound as festival organisers announced the Spotlight, Cinemania and special screenings roster.
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NewsIsrael, AJC call for New York premiere of Miral to be cancelled
The film’s director Julian Schnabel, producer Jon Kilik, screenwriter Rula Jebreal and distributor Harvey Weinstein have issued a response to claims that the film “portrays Israel in a highly negative light.”
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NewsAliens storm US box office as Battle claims $36m
Sony’s alien invasion action film dominated the charts in its first weekend out thanks to an estimated $36m launch.
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NewsMarimbas From Hell, The Interrupters win in Miami
Marimbas From Hell, The Piano In A Factory and The Interrupters were among the big winners as the 28th Miami International Film Festival came to a close at the weekend.
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Vincent Scordino joins Millennium Entertainment as director of acquisitions
Prior to joining Millennium Entertainment, Scordino served as manager of acquisitions at Apparition where he was involved in buying TheYoungVictoria and The Square.