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    Lightning picks up Spanish ghost story The Beckoning

    2008-10-29T00:09:00Z

    Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights excluding Spain to Elio Quiroga's Spanish ghost story The Beckoning.Quiroga wrote and directed the story about a traumatised young doctor who moves to the country after her child dies of cot death and is haunted by mysterious ...

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    Bester, LaCour promoted to svp at Union Bank Of California

    2008-10-29T00:06:00Z

    Adam Bester and Bryan LaCour have been promoted to senior vice president at Union Bank Of California.Bester and LaCour work in the bank's specialised financial services division and report to David Musicant, who heads national banking.LaCour is responsible for managing the bank's entertainment finance business, which has provided capital to ...

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    Maya to produce and distribute slacker comedy Hollywood Players

    2008-10-28T22:43:00Z

    US Latino outfit Maya Entertainment will develop, produce, and distribute the slacker comedy Hollywood Players written and to be directed by Joaquin Perea.Casting is underway in time for a February 2009 start date and a fourth quarter release on the story of two brothers in east LA who get themselves ...

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    Tribeca Film Institute selects five for Sloan Filmmaker Fund

    2008-10-28T22:28:00Z

    The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) has selected five feature projects to receive financial and creative support from its inaugural TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund supported by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation.The projects were whittled down from a list of 130 submissions and will receive a total of $110,000 in funding. The ...

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    Trumer named COO, Buet promoted to evp at StudioCanal

    2008-10-28T19:48:00Z

    Former Paramount Pictures France chairman Camille Trumer has segued to StudioCanal just one week after announcing his departure from the US studio's French arm.Trumer has been appointed chief operating officer of StudioCanal, reporting to president Olivier Courson. Trumer will take up his functions beginning December 1 and will be in ...

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    Kohlberg, Kaplan launch Essential Pictures with seven pictures

    2008-10-28T17:06:00Z

    Essential Entertainment co-founder Jim Kohlberg and producer Neil Kaplan have launched sister company Essential Pictures to develop, package, finance and produce films and have unveiled a maiden slate of seven titles.Essential Pictures is backed by a separate equity pool from the source that partially funds Essential Entertainment and plans to ...

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    Thirty Two Short Films gets reprise release in Canada

    2008-10-28T15:49:00Z

    Francois Girard's 1993 critical hit Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould will be re-released in Canada as part of the Glenn Gould Foundation's year-round celebration of the life of the late Canadian pianist. Presented under the auspices of the Toronto International Film Festival Group's Film Circuit, a limited run ...

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    Natalie Portman steps onto Don Roos film for Incentive

    2008-10-28T04:49:00Z

    Natalie Portman has replaced Jennifer Lopez in Don Roos' upcoming drama Love And Other Impossible Pursuits, the first film from the $100m Incentive Filmed Entertainment fund launched by Screen Capital International and William Morris Agency at Cannes.Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment will commence international pre-sales at AFM on the under-$15m film ...

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    Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival launched in LA in Jan 2009

    2008-10-28T02:07:00Z

    The first Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival and market will take place from January 28-31, 2009 at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.The event has been established with the support of the Brazilian Consulate in LA and Brazilian film support agency Ancine to bridge the gap between Hollywood, Brazil and the ...

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    Intrepid's Cold Light Of Day gets AFM launch from Essential

    2008-10-28T01:58:00Z

    Essential Entertainment has boarded international rights to the thriller Cold Light Of Day from Intrepid Pictures, riding high following the success of the Rogue Pictures summer release The Strangers.Jere Hausfater will commence pre-sales at AFM next week on the story of a young man thrown into an international conspiracy when ...

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    Adrien Brody cast as The Courier for Arclight Films

    2008-10-28T01:49:00Z

    Gary Hamilton's ambitious Arclight Films has announced Adrien Brody as the lead in thriller The Courier based on a script by red hot writers Michael Brandt and Derek Haas.Arclight sales chief Pascal Borno will commence worldwide sales at AFM next week on the story of a daredevil carrier who is ...

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    Arcand, Leconte receive France-Canada cultural accolades

    2008-10-27T20:24:00Z

    Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand and French filmmaker Patrice Leconte have been awarded the Samuel de Champlain cultural prize, an annual accolade presented by the Paris-based France-Canada Institute. The prize acknowledges contributions to the understanding of the cultures of the two nations through letters, the moving image and theatre. The prizes ...

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    Universal teams with Top Up TV for UK VOD service TVBox

    2008-10-27T19:45:00Z

    Universal Pictures and Top Up TV have launched the UK VOD service TVBox offering current and library TV shows from the NBC Universal stable.The service will run within Top Up TV's Anytime package of services and marks the first brand extension of NBC Universal's PictureBox VOD service for features.The TVBox ...

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    Passchendaele passes $1m mark in Canada after a week

    2008-10-27T19:43:00Z

    TIFF 2008 opener Passchendaele has grossed $1m (C$1.38m) after its opening week in Canada on release through Alliance Films. Written and directed by and starring Paul Gross, the WWI-set epic opened on 202 screens across the country. The film was a distant second at the national box office behind 20th ...

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    Kristin Scott Thomas to be feted at Santa Barbara festival

    2008-10-27T19:41:00Z

    Kristin Scott Thomas will receive the 24th Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Cinema Vanguard Award on January 27, 2009.Scott-Thomas stars in Philippe Claudel's French drama I've Loved You So Long and currently appears on Broadway in Chekhov's The Seagull.'A masterful performance by a British actress in a French film and ...

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    Goldcrest Independent picks up international on Portugal's Amalia

    2008-10-27T19:35:00Z

    Goldcrest Independent has acquired international rights to VC Filmes' Amalia, a biopic about the celebrated Fado singer Amalia Rodrigues that it claims is the largest Portuguese production to date.Senior vice president of sales Pierre Weisbein will introduce the film at AFM next week. Carlos Coelho Da Silva directed from a ...

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    34 films from 24 EU countries to screen at AFI's European Showcase

    2008-10-27T03:01:00Z

    AFI has unveiled the complete line-up for the 2008 edition of its AFI European Union Film Showcase, to run at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, from November 6-25.Thirty-four films from 24 EU countries, including 11 official foreign language Oscar submissions, will screen. The films are: Eldorado from ...

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    High School 3 beats off Saw V in blockbusting US box office weekend

    2008-10-27T02:55:00Z

    Hollywood served a timely reminder that film-going appears to be recession-proof as two mighty brands powered the box office to its biggest weekend of the last ten weeks.The top 12 films climbed 40% against the same period last weekend after grossing approximately $120m and were led by Disney Channel's phenomenally ...

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    Wild Bunch sells Javier Fesser's Camino to several territories

    2008-10-24T16:43:00Z

    Spanish director Javier Fesser's controversial, but popular religious family drama Camino has been sold by Wild Bunch to several territories, including Latin America and India.Currently on general release in Spain through Alta Films, the film has been picked up by SPI for Poland, Quality Films for Latin America, Alliance for ...

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    J Andrew Greenblatt and Eric Bresler join Philadelphia Film Society

    2008-10-24T13:35:00Z

    J Andrew Greenblatt has been appointed executive director and Eric Bresler has been named managing director of the Philadelphia Film Society, which presents the Philadelphia Film Festival and the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.Greenblatt is the managing partner in OG Consulting and president of Film 101 Productions and ...