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    US remake of Norwegian Troubled Water optioned by Basil Iwanyk

    2008-10-24T12:56:00Z

    Norwegian director Erik Poppe's Troubled Water (De Usynlige) has been optioned by Hollywood producer Basil Iwanyk of Thunder Road (Clash of the Titans), for an American version. According to Scandinavian distributor Scanbox Entertainment, Iwanyk will develop the project with US-Icelandic producer Joni Sighvatsson and his Palomar Pictures.Sighvatsson is also backing ...

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    Elizabeth Radshaw named director of Toronto Documentary Forum

    2008-10-24T11:19:00Z

    The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival has named Elizabeth Radshaw as the new director of its allied market, the Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF). Founding TDF director Michaelle McLean stepped down in June after nine years to become director of the Canwest-Hot Docs Completion Fund.Radshaw was most recently head of ...

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    Church abuse drama Doubt will open AFI FEST

    2008-10-24T06:02:00Z

    An unfinished version of Miramax's church abuse drama Doubt will now screen as the AFI FEST 2008 opening night film on October 30 after Paramount pulled The Soloist on Wednesday [October 22). Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis star in John Patrick Shanley's 1960s-set story ...

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    TrustNordisk takes on US remake Love at First Hiccup

    2008-10-23T12:30:00Z

    TrustNordisk will handle international distribution of Love at First Hiccup, the US remake of Danish box-office franchise success, Anya & Victor. Danish sales agency, TrustNordisk, will handle international distribution of Love at First Hiccup, an American $2.4 million re-make of Danish romantic comedy Anya & Victor.'A world in crisis needs ...

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    New York Women In Film & Television honours Linney and Sedgwick

    2008-10-23T11:57:00Z

    Laura Linney and Kyra Sedgwick will be among the honourees at the New York Women In Film & Television's (NYWIFT) 28th annual Muse Awards on December 9.Linney earned an Academy Award nomination this year for The Savages and won an Emmy for the HBO miniseries John Adams. She has wrapped ...

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    Joe Dante ready to enter the 3D Hole

    2008-10-22T23:07:00Z

    Joe Dante will commence shooting the 3D supernatural thriller The Hole starring Teri Polo, Chris Massoglia and Haley Bennett for Bold Films and Benderspink in Vancouver on December 2. Bold Films International will commence pre-sales at AFM next month on the story of two brothers and their neighbour who ...

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    Magnolia claims YouTube success with Wayne Wang's Princess

    2008-10-21T20:49:00Z

    Magnolia Pictures' The Princess Of Nebraska from Wayne Wang drew more than 165,000 hits in its first two days following its launch on YouTube on October 18. The free release was launched on YouTube's Screening Room, a new channel dedicated to premium film content, and explores the bonds of ...

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    Strong European representation under EFP's AFM umbrella

    2008-10-21T16:48:00Z

    28 European sales agents and production companies from 13 countries have registered at European Film Promotion's (EFP) umbrella office in Santa Monica's Loews Hotel for the forthcoming AFM.The companies working out of the European Film Promotion office will include: the UK production houses Zephyr Films, Foundation Films and Reach Up ...

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    Canada's Telefilm anoints Gross, Martinelli, Vince for slate development

    2008-10-21T14:05:00Z

    Telefilm Canada has selected three Canadian production companies for its Slate Development Pilot Program (SDPP): Gabriella Martinelli's Capri Films, Paul Gross' Whizbang Films and Robert Vince's Keystone Pictures.Financed under the Canadian Feature Film Fund (CFFF), the slate development pilot program was established last year to match Canadian producers with Canadian ...

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    Laurence Fishburne to be honoured at Bahamas festival

    2008-10-20T22:00:00Z

    Laurence Fishburne will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Career Achievement Award in Nassau in December 7. Festival patron Sean Connery will present the honour, which was set up to recognise film-makers whose work has had a 'major impact and has advanced the frontiers of cinematic artistry around ...

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    Tulpan takes top prize at Montreal's FNC

    2008-10-20T10:33:00Z

    Sergei Dvortsevoy's Un Certain Regard-winner Tulpan took the top prize as Montreal's 37th Festival du Nouveau Cinema wrapped over the weekend. The debut feature, a Kazakstan-Germany coproduction, has been gathering laurels since its Cannes debut.Meanwhile the festival's jury, composed of Charlotte Laurier, Robert Levesque and Michel Savoy, was impressed with ...

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    Troubled Water wins Hamptons' Golden Starfish

    2008-10-20T06:15:00Z

    Erik Poppe's Norwegian-Swedish film Troubled Water won the 16th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival's Golden Starfish Best Narrative Feature and an awards package of more than $185,000 of in-kind production services. Megumi Sasaki's US entry Herb And Dorothy took the documentary award and a $5,000 cash prize while special ...

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    Captain Abu Raed wins Heartland's grand prize

    2008-10-20T06:04:00Z

    Amin Matalqa's Jordanian foreign-language Oscar submission Captain Abu Raed won the 17th Heartland Film Festival's grand prize at the weekend for best dramatic feature and a $100,000 prize. Click here for review. The annual Crystal Heart Awards Gala anointed Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker's Pray The Devil Back To ...

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    North American box office soars with Max Payne

    2008-10-19T22:52:00Z

    The US economy may be in dire straits but Hollywood remains recession-proof as the North American box office climbed for the fourth consecutive weekend against the same period last year after Fox's videogame adaptation Max Payne starring Mark Wahlberg opened top on an estimated $18m. Fox Searchlight's Civil Rights ...

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    67 countries submit titles for foreign language film Oscar

    2008-10-18T11:50:00Z

    A record 67 countries, including first-time entrant Jordan have submitted films for consideration in the foreign language film category for the 81st Academy Awards.Nominations will be announced on January 22, 2009 and the Oscar will be presented on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Centre.Click ...

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    Summit signs with Anders, Morris to develop untitled comedy

    2008-10-17T09:41:00Z

    On the eve of Summit Entertainment's release of the teen comedy Sex Drive, the company has signed a deal with the film's screenwriters Sean Anders and John Morris to develop an untitled comedy.Anders will direct and Morris will produce the film about a wild college sophomore who inherits a stubborn ...

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    Fox looks to lead international as Max Payne shoots into 32 territories

    2008-10-16T23:45:00Z

    Fox International ruled the roost last weekend with Andrei Kravchuk's The Admiral and will look to hold on to its winning ways with the wide day-and-date launch of the video game adaptation Max Payne starring Mark Wahlberg.The action film breaks into 32 territories this weekend, among them Australia, New Zealand, ...

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    Ricci, Neeson to star in After.Life for Lleju Productions, Plum Pictures

    2008-10-16T23:42:00Z

    Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson will star in the psychological thriller After.Life for venture capitalist Bill Perkins' new LLeju Productions and Plum Pictures.ICM packaged and arranged financing for the project through Perkins and represents Ricci and writer and first time director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. ICM holds North American rights and IM ...

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    Oscilloscope takes worldwide on Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie

    2008-10-16T23:37:00Z

    Oscilloscope Laboratories has taken worldwide rights to Jay Delaney's documentary Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie and will release it today [October 17] at the Pioneer Theater in New York and on DVD in winter 2009.The film is styled as a buddy movie about Bigfoot researchers Wayne Burton and Dallas Gilbert ...

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    Eurocinema's Namer to give keynote at China conference

    2008-10-16T20:35:00Z

    VOD service Eurocinema's head of North American operations Larry Namer will give the keynote speech along with News Corp Europe chairman I Martin Pompadur at China's first International Media And Technology Conference, which runs from October 22-25.The symposium is co-sponsored by the China Radio And Television Association (CRTA) and the ...