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Allen's Vulcan to partner with Infinity on Nine Mile Falls
Vancouver-based production company Infinity Features has partnered with Paul G Allen's Vulcan Productions to produce Deb Caletti's young adult novels as a series of films titled Nine Mile Falls.Infinity's Rob Merilees and Vulcan's Michael Caldwell are producing and Allen, Jody Patton and Richard Hutton are serve as executive producers.The five ...
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Wang's Princess to receive free release on YouTube in US
Magnolia Pictures will distribute Wayne Wang's The Princess Of Nebraska as a free release on YouTube's recently launched internet platform YouTube Screening Room on October 17.The release of The Princess Of Nebraska ties in with Magnolia's theatrical release of Wang's companion film A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers on September ...
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Coens start A Serious Man shoot for Focus, Working Title
After Burn After Reading premiered in Venice and Toronto and is set for US release tomorrow, Joel and Ethan Coen have started production this week for A Serious Man.The Focus Features and Working Title Films production is shooting on location in Minnesota.The Coen brothers are writing, directing and producing. Executive ...
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Online distributor IndiePix launches Shakespeare collection
New York-based IndiePix, an internet-based distributor (on demand and DVD) of independent films, has launched its latest collection: 10 Shakespeare adaptations.The 10-film collection includes Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948) and Richard III (1955) plus Bollywood adaptations Maqbool and Omkara.'Shakespeare is on the curriculum in schools and colleges throughout ...
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Mill Valley Film Festival to open with Religulous, Bees
Religulous and The Secret Life Of Bees will open and American Violet starring Alfre Woodard and Israeli drama Lemon Tree will close the 31st Mill Valley Film Festival, which runs from October 2-12.The festival will pay tributes to Woodard, Swedish actress Harriet Andersson and screenwriter Eric Roth, who wrote the ...
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Magnolia picks up worldwide rights to Diary Of A Mad Black Man
Magnolia Pictures has picked up worldwide rights to Tim Alexander's feature directorial debut Diary of A Mad Black Man.The story uses a series of vignettes to explore the nature of relationships between black men and the stereotypes and resentment that lurk within.Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles called it a 'firecracker of ...
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New Line options How To Be Single for Flower Films to produce
New Line Cinema has optioned Liz Tuccillo's best-selling novel How To Be Single and will produce with Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore's Flower Films.Tuccillo is a former writer for Sex and the City and co-wrote the book He's Just Not That Into You, which was also acquired and produced by ...
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Gus Van Sant to receive tribute at Gotham Awards
Gus Van Sant will receive a Gotham Awards Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York.Van Sant directed Milk, which stars Sean Penn as the assassinated gay supervisor of San Francisco and will be released through Focus Features on November 26.In recognition of Van Sant's ...
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Millstein, Morris promoted at Disney Animation, Pixar
Disney animation executive Andrew Millstein has been named general manager for Walt Disney Animation Studios and industry effects production executive Jim Morris will take on a parallel role as general manager for Pixar Animation Studios.Both will be responsible for guiding overall operations of their respective studios and will continue to ...
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Hollywood marketing agencies creative trade organisation
Hollywood marketing agencies have formed the trade organisation AEMA. Bob Farina of The Cimarron Group has been named chairman. Member agencies include In Sync Advertising, The Ant Farm, Anticipation Group, Intralink, Crew Creative and Bemis Balkind.'An organisation like AEMA is long overdue,' Farina said. 'In this constantly shifting landscape that ...
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Govan's Rain to open Bahamas International Film Festival
Maria Govan's drama Rain, one of the first indigenously produced films to come out of the Bahamas, will open the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), set to run from December 4-11 in Nassau.Rain received its world premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival last weekend and ...
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imegenation abu dhabi forms $250m financing fund with Participant
Participant Media and imagenation abu dhabi have formed a five-year $250m revolving fund to finance a slate 15-18 of narrative features.Participant will take the lead in developing and will oversee production and find worldwide distribution. Participant Media CEO Jim Berk said the company had been looking to secure a multi-year ...
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IFC buys Che from Wild Bunch; plans Oscar-qualifying December run
In one of Toronto's most-anticipated deals, IFC Films has taken North American rights to Steven Soderbergh's epic Che starring Benicio Del Toro.IFC plans a one-week Oscar qualifying run in New York and Los Angeles, followed by a release in January through multi-platform initiative IFC In Theatres.IFC president Jonathan Sehring, VP ...
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Tippett to receive Georges Melies Award from Visual Effects Society
Phil Tippett, who founded Tippett Studio and won an effects Oscar for his work in Jurassic Park and a Special Achievement Academy Award for Return Of The Jedi, will receive the Visual Effects Society's (VES) George Melies Award For Artistic Excellence.The Melies Award, given to individuals who have 'pioneered a ...
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Richard Antley joins Digital Vision for US sales manager
Post-production provider Digital Vision has hired Richard Antley as sales manager for the Americas. Antley comes to Digital Vision after two and a half years as vice president at IMAGTICA Corp.Simon Cuff, President of Digital Vision, said: 'It is exciting for a sales executive of Richard's calibre to join Digital ...
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Summit picks up Hurt Locker, IFC Films gets Che at Toronto
Summit Entertainment has picked up US rights to Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker in the second significant domestic deal of the festival. The distributor closed the deal late on Tuesday night and plans to release the film in 2009. The deal follows a successful North American premiere for the war ...
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Rampling, Bruhl, Friel to star in Amiel's WWI comedy Angel Makers
Charlotte Rampling will star alongside Daniel Bruhl and Anna Friel in London-based The Producers' first world war dark comedy Angel Makers which Jon Amiel will direct.Benno Furmann, Moritz Bleibtreu, Anne-Marie Duff and John Hurt round out the key cast. The Producers principal Jeanna Polley is producing and is currently scouting ...
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Buyers look into Carlos Sorin's Window
Bavaria Film International has continued more sales here on Toronto titles. Carlos Sorin's The Window (La Ventana) has been sold to Benelux (Cinemien) and Brazil (Imovision). There are several French offers in play and a deal is expected by the end of TIFF.The Patagonia-set film about an elderly man and ...
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Maximum takes six films apiece from Fortissimo, Cinetic
After an earlier TIFF deal for Steve Jacobs' Disgrace, Canadian distributor Maximum Film Distribution has taken on a package of six films from Fortissimo's current slate.Maximum has also taken Canadian rights to six titles from New York-based Cinetic Media as part of an exclusive output agreement between the two companies ...
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Arclight, Escape Factory and Infinity team up for Altitude
Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films, Vancouver-based Escape Factory and Infinity Features will produce the supernatural thriller Altitude.Short film-maker Kaare Andrews will direct the story of a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends who battle a malevolent force when their plane malfunctions. Paul A Birkett wrote the screenplay.Principal photography is set ...