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12 Sundance/NHK finalists announced include Zbanic
Sundance Institute and Japan Broadcasting Corporation NHK have announced the 12 finalists for the 2008 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award.The annual award supports new artists in international cinema and is presented to emerging film directors from four global regions to support them with their next projects.One winner each from Europe, Latin ...
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Arcand, Cronenberg, Maddin among TIFF's Canada Top Ten selection
Denys Arcand's Days Of Darkness, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises and Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg were among the finalists as the Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) announced its 2007 Canada's Top Ten lists of the country's best feature and short films. The presentations were made in Toronto at an event ...
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Then She Found Me to open Palm Springs Film Festival in Jan
The US premiere of Helen Hunt's feature directorial debut Then She Found Me will open the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 3 2008.Festival organisers have lined up international gala screenings of Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven from Germany, Danielle Luchetti's My Brother Is An Only ...
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Warner Bros' Dan Lin founds Lin Pictures, segues into production deal
Warner Bros creative executive and senior vice president of production Dan Lin has founded Lin Pictures and will segue from his position at the studio into an exclusive long-term production deal effective January 1 2008.Lin Pictures will produce all genres of film with the primary focus being on director-driven event ...
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Global Film Initiative awards completion funds to seven films
The Global Film Initiative (GFI) has awarded completion funds to seven film-makers during it autumn granting cycle.The projects are: Ahmed Rashwan's Egpytian second world war romance 100% Alive; Hassan Yektapanah's Iranian ID card drama Bibi; Oscar Ruiz Navia's Colombian landowner saga Crab Trap; and Ubaka Joseph Ugochukwu's Nigeria/Senegal road movie ...
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Fenady named co-president of physical production at Universal
Universal Pictures has promoted Andrew Fenady to the newly created position of co-president of physical production.Fenady will continue to report to president of physical production James Brubaker. The pair will play a greater role in overseeing all aspects of physical production including production planning, budgeting, scheduling, crew hiring and managing ...
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Harry Potter star Pattinson takes lead male role in Summit's Twilight
Robert Pattinson has joined Kristen Stewart on Summit Entertainment's romantic thriller Twilight that Catherine Hardwicke is set to begin filming in North American in February 2008.Pattinson, best known for his role as the gallant Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter series, will play the vampire Edward who falls dangerously in ...
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MGM signs multi-year VOD deal with France Telecom/Orange
MGM has signed a multi-year deal with France Telecom's Orange offering subscribers to Orange's 24/24 Video service a range of recent releases and titles from the distributor's 3,000-strong library via VOD.MGM's films will be offered to Orange customers in France, Spain and Poland who subscribe to either the broadband digital ...
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Into The Wild, Juno lead Broadcast Film Critics nominations
Into the Wild led the field in the 2007 Broadcast Film Critics Awards with seven nominations including best picture, director for Sean Penn, actor for Emile Hirsch and supporting actor for Hal Holbrook.Fox Searchlight's Juno was close behind with six for best picture, comedy movie, actress for Ellen Page, writer ...
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Parkinson named senior vice president at Content Partners
Krista Parkinson has joined Los Angeles-based Content Partners as senior vice president and will leverage her business relationships in Hollywood to further Content's plan of purchasing clients' backend profit participation in film, television and music.Parkinson will remain a consultant with Tony Hawk's 900 Films; she previously served as president of ...
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Elah, White Girlstake top prizes at Bahamas festival
The fourth-annual Bahamas International Film Festival awarded its top prize, the Spirit of Freedom, to Paul Haggis' In The Valley Of Elah, while the New Vision Award went to director Jennifer Sharp's Los Angeles-set romantic comedy I'm Through With White Girls, starring Anthony Montgomery and Bahamian-born actress-producer Lia Johnson.Actor Anthony ...
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The Kite Runner to close Dubai festival on Dec 16
Marc Forster's The Kite Runner is the surprise closing film for the Dubai International Film Festival.The Dec 16 closing night event will welcome the book's author Khaled Hosseini and the film's cast including Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Zekiria Ebrahami, Ali Danesh Bakhtyari, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada and Sayed Jafar Massihullah, along ...
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GEM works for DVD, theatrical launch of Peterson films
GEM Entertainment has taken UK and US rights to seven features from UK-based Global Films, EdgeImageBank, Norwood Pictures, and Mnemonics Pictures. Nick Peterson, also known as a musician under the name Virtual Alien, directed all of the films. Five that will be released on DVD are: Writing On The Wall, ...
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Sky gets UK broadcast rights to Oscars and Golden Globes
UK TV company Sky has announced that it will broadcast the Golden Globe Awards live on Sky Movies Premiere for the first time. Live red carpet coverage and awards highlights will be shown on Jan 13 and Jan 14 on Sky One, in Sky's exclusive UK broadcast deal. For the ...
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New York critics opt for No Country For Old Men
The Coen Brothers dominated the New York Film Critics Circle awards announced this morning, taking best picture, director, screenplay and supporting actor for Javier Bardem. Paul Thomas Anderson's oil saga There Will Be Blood, which was the clear favourite with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's at the weekend, earned ...
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New York online critics pile awards on There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood dominated the major categories in the New York Film Critics Online's 2007 poll, tying for best film with The Diving Bell And The Butterfly and earning director and actor honours for Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis as well as the cinematography prize for Robert Elswit ...
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Kill Them All (Matar a Todos)
Dir: Esteban Schroeder. Uruguay, Argentina, Chile. 2007. 97mins. In Kill Them All, Esteban Schroeder plumbs the unstable political landscape of fledgling democracies in the South America of the early '90s. His confident, dynamic investigation of the complicity of governments that succeeded the juntas in countries like his native Uruguay, Argentina, ...
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There Will Be Blood dominates Los Angeles Film Critics awards
There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic saga set against the backdrop of America's burgeoning oil industry, was the big winner at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) end of year voting yesterday, taking four prizes including best picture, best director and best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis.The movie ...
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A Walk To Beautiful wins IDA's top award for 2007 documentaries
Mary Olive Smith's A Walk To Beautiful took top honours in the feature competition at the 2007 International Documentary Association's (IDA) Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards Gala in Los Angeles at the weekend.The film chronicles the challenges of five women in Ethiopia as they try to rebuild their lives after suffering ...
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Golden Compass rules international box office with $55m opening
As expected The Golden Compass ruled the waves at the weekend following an estimated $55m overseas haul through New Line International from approximately 5,000 screens in 25 territories. Click here for review.Chris Weitz's adaptation of Philip Pullman's acclaimed fantasy adventure soared to the top of the charts in every country, ...