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CEC hires Yann Le Quellec as European chief
Citi affiliate Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC) has hired EWB Finance co-founder Yann Le Quellec as managing director.Le Quellec will head the company's new European operation CEC Europe in Paris and will report directly to CEC's president and CEO, Benjamin Waisbren.CEC Europe will provide structured financing solutions to European media and ...
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Tribeca All Access awards narrative prize to Chatmon's $Free.99
Pete Chatmon won the fifth annual Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Awards narrative prize for $Free.99 at the weekend [April 25].Chatmon co-wrote the screenplay with Candice Sanchez McClaren about a bank robber who is more than he appears.In the emerging narrative section screenwriter Leigh Dana Jackson and producer Moira Griffin ...
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Duran named svp at Warner Channel Latin America
Alfredo Duran has been named senior vice president of branded services and general manager of The Warner Channel Latin America.Duran will be based in Miami and will report to Malcolm Dudley-Smith, who as executive vice president of sales and business development for Canada, Latin America and Asia, oversees WBITD's branded ...
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Del Toro to direct Hobbit double bill
Guillermo Del Toro has landed his 'dream' job as the confirmed director of TheHobbit for New Line and MGM, the studios and executive producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh announced on Thursday.The move was widely expected after it emerged four months ago that Jackson would serve as executive producer on ...
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Air drumming comedy Adventures Of Power berths at Shoreline
Shoreline Entertainment has picked up international rights ahead of Cannes to Ari Gold's air drumming comedy Adventures Of Power, which premiered at Sundance.Gold's feature directorial debut stars himself as a small-town dreamer who tries to become the world's greatest air-drummer.Adrian Grenier from the hit HBO series Entourage also stars with ...
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Film Source acquires screwball sci-fi comedy Fingerman...
Alex Massis' The Film Source has acquired AJ Rickert-Epstein's screwball sci-fi comedy Fingerman, Dr London And The Triangle Project.Rickert-Epstein and Stephen Murray produced the story of an ordinary suburban man who has to thwart a plot by evil scientists from the future. Christopher Clark and Dan Davidson star.Film Source's vice ...
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Silverdocs to honour Spike Lee at June event
Silverdocs will honour Spike Lee at the Charles Guggenheim Symposium, the centerpiece of the eight-day documentary festival that takes place in June just outside Washington DC.Lee was selected for his 'unyielding commitment to telling stories that challenge America's consciousness of social injustice, while also celebrating the resilience and power of ...
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Cloud Ten signs domestic distribution deal with Koch, CNI
Cloud Ten Pictures, the Los Angeles producer of faith-based content, has signed a distribution deal for its library titles and upcoming features with New York-based Koch Entertainment and Nashville's CNI Distribution.Koch will replace Sony Pictures Home Entertainment as Cloud Ten's North American DVD and video retail distributor of the existing ...
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Connecticut company launches campaign to attract international producers
The Connecticut Film Center (CFC) will reach out to international producers at Cannes next month in a bid to strengthen its claim to be one of the most attractive production locations on the East Coast.CFC representatives will be on the Croisette to promote the company's facilities, the state's aggressive 30% ...
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Bold Films hires Joseph Ruben to direct thriller Jack
Bold Films co-presidents Gary Michael Walters and David Lancaster are preparing the thriller Jack in time for an early autumn start of production.Worldwide president of distribution Stephanie Denton of the newly formed sales arm Bold Films International will introduce the project at Cannes.Joseph Ruben, whose credits include Sleeping With The ...
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Mark Urman takes over from Sackman as THINKFilm president
Mark Urman has been named president of THINKFilm in the wake of Jeff Sackman's departure last week.Urman was a co-founder of the company and previously served as head of the theatrical division. He will remain in New York, which will serve as the company's new headquarters.'Mark has played a crucial ...
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Slater, Bentley to star in Dolan's Cadillac for Film Bridge
Christian Slater and Wes Bentley have signed up to star in the adaptation of Stephen King's novella Dolan's Cadillac.The thriller follows a young man (Bentley) who seeks to avenge his wife's murder by the untouchable Las Vegas mobster Jimmy Dolan (Slater).Emmanuelle Vaugier rounds out the key cast on the project, ...
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Tribeca 2008 kicks off as NY state tax credit is tripled
The seventh Tribeca Film Festival kicked off in high spirits yesterday [April 23] as New York Governor David Paterson signed into law a tripling of the state's tax credit for film and TV productions and festival sponsors American Express extended their commitment for a further five years.The new tax legislation ...
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Shyer, HandMade set nine year-old Australian Beatty to play Eloise
Nine year-old Australian actress Jordana Beatty has been cast in the title role of Eloise in the new live action feature of children's classic Eloise In Paris being backed by HandMade Films and directed by Charles Shyer.Beatty joins Uma Thurman, who has been cast as Nanny in the contemporary adaptation ...
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Marcie Bloom launches Marcie Bloom Fellowship In Film
Marcie Bloom, a founding partner of Sony Pictures Classics, is launching The Marcie Bloom Fellowship In Film.The New York-based initiative is a mentoring programme designed to introduce up to four students a year to the world of independent film production and distribution. The fellowship will allow the fellows to define ...
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Delphis does aggressive business on Arthy's Fighter
Montreal sales house Delphis Films has wrapped a number of international deals on Natasha Arthy's Fighter. The film, which premiered in the Berlinale 14+ competition and will screen at Tribeca, has sold to more than a dozen countries, including Momentum for the UK, Europacorp for France, Hopscotch for Australia, VCL ...
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EuropaCorp hires Montironi, Degove on international sales staff
EuropaCorp has restructured its sales team and brought in two new international sales directors, the company said in a statement Wednesday evening. Marie-Laure Montironi joined Europa this month while Pascal Degove will take up his new post as of May.Montironi is an industry veteran who was instrumental in the development ...
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Japan rides high at international box office, led by Detective Conan
Japanese animated sequels came up trumps this weekend with two entries from Toho entering the top 15 and generating a combined $6.5m in their home territory. The top 40 international films generated $110.9m across 38,186 screens for the period of April 18-20.For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, ...
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Cannes line-up includes last-minute surprises including Che and Eastwood's Changeling
Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob and general manager Thierry Fremaux announced the official line up for the 61st edition this morning in Paris.Among the surprises were the last minute additions of Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Steven Soderbergh's two Che Guevara films The Argentine and Guerilla, although in press documents ...
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Film Consultancy, High Point team for McGuckian's Inconceivable
Penny Wolf's The Film Consultancy Partners and Carey Fitzgerald's High Point Media Group have joined forces to handle international sales for Mary McGuckian's Inconceivable, the third film in the director's 'amorality trilogy.'The film, previously known as Art In Las Vegas, is a UK-Canadian co-production between the UK's Pembridge Pictures, Canada's ...