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We Are Together wins Tribeca Audience Award
Paul Taylor's South African orphans documentary We Are Together (Thina Simunye) has won the 6th annual Tribeca Film Festival's Cadillac Award.The audience award was announced before the closing night premiere of HBO's documentary The Gates.Taylor, who produced with Teddy Liefer, earns a $25,000 cash prize for his account of the ...
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Domestic opening record established by Spider-man 3
The spandex one-piece and wise-cracking come-backs weren't the only familiar things about Spider-Man 3, as Sony's favourite super-hero swung back into action with a sensational estimated $148m three-day domestic opening that returned the franchise to its record-breaking ways established by the first episode in 2002.Spider-Man 3 spun a staggering $375m ...
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DreamWorks wins bidding for Jackson's Lovely Bones
Peter Jackson's upcoming Alice Sebold adaptation The Lovely Bones has landed at DreamWorks, the studio announced late on Friday after it won the auction for Jackson's project in association with Film 4.Sony, Warner Bros and Universal had also pursued the New Zealander, whose ongoing legal spat with New Line meant ...
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Israel's My Father My Lord wins top jury prize at Tribeca
David Volach's Israeli drama My Father My Lord won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature and a $50,000 cash prize at the 6th annual Tribeca Film Festival.Mexican film-maker Enrique Begne received the Best New Narrative Filmmaker and and $25,000 in cash for Two Embraces. Best Actor in a Narrative ...
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THINKFilm International picks up De La Iglesia, Cole films
THINKFilm International arrives in Cannes buoyed by a sales slate that includes Alex De La Iglesia's new thriller The Oxford Murders starring Elijah Wood and John Hurt, about a series of killings in the English university town that are seemingly related to mathematical symbols.The line-up continues with Five Dollars from ...
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Double Edge to co-finance two US films with Inferno
Taiwan and US-based Double Edge Entertainment will co-finance with Inferno Distribution the psychological thriller The Heaven Project, which has started principal photography and stars Paul Walker and Piper Perabo.The company also co-financed with Inferno the family comedy Smother starring Diane Keaton, Liv Tyler and Dax Shepard, which is currently in ...
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Spidey 3 has world in its web as blockbuster opens in 105 markets
The global blockbuster season has well and truly begun as Spider-Man 3 opens in approximately 105 countries around the world this week in what has already become a record-breaking event.After two days in release the latest episode in the Marvel comic book superhero's adventures stood at $42.5m. This dizzying figure ...
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El Violin a surprise hit at Mexican box office for Canana
Francisco Vargas' El Violin, the first distribution release from Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal and Pablo Cruz's outfit Canana, has been a surprise hit in Mexico on 20 prints, scoring the number one ranking at the box office in its first weekend and some 36,000 admissions in its first week.The ...
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Easternlight takes on Three Kingdoms for sales at Cannes
Easternlight Films will handle international sales at Cannes on Hong Kong director Daniel Lee's martial arts epic Three Kingdoms - Resurrection Of The Dragon, based on the popular Chinese classical novel The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms.Andy Lau and Maggie Q star in the story of a common man who ...
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Hopkins gets lifetime achievement award at Seattle
Anthony Hopkins will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 33rd Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), set to run from May 24-Jun 17.The presentation will feature clips from Hopkins' career, an on-stage interview, and a screening of The Remains Of The Day. Hopkins will introduce his new film Slipstream later ...
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Darfur doc Sand And Sorrow to close IETFF in Monte Carlo
A preview of Paul Freedman's Darfur documentary Sand And Sorrow narrated and produced by George Clooney will close the inaugural International Emerging Talent Film Festival (IETFF), which runs in Monte Carlo, Monaco, from May 13-15.Thom Fitzgerald's AIDS drama 3 Needles will open the event, which is screening 11 features including ...
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Rajendra Roy named chief curator at MoMA's Film Department
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has appointed Rajendra Roy as the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of the Department of Film. Roy, the artistic director of the Hamptons International Film Festival and the only American programmer for the Berlinale, will succeed Mary Lea Bandy, who retired from MoMA ...
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New Yorker Films gorges on Still Life for US
New Yorker Films has picked up Jia Zhang-Ke's Venice 2006 Golden Lion winner Still Life and has scheduled an autumn platform release in New York City followed by a nationwide roll-out.Still Life chronicles the changes that sweep through an ancient town when a hydro-dam project forces families to uproot and ...
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Dorian Gray adaptation opens NewFest
Duncan Roy's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's cautionary tale The Picture Of Dorian Gray, starring David Gallagher, will open NewFest: The 19th Annual New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival.Robert Cary's drama Save Me will close the festival. Chad Allen, Robert Gant, and Judith Light star in the tale ...
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Filipino Oscar-contender finds US home
TLA Releasing has acquired North American non-theatrical, video, and select TV rights from Unitel Pictures International to Filipino director Aureaus Solito's The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros.The distributor plans a DVD release on Aug 28 on the story of a gay pre-teen growing up with petty thieves in the slums of ...
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Warner Independent hatches two-year deal with producer Bregman
Warner Independent Pictures has signed a two-year, first-look deal with producer Anthony Bregman's New York-based production house Likely Story.Likely Story was formed in 2006 and is currently in post-production on Carriers and The Sleep Dealer in association with This Is That, and in pre-production on Synecdoche, New York. The company ...
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Paramount Vantage sales team takes shape with Walton hire
Alex Walton has left HanWay Films to join Paramount Vantage as vice president of international sales and will relocate from London to Los Angeles.The specialty division will launch its foreign sales operation in Cannes, a move that has been widely predicted since Nick Meyer joined the studio as co-president following ...
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Mehta to serve as visiting artist at Loyola Marymount
Deepa Mehta will serve as the inaugural Cosgrove Family Endowment Distinguished Visiting Artist at the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television (SFTV).Mehta's appointment is for the 2007 and 2008 academic years, during which time she will mentor students and participate in workshops, seminars and lectures with an emphasis ...
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Truly Indie takes on US theatrical release of Steel City
Truly Indie will handle the US theatrical release of Brian Jun's drama Steel City, which will open May 25 in New York with other cities to follow.The story about a small-town family that has to grapple with difficult situations caused by their an alcoholic father.Ugly Betty star America Ferrera stars ...
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GreeneStreet Films options The Contortionist's Handbook
GreeneStreet Films (GSF) has optioned Craig Clevenger's psychological thriller The Contortionist's Handbook through its development finance deal with private financier Sriram Das.Das will produce with GSF the story of a master forger who creates a string of new identities for himself as he runs from a traumatic past. When he ...