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Fog City, Caviar roll cameras on San Francisco romance
Principal photography has begun on Around June, a romance being jointly produced by San Francisco-based Fog City Pictures and Los Angeles-based Caviar Films.Samaire Armstrong, Brad William Henke, Jon Gries and Puerto Rican newcomer Oscar Guerrero star in the story of a downtrodden young woman who falls for a penniless immigrant.The ...
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Goldstein joins HBO Films as SVP
Julie Goldstein has joined HBO as senior vice president of HBO Films, where she will assume responsibility for overseeing the development and production of the slate for theatrical release through Picturehouse. Goldstein will remain in New York to boost HBO Films' East Coast presence and will report to HBO Films ...
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Shine Global launches contest to fund socially aware documentaries
Non-profit US production company Shine Global has launched a contest to promote and fund the development of documentary films.From now until Mar 19 the company will solicit treatments and budgets from both established and first-time documentary film-makers whose films aim to end the exploitation and abuse of children by raising ...
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Messengers, Because I Said So lead domestic box office
Sony releases have dominated Superbowl weekend for the last six years and Screen Gems' The Messengers extended that quirky distinction at the weekend.As the nation prepared to sit down to watch Sunday's [Feb 4] clash between the Chicago Bears and the Indianapolis Colts, the Pang Brothers' latest horror film opened ...
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Cineplex expands live opera screenings to 34 cinemas
Canadian exhibitor Cineplex Entertainment is increasing the number of screens devoted to video presentations of the Metropolitan Opera live from New York 's Lincoln Centre. The high-definition transmissions will be delivered via satellite to 34 cinemas across Canada, up from 28. 'The first three transmissions, Mozart's Magic Flute, Bellini's I ...
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Australian drama West strikes Lightning
Los Angeles-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has boarded the edgy Australian drama West and will introduce the project to buyers in Berlin next week.The film will receive its world premiere in the Generation 14plus section of the festival and explores what happens when two slacker cousins find their ...
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Universal promotes Bario to EVP of production
Holly Bario, who has spent more than a decade as a production executive at Universal Pictures, has been named executive vice president of production at the studio.Bario has shepherded some of Universal's biggest comedies in recent years, including Bruce Almighty, Meet The Parents, Meet The Fockers, and The 40 Year-Old ...
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Eastwood wins MPAA's inaugural Valenti Award
Clint Eastwood will receive the Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) inaugural Jack Valenti Humanitarian Award on Feb 6 in Washington DC.The award, to be presented annually to an individual in the industry whose work has reached out positively and respectfully to all countries, creeds and cultures, will be presented ...
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New TIFF headquarters to break ground in Spring
The Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) expects to break ground in the spring on its much-anticipated Festival Centre, according to TIFFG. The site consists of TIFFG's Festival Centre, a five-storey podium building housing the Group's operations, a gallery, five cinemas, educational suites and a film reference library, and Festival ...
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HotDocs welcome German, Italian, Brazilian delegations
Hots Doc Canadian Documentary Film Festival has announced it will play host to official delegations from Germany, Italy and Brazil at its 14th annual event, April 19-29. Each of the three nations will be represented by 20 to 30 established producers and broadcasters working in the format. The key events ...
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Korean Film Commission plans US office led by Sun-young Moon
The Korean Film Commission (KOFIC) has announced plans to open an LA office within the first half of the year, as part of an initiative to step up support for Korean films and filmmakers in the US. 'The initiative works on two planes - the industry side and the academic,' ...
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Global box office down slightly this week, as Germany and Japan slip
Global box office takings took a slight dip of 2.9% this week in comparison to the same week last year and fell by less than 1% from last week, according to the Screen International Screen Index.The marginal decrease was led by year-on-year falls in major territories such as Germany, Japan, ...
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Mexican documentary festival Ambulante to open with Jesus Camp
Documentary film festival Ambulante, set up last year by Canana, the production company founded by Mexican actors Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal and producer Pablo Cruz, will open today with Oscar-nominated Jesus Camp. The second edition of this travelling film festival will tour 15 cities in Mexico until March 29. ...
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Rochelle Sharpe heads up new Sandra Marsh music arm
Los Angeles-based international entertainment agency Sandra Marsh Management has launched a music division.The new venture will be headed by Rochelle Sharpe and will be devoted to representing composers, music supervisors and music editors in film, television and commercials.The current client roster includes: Bruno Coulais, a 2005 Oscar nominee for his ...
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McLaurin hired to lead MPAA's education outreach
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has named Stewart McLaurin as executive vice president of education affairs.In this newly created position McLaurin will lead the association's education and outreach programmes. Specifically he will target university and K-12 administrators, educators and students and lawmakers and other government officials to promote ...
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Wheldon to administer NewFest
Kerry Weldon has been hired as administrative director at NewFest, where she will serve as co-director of the organisation, and oversee finances, development, and administration in partnership with artistic director Basil Tsiokos.Weldon begins in her new post on Feb 1, working on fundraising and corporate relations leading up to NewFest ...
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The Pool
Dir: Chris Smith. US. 2007. 106mins.In his second narrative feature The Pool, documentary film-maker Chris Smith (American Movie) considerably expands his range and thematic concerns. Working in Hindi, telling a low key, resonant story about an 18-year-old Indian boy's quest to break free of his disadvantaged origins, Smith is working ...
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The Mark of Cain
Dir: Marc Munden. UK. 2007. 90mins Moral dilemmas both public and personal form the core of The Mark of Cain, a gripping and very timely drama about British forces in Iraq. Written by playwright and TV screenwriter Tony Marchant (Kid in the Corner, Holding On), a specialist in bringing political ...
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Lapointe and Kwan share Claude Jutra Award
First-time filmmakers Julia Kwan (Eve And The Fire Horse) and Stephane Lapointe (La Vie Secrete Des Gens Heureux /The Secret Life of Happy People) were announced as the recipients of the 2007 Claude Jutra Award. It will be the first time the prize, presented annually during the Genie Awards for ...
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Hot Docs inaugurates Tracey tribute prize
The Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival will present a new prize in memory of the late Canadian documentary filmmaker Lindalee Tracey. Endowed by Tracey's colleagues, friends and family, the prize will be awarded annually to an emerging Canadian filmmaker who exemplifies Tracey's approach to the documentary form: 'with passion, ...