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France to be focus of Halifax co-production market
The Strategic Partners international coproduction market in Canada will focus on France at its 10th anniversary event this September. The market takes place during Halifax's Atlantic Film Festival. According to Strategic Partners director Jan Miller, exit surveys from the 2006 edition showed 'Canadian interest in working with France is no ...
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RBS signs $350m financing pact with New Line
The Royal Bank of Scotland has closed a $350m film financing deal with New Line Cinema. The pact will provide co-financing for an estimated 20 New Line films during an approximately two-year period. The deal will include 2007 releases such as Hairspray, Rush Hour 3, and The Golden Compass as ...
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Court lets ACTRA's strike strategy stand
Canadian performers representative ACTRA won a preliminary battle in its labour dispute with Canadian and US producers when the Superior Court of Ontario today dismissed an injunction application from the Canadian Film & Television Production Association (CFTPA). The CFTPA was asking the court to deem illegal the letters of continuation ...
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Hoblit's Untraceable rounds out cyber thriller cast
Colin Hanks, Billy Burke, Joseph Cross and Mary Beth Hurt have joined Diane Lane in the cast of Lakeshore Entertainment's upcoming cyber thriller Untraceable.Screen Gems will release the film in North America and Sony Pictures Releasing International is distributing in Latin America.Untraceable is set to begin production in February and ...
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Universal unveils regional film-buying network across its labels
Universal Pictures and Focus Features are consolidating their worldwide acquisitions operations to support NBC Universal's global theatrical distribution network.Universal Pictures chairman Marc Shmuger, co-chairman David Linde, and Focus Features and Rogue Pictures chairman James Schamus will oversee the restructured division along with Universal executive vice president Michael Joe and Focus ...
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Relativity strikes massive studio co-financing pact with Citigroup
Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is teaming up with Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking to co-finance approximately 45 films from an as-yet-unnamed Hollywood studio over the next five years. Exact details of the this massive deal were not disclosed at time of writing. However, if it follows the parameters of recent ...
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SilverDocs pays tribute to Jonathan Demme
SilverDocs will honour Jonathan Demme at the Charles Guggenheim Symposium, the six-day documentary festival's centerpiece event set to take place in June just outside Washington DC.Demme's documentary work includes: last year's Neil Young: Heart Of Gold; The Agronomist (2003), an account of the life of Haitian journalist and human rights ...
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Cinemavault adds three European premieres to Berlin slate
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International has boarded a number of new projects for the European Film Market in Berlin, among them the schizophrenia drama Canvas starring Marcia Gay Harden.Joe Pantoliano and newcomer Devon Gearhart also star in Joseph Greco's film, which will receive its European premiere in Berlin and centres on ...
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IFC pounces on Wild Tigers for North America
IFC Entertainment has acquired North American rights from Genius Products to Cam Archer's coming-of-age drama Wild Tigers I Have Known.IFC will release the film on Feb 28 through its theatrical and On Demand cable day-and-date distribution division IFC First Take.The deal is the latest example of IFC's strong alignment with ...
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Barab named international chief at American World Pictures
Martin Barab has joined Los Angeles-based distributor American World Pictures as president of international production and distribution.Barab, who recently exited his post as president of beleaguered Bauer Martinez Studio's production division Lucky 50 Productions, will work closely with American World Pictures chairman Mark Lester and production president Dana Dubovsky.Aside from ...
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Bogeydom acquires Kitamura's LoveDeath for EFM launch
Toronto-based Bogeydom Licensing has acquired world rights to Japanese cult director Ryuhei Kitamura's LoveDeath, a production of Tokyo-based companies Napalm Films and Suplex Inc. The film, which premieres at Berlin's European Film Market, follows two lovers whose passion for each other incites the wrath of everyone around them, from the ...
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Fox promotes key production and animation executives
Fox Filmed Entertainment has announced a number of promotions of key production executives, with Hutch Parker appointed vice chairman, to also oversee Fox Animation in addition to Twentieth Century Fox (TCF) Film Group. He had been president of Twentieth Century Fox since 2005 and joined Fox in 1995. Emma Watts ...
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Grohne to spearhead new London office for First Look
First Look International (FLI) is opening a London office and has hired sales executive Tim Grohne from Celsius Entertainment to front the UK operation as vice president, international sales.FLi is also relocating LA-based international sales manager John Vista Neis to London. Joining them will be vice president, European TV/DVD sales ...
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Bell hired as Paramount's technology chief
Paramount Pictures has hired former Warner Bros executive vice president of advanced technology Alan Bell as executive vice president and chief technology officer.In the newly created position, Bell will oversee worldwide technology strategy and advise on all related technical, business, legal and regulatory matters.In addition he will explore, evaluate and ...
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P.O.V. to broadcast Israeli Sundance doc Hot House
P.O.V., the long-running strand for non-fiction films on US public television (PBS), has picked up broadcast rights to Shimon Dotan's Israeli documentary Hot House following its recent world premiere at Sundance.The film played in the World Cinema Competition: Documentary programme and examines the lives of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.P.O.V. ...
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Feiffer receives lifetime achievement award from WGAW
Screenwriter, playwright and cartoonist Jules Feiffer will receive the Writers Guild of America, West's (WGAW) ninth annual Animation Writing Award for lifetime achievement.Feiffer's credits include Little Murders (1970) and Carnal Knowledge (1971), both of which earned WGA nominations, as well as 1980's Popeye, directed by the late Robert Altman.He received ...
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Hand Picked duo tune into Vivaldi life-story
Hand Picked Films' Michel Shane and Anthony Romano and financier Carlos Melcer have boarded the musical biopic Vivaldi, which is set to star Joseph Fiennes.Shane and Romano, whose executive producer credits include I, Robot and Catch Me If You Can, will produce alongside Boris Damast and Andrea Kikot of Mechaniks, ...
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Hoskins joins Mitra in Doomsday cast
Bob Hoskins has joined Rhona Mitra on the cast of Rogue Pictures' action thriller Doomsday, Neil Marshall's follow-up to his horror hit The Descent.Production is set to begin on Feb 9 in South Africa. Crystal Sky Pictures' Steven Paul and Benedict Carver are producing and Intrepid Pictures principals Trevor Macy ...
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Mirren, Whitaker win SAG awards in final stages of Oscar race
Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren confirmed their status as favourites to claim the Oscar after they won top honours at the 13 Annual Screen Actors Guild in Los Angeles last night.Confirming that it is a best picture Oscar frontrunner, Little Miss Sunshine won the ensemble cast award, beating heavyweight films ...
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Tijuana, Unsettled are top Slamdance winners
The 13th Slamdance Film Festival announced its 16 film and screenplay prize-winners as the event wound down at the weekend.The festival received a record 3,600-plus submissions from 20 countries for less than 100 slots, and registered approximately 20,000 attendees.There was one high-profile sale, as Picturehouse bought domestic rights to Seth ...