All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 131
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NewsBier, Cavani, Nair join Venice Days' Women's Tales project
Susanne Bier, Liliana Cavani and Mira Nair are joining in Venice Days’ new Women’s Tales showcase.The three-day event (Aug 30-Sept 1) is to support women filmmakers. The programme will include screening of four short films by Zoe Cassavetes, Lucrecia Martel, Giada Colagrande and Massy Tadjedin.Q&A sessions with those filmmakes will ...
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NewsUniversal strikes home ent deal for FrightFest selection American Mary
Universal Pictures International Entertainment, Universal’s home entertainment division, has struck an all-rights deal for American Mary for a number of territories including the UK and Germany.
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NewsFilm4.0's Scene Stealers winners led by The Brothers Lynch, Luke Aherne
New competition from Film 4’s digital arm includes £5,000 development grant.
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NewsCircus Road take on omnibus Tbilisi, My City
Glen Reynolds and Zac Reeder’s Circus Road Films has boarded international sales for David Agiashvili’s Tbilisi, My City.
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NewsZadan and Meron to produce 85th Oscars
Film, TV and theatre producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce the 85th Academy Awards for the first time.
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NewsMark Gooder joins The Weinstein Company as president of acquisitions
Dan Guando and Negeen Yazdi are promoted at TWC.
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NewsHammer launches YouTube channel
Production company Hammer, the company behind The Woman In Black and Let Me In, has launched a dedicated YouTube channel to promote the company’s new films as well as restored classics from the lauded Hammer library to stream online.
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NewsFilm Movement acquires North American rights to Clandestine Childhood
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Clandestine Childhood (Infancia Clandestina), the debut feature from Argentina’s Benjamin Avila.
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NewsSenator in talks to take over Relativity's sales operations
Berlin-based Senator Entertainment is in negotiations with Los Angeles-based Relativity Media for Senator to take over Relativity’s foreign sales operations.
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NewsWill Clarke's Altitude to co-produce spoof The Hooligan Factory
EXCLUSIVE: Nick Nevern [pictured] to write and direct the summer 2013 release.
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NewsKim and Jim slate includes Rosenbaum's directorial debut
Old Days will mark the feature writing-directing debut of actor Michael Rosenbaum.
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NewsIndican takes on 'Vicente Fernandez'
Indican Pictures has acquired North American rights to Ernest Borgnine’s final film, The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernández.
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NewsMagnet takes worldwide rights to Coscarelli's John Dies At The End
The Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired worldwide rights to John Dies At The End.
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NewsProtagonist boards Lenny Abrahamson's What Richard Did
EXCLUSIVE: Abrahamson’s third feature will premiere in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema programme.
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NewsDimension acquires US rights to Stamm's Angry Little God
Remake of Thai thriller is backed by IM Global.
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NewsToronto Docs conference to welcome Sheila Nevins for keynote
Toronto’s fourth TIFF Docs Conference will expand from one to two days (Sept 10-11) and will also now be open to the public, not just industry delegates.
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NewsWinterbottom's Everyday to get world premiere as part of Toronto Masters
TIFF selects 14 projects for Masters, also by de Oliveira, Haneke, Kiarostami, Mungiu. Mavericks discussions include David Geffen.
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NewsTIFF confirms 146 world premieres; Toronto Discovery selections include Brass Teapot, Wasteland, Call Girl
The Toronto International Film Festival has added 27 features, including 14 world premieres, in its Discovery programme devoted to first or second features.
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NewsSAG to honour Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke will receive SAG-AFTRA’s highest honour, the SAG Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment.
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NewsVenice pacts with Festival Scope for public online Orizzonti screenings
Selections include Bernard Rose’s Boxing Day [pictured] and Alexey Balabanov’s Me Too.