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IFC Entertainment makes films available to iTunes
IFC Entertainment is the latest distributor making available its film catalogue for iTunes users, including the six titles nominated in this weekend's 2007 Independent Spirit Awards among them American Gun and Sorry, Haters.'By making IFC films available on the world's most popular online movie store we're giving independent film-makers the ...
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BFI partners with HP for Mediatheque's digitised archive offerings
As the British Film Institute (BFI) gets ready to unveil its revamped Southbank home next month, the institute has announced a new partnership with Hewlett-Packard (HP). HP will use its digital technology to offer the BFI National Archive materials to the public. The pact was announced this morning by BFI ...
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Penketh High makes indie feature Days
Over 500 teachers and students at an innovative high school in Warrington, England, combined talents to make a full-length feature film in eight months on a budget of about $11,700-$13,600 (£6000-£7000). Local businesses and organisations also got behind the production. Project co-ordinator Jonathon Kay said the project was the first ...
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Actors union strikes groundbreaking podcast deal in UK
UK actors union Equity has struck what it believes is the first deal covering contractual rights for performers in a podcast. The agreement is with B7 Productions, which is producing an updated audio version of 1970s sci-fi show Blake's 7. Actors working on the project (due for release this spring) ...
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Digital focus for Beverly Hills conference
Industry newsletter Digital Media Wire will launch the Future Of Film Conference on March 21 at the Writers' Guild of America's Theater in Beverly Hills. The one-day forum will bring together leaders in content creation, distribution and digital technologies to debate how critical changes in film are transforming the ...
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Sony launches web promotion for Spider-Man 3
Sony is launching a competition to find two online correspondents to report on breaking news about Spider-Man 3 in the run-up to the May 4 release. Two fans of the franchise - one male and one female - will be charged with creating videos presenting news, information and special promotions. ...
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Shorts International launches ShortsTV channel
Shorts International has turned on its ShortsTV cable channel airing an extensive catalogue of short films 24 hours a day to audiences in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. As well as Oscar-winning works and commended films from around the world, there will be up to 1,800 new films screened this year. ...
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Eros enters French VOD and Egyptian theatrical markets
Eros International, the UK-based sales company that concentrates on Bollywood projects, will enter the French VOD market later this month. Eros is the only Bollywood provider for CanalPlus' CanalPlay, which will launch with 12 Eros offerings on February 22.Eros is also making headway into Egypt, which had in recent years ...
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Sony grabs multi-platform rights to Afterworld
Sony Pictures Television International has signed a deal to acquire all international television, Internet, digital sell-through, gaming and mobile rights to Afterworld.The futuristic '2.5D' animated project is produced by Stan Rogow and written by video game expert Brent Friedman.This mark SPTI's first acquisition of across all these platforms. The deal ...
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AAM strikes VOD deal with Emap magazines including Empire
Arts Alliance Media's video on demand network Vizumi has struck a deal with Emap for branded consumer websites.AAM will launch VOD websites tomorrow with three of Emap Performance's consumer brands, film magazine Empire, Motorcycle News and Today's Golfer. This marks AAM's first VOD distribution partnership after sister company LoveFilm and ...
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HBO launches VOD offering in UK through BT, Tiscali and Virgin
Home Box Office has announced plans for an HBO-branded subscription video on demand service in the UK, the company's first major move into the territory.The HBO SVOD service will be distributed by BT Vision, Tiscali TV and Virgin Media, with launch dates to be determined by each partner. Other partners ...
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Dayton & Faris, Lin, Maggenti make 'made for mobile' shorts
Sundance Institute and GSM Association (GSMA) have unveiled the five original 'made for mobile' short films commissioned as part of the Sundance Film Festival Global Short Film Project.In one of the first collaborations of its kind, six new and established independent film-makers created short films designed to be viewed on ...
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Pirates dominates visual effects awards
Pirates Of The Caribbean dominated the theatrical category at the Visual Effects Society's (VES) fifth annual gala in Los Angeles.The film won Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture, Best Single Visual Effect of the Year, and Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture for ...
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Future Shorts moves into distribution
UK-based short film outfit Future Shorts is launching a distribution division, and partnering with LoveFilm for digital downloads. The new DVD division will launch its first titles in May 2007, available at Future Shorts events, the company's website and traditional retail stores. DVDs will cover multiple genres, including fiction, documentary, ...
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Digital rights issue causes buyer/seller strife in Berlin
The European Film Market is struggling to cope with the arrival of an important new factor in the film sales world - digital rights.Buyers are desperately trying to acquire rights for downloads, video-on-demand and online distribution but many content owners are simply refusing to sell.Digital media is now a mainstream ...
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Jeonju selects film-makers for digital shorts showcase
The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) has announced Pedro Costa, Harun Farocki, and Eugène Green have been selected for Jeonju Digital Project 2007, formerly known as Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers. JIFF, which has a focus on independent and digital films, has been sponsoring short film projects annually ...
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MySpace film competition launched
MySpace launched its Mymoviemashup competition to open doors for new talent with a presentation, panel discussion and Big Lebowski-themed party last night at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes in London. The $1.9 million (£1m) feature film project is a partnership between MySpace, Film4 and Vertigo Films, and has the support of Shooting ...
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IMAX signs two cinema deals in China
IMAX Corp and the China Science and Technology Museum have signed an agreement that will see two IMAX cinemas installed at a new museum in Beijing by early 2009. One cinema will feature IMAX wraparound Dome technology and the other its 3D technology. The new facility will be part of ...
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Weiss to head MGM direct-to-video division
In a move designed to leverage its much coveted library, MGM has hired Jason Weiss to head a new division dedicated to creating direct-to-video content. As vice president of the new group Weiss will oversee an annual slate of 12 or more films. He will report to Charlie Cohen, MGM's ...
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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 ...