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August Evening, Billy The Kid win $50,000 prizes at LAFF
Chris Eska's August Evening won the Target Film-maker Award for best narrative feature at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival, while Jennifer Venditti's Billy The Kid won the Target Documentary Award for best documentary feature. Each film was awarded an unrestricted cash prize of $50,000 funded by Target.The awards, presented ...
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Cruise, Wagner to make Thursday presentation at Cinema Expo
Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner, the new heads of the reactivated United Artists (UA), will make a presentation to delegates at Cinema Expo International in Amsterdam on Thursday evening, screening five-and-a-half minutes of footage from UA's first feature Lions For Lambs in which Cruise stars.They will be joined in the ...
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Academy ranks swell with 115 new invited members
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has invited 115 artists and executives to swell its membership ranks as voting members in 2007.Membership policies adopted by the Academy in 2003 to limit the number of new members would have allowed 150 new members this year but various branch committees ...
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Academy changes rules to allow for more than three producers
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has adjusted the rules for the best picture Oscar in advance of next year's 80th annual ceremony. Following the controversy of Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa being removed from the nomination list of last year's Little Miss Sunshine, the Academy has now ...
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Russian action star Nevsky launches LA production outfit
Russian action star and producer Alexander Nevsky is opening his own production outfit Hollywood Storm in Los Angeles. The move is directly inspired by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to boost film production in the state.Nevsky's previous films Moscow Heat and Treasure Raiders were both produced entirely in Russia in ...
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Charlie Kaufman: worlds within worlds
Charlie Kaufman started production last week on his first feature as a director, Synecdoche, New York, with a cast led by Philip Seymour Hoffman. On the eve of the shoot, Kaufman and Spike Jonze, one of his producers, talked exclusively to Mike Goodridge. Oddly, I'm not scared,' Charlie Kaufman says ...
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Kimmel catches sales on Cannes slate
Kimmel International has closed key deals on its new Cannes films, kicking off with Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York which went to Asmik Ace in Japan and Bim in Italy.Meanwhile Kimmel sales chief Mark Lindsay reported that MovieEye in Japan and Senator in Germany bought Tarsem Singh's political ...
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Melbourne festival starts networking event for producers
The Melbourne International Festival (MIFF) has established an international film networking event which will take place at the beginning of this year's festival from July 26 to 28.Called 37 South: Bridging The Gap, the event is designed to bring together Australian film producers with a range of potential partners.Up to ...
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Luke G-Jones goes green with Cool Hand
Luke G-Jones, the former head of co-production and finance at New Films International, has launched an innovative 'carbon credit' scheme for film production via his LA-based Cool Hand International.Cool Hand, says G-Jones, is a carbon-neutral company and any film in which he gets involved will be a carbon-neutral production. The ...
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Kimmel closes Japan and Italy on Kaufman's Synecdoche
Kimmel International has closed key deals on its new Cannes films, kicking off with Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York which went to Asmik Ace in Japan and Bim in Italy.Meanwhile Kimmel sales chief Mark Lindsay reported that MovieEye in Japan and Senator in Germany bought Tarsem Singh's political ...
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Nassiri launches peace film and initiatives in Cannes
Singer/songwriter, philanthropist and world peace activist Nassiri is launching his global peace initiative in Cannes.The programme falls into five key initiatives: the world premiere tomorrow of a 12 minute short film Love Sees No Colour sung in 15 languages by children in 18 countries and filmed by 18 directors; World ...
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Graham King extends realm with GK Film
Graham King, Oscar-winning producer of The Departed, Blood Diamond and The Aviator, has launched a new production company GK Films. At the same time, he has signed a three-year extension of his overall production deal with Warner Bros Pictures and extended his production deal with Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil.The new ...
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Socially-conscious cinema to be promoted by Cinema Verite
Cinema Verite, a major new initiative to promote socially-conscious cinema, was launched in Cannes yesterday at a press conference attended by Queen Noor Of Jordan and Bianca Jagger among others.The company, founded and managed by Paris-based documentary film-maker Joel Soler, will encompass a year-round foundation, a film fund and an ...
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Lupovitz lines up Podeswa, Evans, Palmer projects
LA-based producer Dan Lupovitz, executive producer on Death Defying Acts starring Catherine Zeta Jones and Guy Pearce and one of the producers on the currently-shooting Good with Viggo Mortenson, has lined out a slate of international projects here from film-makers including Jeremy Podeswa, Marc Evans and hot UK commercials directors ...
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New Line maps Compass rollout on Rings blueprint
New Line Cinema has set the release schedule for its epic $150m adventure movie The Golden Compass, almost exactly duplicating the rollout of The Fellowship Of The Ring in 2001. The film is having a major promotional launch today, just as Fellowship did at Cannes 2001, with a press conference ...
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DiGiaimo and Mudge pact for three
Barbara Mudge's Worldwide Film Entertainment has signed a three-picture deal with producer Lou DiGiaimo (Dinner Rush, Donnie Brasco). The titles are Piney Lake, Nebraska Fish & Game and Good Day Dying. Nick Stagliano (The Florentine) has signed to direct Piney Lake, which will start shooting in August for delivery at ...
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Spain's S2 sings for The Turtle Song
Stephane Sorlat's Madrid-based S2 International has rights in Spain and Portugal to Nick Stringer's documentary The Turtle Song from Sola Media.Produced by the UK's Film And Music Entertainment, the film tells the story of the little loggerhead turtle and her journey from a beach in Florida to the frozen north ...
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Halcyon Pictures branches out into UK distribution
Halcyon Pictures, Chris Coen's production and financing company which most recently produced Michael Haneke's Funny Games, is to start its own UK distribution arm Halcyon Distribution. The company will start operations by releasing its own production Wristcutters: A Love Story and teaming with Tartan Films to release Funny Games. ...
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Blatant and Intandem partner on $100m comic book film fund
LA producer Barry Levine and his film outfit Blatant Pictures have partnered with Gary Smith's UK company Intandem Films to raise a $100m film fund for big-screen adaptations of comic books from Blatant's sister company Radical Publishing.The first two projects are $35m action adventure Legends, to be directed by Patrick ...