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Anderson moves to UIP Australia
Expatriate Australian Jon Anderson is returning home to take up the role of marketing manager of UIP Australia from November 20. Anderson was most recently Columbia TriStar's London-based director of marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Throughout the 1980s he worked for the merged Fox Columbia company in ...
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Nighy, Blunt, Grint, Everett star in UK comedy Wild Target
Principal photographyhas begunon the comedy Wild Target starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint and Rupert Everett.Jonathan Lynn is directing the story of an uptight hitman who falls for his intended victim from a screenplay by Lucinda Coxon based on Pierre Salvadori's 1993 French film Cible Emouvante that earned two ...
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Bruno Barreto's Last Stop 174 selected as Brazil's Oscar entry
Bruno Barreto's Last Stop 174 has been selected as Brazil's official entry for the best foreign language film category of the Academy Awards.Last Stop 174 selected as Brazil's Oscar entry The social drama had its world premiere in Toronto and will open the Rio International Film Festival on Sept 25.The ...
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ReviewsSoul Power
Dir. Jeffrey Levy-Hinte. US. 2008. 93 mins.Jeffrey Levy-Hinte became obsessed with outtakes from Leon Gast’sWhen We Were Kings(1995) when he was editing it. The documentary about the famed ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ boxing match in which Muhammed Ali upset George Foreman 34 years ago in what ...
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HighRoad Entertainment options Cheech Marin original script
Los Angeles-based HighRoad Entertainment has optioned the rights to the script Angel Of Oxnard from Cheech Marin, one half of the celebrated stoner duo Cheech And Chong.Marin will direct and star in the story of a local broadcaster who finds himself at the centre of a global media storm when ...
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Rio Film Festival to kick off on Sept 25 with Last Stop 174
Bruno Barreto's Last Stop 174, which was today announced as Brazil's foreign language film Oscar entry, will kick off the Rio International Film Festival on Sept 25. The festival, which opened last year with Jose Padilha's Elite Squad, five months before it won the Golden Bear in Berlin, runs for ...
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Canada's Entertainment One lands $150m credit facility
Canadian media conglomerate Entertainment One (E1) has signed a four-year $150m credit facility led by US private bank JP Morgan.The new rotating line of credit will replace the company's existing debt facilities and provide capital for further expansion. Morgan leads a syndicate including Bank of America, Barclays and Toronto Dominion ...
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Necessities Of Life named as Canada's foreign Oscar submission
Benoit Pilon's Necessities Of Life (Ce Qu'il Faut Pour Vivre) has been selected as Canada's submission for the the foreign language film category at the 81st Academy Awards. Written by Pilon and Bernard Emond and produced by Bernadette Payeur of Montreal-based ACPAV, the film world premiered in competition at this ...
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Jamie Carmichael moves to ContentFilm's LA office
ContentFilm Plc, has announced that Jamie Carmichael, President of its film division ContentFilm International (CFI), has re-located from London to the group's Santa Monica office. CFI has brought to the international market films such as Jason Reitman's Thank You For Smoking, Black Book directed by Paul Verhoeven, Duncan Tucker's Transamerica ...
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Fantastic Films takes on sales for animated Fox's Tale
Los Angeles-based Fantastic Films International has taken on international sales and distribution rights to A Fox's Tale.The animated feature from Hungarian director George Gat was co-written with Peter Doka.Gat's Dyn Entertainment is producing with Bill Chamberlain's Pinewood-based UK outfit Parallel Pictures.The voice cast will include Freddie Highmore, Bill Nighy, Miranda ...
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Fact Not Fiction moves political thriller shoot from UK to Jordan
UK outfit Fact Not Fiction Films has finished the six-week UK portion of the shoot for new feature 31 North 62 East.The shoot now moves to Jordan later this month.The $2m project is independently financed.Producer/director Tristan Loraine is working with DoP Sue Gibson.The political thriller is about a British Prime ...
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Working Title opens Eye
Working Title is fast-tracking a Big Brother-meets-horror genre picture, My Little Eye, which follows a group of 20-somethings who sign up for a reality web show that turns increasingly sinister. Resurrection Man's Marc Evans is shooting the film, written by David Hilton, in Nova Scotia early next year for low-budget ...
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MercuryMedia to handle UK launch of doc I.O.U.S.A.
MercuryMedia has taken on UK distribution of Patrick Creadon's I.O.U.S.A.The feature-length documentary has already been released theatrically in the US and premiered at Sundance.It will have its European premiere Nov 5 as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest and will then open in the UK from Nov 27 at Picturehouse Cinemas as ...
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Entre Les Murs opens Athens International Film Festival
The 14th Athens International Film Festival will open with a gala presentation of Laurent Cantet's Cannes 2008 Golden Palm winner Entre les Murs. Mike Leigh's Happy Go Lucky is the closing film. The festival line up boasts 153 titles in ten different sections and four tributes.The 13 pictures strong international ...
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Venice Lion of Future Winner Lunch adds five new sales
Gianni Di Gregorio's Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo di ferragosto), a Venice Critics' Week selection which scooped up the De Laurentiis/Filmauro sponsored $100,000 Lion of the Future prize, has enjoyed multi territory sales at Toronto, cutting deals with France (Le Pacte), Germany (Pandora), Benelux (Cinemien), Switzerland (Xenix) and Austria (Filmladen), Janine Gold ...
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Cartoon expands with EU MEDIA International support
Cartoon Connection is one of 18 projects involving partners from Canada, Latin America, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Morocco, Bosnia, Turkey and Georgia, which have been provided with almost $2.88m (Euros 2m) by the EU to develop closer cooperation between European and third country film professionals. 11 of the selected ...
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NewsLFF's Power To The Pixel to host new innovative Forum
The Times BFI London Film Festival will again partner for Power To The Pixel, The Digital Distribution and Film Innovation Forum.
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Cinema16 plans new World Short Films collection
The popular Cinema16 DVD series will continue with World Short Films, a new short film collection to be launched on Nov 17 in the UK.The DVD includes 16 shorts, including Andrea Arnold's Oscar-winning Wasp, Guillermo Del Toro's previously unreleased Dona Lupe; cult hit Forklift Driver Klaus; Park Chan Wook's only ...
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Finland submits Home Of Dark Butterflies in Oscar race
Finnish director Dome Karukoski's The Home of Dark Butterflies (Tummien perhosten koti) will be Finland's official bid for an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-Language Feature, the Finnish Film Foundation announced today.Already among the five competitors for the Nordic Council Film Prize, the Markus Selin-Jukka Helle production for Solar Films follows ...
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Abu Dhabi festival to open with The Brothers Bloom
Abu Dhabi's second Middle East International Film Festival (Oct 10-19) presented its line-up today, opening with The Brothers Bloom by Rian Johnson and closing with Body Of Lies by Ridley Scott.The other special presentations for the festival include Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Spike Lee's Miracle At St. Anna, Neil ...