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Film Agency For Wales offers development funds for Mr Manchester
The Film Agency For Wales is backing Cardiff-born writer Phil Charles' feature comedy Mr Manchester, now in development.Lee Ruette and Britt Harrison's Snowball Pictures will produce.The Manchester-set comedy is about a macho cash-strapped builder who enters a gay beauty competition.Charles has been working as a TV writer and previously made ...
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Beresford on board for Grahame biopic Banking On Mr Toad
Bruce Beresford is attached to direct Banking On Mr Toad, which is set to shoot in Dublin and nearby Irish locales in early 2009. The biopic of Kenneth Grahame is being readied as his classic The Wind In The Willows celebrates its 100th anniversary.The film's budget is $22m. Casting is ...
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Passchendaele to open Toronto Film Festival on Sept 4
Paul Gross' WWI epic Passchendaele will open the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 4. Written, directed and produced by Gross, who also takes the lead role, the film is coproduced by Niv Fichman, Frank Siracusa and Francis Damberge. The film also features Caroline Dhavernas, Gil Bellows and ...
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Universal acquires graphic novel series The Last Call from Oni
Universal has acquired the graphic novel series The Last Call from Oni Press and has hired Evan Spiliotopoulos to adapt the screenplay.The Last Call was first published in 2007 and centres on two joyriders who have the misfortune to get hit by a train that happens to be an inter-dimensional ...
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GMI's \'Uncensored\' Cuaron picture arouses Fox
On the eve of what promises to be a hectic two weeks of deal-making for Good Machine International (GMI) in both London and Milan, the New York sales operation, has sold the French, German, Swiss and Italian distribution rights to Alfonso Cuaron's sexually-unbridled Y Tu Mama Tambien to 20th Century ...
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Tim Sommerfeld named svp of creative advertising at Summit
Tim Sommerfeld has been appointed senior vice president of creative advertising at Summit Entertainment.Sommerfeld gets to work straight away on upcoming releases Fly Me To The Moon, Twilight, Sex Drive, The Brothers Bloom, Push and Knowing.He most recently served as creative director and producer at The Ant Farm, where he ...
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Pope's Toilet rides into US with Film Movement
Film Movement has acquired Cesar Charlone and Enrique Fernandez' Uruguayan comedy The Pope's Toilet and plans a limited release in October followed by DVD roll-out in 2009.The story centres on the people of a small town who prepare to capitalise on an upcoming visit from the Pontiff.The Pope's Visit played ...
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Daryn Okada elected president of ASC
Daryn Okada has been elected to serve a third one-year term as president of the American Society Of Cinematographers.The other officers are: vice presidents Michael Goi, Owen Roizman and Richard Crudo; treasurer Victor J Kemper; secretary Isidore Mankofsky; and sergeant-at-arms John Hora.The board members include Curtis Clark, Caleb Deschanel, John ...
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Christian Gaines leaves AFI for Withoutabox.com
Christian Gaines has joined IMDb's festival and networking community 0Withoutabox.com as film festival director.Gaines previously served as director of festivals at the American Film Institute (AFI) where he oversaw festival and film programming projects including AFI FEST.He was heavily involved with the inception of Silverdocs and AFI Dallas International Film ...
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Choke wins narrative feature prize at Maui Film Festival
Clark Gregg's Choke starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston won the narrative feature prize at the 2008 Annual Maui Film Festival while Charles Kinnane's The Human Experience took the documentary award.In the world cinema programme, Amin Matalqa's Captain Abu Raed was named best narrative feature and Christian Karim Chrobog's War ...
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Patricia Clarkson takes lead in Ruba Nadda's Cairo Time
Patricia Clarkson is starring in Ruba Nadda's romantic drama Cairo Time which started shooting this week in Cairo, Egypt.The Canada-Ireland co-production co-stars Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya and Tom McCamus and will shoot through to July 13.Producers on the film are Daniel Iron of Foundry Films (Away From Her, Manufactured Landscapes) ...
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Chinese developer close to deal to acquire Shaw Brothers
Chinese property developer Yeung Kwok-keung is close to finalising a deal to buy a 75% stake in Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers from Sir Run Run Shaw. The deal would give Yeung, who is chairman of Guangdong-based development company Country Garden Holdings, control of Hong Kong's largest broadcaster TVB. Shaw Brothers ...
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Five Korean webhards prosecuted for copyright infringement
Five heads of Korean webhard (online storage) sites were arrested yesterday (June 17) by the Seoul Central Prosecutors' Office for alleged copyright infringement. The high-tech crimes investigation unit of the Prosecutors' Office took into custody five CEOs, including Moon Yong-shik of the company Nowcom which operates webhard portal sites Pdbox.co.kr ...
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Karel De Vries takes MD post at Universal's Dutch arm
Universal Pictures International has appointed Karel De Vries as managing director of its operations in the Netherlands. He replaces Max Van Praag, who is leaving the post after 23 years with Universal.De Vries will join UPI at the end of September to work with Van Praag on the transition, and ...
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Reliance in talks to invest in DreamWorks
India's Reliance ADA Group is close to a deal with DreamWorks' chiefs Steven Spielberg and David Geffen to launch a new venture that would enable them to split with Paramount Pictures, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Click here to see article.The Mumbai-based conglomerate would provide Spielberg ...
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Bac-Cryo tie-up bears fruit with Scary web-site
French distributor Bac Films has launched a fully interactive 3D web-site for Scary Movie, marking the first tangible result of its link-up with video game specialist Cryo Interactive. Scarymovie-lefilm.com provides information on the film's content and cast; trailers and extracts from "the making of"; and video games inspired by specific ...
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