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Justin Long, Fred Willard join Cera in Youth In Revolt
Justin Long and Fred Willard have joined Michael Cera and newcomer Portia Doubleday on the cast of Dimension Film's tale Youth In Revolt.Zach Galifinakis, Ari Graynor, Erik Knudsen, Adhir Kalyan, Jonny Wright, Tricia Mara and Mary Kay Place have also come aboard.The Permut Presentations and Shangri-La Entertainment project is based ...
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Wesle's Atrix takes on sales for Kyrgyzstan love story Tengri
Beatrix Wesle's Munich-based sales agent Atrix Films has picked up international rights to Marie Jaoul de Poncheville's Tengri - Blue Heavens, a love story set in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia which has its world premiere at the Munich Film Festival this week.The film will then be screened for buyers at ...
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SILVERDOCS fetes The Garden, The English Surgeon
Scott Hamilton Kennedy's The Garden won the SILVERDOCS Sterling US Feature Award and Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble The Water earned a special jury mention.Geoffrey Smith's The English Surgeon won the Sterling World Feature Award and a special mention went to Chao Gan's The Red Race.In the Sterling Short ...
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Cinema chain urges digital change at Cinema Expo
Steve Knibbs, COO of Vue Cinemas, has urged distributors to start making more digital trailers alongside their digital films.In December 2007, the UK cinema chain opened Europe's first all digital 10-screen multiplex in Hull and Knibbs told attendees at this year's Cinema Expo conference in Amsterdamof the benefits and teething ...
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International Screenwriters festival completes stellar line-up
The third International Screenwriters Festival is set to cement its position in the industry calendar with a stellar line-up that includes some of the world's best-known writers.Among the speakers this year are film-makers and writers who have been major names at the major awards ceremonies.They include BAFTA and Palme d'Or ...
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3D can be 'saving voice' for cinema, claims Nielsen
3D cinema is a 'three-legged stool operation', requiring co-operation from not only exhibitors and distributors, but consumers as well, delegates at Cinema Expo in Amsterdam were told.Ann Marie Dumais, SVP at Nielsen PreView, said that the faster exhibitors and distributors took on board 3D cinema, the quicker consumers will eventually ...
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Germany picks No Place To Go for Oscars
No Place To Go (Die Unberuehrbare) has been selected as Germany's nominee for the foreign-language Oscar. The Export Union, which picked the film from eight candidates said: "The subject of reunification has never been portrayed in German cinema as succinctly and subtly differentiated as here". Directed by Oskar Roehler, the ...
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3D can be 'saving voice' for cinema, claims Nielsen
3D cinema is a 'three-legged stool operation', requiring co-operation from not only exhibitors and distributors, but consumers as well, delegates at Cinema Expo in Amsterdam were told.Ann Marie Dumais, SVP at Nielsen PreView, said that the faster exhibitors and distributors took on board 3D cinema, the quicker consumers will eventually ...
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Kung Fu Panda has strong China opening despite protests
Local protests against DreamWorks' animation Kung Fu Panda didn't do much to dent the film's opening weekend box office in China. The film received a warm welcome from the Chinese audience, including areas affected by the earthquake in Sichuan, which is also home to the giant pandas. On its first ...
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My Friends, My Loves (Mes amis, mes amours)
Dir. Lorraine Levy. Fr, 2008. 98 minAn idea that probably sounded good on paper - starting with the best-seller status of Marc Levy's source novel - proves inconsequential on screen in My Friends, My Loves, a London-set romantic comedy about two divorced French fathers who chafe at strict ground rules ...
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Wim Wenders and Dariush Mehrjui receive Yerevan honours
Germany's Wim Wenders and Iranian film-maker Dariush Mehrjui are to receive lifetime achievement awards at this year's Golden Apricot International Film Festival (July 13-20) in the Armenian capital of Yerevan.Wenders' Cannes competition film The Palermo Shooting will be screened, while a retrospective of Mehrjui's film will show such films as ...
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Snow to open Sarajevo with Ceylan president of the jury
The 14th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has announced that Cannes Critics Week Grand Prix winner Snow by Bosnian Aida Begic will officially open the festival at the Heineken Open Air with capacity of 3,000 seats.Other films to screen at the prestigious venue include Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, Ari Folman's Waltz ...
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Ealing signs UK deal for Julian Fellowes' film
Ealing Studios International has sold Julian Fellowes' From Time To Time to new distributor Delanic Films for the UK.Ealing has also announced other deals for the film including Australia and New Zealand (Hopscotch), Odeon (Greece) Castello Lopes (Portugal), and Shooting Stars (Middle East).The second directorial feature from the Oscar-winning writer ...
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Cole promoted to evp of media at Universal Pictures
Suzanne Cole has been promoted to executive vice president of media at Universal Pictures and will continue to oversee the studio's print, broadcast, online and outdoor media strategy.Cole has served as senior vice president of media since 2004 and continues to report to president of marketing Eddie Egan.During her nine-year ...
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AMPAS invites 96 countries to submit films for foreign language Oscar
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has posted entry forms for the 81st Academy Awards' foreign language competition to 96 countries.Countries need to be return the forms so they are received at the Academy by October 1. To qualify for the 81st Academy Awards a film must be ...
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Focus Features starts Africa First Program for emerging film-makers
Focus Features has established the Africa First Program offering five prizes of $10,000 to emerging film-makers of African nationality and residence.The money will go towards production and/or post-production on a narrative short film made in continental Africa that taps the resources of the local film industry.The five film-makers selected will ...
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MSNBC launches film division to produce documentaries
MSNBC has launched MSNBC Films to produce and showcase documentaries on television and support festival runs and theatrical releases. The initiative will kick off with Kurt Kuenne's Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father, in which Kuenne sets out to commemorate his murdered friend and learns that ...
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B4U signs Doordarshan supply deal
International Hindi movie channel B4U has signed a three-year contract with Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan to supply 35 big blockbusters to the national network. The two partners will share advertising revenues generated from broadcast of the movies. B4U, which claims to have built a subscriber base of more than 40,000 ...
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Liberation buys North American rights to Irish drama Eden
Liberation Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Declan Recks' Irish drama Eden.The company plans a theatrical release in autumn for the picture, which screens at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this week and premiered at Tribeca in April.Reck's adaptation of the Eugene O'Brien play examines a troubled marriage ...
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PiFan to open with Waltz With Bashir
The 12th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) has announced its line-up and projects market agenda, with the festival to open with animated Cannes competition title Waltz With Bashir making its Asian premiere on July 18. PiFan will screen 205 films from 39 countries, including 125 features and 80 shorts.The ...