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Moore leaves Aardman for Abbey Home Media
Stephen Moore is departing Aardman Animations to become a partner and shareholder of children's programming company Abbey Home Media.UK-based Abbey Home Media works on franchises including Horrid Henry, Sesame Street, Paddington Bear and The Magic Roundabout.Moore is also a veteran of 20th Century Fox.He said: 'Since coming back to London ...
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Kramer promoted to president of business and legal affairs at TWC
Andrew Kramer has been promoted to president of business and legal affairs for The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Dimension Films.Kramer will remain in the Los Angeles office and will be charged with overseeing all of TWC and Dimension Films' business and legal affairs and negotiating deals covering all aspects of ...
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The Film Source acquires horror movie Dark Night
The Film Source has boarded worldwide rights to British film-maker Daniel Grant's Dark Night for its Horror Films Collection.Grant's Spiffing Films produced the story about a group of hedonistic partygoers who encounter monsters and other evil forces during a night of partying. Newcomers Belinda Fenty, Chris Grezo and Adriana Maestranzi ...
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Miami Latin Gay Film Festival to launch in April 2009
Indie PR chief Jim Dobson said today [Sept 1] the First Annual Miami Latin Gay Film Festival will run from April 16-19 2009 in Miami Beach.Dobson is festival organiser and executive director and said the competitive four-day event will coincide with Miami Gay Pride Weekend and serve as a springboard ...
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Takita's Okurbito wins top competition prize at Montreal
The Montreal World Film Festival wrapped on Monday with Japanese filmmaker Yojiro Takita's Okurbito (Departures) winning the top competition prize, the Grand Prix of The Americas. Canadian documentary filmmaker Benoit Pilon won three prizes for his dramatic debut, The Necessitites Of Life, earning a Special Grand Prix of the Jury ...
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Microsoft in talks for Sky Global stake
Microsoft is in talks to take a small minority stake in Rupert Murdoch's global satellite platform Sky Global Networks, according to The Wall Street Journal.The deal would make Microsoft the second high-profile investor in Sky Global following John Malone's Liberty Media which signed up for a 4.76% stake last month ...
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Hyde Park restructures, Steinbauer comes in to replace Wilson
Ashok Amritraj has unveiled Hyde Park Entertainment Group's global expansion plans and confirmed that the Hyde Park Asia head office will open in Singapore in November while another hub will launch in the Middle East later in the year.Seeking to create 'the first global independent', Amritraj, who previously opened an ...
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Hancock, 20th Century Boys knock Ponyo from perch
Sony Pictures Entertainment's Hancock and local broadcaster NTV's 20th Century Boys have knocked Studio Ghibli's Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea down to third place after six weeks in the number one spot at the Japanese box office. Hancock earned $7.67m (Y830m) on 328 screens, including grosses from previews ...
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Fine Cut picks up Lee Chang-dong's Poetry
South Korea's Fine Cut has picked up worldwide sales rights for Lee Chang-dong's upcoming film, tentatively titled Poetry. Lee's last film, Secret Sunshine,wonthe best actress award for Jeon Do-hyun in Cannes last year.Poetry will be about a woman in her mid-sixties who lives with her 15-year-old grandson in poverty and ...
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San Sebastian announces Films In Progress projects
San Sebastian has announced the six titles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina and Nicaragua that will make up this year's Films In Progress section of the festival.The projects are:Carlos Serrano Azcona's Mexican drama El Arbol about a man who has to turn his life around after being prevented from seeing his ...
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Norwegian government affirms commitment to film
Speaking in Venice this weekend, Norwegian Minister of Culture Trond Giske has outlined the country's long-term plans to boost film production and to attract foreign movies.At a time when other Western European Governments are feeling the financial squeeze, Norway is continuing to strike a bullish note about its film policy. ...
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Seville picks up second Metal pic
Montreal-based sales anddistribution outfit Seville International has picked up worldwide rights for GlobalMetal, the follow-up to hot Torontodocumentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. Directed by the same team ofSam Dunn, Scot McFadyen and Jessica Joy Wise, the new film will pick up thetheme that heavy metal music is an alternative view-point ...
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Screen Gems, Summit share the world on Apocalypse
Screen Gems hastaken the majority of worldwide rights to Constantin Film and Davis Films'horror sequel Resident Evil: Afterlife. Summit Entertainment is selling the rest of the world atAFM.ProducerConstantin is handling the film in Germany and Davis Film sister companyMetropolitan Filmexport is handling France. Screen Gems hastaken North America, Latin America, ...
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Intandem, Spice Factory set up FearFactory
UK-based financing, salesand distribution company Intandem Films, production company Spice Factory UK,and producers Colin Pons of Studio of the North and Mark Thomas of BallparkProductions have set up a new venture, FearFactory, to produce horror films andpsychological thrillers.Intandem CEO Gary Smith toldScreen that FearFactory, whichwill be set up under the ...
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Peace Arch shoots five for genre arm
Toronto-basedPeace Arch Entertainment Group has launched genre division Archetype Films andis introducing five titles already in production.The slate isheaded by Warrior Of Terra starring Edward Furlong, Ellen Fury and Andrew Lui, in the storyof a team of animal rights activists who discover a bio-engineered monster.Archetype isalso in production on The ...
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Adept screenwriters join UK programme
Aristahas announced the eight screenwriters selected for its Adept 3 screenwritingprogramme, funded by Skillset (and the UK Film Council), the MEDIA Programmeand Arista's Writer Scholarship Fund.Thenine-month programme supports MA screenwriting graduates who haven't yet made afeature film.Thechosen writers are AndrewBernhardt, Fiona Birkbeck, Lucy Floyd, Helen Jacey, Phil Nodding, BerylRichards, Neil ...
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Ryna is runaway winner at Geneva festival
RuxandraZenide's Ryna triumphed at the 11thannual Cinema Tout Ecran in Geneva.TheSwiss/Romanian co-production picked up the best film and Fipresci prizes.Rynais the story of a 16-year-old girl, brought up as a boy by her despotic father,and now searching for her mother. Kim Novak Never Swam In Genesaret's Lakeby Sweden's Martin Asphaug ...
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Stockholm promising 160 films in vintage year
The 16th StockholmFilm Festival (November 17-27) is boasting 160 films from 40 countries.The festival is the only one in the Nordic region with membership of theFIAPF, and an international jury of film critics from the FIPRESCI.Eighteen films will compete inthe international competition section of the festival. The festival also includessections ...
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James Murdoch to become chief of Star TV
James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's youngest son, has been named chairman and chief executive of News Corp's Asian television platform Star TV.Star, which is valued at $8-15bn is set to become part of News Corp's global television platform Platco, which will also encompass the company's interests in BSkyB, Sky Latin America, ...