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NewsTribeca to open with Woody Allen's Whatever Works
The world premiere of Woody Allen’s Whatever Works starring Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley Jr will open the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival on April 22.The picture’s North American distributor Sony Pictures Classics plans a summer release and said the opening night ...
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De Heer's Tracker secures FFC investment
The Australian Film Finance Corporation (FFC) has approved investment in The Tracker, described as "an Australian western with attitude", according to writer-director Rolf de Heer, who is also producing the film alongside Julie Ryan. Principal photography on the film, which is set in the 1920s, begins on February 26 next ...
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Alexander promoted to senior executive VP at Sony International
Ralph Alexander has been promoted to senior executive vice president of international operations and distribution at Sony Pictures Releasing International.Alexander will oversee 23 managing directors as well as the generaloperational and administrative issues of the territory offices. Hewill also work on a wide range of issues arising out of the ...
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Telefilm backs seven feature projects from Quebec
Telefilm Canada has announced it will invest in seven Quebecois feature projects, including the true-life story of airline pilot Robert Piche, who glided his powerless jetliner to a safe landing across hundreds of miles of open ocean. Piche will be directed by Erik Canuel from a screenplay by Chantal Cadieux ...
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Film Movement takes North American rights to Munyurangabo
Film Movement has acquired all North American rights to first-time American film-maker Lee Isaac Chung's Rwandan genocide tale Munyurangabo.The feature was shot entirely in the native Kinyarwanda dialect usinga non-professional cast and crew that included genocide orphans.Munyurangabo premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2007 andwill open in May. ...
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Sonnenfeld to direct remake of Korean hit Scandal Makers
Korean sales agent M-Line Distribution has announced that Barry Sonnenfeld (Men In Black) is attached to direct and executive produce the US remake of Korean sleeper hit Scandal Makers. Kang Hyung-chul's Scandal Makers portrays the comedy and drama that ensues when a radio DJ in his mid-thirties suddenly discovers he ...
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The Combination returns to screens after violent incidents
One of Australia's three biggest exhibitors, Greater Union Cinemas, last night reversed an earlier decision to withdraw Australian film The Combination from four of its Sydney screens after blaming the film for inciting violence. The Combination is the self-financed debut film of veteran actor David Field and is imbued with ...
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Watchmen's Snyder to get ShoWest Director of Year Award
Watchmen director Zack Snyder will receive the ShoWest 2009 Director Of The Year Award in Las Vegas on April 2.Snyder shot to fame with the 2004 release of his of zombie remake Dawn Of The Dead and followed that up with the global juggernaut 300.Now all eyes will be on ...
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Berlinale announces dates for 60th anniversary edition
The Berlin film festival has announced that its 60th anniversary edition will run from February 11 to 21, 2010, thus avoiding a potential overlap with the Rotterdam film festival. The Berlinale's choice of dates was restricted following Sundance's announcement of January 21-31 for its 2010 dates. That move prompted Rotterdam ...
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Sam Raimi to debut work-in-progress Drag Me To Hell at SXSW
Director Sam Raimi will debut a work-in-progress version of Universal Pictures' Drag Me to Hell, his long awaited return to the horror genre, at the South By Southwest Festival (SXSW). The film, which stars Alison Lohman and Justin Long, is a tale of a young woman's quest to break an ...
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Minority report: training in the UK
Minority training in the UKThe three 'b's in B3 Media stand for 'beats, bytes and the big screen'. The London-based organisation works to bring together multicultural film-makers and the mainstream UK film industry. B3's FeatureLab is one of a handful of UK initiatives to target film-makers from black and ethnic ...
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Nigel Wooll to produce The Brigadier with UK's Turn of the Century
Nigel Wooll, executive producer on Miss Potter and co-producer on GI Jane, is to produce The Brigadier alongside Turn of the Century Productions.The UK production company optioned the international thriller The Brigadier by Josh Rosenberg. Keith Sweitzer brought the script to Turn of the Century and will produce for the ...
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Geoff Ammer leaves Disney, joins Revolution
Geoffrey Ammer has left his position as co-president of marketing for Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group to join Joe Roth's Revolution Studios. He is replaced at Buena Vista by Oren Aviv, formerly his co-president at Disney, who now assumes sole responsibility for creative materials, publicity, promotions, research, media and internet ...
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Helen Mirren and Dominic Cooper on stage to screen live in cinemas
A new initiative between City Screen and the UK's National Theatre will see plays broadcast live via satellite from the National Theatre stage to local Picturehouse Cinemas in the UK and to cinemas internationally. The first play to be featured will be the National Theatre's new production Phèdre by Jean ...
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CBS Films takes feature rights to The Christmas Cookie Club
CBS Films and its corporate sibling under the CBS Corporation banner Simon & Schuster have acquired feature rights to the publisher's upcoming release The Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman.Said to be in the vein of The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants andSteel Magnolias, The Christmas Cookie Club centres on ...
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Carolyn Harris, Beatrice Springborn join Basner's FilmNation
Glen Basner's international sales and production company FilmNation Entertainment has hired two executives to head the production arm overseen by Aaron Ryder.Effective immediately Carolyn Harris will join the company asvice-president of production and Beatrice Springborn will serve asproduction executive. Ryder and his team are based in Los Angeleswhile Basner heads ...
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Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson join Overture's The Crazies
Danielle Panabaker, star of the recent North American box office hit Friday The 13th, and emerging UK talent Joe Anderson have joined Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in Overture Films' The Crazies.Filming on the reinvention based loosely on George A Romero's 1973thriller is set to begin on March 5 in ...
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Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson join Overture's The Crazies
Danielle Panabaker, star of the recent North American box office hit Friday The 13th, and emerging UK talent Joe Anderson have joined Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in Overture Films' The Crazies.Filming on the reinvention based loosely on George A Romero's 1973thriller is set to begin on March 5 in ...
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Black Dynamite sells to Pretty Pictures and Svensk
Pretty Pictures has acquired French rights from T&C International to Scott Sanders' Sundance hit blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite starring Michael Jai White.Pretty Pictures president James Velaise negotiated the deal with LosAngeles-based T&C International chief David Jourdan following meetingsat the EFM last month.Jourdan also reported he had closed a deal with ...
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Feng to direct disaster movie about Tangshan earthquake
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers Pictures is teaming up with state-owned China Film Group and Tangshan City Government to co-produce disaster drama Tangshan Dadizheng, about the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976. Feng Xiaogang will direct the $25m drama, which will tell the story of the devastating earthquake that took the lives of over ...
