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The Rest Is Silence dominates Romanian academy awards
The Rest Is Silence has picked up the lion’s share of trophies, including best feature, at the 2009 Gopos,Romania’s national film awards.
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Sofia to open with world premiere of The Goat
The Sofia International Film Festival opens March 5 with the world premier of The Goat, a dark comedy from Bulgarian director Georgi Djulgerov and close March 15 with Wim Wenders presenting his film The Palermo Shooting. The festival's international competition of first and second films includes Bulgaria's Oscar submission, Zift, ...
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Constantin posts profit as parent company plans delisting
German producer-distributor Constantin Film posted positive turnover and operating results for 2008 as its parent company Highlight announced plans to delist Constantin and merge with it as Constantin Medien. While Constantin Film's operating result rose 21.6% year-on-year to $18.9m (Euros 15.1m), the group turnover climbed by 10.4% to $311.6m (Euros ...
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Alive Mind takes US rights to Walter's Theater Of War
Richard Lorber's documentary label Alive Mind has acquired the US theatrical, public performance and video rights to John Walter's documentary Theater Of War.Theater Of War stars Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline and is based on TonyKushner's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Bertolt Brecht'sMother Courage And Her Children, inspired by ...
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Durand takes new VP marketing role at Warner Bros France
Emmanuel Durand has been hired as vice president marketing, Warner Bros France and will join the company in May. He will report to Iris Knobloch, president/director general of Warner Bros France. Durand will be responsible for marketing across theatrical, video, digital and games. Warner Bros France said that with this ...
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Lionsgate furthers Tyler Perry relationship by acquiring next two films
Lionsgate has wasted little time extending its lucrative relationship with Tyler Perry, whose number one US release Madea Goes To Jail scored a record launch recently for both studio and film-maker and stands at $65.5m after less than two weeks.The company has acquired rights to the prolific film-maker's next twoprojects ...
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AFI Dallas to open March 26 with Johnson's The Brothers Bloom
Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom will open the AFI Dallas International Film Festival on March 26.The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow and The Brothers Bloom starAdrien Brody will join the previously announced Chinatown screenwriterRobert Towne as recipients of the AFI Dallas Star Award careerrecognition award. Rita Hayworth will receive the ...
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Film Sales Company takes on two SXSW titles
Andrew Herwitz's New York-based Film Sales Company has picked up domestic sales rights aheadto two films - The Overbrook Brothers and Wake Up - set to world premiere at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival.John Bryant's dramatic competition entry The Overbrook Brothers is acomedy about two brothers in their 30s who ...
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Turner, Warner Bros team for English-language channel for India
Turner and Warner Bros Entertainment have partnered to launch WB, a new 24-hour English-language Warner-branded channel aimed at the Indian market carrying features and television series.Available in Indian homes from March 15, WB will showcase programming licensed from Warner Bros International Television Distribution. The channel will be distributed by Zee-Turner ...
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Palm Springs ShortFest moves from August to June
The 15th Palm Springs International ShortFest, Short Film Festival & Film Market has moved forward its dates from August and will run this summer from June 23-29.'We've been considering a date change for some time, and ultimatelydecided that the June dates would provide better placement on theannual festival calendar and ...
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Guy Maddin to shoot short for NFB's 70th anniversary
The National Film Board of Canada has commissioned idiosyncratic auteur Guy Maddin to create a short film to commemorate the NFB's 70th anniversary.The project, Night Mayor, goes before camera on March 9 on location in the filmmaker's hometown of Winnipeg, the city memorialized in Maddin's critical hit My Winnipeg. Maddin ...
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UK theatre producers team with China's Dadi Media on musical
London-based Broadway producer Toby Simkin and Hampshire-based Captive Theater and Music are teaming up with China's Dadi Media and ESA Cultural Investment to co-produce musical feature The Sacrifice Of Yang Guifei. The film will be shot in mainland China with English as its primary language. It will be written and ...
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Michael Caine to get Lifetime Achievement Award at ShoWest
Michael Caine will receive the ShoWest 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award at the final night banquet and awards ceremony on April 2.Caine will next be seen in Big Beach, Heyday Films, and BBC Films'drama Is Anybody There' that will open in Los Angeles and New York onApril 17.The Veteran English actor ...
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Unbreakable
Dir: M Night Shyamalan. US. 2000. 107 mins. Prod co: Blinding Edge Pictures, Touchstone Pictures. US dist: Buena Vista. Int'l dist: BVI. Exec prods: Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum. Prods: M Night Shyamalan, Barry Mendel, Sam Mercer. Scr: Shyamalan. DoP: Eduardo Serra. Prod des: Larry Fulton. Ed: Dylan Tichenor. Mus: James ...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment said to be cutting 300 jobs
Sony Pictures Entertainment is believed to be cutting in the region of 300 jobs in the latest move by a US major to trim costs as the world heads further into recession.Sources at the studio would neither confirm nor deny reportscirculating within Hollywood that the cuts were being implemented.It is ...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment said to be cutting 300 jobs
Sony Pictures Entertainment is believed to be cutting in the region of 300 jobs in the latest move by a US major to trim costs as the world heads further into recession.Sources at the studio would neither confirm nor deny reportscirculating within Hollywood that the cuts were being implemented.It is ...
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Zhang to make film celebrating communist China's birthday
Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou is joining the trend to make a tribute film celebrating the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC). During his attendanceat the annual National People's Congress, Zhang told China's CCTV that he is working on several scripts and hopes to start shooting this year. ...
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Alta Films picks up Moreno's A Good Man
Spanish outfit Alta Films has picked up theatrical rights for Spain to Juan Martinez Moreno's thriller A Good Man from Latido Films. Moreno 's film has been gaining interest since its screening at Berlin in the EFM where it was sold to KEntertainment for Korea. The film is a dark ...
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Stillking and Pioneer launch joint venture in Budapest
Stillking Films and Pioneer Pictures have announced the launch of a new joint venture, P.S. Films, to co-produce and service feature films in Budapest. The move indicates renewed confidence in Hungary as a location for runaway production after inward feature film production services spend dropped nearly three-quarters in 2008. Stillking ...
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Opinion: Eastern promisesin the long term
At the recent FICCI Frames conference in Mumbai, Anand Mahindra, a leading industrialist and recent entrant to the film business, said he was convinced India's economy would recover more quickly than other major economies for two reasons.First, he believes India has a great strength in its agricultural sector, which is ...