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Kim leaves Lionsgate to head sales at The Film Department
Former Lionsgate senior vice president of international film sales Elizabeth Kim has joined Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's The Film Department to head its film sales division.The new executive vice president of international will be based in the company's West Hollywood offices from where she will oversee the fledgling company's ...
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Truly Indie takes US rights to Heather Graham thriller Broken
Truly Indie has picked up US rights to Alan White's thriller thriller Broken starring Heather Graham, Jeremy Sisto and Linda Hamilton.Jerry Wayne of Walk on the Beach Productions and producer Brian R Etting are producing and financing the story of a young women haunted by her violent ex-boyfriend. Drew Pillsbury ...
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Songbird, Downwinders win top prizes at HollyShorts
John Thompson's Songbird won the 3rd Annual HollyShorts Film Festival's award for best short while Jake White earned top honours in the documentary section for Downwinders: The People Of Parowan.Illegal Artists' 5:55 won best film in the international category, the Dreamhouse Ensemble Best Drama Award went to Timothy Cahill's The ...
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Kino International seals US rights to Beaufort, Times And Winds
Kino International has picked up US rights to Israeli film-maker Joseph Cedar's Beaufort and Times And Winds from Turkey's Reda Erdem.Beaufort won the 2007 Berlin Film Festival's best director award and chronicles the final days of an Israeli army unit's withdrawal in 2000 from a strategic fortress near the Lebanese ...
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Harry Potter has a $6m Chinese opening despite local pressure
Despite some restrictions on the release print numbers, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix had a strong opening in mainland China, grossing $5.94m (RMB 45m), according to Beijing and Shanghai-based cinema owners. The figure is the best first-week gross of all Harry Potter movies in China. State-owned China ...
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Be Wild takes Japanese rights to Royston Tan's musical drama 881
Be Wild has taken on all Japanese rights to Royston Tan's new musical drama 881, making it the first pre-sale ever of a Singapore film to Japan. The deal also marks the first international acquisition for Be Wild, a producer of Japanese films such as Kaza-hana, What the Snow Brings, ...
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Morena, Cuatro Cabezas strike co-production deal
Spanish production house Morena Films has signed a TV co-production accord with Argentinean outfit Cuatro Cabezas which will likely grow to include feature films.The agreement originally spans two interview-format shows already popularised on broadcaster Telefe in Argentina and now adapted for the Spanish market. The weekly shows will premiere on ...
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Pusan Promotion Plan selects 35 projects for 10th edition
The Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) has announced the line-up for its tenth anniversary edition. 35 projects from 18 countries have made the final cut, out of more than 200 submissions. Once again the PPP mixes masters and newcomers, including Cannes Camera D'Or winner Bahman Ghobadi, Berlinale Silver Bear winner Wang ...
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Indian Film Company works with new Imtiaz Ali project
The Indian Film Company has acquired worldwide rights to Imtiaz Ali's new film, produced by Shree Ashatavinayak Cine Vision. The film - as yet untiltled until the results are tallied from a consumer poll - is a musical romantic comedy set in North India. Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor star ...
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Ai No Yokan (The Rebirth)
. Dir. Masahiro Kobayashi. Japan , 2007. 102mins.A test of endurance that will defeat most audiences, MasahiroKobayashi's new film is an exercise in repetitious movement bound to earn plaudits with both festival juries and the more refined art cinema patron. The closest parallel to this kind of cinema is the ...
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The Match Factory picks up German tragicomedy
The Match Factory has picked up international distribution for Neele Leana Vollmar's second feature Friedliche Zeiten (literal translation: Peaceful Times) which has begun shooting in Munich and surroundings. The tragicomedy, based on Birgit Vanderbeke's 1996 novel of the same name, is being produced by Vollmar and Caroline Daube's joint production ...
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Raindance announces international feature programme
The 15th Raindance Film Festival, which runs Sept 25-Oct 7 in London, has announced this year's programme of features and feature documentaries. Highlights include Kim Ki-Duk's Breath, John Barker's Bunny Chow, Japanese blockbuster The Amazing Lives Of The Fast Food Grifters by Mamoru Osuii, US paparazzo-related project Being Michael Madsen ...
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The Darjeeling Limited will close London Film Festival
The London Film Festival will close Nov 1 with the UK premiere of Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. The director will be in London to also give an interview as part of the festival's TCM Screen Talks.Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman star as three American brothers who try ...
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UFO partners for digital releases of RK Films library
UFO Moviez, the Indian digital cinema company, has partnered with the legendary Indian studio RK Films to release their popular classics like Bobby, Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Ram Teri Ganga Maili, Prem Rog and Heena among others in digital wide screen format.RK, founded by the late Raj Kapoor, is a 60-year-old ...
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Hollywood Film Festival names craft awards
Organisers of the upcoming 11th Annual Hollywood Film Festival have announced the roster of crafts award recipients for the Hollywood Awards Gala on October 22. Stephen Goldblatt will receive the Hollywood Cinematographer Of The Year Award, while Joe Hutshing will be honoured for editing, Mark Isham for composing, and ...
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Tooley takes leading creative role at Relativity
Producer Tucker Tooley has joined Los Angeles-based Relativity Mediaas head of creative and will lead development and production forRelativity's single film business and oversee growth of the productionteam.Tooley and Relativity principal Ryan Kavanaugh will work closely onsuch upcoming releases as David Twohy's thriller A Perfect Getaway,James Mangold's Western 3:10 To ...
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Murphy PR promotes Edwards and hires Myers
New York independent publicity firm Murphy PR has promoted Jessica Edwards to vice president and hired Heter Myers. Edwards joined Murphy PR in 2004 shortly after the company launched. Prior to that she served as programming producer for Resfest Canada and held a number of production positions on Canadian film ...
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LaCour joins Californian bank's entertainment finance arm
Bryan J LaCour has joined Union Bank of California'sentertainment-finance group as vice president and manager.LaCour brings more than seven years of experience in banking andfinance and arrives from Comerica Bank, where he served as vicepresident with the entertainment industries group.Union Bank of California's entertainment-finance business has providedcapital to the film ...
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The Drummer
Dir. Kenneth Bi. Hong Kong / Taiwan , 2007. 115 mins.Conceived as a vehicle for Jaycee Chan (Jackie Chan's son) but more likely to serve as a showcase for the talents of the U Theatre drummers, this gangster-movie-meets-rites-of-initiation picture has a hard time deciding which way to go among the ...
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Beneath The Rooftops of Paris (Sous Les Toits De Paris)
Dir: Hiner Saleem. France, 2007. 100minsThis study of old age and solitude finds exiled Kurdish director Hiner Saleem divesting himself of the mischievous drive and wicked sense of humour which permeated such earlier efforts as Vodka Lemon and Kilometre Zero. Launched in a light, warm and humanistic vein which keeps ...