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Williams to receive achievement award at San Francisco
Robin Williams will receive the Peter J Owens Award at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival on May 3.The Owens Award, named after the local cultural benefactor and longtime San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) board member, honours an actor whose work exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity.Williams will also appear ...
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Volland named head of WBPI publicity department
Lance Volland has been promoted to senior vice president of publicity at Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).Volland, who joined the studio in 1998 as a director and most recently served as vice president, will head up the studio's international publicity department.Based in Burbank and reporting to marketing president Sue Kroll, ...
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Tribeca All Access names 32 projects in 2007 programme
Organisers at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival have announced the selected projects for Tribeca All Access (TAA), the programme designed to foster relations between industry executives and film-makers from traditionally underrepresented communities.Tribeca All Access will present 32 new projects at the five-day event, which runs from Apr 25-29 during this ...
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Maddin's Brand to get US release in live and pre-recorded versions
Guy Maddin's 2006 drama Brand Upon The Brain! will be presented as a live event in select cities featuring an 11-piece live orchestra, a five-person live foley team, and a live celebrity narrator.Maddin will appear in person to present the film at the live engagements in May in Chicago (The ...
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2008 Academy Awards will take place on Feb 24
The 80th Annual Academy Awards will take place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on Sunday, Feb 24 2008 following a timetable announcement by the Academy today.Nomination ballots for the upcoming awards season need to be posted by Dec 26, 2007, and the nominations polls close on Jan 12, 2008, ...
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Del Toro's 'Tres Amigos' question Mexican production incentives
As Pan's Labyrinth took nine awards at last night's Ariel awards ceremony - the Mexican film industry's top awards - director Guillermo de Toro was already using his industry influence to petition the government with a proposal to amend the country's tax-shelter laws.Del Toro made the trip to Mexico City ...
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Bruno Ganz cast in adaptation of Swiss bestseller
Veteran Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who delighted international audiences with his performance as the grandfather in Fredi M Murer's Vitus, has been cast for the lead role in an adaptation of Thomas Huerlimann's 1998 bestselling novel Der Grosse Kater.The co-production between Benito Mueller's Barry Films and Claudia Wick's Abrakadabra Films ...
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Media Asia unveils flotation plans
Hong Kong-based Media Asia is on course for a stockmarket flotation at the end of the year following last week's cash injection from hotels to internet group eSun. The new finance will underwrite expansion of the group's distribution and production operations. "We wanted a strategic investor, not just a financial ...
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Abigail Walsh joins Independent from Goldcrest Films
Abigail replaces Ana Ayesta as head of sales at Independent, the international sales and production company established by Luc Roeg.Walsh, who was previously director of sales at Goldcrest Films, will work alongside managing director Andrew Orr and head of marketing Sarah Goodwin, heading the company's sales operations. The first round ...
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Big Media Group unveils plans to produce 100 movies
In defiant response to Hong Kong 's falling production levels, local producer BIG Media Group has unveiled a strategy to produce 100 movies in five years. The company, which has recently undergone a restructuring, is also setting up an investment fund with IDG China Media Fund, while talks with further ...
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Lotte sells three films to Thailand and Malaysia
Korean sales agent Lotte Entertainment has sold three films to Thailand and Malaysia at the HK Filmart. J Bics picked up Song Kang-ho starring drama The Show Must Go On for Thailand, directly after the world premiere at Filmart. Song, who plays a father torn between his family and his ...
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Messenger, Night-fragrant Flower among winners at HAF
Hong Kong-born director Clara Law's The Messenger clinched the HAF award for a Hong Kong project at the awards ceremony of the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum on Thursday (March 22). Part-love story and part-mystery drama, the project also won the Technicolor Thailand's post-production service award. Kore-eda Hirokazu's Night-fragrant Flower ...
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Lotte Entertainment sells three to Thailand, Malaysia
Korean sales agent Lotte Entertainment has sold three films to Thailand and Malaysia at Hong Kong Filmart. J Bics picked up Song Kang-ho-starring drama The Show Must Go On for Thailand, directly after the world premiere at Filmart. Song, who plays a father torn between his family and his job ...
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UK film industry warns kids about film piracy
Schools across the UK have been provided with teaching packs compiled by industry-backed charity Film Education in a bid to raise awareness of film theft, which cost the UK film industry $1.4 billion (£719m) in 2005. The pack is aimed at 11 to 14-year-olds, a group that a Film Education ...
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Pang Ho Cheung's Now Showing is coming soon
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) announced today at its award ceremony that Pang Ho Cheung's Now Showing has secured finance from Hong Kong 's Sundream Motion Pictures and Beijing-based Huayi Brothers. Huayi Brothers' Chen Kuo-fu, the Taiwanese director of Double Vision, is producing the film. Shooting is expected ...
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Scandinavia invests in Spain 's Palma Pictures
Mallorca-based production company Palma Pictures has recently been acquired by Scandinavian investors Joachim Odqvist and Ture Stendahl. Odqvist and Stendahl are entrepreneurs who have interests in many businesses, including the hotel sector. They recently sold Scandinavia's largest amusement park group, Parks and Resorts. A management team of Palma CEO Mike ...
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Xian city launches film festival and fund
The Xian City Cultural Bureau and Xian-based Qujiang Entertainment Group have announced the launch of the Xian Film Festival for New Talent, which will take place in the ancient Chinese capital in May. The two organisers also announced a film fund of $12.9m (RMB100m) to support young filmmakers, which will ...
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Deauville Asian film fest line-up announced
The Deauville Asian Film Festival has unveiled its line-up for the ninth edition, to be held March 2-April 1. Benoit Jacquot will head up the jury with Bruno Coulais, Marina De Van, Mylene Jampanoi, Laure Marsac, Dominique Pinon, Gilles Taurand and Gaspard Ulliel. The opening night film will be Tuya's ...
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Perfect Storm rides tide to top of UK chart
The Perfect Storm washed up at the top of the UK chart this weekend with an opening gross of $3m (£1,920,045) excluding previews of $435,000. The Hollywood adaptation of Sebastian Junger's bestseller of the same name, played at 409 cinemas for a screen average of $8,888 (£5,333). This is a ...
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Virgin Snow leads sales charge for Korea 's CJ
Leading Korean company CJ Entertainment has announced a raft of sales concluded at Hong Kong Filmart, led by CJ-Kadokawa co-production Virgin Snow. The teen romance, was pre-sold to Hwa Yea Multimedia for Malaysia, Box Office for Thailand and BHD for Vietnam. Set in Kyoto, Virgin Snow stars Lee Joon-ki (King ...