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Goa to host new script development workshop with NFDC
India's National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), in collaboration with the Directorate of Film Festivals, will conduct a script development workshop from Nov 18-24 in Goa during the International Film Festival of India. The Indian Script Development Workshop (ISDW) 2007 is designed for Indian scriptwriters who have finalized their scripts for ...
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Zentropa plans feature about Danish terrorist group
Zentropa is planning a feature film to tell the story of the Blekinge Street Gang, the Danish terrorist group which will also be the subject of two TV projects.Since last year Zentropa has been preparing Blekinge Street, anoriginal story based on the real-life events 20 years ago scripted byLars Kjeldgaard ...
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Studios clear decks as summer season reaches end
Hollywood's international distribution divisions are clearing out thedecks before the autumn season arrives and for many this will be aweekend of consolidation.Fox International can expect healthy sustained play on The SimpsonsMovie with five new releases including Russia and Holland on Aug 16and Brazil a day later. The film stands at ...
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Film Sales Company takes on NYC Serenade
Andrew Herwitz' Film Sales Company has acquired worldwide rights to Frank Whaley's NYC Serenade, which will premiere in Toronto next month. Whaley's third feature stars Freddie Prinze Jr, Chris Klein and Jamie Lynn Sigler in a coming-of-age tale about two boyhood friends who try to work out their place ...
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Private investment firm buys Sunset Gower Studios
California-based private equity fund GI Partners has sold Sunset Gower Studios to Hudson Capital. GI Partners purchased the studio, formerly home to Columbia Pictures for 50 years, in 2004 and transformed the lot into a modern full-service independent studio. Studio facilities include fibre-optic communications, CGI-ready Cyclorama stages, 130-space ...
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Evans and Fanning join Push cast
Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle and Djimon Hounsou have joined the cast of Paul McGuigan's thriller Push, which Summit Entertainment will finance and distribute in North America. Summit holds the majority of international rights to the project, which is being co-financed by Icon who will release in the ...
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Gaumont joins loyalty card bandwagon
Sundance's Geoff Gilmore is held accountable every year - not just for which films are chosen or dismissed, but for the state of US independent cinema itself. Now he's rumoured to be about the leave to join one of the majors. Is he selling out' Colin Brown reports.From the moment ...
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United Artists secures $500m slate deal
Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner's United Artists have secured the awaited $500m slate financing deal through Merrill Lynch.The financing from investors in Europe, Asia, Africa and the US was expected but it comes against the background of financial turmoil in global markets which has threatened some deals.Yesterday Goldman Sachs and ...
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Boone elected to AMPAS education and culture arm
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Public Relations Branch governor Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been elected president of the Academy's educational and cultural arm the Academy Foundation. Executives Branch governor Robert Rehme was elected vice president, Film Editors Branch governor Donn Cambern was re-elected vice president, Music Branch ...
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Tribeca organisers set 2008 dates starting Apr 23
The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival will run in New York City from Apr 23-May 4, organisers have announced. The early deadline for entries is Nov 16 and the official deadline is Dec 14. The late deadline for 2008 feature work in progress is Jan 11, 2008. The line-up for ...
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Andy Lau's Focus plans Brothers and new Fight series
Following on the successful launch of Focus First Cuts in 2005, Andy Lau's Hong Kong-based production company Focus Films is gearing up for a new Focus Fight series and is in production on a new gangster drama, Brothers, to star Lau.Focus Fight aims to produce a new wave of action ...
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Odyssey takes on sales for $65m Nutcracker: The True Story
UK-based sales company Odyssey Entertainment has struck a deal to handle international sales and distribution of Anderi Konchalovksy's Nutcracker: The True Story (working title).The $65m film is set in 1920s Vienna and adapts the classic story that inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet. Konchalovsky and Chris Solimine wrote the screenplay, and the film ...
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Gavron, Morgenthaler projects selected for San Sebastian's Zabaltegi
The San Sebastian International Film Festival has selected 16 films for its Zabaltegi-New Directors section this year. As first or second films, these projects will compete for the Euros 90,000 Altadis-New Directors Award, and first and second films in the official selection can also compete.Highlights include Mania Akbari's 10+4 from ...
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Opinion: Format war is futile
A barely noted landmark was passed this week when next-generation DVDs overtook VHS in worldwide sales. Although it is not much of a breakthrough, the unsung but remarkable resilience of tape is a reminder that new media does not simply kill its predecessors.Still, the arrival of the rival Blu-ray and ...
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Strike jitters ripple out worldwide
The possibility of an industry-wide stoppage in the summer of 2008 by the US industry's writers', actors' and directors' guilds is already having an impact in North America - an impact that could soon be felt in the international marketplace.As they did in 2000-01, the last time there was a ...
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In Focus - The Latest Strike News
Contract talks between Hollywood writers and their studio employers got off to a testy start last month: Writers Guild of America (WGA) reps dismissed a proposal by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (Amptp) for a study of the residuals paid in new media markets - perhaps the ...
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Gannon to head development at Pathe
Matthew Gannon, most recently director of production/development at Fox Searchlight in Los Angeles, is joining UK National Lottery studio franchise Pathe Pictures as head of development.The move comes after Susanna Wyatt, former head of production for HAL Miramax, joined the franchise as head of physical production earlier this month. While ...
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Chasing The Long Tail: Mike Binder
For Mike Binder, the 2001 comedy The Search For John Gissing remains something of a bittersweet experience. The film-maker, who scored critical success with The Upside Of Anger (2005) and this year's Reign Over Me, financed the film independently 'with a lot of my own money and that of family ...
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United States - Freedom of the pen
When series regular Steve Kloves ducked out of writing the fifth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, producer David Heyman turned to Michael Goldenberg. Goldenberg is no stranger to challenging adaptations, with Contact and Peter Pan among his credits. He immediately felt he had a ...
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United Arab Emirates - Gulf of opportunity
Jon Fitzgerald's career has taken him from Park City to Santa Barbara via the Bahamas and Florida - and now to the Gulf, where he has been appointed director of Abu Dhabi's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (Meiff).Invited by the Abu Dhabi Film Commission's Abed Awad, Fitzgerald was initially ...