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Tippett to receive Georges Melies Award from Visual Effects Society
Phil Tippett, who founded Tippett Studio and won an effects Oscar for his work in Jurassic Park and a Special Achievement Academy Award for Return Of The Jedi, will receive the Visual Effects Society's (VES) George Melies Award For Artistic Excellence.The Melies Award, given to individuals who have 'pioneered a ...
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IFC buys Che from Wild Bunch; plans Oscar-qualifying December run
In one of Toronto's most-anticipated deals, IFC Films has taken North American rights to Steven Soderbergh's epic Che starring Benicio Del Toro.IFC plans a one-week Oscar qualifying run in New York and Los Angeles, followed by a release in January through multi-platform initiative IFC In Theatres.IFC president Jonathan Sehring, VP ...
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imegenation abu dhabi forms $250m financing fund with Participant
Participant Media and imagenation abu dhabi have formed a five-year $250m revolving fund to finance a slate 15-18 of narrative features.Participant will take the lead in developing and will oversee production and find worldwide distribution. Participant Media CEO Jim Berk said the company had been looking to secure a multi-year ...
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Govan's Rain to open Bahamas International Film Festival
Maria Govan's drama Rain, one of the first indigenously produced films to come out of the Bahamas, will open the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), set to run from December 4-11 in Nassau.Rain received its world premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival last weekend and ...
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Hollywood marketing agencies creative trade organisation
Hollywood marketing agencies have formed the trade organisation AEMA. Bob Farina of The Cimarron Group has been named chairman. Member agencies include In Sync Advertising, The Ant Farm, Anticipation Group, Intralink, Crew Creative and Bemis Balkind.'An organisation like AEMA is long overdue,' Farina said. 'In this constantly shifting landscape that ...
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Millstein, Morris promoted at Disney Animation, Pixar
Disney animation executive Andrew Millstein has been named general manager for Walt Disney Animation Studios and industry effects production executive Jim Morris will take on a parallel role as general manager for Pixar Animation Studios.Both will be responsible for guiding overall operations of their respective studios and will continue to ...
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Gus Van Sant to receive tribute at Gotham Awards
Gus Van Sant will receive a Gotham Awards Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York.Van Sant directed Milk, which stars Sean Penn as the assassinated gay supervisor of San Francisco and will be released through Focus Features on November 26.In recognition of Van Sant's ...
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New Line options How To Be Single for Flower Films to produce
New Line Cinema has optioned Liz Tuccillo's best-selling novel How To Be Single and will produce with Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore's Flower Films.Tuccillo is a former writer for Sex and the City and co-wrote the book He's Just Not That Into You, which was also acquired and produced by ...
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Coppola clan keeps growing at Capitol
Jeremy Davies, Gerard Depardieu, Billy Zane, Elodie Bouchez and Giancarlo Giannini have all been lined up to star in CQ, to be directed for Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope by his son Roman Coppola. It is one of several Zoetrope productions being financed by Germany's VCL and sold through Capitol Film ...
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Magnolia picks up worldwide rights to Diary Of A Mad Black Man
Magnolia Pictures has picked up worldwide rights to Tim Alexander's feature directorial debut Diary of A Mad Black Man.The story uses a series of vignettes to explore the nature of relationships between black men and the stereotypes and resentment that lurk within.Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles called it a 'firecracker of ...
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Mill Valley Film Festival to open with Religulous, Bees
Religulous and The Secret Life Of Bees will open and American Violet starring Alfre Woodard and Israeli drama Lemon Tree will close the 31st Mill Valley Film Festival, which runs from October 2-12.The festival will pay tributes to Woodard, Swedish actress Harriet Andersson and screenwriter Eric Roth, who wrote the ...
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Online distributor IndiePix launches Shakespeare collection
New York-based IndiePix, an internet-based distributor (on demand and DVD) of independent films, has launched its latest collection: 10 Shakespeare adaptations.The 10-film collection includes Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948) and Richard III (1955) plus Bollywood adaptations Maqbool and Omkara.'Shakespeare is on the curriculum in schools and colleges throughout ...
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Coens start A Serious Man shoot for Focus, Working Title
After Burn After Reading premiered in Venice and Toronto and is set for US release tomorrow, Joel and Ethan Coen have started production this week for A Serious Man.The Focus Features and Working Title Films production is shooting on location in Minnesota.The Coen brothers are writing, directing and producing. Executive ...
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ReviewsMid-August Lunch (Pranzo di Ferragosto)
Dir: Gianni Di Gregorio. Italy. 2008. 73mins.Small but utterly charming, Gianni di Gregorio's low-budget feature about an ageing Roman who suddenly finds himself looking after four ancient ladies over the mid-August dog days has enough heart to make up for its paper-thin story, and conceals a ...
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Peter Fonda to serve as jury president in Zurich
Veteran actor-director Peter Fonda will serve as the president of the feature film jury at this year's Zurich Film Festival which will open on September 25 with the Swiss premiere of Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof Komplex in the presence of the director Edel, producer Bernd Eichinger, author Stefan Aust ...
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Lakeview Terrace
Dir: Neil LaBute. US. 2008. 110 mins.Neil LaBute takes his best commercial swing yet with Lakeview Terrace, a solidly-constructed drama of suburban friction and unrest that only fully yields to genre convention in its final, wild, ten minutes. While not enough of a straightforward thriller to attract widescale younger audiences, ...
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ReviewsWho Do You Love
Toronto: Breezily-entertaining, this jazz-fuelled biopic may still face a commercial struggle, says Jan Stuart. Dir. Jerry Zaks. US. 2008. 90 minutesA breezily-entertaining dramatisation of the life of blues entrepreneur Leonard Chess (Nivola), Who Do You Lovewill test the public’s appetite for recording studio soap operas. While ...
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ReviewsThe Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond
Dir. Jodie Markell, US, 2008, 102 minutes.In exhuming Tennessee Williams’s unproduced screenplay from 1980, actress-turned-director Jodie Markell has delivered a respectable 1920’s-set upstairs-downstairs story of a vain heiress (Bryce Dallas Howard) who looks beyond her Memphis surroundings but struggles for the respect of a man below ...
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RAI Cinema says no deal yet with StudioCanal
RAI Cinema has firmly denied trade reports that it has closed a deal with StudioCanal to become its Italian distribution partner. President & CEO Giancarlo Leone said negotiations with the French company are continuing but insisted that he is also talking to other potential European supplier partners for its upcoming ...
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