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TwentyTwenty Vision to co-produce Rafi Pitts' The Hunter
Berlin-based production house TwentyTwenty Vision will be the German co-producer on Iranian-British director Rafi Pitts' fifth feature The Hunter.Speaking exclusively to Screendaily.com, Pitts explained that the drama will be produced by AMA Media Productions - which co-produced his 2006 Berlinale competition film It's Winter (Zemestan) - and Aftab Negaran Productions, ...
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Wide Management sells La Vida Loca to Siren Visual for Australia/New Zealand
Wide Management has sold Christian Poveda's documentary La Vida Loca to Siren Visual for theatrical distribution in Australia and New Zealand.The deal was struck following the film's world premiere at the San Sebastian film festival on Saturday. In addition, Wide Management is negotiating the rights to La Vida Loca for ...
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HBO's Sheila Nevins will receive Gotham Award Tribute
HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins will be the subject of a Gotham Award Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York.'Sheila has unquestionably been one of the most influential forces in documentary film-making,' IFP executive director Michelle Byrd said. 'She is almost single-handedly responsible ...
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Media Rights Capital scores $350m revolving credit facility
Media Rights Capital (MRC) co-CEOs Asif Satchu and Modi Wiczyk announced today [September 22] a three-year $350m revolving credit facility for the company's feature, television and digital content business.The arrangement, which comes in the midst of one of the most severe systemic collapses in US financial history, was provided by ...
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Summit sets Oct 23, 2009, as Astro Boy release date
Summit Entertainment will release Imagi Studios' animated feature Astro Boy in North America on October 23, 2009, on more than 3,000 screens.Summit and Imagi are putting together the final details on a marketing plan targeting family and adult audiences. The marketing strategy includes a commitment from a major fast food ...
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Hamptons teams with EFP to present three Shooting Stars
The Hamptons International Film Festival has partnered with European Film Promotion to showcase talent from the European Shooting Stars programme, marking the first time the talent campus will come to the US.The festival runs from October 15-19 and will present three stars from the Shooting Stars programme, now in its ...
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Elliott Associates increases minority stake in Relativity Media
New York based private investment firm Elliott Associates has increased its minority stake in Relativity Media in the second major financing story of the day following Media Rights Capital's deal for a $350m revolving credit facility.Elliott decided to increase its investment on the heels of a profitable summer for the ...
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Slamdance to offer features two hours after festival premieres
Organisers at the 15th Slamdance Film Festival have signed a deal with online distributor Indieroad.net to stream features two hours after their theatrical premiere at the festival.Viewers will be charged $9 per stream with one-third of profits going back to the film-maker. Each selection will be available in two bandwidths ...
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Dream, Town share Valladolid's Golden Spike
The 45th annual Valladolid International Week of Film (Oct 20-28) handed out its awards with no single film standing out as a walk-away winner.Top awards were evenly dispersed across a handful of competing films, with US filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and France's Robert Guediguian sharing the top award, the Golden Spike, ...
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US independent Liberation signs video deal with RYKO
LA-based independent Liberation Entertainment has signed a deal with RYKO Distribution for exclusive rights to all Liberation video releases in the US beginning October 1.The agreement covers all catalogue titles as well as new releases. Upcoming titles include Eden, TOKYO! and Just Buried.'We view this new partnership as a perfect ...
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Warner Brothers' case against Mirchi Movies dismissed
The Delhi High Court has rejected Warner Bros' plea that Indian film Hari Puttar - A Comedy Of Terrors, produced by Mirchi Movies, sounds too similar to their franchise series Harry Potter. The Hollywood studio had moved the court for an interim restraining order on the release of the Punjabi ...
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Son quits Show East to launch M-Line Distribution
South Korean film company Show East's head of international business Michelle Son has left to launch a new sales outfit, M-Line Distribution. The new company will make its debut at the upcoming Asian Film Market during the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF).'We have to look harder for good Korean titles ...
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Pusan's Asian Film Market to host Asian Film Funds Forum
The Pusan International Film Festival's 3rd Asian Film Market will be holding a three-day film financing event, the Asian Film Funds Forum (Oct 3-5), which is being co-hosted by Screen International. 'Participants will be able to obtain the key information on film financing in Asia, in addition to a general ...
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LoveFilm UK strikes marketing deal for Lionsgate UK titles
Online DVD rental company and entertainment website LoveFilm has struck a multi-title marketing partnership with Lionsgate UK.The pact kicks off with Righteous Kill, the new thriller starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.The six-month media deal continues into 2009 for titles also including I've Love You So Long, Midnight Meat ...
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Eagle Eye
Dir: D.J. Caruso. US. 2008. 117 mins.A slickly-packaged yet ultimately-unpersuasive political action thriller, Eagle Eye collapses under the weight of various story incongruities, in large part because its sprawling, conspiratorial plot and mode of storytelling don't ever fully align. A re-teaming of Disturbia director D.J. Caruso and star Shia Labeouf, ...
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With A Little Patience nominated for the European Film Awards
Turelem (With A Little Patience) has been announced as the final of 14 shorts nominated for the European Film Awards 2008. The announcement was made at the International Short Film Festival in Greece.The Hungarian short was written and directed by Laszlo Nemes and produced by Hungarian studio Inforg. Nemes teamed ...
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The Day After Peace toscreen at Dubai International Film Festival
The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) announced that the documentary feature film, The Day After Peace, has been chosen as part of the line up for 2008. The choice of film reflects the organisers support for film-makers who promote worldwide peace.'The film has a cultural bridge theme furthering the Festival's ...
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Vue to host one-night Arctic Monkeys film screening
Vue and other independent cinemas in the UK will host a special one-night presentation on Oct 14 of Arctic Monkey At The Apollo, a Warp Films Production presented by Warp Films, Domino and Bang Bang.Vue will host the night in 33 venues across the UK, alongside other cinemas including the ...
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San Sebastian announces Cinema In Motion award winners
San Sebastian's Cinema In Motion programme has selected Najwa Najjar's romantic drama Pomegranates And Myrrh, Mohamed Chrif Tribak's political tale Le Temps Des Camarades and De Gaulle Eid's moving film Chou Sar' as this year's winners.The three were chosen from a shortlist of five projects all from the Maghreb region ...
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Brazil's Top Tape ramps up DVD activity
Brazilian distributor Top Tape is shifting gears in a bid to capture the growing DVD market in Brazil. The first indie in Brazil to deal with the new format, Top Tape plans to acquire 40 to 50 DVD music titles a year from artists such as Steely Dan, Cristina Aguilera ...