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Clark, Van der Werff, Bachmann upped at CTFDI
In the wake of Duncan Clark's departure from Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), parent company Sony Pictures has promoted three senior executives in CTFDI's marketing department.Nigel Clark, formerly senior vice president of international marketing, has been promoted to executive vice president, international marketing. Susan van der Werff, formerly vice ...
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Waitress wins narrative award at Sarasota Film Festival
Adrienne Shelly's final film Waitress won the narrative competition award and Benjamin Niles' Note By Note: The Making Of Steinway L1037 took the documentary prize as the Sarasota Film Festival closed at the weekend.Each award carried a $5,000 cash prize for the film-makers. Olivier Meyrou's Beyond Hatred received a special ...
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Berri's latest wins audience award at LA's COLCOA
Claude Berri's Hunting And Gathering starring Audrey Tautou and Guillaume Canet was presented with the 2007 City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COLCOA) Audience Choice Award.'This year's festival is the most successful in the history of COLCOA,' festival director and programmer Francois Truffart said of the event, which ran from ...
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Sundance annual summer Labs unveil projects, participants
The Sundance Institute has announced the 13 projects for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, which run at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 28-Jun 28.The selected projects include: The Cavanaughs (US) by John Morgan (co-writer/director) and Meg LeFauve (co-writer); Circumstance (US/Iran) by Maryam Keshavarz (writer/director); Cold Souls ...
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New animation studio Animation Lab gets set for Bunch
Animation Lab, the recently announced Jerusalem and Los Angeles-based studio launched by Jerusalem Venture Partners, has announced its first project.Pre-production is underway on The Wild Bunch (working title), the first of six CGI features that Animation Lab plans to put into production over the next eight years.Jim Ballantine, whose credits ...
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American Pavilion rebrands as AmPav: The Pavilion At Cannes
Entering its 19th year as the Criosette's full-service hospitality and business centre, the American Pavilion has been rebranded as AmPav: The Pavilion At Cannes.'The perception of The Pavilion was that we were being exclusive in our membership, when in fact we're pleased that more than 40% of our membership is ...
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Coens sign two-picture deal with Focus, Working Title
Joel and Ethan Coen will write, produce, and direct their next two projects Burn After Reading and A Serious Man for Focus Features and Working Title Films following a two-film deal announced yesterday [April 23].Brad Pitt has joined George Clooney and Frances McDormand on the previously announced espionage black comedy ...
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Valley Of Flowers wins top prize at LA Indian Film Fest
Pan Nalin's Valley Of Flowers won the 5th Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles' grand jury prize for best feature as the event came to a close at the weekend.Paromita Vohra's Q2P won the best documentary award, while Srinivas Sunderrajan's Tea Break took best short honours.The Audience Choice Award went ...
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Hooper to direct Katharine Graham biopic for Ziskin, HBO Films
Tom Hooper is set to direct a biopic about the legendary Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham which is being produced later this year by Laura Ziskin for HBO Films.Joan Didion (The Year Of Magical Thinking) is scripting the film from Carol Felsenthal's 1993 biography Power, Privilege And The Post: The ...
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Gabor Csupo to direct children's fantasy The Moon Princess
Gabor Csupo, director of Walden Media's $100m worldwide grosser Bridge to Terabithia is to direct children's fantasy The Moon Princess, based on Elizabeth Goudge's 1946 classic The Little White Horse.The live-actionproject, planned to begin pre-production in June, will star Colin Firth with other cast to be confirmed.The production will be ...
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Lost In Beijing to be released in mainland China in May
The edited version of Chinese filmmaker Li Yu's second feature Lost In Beijing will be released in mainland China on May 18, according to the film's producer Fang Li and its distributor Polybona. The version to be released in mainland China is 15 minutes shorter than the one that premiered ...
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Tokyo to host world premiere of fifth Harry Potter
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix will receive its world premiere in Tokyo, Japan on June 28. Japanese audiences will get to see the fifth installment in the franchise before the rest of the world, including the UK, which traditionally hosts the premieres. The Japan screening will be ...
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SPTI, Daum seal free VoD licensing deal for Korea
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) and Daum Communications (Daum) announced today the first free video-on-demand (VOD) licensing deal between a Hollywood studio and a Korean company. SPTI will license annually selected library titles to top South Korean internet portal site Daum. The latter will stream these films via its site ...
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Tribeca Talent: Bill Guttentag
Director Bill Guttentag's debut feature film Live!, a mockumentary about a reality TV show whose ultimate showdown ends with a nasty game of Russian roulette, combines his many talents in one package.As a respected non-fiction film-maker who won an Oscar for his 2003 documentary short Twin Towers, Guttentag knows how ...
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Tribeca Talent: Marshall Lewy
Marshall Lewy's debut feature Blue State, a character-driven road film about a Democrat activist moving to Canada after George W Bush is re-elected in 2004, reflects the director's life in several ways. Like his main character, director Lewy did field work in Ohio for the Democratic Party in 2004. And ...
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Tribeca Talent: Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz
Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz's debut feature Lovesickness (Maldeamores) deals with the universal theme of love in very Puerto Rican terms. For Ruiz, 'It's a slice of our Latin idiosyncrasies which also shows how intense and intensely flawed love can be.'Having received a bachelors degree in photography from the Art Institute of ...
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World premieres at Tribeca Film Festival
The Air I Breathe (Encounters)Contact: Mark Ankner and Graham Taylor, Endeavor Independent Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother (Discovery) Contact: Nikki Parrott, Tigerlily Films (domestic), ID Distribution (international) Amexicano (Discovery) Contact: Matthew Bonifacio, The Brooklyn-Queens Experiment Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer (Encounters) Contact: Melissa Davis, Elan Entertainment Autism: ...
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The Condemned
Dir: Scott Wiper. US. 2007. 113mins.Criticising the dumbing-down of entertainment culture while shamelessly catering to the lowest-common denominator, The Condemned gets points for chutzpah but little else. The result, an action film about a hyper-violent reality contest, quickly devolves into a series of hand-to-hand combat scenes that become monotonous since ...
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Vince Vaughn's Comedy Show goes to Picturehouse, NLI
Picturehouse and New Line International have acquired worldwide rights to Ari Sandel's Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood To The Heartland.Vaughn produced the film, which originally premiered at Toronto last autumn and follows him on a comedy road tour with four up-and-coming comics. ...
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Image executive Gordon joins TWC as evp, home entertainment
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has hired Barry Gordon as executive vice president of home entertainment.Reporting to Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Gordon will be based in TWC's Los Angeles office and will serve as liaison for the company's home entertainment operations.He will work closely with Trevor Drinkwater, president and chief executive ...