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Tribeca Film Institute selects five for Sloan Filmmaker Fund
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) has selected five feature projects to receive financial and creative support from its inaugural TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund supported by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation.The projects were whittled down from a list of 130 submissions and will receive a total of $110,000 in funding. The ...
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Maya to produce and distribute slacker comedy Hollywood Players
US Latino outfit Maya Entertainment will develop, produce, and distribute the slacker comedy Hollywood Players written and to be directed by Joaquin Perea.Casting is underway in time for a February 2009 start date and a fourth quarter release on the story of two brothers in east LA who get themselves ...
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Bester, LaCour promoted to svp at Union Bank Of California
Adam Bester and Bryan LaCour have been promoted to senior vice president at Union Bank Of California.Bester and LaCour work in the bank's specialised financial services division and report to David Musicant, who heads national banking.LaCour is responsible for managing the bank's entertainment finance business, which has provided capital to ...
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Lightning picks up Spanish ghost story The Beckoning
Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights excluding Spain to Elio Quiroga's Spanish ghost story The Beckoning.Quiroga wrote and directed the story about a traumatised young doctor who moves to the country after her child dies of cot death and is haunted by mysterious ...
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Shyamalan, MRC joint venture sets Devil as first feature
Devil will be the first project to go under M Night Shyamalan and Media Rights Capital's (MRC) previously announced financing and production partnership The Night Chronicles.The supernatural thriller is based on an original story by Shyamalan that Quarantine director John Dowdle and Andrew Dowdle will direct. Production is set for ...
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Cinemavault picks up international rights to Trucker
Cinemavault has acquired international rights from new York-based Plum Pictures to the Michelle Monaghan drama Trucker in time for AFM.The film premiered at Tribeca last April and stars Monaghan as a tough truck driver who takes her estranged 11-year-old boy into her care.Nathan Fillion, Benjamin Bratt, Joey Lauren Adams and ...
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Mudge's Worldwide boards Lonely Street, Stone's Point
Barbara Mudge's Los Angeles-based boutique sales agency Worldwide Film Entertainment has boarded international rights ahead of AFM to the comedic murder mystery Lonely Street and thriller Stone's Point.Lonely Street is based on Steve Brewer's series of novels about a private eye who unwittingly becomes embroiled in a tabloid reporter's murder. ...
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Byzantium Entertainment set to debut at AFM with Aladdin
Alan Mehrez and business partner Aileen Rodriguez' new production, finance and international sales company Byzantium Entertainment will debut at AFM next week with the live-action adventure Aladdin.The company plans to produce two to three films a year in the low to mid budget range. Aladdin is funded through private equity ...
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Easternlight picks up international rights to Champions
Arclight Films' Easternlight division will handle international sales, excluding certain Asian territories, to recently completed martial arts action epic Champions, produced by Hong Kong-based Sundream Motion Pictures. The film, which is directed by veteran filmmaker and Sundream president Tsui Siuming, centres on the Chinese martial arts team that participated in ...
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Black Balloon, Unfinished Sky lead Aussie awards pack
The Black Balloon, Unfinished Sky, The Square and The Jammed all have a chance of winning best film and also the best direction category at this year's 50th Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards. It was announced today that family drama The Black Balloon, from debut director Elissa Down, was nominated ...
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Whatson to head acquisitions at Australia's Palace Films
Nicolas Whatson has been promoted to the role of general manager at Palace Films, one of Australia's leading arthouse distributors, giving him ultimate responsibility for what is released in both Australia and New Zealand. Whatson has been part of the acquisition team at Cannes, Toronto and Sundance since 2004, and ...
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Pinewood Shepperton Studios receive $110m credit facility
Pinewood Shepperton plc has secured a $110m (£70m) funding package from a banking syndicate led by The Royal Bank of Scotland ('RBS') comprising Lloyds TSB plc and Allied Irish Bank. The five year funding agreement replaces banking facilities established in 2004. It will facilitate the continued growth of Pinewood's film, ...
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Universal Pictures takes Benelux distribution rights to De Storm
Universal Pictures International Studio has acquired Belgian, Netherlands and Luxembourg distribution rights to De Storm (The Storm). The Dutch film was directed by Ben Sombogaart, whose latest film Bride Flight was released in cinemas in the Netherlands on October 16 and opened third in the Dutch box office chart.'Ben Sombogaart ...
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UKfilm tax credit provides $170m in support since Jan 2007
The UK government's has published figures showing the amount of film tax relief provided in support of UK production, since the current scheme was introduced in January 2007.They show that 110 claims received tax relief to the end of March 2008 totalling $170m (£104m), and covering around 100 new films. ...
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Delphis takes international rights on Dutch family hit Letter For The King
Montreal sales company Delphis Films has acquired international sales rights to Dutch filmmaker Pieter Verhoeff's chivalric adventure Letter For The King. The deal is for rights outside Benelux and German-language territories. The German release is scheduled for November.Budgeted at Euros 7.5m and shot on location in Holland, Germany, Belgium, France, ...
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Mamma Mia! becomes biggest ever UK movie at UK box-office
Mamma Mia! The Movie has broken box office records to become the biggest UK movie of all time at the UK box-office. Like the James Bond and Harry Potter franchises, the film is a UK-US collaboration. With box-office reaching $104,590,000 (£66,995,244), it is the second highest-grossing film of all time ...
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ReviewsBronson
Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn. UK, 2008. 92 mins.With Bronson, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (the Pusher trilogy) takes his first director-for-hire job and makes an indelible stamp on it. Bronson is about the UK’s most violent prisoner, Charles Bronson, born Michael Peterson, but it’s in no way a biography. This ...
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Berry and Skarsgard go before camera on Frankie and Alice
Principal photography has commenced on Geoffrey's Sax drama Frankie and Alice, starring Halle Berry and Stellan Skarsgard in the lead roles. Produced by Toronto-based Access Motion Pictures, the project will makes its first market appearance at the AFM through Cinesavvy, Access' partner sales company, which is handling world rights.Set against ...
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Mexico reports $839m production windfall
The Mexican Film Commission has reported that 2,586 productions have shot in Mexico since its inception in September 1995, boosting the local economy by an estimated $839m. In total, the Commission has received 5,438 requests for information, 2,959 from domestic productions, 2,440 from the US, Canada, Europe and Asia and ...
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