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EFP selects 22 producers for Cannes Producers On The Move
European Film Promotion(EFP) has selected 22 aspiring producers for the Producers On The Movenetworking initiative that will take place during Cannes.The initiative, supported bythe European Union's the MEDIA Programme, offers young filmmakers the chance tomeet and discuss projects with members of the press and industry executives.Producers On The Move hasspotlighted ...
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Dehmel, Cordova get vp stripes at Fox International
Craig Dehmel has beenpromoted to vice president of sales and strategic planning and Peter Cordovahas been promoted to vice president of finance at Fox International.Dehmel will report tocompany co-presidents Tomas Jegeus and Paul Hanneman and will manage releaseplanning and execution for all Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Atomic, FoxAnimation, ...
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Holloway moves from Lionsgate to Fox Searchlight in national publicity
Melissa Holloway (pictured) hasleft Lionsgate to become vice president of national publicity at FoxSearchlight.She started work on Apr 24and reports to chief operating officer Nancy Utley.Holloway joined Lionsgate inJanuary 2001 and served as vice president of publicity since 2004, overseeingcampaigns for this year's best picture Oscar winner Crash, Monster's Ball,Amores ...
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14 projects line up for Sundance Director and Screenwriters Labs
14 projects have beenselected for the Sundance Institute's annual June Directors and ScreenwritersLabs, set to take place in Utah from May 29-Jun 29.The Labs give emergingfilmmakers the chance to work under the guidance of experienced mentors, whothis year include Atom Egoyan, Harold Ramis, Robert Redford, Antonia Bird,Caleb Deschanel, Keith Gordon, ...
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Tartan UK signs three-year deal with Arts Alliance Media
Tartan Films Distribution(TFD) and European digital distribution service provider Arts Alliance Media(AAM) have signed an exclusive three-year digital rights and services dealcovering theatrical digital cinema and home distribution via video on demandand electronic sell-through.The deal marks the firsttime a content provider has signed up for the entire package of AAM's ...
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Kingsley to play assassin in mob comedy You Kill Me
Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoniand Luke Wilson are set to star in the mobcomedy You Kill Me for Code Entertainment, Kingsley's BiPolarProductions, Carol BaumInc, and Mike Marcus' Echo Lake Productions.John Dahl will direct the project and shooting is expected to beginbefore the end of themonth in Winnipeg, Canada.Kingsley plays an alcoholic ...
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Kingsley to headline Dahl mob comedy You Kill Me
Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoniand Luke Wilson are set to star in the mob comedy You Kill Me for Code Entertainment, Kingsley's BiPolar Productions, Carol BaumInc, and Mike Marcus' Echo Lake Productions.John Dahl will direct the project and shooting is expected to start before the end of themonth in Winnipeg, Canada.Kingsley, ...
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Cannes festival line-up
Opening filmThe Da Vinci Code (dir:Ron Howard)Closing filmTransylvania (Tony Gatlif)Official selection - Out Of Competition special screeningsUnited 93 (Paul Greengrass)X-Men 3: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner)Over The Hedge (Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick) Official selection: Midnight screeningsShortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)Election 2 (Johnnie To)Guisi (Silk) (Su Chao-pin)Salle Bunuel Out Of Competition ...
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Brad Anderson returns with Transsiberian
Spain's Filmax has unveiled the first details ofdirector Brad Anderson's follow-up to well-received horror film The Machinist, a new thriller called Transsiberian.Principal photography is setto crank up in October with an international cast shooting between Spain and Eastern Europe.Horror title The Machinist, produced and sold bySpanish mini-studio Filmax, starred Christian ...
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Pathe distribution head takes Fox UK MD role
Pathe head of distribution Ian George has beennamed as managing director of Twentieth Century Fox UK. George has been with Pathefor the last seven years and enjoyed success with films including this year'sbest film Oscar winner Crash."After seven hugely enjoyable years at Pathe,it is a wrench to leave. However, I ...
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Scalpel picks up rights to first Paraguayan film in 30 years
PierreMenahem's Scalpel Films has picked up international sales rights to the firstfilm from Paraguay in more than three decades, the Cannes title Hamaca Paraguaya.And theinternational campaign has kicked off in advance of the film's Un CertainRegard screening with ID Distribution taking French rights.Directedby first-timer (and thus Camera D'Or contender) Paz ...
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Qualcomm, Technicolor form joint digital venture
Digital media technology company Qualcomm and Carlton Communications-owned Technicolor Digital Cinema are teaming up to provide an open standard distribution system for digital cinema. The joint venture, to be called Technicolor Digital Cinema LLC, marks another major step forward to finding a useable method to deliver digital films worldwide - ...
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Quebecois drama opens Manchester Commonwealth festival
Sebastian Rose's Life With MyFather (La Vie Avec Mon Pere) opens the Manchester annualCommonwealth Film Festival (ComFEST06) tommorow night.The event features nine strands with films fromCommonwealth countries, including India, Australia and Canada.It will also include its established Queerscreensection of gay and lesbian cinema.'Notonly will COMFEST06 provide a fascinating showcase for ...
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French-Canadian drama opens Manchester Commonwealth festival
Sebastian Rose's Life With MyFather (La Vie Avec Mon Pere) opens the Manchester annualCommonwealth Film Festival (ComFEST06) tommorow night.The event features nine strands with films fromCommonwealth countries, including India, Australia and Canada.It will also include its established Queerscreensection of gay and lesbian cinema."Notonly will COMFEST06 provide a fascinating showcase for ...
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Czech parliament approves big boost to state film fund
Film-makers have welcomed the decision of the lower house ofthe Czech parliament to approve an amendment to film law which would morethan triple the size of the State Fund for the Support and Development of CzechCinematography. But the decision has upset exhibitors, broadcasters andrental shops who will be expected to ...
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Universal takes domestic on 2929's We Own The Night
Universal Pictures has picked up domestic rights from 2929Productions to crime drama We Own The Night starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg,Robert Duvall and Eva Mendes.James Gray, who directed Phoenix and Wahlberg in 2000's TheYards, wrote and isdirecting the project, which is currently shooting in New York.Universal previously acquiredrights for the ...
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Horizon picks up international on Thai/US co-production Journey
Vancouver-based Horizon Entertainment has picked up allinternational rights to Vietnamese-American director Ham Tran's Thai-US co-productionJourney From The Fall.The story follows a family'sescape from Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War and charts the contrastinglives of those who make it to America and those who remain in the re-educationcamps. Kieu ...
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International Film Circuit buys US on Words
Boutique distributor International Film Circuit has acquired allUS rights to Lesley Ann Patten's documentary Words Of My Perfect Teacher and plans a summer domestic release.The ZIJI Film and Television and National Film Board of Canada co-productionfollows three students on a quest for wisdom, all the while watched closely byKhyentse Norbu, ...
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TIFFG establishes children's international film collection
The Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) hasestablished a children's international film collection following a $500,000 donationfrom the Toronto-based Harbinger Foundation.The unprecedented collection lays the groundwork for thedevelopment of TIFFG youth education programmes and will be named the John VanDuzerChildren's Film Collection in honour of Harbinger Foundation president JoanVanDuzer's late ...
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Cannes Europe Day takes global distribution theme
The CannesFilm Festival has announced plans for its fourth annual Europe Day to take placeon May 23.The maintheme to be discussed will be "European Films Go Global;" with discussionscentering on getting European films seen on as many screens around the world aspossible.Filmprofessionals will gather with European culture ministers and representativesof ...