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BT on the look-out for content companies
UK telco British Telecommunications (BT) is mulling the possibility of acquiring media companies to supply its proposed broadband services, according to a report on Reuters.According to Marc Deschamps, COO for BT's broadband internet outfit Openworld, the company is open to deals on the same scale as this year's high-profile content-carrier ...
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Basil-Jones returns to Sony to head Australia, New Zealand
StephenBasil-Jones will return to Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) asmanaging director of Australia once he completes his tenure as DreamWorks International'smarketing and distribution chief at the end of the year.Basil-Joneswill also serve as regional supervisor for New Zealand and SPRI executive vicepresident, reporting to Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group president ...
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France's OSS 117 wins top audience prize at Seattle
The 32nd annual Seattle International FilmFestival (SIFF) closed its epic, 25-day run on Sunday with a gala screening ofMichel Gondry's The Science Of Sleep atwhich Gondry was in attendance.418 films were screened at the festival, 19 of them worldpremieres and 41 of which were North American premieres. The festival isexpecting ...
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Jesus Camp gets Sterling Award at Silverdocs festival
HeidiEwing and Rachel Grady's Jesus Camp wonthe Silverdocs Sterling Award for a feature film as the week-long event came toa close in Maryland.JesusCamp explores the faith of young followersat a summer camp whose lives are driven by fervent evangelism.DanielCross and Mila Aung-Thwin's Chairman George received an honourable mention for its ...
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Darryl Hunt, Simple Curve are favourites at Nantucket
AubreyNealon's A Simple Curve won the 11thNantucket Film Festival's Writer/Director Award, and Ricki Stern and AnnieSundberg's The Trials of Darryl Hunttook the audience award for best feature as the event wound down at theweekend.BestStorytelling in a Documentary Film was awarded to Steven Cantor's WhatRemains, while South African filmmakerAvie Luthra won ...
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Egoli Tossell gears up for bigger English-language films
Berlin-basedEgoli Tossell Film (ETF) isexpanding into higher-budget English-language productions with a slateincluding new projects by Agnieszka Holland andMichael Hofmann. Shootingis scheduled to begin by the end of the year on Holland's Peter & Catherine from a screenplay by IrakliKvirikadze about the love story between Peter the Greatand a Polish battlefield ...
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Vue in management buyout worth $645m
UK exhibitor Vue Entertainment has announced amanagement buyout in partnership with Bank of Scotland Corporate.The bank is backing thecurrent management team in a deal valued about £350m and also is taking aminority stake in the company. Previous investors BostonVentures, Clarity Partners and Legal & General Ventures have sold theirshareholdings to ...
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12:08, East Of Bucharest (A Fost Sau N'a Fost)
Dir/scr: CorneliuPorumboiu. Rom. 2006. 89minsLittle more than a vignette, but nevertheless asuccinctly astute one at that, Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08, East Of Bucharest is a spare, low-budget production whichhits the nail right on the head in its depiction of Romania just before thefall of the Ceausescu dictatorship. At the same time, ...
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F For Film closes deals for Alicia Scherson's Play
French sales house F For Film has closedseveral deals on the award-winning Play by director Alicia Scherson.The film, 2006's official Oscar entry from Chile, has sold to the UK's Dogwoof Pictures, Germany's Kairos and Greece's Artplex. Deals with distributors in Japan and Spain are currently beingnegotiated.In 2005, Play won awards ...
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Bird's Eye View takes women's shorts on UK tour
The Birds Eye View FilmFestival, held in London earlier this month, is taking highlights of itsprogramme on a summer tour of the UK. The tour, which presents shorts made by women, willgo to cinemas in East Finchley, Dalston and Croydon and will bepresented at the Cambridge Film Festival, Rushes Soho ...
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Madrid's new Screenings ends with strong turnout and sales
The first edition of theSpanish Film Screenings of Madrid (June 18-20) closed Tuesday night with astronger turnout than the six previous editions of its predecessor in Lanzarote.More than 100 of theexpected 105 buyers from 37 countries travelled to Madrid, where 51 recent Spanish features screened and anadditional 100-plus catalogue titles ...
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UK distributors rally round Bafta pre-Oscars move
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) appears to be winning the all-important support of UK distributors for its plan to move its film awards to a profile-raising pre-Academy Awards slot.While there are still concerns amongst some key distributors, those contacted by Screendaily which backed a move from ...
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Ganz to receive tribute at Montreal World Film Festival
The Montreal World FilmFestival will pay tribute to veteran German actor Bruno Ganz. The star of suchfilms as Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall and Silvio Soldini's Bread And Tulips will be on hand to celebrate the MWFF's 30thanniversary. The festival will present the North American premiere of his latest film, Fredi M. ...
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Fox Korea chief Lee to take over at Fox Japan
Fox Korea managing director Jesse Lee has been named generalmanager for Fox Japan and will replace Toshiharu Karaki, who is leaving to pursueother interests.Lee's appointment will take effect on Jul 1. He has served asgeneral manager for both the theatrical and home entertainment divisions of FoxKorea since 2000, starting at ...
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Telefilm Canada faces Inuit distributor controversy
Telefilm Canada is underfire from a Canadian aboriginal distribution company seeking assistance inscreening The Journals Of Knud Rasmussen for aboriginal audiences in remote communities. Isuma Distribution Inc.(IDI), the releasing arm of Rasmussen filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk's and Norman Cohn's Igloolik IsumaProductions, has requested nearly $500,000 (C$550,000) to fund a travelingdigital projection ...
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Wagner & Cuban to receive tribute at Nov Gotham Awards
2929 Entertainment founders Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban will bepresented with a Gotham Award tribute at the IFP's 16th Annual Gotham Awards onNov 29.The honour will be handed out at the annual awards ceremonyalongside six competitive awards for ensemble cast, breakthrough actor anddirector, documentary, feature, and Best Film Not Playing ...
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New US distributor to focus on faith-based, urban films
Lang Elliott's Sunn Classic Pictures and Los Angeles attorneysLeroy Bobbitt and Virgil Roberts have set up Sunn Allied Releasing todistribute urban and faith-based pictures.The company plans to release eight to 12 fully financed featuresand is supported by a "multi-million dollar" print and advertisingfund.The two Bobbitt & Roberts principals will bring ...
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Kercher named to senior European post for Kodak Digital Cinema
Brian Kercher has been appointed general manager for Kodak DigitalCinema covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa.Kercher has served at the company for 11 years, and most recentlymanaged the entertainment imaging business in the UK, Ireland and South Africa.He replaces Denis Kelly, who has retired.
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IFC teams with stablemate fuse on US release of Head
IFC Films is teaming up on the domestic release of rockmockumentary Brothers Of The Head with Rainbow Media stablemate and music and online televisionnetwork fuse.The alliance marks fuse's first foray into theatrical releasingand will see the partners collaborate on all marketing initiatives for the Jul28 release.fuse will run promotional features, ...
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Programme hots up for Screenwriters Festival
With just days to gobefore the UK's inaugural Screenwriters Festival in Cheltenham, the organizerscontinue to add to the impressive roster of speakers and estimate that morethan two hundred new and established screenwriters from across Britain will flockto the three-day event (June 27-30).Among the latestadditions to the Festival, which is being ...