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LAFCA to announce winners on Dec 9, present awards on Jan 12
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) will announce this season's winners immediately after the voting meeting on December 9.The 34th annual film achievement awards ceremony will take place on January 12 at the InterContinental Los Angeles in Century City.LAFCA president Lael Loewenstein made the announcement earlier today [Nov 17]. ...
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Sony Classics takes multiple territory rights on It Might Get Loud
Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed the acquisition from The Little Film Company of Davis Guggenheim's music documentary It Might Get Loud.SPC has taken rights for North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa on the story of the evolution of the electric guitar featuring rock luminaries Jimmy Page, ...
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Zvyagintsev's The Banishment wins best film at Lone Star
Andrei Zvyagintsev's The Banishment was named best foreign language film as the Lone Star International Film Festival in Fort Worth, Texas, wrapped at the weekend.Igor Volshin's Nirvana won the grand jury prize for narrative feature competition and Eric Bricker's Visual Acoustics - The Modernism Of Julius Shulman took documentary honours.Clay ...
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Myriad sells Dino Mom to Gussi, Imagem among others at AFM
Kirk D'Amico's Myriad Pictures' closed key territories on the 3D English-language animated feature Dino Mom at AFM.Myriad holds worldwide rights to the film, currently in production in South Korea, about three children who travel back in time 65 million years.This is the first English-language 3D animated feature to come out ...
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LongTale International sells Milarepa to Axess TV in Sweden
Los Angeles-based LongTale International has licensed Neten Chokling's Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint to Sweden's Axess TV.The exclusive free and pay cable and broadcast rights deal closed at AFM.The Tibetan-language revenge and redemption saga tells of Milarepa, Tibet's greatest spiritual warrior.
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Maya backs Robinson brothers thriller Preparation For A Murder
Vertically integrated entertainment company Maya Entertainment has boarded the thriller Preparation For A Murder written and to be directed by Jonathan and R M Robinson.The Robinson brothers make their feature directorial debut on the story of two young men who embark on a hit without realising the repercussions that will ...
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SPHE launches International Product Expansion Group
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has launched the International Product Expansion Group to coordinate the production and acquisition of overseas titles for global distribution by SPHE. Based in Culver City, Los Angeles, the group is headed by newly appointed International Product Expansion vice president Tony Ishizuka.As well as broad operational ...
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Morris, Marsh, Herzog down to shortlist for documentary Oscar
The Academy has unveiled the shortlist of 15 documentaries that will advance to the next stage in 81st Academy Awards.The 15 films are:At the Death House DoorThe Betrayal (Nerakhoon)Blessed Is The Match: The Life And Death Of Hannah SeneshEncounters At The End Of The WorldFuelThe GardenGlass: A Portrait Of Philip ...
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HDNet's Mark Cuban charged by SEC with insider trading
The Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged HDNet founder Mark Cuban with insider trading.The SEC alleges that the flamboyant billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team sold 60,000 shares of internet search engine Mamma.com after he received confidential information about an imminent stock offering.According to the official ...
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FTC delays decision on AOL-Time Warner
US anti-monopoly regulator, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has taken the rare action of "stopping the clock" on its review of AOL's takeover of Time Warner. Having waited so long for the deal to be given the green light, another delay may not hurt anyone. But the latest hold-up seems ...
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Overture signs two-year, first-look deal with Cheadle's Crescendo
Overture Films has signed a two-year first look deal with Crescendo Productions headed by Don Cheadle, Lenore Zerman and Kay Liberman.The arrangement gives Overture access to film product from Crescendo. Cheadle starred in the terrorism thriller Traitor that Overture released in August and went on to gross more than $23m.This ...
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Red Cliff remains at highest altitude in Japan
John Woo's Red Cliff has held the number one position for the third week in a row at the Japanese box office. The film has now earned a total of $25.87m (Y2.5bn) and surpassed two million admissions in the first sixteen days of its release. It held off Fuji TV-produced ...
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Chinese exhibitors predict bumper year-end box office
With more than 16 heavy-weight releases jamming thre three-month period starting Nov 20, Chinese cinema owners are estimating that box office during the year-end season will reach $146m (RMB1bn), which is10% higher than the same season last year. China'syear-end season, which traditionally takes place from late Nov to late Feb, ...
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Oz director Alston to expand Brisbane into a trilogy
Australian director Louise Alston is set to make two more low-budget romantic comedies, following her debut film All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, which is being released in Denmark through Sunrise Film Distribution. Cameras will roll on January 7 on Jucy, the second of the films, with Alston again directing ...
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Transporter 3
Dir: Olivier Megaton. US/UK/France. 2008. 103 mins.A perfunctory action film which drives around in noisy circles but goes nowhere, Transporter 3 is neither compelling enough nor outlandishly goofy enough to leave much of an impression. Series star Jason Statham supplies ironic cool as the titular tough-guy courier, but first-time director ...
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Paulo Branco to work with Raoul Ruiz on Misterios De Lisboa
Portugal's leading producer Paulo Branco is set to work with Chile 's leading director Raoul Ruiz on the dark, suspense drama Misterios De Lisboa. 'The film is based on the work of Camilo Castelo Branco, one of Portugal 's greatest writers,' Paulo Branco told ScreenDaily. 'It is a melodrama ...
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Fortissimo takes international rights to Schrader classic Mishima
Fortissimo Films has acquired international rights from American Zoetrope to Paul Schrader's cult classic Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters.The 1985 film is a portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima, played by Ken Ogata, who died last month. As well as Schrader's direction, John Bailey's cinematography, Eiko ...
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Jeff Skoll to win Visionary Award at annual PGA Awards
Jeff Skoll will receive the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) 2009 Visionary Award at the 20th Annual PGA Awards on January 24 in Hollywood.Skoll is a philanthropist and the chairman and founder of Participant Media, which financed such films as The Visitor, Charlie Wilson's War, The Kite Runner, Darfur Now, ...
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IMAX signs five-film deal with Disney starting 2009
IMAX and Disney will finally work together after signing a five-film deal that kicks off with Robert Zemeckis' 3D retelling of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey in November 2009.According to Disney sources close to the deal the roster may include films from Tim Burton and ...
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Sony to release Blu-ray discs in mainland China
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) is releasing 30 titles on high-definition Blu-ray discs in the mainland China market, making it the first studio to distribute the new format in the territory. The releases will coincide with Sony Electronic's introduction of the BDP-S350 model Blu-ray player to the Chinese market on ...