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Old Joy, Clear Cut get top honours at Sarasota festival
KellyReichardt's Old Joy and PeterRichardson's Clear Cut: The Story Of Philomath, Or, were the big winners at the 2006 Sarasota Film Festivalas they were named the best narrative and documentary features in competitionSpecialjury prizes in both categories went to Cristi Puiu's The Death Of MrLazarescu and Gary Tarn's Black Sun.The2006 ...
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David Dobkin to direct RIPD for Universal
DavidDobkin will direct Universal's long-in-the-works comic book adaptation RIPD based on the Dark Horse comic book Rest In Peace Department.PhilHay and Matt Manfredi will adapt the screenplay about a murdered police officerwho is recruited to a supernatural agency charged with removing troublesomespirits from Earth.NealH Moritz and Mike Richardson will produce, ...
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Usen Corp buys stake in CJ Media Japan
Japan's Usen Corp, parent of Gaga Communications, has acquired an 8.57% stakein CJ Media Japan, a foreign affiliate of Korea's CJ Media, for a reported $2.53m (Y300m).Usen stated that itsinvestment in CJ Media Japan, which was established last August, was to furtherdevelop the sharing and distribution of contents produced by ...
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Board shifts at Germany's Senator Entertainment
SenatorEntertainment's executive board has been restructured following the end of theinsolvency proceedings against the Berlin-based distributor-producer. Theconcern's two major shareholders Cologne media lawyer HelgeSasse and US-based German producer Marco Weber of HSWGmbH, which holds a 36.32% stake in Senator Entertainment, have now beenappointed to the executive board. Sasse is serving ...
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Bosnia plans more support for regional films
Bosnia and Herzegovina'snational Fund for Cinematography has reserved $242,250 (Euros 200,000) of its $908,437(Euros 750,000) annual budget to support regional co-productions.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com at this week's goEastFestival, Sarajevo Film Festival director Mirsad Purivatra described thisdecision by the Bosnian Minister of Culture and Sport Gavrilo Grahovac as"a first step towards a ...
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Becker appoints Keen as CEO; Bradley to relocate to LA
Tim Keen has beenappointed as the new CEO of Becker Group Limited, the film exhibition,distribution, production and sales company. In an unrelated move, thehead of sales company Becker Films International, Reiko Bradley, will soonrelocate from Sydney to Los Angeles. Bradley is a shareholderand made the reverse move when she helped ...
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Tbilisi-Tbilisi takes top prize at GoEast Festival
Georgian filmmaker Levan Zakareishvili's Tbilisi-Tbilisi, a portrait of harsheveryday life in his nation's capital, was the surprise winner of the GoldenLily award for best film at this year's goEastFestival of Central and East European Cinema, which came to a close on Tuesdayevening in Wiesbaden.The international jury,headed by German film historian ...
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Byrne and O'Reilly join Irish Film Board
Byrne and O'Reilly joinIrish Film BoardThe Irish Film Board hasappointed Mark Byrne as its business & legal executive. Byrne has worked as anentertainment lawyer for the past three years and also acted on co-producer forfeature film Middletown. Byrne's role willinclude negotiating with producers and co-financiers, and acting as a liaisonwith ...
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UK Film Council's P&A Fund supports 19 films
The UK Film Council hasannounced the latest round of awards from its Prints and Advertising Fund. The biggest awards in therecent round of funding were $304,442(£174,196) to Tartan Films for TheProposition, $262,154 (£150,000) to Momentum for Tsotsi, $174,749 (£100,000) to Pathe for Transamerica, and $174,749 (£100,000) to Maiden Voyage Pictures ...
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Venice and Udine festivals form new alliance
The Venice Film Festival andEurope's biggest Asian film festival, UdineFar East Film, are to collaborate. The deal signed between thetwo festivals will further help Venice director Marco Mueller keep a close eye on alldevelopments in Asian cinema by tapping in to Udine's network of contacts and Asian film consultants.The Udine ...
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Kirk's Middletown is late entry to Tribeca
Brian Kirk's Middletown has been added to the Discovery Section of theupcoming Tribeca Film Festival.The UK/Ireland co-productionproduced by Michael Casey (Freeze Frame) is set in Ireland's Bible belt and tells the story of two brothers,one wracked by the love of his family, the other by the love of his god.Andrew ...
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Madsen, Hannah start production on Arcview's Vice
Production began this week in Vancouver on psychological thriller Vicefrom Nevadan productionand financing company Arcview Entertainment.Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Mykelti Williamson, Mark BooneJunior and rapper Kurupt star in the story of a group of troubled policeofficers who fall under suspicion when a drugs haul goes missing.Raul Sanchez Inglis directs and ...
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Goldcrest takes on Elvis And Anabelle
Production began this week in Austin, Texas, on UK-based GoldcrestFilms International and Austin-based Orange Productions' dark romantic comedy ElvisAnd Anabelle.Will Geiger is directing the story about an unlikely romance that blossomsbetween a deceased local beauty queen and the town mortician's son. Goldcrestis handling worldwide sales.Max Mingella will play the mortician's ...
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Devlin's Electric signs distribution alliance with MGM
MGM will handle the domestic release of Electric Entertainment'sfirst world war adventure Flyboys, kicking off a non-exclusive distribution alliance unveiled bythe parties today [Tuesday].Flyboysstars James Franco as a young American who volunteers to become a fighter pilotduring hostilities in Europe. Tony Bill directed and Jean Reno and MartinHenderson also star.Electric ...
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Universal signs multi-year distribution deal with Mattel
Universal Studios and Mattel have signed a multi-picture,multi-year feature-length DVD worldwide marketing and distribution deal.Universal will handle global marketing and distribution onupcoming instalments of the Barbie Entertainment franchise and will handle theworldwide release this autumn on PollyWorld, the first feature to be based onMattel's miniature Polly Pocket doll.'An agreement of ...
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Sundance Institute names three fellowship recipients for producing, screenwriting.
The Sundance Institute has announced recipients of three keyawards supporting filmmakers and their passion projects.Producing partners T Todd Flinchum and Alicia Kratzer will receivethe 2006 Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers, and collect a $5,000 cashgrant for pre-production expenses for their project Dreamland.The project is a speculative exploration of the ...
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Alliance sews up world sales on Stardom
Alliance Atlantis Pictures International has sold Denys Arcand's Stardom, which closed this year's Cannes Film Festival, to a slew of territories including Germany, where the picture went to Arthaus, and Rentrack in Japan.The film also went to Spring Cinema for Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, Cinemien for Benelux, Triangle Films ...
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Independent CG-animated Chimps starts for Vanguard, IDT
Vanguard Animation and IDT Entertainment have started productionon their CG-animated feature Space Chimps.The comedy follows the galactic misadventures of a haplessdescendant of the first chimpanzees in space and will be distributeddomestically through IDT's multi-picture deal with Twentieth Century Fox.Character design and storyboarding are currently underwayin Vancouver at IDT Entertainment and ...
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Korean director Shin Sang-ok dies aged 80
Master Korean cineaste ShinSang-ok passed away at the age of 80 late last night (April 11) in Seoul. With a career that spans the modern history of Korea, his life has often been compared to a film scriptitself.Born in Cheong-jin (now in North Korea) in 1925 during the Japanese occupation, ...
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Arclight, Roadshow board Gray debut
International sales agentArclight Films and Australian distributor Roadshow have signed on to When She Gets There, the debut featurefrom writer-director Richard Gray.Cassandra McGrath, whosecredits include Wolf Creek, has been lined up to star in the $2.93m (A$4m) film,which is scheduled to start shooting at the end of July. Gray is ...