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Slumdog, Button, Milk among nominees for Eddie Awards
The American Cinema Editors announced its nominations today [January 12] for the 59th Annual ACE Eddie Awards recognising outstanding editing in nine categories of film, television and documentaries.The nominees for best edited feature (dramatic) are: Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; Lee Smith for ...
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Alcon buys Untitled First Daughter project
Alcon Entertainment, the LA-based independent production outfit with a five-year, 10-picture distribution agreement with Warner Bros Pictures, has purchased the romantic comedy Untitled First Daughter Project and signed Andy Cadiff to direct. Cadiff's credits include TV series The Geena Davis Show, Spin City and Home Improvement as well as 1997 ...
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Brazil box office rises by 2.1% in 2008 to $313.9m
Brazil's box office totaled $313.9m (R$727.8m) in 2008, which represents a slight increase of 2.1% over the previous year, according to figures released by Filme B, a local film company that reviews theatrical market data. Thanks to the revenues registered in December, particularly from Madagascar 2 which sold 3.5m tickets ...
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Visitor passfor the EFM, Wild Bunch returns (almost) to the market
The European Film Market plans a number of logistical changes to make life easier for its delegates and in doing so has brought sales agent Wild Bunch back into the market - almost. The first innovation is the introduction of a transferrable visitor pass that will cost $106 (Euros 80). ...
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Ascot Elite adds four new titles to 2009 release slate
Leading Swiss indepedent distributor Ascot Elite has acquired rights for Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking with up-and-coming star Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley and Rose McGowan, from Handmade Films International. Fifty Dead Men Walking is one of four films acquired by Ascot Elite for German speaking Europe. Also from Kari ...
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Red Cliff II sweeps Chinese box office
John Woo's war epic Red Cliff II earned $14.8m (RMB101.5m) infour days in mainland China to become the first film in 2009 to break the $14.6m (RMB100m) mark, according to the film's mainland China distributor China Film Group. Released on January 7 with 1,400 prints, Red Cliff II took in ...
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Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino line-ups complete
Lars Büchel's Lippel's Dream, and Alexis Dos Santos's Unmade Beds make the Berlinale's Generation selection while Lars Jessen's Dorfpunks and Stefan Schaller's To Each His Own are invited to Perspektive Deutsches Kino as selectors finalise their line-ups for 2009. 27 features from 25 countries have been selected in total for ...
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Everlasting Moments tops Guldbagge awards
Swedish veteran director Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments picked up four awards, including best film, at the Guldbagge awards.The film, nominated in eight categories, won the prizes for best film, best actress (Maria Heiskanen), best actor (Mikael Persbrandt) andbest supporting actor (Jesper Christensen). It also wona best achievement kudo for composer ...
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Spain 2008 box office rises by 12.5% but admissionsfall
The Spanish box office rose by exactly $100m from $698m in 2007 to $798m (Euros 595.6m) in 2008, according to figures released by Nielsen EDI. But this was mostly due to a favourable exchange rate and a late surge from Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, released on November 28. This is ...
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Naomi Kawase, Lav Diaz join Hong on Jeonju Digital Project
The 10th Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF)'s three-part digital omnibus this year will feature short films from Japan's Naomi Kawase and the Philippines' Lav Diaz in addition to the previously announced short from Korea's Hong Sang-soo. The Jeonju Digital Project 2009 omnibus will premiere at JIFF which runs this year ...
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Waltz, The Class, Baader Meinhof make nine-film Oscar shortlist
Matteo Garrone's Sicilian crime epic Gomorrah failed to make the cut as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced its shortlist of foreign language Oscar contenders today [January 13].The nine films chosen from the original list of 65 qualifying submissions that will advance to the next round of ...
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Lightning Media signs output deal with E1 for Canada, UK
Lighting Media and Canadian media company Entertainment One have signed a multi-year output deal that will see E1 distributing Lightning product in Canada through its E1 Films Canada division and in the UK through E1 Films/Contender. The deal, which runs through 2010, was negotiated by Lightning Media co-presidents Rich Goldberg ...
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Al Pacino named HFPA Cecil B DeMille Award winner
Al Pacino will receive the 2001 Cecil B DeMille Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field". The award, voted on by the board of directors of the HFPA will be presented to Pacino at the 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony ...
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Donkis, Fehily team for new LA-based communications firm
Endeavor publicist Michael Donkis is leaving the agency to partner with former PMK/HBH senior vice president Joy Fehily on the new communications firm Prime.Prime will be based in the arts district of Culver City in Los Angeles and will support clients with strategic publicity and communications services. Each year the ...
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IFC Films acquires supernatural thriller The Objective
IFC Films has confirmed its US acquisition of The Blair Witch Project co-creator Daniel Myrick's supernatural thriller The Objective, which premiered at Tribeca 2008.The Objective will open on February 4 through IFC's theatrical and VOD day-and-date distribution platform IFC In Theaters. The Objective will also go through IFC Entertainment's exclusive ...
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Cinetic Rights Management signs content deal with iTunes
Cinetic Media's digital aggregator for independent producers Cinetic Rights Management has signed a deal to make its film and TV content available on iTunes store.Among the feature film programming is Rob Epstein's Oscar-winning documentary The Times Of Harvey Milk, Dave McLaughlin's comedy On Broadway and Randall Sharp's period drama Henry ...
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Latin film market to launch backed by INCAA, Cannes Marche
Liliana Mazure, president of the Argentinian Film Institute (INCAA), and Jerôme Paillard, head of Cannes' Marche du Film, announced this Tuesday in Buenos Aires that the city will host a new film market for Latin American productions. The three-day event will be right after the Mar del Plata Film Festival ...
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Jaman.com to launch first localised site in the UK
Entertainment website Jaman.com has begun its international expansion plan by launching its first localised site in the UK.Former executive vice president and managing director of MySpace and Fox Interactive Media David Fischer, is named managing director of Jaman's UK and international operations.Based in London, Fischer will be responsible for international ...
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IMAX signs digital cinema deal with Russia's Rising Star
IMAX Corp. and Moscow-based Rising Star Media have signed a deal that will see the installation of Russia's first IMAX digital cinema. Rising Star is a joint venture between US exhibitor National Amusements and Soquel Ventures, the leisure investment group run by Paul Heth, credited with revitalizing the Russian cinema ...
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Panorama world premieres include Breillat, Winterbottom, Glawogger
World premieres of new films by Catherine Breillat, Micheal Winterbottom and Michael Glawogger will screen in Berlinale's Panorama section. Catherine Breillat will present her latest work La Barbe Bleue, an exploration of the famous Bluebeard story, Directing team Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross will show a work in progress, The ...