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Kate Winslet to receive award at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Kate Winslet will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Montecito Award on January 23.The five-time Oscar nominee is a contender this awards season for The Reader and Revolutionary Road and receives the award in recognition of her 'series of classic and standout performances.'Her credits include Sense And Sensibility, Quills, ...
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Jerry Lewis to receive Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Jerry Lewis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 81st Academy Awards on February 22.The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is given to an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry.'Jerry is a legendary comedian who has not only brought laughter ...
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Firaaq scoops top honours at Singapore's AFFF
Firaaq, directed by award-winning Indian actress Nandita Das, scooped best film and best screenplay at the Asian Festival of 1stFilms (AFFF) in Singapore on Wednesday night (Dec 10).The film, which looks at the impact of the 2002 riots in Gujarat on ordinary people, also took the Foreign Correspondents Association Purple ...
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Dubai International Film Festival and Market opens
The fifth Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) opens today with Oliver Stone's W ., kicking off a week long programme that includes 181 films, 11 world premieres and runs parallel to the inaugural Dubai Film Market. Dubai Film Market For Ziad Yaghi, director of the Dubai Film Market, the market ...
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Vivendi to break links with News Corp
Vivendi has called off its attempt to establish a long-term alliance with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.Vivendi chief executive Jean-Marie Messier, in an interview with the UK's Financial Times, said that severing the difficult relationship with News Corp would be of benefit to the complicated merger that Vivendi is engineering with ...
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Frost/Nixon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Doubt lead Golden Globe Nominations
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, a co-production between Paramount and Warner Bros, and Frost/Nixon, an Imagine/Working Title production for Universal led the pack in the 66th annual Golden Globe nominations which were announced this morning in Los Angeles. Both films took five nominations each. Benjamin Button, one of the ...
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Entertainment One backtracks on DHX acquisition
Canadian entertainment company Entertainment One (E1) has reversed its planned reverse takeover of Halifax production company DHX Media.Announced in September, the move would have given E1 a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange; E1, financed by the UK-based hedge fund Marwyn, currently has a listing on the LSE's AIM.In a ...
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Roadside Attractions takes US theatrical on Alien Trespass
Roadside Attractions has acquired US theatrical rights to RW Goodwin's homage to 1950s sci-fi alien invasion films, Alien Trespass.The film stars Will & Grace's Eric McCormack in his first leading film role since leaving the series and will receive its world premiere at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival ...
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Roissy Films concludes sales on Martin Provost's Seraphine
Roissy Films has concluded sales on Martin Provost's Seraphine; Arsenal Filmverleih take all rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerlandwith Austria goes to Filmladen releasing Seraphine in Austria and Xenix in Switzerland.Other recent sales on the film, which is based on the life of painter Seraphine de Senlis, include Cineplex in ...
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Tarantino to receive Legend Award at Capri, Hollywood festival
Quentin Tarantino, currently racing to get his wartime action story Inglourious Basterds ready for a Cannes world premiere, will receive the 13th Capri, Hollywood - Honda International Film Festival's Capri Legend Award.'Quentin Tarantino is one of Hollywood's most prolific film-makers, revered and respected by the entertainment industry and movie audiences ...
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Golden Globe nominees respond around the globe
Honourees greeted news of their Golden Globe nominations from locations both exotic and prosaic onThursday in the hours following the dawn nominations announcement in Los Angeles by theHollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).
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Fox's Day The Earth Stood Still set for world takeover
Aliens will rule the world this weekend when Fox International unleashes The Day The Earth Stood Still day-and-date with North America in approximately 90 countries.The sci-fi remake stars Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly and touches down in France, Belgium and Switzerland on December 10 and arrives a day later in ...
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Summit moves US release of Brothers Bloom from Dec to May 2009
Summit Entertainment has pushed back the North American release of Rian Johnson's adventure romance The Brothers Bloom to 2009. The film was originally scheduled for an Oscar-qualifying run in Dec and an expansion on January 16 but has now been moved to a limited opening on May 15 that will ...
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15 UK production companies receive $1,500,000 in Lottery funding
More than $1,500,000 of Lottery moneyis tobeinvested in 15 British film production companies through the UK Film Council's Development Fund. The new initiative is to help producers to develop projects that broaden the quality, range and ambition of films and talent being developed in the UK.Tanya Seghatchian, Head of the ...
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Moodysson's MammothjoinsBouchareb, Potter, Ade, Miller at Berlinale
Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth, with Gael Garcia Bernal, Michelle Williams, and Sophie Nyweide, and world premieres of new films by Sally Potter, Maren Ade, Rebecca Miller and Rachid Bouchareb are among ten titles confirmed so far for the Competition programme of the 2009 Berlinale international film.The four world premieres selected for ...
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Raymond Depardon's La Vie Moderne wins France's Louis Delluc prize
The Louis Delluc prize has gone to Raymond Depardon's La Vie Moderne, it was announced in Paris on Friday.The prestigious Delluc award is given to the best French film of the year by a jury presided over by Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob.La Vie Moderne , a documentary, was ...
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IMAX reorganises management structure
IMAX Corporation is reorganising its management structure with long-time co-chairmen and co-CEOs Brad Wechsler and Richard Gelfond assuming sole title to the respective roles of chairman and CEO.In a release, IMAX said chairman Wechsler will focus on corporate strategy, governance and business development while CEO Gelfond will handle day-to-day responsibilities.The ...
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The Film Workshops International to open training centres in Europe
The Film Workshops International (FWI), a media training company with training centres in the USA, will open new training centres in Europe in 2009.The FWI, established 30 years ago in the USA, has developed one-week workshops for writers, directors, actors, cinematographers, editors and producers to respond to developments in digital ...
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CineMart announces 2009 titles
CineMart, the Rotterdam film festival's co-production market, has announced its 2009 selection.There are 35 titles in all. New projects from established autuers like Zhang Yuan, Rodrigo Moreno and Pablo Stoll nestle alongside films from newcomers.There are animation films (Alois Nebel from the Czech Republic), dark-themed family dramas and thrillers. Confirmed ...
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Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegri to shoot The Food Guide To Love
Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegri will shoot The Food Guide To Love with Spain 's Tornasol Films. They will work with UK producer Kevin Loader and a French co-production partner on the romantic comedy.London born Dominic Harari and his Spanish wife Teresa Pelegri will write and direct the romantic comedy ...