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Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country wins Amsterdam top prize
Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country has won the VPRO Joris Ivens Award 2008, the main competition at IDFA (the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam). Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country consists largely of material filmed in secret by a group of reporters during the uprising against ...
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Conn appointed CFO of Universal's International Film Groups
Rowan Conn has been appointed to the newly combined role of chief financial officer for Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) and Universal Pictures International (UPI). He will oversee the financial departments of both the home entertainment and theatrical film businesses outside the US. The position is effective from 1st January ...
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Intermedia expands deal with Outlaw Productions
Indie giant Intermedia has reteamed with Bobby Newmyer and Jeff Silver's Outlaw Productions in a new multi-year output agreement calling for Outlaw to produce two to three major studio films a year. Intermedia will provide production financing and distribute the films internationally while brokering domestic deals on a picture-by-picture basis.The ...
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Linda Agran to receive TV Pioneer Award at LA Women's Showcase
UK TV executive Linda Agran will receive the Television Pioneer Award on Dec 7 at the first ever Women's International Film & Television Showcase in Los Angeles.Agran started her career working in the UK offices of Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros before joing Euston Films, a subsidiary of ...
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First ever Norway-Spain co-production The Frost completes filming
Co-produced by Spanish Alta Realitat and Norwegian Frost Media, The Frost, is a mystical drama inspired by Henrik Ibsen's play Little Eyof. The first feature by Spain's, Ferran Audi, The Frost has an international cast with Sweden's Lars Noren as a screen writer (Details), and Spain's David Omedes as the ...
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Direction for Copenhagen Pix 2009 announced
The focus of the first edition of the Danish film festival Copenhagen Pix will be new industry trends and talents it was announced today. Copenhagen Pix will replace the NATFilm festival and the Copenhagen International Film festival, with its first editionon April 16 - 26 2009.The festival's full programme will ...
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ID opens London office, hires Rupert Fowler as vice president
Well-known UK publicist Rupert Fowler has left London-based agency Public Eye Communications to head up a new London office for US entertainment PR firm ID.Fowler joins ID as vice president after six years at Public Eye where his clients included James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Andrew Garfield, Jamie Parker and others. ...
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Toronto critics launch C$10,000 Canadian film prize
The Toronto Film Critics Association will this year inaugurate the first Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, a C$10,000 ($8,000) prize to be presented to the year’s best Canadian feature as judged by the group. The prize will presented at the 11th annual TFCA dinner on January 6, 2009.‘The TFCA wants ...
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At A Glance: The Media Festival
Screen's sister paper Broadcast gives a video guide to some of the speeches and sessions at the recent Media Festival in Manchester.Click here for more
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SPHE and United Entertainment Korea Co strike distribution alliance
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) and United Entertainment Korea Co Ltd (UEK) have formed a distribution alliance whereby the South Korean company will distribute SPHE titles on DVD and Bu-ray in the territory.UEK sprung from the closure of SPHE's South Korean office and is headed by SPHE's former managing director ...
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here! Films acquires North American rights to Sex Positive
To commemorate World AIDS Day on December 1 here! Films announced it has acquired North American rights to Daryl Wein's documentary Sex Positive.The company plans a March 13 limited theatrical release through sister company Regent Releasing on the film about AIDS activist Richard Berkowitz. Wein and David Oliver Cohen produced.Sex ...
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BVI to handle own, UIP product in Venezuela
Buena Vista International (BVI) plans to set up its own theatrical distribution outfit in Venezuela from January 31, 2001, ending an eight-year sub-distribution deal with leading local distributor, Cines Unidos.In addition, the new outfit will handle titles from Universal, Paramount and DreamWorks following an agreement between The Walt Disney Company, ...
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Farrelly, Wessler produce comedy of shorts for Overture, A Bigger Boat
Peter Farrelly and Charles Wessler will produce a comedy comprised of 24 short films for in a deal announced today by Overture Films and A Bigger Boat Films.The untitled project is described as being in the vein of the 1970s comedy hits Kentucky Fried Movie and Groove Tube and Farrelly ...
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Katzenberg continues rallying cry for 3D cinema growth
3D represents the biggest economic opportunity to the film industry in three decades, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told delegates at the 3D Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles on Monday [December 1].In a typically passionate sermon Katzenberg, Hollywood's 'high priest' of 3D who announced last year that starting in 2009 ...
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Singapore's JCM buys majority share in Japan Digital Contents Trust
Singapore-based investment firm JCM Singapore Pte Ltd is set to purchase a majority share in Japan Digital Contents Trust (JDC), a backer of several local distributors and films such as Hula Girls and Mushi-shi. JDC will issue 247,729 shares valued at $4.14m (Y384.5m) to be bought by Gorgeous Grace Investment, ...
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Shooting Stars laureates to present European Film Awards 2008
Eight former laureates of the Berlin film festival's shooting stars award will present the 2008 EFAs in Copenhagen, including Anamaria Marinca, (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days).The Berlin film festival's Shooting Stars award goes to the best rising European talent of the year.The award was initiated by the European Film ...
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First Australia-Iran film My Tehran For Sale will premiere in Adelaide
With the participation of Bahman Ghobadi (A Time For Drunken Horses), the first collaboration between Australia and Iran My Tehran For Sale will make its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) in February.The film is also the first feature produced by Julie Ryan since collaborating with director Rolf ...
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Taiwanese hitCape No. 7has mainland China release postponed
Originally scheduled for December or January, Taiwanese hit Cape No. 7 has had its mainland China release postponed indefinitely. State-owned distributor China Film Group and Taipei-based Long Shong Entertainment, the company that handles mainland China sales, have confirmed.Also Taiwan's submission to theAcademy Awardsbest foreign-language film category,it is understood thatCape No. ...
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Reviews
Largo Winch
Dir: Jerome Salle. France/Belgium. 2008. 109mins.A fun slice of escapism, neatly packaged for international consumption, Large Winch falls just a sliver short of creating a new action-adventure franchise, although a sequel is apparently at script stage. Lanky French stand-up comic Tomer Sisley isn't conventionally movie-hero rugged as the titular protagonist ...