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  • Film Society of Lincoln Center adds 2 to team

     MUMBAI: Lesli Klainberg and Anne Chaisson have joined the Film Society of Lincoln Center.


    While Klainberg has been brought on as managing director, Chaisson will take up the role of associate director of ‘Corporate Sponsorships’.


    Prior to her new post, Klainberg served as the producer of the 49th New York Film Festival and Executive Director of NewFest (New York‘s LGBT Film Festival). 


    As managing director, Klainberg will continue producing NYFF. For the past three years, she has also served as one of the Lab Leaders of the IFP Documentary Film Lab.


    Incidentally, Chaisson joins the Film Society with over 12 years experience developing and producing independent feature films with her company Dirty Rice Films.

  • Italian filmmaker Moretti to head Cannes jury

    Italian filmmaker Moretti to head Cannes jury

    MUMBAI: Italian film producer, director, screenwriter and actor Nanni Moretti has been appointed President of the Jury of the 65th Cannes Film Festival. He follows Robert De Niro who headed the jury last year.

    Accepting the invitation, Moretti is reported to have said, "This is a real joy, an honour and a tremendous responsibility to preside over the jury of the most prestigious festival of cinematography in the world, a festival that is held in a country where film has always been treated with interest and respect.

    As a director, I was always very moved when my films were presented at the Festival de Cannes. I also have very happy memories of my experience as a jury member during the fiftieth anniversary season, and of the attentiveness and passion that went into the jury’s viewing and discussion of all the films.

    As a spectator, fortunately I still have the same curiosity that I had in my youth and so it is a great privilege for me to embark on this voyage into the world of contemporary international film."

    Incidentally. Moretti has so far presented six films at the Cannes fest including Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope) last year.

    The festival runs from May 16 to 27.
     
     

  • Open Roads to release Side Effects in the US

    Open Roads to release Side Effects in the US

    MUMBAI: Open Road Films has teamed up with Annapurna Pictures to distribute Steven Soderbergh‘s Side Effects in the US, within the first half of 2013.

    “We are thrilled that Steven Soderbergh is bringing his next thriller to Open Road. It is an amazing script from Scott Burns with extremely talented producers,” Open Road‘s Tom Ortenberg has reportedly said.

    Annapurna is financing and producing the film with Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Gregory Jacobs and scripter Scott Z. Burns.

    Casting announcements are expected soon, with Channing Tatum, Blake Lively and Jude Law already on board.

    The film is to be shown at the Berlin Film Festival this February by Filmnation that is the international sales agent of the film.

  • Fox prepones This Means War release

    Fox prepones This Means War release

    MUMBAI: Twentieth Century Fox has preponed the release of McG‘s This Means War. The film, that was to open on February 17 will now open on February 13 hoping to woo couples.

    It is said that the studio decided to move up the release by three days after strong test screenings. “Starting Valentine‘s Day, we‘re making war, not love. We‘re armed and ready with the perfect movie. This is a picture that has it all — humor, charm, wit and action — and it plays through the roof,” Fox president of distribution Bruce Snyder has been quoted to have said.

    In the film starring Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine and Tom Hardy, Pine and Hardy portray the world‘s deadliest CIA operatives, as well as inseparable partners and best friends until they fall for the same woman (Witherspoon) and use their incomparable skills against each other.

    The other Valentine‘s Day offering is Screen Gems‘ drama The Vow starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum.

  • Sean Penn organizes charity for Haiti

    Sean Penn organizes charity for Haiti

    MUMBAI: 51-year-old Sean Penn recently hosted a benefit for the J/P Haitian Relief Organization. The event, called Cinema for Peace, was on the occasion of the second anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti.
     
    Subtitled Help Haiti Home with Sean Penn & Friends, the event was supported by Penn‘s friends that include Bryan Lourd, a partner at CAA; Jeff Robinov, the president of Warner Bros. Pictures Group; Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton and film stars like Demi Moore, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney, Josh Brolin and Diane Lane, James Gandolfini, Hilary Swank, Orlando Bloom, Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts.
     
    Ms. Roberts said that Mr. Penn wrote her a “very long, eloquent letter” inviting her to participate in the evening. “At the end of the letter, he wrote, ‘So, wouldya?‘ How could I say no? You can‘t say no. And this is nothing compared to what Sean does for all these people.”
     
    In one of the more reported moments of the evening, Penn was named an Ambassador-at-Large to the country.

  • Miami fest announces line-up

    Miami fest announces line-up

    MUMBAI: The Miami International Film Festival has announced the lineup for 29th annual event that will go underway on March 2.

    While Tom Gustafson’s Mariachi Gringo starring Shawn Ashmore will open the festival, Chinese Take-Away directed by Sebastián Borensztein will be the closing film on the Awards Night on March 10.

    Among the slate of 100 features are seven world premieres, five international premieres, 10 North American premieres and 10 US premieres. Selected films will represent categories including World Directors, Québec Cinema and modern Cuban life.

    Ten documentaries will compete for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Award, which carries with it a $10,000 grand prize. A recognition of the career of screen veteran Robert Loggia is also scheduled to take place.

    The curtains to the festival will be wrung down on March 11.

  • Cecil B DeMille award for Freeman

    Cecil B DeMille award for Freeman

    MUMBAI: The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards has honoured veteran Morgan Freeman with the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille award for his outstanding contribution to the world of entertainment.

    Freeman, who received a standing ovation from the Hollywood fraternity, was awarded by actor Sidney Poitier. Helen Mirren too came on to share the stage with Freeman and playfully talked about how Freeman has done over 50 films in his career, while doing only one film Red with her.

    Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman, who made his acting debut at the age of nine in a school play, Freeman, who received a standing ovation from the Hollywood fraternity, was awarded by actor Sidney Poitier, who hailed him as “a prince in his profession”.

    Actress Helen Mirren too came on to share the stage with Freeman, and playfully chided about how the actor has done over 50 films in his career, and did only one – Red – with her.

    Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman, who made his acting debut at the age of nine in a school play, won a best actor Golden Globe in 1990 for Driving Miss Daisy and was nominated three more times — for The Shawshank Redemption, Million Dollar Baby, for which he won an Oscar and Invictus.

    The Cecil B. DeMille award winners are chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) board of directors and presented each year.

  • Avatar 2 will release in 2016

    Avatar 2 will release in 2016

    MUMBAI: James Cameron‘s Avatar 2 has reportedly been delayed. The much-awaited film was originally scheduled to release in 2014, but there is news that the Avatar sequel may be pushed back for a 2016 opening.

    It has however been revealed that the new film will showcase advanced technology that includes a higher rate of 3D camera system and the CG and performance capture.

    Way back in October 2010, 20th Century Fox had announced that Avatar 2 would release in December 2014 and Avatar 3 in December 2015.

    Cameron has signed up to return to the director‘s seat and has planned to film the two sequels back-to-back.

    Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver, Avatar released in 2009 and was named the highest grossing film of all time.

  • Spielberg not to helm Jurrasic Park 4

    Spielberg not to helm Jurrasic Park 4

    MUMBAI: Steven Spielberg has said that he will produce the fourth version of Jurassic Park, but won‘t helm it.

    “I don‘t want to talk about ‘Jurassic Park 4‘ yet – it‘s too early – but I can tell you that I‘m not directing it. I‘m producing it though,” the 65-year-old Spielberg bared in an interview.

    The filmmaker helmed 1993 the sci-fi thriller Jurassic Park and its 1997 follow-up The Lost World: Jurassic Park. He also produced ‘Jurassic Park III‘, which was released in 2001.

  • Decendants, The Artist bag best film award at Golden Globes

    Decendants, The Artist bag best film award at Golden Globes

    MUMBAI: Two films have bagged the top three category awards of the 69th Golden Globe awards.
     
    Alexander Payne’s The Descendants has won the Golden Globe award in the Best Motion Picture (Drama) category while Michel Hazanavicius-directed The Artist won the award in the Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) category.
     
    George Clooney won the Best Actor (Drama) for The Descendants. Jean Dujardin took home the Best Actor (Comedy Or Musical) for The Artist.
     
    On the actresses’ front, Meryl Streep won the best actress (Drama) award for Iron Lady and Michelle Williams bagged the best actress (Musical or Comedy) Golden Globe for My Week With Marilyn.
     
    Director Martin Scorsese clinched the best director trophy for Hugo and Woody Allen won the best screenplay Golden Globe for Midnight in Paris.
     
    Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn won the best animated feature while Nader and Simin: A Separation won the best film in the foreign language category.
     
    The 69th Golden Globe awards were announced on Sunday night.