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IFC News Covers indieWIRE Presents: Meet the Film Bloggers

IFC News was on hand at the Apple Store Soho this past December for the monthly event, indieWIRE: Presents - Meet the Film Bloggers, where indieWIRE brought together some of our favorite film bloggers to discuss how they cover movies. The news segment, which is currently airing on The Independent Fi...

Intrepid Pictures Names New Execs for Financing and Development

Intrepid Pictures, the newly formed independent production and film financing company, has named two senior executives in charge of finance and development of all feature film projects for the company's multi-year production and co-financing deal with Rogue Pictures and Universal Pictures. Intrepid principals and founders Trevor Macy and Marc Evans announced today that Jonathan Fischer will serve as CFO and Katherine Brown as VP of development. Fischer will be responsible for all finance, strategic planning, investor relations, and management of Intrepid's revolving senior credit facility led by JP Morgan Chase. Brown will be responsible for ...

H'Wood Reporter: Marilyn Manson playing author in "Wonderland"

Rocker Marilyn Manson will play "Alice in Wonderland" author Lewis Carroll in a movie that also marks his writing and directing debut. Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, is heading to the upcoming Berlin Film Festival's European Film Market to drum up financial support for "Phantasmagoria: The...

"Enron" Wins Writers Guild Screenplay Award

The documentary "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" has won the Writers Guild award for documentary screenplay. The prize recognized writer Alex Gibney, who also produced and directed the film. It came Wednesday, two days into the much-awaited criminal trial of former Enron Corp. executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling in Houston. A jury is to decide whether Lay and Skilling orchestrated the accounting scheme that crashed Enron, once the seventh-largest company in the country, in December 2001. "I'm delighted to get this award," Gibney told The Associated Press after accepting his prize in a ceremony at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood...

New Screen Television Presents Inaugural New Vision Awards

New Screen Television announced the winners of its inaugural New Vision Awards. The awards are presented annually to recognize "outstanding works from the yearly broadcast schedule of New Screen TV." All works broadcast by New Screen TV are automatically eligible and entered in to consideration for the awards. The winners are: Grand Prize for best film "The Adventures of Mad Matt" ($7,500) by Scott Rice (Austin, TX); Best Drama Prize ($2,000) “Stealing Innocence” by Nancy Stein (CA); Best Documentary Prize ($2,000) "Vieques: Worth Every Bit of Struggle" by Mary Patierno (MA); Best Animation Prize (...

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"Fearless" Set for Rogue Release

Rogue Pictures will distribute Jet Li's final martial arts picture, "Fearless," directed by Ronny Yu. It is described by Rogue parent, Focus Features as featuring Li in the role of "real-life martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia, who became the most famous fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. He faced incredible personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness and into history, forever defining himself at a tournament for the honor of his country and the true spirit of martial arts." Action director Yuen Wo Ping choreographed the movie. The film opened last week, timed to the Chinese New Year, in Southeast Asia, C...

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