Tyler Perry, the recipient of the Visionary Award for filmmaking tonight at Las Vegas' CinemaCon, will continue his partnership with Lionsgate through a multi-year film and home entertainment deal. Partners with Perry since 2005, Lionsgate will release his upcoming "Madea" franchise films and "We Th...
Read More »International Creative Management (ICM) President Chris Silbermann announced today that Lorrie Bartlett, Dar Rollins and Adam Schweitzer will become Co-Heads of Talent. This will centralize the agency's leadership across varied entertainment platforms, including film, television, theater, branding a...
Read More »Balcony Releasing has picked up rights to Greg Jacobs and John Siskel's "Louder Than A Bomb," which it will open in U.S. theaters beginning in late Spring, with a New York roll out slated for May 18. The feature documentary tells the story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare to...
Read More »The films at the Boston Underground Film Festival all compete for the festival's singular award: a vibrating bunny statuette. The award is given to winners from all categories, with this year's recipients being announced Sunday night.
Read More »Chapman University wants to get into the movie business. Its Dodge College of Film and Media Arts has launched a new production and distribution company, Chapman Entertainment, that plans to produce and distribute a slate of five to 10 microbudget films each year.
Read More »Today on indieWIRE "Hanna" gets some love, a recent Oscar-winner opens up about her latest drama and Michigan gets a bad rep.
Read More »The Oberhausen International Short Film Festival is back for its 57th edition with 141 films from 40 different countries to screen across its various competitions. The festival received nearly 6,000 submissions from almost 100 countries this year. Those selected will compete for prizes worth a total...
Read More »Rooftop Films will return to the roofs of Toronto this May to continue their partnership with Hot Docs, North America's biggest documentary film festival. This year, they will be screening three films outdoors on the roof of the London Tap House in downtown Toronto.
Read More »Whole Foods and Silverdocs want to give green filmmakers money. The supermarket chain and film festival have announced the launch of a $50, 000 film production and development grant for filmmakers who are dedicated on making environmentally conscious docs.
Read More »The 2011 New York International Children's Film Festival named its awards winners, with two of the jury selections qualifying for next year's edition of the Academy Awards. "Aurelie Laflamme's Diary" from director Christian Laurence won the prize for Grand Prize Feature, while "Chalk" and "The Littl...
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