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Brief: Saville to kick felonious feature goal with Edgerton
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Screen Hub
Thursday 17 May, 2012 (Australia)

Goalpost Pictures, Joel Edgerton, Matthew Saville, international finance, an October shooting date - the Cannes announcement sets up an intriguing mainstream film.

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY - EXECUTIVE PRODUCING COURSES
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (Australia)

For two years now, Victoria University’s Sir Zelman Cowen Centre has offered some highly successful executive producing courses in both Sydney and Melbourne, outputting a bevy of graduates who have done great things within film and television. So who should attend this course, and why? We asked course director Pamela Wilson-Endrina.

Spierig Bros: predestined to return
Yahoo
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (Australia)

Back with a new production, to start next year, through Wolfhound Pictures` Patrick McDonald and Blacklab Entertainment`s Tim McGahan, with international rights now bought by Arclight. Also here.

Shihad: stuck in the middle with you
NZ Herald
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (New Zealand)

Ahead of the premiere of Shihad: Beautiful Machine, the director says he`s not been invited, one of the producers calls him "an autistic genius", and the documentary`s subjects cease to be the focus of the event.

Rights Coup: Australian company exhibits colour film of coronation to the Brits
SMH
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (Australia)

Peter Skillman, from CinemaLive, is putting the only colour film of the 1953 Coronation into a string of British cinemas, as well as the art houses here. We would have figured that audience to be Republican, but maybe sentimentality triumphs post-colonial rage.

News Corp: not fit for UK, on the up in China
Screen Hub
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (New Zealand)

Within a week of the UK`s Leveson enquiry into the phone-hacking scandal declaring Rupert Murdoch “not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company” and the same day former UK boss of News International Rebekah Brooks and six others were charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice, News Corp has taken a 19.9% stake in China`s largest film company, the US-listed Bona Film Group.

Moving: Christchurch to Korea
Screen Hub
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (New Zealand)

Park Ki Yong`s post-earthquake documentary Moving has screened in the CinemaScape strand of the Jeonju International Film Festival in Korea. Park shot the documentary while in NZ on a research fellowship at the University of Auckland.

MPIC: celebrates the year on screen
Screen Hub
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (New Zealand)

The Motion Picture Industry Council of New Zealand (NZMPIC) held its annual convention in Hamilton last week, with distributors giving sneaky peeks to exhibitors and programmers of upcoming fare, and celebrating the achievements of the last 12 months.

Self Published Book: rights fought over
The Bookseller
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (U.K.)

See the dam burst. See producers realise that self-published books can be fought over. See publishers realise they are no longer the gatekeepers. See agents get the work experience kids to read EVERYTHING.

Canada Media Fund: changing guidelines, dealing with financial pressure
Broadcaster Magazine
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (Canada)

$Ca345m gets you a lot of attention from funding nerds. Via the website, you can check the details in the Broadcaster Magazine overview.

MIFF 2012: pinching the sparkly from its home town
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Screen Hub
Tuesday 15 May, 2012 (Australia)

The film which opens a festival is always political. This year, MIFF announces the gala event early, as both Sydney and Melbourne open with Asutralian films.

News Ltd: buying into China, sort of..
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Screen Hub
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (China)

News Ltd has bought a space inside a growing titan of the Chinese film market, but the deal is convoluted enough to give risk-averse investors the horrors. Fortunately, it is small bikkies for the Murdochs.

Ausfilm: Bob McMullan gets the Big Chair
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Screen Hub
Tuesday 15 May, 2012 (Australia)

The Hon Bob McMullan, (Honbob to his friends) takes over from Alaric McAusland as Chair of Ausfilm, a role which has been newly independified.

Gabriel: Shane Abbess` $250K indie feature to get a sequel
Monday 14 May, 2012 (Australia)

Screen Corporation and director Shane Abbess confirmed today, principal photography on the sequel to cult hit Gabriel will commence later this year.

PGA Showcase: Australians tapdance in Culver City
Deadline
Monday 14 May, 2012 (U.S.A.)

Robyn Kershaw and Eva Orner score a useful platform in the US.

Hollywood beckons for Tropfest NZ winner
Monday 14 May, 2012 (New Zealand)

An incredible opportunity to spend five nights in Los Angeles (LA) is the prize being offered to the winning director of the 2012 Tropfest New Zealand short film competition. The first prize package has been put up by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and The New Zealand Federation Against Copyright Theft (NZFACT).

FilmRaro: putting the Cooks on the film map
Screen Hub
Monday 14 May, 2012 (New Zealand)

FilmRaro adds itself to the list of short film competitions offering prizes, creating a more Island Time alternative to next weekend`s V48 Hours, and giving the eight winning teams a busy week in Rarotonga. Drum Productions has launched Film Raro with much loftier intentions than enticing entries by offering winners a trip to an island paradise.

AACTA: entries open with addition of Reality TV Award
Friday 11 May, 2012 (Australia)

The search is on for Australia’s most outstanding film and television performers, practitioners and productions, with the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts today calling for entries for the 2013 AACTA Awards.

News Corp: nice profit despite controversies
Zacks
Friday 11 May, 2012 (Australia)

News Corporation’s quarterly earnings of 37 cents a share was an increase of 42% from 26 cents earned in the equivalent quarter last year.

Roadshow Films: You were destined to die! It was written! What can I say? I flunked the written.
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Screen Hub
Friday 11 May, 2012 (Australia)

Late last month, fans of Joss Whedon (The Avengers, Buffy The Vampire Slayer) went to war with Roadshow Films over its decision to release his comedy-horror feature Cabin In The Woods straight to DVD. Now the film will be released (in a limited fashion) nationally to cinemas.

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