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Ratings: Thursday 23rd May 2013
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Oztam
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

Lots of neck and neck, in two clusters. You know what they are.

AFTRS: two $50,000 creative fellowships awarded
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

The AFTRS Creative Fellowship - a unique offering designed to fund daring and adventurous projects from talented individuals – has this year been awarded to two emerging filmmakers.

Ruby Entertainment: ABC puts Secret River into development
Screen Hub
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

The ABC has announced that it is committing to the development of Ruby Entertainment`s The Secret River, with Jan Sardi on board to write, and Fred Schepsi to direct.

St Kilda Film Festival 2013: lit blue paper, retired and blasted upwards
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Screen Hub
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

The St Kilda Film Festival was well launched last night to starry skies and flitting lasered Air Asia signs on the facade of the Palais Dream Palace. This version was pretty well spot on.

Sydney Film Festival: Hugo Weaving heads official jury
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

Sydney Film Festival is proud to announce this year’s internationally acclaimed award-winning jury, featuring Jury President Hugo Weaving and international filmmakers Anand Gandhi (India) and Pia Marais (Sweden/South Africa), film critic and curator Paolo Bertolin (Italy) and Australian producer Kath Shelper.

Women in Film: crunching the numbers is a good place to start
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Screen Hub
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

Former 20th Century Fox executive, producer of What Women Want, and once-supervising executive on a little movie called Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Susan Cartsonis takes a long look at the financial reasons to have more women in the industry.

Cannes 2013: The Australian impact on Cannes - honestly
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Screen Hub
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

The industry may think a film is Australian because our mob made it for an international market, but the festival audience at Cannes wants something genuinely Australian. A reasonable demand, says Tara Judah, in her film critic mode. Aren`t we in the business of depicting ourselves? Cue opportunities for irony..

Gambling: bookmakers turn on Waterhouse, broadcasters
The Age
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

Australia`s two largest bookmakers, Tabcorp and Sportingbet, have come out in support of a ban on the spruiking of live betting odds during televised sport.

Nine: major shareholders want Cricket rights dropped
Adelaide Now
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

Oaktree Capital and Apollo Management have advised Nine that they would prefer the broadcaster to let Ten have the Cricket Australia broadcast rights, rather than shell out the $500 million required to match the bid.

Seven: gets rights to English football demonstration matches
Screen Hub
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

Seven West Media has reportedly bought the Australian broadcast rights for two demonstration soccer matches featuring Manchester United and Liverpool, which are set to be played in Australia.

Palace Cinemas: partnership with Honda continues
Honda
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

Honda Australia has today announced their partnership with Palace Cinemas will continue for a third consecutive year.

Lionsgate: sated with US$250 million in Cannes sales
Biz Journals
Friday 24 May, 2013 (U.S.A.)

Lionsgate has announced US$250 million in film sales at Cannes. Hunger Games for some, cash cow for others.

NIDA: Jennifer Bott replaces Malcolm Long as chair
Screen Hub
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

Jennifer Bott has been newly appointed as Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) taking the place of her predecessor Malcolm Long AM, the former head of SBS and the AFTRS.

Kim Dotcom: offers to let someone else sue Twitter for his patent
TorrentFreak
Friday 24 May, 2013 (New Zealand)

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is currently in a $50 million legal battle with the US government, and has come up with a new twist. He owns the patent for the two-step authentication process used by Google, Twitter and others. He won`t sue them, but he has put the patent up for sale...

Chris Lilley: catches WA minister with someone else`s pants down
WPRI
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

Well, not really Chris Lilley, but he did popularize the whole concept of "sneaky nuts" which are currently tangling WA Education Minister Peter Collins` knickers.

Shine Australia: slims down and tones up with partnership deals
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Screen Hub
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

It would never have happened in the halcyon days when ACP Magazines were safely in the stable alongside the Nine Network, but with Bauer Media now firmly in the saddle, Ten and Shine Australia have done a publishing deal for MasterChef. And then there`s Biggest Loser weight loss retreat...

Vivid Sydney: Screen Australia and Screen NSW colonise ideas festival with conundrums
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Screen Hub
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

On May 29th: What to do about the gender imbalance in film and television directing? What does it mean for audiences, who are mostly female? And on June 3rd: what is happening with Youtube? What does user-generated content do for the professional creator?

Gone With The Wind: took US$3.3 billion (adjusted for ticket prices)
Deseret News
Friday 24 May, 2013 (U.S.A.)

A bit of serious fun that reveals what 1939s Gone With The Wind would have made at the box office if they`d charged current US ticket prices.

Twitter: targeting ads to the ads you saw on TV
Business Insider
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

33 per cent of Twitter users tweet about television shows. Now Twitter will know which ads aired during those shows, and repeat those ads to its own users.

Microsoft: new Xbox One made for television
The Australian
Friday 24 May, 2013 (Australia)

"The new Kinect motion detector, which will come as a standard feature of the Xbox One, can detect whether a person watching TV is appearing happy or distracted and determine their heart rate."

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