reported by William S. Buckley, Jr., CyberScreenwriter.com

Imperia Entertainment announced its award-winning editor William Anderson (?The Truman Show,? ?Fearless?) has finished the final cut of its feature film, ?Say it in Russian.? The film is expected to go to final 35mm print by the end of the year, in time for screenings at key film festivals.

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reported by John Goldstein, CyberScreenwriter.com

Lionsgate has signed an agreement today with Fintage Music to handle all international music sub-publishing for current and upcoming Lionsgate music rights.

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reported by David Miller, CyberScreenwriter.com

Imperia Entertainment, Inc. President James Hergott announced today that the Xyience Training Center in Las Vegas, Nevada will host open auditions for a movie about the sport of mixed martial arts entitled Never Submit on December 16th and 17th beginning at noon each day.

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reported by Robert James, CyberScreenwriter.com

Braving danger, acts of espionage and violent punches in the boxing ring are nothing new for movie heroes James Bond and Rocky Balboa ? portrayed by actors Daniel Craig and Sylvester Stallone in upcoming holiday movies ?Casino Royale? and ?Rocky Balboa.? Yet, while audiences love the action, producers have to be sure their stars don?t go down swinging.

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reported by Jason Miller, CyberScreenwriter.com

Videodetective.com has just launched a new free online game for film buffs to test their movie knowledge called "Beat the Detective." This new and novel game pits 'would be movie sleuths' against Video Detective's vast database of 20,000 streaming trailers to measure just how many movies they can identify in the shortest time.

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reported by Robert James, CyberScreenwriter.com

To truly learn photography you must understand the art of film. Sounds reasonable, right? Unfortunately, it's become nearly impossible. With the influx of digital photography, film cameras are disappearing fast. For Wheaton students interested in photography, finding a film camera has become nearly quixotic. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find a 35 mm film camera in stores these days.

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reported by Jeremy Barns, CyberScreenwriter.com

Letters From Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood?s follow-up to his critically acclaimed World War II drama Flags of Our Fathers, will open domestically in limited release in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco on December 20, 2006. The announcement was made today by Warner Bros. President of Domestic Distribution Dan Fellman.

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reported by Sarah Cooley, CyberScreenwriter.com

Hollywood screenwriting veteran Alan Trustman, writer of award-winning films "The Thomas Crown Affair," "Bullitt," "They Call Me Mr. Tibbs" and more, has returned as lead contributor at MoviesWorthWatching.com. The site offers current reviews on movies worth seeing -- and only movies worth seeing -- as well as features on what script elements make a screenplay commercially successful.

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reported by Jeremy Wilson, CyberScreenwriter.com

Avid Technology, Inc. has launched a video contest in collaboration with MovieMaker Magazine, challenging participants to create a 30-second commercial spot for Avid. Running until December 31, 2006, the contest will award a ?Pro?s Choice? and a ?People?s Choice? winner with all-expenses paid trips to the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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reported by Edward Strong, CyberScreenwriter.com

AOL and Brightcove launched today a distribution service that can enable video publishers to sell high-quality video downloads through the AOL Video portal (http://video.aol.com/) and receive up to 70% of the revenue generated from their sales. The new service promises to expand the distribution options for video publishers and the choices for consumers.

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Arsenal Pictures will distribute "Ghost Adventures," a documentary directed by Artist International clients Zak Bagans and Nick Groff. The documentary follows Bagans and Groff's journey into several famously haunted buildings in the state of Nevada.

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reported by Cal Gervais, CyberScreenwriter.com

Does God care about filmmakers? Christian film critic Greg Wright thinks so. But he also thinks that the Church tends to be more concerned about how films affect families than it is about the people who make movies. To help address the problem, Wright and his wife Jenn, both long-time editors with Hollywood Jesus, have partnered with Gospelcom.net to launch a new website devoted to analysis of films?and to listening to ?the artists who make the films.?

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reported by Dan Wilson, CyberScreenwriter.com

Sundance Channel has acquired all U.S. rights to The Art of Seduction, an anthology of short films about seduction, featuring the work of ten Canadian filmmakers.

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reported by Brian Scott, CyberScreenwriter.com

The Jilted Film Festival ? an event in lower Manhattan for comedy shorts that have been rejected by at least one festival ? is now accepting entries for its third annual film festival to be held in April 2007. Founded by Brooklyn filmmaker Mellini Kantayya, Jilted is presented by the media production company Brooklyn Tree Productions of which Ms. Kantayya is the creator and artistic/managing director.

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reported by Robert James, CyberScreenwriter.com

Jag Mundhra has launched his film production company, Cine Boutique Entertainment U.K. Ltd. (Cine Boutique) to start his next film project "Shoot On Sight." The film "Shoot On Sight" is a suspense drama dealing with the current terrorism attacks in the UK through a London Metropolitan Police Officer of Muslim heritage who must display courage and persevere in his duties in the face of family conflict. The film is slated to start shooting in early January 2007.

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SPOTFLIX, a new independent film website, provides instant access to an exhaustive collection of brand new downloadable independent films (also VODs of top international movies) through DRM protected video streaming technology, as well as a global network for independent filmmakers and festival organizers.

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reported by Donna Abrams, CyberScreenwriter.com

SAW III, the third entry in Lionsgate and Twisted Picture's mercilessly terrifying horror franchise, made bloody hay with Lionsgate box office records to open at #1 this weekend, grossing an estimated $34.3 million in 3,167 theatres, or $10,830 per theatre.

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reported by Jason Miller, CyberScreenwriter.com

TheFilmChair.com, with the permission of filmmaker John C. Lyons, is following the Erie, Pa.-based production of Lyons? nursing home drama ?Schism.? Starting with the screenplay and casting to the location and actors, TheFilmChair.com will provide coverage of the production from start to finish.

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