reported by Peter Hillstrand, CyberScreenwriter.com

Two new studies by Dartmouth Medical School pediatrician researchers underscore the significant impact that movies have in influencing teens to smoke. The studies show that movies deliver billions of smoking impressions to American teens; and that even teens outside the U.S. are affected by smoking images in films distributed internationally by American studios.

In a report published in today?s Pediatrics, "Exposure to Movie Smoking Among US Adolescents Aged 10 to 14 Years: A Population Estimate," Dr. James Sargent and his co-authors, researchers at Norris Cotton Cancer Center, used a nationally representative sample of 6,522 U.S. adolescents aged 10-14 years, and assessed their exposure to 534 popular contemporary box-office hits. Three out of four movies (74%) studied contained smoking, for a total of 3,830 smoking images.

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reported by David Hillsboro, CyberScreenwriter.com

Media 8 Entertainment has acquired the rights to EICHMANN for international distribution and will be introducing the film to buyers for the first time at the upcoming Cannes market.

EICHMANN is a powerful historical drama based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, as he is interrogated about his role in Hitler's Third Reich.

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The President of the Cancun International Film Festival and Mayor of Cancun, Mexico, Francisco Alor Quezada announced the dates of the upcoming film festival at a press conference in New York City this afternoon. The film festival will run consecutively over 5 days from November 14th through November 18th, 2007. Dedicated to the discovery and development of Mexican, Latin American and International film, filmmakers and audiences, the Cancun International Film Festival will truly be a "Film Festival for the Americas."

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