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Paramount signs French home entertainment deal with Gaumont
Paramount Home Entertainment France and Gaumont Video have signed an accord which will see the former release the French major's films in the French DVD sector.Paramount's Luigi-Theo Calabrese said the partnership should allow the duo to 'pass the 10% market share bar for France.' No specific duration was indicated for ...
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I Am Legend
Dir: Francis Lawrence US. 2007. 100mins.Will Smith makes up what is essentially the one-man cast of I Am Legend, a darkly intense sci-fi/horror drama based on the classic Richard Matheson novella and directed, with the same kind of flair he brought to 2005's Constantine, by Francis Lawrence. Genre afficionados should ...
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AAM adds Sony as digital cinema partner in Europe
Arts Alliance Media has recruited another studio for its digital cinema plans: Sony Pictures Releasing International has signed a non-exclusive long-term agreement with the company for digital cinema deployment. This follows on June 2007 AAM pacts with Fox and Universal and an October 2007 deal with Paramount. Sony will supply ...
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Thomson to establish Asian digital cinema hub
Thomson is set to establish its first digital cinema hub in Asia, via its Technicolor Digital Cinema business, in view of the rapid growth for such services in the region's digital media and entertainment industry. With the support of Singapore 's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), the new facility will be ...
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New rules approved on European Audiovisual Media Services
The European Parliament has formally approved the Council's position on the new Audiovisual Media Services Without Frontiers Directive. The Directive promises to modernise the rules governing the sector and provide a comprehensive legal framework covering all services, including on-demand distribution of content.The Directive has been developed to a provide more ...
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The Golden Compass
Dir: Chris Weitz US/UK 118minsA more well-tooled and expertly crafted beginning to a winter franchise is hard to imagine, yet it's this very gleaming perfection that may leave The Golden Compass open to accusations of soullessness and artifice. The perceived Americanisation of the greatest British children's publishing phenomenon since Harry ...
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Discovering Earth: themaking of the BBC epic doc
We used a high-speed digital Photron that can film at 2,000 frames per second to capture the shark leaping out of the water to grab a seal,' explains Earth director Alastair Fothergill. 'The action only lasted a second, but because we stored the image on a laptop computer we were ...
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Prime Focus strikes acquisition deal for Post Logic and Frantic
The Prime Focus Group has moved into the North American market with the acquisition of Post Logic Studios, based in New York and Los Angeles, and Frantic Films VFX, which has offices in Los Angeles, Winnipeg and Vancouver.Financial terms were not disclosed. Prime already has six visual effects and post-production ...
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Indian box office could rise 30% in next five years
Increased investment in the Indian exhibition sector could see the territory's box office gross increase by 30% in the next five years, Dodona Research predicts. The industry analysts found that a strong economy, retail boom and rising middle class disposable incomes in addition to expansions in the downstream exhibition business ...
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Doug Davis joins blinkBox as acquisitions director
Online film and TV company blinkBox Entertainment has appointed Doug Davis as acquisitions director.Davis had been advising the company and is now with blinkBox full time, signing up film and TV partners for the service.He had previously been a TV agent at William Morris in London and had also served ...
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Italy's Mediaset launches new free cinema channel
Italy's Mediaset, the nation's most powerful private network owned by Silvio Berlusconi, is launching Iris: a new, free, digital terrestrial channel to be devoted tofilms and cultural programming.The new channel will go on air November 30 will be under the direction of Miriam Pisani who acted previously as vice director ...
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The Hat Factory to host digital workflow seminar
The Hat Factory, Codex Digital, and Sohonet are hosting a digital event, Production 2.0, on Dec 6, to show producers technologies including digital links between Pinewood Studios and post-production companies in Soho. The free demonstrations will be held at 3 pm and 6 pm. The Production Guild is also supporting ...
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AAM strikes virtual print fee deal for entire CGR chain in France
Arts Alliance Media has signed a digital cinema virtual print fee agreement for 400 screens in France. The deal with Circuit George Raymond (CGR), one of France's largest chains, is an exclusive deal for AAM to deploy digital distribution services on all of the chain's 400 screens throughout France. The ...
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Jude Law appears in Real Time Movie short
Jude Law stars an inventive short film being launched in the UK. Starting Monday, UK cinemas will screen the short film directed by Jason Martin on behalf of Polish artist Pavel Althamer. It will show during trailer presentations, subverting the notion of trailers because the film it promotes doesn't exist. ...
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Switzerland to lead European Audiovisual Observatory in 2008
The European Audiovisual Observatory has announced that Switzerland will hold the group's presidency in 2008.The Strasbourg-based Observatory, which is part of the Council of Europe, elected Switzerland its president as the executive council on Nov 9.The country is represented on the executive council by Frederic Riehl, deputy director of the ...
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Dodona sees 50% digital conversion by 2013, pushed by 3D
Half of the world's cinema screens could be digital by 2013, according to predictions from Dodona Research. A total of 4,627 screens have been converted as of September 2007, representing about 5% of the global total. Dodona analysts estimate that the potential market for digital cinema equipment could be $8bn.Report ...
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Sony signs digital download deal with Videoland and Movie MAX
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed an electronic sell-through deal with two DVD rental companies in Benelux: Videoland and Movie MAX. The deal covers new and library titles from Sony Pictures available for digital download from the companies' online sites in Belgium, Luxemburg and The Netherlands. The service went ...
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Arts Alliance Media's Vizumi adds Metrodome content
UK distributor Metrodome has become the latest content partner for Arts Alliance Media's Vizumi Network. AAM will offer Metrodome titles for download to own for $20 (£9.99) and download to rent for $6 (£2.99) at Vizumi's own site and partner sites Tiscali, LoveFilm, and Empire magazine. Films available at the ...
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Dent and McQueen join new team at Curzon Artificial Eye
London-based exhibitor-distributor Curzon Artificial Eye has appointedLouisa Dent as its new Managing Director. Dent, the former MD of UGCFilms UK, will take up her position full-time from January 2008.Curzon Artificial Eye has also confirmed that Alan McQueen (who formerly ran UK independent distributor Downtown Pictures) has beenrecruited to help increase ...
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India's Yash Raj ventures into full movie downloads
Leading Bollywood studio Yash Raj Films has signed licensing deals with two VoD-enabled web-sites - www.watchindia.tv and www.tinselvision.com - which will offer digital downloads of its back catalogue and more recent films. Viewers outside of India will be able to download the movies and watch them once for a nominal ...