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NewsHarry Potter nears $500m mark; The Hangover crosses $100m
Warner Bros Pictures International continues to stir up magic with Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, which made an estimated $42.7m on 13,200 screens in 64 markets this weekend.
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NewsFunny People gets off to slow start in lacklustre domestic weekend
Funny People was not quite funny enough to inspire the US box office to a stellar weekend - the new Judd Apatow comedy/drama, starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen, was top of the chart with an estimated $23.4m.
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NewsLA Shorts Fest honours 8th Samurai, Alma, Hotel, Bouttenniere
The LA Shorts Fest has announced the winners from its 2009 edition, with Justin Ambrosino’s The 8th Samurai taking the Best of the Fest prize.
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NewsGerman sales companies snap up Locarno titles
Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique has picked up international distribution rights to the Great Britain-France-Germany co-production She, a Chinese, the feature film debut of novelist and documentary maker Xiaolu Guo.
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NewsTill calls for piracy to be tackled as he bows out as UKFC Chair
Outgoing UK Film Council chairman Stewart Till cites piracy and the need to create a sustainable film industry as the two biggest challenges facing his successor Tim Bevan.
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NewsTaylor Hackford replaces Apted as DGA president
Taylor Hackford has been elected as president of the Directors Guild Of America (DGA), succeeding Michael Apted. He ran unopposed for the two-year term.
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NewsTessa Ross joins Screenwriters' Festival line up
Tessa Ross, head of Film4, and an executive producer of Slumdog Millionaire has joined this year’s International Screenwriters’ Festival line up.
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NewsFilm4 Somerset House series to welcome Almodovar, Cruz, Frears, Hurt
The fifth-annual Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House will welcome guests including Pedro Almodovar and Penelope Cruz.
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NewsEight new London boroughs eligible for Film London’s film fund
Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Film London have launched this year’s London Borough Film Fund Challenge, which includes new the new Film London in 90 Seconds.
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NewsBeeban Kidron skips out on Hippie Hippie Shake
Hippie Hippie Shake director Beeban Kidron has left the project, now in post-production, because of ‘creative differences’ in editing with the production company, Working Title.
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NewsWarner set for second weekend of Potter magic as Universal expands Public Enemies
New moves internationally are largely quiet this week as Harry Potter continues his worldwide domination for Warner Bros International - building on the record international opening weekend of $236m.
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NewsFocus teams up with Quad on French rom-com Heartbreaker
Focus Features International and Quad will co-produce French-language romantic comedy Heartbreaker
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NewsKaleidoscope signs first look deal with Instinctive Film
London-based Kaleidoscope Entertainment has struck a deal with Berlin-based Instinctive Film for the UK distributor to release a slate of genre projects to be produced by Instinctive out of a new studio set up in Eastern Europe.
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News$1.6 million content fund launched for northeast England
Regional screen agency Northern Film & Media is launching a new $1.6m (£1m) content fund for film, TV, games, interactive media and music.The North East Content Fund has earmarked $165,000 (£100,000) for film development, with a further $330,000 (£200,000) of the fund aimed at film production. It is the agency’s ...
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Myriad Pictures names Kevin Forester CFO
Myriad Pictures president and CEO Kirk D’Amico has promoted Kevin Forester to chief financial officer, effective immediately.
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Online service rates DVDs for parents
The Irish Film Classification Office (Ifco) has launched a new scheme that allows parents to check the content of films before this children buy or rent it on DVD.
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NewsShadow arts minister backs UK Film Council
Ed Vaizey, the shadow arts minister, has come out in support of the UK Film Council just weeks after Conservative leader David Cameron called for unelected quangos to be scaled back to save money.
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NewsTim Kwok's Convergence readies Gungrave, Lone Wolf for big screen
Tim Kwok’s Beverly Hills and Asia-based Convergence Entertainment has secured feature rights to the pop culture properties Gungrave and Lone Wolf.Kwok plans to produce both as live-action features in the $30-35m range, with Gungrave set to go into production next year followed by Lone Wolf. Convergence will tap into financing ...
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NewsSam Worthington joins Summit's Danish thriller remake The Candidate
Summit Entertainment has acquired remake rights to Kasper Barfoed’s Danish thriller The Candidate (Kandidaten) with Sam Worthington attached to star.Beau Willimon will write the screenplay about an aspiring lawyer who tries to escape a blackmail plot after he wakes up in a hotel room and finds the woman he met ...
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NewsValhalla, Platinum, Top Cow hire Ryuhei Kitamura to direct Magdalena
Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Motion Pictures, Platinum Studios and Top Cow Productions have attached Ryuhei Kitamura to direct and Holly Brix to write Magdalena.