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StudioCanal completes acquisition of Germany's Kinowelt
StudioCanal has announced the completion of its 100% acquisition of German distributor Kinowelt. Speculation on the move had reached fever pitch last week when a Leipzig-based daily reported that the long-rumoured deal was imminent.StudioCanal signed the acquisition contract on Wednesday with Michael and Rainer Kolmel, owners of Kinowelt. In a ...
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Supporting cast lined up for Kevin Smith's latest at TWC
Craig Robinson, Traci Lords, Katie Morgan, Ricky Mabe, Jeff Anderson and Jason Mewes have joined Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks on The Weinstein Company's (TWC) Zack & Miri Make A Porno, which begins principal production in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Jan 16.Smith wrote and is directing the film, which stars Rogen ...
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Japan's IMJ, Dub Incset up production label Smoke
IMJ Group subsidiary, IMJ Entertainment (IMJE), has established a feature film and visual contents company as a 50:50 joint venture with film and TV producer Dub Inc. The new company, Smoke, will be headed by Dub CEO Yasushi Utagawa, who will serve as producer on feature films developed under the ...
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Mad Money
Dir: Callie Khouri. US. 2007. 104 mins.A relentlessly upbeat all-women heist comedy along the lines of How To Beat The High Cost Of Living and Fun With Dick And Jane, Mad Money is inoffensive star-driven entertainment which might capture the imagination of female audiences in theatres, before heading for a ...
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Shot In Bombay
Dir: Liz Mermin, UK/US 2007. 99mins.Fact proves racier than fiction in Shot In Bombay, Liz Mermin's documentary on the filming of a Bollywood action movie based on true events. The film in question is Shootout At Lokhandwala, director Apoorva Lakhia's 2007 thriller inspired by a real-life Mumbai gun battle between ...
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Iain Smith plans $20m rugby drama The Originals
UK-based producer Iain Smith (Cold Mountain, Children Of Men) is in advanced development on The Originals, a Chariots Of Fire-style drama about the exploits of the famous 1905 New Zealand All Black rugby team during their tour of Great Britain. The team was known as 'The Originals.'Mark Joffe is to ...
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Maike Haas rejoins Sony in international production unit
Maike Haas has returned to Sony following an eight-year stint at Buena Vista International Germany and has been named vice president of international production, Europe, for Sony Pictures Entertainment's International Motion Picture Production division.Haas will oversee European operations from Berlin and identify and develop projects with a focus on German-language ...
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Luc Besson partners on $17m environmental Boomerang project
Luc Besson has partnered with photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and luxury brands group PPR for a $17m (Euros 11.5m) film project provisionally entitled Boomerang. The film is set to be released on June 5, 2009 to coincide with World Environment Day.EuropaCorp will distribute the film on a worldwide day-and-date release and ...
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Paz Vega steps in to star with Baker in Not Forgotten
Paz Vega has replaced Jordana Brewster opposite Simon Baker in thesupernatural thriller Not Forgotten to be directed by Dror Soref.Donald Zuckerman and Soref are producing the story steeped in Latinomysticism about a young couple forced to confront their tortured pastsin order to save their missing daughter. Production is set to ...
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Losey wraps shoot for debut thriller The Hide
Director Marek Losey has wrapped principal photography on his debut feature, thriller The Hide.The Poisson Rouge Pictures and Solution Films thriller shot at Pinewood and on location in the Southeast of England in November and December 2007.The film, written by Tim Whitnall based on his stage play The Sociable Plover, ...
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High Point to take on sales for Abrahamson's Prosperity project
Irish director Lenny Abrahamson has followed his Cannes Director's Fortnight hit Garage with Prosperity, a series of four related 'mini features' for Irish TV broadcaster RTE.High Point Media Group has taken on international rights to the project, and plans to launch it at Berlin's European Film Market rather than at ...
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French director Gilles Behat to shoot $10.4m thriller with Depardieu
MK2 has announced a $10.4m (Euros 7m) film from director Gilles Behat starring Gerard Depardieu and Olivier Marchal. Diamond 13 will begin shooting in February in Belgium and is expected to be released by MK2 in the autumn of 2008.Also starring Valeria Golino and Aissa Maiga, the thriller is adapted ...
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Dutch producers IDTV Film and Motel Films join forces
Dutch film- and television production companies Motel Films & IDTV Film have joined forces. From January 1st, two parties continued together under the name of IDTV Film.IDTV will also house its drama activities in IDTV Film. Motel Films chairmen Jeroen Beker and Frans van Gestel had concluded that in order ...
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Bae TV series set for Korean theatrical release
Korea's most expensive television series, Taewangsashin-gi, aka The Four Guardian Gods Of The King, featuring Korean Wave mega-star Bae Yong-joon, is due to hit local theatres in May. The announcement from producer Kim Jong-hak follows on the heels of the TV drama's theatrical release in Japan on 10 screens nationwide, ...
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Roger Beck leaves Technicolor for Ascent Media UK
Roger Beck has joined Ascent Media Group as the director of film services, a new position based in London.He will manage the film operations at Soho Images and Todd-AO.Beck had been CEO of Technicolor Creative Services and is also a veteran of Deluxe, Thames Television, Granada and Vidfilm Europe.Santa Monica, ...
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McCormick promoted to president of production at Warner Bros
Kevin McCormick has been promoted to president of production at Warner Bros Pictures and will assume daily oversight of the studio's creative team and film development and production.McCormick will continue to supervise the company's New York and London offices and reports to Warner Bros Pictures Group president Jeff Robinov. Warner ...
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J.A. Media unveils cast of Tsui Hark romantic comedy
Mainland Chinese actresses Zhou Xun and Zhang Yuqi and Taiwan's Gui Lunmei will star in Tsui Hark's upcoming romantic comedy She Ain't Mean, which will be the first production this year from Beijing-based J.A. Media. At a press conference held today in Beijing, Tsui said the film will start shooting ...
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Schreiber to head Power's new home entertainment division
UK production company Power has launched a new home entertainment division. Andy Schreiber, founder and president of Los Angeles-based Forward Marketing International, will relocate to London to join Power as senior VP, Power Home Entertainment.Schreiber will be launching a Power Home Entertainment label in selected markets and selling to all ...
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Max Von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood join Solomon Kane cast
Max Von Sydow, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Alice Krige and Mackenzie Crook have joined the cast of Solomon Kane, which as previously reported will star James Purefoy.Michael J Bassett will direct the Davis Film project from his own script. Samuel Hadida for Davis Films will produce with Paul Berrow's Epic ...
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Amalric, Kurylenko and Arterton join Craig in Bond 22
Principal photography has begun at Pinewood Studios in the UK on Eon Productions, Sony Pictures Entertainment and MGM's Bond 22.Marc Forster directs and Daniel Craig reprises his role as 007 in the film following his acclaimed debut in the global smash Casino Royale, which launched in 2006 and is the ...