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Kodak, Shanghai Film & TV build Shanghai multiplex
The Shanghai Film & TV Group and Kodak (China) Ltd are teaming up to open a multiplex - named Kodak CinemaWorld - in Shanghai, China, early next year. The four-screen complex will be located in the Xujiahui Metro Entertainment Centre in the city's commercial district.The multiplex sits alongside a shopping ...
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Quickie Express wins best Indonesian film at JIFFest
Indonesian sex comedy Quickie Express and psychological thriller Fiksi. took top honours at the tenth edition of the Jakarta International Film Festival (JIFFest). A three-member international jury awarded Dimas Djayadiningrat's Quickie Express $2000 as the best Indonesian feature of the past year for 'its mixture of lively irreverent humour expertly ...
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GDC signs VPF deals for Asia with three US studios
GDC Technology has signed separate virtual print fee (VPF) financing deals with three US studios - Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount Pictures International and Universal Pictures International - for the deployment of digital cinema across Asia. Under the terms of the non-exclusive agreements, the three studios will supply Asian exhibitors with ...
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Fuji TV to produce two-part feature of Nodame Cantabile
Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV has announced details of a two-part feature film adaptation of hit television series Nodame Cantabile. Reprising their roles from the TV version, Nodame Cantabile will star Juri Ueno and Hiroshi Tamaki. Hideki Takeuchi, who directed the television series, will also direct both feature films.The story follows ...
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Moget new managing director of Paramount Pictures France
Andrew Cripps, President of Paramount Pictures International, has announced the appointment of Frederic Moget as Managing Director of Paramount Pictures France (PFF). Frederic Moget will move shortly from 20th Fox (France) where he is currently director of the marketing division. Steve Summersby will continue as Acting Managing Director of the ...
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Gianni Amelio is new director of Turin Film Festival
Gianni Amelio will replace Nanni Moretti as artistic director of the Turin Film Festival. Amelio has stepped in to lead Turin's 27th edition in 2009 just four days after Moretti stepped down.Filmmaker Gianni Amelio's credentials include winning Venice's 1998 Golden Lion for the Turin-set period drama The Way We Laughed ...
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Inkheart
Dir. Iain Softley. Ger/UK/US. 2008, 106 mins.A long, long time in the releasing - first it swerved The Golden Compass, then was caught in the New Line merger - fantasy adventure Inkheart chases down the Stardust/Princess Bride audience, with a bit of bibliophile Nim's Island thrown in to the mix. ...
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Aida LiPera joins Visit Films as manager of acquisitions, festivals
Former Edinburgh Film Fest programmer Aida LiPera has joined New York-based Visit Films as manager of acquisitions and festivals.LiPera is a native New Yorker who spent five years in the UK and co-produced Edinburgh's Mirrorball strand, curating a variety of cinemas programmes and live events.In September 2007 she served as ...
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Eastwood to receive Palm Springs career achievement award
Clint Eastwood will receive the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's Career Achievement Award on January 6.Eastwood directed the current awards season contenders are Gran Torino, in which he stars, and Changeling, which stars Angelina Jolie.He will next direct and produce The Human Factor about Nelson's Mandela's first term ...
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Terrorist drama sweeps board at Israeli Oscars
Josef Cedar's Time Of Favour (Hahesder), a topical drama about a paramilitary Jewish organisation that attempts to blow up the El Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, won six prizes at the Israeli Film and TV Academy Awards on Tuesday night, including best film and best script.The Cinema Factory production now automatically ...
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Milk, Happy-Go-Lucky are top picks of New York critics
The New York Film Critics Circle has named Milk its best film of 2008 and honoured that film's Sean Penn and Josh Brolin with the actor and supporting actor awards.Sally Hawkins was named best actress for Happy-Go-Lucky and Penelope Cruz best supporting actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Like Penn, both ...
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Arts Alliance Media gains $56m boost to D-cinema ambitions
Arts Alliance Media's (AAM) ambitions for digital conversion of Europe's cinemas hasreceived a $56m (Euros 43m)boost with the signing of a financing agreement with European services company Econocom and various private investors.The company has also announced a strategic partnership with Arqiva Satellite & Media for the satellite distribution of content.Bothdeals ...
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HandMade makes Hedman head of sales
Fred Hedman has been promoted to head of sales at HandMade Films International. Hedman, who has been with the company for six years, will oversee the company's sales operation alongside chairman, Guy Collins, and Marketing Director, Amanda Kenyon.The company has a busy schedule for next year with projects including Eloise ...
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High-street recession bites backat UK DVD sales
A high street retail crisis in the UK has crashed into what was shaping up to be a bumper holiday season for distributors.UK film distributors were preparing to release DVD titles such as Mamma Mia!-The Movie, Hancock, Wall-E, The Dark Knight, Wanted and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.Mamma Mia! ...
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SXSW winning shorts to qualify for Academy Award consideration
Winning short films at the South By Southwest Film Festival will qualify for consideration in the Oscar short films category.The winners will qualify without the standard theatrical run provided the film otherwise complies with Academy rules.The final deadline to submit a film for the 2009 South By Southwest Film Festival ...
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Fox, Khanna to receive IFFLA Industry Leadership Awards
Warner Bros International executive vice president Richard Fox and Reliance BIG Entertainment chairman Amit Khanna will receive the 7th Annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles' Industry Leadership Awards.Fox heads up all of the studio's non-US initiatives across all sectors of the entertainment industry.Khanna's Reliance BIG Entertainment is the media ...
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Kate Winslet to receive award at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Kate Winslet will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Montecito Award on January 23.The five-time Oscar nominee is a contender this awards season for The Reader and Revolutionary Road and receives the award in recognition of her 'series of classic and standout performances.'Her credits include Sense And Sensibility, Quills, ...
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Jerry Lewis to receive Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Jerry Lewis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 81st Academy Awards on February 22.The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is given to an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry.'Jerry is a legendary comedian who has not only brought laughter ...