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Lau lines up internet backer for Kungfu Cyborg
Beijing-based online distribution and video-sharing website Letv.com is joining hands with Hong Kong 's Mei Ah Entertainment to co-produce Jeffrey Lau's sci-fi comedy Kungfu Cyborg Attraction. Shooting of the film started in Ningbo city in China's Zhejiang province on Monday, December 15.Letv.com is the first internet company among China's burgeoning ...
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Mamma Mia!overtakes Titanic as UK's highest grossing movie
Universal Picture's romantic musical comedy Mamma Mia! The Moviehas become the highest grossing movie ever to be released in the UK. It has beaten Titanic which held the record since 1998. To date Mamma Mia! The Moviehas grossed £69, 066, 035 ($132,174,741)as compared with Titanic 's £69,025,646 ($114,375,495*).The record was ...
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Record number of applicants for 2009 Berlinale Talent Campus
A record number of entries have registered for the seventh edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus (BTC) which will be held over six days from February 7-12 during the 2009 Berlin Film Festival.3,834 emerging talents, 500 more than last year, from 128 countries applied for one of the 350 places ...
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The Headless Woman and Aniceto triumph at Argentinian Film Awards
The Argentinian Academy of Film Arts and Science has awarded Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman with three Sur prizes (out of 11 nominations); including best film, best director and best original script in Buenos Aires on Monday.Veteran Leonardo Favio's musical Aniceto won all eight categories in which it was nominated. ...
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US IndiePix forms alliance with UK's Dogwoof
Indiepix, the Internet-based independent film distributor and Dogwoof, the film distributor specialising in Independent Films and world cinema, have formed a distribution alliance. The partnership will enable Indiepix to extend its film distribution to the UK and will provide Dogwoof with a means to distribute its film titles in America.As ...
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Roger Morris to take up role of md at UK's Elstree Studios
Roger Morris is due to take up the role of managing director at Elstree Studios in January 2009. Morris previously worked as managing director of Visions Studios, Teddington Studios and Television for Pinewood and Shepperton.Commenting on his appointment Roger Morris told ScreenDaily 'I'm lookingforward to making Elstree a studio for ...
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AFC to test development scheme with Bennelong
Development agency the Australian Film Commission (AFC) will finally be able to test its "matched" development scheme on Bennelong, an epic tale to be directed by Bill Bennett and set soon after the arrival of Europeans in Australia. The scheme aims to find extra sources of much-needed development cash by ...
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The Film Department to remake Italy's Perfect Man with Chelsom
The Film Department has hired Peter Chelsom to direct The Perfect Man, a remake of Luca Lucini's 2005 comedy L'Uomo Perfetto.Colleen McGuinness is adapting the screenplay about a jealous young woman who hires a male model to lure a woman away from her best friend.Di Novi Pictures is producing the ...
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Adoration, Fifty Dead Men, Before Tomorrow among Canada's Top Ten
Atom Egoyan's Adoration, Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking and Marie-Helène Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu's Sundance 2009 World Cinema competitor Before Tomorrow were among the features selected as Canada's Top Ten for 2008. Organized by the Toronto International Film Festival Group, the eighth annual presentation celebrates the year in ...
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Profile: Arts Alliance Media eyesD-cinema breakthrough
The conversion of the world's cinemas to digitalequipment wasalways much more thana simple upgrade of theatre equipment. The industryhad been built ona single standard - 35mm film- and, for all its glaring inefficiencies, it worked in its own way.What digital cinema proposes is far more challenging as well as considerablymore ...
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49 songs cleared for contention at 81st Academy Awards
Forty-nine songs will vie for the best original song at the 81st Academy Awards on February 22.The original songs and the film in which they appear are listed belowin alphabetical order by song title:Another Way To Die Quantum Of SolaceBarking At The Moon BoltThe Boys Are Back High School Musical ...
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NewsToronto critics pick Wendy And Lucy as Best Film
Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy was Best Picture and the film’s star Michelle Williams earned the Best Actress nod as the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) announced its 2008 honours.
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Australian theatre director Gale Edwards to make her first feature
Accomplished theatre director Gale Edwards, winner of an International Emmy for her filmed version of the Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, is to direct her first feature film. The film, A Heartbeat Away, was one of four financed by Screen Australia. The others are: Being Dead, Lantana director Ray ...
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Allan Hansen is new CEO at Nordisk Film
Allan Hansen is the new CEO of Denmark's Nordisk Film.Hansen has worked in several departments at Nordisk Film since 1989 most recently as director of Nordisk's distribution wing.Hansen takes over from Michael Ritto who has been with the company for nearly three years and is credited with the company's successes ...
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Jamie Brewer promoted to head of sales at Metrodome
Metrodome has promoted Jamie Brewer to the role of Head of Sales where he will oversee home entertainment rental and retail, VOD, New Media and TV sales. Brewer joined Metrodome three months ago to oversee the sales for their budget DVD label In2Film. He joined the distribution company from Fremantle ...
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Six world premieres selected for Berlinale's Generation section
World premieres of new films by Sweden's Fredrik Edfeldt and Germany's Lars Büchel are among the first 13 titles selected for Generation, the Berlinale's section for children and young people. The section is in its first edition under the direction of Maryanne Redpath who succeeded Thomas Hailer earlier this year.The ...
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EIB set to unveil audiovisual fund
Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for Education, Culture and Audiovisual Policy, has announced that the EU's European Investment Bank (EIB) will unveil details of a venture capital fund for film and TV production within the next two weeks.The fund, which was anticipated (ScreenDaily, October 6), will be used to leverage ...
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Christopher Nolan to receive ASC Board Of Governors Award
The Dark Knight director, producer and co-writer Christopher Nolan will receive the American Society Of Cinematographers' Board Of Governors Award during the 23rd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration in Los Angeles on February 15.Nolan's credits include Batman Begins, Memento, The Prestige and Insomnia.'Chris Nolan is infused with talent with ...
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Bruer, Zucker promoted in Sony's global distribution operation
Sony Pictures has consolidated its worldwide theatrical distribution activities and promoted Rory Bruer (pictured) to president of worldwide distribution and named Mark Zucker president of Sony Pictures Releasing International.The move is related to a similar development last year to bring the studio's marketing operations under one roof that was overseen ...
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ITVS International Call 2008 backs five documentaries
Independent Television Service (ITVS) has boarded five projects from its recently completed ITVS International Call 2008 that drew 385 submissions from 74 countries.Since 2005, nearly 100 international programmes including Ari Folman's acclaimed Waltz With Bashir have been supported through ITVS International's Global Perspectives Project and its International Media Development Fund.The ...