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Pretty Pictures buys French rights to Clubbed from AV
Pretty Pictures has acquired all French-speaking rights to Neil Thompson's Clubbed from AV Pictures.AV has also sold the film for include Australasia (21st Century Pictures), Benelux (European Film Partners), Middle East (Falcon Films), Poland (Vision) and Turkey (Horizon International).The story, set in 1980s clubland, stars Colin Salmon, Mel Raido an ...
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Future Cinema plans Eraserhead/Guillemots event
Future Cinema Live will return to the UK's Latitude Festival by presenting a special event for Guillemots playing an improvised set to David Lynch's Eraserhead.In addition to the band's new live 'score' for the cult classic, there will be a performance by dancers the Chamelion Collective.Psychedelic rock band Invasion will ...
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Germany's SquareOne picks up Descent 2, Tell-Tale
Munich-based German distributor SquareOne Entertainment has announced new additions to its 2008 and 2009 release slate.SquareOne President Al Munteanu revealed that the company's latest acquisitions include Jeffrey Nachmanoff's action thriller Traitor starring Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce and Jeff Daniels, set for a fourth-quarter 2008 release.For 2009 releases, SquareOne has added ...
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The Duchess, Secret Life Of Bees get TIFF gala screenings
Programmers at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have added two gala presentations and seven special presentations to the line-up, as well as 13 additions to the Masters and Contemporary World Cinema strands.The gala screenings are the world premiere of Gina Prince-Bythewood's Southern States family drama Secret Life Of Bees ...
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IMAX pacts with Australia's Hoyts for four new digital systems
IMAX Corporation has secured a deal to install four IMAX theatres in theatres in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney operated by Australian exhibitor Hoyts Cinemas.The agreement marks IMAX Corporation's first international joint venture featuring the new IMAX Digital Theatre System and will double IMAX's footprint in Australia.The partners will share in ...
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Screen International UK Stars Of Tomorrow: Actors 1
THE ACTORS 1Click namefor fullprofileMichelle DockeryOlivia HallinanEdward HoggCharles MneneColin MorganCarey MulliganJack O’ConnellDev PatelKaya Scodelario
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Screen International Stars Of Tomorrow 2008: The Actors 2
THE ACTORS 2Click on name for full profileBen AldridgeOlly AlexanderClaire FoyGeorgia GroomeTom HiddlestonAaron JohnsonScarlett JohnsonGugu Mbatha-RawChristine McKayCharlotte Riley
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Shaye, Lynne form Unique with three-year Warner Bros deal
Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne haven't completely left the Warner Bros fold. Months after New Line Cinema was absorbed into the parent company, the entrepreneurs have resurfaced with Unique Features and have secured a three-year first-look deal at the studio.The Los Angeles and New York-based company aims to produce two ...
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Screen International UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2008: The Film-makers 2
THE FILM-MAKERS 2Click on a name to see profileEsther May CampbellVirginia GilbertHugo Godwin & Sebastian GodwinJane LinfootJeremy LoveringLaura ReesMatthew Walker
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Oz's Pinefilm in line for cash boost
Australian distributor Pinefilm Entertainment is in the final stages of negotiations to merge with an unnamed public company, in a move that will provide it with considerable new cash resources for film acquisitions. Pinefilm managing director Sean Rothsey confirmed the talks but said a non-disclosure agreement prevents him from naming ...
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Screen International UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2008: The Film-makers 1
THE FILM-MAKERS 1Click on a name to see profileDaisy DonovanAndrew HaighMichael LesslieTom MarshallChina Moo-YoungJoseph PierceJanis PughPolly StenhamJustin Trefgarne
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Tommy Gargotta takes top creative advertising job at SPE
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has promoted Tommy Gargotta to president of worldwide creative advertising.Gargotta will report to the studios' co-presidents of worldwide theatrical marketing Valerie Van Galder and Marc Weinstock and will guide the creative marketing team in the creation of posters, commercials, trailers and in-theatre materials.He joined Columbia in ...
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IMAX prepares for its biggest ever launch of The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight will open in 94 North American and 15 international IMAX theatres on July 18, day-and-date with Warner Bros' conventional launch.A further 23 international IMAX sites will accommodate the release in the weeks following the worldwide premiere, which is set to take place on July 14 at the ...
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Hancock set for second weekend at the top in international
Hancock should cross $100m overseas by Friday and Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) top brass expect the picture to begin the serious business of consolidating its early gains this weekend.The superhero saga starring Will Smith stood at $98.7m on Thursday and launches in more than a dozen key markets including ...
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MovieMobz pioneers 'cinema on demand'
Brazilian digitalservice MovieMobz launched this week in Sao Paulo with what it says is the first step towards 'cinema on demand.'Customers will be able to select films from a list of 200 titles currently availablefor screening in participating theatres -although this will expand as the operation takes off.Social networking and ...
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Screen opinion: A lengthening list of demands
Cinema on demand is one of those long-touted ideas that's become a cliche before the fact.The idea of customers taking control of the programme in their local theatres is among the most compelling dreams of digital cinema (though evidently not quite compelling enough to break through the impasse in adoption ...
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In focus - No middle ground for UK indies'
When Tartan Films Distribution went into administration in late June, the rest of the UK independent distribution sector shuddered. International sales agents also winced, especially those handling Asian fare.Tartan's ground-breaking Asia Extreme label brought Japanese, South Korean and Hong Kong movies by directors such as Takashi Miike, Hideo Nakata and ...
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In Focus: Postcard from Edinburgh
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) closed its successful first June edition on June 29, completing the initial stage in its self-proclaimed mission to realise the event as the world's 'premiere festival of discovery'.A traditional fixture in August, the film festival shifted dates to avoid the city's overcrowded festival season ...
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In focus - Audience Award
James Marsh's Man On Wire, a thrilling documentary about Philippe Petit's daring 1974 walk on a tightrope between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, beat off strong competition from Pixar's Wall-E to win Eiff's Standard Life Audience Award. Icon's August release of the film in the UK will ...
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Focus: Countdown To Toronto
Last week Cameron Bailey was in London. This week he is in Paris. Or maybe it is Brussels. Two months out from his September debut, the new co-director of the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) is in screening mode.'It's slightly more impossible than I expected,' he writes from wherever he ...