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Bacon & Eggs, Chickflicks fry up Coyote
UK production outfit Bacon & Eggs Productions is co-producing its first feature - a comic horror film called Coyote - with Chickflicks, the US production company founded by Sara Risher and being bankrolled by New Line Cinema, where Bacon & Eggs enjoys a first-look deal.Bacon & Eggs and Chickflicks will ...
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UPI celebrates as Mamma Mia! stays top and passes $350m
Mamma Mia! swept past $350m as yet another dominant display saw Universal's musical adaptation exceed last weekend's gross by 1% and take an estimated $15.3m from 4,562 sites in 48 territories through UPI to raise the international running total to $356.4m.Combined with the $142.2m domestic gross the worldwide figure stands ...
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Second 'Brit List' highlights year's best unproduced scripts
The second annual 'Brit List', which lists the most liked and recommended unproduced screenplays in the UK and Ireland, has begun circulated across the local film community.Compiled from a survey of 40 producers, acquisitions executives, agents, sales agents and public funders, the list is intended to echo the success of ...
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DiLorenzo named evp of strategy and business development at FFE
Marc DiLorenzo has been named executive vice president of strategy and business development for Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE).DiLorenzo will take an active role in extending the brand of FFE properties into digital and other revenue channels both inside and outside the studio. He will also oversee deal analyses for all ...
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Eagle Eye lifts Sept box office in North America with $29.2m opening
The paranoia thriller Eagle Eye starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan stormed to the top of the charts over the weekend, grossing an estimated $29.2m and helping overall box office climb 12.3% against the same weekend last year.Overall ticket sales amounted to $102m compared to $90.8m in the same weekend ...
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Hollywood mourns passing of screen legend Paul Newman
Tributes have poured in all weekend for Paul Newman, who died at his farmhouse home near Westport, Connecticut, on Friday [September 26] following a long fight against cancer. He was 83.'There is a point where feelings go beyond words,' Robert Redford, a longtime friend who famously starred alongside Newman in ...
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Rudin & Weinstein announce that The Reader will be released in 2008
Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin appear to have buried their differences over Stephen Daldry's Oscar contender The Reader starring Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet as The Weinstein Company announced it will release the film in North America on December 12.The move ends debate over whether the drama would get a ...
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International sales for Chinese Lala's Gun picked up by Three Dots
Taipei-based Three Dots Entertainment picked up international sales rights to Chinese director Ning Jingwu's Lala's Gun, at the annual Beijing Screenings held last week.The deal marks the first time that Three Dotsis handlinginternational sales for a film directed by a mainland Chinese filmmaker.Three Dots follows Peggy Chiao's Arclight Films as ...
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Dir Raja Gosnell. US. 2008. 86mins.Disney's Beverly Hills Chihuahua is amediocre family comedy, mixing cute banter between CGI-enhanced talking pooches with message-laden adventure and a dollop of travelogue. But while it doesn't work particularly well on any of those levels, it is a colourful addition to the always popular talking ...
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Entertainment One plans North American stock exchange listing
Multi-national content company Entertainment One (E1) is planning a reverse takeover of Canadian television producer and distributor DHX Media, a move that will give E1 a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange. E1 currently trades on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), a sub-market of the London bourse.E1 CEO Darren Throop ...
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HOT joins bidding for Murdoch's TM3
Munich-based home shopping network HOT Networks is in talks to acquire a majority stake in German broadcaster TM3, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Kirch Media was previously seen as a front-runner to buy the channel which has less than a 3% share of the German market.HOT is part-owned by ...
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Reliance subsidiary signs video deal with Paramount
India's Big Music & Home Entertainment, owned by Reliance ADAG group, has entered into a video licensing deal with Paramount Home Entertainment for library titles from Paramount and DreamWorks in India and Sri Lanka. Titles included in the deal include classics such as the Godfather films, The Ten Commandments and ...
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Empty Nest (El Nido Vacio)
Dir: Daniel Burman. Argentina-Spain-France-Italy. 2008. 90mins.A quietly humorous study of the late-life crisis afflicting a no longer young married couple, Empty Nest represents a return to form for Argentinian director Daniel Burman after the humdrum Family Law. Already big in Argentina - where it notched up 150,000 admissions in its ...
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Four festival favourites nominated for European Film Award
The directors of Hunger, Snijeg, Tatil Kitabit and Tulpan have been nominated for a European Film award. The European Discovery award is given to a young, upcoming director for a first full-length feature film.Steve McQueen has been nominated for Hunger, which covers the events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike ...
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Asia Film Finance: The world turns East
From an investor's point of view, the East Asian film industry is an exciting story: large markets across the region, lower production costs relative to the US and Europe, and the major growth engine of China, where box office has quadrupled to $459m in five years. Due to the rising ...
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Paramount signs to handle worldwide on next five Marvel films
Buoyed by the $574m global success of the sumer tentpole Iron Man, Paramount Pictures has signed a deal to handle worldwide distribution on the next five films from Marvel Studios.The deal extends the original agreement between Paramount chairman and CEO Brad Grey and Marvel and covers territories previously served by ...
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Heaven On Earth to open eighth MIAAC Film Festival in New York
Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth will open the eighth Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival in New York on November 5 while Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is the centerpiece screening and Sooni Taraporevala's Little Zizou will close the event on November 9.Heaven On Earth references Indian mythology and magical ...
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Global Film Initiative has Getting Home, Mutum in 2009 series
The Global Film Initiative has announced its Global Lens 2009 series of touring films, a typically cosmopolitan selection that features entries from as far afield as Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Macedonia and Mozambique.The series includes three North American premieres for Nan Triveni Achnas' Indonesian drama about a struggling prostitute The Photograph, Teresa ...
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Japan's Toy-be changes names, launches Singapore co-production
Japanese film and media company Toy-be Entertainment is being renamed and relaunched as Adways Entertainment Co, following a capital alliance with Tokyo-listed mobile and internet advertising agency Adways Group in August. Adways Entertainment has also announced the first project for its 2008/2009 slate, which is a Japan-Singapore co-production tentatively titled ...