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$10.8m Italy-Canada co-productionof true life death row story
Italian production company Just Us Production will team with Canada's Caramel Films Production on a $10.8m (Euros 8.5m) English language Italy-Canada co-production. Based on a true-life death penalty story, the film has the working title Just Us Derek Rocco Barnabei. It will shoot in both Tuscany and Canada from July ...
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Award winning Burma VJ picked up by Oscilloscope and Dogwoof
Zurich-based sales agent First Hand Films has concluded deals for the UK and US for Anders Ostergaard's award-winning festival favourite Burma VJ - Reporting From A Closed Country with Dogwoof for the UK and Oscilloscope Laboratories for the US.The US deal was negotiated by Josh Braun of Submarine and Esther ...
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Archibald Enterprise Film picks up The Milk Of Sorrow for Italy
Independent Italian distributor Archibald Enterprise Film has picked up Claudia Llosa's Berlin Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow from German sales agent The Match Factory. In a separate deal, Milan-based Officine Ubu has taken distribution rights to Michael Winterbottom's drama Genova from HanWay. Genova stars Colin Firth as an ...
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Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth to open Tongues on Fire Film Festival
The eleventh edition of the Tongues On Fire Film Festival opens with Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth starring Preity Zinta at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) on March 6 2009. Heaven On Earth deals with the issues of immigration, isolation and domestic violation. The screening is ...
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Menon, Keenan launch India-US consultancy Nuclear Mango
Hot on the heels of the Academy Awards and commercial success of Slumdog Millionaire, Bollywood producer Govind Menon and US independent executive William Keenan have launched the Indian-US production consultancy Nuclear Mango.Based in Los Angeles, New York and Mumbai, Nuclear Mango's core business will be the strategic packaging of creative, ...
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Cast lined up for African American version of Death At A Funeral
Screen Gems, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Chris Rock have rounded out the cast on their American remake of the 2007 UK film Death At A Funeral.Joining Rock, who is starring, producing and co-writing the screenplay, are Loretta Devine, Ron Glass, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Martin Lawrence, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, ...
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Village blames weak results on exhibition arm
Village Roadshow Ltd (VRL) chairman John Kirby has told shareholders that the company's unsatisfactory profits in the last two to three years are entirely due to the exhibition arm of the business, most recently because of a downturn in film quality. Speaking at the company's annual general meeting last week, ...
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Ursula Meier's Home is big winner at Swiss Film Prizes
Ursula Meier's Home was the big winner at this year's ceremony for the Swiss Film Prizes which were presented for the first time in a gala event in Lucerne on Saturday evening (March 7).Meier's film, which had its world premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival and is represented internationally ...
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Antoniazzi's Small Fish to open Austria's Diagonale
Marco Antoniazzi's feature debut Small Fish (Kleine Fische) will open this year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema (March 17-22) in the Styrian capital of Graz.This will be the first edition of the annual showcase of Austrian cinema under the new artistic director Barbara Pichler after she took over the ...
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Fellini screenwriter Tullio Pinelli dies aged 100
Screenwriter Tullio Pinelli who co-wrote a string of FedericoFellini's greatest works including Oscar awarded films The Road (La Strada), Nights of Cabiria and 8 ½ has died in Rome at the age of 100.Pinelli would have turned 101-years-old in June and was the lastsurvivor of the group of four writers ...
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Romanian CNC awards $4.4m in funding
The Romanian National Film Centre (CNC) has announced approximately $4.4m in funding for film projects and productions, including $3.3m for feature film production.The single largest grant was $405,000 for Tuesday After Christmas by Radu Muntean (Boogie, The Paper Will Be Blue). Producer Multimedia Est presented the project at Rotterdam's CineMart ...
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Zelenka's The Karamazovs named Best Film at Czech Lions
Petr Zelenkawas the big winner at this year's Czech academy awards, taking home three Lions for his film The Karamazovs at the March 7 ceremony. In addition to winning Best Film and Best Director, the adaptation of Dostoevsky's play was also named Best Feature by Czech film critics.The Karamazovs was ...
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Revolver picks up rights to Star Wreck
Revolver Entertainment has picked up Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning from Finnish producer Blind Spot Films for distribution in the UK and US.Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning, originally produced by a group of Tampere-based filmmakers as a micro-budget sci-fi comedy for the internet community, has become the most-watched Finnish film ...
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Watchmen performs well, but not as well as 300, in domestic opening
As expected Watchmen dominated the North American charts at the weekend with an estimated $55.7m launch through Warner Bros that fell short of expectations but nonetheless secured with ease the biggest weekend debut of the year-to-date.The haul for the R-rated movie included a $5.5m tally from 124 IMAX theatres that ...
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China's Top 10 International Films 2008
CHINA TOP 10 INTERNATIONAL FILMS 2008Title (origin) distributorsgross1.Kung Fu Panda (US) China Film Group (CFG)/Huaxia/DreamWorks$26.4m (RMB180.5m)2.Quantum Of Solace (US-UK) CFG/Huaxia/DreamWorks$22.3m (RMB152m)3.Iron Man (US) CFG/Paramount$15.5m (RMB105.9m)4.Hancock (US) CFG/Huaxia/Sony$14.8m (RMB101m)5.The Chronicles Of Narnia: PrinceCaspian (US) CFG/Huaxia/WDSMPI$12.6m (RMB86m)6.10,000 BC (US) CFG/Warner Bros$11.1m (RMB76m)7.Wanted (US) CFG/Universal$10.7m (RMB73m)8.National Treasure: Book Of Secrets (US) CFG/Huaxia/WDSMPI$10.2m (RMB69.7m)9.Journey ...
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China At A Glance
CHINA AT A GLANCETotal box office 2008: $616.3m (RMB4.215bn)Total box office for Chinese films 2008: $374.8m (RMB2.563bn)Total box office for international films 2008: $241.6m (RMB1.652bn)Import quotas: 20 Hollywood blockbusters per year, plus 20-25 further films. All films must be released by one of China's two state-backed distributors on either a ...
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Watchmen leads international pack with $27.5m in 45 territories
The superhero saga Watchmen ruled the overseas box office as Paramount Pictures International reported an estimated $27.5m day-and-date launch in 5,097 sites in 45 territories.The number one international debut complemented the $55.7m North American launch through Warner Bros and meant Zack Snyder's adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic ...
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Paredes in line for Spanish Cinema Academy post
Veteran actress Marisa Paredes was the only candidate presented to take over the soon-to-be-vacated position of president of the Spanish Cinema Academy, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais.The Academy's current president, actress Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, will vacate the post on December 17.Catalan producer-director Antonio Chavarrias and writer-director Joaquin Oristrell were the ...
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Mitchell Micich, Amy Dotson promoted at IFP in New York
Mitchell Micich has been promoted to deputy director, finance & operations at New York's independent film non-profit organization IFP and Amy Dotson has been promoted to deputy director.Both report directly to IFP executive director Michelle Byrd. Meanwhile Jennifer Smith is named producer of the Gotham Independent Film Awards.Micich is a ...
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Wolfe Releasing takes US rights to Pedro Zamora biopic Pedro
Wolfe Releasing has acquired domestic rights to the feature Pedro, based on a screenplay by Milk Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black about the life of the Real World star and AIDS activist Pedro Zamora, who died aged 22.Quinceanera film-makers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland executive produced the film. Nick ...