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MGM in talks to launch pay channel in Germany
MGM Worldwide Television Group is in talks to launch a movie channel in Germany, according to Financial Times Deutschland.Simon Sutton, MGM Worldwide TV's senior vice president, international pay & free television, said in an interview that negotiations with the Kirch group had recently stalled and new talks are underway with ...
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Hit Singapore director Jack Neo plans ghost story triptych
Record-breaking Singaporean hit director Jack Neo (I Not Stupid)has announced a new projectGot Ghost Meh(working title) in development.Neo plans to make a 90-minute feature film made up of three parts - each a 30-minute-long ghost story filled with horror and comedy elements.Known for his poignant low-budget comedy hits, the director ...
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Thailand's Mono Entertainment returns to market after restructure
Thailand’s Mono Entertainment returns to Filmart this year under the banner of motif+ after a major corporate restructuring. The company is now divided into production division motif+, headed by successful director and producer Pantham Thongsang, and home entertainment division Command N, headed by Jirun Ratthanaviriyachai, managing director of Mono Entertainment.The ...
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France bangs the drum for new tax incentive in Hong Kong
The French consul general for Hong Kong and Macau declared on Monday that the future ‘belonged to co-production between Europe and Asia’ and urged Asian producers to look at shooting films in France. He made the comments at an information session outlining the new 20% tax rebate for international productions ...
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NewsJapanese cinema triumphs at Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong
Japanese cinema triumphed at the Asian Film Awards last night, with three Japanese dramas -Tokyo Sonata, Still WalkingandDepartures- clinching four of the top prizes.Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata walked off with best film and best screenwriter; Hirokazu Kore-eda took the best director prize for Still Walking, and Motoki Masahiro scooped best ...
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Kill Daddy Good Night wins at Diagonale, My Magic in Fribourg
Glawogger’s Kill Daddy GoodNight wins Austrian Diagonale Grand Prix, Eric Khoo’s My Magic top winner at Switzerland’s Fribourg. Michael Glawogger’s Kill Daddy Good Night (Das Vaterspiel) picked up the Grand Prix for best Austrian feature film at this year’s Diagonale showcase of Austrian filmmaking.The film, which is adapted from Josef ...
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Film Agency For Wales awards $470,000 to three projects
The Film Agency For Wales has awarded $217,000 to Hattie Dalton’s Barafundle Bay. Dalton’s credits include Stoned and Layer Cake.The film was produced by Margaret Matheson, Vaughan Sivell and Kelly Broad and was written by Welsh born writer/producer Vaughan Sivell of Western Edge. Independent is on board as sales agents.BarafundleBay ...
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Plans for franchise of $12.8m Benelux animation Luke and Lucy
Plans have been revealed for the release and possible franchise of Luke and Lucy - The Texas Rangers one of the most ambitious animated features ever produced in Benelux.The $12.8m (Euros 9.5m) CGI film is set for a holiday release on July 21. In a first,the filmwill be released simultaneously ...
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Bananaz to be released online pre theatrical release
Ceri Levy’s Bananaz will be available online via Babelgum before its theatrical release.The online premiere will take place on April 20, 2009 prior to the film’s subsequent UK theatrical release via EMI. EMI hold worldwide distribution rights for the documentary.Documentary film Bananaz gives an account of the creative process behind ...
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UK's High Fliers Films acquires Scanbox Entertainment UK
London based distributor High Fliers Films has acquired DVD distributor Scanbox Entertainment UK Ltd from Denmark-based parent company Scanbox A/S.The move creates a sizeable catalogue and future release schedule that should benefit both companies,Jeremy Rothwell, the managing director of High Fliers Films said ‘Scanbox has a very strong slate of ...
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NewsBroken Embraces fails to scale same box-office heights as Volver
Pedro Almodovar’s latest film Broken Embraces took $1.3m in its opening weekend at the Spanish box office, a full $1m less than his previous offering Volver, following a mixed response from critics. The film was released nationwide in Spain by Warner Bros on March 18 and had taken $1.9m ...
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Anne Hathaway to play Judy Garland in TWC's Get Happy
Anne Hathaway, nominated for a lead actress Oscar last season for Rachel Getting Married, is attached to star for The Weinstein Company as Judy Garland in film and stage versions of Gerald Clarke’s biography Get Happy: The Life Of Judy Garland.Get Happy is based on hundreds of interviews and Garland’s ...
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Regent takes international rights to Weaver's Weather Girl
Regent Worldwide Sales has acquired international rights to Blayne Weaver’s romantic comedy Weather Girl starring Tricia O’Kelley and Mark Harmon.Regent spotted the film at Slamdance and struck the deal withSubmarine. The story centres on a Seattle TV weather girl who embarkson an affair with her brother’s best friend after she ...
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Michael Bay to receive ShoWest Vanguard Award
Michael Bay will receive the ShoWest 2009 Vanguard Award forExcellence in Filmmaking at a ceremony in Las Vegas on April 2.Bay directed this summer’s tentpole release Transformers: Revenge OfThe Fallen, the sequel to his 2007 smash Transformers.His films have grossed more than $3bn worldwide and include PearlHarbor, Armageddon, The Rock, ...
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CJ scores Singapore, Malaysia presales on Haeundae
Seoul-based distributor CJ Entertainment has pre-sold JK Youn’s tsunami-attacks-Busan filmHaeundaeto VSG for Singapore and Malaysia.’Haeundae is a concept film with high production values - Hans Ulrich who worked on A Perfect Storm, Star Wars 4 and 5, and The Day After Tomorrow is supervising the CGI, and so far it ...
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Salon's pan-Asia alliance sets three new films led by Eat, Drink 2
Companies under Hong Kong’s Salon Films’ pan-Asia alliance have announced new production projects including three projects from Taipei-based Zoom Hunt International.Producer Hsu Li-kong and his Zoom Hunt International is preparing the sequel to Ang Lee’s 1994 classic Eat Drink Man Woman, tentatively titled Eat Drink Man Woman II, a project ...
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NewsFortissimo seals deals on Food, Mishima, Face
Fortissimo Films has sealed a slew of deals on food industry documentary Food, Inc following its screening at the Berlinale and during Filmart, including a sale to A-Films for Benelux and Cafe Groove for Japan.The film, which world premiered at Toronto before it screened in Berlin, has also gone to ...
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ReviewsDragonball Evolution
Dir: James Wong. US. 2009. 85 mins.A Hollywood film version of the Japanese manga phenomenon, Dragonball Evolution is puerile childrens’ sci-fi of a strictly B-movie standard.Produced by Hong Kong film-maker Stephen Chow Sing-chi but entirely missing his inventive stamp, the film is essentially a bland Hollywood dumbing-down of the books ...
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German producers fear $135m worth of production at risk
Work on more than 30 German feature film projects could be ‘at acute risk’ in 2009 because of the uncertainty surrounding the finances of the German Federal Film Fund (FFA), according to the German Producers Alliance.The figures come from a survey of its members by the Alliance. Three quarters of ...