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Australia's Showtime bags rights to Star Wars pics
All four Star Wars movies will be shown on Australian pay-TV channel Showtime next year, following a deal between Showtime parent company Premium Movie Partnership (PMP) and 20th Century Fox. PMP chief executive Bob Donoghue believes it will be the first time that all four films will be shown as ...
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Simon Crowe flies solo with launch of SC Films International
Simon Crowe, managing director of Velvet Octopus has launched his new production, sales and distribution outfit SC Films International.SC Films will be financed by Matthew Joynes of Aurelius Investments and Crowe’s new company will handle some foreign sales for the LA-based Aurelius Investments.Crowe’s main focus will be on commercial action, ...
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Babelgum offers mobile video application to US users
Online content platform Babelgum has released a US version of its mobile video application. At the same time the babelgum.com website has been redesigned with a Flash-based player.Babelgum had previously launched its mobile services in the UK and Italy.In the US, the mobile appication is free and available for download ...
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Hong Kong Filmart news digest
March 25Filmart takes on regional flavourYoung’s Christmas Rosereceives full financing at HAFMarch 24Fortissimo seals deals on Food, Mishima, FaceCJ scores Singapore, Malaysia presales on HaeundaeSalon’s pan-Asia alliance sets three new films led by Eat, Drink 2March 23Japanese cinema triumphs at Asian Film Awards in Hong KongFortissimo picks up rights outside ...
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Hot Docs unveils 36 world premieres
New films from Kevin McMahon, Larry Weinstein and John Greyson were among the 36 world premieres unveiled as the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival announced its full line-up today. The festival runs in Toronto from April 30 to May 10.McMahon’s Waterlife explores the complex ecology of and environmental damage wrought ...
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HanWay Films seals a number of deals ahead of MIP-TV
HanWay Films has closed a number of deals on a wide variety of titles from its library of 600 films in advance of MIP-TV.The UK’s Optimum Releasing has re-licensed the Recorded Picture Company collection which includes The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence by Nagisa Oshima.Meanwhile ...
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Relativity extends Tucker Tooley's contract through 2011
Relativity Media has extended president of production Tucker Tooley’s contract through 2011.Along with CEO Ryan Kavanaugh, Tooley has helped to grow the company and played a critical role in developing the single pictures filmsdivision into an entity that fully finances and produces eight to tentitles a year. Tooley also oversees ...
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Locations trade show slated for April 16-18 in Santa Monica
The Association Of Film Commissioners International’s annual locations trade show will take place in Santa Monica from April 16-18.More than 3,000 industry professionals and 240 exhibitors representingmore than 30 countries are expected to attend the event.Seminars will cover Candid Conversations, in which studio executivesdiscuss their film-making experiences, as well as ...
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Saint John Of Las Vegas to open CineVegas on June 10
The world premiere of Hue Rhodes' insurance fraud comedy Saint John Of Las Vegas starring Steve Buscemi, Sarah Silverman, Peter Dinklage and Tim Blake Nelson will open the 11th annual CineVegas Film Festival on June 10.Eight other films in competition get world premiere berths at the LasVegas event that runs ...
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Jon Hamm joins Howl cast for Werc Werk Works
Golden Globe winner and star of TV's Mad Men Jon Hamm has signed on to Werc Werk Works' Allen Ginsberg project Howl currently shooting in New York City.Hamm will star as the Beat Gernation poet's celebrated defenceattorney Jake Ehrlich in the story about the obscenity trial thatsurrounded Ginsberg's eponymous poem.James ...
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E1 Entertainment ships 1m DVD units of Twilight
E1 Entertainment has shipped 1m DVD units of the vampire love story Twilight for its March 21 release. According to the company, the film is setting records for fastest sell-through at most major retailers. Twilight fans have taken part in late-night parties at locations across Canada, queuing to be among ...
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Sony Europe, Canal Plus pact for interactive TV
Sony Europe expects to play a central role in the European market for interactive digital television after signing a strategic alliance with the Canal Plus subsidiary Canal Plus Technologies (CPT).The agreement will allow Sony to use the interactive digital TV platform developed by CPT, Mediahighway Consumer Electronics, which corresponds to ...
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Cast lines up for wolf pack in Summit's New Moon
Native American/First Nation actors Chaske Spencer, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Tyson Houseman have signed on to star as the members of the wolf pack in Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: New Moon.Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner reprise theirroles from Twilight. The sequel finds Bella, played ...
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Jose Martinez Jr promoted to executive VP at Maya Entertainment
Jose Martinez Jr has been promoted to executive vice president of Maya Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based vertically integrated company targeting the growing US Latino market.Since joining Maya Entertainment a year ago as general counsel andhead of acquisitions, Martinez has led company efforts to acquire suchnotable films as How The Garcia ...
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Breitman's Someone I Loved will open COL-COA in Los Angeles
The world premiere of Zabou Breitman's Someone I Loved (Je L'Aimais) starring Daniel Auteuil and Marie-Josee Croze will open the 13th Annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COL-COA) film festival to run from April 20-26.Backed by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, the festival will present 50 films, including 30 features ...
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Rachel McAdams named Female Star of the Year at ShoWest
Rachel McAdams has been named the 2009 ShoWest Female Star Of The Year and will be honoured at a ceremony in Las Vegas on April 2.McAdams broke through with star turns in The Notebook and Mean Girls and will next be seen in Universal's thriller and BBC series adaptation State ...
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Filmart takes on regional flavour
As Filmart reached the half-way point on Tuesday, sellers were reporting that the market was relatively busy but much more Asia-focused than in previous years.'We've been quite busy but most of our meetings have been with Asian buyers - there are fewer companies from the US and Europe and substantially ...
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Young's Christmas Rose receives full financing at HAF
Charlie Young's Christmas Rose received the HAF Excellence Award at the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) today, for managing to raise its entire $2m budget at the three-day event. Beijing-based Orange Sky Entertainment stepped up on the second day of the market to fully finance the film - ...
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UK's Exhibitors' Association to explore digital funding options
The Cinema Exhibitors' Association (CEA) today started to explore the possibility of collective negotiation with studios and distributors for the funding required to move to digital cinema. The UK Film Council-funded Digital Screen Network has equipped 238 screens across the UK and some operators such as Odeon, UCIand Cineworld have ...