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Aja to put Piranha back into the water
Alexandre Aja will write and direct Dimension Film's upcoming Piranha remake, almost 30 years after the original opened in 1978. Atmosphere Entertainment founder Mark Canton, currently enjoying success with 300, is producing along with Marc Toberoff from IPW, Aja himself, and Gregory Levasseur. Alix Taylor, J Todd Harris ...
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Vitale to step down as First Look president
Ruth Vitale will step down as president of First Look Pictures on April 30 following the board's decision to scale down its theatrical operations in the wake of Henry Winterstern's departure two weeks ago as CEO and co-chairman. Vitale will continue to oversee First Look Pictures' first wide release on ...
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Magnolia picks up Great World Of Sound
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Craig Zobel'sGreat World Of Sound at the South By Southwest Film Festival.Patrick Healy and Kene Holliday star as two ordinary men who getcaught up in a record industry talent search and learn the finer - andnot so fine - points of being ...
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Tribeca announces final films for key sections
2007 Tribeca Film Festival organisers have announced the third and final group of feature selections for the Discovery, Showcase and Family Film Festival sections. Discovery includes 39 narrative and documentary features from up-and-coming directors from 12 countries. The line-up encompasses Matthew Barbato's sex reassignment documentary Alexis Arquette: She's My ...
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Korea's T-Entertainment buys stake in Sio Film
KOSDAQ-listed T-Entertainment has announced it is buying into production company Sio Film. The entertainment conglomerate has acquired a 29.3% stake in the company that produced Park Chan-wook's Old Boy among other hits. T-Entertainment was formed last year when the publicly listed online games firm Nako Entertainment merged with music specialist ...
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Lola nominees announced
Tom Tykwer's lavish adaptation of Patrick Suskind's Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer and Chris Kraus's prison drama Four Minutes are running neck and neck with eight nominations apiece for the German Film Awards - the Golden and Silver Lolas - which will be presented in a gala ceremony ...
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Metrodome takes on The Serpent
Metrodome have acquired full UK rights to Eric Barbier's stylish French revenge thriller The Serpent. The film is an adaptation of the classic crime novel Plender by Ted Lewis (Get Carter), directed by Eric Barbier and starring Yvan Attal (Munich, The Interpreter) and Clovis Cornillac (Brice De Nice, A Very ...
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First all-digital cinema for Empire
UK's Empire Cinemas today announced the launch of its first totally digital cinema, situated at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. The theatre chain, which has 16 sites across the UK, has partnered with Kodak, Barco and Bell Theatre Services to install the latest in digital cinema projection technology for all six ...
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Shooter
Dir: Antoine Fuqua. US. 2007. 126 mins.Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg appears to be going more for box office gold than critical honours with Shooter, a handsome but seriously overblown action thriller from Training Day and King Arthur director Antoine Fuqua. Mashing up elements from the Rambo movies, TV action series ...
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PHE funds Criminal theatrical outing
Video operation Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) is funding the UK theatrical release of local thriller The Criminal in a drive to bolster its slate with acquisitions in local markets, PHE confirmed.PHE will cover p&a costs for a November release on at least 50 prints for the Palm Pictures and Storm ...
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Reign Over Me
Dir/scr: Mike Binder. US. 2007. 125 minutes. Using the events of September 11 as a prism through which to refract one widower's swallowed anguish, writer-director Mike Binder's Reign Over Me is an astute, adult drama that grapples with issues of intervention and familial communication, and asks what is the socially ...
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Grant scheme to strengthen Romania's audiovisual sector
Former Eurimages executive secretary Renate Roginas is heading up a $1.2 million (Euros 900,000) PHARE Grant Scheme to strengthen the Romanian audiovisual sector 'with the aim to promote European cultural diversity and to develop a viable national audiovisual industry'.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, Roginas explained that 'the programme runs parallel to ...
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300 boosts US's box office, Mexico notes 118% year-on-year increase
Collective box office revenue of nine territories was up 29% last weekend compared to the same weekend in 2006, according to Screen International's Screen Index. North America led the increase - the territory saw a 41.1% year-on-year increase and took $149.6m at the weekend. Top film 300 - an adaptation ...
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Warp X takes off with Donkey Punch
Shooting has begun for the first film on the slate of new production company Warp X. British thriller Donkey Punch will also be the debut feature for co-writers Olly Blackburn and David Bloom, with Blackburn making his feature directorial debut. Warp X is the new digital low-budget feature film scheme ...
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UK tax: feeling the squeeze
'I think it's going to get worse before it gets better,' admits John Woodward, chief executive of the UK Film Council of the current state of UK film finance.'For the world's third-biggest producer of films, the idea that the situation will get worse will not surprise many people. But local ...
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In Focus - UK TAX - Feeling the squeeze
I think it's going to get worse before it gets better," admits John Woodward, chief executive of the UK Film Council of the current state of UK film finance.For the world's third-biggest producer of films, the idea that the situation will get worse will not surprise many people. But local ...
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Exhibitors: windows on the world
John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theatre Owners, told this week's ShoWest that release windows are the industry's top priority. He speaks for the majority of exhibitors in his alarm that the average window between theatrical and home release slipped last year by 10 days, to four months ...
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First look dealer
These are challenging times for First Look International (FLI) president Stuart Ford, one of the participants at Screen International's US financing summit in London. Several months after Ford launched FLI's London office to handle sales and source acquisitions and co-productions, the UK Treasury announced it was effectively closing the door ...
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United States - Feeding the distribution machine
In the third-party acquisition business, Sony has long been one of the most active and innovative of the Hollywood studios. Its commitment goes back to the 1980s, when, among other projects, it co-financed Steven Soderbergh's groundbreaking indie film sex, lies and videotape.Now the studio has revamped its acquisition team with ...
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Denmark - Overthrowing the old guard
Based on the memoirs of James Gregory, Goodbye Bafana tells the story of the white South African who guarded Nelson Mandela on Robben Island. But while it is a South African story, the $20m project is directed by a Dane, Bille August, and has an international flavour in terms of ...