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Hungarian Film Week announces main competition line up
Eighteen new feature films will compete for the Golden Reel Award at the 40th Hungarian Film Week (January 27-February 3) Budapest. The competition titles were selected by a committee of Hungarian film professionals from among 26 features completed in the last 12 months. The competition features 13 world premieres, including ...
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StudioCanal, Classic board Angelopoulos trilogy
France's StudioCanal and Italian production outfit Classic Films will co-produce Theo Angelopoulos' $20m epic trilogy about Greek exiles, the first of which, The Weeping Field, is set to star Harvey Keitel.The Weeping Field, which is based on a short story by Italian scriptwriter Tonino Guerra, is scheduled to shoot in ...
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More than 90 first-time exhibitors as Berlin's EFM sells out
The Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) has sold out with 386 companies and organisations from 55 countries booking, including more than 50 first time exhibitors. To date EFM has announced that 309 companies will be in the Martin Gropius Bau building with 77 based in the EFM Marriot offices. Of ...
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Lechner to steer production slate for Washington Square
Producer and development executive Jack Lechner has struck a first-look deal with New York and Los Angeles-based based Washington Square Arts & Films (WSF) to expand the company's film slate.Lechner will be based at WSF's Manhattan office in charge of bringing in new projects and shepherding those already on WSF's ...
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Regent acquires domestic rights to The Little Traitor
Regent Releasing has acquired North American rights to Panther Productions and Evanstone Films' historical drama The Little Traitor starring Alfred Molina.Lynn Roth wrote and directed the timely story set in Palestine in 1947 about a friendship between a Palestinian boy and a sergeant in the occupying British Army. Ido Port ...
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Global Film Initiative signs deal with Virgin America
The Global Film Initiative has signed a deal with Virgin America to show the Global Lens series on the North American domestic airline's RED in-flight entertainment system.Films from the series are now available on demand on all Virgin America flights. The current Global Lens series includes South African comedy Bunny ...
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Dark Knight, Benjamin Button among seven effects Oscar finalists
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has announced the seven films shortlisted for the visual effects Oscar.They are: Australia, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Iron Man, Journey To The Center Of The Earth and The Mummy: Tomb Of The ...
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Lorber's new label acquires Ferrara and Maysles' The Gates
Richard Lorber's fledgling label Alive Mind has acquired all North American rights to Antonio Ferrera and Albert Maysles' documentary The Gates.Alive Mind will open The Gates theatrically in New York in spring before a limited nationwide roll-out. The film will also be immediately available to educational institutions.The Maysles began filming ...
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Mutant Chronicles finally scores US deal with Magnet Releasing
Magnet Releasing has taken US rights to the sci-fi action release Mutant Chronicles starring Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, Devon Aoki and John Malkovich.The Edward R Pressman production was directed by Simon Hunter from Philip Eisner's adapted screenplay based on Paradox Entertainment's role playing game.As part of the Wagner/Cuban Companies' Ultra ...
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Ed Catmull to receive Gordon E Sawyer Award from Academy
Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios president and Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull will receive the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Gordon E Sawyer Award 'for his lifetime of technical contributions and leadership in the field of computer graphics for the motion picture industry.'An Oscar statuette will be presented ...
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Top 100 grossing films in US domestic market 2008
TOP 100 Domestic Grossers 2008 The Dark Knight (distributor: WB) 530.9 (millions)Iron Man (Par) 318.3Indiana Jones & Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Par) 317Hancock (Sony) 229.4Wall-E (BV) ...
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Feng's If You Are the One smashes box office records
Chinese filmmaker Feng Xiaogang's romantic comedy If You Are The One has become the second biggest Chinese-language film in Chinese film history, grossing $44.22m (RMB302m) since its Dec 18 release. The film is second only to the first part of John Woo's two-part Red Cliff, which set the record of ...
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Taiwan's Eastern, Pacific team for digital TV
A potent pay-TV rights buying force emerged in Taiwan this week after two of the country's most powerful communications groups announced they would combine to launch a $200m digital TV joint venture.The new company is to launch by the end of the year or early 2001 with equal investment from ...
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Korean admissions down 5.3% according toCJ CGV
Leading South Korean exhibitor CJ CGV has reported that the nation's total admissions for 2008 came to 149.18 million, down 5.3% year-on-year according to in-house tallies which are based on reported figures and estimates. CJ CGV put the local market share at 42.5%, down 8.3% from last year. Total admissions ...
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Frost/Nixon and Button top BAFTA longlist
Frost/Nixon and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button have both received 14 nominations in the British Academy Film Awards longlist, including best film and best director. The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire, Revolutionary Road, Changeling and The Dark Knighthave each received an impressive 13 nominations. Burn After Reading and Milk have racked ...
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BAFTA reveals shortlist for best foreign film
The Baader Meinhof Complex, Gomorra, I've Loved You So Long, Persepolis and Waltz with Bashir are all selected for the category Film Not in the English Language. The British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) today announced the shortlist of five nominees for the category Film Not in the ...
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Rotterdam announces 2009 Competitions line up
Fourteen films have been selected for Rotterdam's VPRO Tiger Awards Competition 2009, including eight world premieres. The line-up features first or second films from all five continents competing for three top prizes of $20,500 (Euros 15,000) each. For the first time, films from Turkey, New Zealand and Indonesia are included ...
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ASC names Dod Mantle, Deakins, Menges among annual nominees
The American Society Of Cinematographers has named the five finallists in its 23rd Annual Outstanding Achievement Awards to take pace in Los Angeles on February 15.They are: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button photographed by Claudio Miranda; The Dark Knight shot by Wally Pfister; The Reader by Chris Menges and ...