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Sagar to launch India's first pay-per-view portal
Ramanand Sagar's Sagar Entertainment plans to launch India's first pay-per-view broadband entertainment portal within the next two months. The company, which is investing $3m in the project, is in the process of acquiring bandwidth spread across Europe, US and South-East Asia, in order to provide high-quality streaming to global audiences. ...
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Easternlight picks up Tan's box office hit 881
Easternlight Films, the Asian label of Gary Hamilton's international sales outfit Arclight Films, has acquired worldwide rights to Royston Tan's 881. The deal was concluded by MediaCorp Raintree Pictures' Daniel Yun and Scorpio East Pictures' Lim Teck with Hamilton and Ying Ye, director of Easternlight, who were in Singapore to ...
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THINKFilm takes world sales for Babenco's The Past
THINKFilm International has taken worldwide sales rights (excluding Latin America and Italy) to Hector Babenco's The Past (El Pasado). The film will have its world premiere in the Masters section of the Toronto International Film Festival. Gael Garcia Bernal stars as a young translator going through a divorce, whose former ...
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Jean-Claude Carriere to take center stage at Copenhagen
French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, who has worked on Belle Du Jour, The Tin Drum, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, will receive the Copenhagen International Film Festival's Life Achievement Award in September. 'Screenwriters always end up in the shadow of the director, but we would like to do our bit ...
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Kinowelt takes on sales, distribution and co-production of animated title
Kinowelt International has picked up international rights (except for France and Italy) on Tony Loeser and Jesper Moeller's animated feature film A Case For Friends...How It All Began which has now begun production at Loeser's MotionWorks' studio in Halle. Kinowelt's theatrical and home entertainment divisions will release the film in ...
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Sholay rights owners strike $100m deal with Pritish Nandy
After Sholay Media and Entertainment won its court case against Indian filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, restricting him from using the title or names of characters in his alleged remake of the cult classic, the owner of the rights to Sholay has now entered into a deal with Pritish Nandy Communications ...
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Soenke Wortmann comes to the rescue of Constantin's Pope Joan
German director Soenke Wortmann has come to the rescue of Constantin Film's planned adaptation of the Donna Cross bestseller Pope Joan after the previously attached director Volker Schloendorff was fired amidst much controversy last month.Franka Potente is still expected to take the title lead role in the international project which ...
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Universal and Studio Canal create French DVD joint venture
Universal Pictures International Entertainment and Studio Canal are creating a joint venture to handle home entertainment titles in France.From January 2008, the joint venture will combine the sales, marketing and distribution (via ODS) businesses of all titles for Studio Canal and Universal Pictures France. The new entity will be named ...
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Sugarhouse
Dir: Gary Love, UK 2007, 92mins A claustrophobic psychodrama that never quite shakes off its stage origins, Sugarhouse is performed with ferocious intensity by its three leads. First-time director Love creates a genuine sense of menace. He also effectively cranks up the tension even if the plotting ultimately seems contrived ...
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Relativity on board for Contractors
Relativity Media has swooped on film rights to Bob Fisher'sspeculative script Contractors and will finance, develop and producethe project with Landscape Entertainment.Fisher, who co-wrote the 2005 hit Wedding Crashers with Steve Faber,co-wrote Contractors with David Hemingson.The story centres on two contractors who land a big assignment in theHamptons, only for ...
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Red Envelope and New Line take rights to childbirth doc
Red Envelope Entertainment and New Line Home Entertainment havejointly acquired North American rights to the childbirth documentaryThe Business Of Being Born.Ricki Lake produced the film, in which director Abby Epstein capturesfootages of women giving birth and speaks to mothers, obstetriciansand experts about whether childbirth is a natural process or a ...
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Ellis wins Palm Springs award
Simon Ellis' UK film Soft won the 2007 Palm Springs InternationalFestival of Short Films & Short Film Market's Best Of Festival Awardand a cash prize of $2,000.The Future Filmmaker Award and a $2,000 cash prize went to Dee Reesfor the US entry Pariah, while Pop Foul's US title Moon Molson ...
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Lions For Lambs to open AFI FEST
Lions For Lambs, the inaugural release under Paula Wagner and TomCruise's revamped United Artists, will get its North American premierewhen it opens the AFI FEST in Los Angeles on Nov 1.The announcement suggests the film is likely to receive its worldpremiere at the 51st BFI London Film Festival that runs ...
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Ruzowitzky drama is Austrian entry for Academy Awards
Stefan Ruzowitzky's Second World War drama The Counterfeiters (Die Faelscher), which was first shown in competition at last February's Berlinale, has been selected as the Austrian entry for the 80th Academy Awards.This is the second time that a film by Ruzowitzky has been submitted by Austria for the Best Foreign ...
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Eros teams up with Dutt's White Feather Films
India's Eros International has signed a co-production, marketing and distribution deal with local production company White Feather Films (WFF). The Mumbai production house is owned by director-producer Sanjay Gupta and actor Sanjay Dutt, who was recently released from prison pending his appeal of a conviction for arms possession. Under the ...
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Australia, China sign co-production agreement
After almost three years of formal negotiations, Australia and China signed off a film co-production agreement in the Australian Embassy in Beijing earlier this week. The treaty with the Chinese government will cover production of films and telemovies. The first film to be produced with China as part of Australia's ...
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Shoot 'Em Up
Dir: Michael Davis. US. 2007. 87mins.Merrily amoral, shamelessly watchable and outlandishly funny, Shoot 'Em Up is not for all tastes, but those with a dark sense of humour and a penchant for knowingly excessive violence will have a ball. Short enough so that its thin premise doesn't run out of ...
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Venice opens competition with warm welcome for Wright's Atonement
The 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival kicked off Wednesday with UK director Joe Wright's Ian McEwan adaptation Atonement, which was well received in its world premiere. All eyes were on British actress Keira Knightley as she sauntered down the red carpet flanked by British co-stars James McAvoy and ...
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Venice opens competition with warm welcome for Wright's Atonement
The 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival kicked off Wednesday with UK director Joe Wright's Ian McEwan adaptation Atonement, which was well received in its world premiere. All eyes were on British actress Keira Knightley as she sauntered down the red carpet flanked by British co-stars James McAvoy and ...
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Austrians enter The Counterfeiters for Oscar consideration
Stefan Ruzowitzky's Second World War drama The Counterfeiters (Die Faelscher), which was first shown in competition at February's Berlinale, has been selected as the Austrian entry for the 80th Academy Awards. This is the second time that a film by Ruzowitzky has been submitted by Austria for the Best Foreign ...