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New York Film Academy plans European hub in Florence
New York Film Academy has announced the opening of a new Europeanheadquarters in Florence, Italy.The school will be operative as of January 2008.NYFA has been operative with summer seminars in Florence for threeyears, is opening its official site in conjunction with and at theheadquarters of the Mediateca Regional Toscana (The ...
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Italian exhibitors buoyant at Harry Potter 5's first day
Italian exhibitors are buoyant with the results of Harry Potter And The Order of the Phoenix's opening day, as ANEC, Italy's exhibitor association's president Paolo Protti declares it 'a happy story of a deserved success.' Potter 5 ranked as the best Wednesday opener ever in Italy - scooping up $2.75m ...
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MPAA slams NC-17 rating on Artisan's Requiem
Darren Aronofsky's Requiem For A Dream, a bold portrait of drug addiction which made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this year, has run into censorship trouble in the US where it is being released by Artisan Entertainment.The Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) yesterday gave the film ...
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Italy planning new film ratings legislation package
Italy is planning a new film ratings legislation package aimed at protecting the youngest cinemagoer. The bill will be presented to the Cabinet of Ministers tomorrow and outlines new criteria for ratings with an updated age-tiered system. The law aims to replace Italy's last board that was charged with overseeing ...
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Babelgum offers content from Giffoni Film Festival
New Internet TV service Babelgum has started festival broadcasts with Italy's Giffoni Film Festival.An entire Babelgum channel will be devoted to the Giffoni event, which is now in its 37th year. The festival concentrates on films for children.The channel is currently offering a selection of shorts from the 2006 festival ...
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BSkyB promotes Macdonald to deputy director of Sky Movies
British Sky Broadcasting has promoted Lisa Macdonald to Deputy Director, Sky Movies and SBO. In her new role, Lisa will continue to oversee all Sky's film acquisition and rights negotiations. Additionally, she will take on responsibilities including overseeing the development of Sky's VOD and PPV movie services. Macdonald has been ...
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Relativity acquires rights to UK children's book franchise Tunnels
Relativity Media has acquired film rights to Tunnels, the first in a proposed children's franchise by first-time British authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams.Company chief Ryan Kavanaugh will produce with Mark Canton, currently riding high on the global success of 300. Danny Davids and Neil Canton will serve as executive ...
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Colligan, Endore-Kaiser named co-heads of marketing at Vantage
Megan Colligan and Guy Endore-Kaiser have been promoted to co-heads of marketing at Paramount Vantage.Colligan and Endore-Kaiser, who both joined the studio in early 2006, will work together on release strategy, marketing campaigns and new marketing initiatives for all Paramount Vantage and Paramount Classics domestic releases.Colligan will continue to oversee ...
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Robbins, Landau join cast of Walden's City Of Ember
Tim Robbins and Martin Landau have joined Bill Murray, Toby Jones and hot child actor Saoirse Ronan on the cast of Walden Media's upcoming children's adventure City Of Ember.Gil Kenan is directing the film in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The story pits two teenagers in a dramatic race to save their ...
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Order Of The Phoenix set for magical international weekend
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix is set to out-muscle Paramount/PPI's current overseas champion Transformers this weekend as the fifth instalment in the hugely popular children's series rolls out in 44 territories.The film, released through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI), has already amassed $29.2m from its first day ...
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Robert Young starts Norwegian shoot for Wide Blue Yonder
This week the Norwegian city of Haugesund - home of the Norwegian International Film Festival - was invaded by stars outside the festival season, as UK director Robert Young started principal photography for his new feature, Wide Blue Yonder, with British actors Brian Cox and and James Fox in the ...
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Jeremy Irons to lead 13th Sarajevo festival jury
Jeremy Irons will be the president of the jury of the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 17-25). The festival has also revealed its Documentary Panorama programme selected by Howard Feinstein, who said: 'The popular Panorama Documentaries, programme launched in 2001, strand covers the whole world except for regional works, with ...
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Virgin Media to offer downloads of First Light project
First Light Movies, the UK's young people's film-making scheme, has become a content partner for Virgin Media and FilmFlex Movies, to offer the First Light shorts on demand to Virgin Media customers.The films are made by 5 to 18-year-olds and will now be offered for 50p on the service. Films ...
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Norway's Detector set for internet preview
Norwegian distributor Sandrew Metronome plans to pre-screen local production Detector, directed by Pal Jackman, on the internet this Thursday, the day before its theatrical release on Friday (August 25).Norwegian daily Dagbladet is running a competition on its web-site (www.dagbladet.no) which will enable 150 winners to stream the entire movie."Film is ...
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Transformers has record-breaking opening in China
Transformers has set a new opening day record for an imported film in China, taking in $2.95m (RMB22.4m) on July 11. Previously, the record was set by Spiderman 3 which took $2.34m on its opening day. Beijing 's multiplexes were packed from early morning on Wednesday for the 12am premiere ...
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Reviews
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Dir: Dennis Dugan. US. 2007. 115mins.Tiptoeing carefully around the touchy subject of gay marriage, Adam Sandler farce I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry turns out to be a pretty inoffensive but not terrifically funny buddy comedy that slips its vague pleas for lifestyle tolerance in between bursts of the ...
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Venice jury to include Campion, Verhoeven and Innaritu
The Venice Film Festival has named a distinguished list of directors to make up the international competition jury for its 64th edition.The jurists are all 'important figures' in Venice's recent history, the Biennale said.The jurors will are:French director Catherine Breillat, who presented Brief Crossing at Venice in 2001 and whose ...
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UK admissions fell 5% in 2006 to 156.6m
UK admissions fell for the second consecutive year in 2006 to 156.6m despite an increase in the number of films released, new research reveals. According to the UK Film Council's Statistical Yearbook for 2006/07, cinema attendance in the UK fell 5% last year, compared to 2005. Monthly admissions throughout ...
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UK admissions fell 5% in 2006 to 156.6m
UK admissions fell for the second consecutive year in 2006 to 156.6m despite an increase in the number of films released, new research reveals. According to the UK Film Council's Statistical Yearbook for 2006/07, cinema attendance in the UK fell 5% last year, compared to 2005. Monthly admissions throughout the ...
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UK admissions fell 5% in 2006 to 156.6m
UK admissions fell for the second consecutive year in 2006 to 156.6m despite an increase in the number of films released, new research reveals. According to the UK Film Council's Statistical Yearbook for 2006/07, cinema attendance in the UK fell 5% last year, compared to 2005. Monthly admissions throughout ...
