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Park Circus gets UK theatrical rights to Buena Vista library
UK distributor Park Circus, which is known for bringing classic titles to cinemas, has struck a deal for theatrical sub-distribution of the Buena Vista library of titles in the UK and Ireland.The Buena Vista catalogue includes about 300 films, which had been previously handled by Buena Vista itself. The deal ...
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Odeon recruits insurance company to sponsor Senior Screen
UK exhibitor Odeon Cinemas has partnered with specialist insurance company RIAS for its Senior Screen screenings. RIAS, which insures over 50s, will sponsor the reduced-price screenings for seniors across the UK. The Senior Screen programme started in June 2006 and offers reduced admission to over 50s at 94 cinemas on ...
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Stewart spearheads development at Hayek's Ventanazul
Salma Hayek and MGM's recently launched joint venture Ventanazul has announced three key hires at the company.Producer Annie Stewart, whose credits include Leaving Las Vegas and Cold Creek Manor, has been named vice president of development, while Lumumba Mosquera will head the company's legal and business affairs, and Juan Davila ...
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Weinstein Co options upcoming gangster book
The Weinstein Company has optioned film and TV rights to Tom Folsom's upcoming gangster book The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe And The Revolution At The Edge Of The Underworld.The tome chronicles the Brooklyn-based Gallo brothers and their ill-fated efforts to take on the Mafia.Weinstein Books president and chief executive officer ...
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here! Films loads up on Fat Girls
here! Films has acquired North American rights to Ash Christian's comedy Fat Girls, which here's sister company Regent Releasing will release theatrically.Christian stars as Rodney Miller, a gay, theatre-obsessed high school senior who has his heart set on becoming a Broadway star. Ashley Fink and Jonathan Caouette, who made the ...
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New UK talent shines at Edinburgh
A crop of new UK-based film-makers are emerging at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival as a string of low-budget pictures earned high praise.The find of the festival so far is Paul Pawlikowski's Last Resort, a $600,000 (£400,000) made-for-BBC TV film that world premieres at Edinburgh ahead of a Venice ...
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Potter shatters numerous IMAX records
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix: An IMAX 3D Experience broke several giant-format records this past week, including largest worldwide gross ($9.4m), largest domestic 5-day total ($7.3m), largest domestic per screen average ($80,500) and largest single day ($1.9m). It was also the widest-ever opening for IMAX, with 91 ...
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Senator to launch US distribution operation with Mandy Lane
Senator Entertainment's first domestic release will be All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, the horror film that made waves at last year's Toronto film festival, after the company bought North American rights from TWC International.The fledgling distributor plans to release the film on more than 1,000 screens in early 2008 ...
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Lim Teck joins Singapore's Scorpio East
Singapore 's publicly listed Scorpio East Group has appointed Lim Teck as general manager of its subsidiary Scorpio East Pictures, effective from August 1. In his new role, Lim will manage and further develop film production and acquisition projects as well as oversee the home video and artiste management business. ...
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Norwegian admissions slip in 2007, but local market share rises
Admissions declined in Norway, but local market share went up during the first six months of 2007, according to statistics published by Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino. Theatres sold 5.1m tickets during the period, down 13% on 2006, still 1.4% better than in 2005. Local fare accounted for 20.6% ...
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AAM 's Thomas Hoegh joins UK Film Council board
Arts Alliance Media founder and CEO Thomas Hoegh has been appointed to the board of the UK Film Council. He joins the board immediately for four years. Hoegh also sits on the boards of LoveFilm, City Screen, Inlive Interactive, the Metropolitan Film School and Slingshot Studios. He also produces and ...
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Yerevan gives awards to War And Peace and Import/Export
Armenian documentary filmmaker Vardan Hovhannisyan was the big winner at this year's Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan, picking up four of the prizes for his film A Story Of People In War And Peace at the awards ceremony preceding the closing film The Banishment by Russia's Andrei Zviagintsev. ...
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Elisabeth Perlier joins sales team at Bac Films
Former Gemini Films international sales manager Elisabeth Perlier has joined the international sales team at Bac Films. Perlier, who was at Gemini for four years, will be in charge of international sales and French TV sales at Bac in collaboration with Camille Neel. Bac's Silvere Moreau, who has decided to ...
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Bangkok Film Market set to open for business next week
The Bangkok Film Market (July 23-25) is all set to open its doors for business with about 60 confirmed exhibiting companies and 800 pre-registered buyers, according to Surasak Sunpituksaree, secretary-general of the Federation of National Film Association. The federation has been assigned by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) as ...
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Ascot Elite picks up five titles including Love In The Time Of Cholera
Leading Swiss independent film distributor Ascot Elite Entertainment has announced the acquisition of the rights to five new titles for its 2007/08 slate. The five new titles acquired are: Mike Newell's Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation Love In The Time Of Cholera, with John Leguizamo and Hector Elizondo, acquired from Summit; ...
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Chengtian starts production on Wang's Dangerous Game
Beijing-based Chengtian Entertainment has started shooting its first in-house production, Wang Guangli's The Dangerous Game, which cranked up yesterday (July 16) in the city of Hangzhou in South-East China. Co-financed by Hong Kong 's Mei Ah Entertainment, the contemporary black comedy follows a group of inter-connected Chinese yuppies who indulge ...
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Goteborg fest launches fund for Bosnian producers
The Goteborg Film Festival is playing a hand in rebuilding Bosnia-Herzegovina's film industry with the creation of the CineBosnia Film Fund, launched at this week's Sarajevo Film Festival (August 18-27).Unveiled by Goteborg director Gunnar Bergdahl and festival producer Magnus Telander, the fund will award $10,000 each year towards the pre-production, ...
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Poland's Era New Horizons to open with 4 Months, 3 Days
The seventh Era New Horizons film festival in Wroclaw, Poland will open July 19 with Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The festival's opening night will also include a concert by Marianne Faithfull, who will also be in Wroclaw to introduce her film Irina Palm. The ...
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Toronto shoots for Cronenberg premiere, closes with Emotional Arithmetic
Paulo Barzman's Emotional Arithmetic will be the Closing Night Gala at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, sources told Screen Daily. David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises (pictured) will also have its world premiere at the event.Emotional Arithmetic, a $5.8m production, features Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis, Christopher Plummer and ...
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Hong Kong's Sundream appoints Nan Wong as distribution chief
Hong Kong distribution executive Nan Wong has joined local producer-distributor Sundream Motion Pictures as general manager of distribution. Wong was formerly deputy general manager of local distributor Intercontinental Film Distributors, which handles Buena Vista product in Hong Kong. In her new role she will be responsible for Sundream's international film ...
