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China's CRIFST opts for secure Dolby digital system
Dolby Laboratories announced yesterday [April 12] that the China Research Institute of Film Science & Technology (CRIFST) has selected its digital compression, encoding, packaging and encryption SCC2000 Secure Content Creator for its facilities.CRIFST has also ordered a JPEG 2000-compatible Dolby Digital Cinema playback system for its facilities, to be supplied ...
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Marshall reunites with Weinsteins for Nine
Harvey Weinstein and Rob Marshall are reuniting for the first time since the Oscar winning 2003 musical Chicago on an adaptation of the Broadway show Nine.Marshall will direct the production with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, composer and lyricist for the original 1982 Broadway production that won the Tony ...
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Granada Film adds WW2 drama to development slate
Granada Film, the features arm of UK broadcaster Granada Media, is developing World War 2 project Panzer.The UK-based operation has commissioned Jeff Pope and Terry Winsor, the team behind Granada's recently-released Essex Boys, to develop a story outline. The film is to explore the relationships of the crew members of ...
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Freestyle picks up domestic rights to Civic Duty
Freestyle Releasing has scheduled a May 4 North American release for Jeff Renfroe's pyschological thriller Civic Duty after picking up domestic rights.Peter Krause stars as a happily married accountant who becomes obsessed with America's war on terrorism after he loses his job. Richard Schiff, Kari Matchett, Ian Tracey and Egyptian ...
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Julie Sultan joins Peace Arch from Lakeshore
Julie Sultan has joined Peach Arch Entertainment Group as executive vice president of international theatrical film sales.Sultan arrives from Lakeshore Entertainment where she served as vice president of international sales. She will be based at Peace Arch's expanded California offices in Marina Del Rey and reports to Peace Arch Entertainment ...
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SPRI's Perfect Stranger hopes to seduce 37 markets
Warner Bros' Veteran campaigner 300 will step into the ring against Universal's Mr Bean's Holiday this weekend as the films slug it out in their latest bout for international supremacy.The two releases have played musical chairs over the last two weekends, swapping the number one and two spots while the ...
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Gael Garcia Bernal to serve as Cannes Critics Week ambassador
Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal will act as ambassador to Critics Week in Cannes this year. Organizers announced the news on Thursday and said that the Babel star will unveil his first directorial effort, Deficit, during the fortnight. Bernal is well-known in Cannes having come to the festival several times ...
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Opinion: the digital dream
Consolidation in the independent sector has been an absolute inevitability, particularly in Europe, for some time. The position of the traditional sales agent has been quietly changing during the past couple of years, and the state of today's market makes the acceleration of that process virtually certain.So the news of ...
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Celluloid Dreams and HanWay Films: the power of two
There is a temptation to see the merger between Hengameh Panahi's Celluloid Dreams and Jeremy Thomas' HanWay as a commentary on the scary state of today's arthouse business. But the real issue is what it says about the digital future.The most obvious conclusion to draw from the merger of two ...
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United States - India meets Hollywood
Los Angeles-based Christina Marouda had always enjoyed Indian cinema. But it was only when she worked at the city's two biggest film festivals, Afi Fest and the Los Angeles Film Festival, that she realised Indian films needed a better platform in the world's movie capital."Apart from Cannes and Berlin, Indian ...
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United States - A man of the world
When Catherine Hardwicke's The Monkey Wrench Gang hits the screens in 2008, it will be the result of 15 years of careful nurturing for its veteran producer Edward R Pressman.The story of environmental activists fighting over-development in the American West has just been waiting for the right time to find ...
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Japan - Secrets and lives in modern Tokyo
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is one of the few modern Japanese film-makers with worldwide recognition, both as a genre director and as an auteur. With films such as Cure, Pulse and Retribution (which screened at Venice last year) Kurosawa's name is synonymous with J-horror.Yet his filmography offers much more than scares. ...
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China - The balance of power
Inspired by the Chinese classical novel Romance Of The Three Kingdoms, multiple award-winning Hong Kong director Mabel Cheung (The Soong Sisters, An Autumn's Tale) is putting together a project, Red Rose And White Rose, based on the story of two women caught up in male power plays.The first is Princess ...
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Momentum appoints Withey to run expanded video arm
Momentum Pictures, the UK joint venture of Canada's Alliance Atlantis and Germany's Kinowelt, has appointed Conrad Withey to oversee the operation's recently-expanded video retail activities.Withey, who takes up the newly-created post of director of retail video and acquisitions, joins from Universal Pictures International, where he was vice president of programming. ...
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Industry moves
STAMBLER JOINS THINKFILM FROM MAGNOLIABen Stambler has left Magnolia Pictures and joined ThinkFilm's New York office as director of acquisitions. Stambler served for three years as manager of acquisitions at Magnolia and played a key role in the acquisitions of The Host, The Signal and Jesus Camp. He will jointly ...
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United Kingdom - Re-animated
When Bristol-based Aardman ended its deal with DreamWorks in late January 2007, the early dissolution of the pact did not come as a surprise - there had long been talk of culture clashes between the UK animation company and its publicly traded Hollywood partner.Aardman remained quiet at the time because ...
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United States/United Kingdom - Arcane Worlds
Producer Meg Thomson has had an interesting journey since growing up in Pennsylvania. At Harvard University, she met her UK-born future business partner in Arcane Pictures, George Duffield. She worked in the Los Angeles film production world before moving to the UK eight years ago to work on Arcane's first ...
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Buy the book
From Oscar-feted films such as The Last King Of Scotland and Notes On A Scandal to the new wave of fantasy films led by Eragon, book adaptations are scoring at the global box office and reaping critical acclaim. The literary option market is showing no sign of deflation, with producers ...
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The London Book Fair: turning over a new leaf
The London Book Fair (LBF) has become a crucial forum for the European and US film adaptation market, both for new material and discussions of ongoing projects.Both Lionel Shriver's The Post-Birthday World and Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts were buzz books at last year's event, and a slew of ...
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Trendwatch: 'Franchise is still the magic word'
From the resurgence of chick-lit to the continuing appeal of the thriller franchise, these are the hot genres for film adaptation in 2007.THRILLERS'Producers are still asking for the new Bourne Identity - but there aren't many of those around,' says Nick Harris of Rwsh. He is backed up by Rebecca ...