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Indian stars offer to plead for Rajkumar's release
Prominent Indian film stars - including Tamil superstar Rajnikanth - have offered to walk into the jungle to plead with bandit Veerappan for the release of Kannada matinee idol Rajkumar.Veerappan kidnapped Rajkumar and three of his relatives near the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border on July 30. Only one group of hostages ...
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The summer everyone had a hit
The 2007 blockbuster season exceeded the projected numbers in emphatic style. Hollywood top brass were celebrating the first $4bn North American summer before the season officially came to a close over the Labor Day weekend (August 31-September 3), and the international profile looks equally bullish. According to informal figures collated ...
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Box office summer '08 - preview
The books have barely closed on summer 2007 and already next summer's calendar is filling up fast with strong Hollywood product. While this year distributors benefited from a lack of major sporting events, 2008 presents hurdles such as the Summer Olympics, which start in Beijing on August 8, and the ...
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King Apatow
Producer-writer-director Judd Apatow has created something of a domestic empire, with 2007 hits such as Knocked Up and Superbad showing formidable staying power in a sea of franchise films and remakes. They have so far taken over $240m at the US box office and $277m globally. Knocked Up has taken ...
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2008 Summer Calendar
May 1 - Iron Man (Paramount Pictures) This Marvel Comics adaptation looks set to kick-start the summer with a bang. Robert Downey Jr stars as Tony Stark, a man who turns into a superhero after a near-death accident in Afghanistan. Gwyneth Paltrow and Terrence Howard also star.May 2 - Made ...
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Festival - Brazil - Rio turns up the heat
Brazilian cinema takes centre stage at the Rio International Film Festival this week. Some 37 features and documentaries and 15 short films will screen in the competitive Premiere Brasil section.Committed to providing a world platform for local film-makers, the festival will open with the world premiere of Jose Padilha's highly ...
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Festival - The Rio market
The Rio International Film Festival is the largest gathering of the audiovisual industry in Latin America. The RioMarket (September 21 to October 3) will screen more than 600 films and is where international buyers get their first look at recent Brazilian and Latin American film productions."Since 2002, (Brazilian) cinema has ...
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Production - Films and talent - Brazil's balancing act
Brazil's new generation of directors and producers are faced with a difficult challenge: how to combine arthouse sensibility with a desire for international recognition.Since most Brazilian productions are funded by the territory's tax shelter system - which means they can fully fund their films by offering tax breaks to private ...
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International - A Hero's welcome
Fuji TV's Hero was the hot international opener this weekend, according to Screen's international chart. Generating $8.9m in its home territory from 475 screens, the Takuya Kimura-starrer catapulted to the number three spot.While Universal Pictures International's (UPI) The Bourne Ultimatum may have crept back up to the number one slot, ...
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Analysis: International box-office Weekend September 7-9 - Jason Bourne again
The Bourne Ultimatum crept back up to the top spot this weekend taking $15.8m from 3,341 screens. Universal's action film was up 8% after it expanded in 8 territories, and opened at number one in Germany with a $4.7m take and in Mexico with $1.4m. Ratatouille was at number two, ...
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International box office - Western Europe - Domestic bliss
Box office gross in Western Europe is predicted to surge by 17% over the next five years - a rate of around 3% a year - largely due to expanding local film industries and advances in digital cinema, new research predicts.The report from Dodona Research sees box office in Austria, ...
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Telecinco's Lejarza to join Grupo Arbol
Spanish television executive Mikel Lejarza has announced that he will leave his post as general director of broadcaster Telecinco to join TV production outfit Grupo Arbol.Lejarza, 44, who made his resignation public earlier this month (Screendaily, August 6), has been with Telecinco for five years. He was appointed general director ...
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2929 Productions take to The Road
Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Productions is set to shoot The Road at the beginning of 2008 with John Hillcoat (The Proposition) on board to direct. Scriptwriter Joe Penhall (Enduring Love) will adapt Cormac McCarthy's novel about a father who tries to get his son to safety in a ...
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Welsh fund backs Marc Evans documentary
The $14m ($7m) Wales Creative IP Fund is backing its first documentaries.Among the first recipients is In Prison My Whole Life, directed by Marc Evans (Snowcake) and executive produced by Colin Firth.The film follows an investigation into the trial and conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a member of the Black ...
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Nova Scotia boosts tax credit for producers
Tax relief on local labour costs for productions shooting in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has been increased from 35% to 50%, it was announced at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax. Nova Scotia premier Rodney MacDonald announced the rise at the opening gala screening of Roger Spottiswoode's Shake ...
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Eastern Promises, My Winnipeg win top prizes as TIFF winds down
Guy Maddin's personal documentary My Winnipeg won the C$30,000 Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature and David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises won the C$15,000 Cadillac People's Choice Award as the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival wrapped on Saturday. Runners up for the audience prize, first and second respectively, were Jason Reitman's ...
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Maddin's Winnipeg sells to IFC, Soda, Maximum
Fresh from its victory for Best Canadian Feature at TIFF, Guy Maddin's idiosyncratic documentary My Winnipeg has been sold to IFC Entertainment in US, Soda Pictures in the UK and Maximum Films Distribution in Canada. The deals were announced by My Winnipeg producer (and DoP) Jody Shapiro from the podium ...
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Theodorakis to receive lifetime achievement honour
Mikis Theodorakis is to be presented with a lifetime achievement award at the World Soundtrack Awards at this year's Ghent International Film Festival (Oct 9-20).The Greek composer is best known for his iconic music for Michael Cacoyannis' Zorba The Greek. He also wrote the music for three other of the ...
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Visit Films takes international rights to Hannah Takes The Stairs
New York-based production and sales company Visit Films has acquired international rights to Joe Swanberg's Hannah Takes The Stairs, which will screen at the 2007 London Film Festival. Filmscience's Anish Savjani produced the story of a post-graduate heartbreaker and the various love interests she encounters over the course of ...
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Nieto to spearhead Telefonica Media
Putting a close to weeks of speculation, Juan Jose Nieto was confirmed today as the new executive president of Telefonica Media, the powerful multimedia subsidiary of Spanish telco Telefonica. Nieto's promotion means he will take over the position left vacant with the August 10 departure of Manuel Garcia Duran in ...