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Arrests made in north London pirate DVD operation
Authoritieshave arrested 11 pirate DVD sellers working in Leyton Mills Retail Parkin northeast London.Theshopping area had had an ongoing problem with pirate DVD sellers and members of the public had complained to the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). The operation was jointly organised by FACT, the Metropolitan Police, Waltham Forest ...
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UK Post announces shortlist for new audio awards
Industrybody UK Post has announced the shortlist for its inaugural Conch awards, whichwill honour the audio industry. The audioindustry nominated the shortlist, who will now be asked to submit material forjudging. Winners will be announced on Sept 21. The PinewoodStudios Group has come on board as a headline sponsor of ...
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Venice Days line-up includes new films from Boe and Lerman
Christoffer Boe's Offscreen andDiego Lerman's Mientras Tanto are among the films that willscreen in Venice's Director's Fortnight,known as Venice Days. Offscreen is the third feature fromDanish director Boe, after his acclaimed Reconstruction and Allegro, which screened in the section last year. Produced by Alphaville Pictures, Offscreen focuses on an actor,played ...
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Canal Plus shareholders oppose merger terms
ADAM, a group of activists which lobby on behalf of minority shareholder rights in France, says it will oppose the three-way merger of Canal Plus, Vivendi and Seagram.The group's chairman, Colette Neuville, said the group would seek to ensure that a rule obliging Vivendi to make a full public offer ...
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Borat to premiere in Toronto's Midnight Madness
Killersheep and Sacha Baron Cohen are highlights of aseriously upgraded Midnight Madness programme at theupcoming Toronto International Film Festival. The late-night cult-themedsidebar has been graced with five world premieres including the docu-spoof Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make BenefitGlorious Nation Of Kazakhstan, starring the Ali G star Cohen in ...
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Congorama to open 35th Montreal festival
Montreal's Festival duNouveau Cinema will screen a selection of titles from the Cannes festival,including Ken Loach's Palmed'Or-winner TheWind That Shakes The Barley, Pedro Almodovar's Best Screenplay-winner Volver and Philippe Falardeau's Congorama, whichhas been selected to open the Montreal festival. The FNC said it expects both Loach and Almodovar to be ...
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Gruesome notches up string of overseas sales
CinemavaultInternational has closed key territory sales on Joshua and Jeffrey Crook'sSundance horror picture Gruesome(formerly Salvage), which hasjust been accepted to the upcoming Fantasy Filmfest tour of Germany.Rights have gone to Galileo in Germany, LPR in Brazil, One Movie in Italy,Spenzos in Greece and Cine Video & TV in Mexico.Gruesome charts ...
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Columbia, IMAX sign Spider-Man 3 global deal
Columbia Pictures andIMAX Corporation have signed a simultaneous global release deal for Spider-Man 3 next year in conventionaland large-screen format.The picture will be digitally re-mastered for the IMAXformat, and opens around the world on May 4, 2007.Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Graceand Bryce Dallas Howard ...
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Solo Dios Sabe kicks off NY latino festival
The 7thAnnual New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) kicked off on Jul25 with Carlos Bolado's mystery Solo Dios Sabe and will close on Jul 30 with RichardGlatzer and Wash Westmoreland's drama Quinceanera.Programme highlights include the world premiere of Alfredo de Villa's musicaldrama Yellow, KevinJames Dobson's drama The Virgin Of ...
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Forester, Kessler join Myriad executive suite
Myriad Pictures hasmade two key hires, naming Kevin Forester vice president of finance andcontroller and Craig Kessler vice president of business and legal affairs.Both appointments are effective immediately and the executives will report toMyriad president and chief executive officer Kirk D'Amico.Forester joins Myriad following an 11-year tenure at The Bubble ...
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Weinsteins plan comedy franchise with Fletch Won
Bob and Harvey Weinstein are planning a Fletchfranchise, kicking off with the origins story Fletch Won based on the eighth book in Gregory Mcdonald'scomedy-mystery series.Emmy-nominated Scrubs creator BillLawrence will adapt the screenplay for The Weinstein Company (TWC) and is expected to make his featuredirectorial debut in April 2007 during a ...
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Gold Circle hires Rivet for Dead Daughters
GoldCircle Films has hired Jared Rivet to write its English-language remake of DeadDaughters based on PavelRuminov's upcoming Russian horror picture.Rivet previously wrote Killers Of The Dead, which Brian Witten is producing and JC Barros isdirecting.Gold Circle chief Paul Brooks will produce the story of a crazed woman whosparks a chain ...
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Bigfoot extends film fund to Singapore
LA and Asia-basedproducer/investor Bigfoot Entertainment plans to invest in Singapore-producedfeatures through its Bigfoot Partners Film Fund.The fund, which aims tosupport high-quality independent productions from emerging and established filmmakers,will pump between $200,000 and $2m into individual Singapore projects. According to Bigfoot directorof creative development, Timothy Doolen, the fund is looking for ...
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Melbourne film festival opens with Thalluri's 2:37
The mystery film that openedJames Hewison's sixth and final Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)tonight turned out to be writer/director Murali K Thalluri's 2:37, which screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.Hewison wanted audiences tohave the rare experience of going to a film they knew nothing about, an ideathat was sparked ...
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Pizza King reigns at Spain's Cine Jove
Danish director Ole Christian Madsen last week walked away with the top prize at Spain's Cinema Jove International Film Festival, the Luna de Valencia (Valencian Moon), for his film Pizza King. Made on a budget of $800,000, Pizza premiered in Denmark to a strong audience turnout after distribution problems delayed ...
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City Of Violence star set to make Comeback
Korea's LJ Film has announced plans for its first English-language actionfilm Comeback to be the directorialdebut of Jung Doo-hong, who also stars in recent The Weinstein Company pick-up The City OfViolence.Jung is well-known as amartial arts expert and action choreographer for box office hits such as KangWoo-suk's Silmido and upcomingswordplay ...
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Brazil box-office up 12% during first half of 2006
Brazil's box office sales totaled $154.4m (Brazilian Real 340.8m) in the first six months of 2006, registering a 12.1% increase over the same period last year, according to figures released by Filme B, a local film company that reviews theatrical market numbers. The average ticket price reached $3.51 (BRL 7.73), ...
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The Ant Bully
Dir: John A Davis. US. 2006.87mins.Familiar tropes and jokes are trotted out in squirmingly obvious fashion with The Ant Bully, an intermittently sweetly moralisingbut rather lacklustre and ramshackle animated tale ofshifted perspective in which an adolescent is shrunk to the same size as theants in his front yard.Visually, the movierecalls ...
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Universal expands UK downloads through BT
Universal Pictures growing its download and VODbusiness in the UKthrough a new deal with British Telecommunications (BT). This follows onearlier deals with LoveFilm and Wippit.Universal Pictures UK and NBC Universal International TelevisionDistribution have struck simultaneous digital distribution agreements with BTfor download-to-own or video-on-demand offerings in the UK.Universal's film and TV ...
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Duo to oversee acquisitions and co-productions at TWC
Maeva Gatineau andMichelle Krumm have been named executive vice presidents and co-heads ofacquisitions and co-productions at The Weinstein Company (TWC).Gatineau, based in the company's UK office, and Krumm, based in the LA office, will jointly lead worldwide acquisitions activities, and will report to Bob and Harvey Weinstein.Former acquisitions chief ...