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Korea 's CJ CGV appoints Charles Kim as CEO
Leading Korean exhibitor CJ CGV has appointed Charles Kim as CEO, replacing Park Dong-ho who has been moved up in position to sister company CJ Foodville, a family restaurant chain with global ambitions. Kim was previously chief operating officer of CJ Homeshopping, which has recently had a successful launch in ...
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Nigel Cole to direct Eloise for HandMade
Calendar Girls director Nigel Cole has signed on to direct HandMade Films' planned feature Eloise In Paris. The Eloise In Paris feature is based on the book of the same name, adapted by Janet Brownell and Erin Joslyn. The live-action feature will shoot in 2007 on location in Paris, New ...
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X-Men X-plodes with $57.5m domestic opening gross
X-Men, Bryan Singer's $75m version of the Marvel Comics' phenomenon, raked in more money at the weekend box office than any other non-sequel in film history, more or less ensuring that distributor 20th Century Fox will finish the summer with a cost-efficient blockbuster capable of spawning an entire franchise of ...
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Fox's Museum remains top international attraction
Fox International's Night At The Museum stayed on top of the competition and crossed $100m with an estimated $29.8m from 5,000 screens in 38 markets that raised the overseas tally to $116.7m. The family title opened in Greece on $900,000 from 66 screens and opened top in Peru on $471,000 ...
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Eva Green and Emily Blunt among Orange Rising Star nominees
The BAFTAs have announced the nominees for the second-annual Orange Rising Star Award.
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Norway's box-office admissions rise 5.3% in 2006
Norwegian cinema attendance has recovered from a temporary decline, to total 1.9 admissions in 2006, up 5.3% from 2005, according to preliminary figures from Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino. Domestic films sold 1.9m tickets, to take 16.5% of the market - up from 12.2% the previous year - the ...
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Tartan Video taps Bradfield as head of marketing
Tartan Video has appointed Mylene Bradfield as its new head of marketing. Bradfield has served as marketing manager for both Momentum Pictures and Channel 4 DVD. She joined Tartan in June 2006 working on launches of boxsets including the Vengeance Trilogy and the 30-disc Ingmar Bergman Collection. Tartan Video's forthcoming ...
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UK to launch regional cinema critics awards
Regional journalists will vote on a new series of awards, The UK Regional Critics' Film Awards, which will launch at Cinema Days, a distributors preview trade event for regional media held Jan 25-28. Regional journalists including critics, writers and editors (staff or freelance) will be allowed to vote for their ...
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Bier and Oplev lead Bodil prize nominations
Denmark 's two biggest box office successes of 2006 also proved to be the critical, darlings earning four nominations each for the Bodil prize to be handed out Feb 25. Susanne Bier's melodrama After The Wedding and Niels Ardens Oplev's traditional coming of age story We Shall Overcome tied at ...
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Canadian actors on strike but not picketing
Canadian film and television performers are in an official strike position this morning as last-ditch talks failed between the performers guild, the Alliance of Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), and producers represented by the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) and the Association de producteurs de films et ...
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French admissions jump 7.5% in 2006 after strong start
France's 2006 box-office tally of 189m admissions represents a 7.5% jump on 2005 and marks the second-best score since 1992. 2004 was a record year with 196m tickets sold.France's exhibition watchdog, the FNCF, notes that the figures are estimates but that the first half of the year was clearly the ...
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German box-office revived in 2006, led by Fox
Germany's box-office fortunes were revived in 2006 after a devastating 2005 with a year-on-year increase in takings of 9.6% and admissions rising by 7.9%, according to figures from Nielsen EDI. In data collected from Jan 2 to Dec 31 2006, box-office revenues amounted to $1.02bn (Euros 789.3m), compared to $936.6m ...
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Czech box office recovers in 2006, set to pass 11m admissions
With statistics in for the first 11 months of the year, Czech box-office admissions look set to surpass 11m for 2006, reversing the poor performance of 2005, when admissions dropped 21% to less than 9.5m. From January 2006 to November 2006, Czech cinemas took in 10.38m admissions, an improvement of ...
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Barreto heads venture to launch Latin pay channel
A group of Brazilian and Argentinean producers, spearheaded by Brazil's Luiz Carlos Barreto, are teaming up to launch, TV Mercosul, a cable and satellite channel dedicated to Latin American programming. The venture also includes Brazil's Anibal Massaini and Marcos Altberg - who, along with Barreto, are shareholders in Brazilian movie ...
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'Retired' Besson plans two Arthur sequels
Despite his recent comments to the contrary, Luc Besson will direct two sequels to his current hit Arthur And The Minimoys. Besson said he was overjoyed with the success of Arthur which has enjoyed more than 5 million admissions in France since its December release.'So, I am going to direct ...
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StudioCanal sets slate for Unifrance Rendez Vous
As French sales companies get ready for the annual Unifrance Rendez Vous this coming weekend, StudioCanal has announced its line up for the industry screenings event.From Pierre Jolivet comes the romantic comedy Je Crois Que Je L'Aime. Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Bonnaire star in a film about a man who ...
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Rotterdam announces full Tiger competition, with 7 world premieres
The Rotterdam International Film Festival (Jan 24-Feb 4) has announced the final 15 competitors for this year's Tiger Awards for first or second films, which include seven world premieres. A further 25 films will compete for the short film Tigers.The world premieres include Me, by Spain's Rafa Cortes; La Fine ...
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Afghanistan bans Toronto-premiered Indian film
The Government of Afganistan has banned the screening of Indian director Kabir Khan's debut feature film Kabul Express. 'The film has some sentences which were very offensive towards one of Afghanistan's ethnicities, namely the Hazara. For this reason it has been banned,' Najib Manalai, Afghanistan's minister of culture adviser, said ...
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Caetano set for $10m drug war epic Leopard
Acclaimed Uruguayan-born film-maker Israel Adrian Caetano, whose Chronicle Of An Escape was a hit in Cannes competition last year, is to direct $10m Argentina/France/US co-production Leopard In The Sun. The film is based on Laura Restrepo's best-selling 1993 novel about a feud between two Colombian drug families which escalates into ...
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Coolidge, Leno sign on to Igor voice cast for Exodus, TWC
Jennifer Coolidge and US talk show host and stand-up comic Jay Leno have joined the voice cast of Exodus Film Group's upcoming CG-animated feature Igor.Coolidge, currently on screen in the ensemble comedy For Your Consideration, will play the village vixen Sybil, while Leno will voice Malaria's conniving ruler King Malbert.The ...