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Arts Alliance Media partners for Norwegian digital rollout
Arts Alliance Media has announced two steps forward forEuropean digital cinema. AAM said it has formed a new partnership with newly-formedNorwegian industry group Kristiansand Digital CinemaAlliance for a trial roll-out of up to 10 digital screens in Norway.Three screens have already been equipped with digital projection equipment sofar. The trial, ...
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UK's Forward scores Yates, Cole and Cattaneo projects
Forward Films foundersTracy Brimm and Kate Myers are working on their firstslate of 10 features in development, with directors including Peter Cattaneo, John Crowley, David Yates and Nigel Cole.Brimm and Myers quietly startedthe London-based production company in January 2004 after meeting years earlieras colleagues at ICM -- Brimm in Los ...
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Blockbuster to close all its Spanish stores
Blockbuster has announced it will close86 of its stores in Spain by May 15. Blockbuster Video Espana, which openedits first stores in 1991, reported losses of $6.6m (Euros 5.5m) in 2004, up 65%over 2003, and expects even greater losses for 2005.The company attributed the closure,which will affect some 688 employees, ...
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Ireland cashes in on Walk The Line
The UK/Ireland market hasproven a strong territory for Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line, however, the true successhas come from Ireland. Walk TheLine has been nothing short of a phenomenon in Ireland. The biggest release of 2006 so far in the Republic Of Ireland, the film had grossed $2.95m (Euro ...
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Pixar's Cars surprises industry audience at ShoWest
Pixar Animation's eagerlyawaited Cars screened at ShoWeston Tuesday night to a mixed reception from industry delegates.The tale of a hip, rookieNASCAR-style racer that winds up shanghaied in a small town and learnsimportant life lessons is one of the most anticipated summer releases. It opensin June through PIxar's new parent company ...
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Tribeca names films in competition sections for April fest
The 2006 Tribeca FilmFestival, which takes place from April 25 to May 7, has announced the lineupfor its four competition sections in international and New York-centric NY, NYsections. A total of 169 features and99 shorts have been selected for the festival this year from a record 4,100submissions - including 1,950 ...
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ZDF boards Barreda's Peruvian debut
German broadcaster ZDF is backing Peruvian road movie Y Si Te Vi, No Me Acuerdo, the directorial debut of Miguel Barreda Delgado which started production June 5 in Lima. The film, about an ex-pat Peruvian who returns home after many years, is being shot in the digital format but there ...
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Heartland Film Festival ups prize money to $200,000
The Heartland Film Festival,which takes place in Indianapolis, Indiana, in Oct has announced that it willincrease its prize money for films to $200,000 for its 15th editionthis year.The festival, which is setfor Oct 19 to 27, will double its grand prize for dramatic feature to $100,000,making it one of the ...
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Kirk Jones signs to US remake of Everybody's Fine
UK director Kirk Jones, whohas just scored a $100m worldwide hit with Nanny McPhee, has signed to writeand direct a contemporary English-language US-set remake of GiuseppeTornatore's 1990 movie Everybody's Fine (Stanno Tutti Bene) forHollywood Gang Productions and Cecchi Gori USA.Gianni Nunnari of HollywoodGang and Vittorio Cecchi Gori of Cecchi Gori ...
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Lionsgate sets next Perry comedy for Feb 2007
Following in the footsteps of box office hit Madea'sFamily Reunion, Lionsgate has pickedup worldwide rights to Daddy's Little Girl, the third film starring, written and directed by Tyler Perry.The company has fast-trackedthe film for a June production start and a theatrical release in Feb 2007,hoping for a repeat of the ...
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Bernard joins Fox Searchlight as senior vp, media and promotions
Fox Searchlight Pictures hasappointed Laurel Bernard as senior vice president of media and promotions,reporting directly to Searchlight's chief operating officers Nancy Itley andSteve Gilula.Bernard (pictured) comesfrom Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) where she was vice president of nationalmedia, working on media campaigns for shows like American Idol, 24, PrisonBreak, The OC ...
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Korea to say hello to MGM, Hallyuwood
South Korea is in line for its first two entertainment themeparks - a Korean Wave-themed "Hallyuwood" and a Hollywood-themed MGM Studio City.Hallyuwood is set to open inGyeong-gi Province by 2008, while MGM plans to open an MGM Studio Cityin Busan by 2011.Taking its name from"Hallyu," which means Korean Wave in ...
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Lin launches Taiwan's first venture capital film fund
Taiwanese entrepreneur AlanLin has launched Media Vantage, Taiwan's first venture capital company specialising in the entertainmentand cultural industries.Lin, president of EmersGroup, has raised $240m over a six-year period towards planned initial capitalof $300m for the fund. While Media Vantage will prioritise television seriesand film projects, general manager Diane Chou, a ...
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Bayside Shakedown duo reteam for Udon
The director and producerbehind mega-hit franchise BaysideShakedown are teaming again on culinary comedy drama Udon which is set to star Yusuke Santa Maria (The Negotiator).The film, to be directed by KatsuyukiMotohiro and produced by Fuji TV's Chihiro Kameyama, revolves around a man who loseshis dreams, but rediscovers his roots in ...
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Goal! 3 goes ahead with plans for World Cup shoot
Milkshake Films hasconfirmed that it will go ahead with previously announced plans to shoot atthis summer’s World Cup in Germany for the final instalment in its football trilogy, Goal! 3.“We’ll be filming the crowdsand filming the action, filming a dozen games or so entirely in documentarystyle,” Milkshake chairman and producer ...
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France produces a record number of films for 2005
France produced a record number of films in 2005 accordingto national film body the CNC. In total, 240films were given a green light by the film board including 187 which wereinitiated by the French.CNC president Veronique Cayla noted her enthusiasm for the record which represents20 films more than the previous ...
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Look Both Ways wins best feature at London Australian Film Festival
The 12thLondon Australian Film Festival (March2-12) closed on Sunday having welcomedover 5,000 people through the door which represents, an 11% rise on 2005figures with box-office takings also up by 13%. The audience voted for their favourite filmsthroughout the festival and awarded Best Feature to Sarah Watt's debut feature Look Both ...
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Japan's ASMSE enters film finance arena
Japan's Association of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (ASMSE) is planning to back further feature projects following completion of its debut film Home Sweet Home which is set for domestic release this August.ASMSE, a Tokyo-based business organisation with fifty member companies, has developed a financing scheme that bypasses banks and ...
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Cutting Edge Music signs music deal with Lucky 50 Productions and Bauer Martinez Entertainment
One of the UK'sleading providers of music services to the film industry, Cutting Edge Music,has entered into a joint venture with Lucky 50 Productions, the wholly-owned U.S.production entity of Bauer Martinez Studios.The joint venture, Music Rites, will have the exclusive right toacquire, administer, exploit and supervise the available music from ...
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Mackenzie to start shooting fourth film Hallam Foe
David Mackenzie is to direct Hallam Foe on location in Scotland from March 27. Mackenzie1s fourth feature after The Last Great Wilderness (2002), Young Adam (2003) and Asylum (2005) is a $5.4m ( £3.1m) adaptation of the Peter Jinks novel in which JamieBell stars as a misfit teenager who becomes ...