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Avalanche of pricey Sundance deals includes Clubland, Waitress, Joshua
The trickle of deals quickened to a torrent in Park City on Monday as buyers announced a slew of expensive acquisitions.Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) paid in the region of $4m for North American, UK and German rights to the comedy Clubland late in the afternoon. Separately, UK-based Goalpost Film sold ...
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Paris Hilton-starrer starts production for Purple Pictures in LA
Hadeel Reda's financing and production company Purple Pictures has begun principal photography in Los Angeles on its debut feature The Hottie And The Nottie.Joel David Moore, Christine Lakin and Paris Hilton star in the comedy about a young man who learns he will only be able to get a date ...
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MIFED sets Agenda for film commissions, producers
This year's MIFED film market in Milan will feature a new initiative, Agenda, under which film commissions from all over Europe will hold pre-scheduled meetings with producers.The film commissions will offer detailed information on all phases of production in each country. Agenda workshops will also be held at MIFED, on ...
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Death Note 2 passes $40m at Japanese box office
The second installment in Warner Bros Japan 's Death Note franchise, Death Note 2: The Last Name, has surpassed the Y5bn ($41.2m) mark at the Japanese box office from more than 4.15 million admissions. In a movie industry first, the sequel was released on Nov 4, following the first installment's ...
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CJE to invest $85m in local productions in 2007
Leading Korean distributor CJ Entertainment (CJE) has announced its 2007 business plan which includes investing $85m in more than 20 local productions this year, while at the same time expanding its global ties. 'While our local film industry was concentrating on sharing the pie instead of growing the market, domestic ...
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Kidz In Da Hood sweeps Sweden 's national film awards
Kidz In Da Hood raided the Guldbagge awards - Sweden 's national film awards - which the Swedish Film Institute presented at a ceremony Monday (22 Jan) in Stockholm 's Circus, televised by Swedish public broadcaster SVT1. A 2006 update of Guttersnipes, filmed in 1944 and 1974, the contender for ...
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UK industry veteran Jim Sturgeon dies after illness
Creative Partnership founder Jim Sturgeon died January 10 after a long illness. Well-known and respected among his peers, Sturgeon co-founded the UK's Creative Partnership with Chris Fowler in 1979 as a 'one-stop shop' to produce trailers, posters, radio and TV commercials for the film industry.Says Fowler, 'Under his direction, the ...
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Pirates tops 2006 Slovenian box office
Healthy box office figures reveal 10 percent growth in Slovenia Box office figures for 2006 show Slovenia is the most gratifying territory in the region in terms of revenues. With a population of two million, 96 active screens, low piracy levels and the fact that it is the only country ...
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Grbavica tops Bosnia and Herzegovina's 2006 box office
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a particularly difficult market for analysis because until recently there have been no BO reports compiled exclusively for the region. Instead, the box office results were split between Serbia and Croatia.Since the end of the war in 1996, Serbian and Croatian distributors contracted to Hollywood majors ...
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Croatian box office sees substantial progress for 2006
Healthy 2006 Croatian box office figures have gone some way to compensate for slumps in other regions of the former Yugoslavia. Serbia and Montenegro, its biggest territory and richest market, saw a disastrous 43% decline in admissions and 36% in box office revenues in 2006 from 2005, while Croation figures ...
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Paramount signs first-look deal with MTV Films Europe
Paramount Pictures International has signed a three-year first-look deal with London and Los Angeles-based Zilli Films, which operates MTV Films Europe. CEO and founder Jonathan Zilli and head of development and production Bobby Allen run Zilli Films, which has the license to develop MTV branded feature films in Europe. MTV ...
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Dreamgirls leads Oscar nominees but shut out of Best Picture race
Dreamgirls led the Oscar race with eight nominations this morning but the hit musical was shut out of the best picture and director categories. It also took three nominations in the best song category, meaning that it could only win five Oscars at most. Best picture nominees were Alejandro Gonzalez ...
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Sky Anytime sees one million movie downloads in first year
Europe's leading broadband video download service Sky Anytime showed phenomenal sales interest in its first 12 months with its one millionth movie, Flight Plan, downloaded on January 14.Sky Anytime offers its 250,000 registered customers on-demand access to product from Sky Movies, Sky One Entertainment, documentary series and events from Sky ...
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Sega partners with Omega, Suncent
Sega Enterprises has struck a partnership with Japanese production outfits Omega Pictures and Suncent CinemaWorks under which it will promote and distribute their movies at its newly-opened Net@ chain of game arcades in Tokyo."This is only the start of our plans with Omega and other film companies for integrating films ...
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Potsdam animation festival to present 41 films
The Cartoon Movie 2007 business forum will present 500 participants with a selection of 41 features with an overall budget of almost $391m (Euros300m) in an attempt to boost finance and distribution for European animated films.In its ninth year, the festival convenes at Germany's Babelsberg Studio from March 7-9 and ...
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Bruce McDonald's new film opens Berlinale's Panorama main programme
Bruce McDonald's The Tracey Fragments, which explores a 15-year-old girl's fragmented emotional world, will be the opening film of the Berlinale Panorama's main programme, while the Panorama Special sub-section will open with Japanese master director Yoji Yamada's Love And Honor, the third and final instalment of his samurai trilogy.In addition, ...
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Grace Is Gone
Dir/scr: James C Strouse. US. 2007. 92mins.The strengths and limitations of Grace Is Gone exist in conjunction with each other. Intimately conceived and scaled, the work gathers a cumulative emotional power in the plaintive, sharply muted performance by John Cusack as a Midwestern everyman who struggles to find the proper ...
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Bon Cop, Kigali lead Jutra Award nominations in Quebec
Bon Cop, Bad Cop and Un Dimanche A Kigali (A Sunday In Kigali) each received 12 nominations as Quebec's Jutra Awards announced the contenders for the 2007 edition. Philippe Falardeau's Congorama followed with six nominations, including Best Picture, while Stephane Lapointe's La Vie Secrete Des Gens Heureux (also a Best ...
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Doremi servers to power UK Digital Screen Network
Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has bought new cinema server equipment from Doremi Cinema for use in the development of the UK Film Council's Digital Screen Network. The DCP-2000 digital servers will be installed in all new sites and will replace servers already within the Digital Screen Network. Fiona Dean, Arts ...
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Korea's Showbox signs up for Confession
Hong Kong 's Media Asia Distribution has sold Korean rights to thriller Confession Of Pain to Showbox Mediaplex. Directed by the Infernal Affairs team, Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, the film has grossed $8.8m (RMB68.4m) in China and a further $2.6m in Hong Kong since its release at Christmas. 'Media ...