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Study suggests studios took a $1.9bn hit on blockbusters in 2006
Last year's Hollywood blockbusters made a $1.9bn loss, claims a report from new analyst Global Media Intelligence (GMI).The study - Do Movies Make Money' - suggests that payments for star talent shot up to unrealistic levels despite a recovery at the box office.This year, a 12.5% decline in DVD sales ...
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Complex teams with Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures for Blackline films
Christian Johnston's Complex Films has teamed up with LA and Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures to create action franchise The Blackline International Trilogy.The films are based on actual events involving private military corporations and will kick off with Blackline: The Beirut Contract, in which a private operatives are sent to rescue ...
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Complex teams with Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures for Blackline films
Christian Johnston's Complex Films has teamed up with LA and Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures to create action franchise The Blackline International Trilogy.The films are based on actual events involving private military corporations and will kick off with Blackline: The Beirut Contract, in which a private operatives are sent to rescue ...
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Verhoeven signs to direct The Thomas Crown Affair 2
Paul Verhoeven has signed on to direct The Thomas Crown Affair 2 for MGM.The development broke when the film-maker mentioned the project on the Dutch radio show Met Het Oog Op Morgen.Also known as The Topkapi Affair, the story is based on Eric Ambler's novel The Light Of Day about ...
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Secret Sunshine wins best film at Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Korean director Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine (Miryang) tonight won the award for best feature at the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and also best actress for Jeon Do-Yeon, but otherwise the awards were evenly spread. If any country shone through it was Iran: the international jury lead by Indian actor ...
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Bavaria to handle omnibus projectMoving The Arts
Bavaria Film International is to handle international sales for the omnibus film project Moving The Arts which will bring together shorts from Atom Egoyan, Hal Hartley, Christian Petzold, Julio Medem, Laetitia Masson, and Jia Zhang-ke. Each will make a short film inspired by a work of post-modern art exhibited in ...
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Wenders, Road Movies take radically digital route
German director Wim Wenders and Road Movies Filmproduktion, the production company he co-founded, have gone digital.Along with confirming that Wenders' next film will be shot digitally in America next spring, Road Movies is to produce a slate of low-budget digital films from new film-makers under the banner "radikal digital".Road Movies ...
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Momentum strikes UK deal for Nic Balthazar's Ben X
Momentum Pictures has taken UK rights to Nic Balthazar's directorial debut Ben X, sold by Films Distribution. Films Distribution executive director of worldwide sales Didar Domehri and Momentum's acquisitions manager Louis Tisne negotiated the deal. Balthazar's directorial debut is based on the book When Nothing Was All He Said and ...
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Kolerova joins Sony International as Russian sales director
Katerina Kolerova has joined Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) as sales director for Russia and the CIS.Kolerova is based in Moscow, and previously worked at VID Entertainment Group. Sony had served the territory out of its London office but said it was responding to the burgeoning Russian content market with ...
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Jan Dunn and Pauline McLynn team for comedy drama script
Actress Pauline McLynn is starting work on her first screenplay, with her recent collaborator Jan Dunn. Dunn, who directed McLynn in Gypo and in the recent shoot for The Calling, is working with McLynn on the untitled comedy drama. McLynn, best known for her TV role on Father Ted, is ...
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UK co-productions fall from 42 to nine after tax changes
As expected, changes in UK tax breaks have caused a sharp fall in UK co-productions. Changes in tax breaks caused UK co-productions to fall from 42 to nine in the first half of 2007 but a further 20 co-productions have been made in the third quarter, according to new statistics ...
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Pathe closes string of AFM deals for Salles' Linha De Passe
Pathe International has announced a slew of sales for Walter Salles' Linha De Passe following its first footage screening at the AFM.Deals have been done for France (Diaphana), Italy (RAI), Benelux (Cineart), Greece (Spentzos), Portugal (CLMC), and Israel (Shani). Pathe Distribution will handle the UK release.Daniela Thomas co-directed the film, ...
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Alexis Dos Santos starts UK shoot for Unmade Beds
Alexis Dos Santos has started principal photography in the UKthis week for his second film, Unmade Beds. The project, which will shoot for five weeks in London and Nottingham, stars Deborah Francois, Fernando Tielve, Michiel Huisman, Iddo Goldberg and Richard Lintern. The story follows a man who arrives in London ...
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Good Luck Chuck leads UK box office for Lionsgate UK
Lionsgate's Good Luck Chuck stole the top slot in the UK box office chart this weekend with a $2.7m ($1.3m) take from 379 sites.For the full UK chart click here.The romantic comedy enjoyed a $7,225 (£3,473) site average in its opening weekend in the territory and stars popular US comedian ...
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Irish Film Board greenlights three films for Catalyst scheme
The Irish Film Board has announced the three Catalyst feature film projects to receive the green light. Three feature film projects have been green-lit for the low budget scheme Catalystproject. The successful projects, Redux, One Hundred Mornings, and Eamon, were selected from more than 45 submissions, and each film will ...
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Kate Bush writes end title song to The Golden Compass
Kate Bush will contribute the original song Lyra to the end title credits of New Line's upcoming fantasy adventure The Golden Compass.The song is named after Lyra Belacqua, the lead character in the adaptation of Philip Pullman's trilogy about a girl who leads an expedition to rescue some kidnapped children.Bush's ...
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Fox greenlights Dragonball movie for Aug 08 release date
Twentieth Century Fox has greenlit an adaptation of Akira Toriyama's revered manga comic book franchise Dragonball and set a worldwide release date of August 15, 2008.Production will begin later this year on the sci-fi adventure which Kung Fu Hustle's Stephen Chow will produce and James Wong will direct from his ...
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Nine Network strikes Paramount supply deal
Australia's Nine Network has struck a supply deal with Paramount Pictures, securing the rights to half of the studio's theatrical output from 2000/01 and all of it from the following year.The Australian network is also gaining access to programming from the Paramount Television group up to the 2001/02 US broadcast ...
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Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Dir: Zach Helm. US. 2007. 94mins.Shunning the wised-up attitude and frenetic humour of so many other kids movies, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium may occasionally strain too hard for magical whimsy, but there's no disputing the film's sweetness or poignancy. Anchored by a deft performance from Natalie Portman as a young ...
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Dulluc prize shortlists films by Rohmer, Chabrol, and Honore
Eight films have been short-listed for France's prestigious Louis Delluc prize. Half of the nominees hail from confirmed masters and half from younger talent. The films are: Eric Rohmer's The Romance Of Astrea And Celadon , Belle Toujours from Manoel de Oliveira, A Girl Cut In Two by Claude Chabrol, ...