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Autumn Ball takes top prize at 7th Marrakech festival
In the presence of Morocco's crown prince, HRH Prince Moulay Rachid, and an international jury headed up by Milos Forman and including John Hurt, Shekar Kapur and Claude Miller, the seventh Marrakech International Film Festival signed off by giving its Golden Star for Best Film to Estonian director Veiko Ounpuu's ...
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Will Smith, Chipmunks give shot in the arm to North American box office
I Am Legend shot some much needed seasonal sparkle into the box office with a sensational $76.5m launch that set a new mark for December and gave star Will Smith the biggest opening weekend of his career.Combined with a strong $45m support act courtesy of Fox's Alvin And The Chipmunks, ...
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Compass stays top in international with $29m second weekend
The Golden Compass held on to its number one international status and hauled itself to within touching distance of $100m in its second weekend.The fantasy adventure grossed an estimated $29m through New Line International (NLI) to raise the overseas tally to $90m. The Golden Compass has grossed $131m worldwide to ...
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Wright to get Visionary Award from Palm Springs Film Festival
The 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) willhonour Atonement director Joe Wright with the Sonny Bono VisionaryAward at the annual awards gala on January 5, 2008. Festival chairman Earl Greenburg said the talent Wright displayed inAtonement, which leads the field in the Golden Globes race with sevennominations, and ...
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Warner Bros, Prasad strike strategic alliance for digital post production
Post production services Warner Bros Motion Picture Imaging and India's Prasad Corporation have formed a strategic alliance to offer digital post production and restoration services to global clients.The two companies will transfer content between one another on a dedicated line. Prasad has already begun working with Motion Picture Imaging to ...
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Charlie Wilson's War, Sweeney Todd fail to make AFI's Ten Best list
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced its 10 movies of the year yesterday [Dec 16], an annual roster that in the eyes of the jury advances the art of the moving image, enhances America's cultural heritage, inspires audiences and artists and/or makes a mark on American society.The titles are, in ...
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FremantleMedia and RTL launch German producer-distributor Ufa
Together with the RTL Group, FremantleMedia has launched a new producer-distributor Ufa Cinema through its German subsidiary UFA to deliver feature films for the local market and possibly be the first step towards the creation of a European major studio. The new initiative already has 40 projects in the ...
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UK police arrest four people and seize 10,000 pirate DVDS
UK police have arrested four people and seized 10,000 counterfeit DVDs in raids based on information gathered by the Federation Against Copyright Theft. The raids were on three stalls at Western International Market in Hounslow, Middlesex and at two addresses in Slough, Berkshire. Officers from Hounslow Borough of the Metropolitan ...
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Warlords rampages across Asia with $15m opening
Peter Ho-sun Chan's The Warlords has set a record as the biggest simultaneous Chinese release of the year, grossing $15m across five Asian territories on its opening weekend. The bulk of the box office came from China where the film became the biggest domestic opener of the year, clinching $12.2 ...
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Boll takes over world sales for 15+ titles from Allied Entertainment
Boll AG has taken over he world sales for 15+ titles from the LA-based genre specialist Allied Entertainment.The lineup includes Rafael Zielinski's classic teen sex comedy Screwballs and brings the total number of films handled internationally by Boll AG to 60. Other films in the deal include Fallen Angels starring ...
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Revolver takes on UK distribution of U2 3D
UK distributor Revolver Entertainment will handle the UK distribution of U2 3D.Revolver will distribute the film in Real D, IMAX 3-D and other digital 3-D formats across the UK on Feb 22, 2008.The film, which was shown as a work in progress in Cannes, is directed by Catherine Owens and ...
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Nelvana takeover, merger on cards
Animation house Nelvana hasconfirmed it is in talks "to investigate the possibility of a businesscombination".The company's shares hit a record high on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Thursday, climbing to $41.25, up $3.45. Trading volume reached approximately 350,000 shares.While Nelvana did not name the other party in the negotiations, rumours ...
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Jakarta honours 3 Days To Forever, Nagabonar
Riri Riza's road movie 3 Days To Forever was named best Indonesian film as the 9th Jakarta International Film Festival (Jiffest) came to a close. Deddy Mizwar bagged best Indonesian director for his comedy hit Nagabonar (Becomes) 2. Each was awarded a cash prize of US$5,000.To nurture young filmmakers, Jiffest ...
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The Great Debaters
Dir: Denzel Washington. US. 2007. 125 minutes.A strong and similarly emotionally resonant follow-up to his 2002 debut behind the camera, Antwone Fisher, Denzel Washington's second directorial effort is a familiarly structured but extremely effective drama. Lacking pretense and guile, The Great Debaters tells the true story of an African-American college ...
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Whitton launches Belfast production outfit with Attenborough, Gilbert
Robert Whitton, commercially property investment expert and CEO of aAIM Group, has launched a new production company with director Richard Attenborough and producer Jo Gilbert.The company is named Real Holywood Productions, after its Belfast neighborhood. Real Holywood intends to focus on Northern Ireland-based productions.Attenborough and Gilbert recently shot the partially ...
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Whatever Lola Wants
Dir: Nabil Ayouch, France/Canada. 2007. 110 mins.French-produced, set between New York and Cairo, scored by an Indian-born French composer and directed by a Moroccan, Whatever Lola Wants practices the same enlightened multiculturalism that it so passionately preaches. But although Nabil Ayouch's mid-budget third feature has its heart in the right ...
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Berlin Reverse Angle to include films by Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders
Films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog andWim Wenders are to be featured in a special Berlinale programmeentitled 'Rebellion of the Filmmakers', organised to accompany theworld premiere of the documentary Reverse Angle - Rebellion of theFilmmakers about the history of the legendary Germanproducer-distributor Filmverlag der Autoren. Founded in 1971 on ...
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UKFC backs Universal's Lust, Caution release with $400,000 in support
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has announced the its funding of specialised releases in UK cinemas. The latest supported films are:$403,170 (£200,000) to Universal Pictures for Ang Lee's Lust, Caution $201,587 (£100,000) to The Works UK Distribution for Richard Attenborough's Closing the Ring $50,072 (£24,839) to Park ...
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Captain Abu Raed
Dir/Scr: Amin Matalqa. Jordan/USA 2007. 109mins.Only a handful of full-length films have come out of Jordan in the fifty years since the country's first feature, Struggle in Jarash. This makes Captain Abu Raed's commercial poise and polish all the more remarkable: a moving dramatic fable about an elderly airport janitor's ...
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YouTube founders to receive PGA Vanguard Award
The Producers Guild of America's (PGA) 2008 Vanguard Award will go to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.The award, which recognises outstanding achievement in new media and technology, will be presented at the 2008 Producers Guild Awards on February 2 2007 in Los Angeles.'YouTube has connected its global audience ...