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Legend produces legendary international grosses in fifth weekend
Just as Will Smith's character repels hordes of infected assailants in I Am Legend, so the Warner Bros release has fended off wave after wave of competitors to maintain its status as the number one international film.Despite solid performances by National Treasure: Book Of Secrets, Alvin And The Chipmunks, Bee ...
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Atonement, Sweeney Todd win best picture Golden Globes
No film dominated the 65th Golden Globes last night [Jan 13] as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association spread its largesse across a wide field in a drastically truncated news announcement due to the ongoing writers strike.
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Then She Found Me, Autism take audience honours at Palm Springs
Helen Hunt's first outing as director Then She Found Me won the Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Audience Award for best narrative feature as the event came to a close on Jan 13.Tricia Regan's Autism: The Musical earned the Audience Award for best documentary feature. The FIPRESCI award For ...
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Local market share for German and Swiss films drops in 2007
The German and Swiss cinemas saw their local market shares shrink dramatically in 2007, according to provisional year-end figures. After the euphoria of 2006 when German films had posted a market share of 23% thanks to such films as Perfume - Story Of A Murderer and football documentary Deutschland. Ein ...
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Chinese movie web-sites join forces against piracy
Fifty Chinese movie web-sites have jointly established the 'China Alliance of Legitimate Movie Web-sites' as a disciplinary alliance which aims to provide legal movies online and stop offering pirated movies. Initiated by Copyright Protection Center of China (CPCC), Movie Copyright Protection Association of China (MCPAC) and online movie provider www.quacor.com, ...
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China's box office up by 26% with localfilms holding steady
China's total box office gross reached $458.63m (RMB3.33bn) in 2007, a 26% increase on the previous year, marking the fifth year in a row that box office has risen by more by then 20%. The figures were announced on Friday (Jan 11) by the Film Bureau under China 's State ...
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Park Circus strikes UK theatrical deal with Arrow Films
UK distributor Park Circus Films has signed a deal to represent the Arrow Films catalogue theatrically in the UK and Ireland.Arrow's 160-plus title catalogue includes films such as Cinema Paradiso, The Millionairess and Rififi.Park Circus is the UK 's leading theatrical distributor of classic films. IT has similar deals in ...
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Luc Besson partners on $17m environmental Boomerang project
Luc Besson has partnered with photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and luxury brands group PPR for a $17m (Euros 11.5m) film project provisionally entitled Boomerang. The film is set to be released on June 5, 2009 to coincide with World Environment Day.EuropaCorp will distribute the film on a worldwide day-and-date release and ...
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Bavaria picks up Kollek's Berlinale competitorRestless
Bavaria Film International has take on the world sales for Israeli independent filmmaker Amos Kollek's latest feature Restless which has been selected by the Berlinale for one of the places in the 2008 Competition lineup.The co-production between Israel, Germany, Canada, France and Belgium tells the story of the writer Moshe ...
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Berlinale's Generation to open with Winky, Black Balloon
The Berlinale's Generation section for children and young people has finalised its 2008 lineup with 24 feature and 31 short films from 20 countries, including eight world and seven international feature film premieres.The Generation Kplus competition will open on February 8 at the Zoo Palast with the Dutch film Where ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for Liz Mermin's Shot In Bombay
UK-based international sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on sales for Liz Mermin's latest documentary, Shot In Bombay.Little Bird produced the feature documentary, which goes behind the scenes of Bollywood film Shootout At Lokhandwala and follows the controversial trial of Indian screen legend Sanjay Dutt. The film includes the last ...
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Iain Smith plans $20m rugby drama The Originals
UK-based producer Iain Smith (Cold Mountain, Children Of Men) is in advanced development on The Originals, a Chariots Of Fire-style drama about the exploits of the famous 1905 New Zealand All Black rugby team during their tour of Great Britain. The team was known as 'The Originals.'Mark Joffe is to ...
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Sci-Fi-London programmes Paragraph 78 and Wolfhound
Independent genre festival Sci-Fi-London has announced that it is to return on April 30 for five days of screenings and events. Now in its seventh year, Sci-Fi-London, or The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, will take place at the Apollo West End cinema until May 4.Films ...
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UK film industry remains upbeat despite US strike worries
Leading figures in theUK film industryare remaining upbeat about the prospects for the territory despite theimpact oftheHollywood writers' strike on shoots.Ron Howard's Angels & Demons, Ridley Scott's Nottingham and the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Prince Of Persia have either withdrawn from the UK or been postponed.The WGA strike is having an impact, ...
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PGA's five finalists include Diving Bell, Juno, Michael Clayton
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood will contest the Darryl F Zanuck Producer Of The Year Award In Theatrical Motion Pictures at this year's 19th Annual Producers Guild Of America (PGA) awards ceremony.The PGA's animated nominees are ...
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Media Rights Capital strikes interim deal with WGA
Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu's film, television and digital financing and production firm Media Rights Capital (MRC) has struck an interim deal with the Writers Guild Of America (WGA).The agreement is similar to the one signed by the WGA and The Weinstein Company late last week and earlier deals closed ...
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Alliance Films loses one owner, expects a new one
Alliance Films has lost one co-owner but a new one is expected to be announced shortly. According to a report in the Globe and Mail newspaper, Toronto-based private equity firm EdgeStone Capital Partners has sold its 49 per cent stake in the Canadian distribution company, formerly Motion Picture Distribution (MPD). ...
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Former CinemaVault executive Arroyave launches new sales outfit
Former Cinemavault Releasing executive Steve Arroyave has launched a new world sales outfit, Arrow Entertainment. Based in Toronto, Arrow will make its debut at the European Film Market with writer-director Stewart Raffil's Mysterious, a supernatural thriller starring James Brolin, Antonio Sabato and Annalynne McCord and produced by Diane Kirman of ...
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London Film Commission appoints Hayes as head
The London Film Commission (LFC) has appointed Sue Hayes as its commissioner and announced that Richard Attenborough will be its first patron.Hayes worked as a documentary producer in the UK and US and has been director of the Edinburgh International Television Festival. The commission has also appointed Graham Anderson, managing ...
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Maike Haas rejoins Sony in international production unit
Maike Haas has returned to Sony following an eight-year stint at Buena Vista International Germany and has been named vice president of international production, Europe, for Sony Pictures Entertainment's International Motion Picture Production division.Haas will oversee European operations from Berlin and identify and develop projects with a focus on German-language ...