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IMAX signs cinema pact with Austria's Cineplexx Kinobetriebe
IMAX Corp. and Austrian exhibitor Cineplexx Kinobetriebe have signed a joint-venture agreement that will see three digital projection cinemas installed in the cities of Graz, Vienna and Hohenems. The pact marks the giant screen company's first joint-venture in Europe. Thus far, IMAX has deals for over 180 digital projection systems, ...
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Ghent Festival honours Richard Jenkins
Veteran actor Richard Jenkins will be honoured at the 35th Ghent International Film Festival with their Special Achievement Award.It will be presented after the Benelux premiere of The Visitor in Ghent, Belgium on Oct 7. Jenkins, along with co-stars Haaz Sleiman and Danai Gurira will attend the screening.In Overture's The ...
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Marvel pacts to shoot next four films in southern California
Marvel Studios has made an agreement with LA-based Raleigh Studios to make its next four films at Raleigh's facility in Manhattan Beach just south of Los Angeles on the coast of California. The projects named in the agreement are Iron Man 2, Thor, The First Avenger: Captain America and The ...
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Mandalay, Liquid Comics team up for film of Ramayan 3392 AD
Mandalay Pictures is teaming up with Liquid Comics (formerly Virgin Comics) on a film of Liquid's graphic novel Ramayan 3392 AD.Mark Canton and his Atmosphere Entertainment (300, The Spiderwick Chronicles) will produce the film alongside Mandalay Pictures. Gotham Chopra and Sharad Devarajan of Liquid Comics will executive produce the Mandalay ...
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Stiller, Tomei join Hollywood Awards lineup on Oct 27
Ben Stiller will be honoured with the Hollywood Comedy Of The Year Award, while Marisa Tomei will be named supporting actress of the year, the cast of The Secret Life Of Bees ensemble of the year and Robert Pattinson newcomer of the year at the Hollywood Awards ceremony on Oct ...
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Miramax signs Canadian output deal with Maple
Miramax Films has signed an exclusive all-rights deal with Canadian distributor Maple Pictures that will see the Toronto-based company handling Miramax titles across the country.A new partnership was imminent once Miramax ended its 14-year relationship with Alliance Films and its antecedents in April of this year. Former Alliance executive Jim ...
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Visit Films picks up international on Baghead, Half-Life
Visit Films has acquired international rights to the Duplass Brothers' horror comedy Baghead and sci-fi drama Half-Life from director Jennifer Phang. Both films had their world premieres at this year's Sundance Film Festival in January.Baghead is set to have its international premiere at the Rome International Film Festival later this ...
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Mamma Mia! stays on top at international box office
Universal's Mamma Mia! extended its reign as dancing queen of the international box office this weekend, opening top in Italy and grossing an estimated $14.1m from 4,406 dates in 47 territories overall.Among newer international entrants, Eagle Eye, the DreamWorks-Paramount thriller, opened in 18 markets and grossed an estimated $8.3m from ...
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua leads domestic box office pack
Disney's Beverly Hills Chihuahua was leader of the pack over a fiercely competitive weekend at the North American box office.Grossing an estimated $29m, the talking-dog family comedy was one of three new wide releases to make it into the top ten. Three other wide openers, meanwhile, failed to live up ...
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Martesko-Fenster joins Babelgum as GM, publisher of film division
Karol Martesko-Fenster has joined Babelgum, the free, independent web TV platform as general manager and publisher of the company's film division.He will oversee all aspects of the film offering on Babelgum, expanding programming acquisitions and partnerships and global film industry and festival activities. He also assumes the role of managing ...
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LA Hungarian Festival opening on Oct 15 with Ezster's Inheritance
The eighth Hungarian Film Festival Of Los Angeles will take place Oct 16-23 in West Hollywood presented by Laemmle Theatres and Bela Bunyik's Bunyik Entertainment.The event will screen numerous US premieres of Hungarian films as well as a compilation of US studio films produced, directed, written, shot or featuring music ...
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Dennings joins Harrelson, Oh in Darius Films' Defendor
Kat Dennings, starring alongside Michael Cera in this weekend's release Nick And Nora's Infinite Playlist, has signed on to play the role of Kat in Defendor opposite Woody Harrelson and Sandra Oh.Harrelson will playing Arthur, an ordinary man who believes he has asecret identity as the superhero Defendor. Oh plays ...
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Martinsons' Loss selected as Lithuania's Oscar submission
Maris Martinsons' debut feature Loss from ART&A Film Production has been selected as Lithuania's foreign language Oscar submission.Loss intertwines the stores of six people whose destinies overlap after a tragic accident that occurred more than 20 years earlier.Martinsons co-wrote the screenplay with Raimondas Paskevicius and produced with Linda Krukle and ...
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Seven Arts begins shooting Night Of The Demons remake
Principal photography has commenced in New Orleans on Seven Arts Pictures' horror remake Night Of The Demons.Adam Gierasch wrote the screenplay with his longtime partner Jace Anderson and is directing the story of a Halloween party that turns into a nightmare when a group of teenagers find themselves being stalked ...
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Che, The Wrestler named centrepiece screenings at AFI FEST
The West Coast premieres of Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler and Steven Soderbergh's Che have been selected as the AFI FEST 2008's centrepiece screenings.Soderbergh's Che Guevara films starring Benicio Del Toro premiered at Cannes and will screen on November 1 while The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke will screen on November 6 ...
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Fox Walden restructure sees Godsick move back into Fox
Fox Walden chief Jeffrey Godsick is rejoining Fox Filmed Entertainment as executive vice president of marketing and digital content as Fox and Walden Media streamline the joint venture to take greater advantage of Fox's marketing expertise.Both Walden and Fox will continue to develop family films separately with the option of ...
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Romero begins production on untitled zombie movie in Canada
Production has begun on George A Romero's untitled latest zombie parable in Ontario, Canada.In keeping with all Romero's other films the project is not a sequel but a new adventure informed by the contemporary social and political climate.The action takes place on an isolated island off the North American coast ...
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Disney announce record advance bookings in UK for High School 3
Three weeks before its release of The Disney Channel adaptation High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures UK has announced the film has recorded the biggest advance bookings for a film in the UK.As of October 1 cinemas across the UK have taken bookings valued at ...
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Mackiewicz joins Wright as co-president of Regent Worldwide Sales
Liz Mackiewicz has been named co-president alongside Adam Wright of Regent Entertainment's sale division Regent Worldwide Sales.Mackiewicz recently served as senior vice president of international sales at Morgan Creek International and will share with Wright oversight of all management and distribution initiatives as the ten-year-old company looks to expand.'We are ...