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Shroder to direct mythological movie for SCI FI in Romania
Ricky Schroder is to direct Hellhounds, an original movie for the US SCI FI Channel which will shoot on location in Romania from Aug 31 to Sept 19.The film is an international co-production between Canada's Muse Entertainment and Romania's SC Studiourile Media Pro. Muse's Michael Prupas is executive producing alongside ...
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Fictitious documentary on Tropic Thunder goes onto iTunes
DreamWorks has uploaded a companion piece to Tropic Thunder on iTunes that chronicles the fictitious cast and crew's struggle to film the movie with the movie in Paramount-DreamWorks' recent action comedy release.The mockumentary Rain Of Madness stars Jay Baruchel, Jack Black, Steve Coogan, Robert Downey Jr, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte ...
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Brian Owens named artistic director at Nashville Film Festival
Brian Owens has been hired as artistic director of the Nashville Film Festival, which is gearing up for its 40th anniversary celebrations from April 16-23, 2009.Owens previously served as artistic director of the Indianapolis International Film Festival, which he founded in 2003.During his tenure he expanded the festival's programming to ...
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Burn After Reading opens Venice Film Festival
Venice kickedoff last nightwith the galapremiereof the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading.George Clooney and Brad Bitt brought some A-list star power to the red carpet for the opening. To see Screen's review of the film click here.More big names are expected to arrive forthe traditionally glitzy opening weekend, which will ...
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Fifty Dead Men to go ahead at Toronto in defiance of IRA mole
The world premiere of Kari Skogland's Toronto International Film Festival gala Fifty Dead Men Walking will take place, say the film's co-producers, Future Films and HandMade Films International. The film has been the centre of row involving Martin McGartland, the former RUC Special Branch mole who infiltrated the IRA and ...
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Shochiku buys Japanese rights to Chorus Line doc Every Little Step
Shochiku Co Ltd has taken Japanese rights to Endgame Entertainment's documentary Every Little Step which has its world premiere as a special presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept 6.The company plans to release the film, which charts the Broadway musical A Chorus Line from idea to global ...
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Cast lines up for Warner biopic Coco Before Chanel
Production is set to begin on Sept 15 in Paris on Anne Fontaine's Coco Avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel), a new film about the life of the legendary French fashion designer which is being produced by Warner Bros International in association with Haut Et Court, Cine-@, Warner Bros Entertainment and ...
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Maximum picks up world sales to McGowan, Mehta Toronto titles
Maximum Films International has picked up world sales rights on two major Canadian titles at TIFF: Michael McGowan's gala title, One Week, and Deepa Mehta's special presentation, Heaven On Earth.The One Week deal covers all rights except for Canada while the Heaven On Earth deal covers the world ex Canada ...
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Maple Pictures takes Canadian rights to McDonald's Pontypool
Toronto-based distributor Maple Pictures has acquired all Canadian rights in all media to Bruce McDonald's TIFF Vanguard title, Pontypool. Described as the veteran guerilla filmmaker's first foray into horror, the film explores the terrorizing effects of a strange virus in a small town. It's adapted from the novel Pontypool Changes ...
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Ealing Studios sells St Trinian's in three key territories
Ealing Studios International has announced that it has concludedanother three key deals for the distribution of UK box-office hit St Trinian's.The deals, announced Aug 26, have Neo Classics taking United States, Alliance taking Canada and Filmax taking Spain.Making the announcement, Barnaby Thompson, Head of Studio, EalingStudios said: 'We've had lots ...
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Joel B Michaels joins Halcyon as president of production
Veteran producer Joel B Michaels has been named president of production at The Halcyon Company, it was announced today by co-CEOs Victor Kubicek and Derek AndersonMichaels, who is currently serving as executive producer on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles for TV, joins the company immediately and will oversee Terminator Salvation ...
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CMG sells Chemical Wedding to North America, France, Benelux
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has closed several major territorial deals throughout the summer on Chemical Wedding, an occult thriller written by Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson.Starz/Anchor Bay Entertainment has taken rights in North America and Universal Pictures Video (France) bought rights in France, Belgium and The Netherlands.Julian Doyle ...
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Goldcrest forms New York division to co-produce independent films
The Goldcrest Group has formed a new New York-based division called Goldcrest Features which plans to integrate the production process for independent film-makers from pre-production through post-production and delivery all under one roof. The remit is to co-produce up to seven films a year with budgets up to $15m.Gretchen McGowan, ...
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Jaman.com signs over 100 Lionsgate titles to its online service
Online distribution service and film community Jaman.com has signed a deal with Lionsgate to make over 100 Lionsgate titles to Jaman's users.Under the terms of the deal, Jaman.com will showcase Lionsgate titles on its site, some of which will be available for free, ad-supported and instantly streamed in high-definition quality. ...
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Pre-Toronto buys: SPC takes Paris 36, THINKFilm buys Genova
In two significant pre-Toronto acquisitions, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US, Australasian and Scandinavian rights from Pathe International to Christophe Barratier's Paris 36 (Faubourg 36) while THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to Michael Winterbottom's Genova.Paris 36, follow-up to Barratier's feted 2004 release Les Choristes (The Choir), is set to ...
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Visit Films acquires worldwide rights to Adolfo Alix Jr's Adela
New York-based Visit Films has acquired worldwide rights to Adolfo Alix Jr's Filipino drama Adela ahead of its premiere in the Toronto International Film Festival's Contemporary World Cinema section next month.The film tells the story of a former radio personality celebrating her 80th birthday in the slums of Manila who ...
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Dark Knight lords it over international box office
The Dark Knight destroyed the competition at the weekend to consolidate its ranking as the second biggest overseas release of the year-to-date behind Indiana Jones thanks to an estimated $34m haul that boosted the running total to $381.2m.The Warner Bros Pictures International release was in action on more than 7,700 ...
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Thunder holds onto top spot as domestic summer draws to a close
DreamWorks-Paramount's action comedy Tropic Thunder held on to the number one spot in a typically lacklustre late August weekend and added an estimated $16.1m for a $65.7m total.Sony's comedy The House Bunny, which stars Anna Faris as a Playboy bunny cast out of the Mansion who helps a group of ...
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Eden to open Irish Film Festival Of Los Angeles on Oct 2
The West Coast premiere of Liberation Entertainment's marriage drama Eden will open the first Irish Film Festival Of Los Angeles, set to run from October 2-5.Among the films in the programme are Tom Collins' drama Kings about six intertwined lives that stars Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly and Brendan Conroy, as ...
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Sony, MGM move US release of Quantum Of Solace to Nov 14
Columbia and MGM have moved the release of Quantum Of Solace back by one week to November 14 to capitalise on the Thanksgiving Holiday and Warner Bros' decision last week to push back Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince from November 21 to July 2009.In the wake of Warner Bros' ...