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Prague to host Paramount's $170m GI Joe
Barrandov Studios has signed a contract to host Paramount's $170m GI Joe.The $170m action film would be one of the most expensive ever in the Czech studio's history, between the estimated $150m Casino Royale and the $180m Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And the Wardrobe.Set construction for for ...
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Barbarian Princess starts UK, Hawaii shoot
UK-based Matador Pictures and Hawaii-based Island Film Group have started production today on Barbarian Princess, which director Marc Forby is shooting in Honolulu and in Norfolk, UK.As previously reporter, Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper, Will Patton and Shaun Evans star.The film becomes the first feature to shoot inside Honolulu's Iolani Palace.The ...
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Eros strikes DVD deal with Wal-Mart for Canada stores
Indian film powerhouse Eros International and retail giant Wal-Mart have announced a collaboration to sell Bollywood content through the latter's distribution network in Canada.Eros DVDs will be available in 27 Wal-Mart stores in Canada and the distribution deal will subsequently be extended to the entire Canadian Wal-Mart network.One of the ...
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Vancouver shoot for Parnassus resumes with Depp, Farrell, Law
Producers have announced that filming has begun again on Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which had been on hold after actor Heath Ledger's death on January 22.The $30m modern-day fantasy had finished the first third of the film's shoot in the UK and was gearing up for a ...
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Seville and Maximum to join forces in Canada
Montreal-based Seville Pictures and Toronto-based Maximum Films Distribution are launching a joint venture to distribute their films theatrically in Canada. The move comes seven months after the launch of both the new-look Seville, acquired by fast-rising multinational entertainment company Entertainment One (E1) in August, and Maximum, launched the same month ...
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Tricks, Santiago among winners at Miami Film Festival
The 25th annual Miami International Film Festival closed on Saturday night (March 8) with the presentation of $77,500 in grand jury prizes to five films.The prizegiving, held at the Gusman Center For The Performing Arts, saw the Knight Grand Jury Prize in World Cinema Competition go to Andrzej Jakimowksi's Tricks ...
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IFC takes worldwide rights to Nights And Weekends
IFC Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig's SXSW entry Nights And Weekends.The follow-up to IFC's 2007 release Hannah Takes The Stairs received its world premiere at the Austin, Texas, festival on Mar 9.Nights And Weekends follows a remote couple as their disparate lives in New ...
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Film Source picks up Stuart Urban's doc Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead
Alex Massis' Florida-based The Film Source Company has picked up worldwide rights in all media to Stuart Urban's documentary Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead.Urban's film is a personal journey to solve the mystery surrounding his late father, Garri Urban, a survivor of the Holocaust and the Gulag who may have ...
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Warner scores number one US opening for 10,000 BC with $35.7m
10,000 BC clubbed the competition as it soared to the top of the North American charts on a $35.7m estimated launch through Warner Bros.Roland Emmerich's prehistoric saga didn't fare as well as his previous releases The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, although those titles launched during the summer.Opening in ...
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10,000 BC has epic $25.3m opening in 20 territories
Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) prehistoric epic 10,000 BC turned up trumps at the weekend and led the overseas charts thanks to a $25.3m estimated launch from 3,600 prints that delivered 19 number one debuts in 20 territories.Combined with the film's $35.7m domestic opening the worldwide tally already stands at ...
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Vincent Gallo takes lead role in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro
Francis Ford Coppola has cast Vincent Gallo as the title character in Tetro, which is set to begin principal photography in Buenos Aires on Mar 31.Newly anointed Oscar winner Javier Bardem, Maribel Verdu and newcomer Alden Ehrenreich also star in the story of a young Argentinean man searching for his ...
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Larry Angrisani promoted to senior vice president at Miramax
Larry Angrisani has been promoted to senior vice president of international publicity and awards for Miramax Films.Angrisani has served as head of the international publicity department at Miramax for the past four years and will continue to report to Miramax chief Daniel Battsek and senior vice president of international distribution ...
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Sakoda to head sales, business affairs at Pony Canyon
Shinji Sakoda has been appointed general manager for international sales at Pony Canyon and will also take charge of business affairs.Sakoda replaces Shuji Sato and will step out in his new role in the acquisitions team at Hong Kong's Filmart followed by Cannes.Ryutaro Ueda will take over Sakoda's former role ...
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Strand Releasing takes US rights to Claude Miller's A Secret
Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights from UGC International to Claude Miller's A Secret starring Cecile De France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu and Mathieu Amalric.The film screened recently in the Rendez-Vous With French Cinema series at New York's Lincoln Center and is based on Philippe Grimbert's novel ...
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Che, Chang promoted at NBC Universal International TV Distribution
NBC Universal International Television Distribution has announced two promotions, with Justin Che named senior vice president of international new media licensing and Sandra Chang rising to vice president of international new media licensing.Both Los Angeles-based executives report to executive vice president of international new media licensing Beth Minehart.Che most recently ...
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Vivendi Entertainment launches US theatrical division
Vivendi Entertainment, formerly Vivendi Visual Entertainment, is branching out from its home entertainment expertise into theatrical releasing with plans to handle eight-14 films a year.Mike Doban will head the new division, which will provide distribution and marketing services and co-ordinate P&A funding. Doban has worked in distribution and exhibition for ...
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Vivendi Entertainment branches out into theatrical releasing
Vivendi Entertainment, formerly Vivendi Visual Entertainment, is branching out from its home entertainment expertise into theatrical releasing and plans to launch eight-14 films a year. Mike Doban will head the new division, which will provide distribution and marketing services and co-ordinate P&A funding. Doban has worked in distribution and ...
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McTavish joins cast of Hardy's Cowboys For Christ
Graham McTavish, who stars alongside Sylvestor Stallone in Rambo, has joined Christopher Lee and Joan Collins on the cast of LA-based Fantastic Films International and London-based CFC Film's horror film Cowboys For Christ. Robin Hardy is set to begin filming on Apr 10 in Dumfries, Scotland, the same region ...
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ContentFilm calls off plans for acquisition by Peace Arch
ContentFilm has called off a possible deal with Peace Arch Entertainment.Peace Arch Entertainment Group had entered into a letter of intent to acquire ContentFilm in late December in a deal to be worth 19,500,000 Peace Arch shares plus cash of $35m.Content said that since December 'there have been several circumstances ...
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MPAA claims record domestic, international numbers for 2007
The Motion Picture Association of America announced a record box office of $9.63bn for the calendar year 2007 in the domestic marketplace. Additionally it cited international box office of $17.09bn for a global revenue tally of $26.72bn that represented a 4.7% increase from 2006.MPAA president Daniel Glickman presided over a ...