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Starting Out In The Evening
Dir: Andrew Wagner. US, 2007. 105minsA superb performance by Frank Langella anchors the exceedingly literate, engrossing Starting Out In The Evening, a richly drawn and for the most part artfully understated portrait of an aged novelist struggling with the flickering flame of creativity's muse. Mainstream breakout potential is highly unlikely ...
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Final approval set for Brazil-Germany co-production agreement
After more than two years of legislative limbo, the new Brazil-Germany Co-Production Agreement has finally been approved by both houses in Brazil's National Congress and has now come into force. The new accord had been signed by Brazil's Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and Germany's then State Minister of Culture ...
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Fox greenlights Dragonball movie for Aug 08 release date
Twentieth Century Fox has greenlit an adaptation of Akira Toriyama's revered manga comic book franchise Dragonball and set a worldwide release date of August 15, 2008.Production will begin later this year on the sci-fi adventure which Kung Fu Hustle's Stephen Chow will produce and James Wong will direct from his ...
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Kate Bush writes end title song to The Golden Compass
Kate Bush will contribute the original song Lyra to the end title credits of New Line's upcoming fantasy adventure The Golden Compass.The song is named after Lyra Belacqua, the lead character in the adaptation of Philip Pullman's trilogy about a girl who leads an expedition to rescue some kidnapped children.Bush's ...
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Pathe closes string of AFM deals for Salles' Linha De Passe
Pathe International has announced a slew of sales for Walter Salles' Linha De Passe following its first footage screening at the AFM.Deals have been done for France (Diaphana), Italy (RAI), Benelux (Cineart), Greece (Spentzos), Portugal (CLMC), and Israel (Shani). Pathe Distribution will handle the UK release.Daniela Thomas co-directed the film, ...
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Verhoeven signs to direct The Thomas Crown Affair 2
Paul Verhoeven has signed on to direct The Thomas Crown Affair 2 for MGM.The development broke when the film-maker mentioned the project on the Dutch radio show Met Het Oog Op Morgen.Also known as The Topkapi Affair, the story is based on Eric Ambler's novel The Light Of Day about ...
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Complex teams with Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures for Blackline films
Christian Johnston's Complex Films has teamed up with LA and Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures to create action franchise The Blackline International Trilogy.The films are based on actual events involving private military corporations and will kick off with Blackline: The Beirut Contract, in which a private operatives are sent to rescue ...
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Complex teams with Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures for Blackline films
Christian Johnston's Complex Films has teamed up with LA and Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures to create action franchise The Blackline International Trilogy.The films are based on actual events involving private military corporations and will kick off with Blackline: The Beirut Contract, in which a private operatives are sent to rescue ...
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Dokument buys domestic rights to Bornhak's 8 Miles High
New US independent Dokument Films has acquired all North American rights to Achim Bornhak's biopic 8 Miles High (Das Wilde Leben). Dokument is a subsidiary of Illinois-based MPI Media Group.MPI's vice president of acquisitions and development Greg Newman negotiated the deal with Andreas Rothbauer of Beta Cinema and the company ...
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Frankel fills top communications role at The Weinstein Company
Former Rainbow Media communications chief Matthew Frankel has joined The Weinstein Company (TWC) in the newly created role of chief communications officer and senior vice president of corporate affairs.Frankel will start in TWC's New York offices on Nov 26 and initially work alongside Sarah Rothman, the Weinsteins' head of corporate ...
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Dodona sees 50% digital conversion by 2013, pushed by 3D
Half of the world's cinema screens could be digital by 2013, according to predictions from Dodona Research. A total of 4,627 screens have been converted as of September 2007, representing about 5% of the global total. Dodona analysts estimate that the potential market for digital cinema equipment could be $8bn.Report ...
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Munyurangabo wins international competition at AFI FEST
Lee Isaac Chung's Munyurangabo was named AFI FEST 2007's winner of the grand jury prize for international feature competition.Andreas Mol Dalsgaard's Afghan Muscles and Nina Davenport's Operation Filmmaker shared the International documentary grand jury prize.The shorts jury prize went to Nash Edgerton's Spider, while a special award for best animated ...
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Sony's first Indian production Saawariya is a smash
Sony Pictures' first Indian production Saawariya delivered a mighty debut in India through Sony Pictures Releasing International, where it took an estimated $14.4m from 754 screens.But that was not enough for it to beat Indian number one - Om Shanti Om - which took in about $17m in IndiaOverall Saawariya ...
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Bee Movie takes over top spot at US from American Gangster
DreamWorks-Paramount's Bee Movie climbed to the top of the North American charts at the weekend as it traded places with Universal's crime saga American Gangster.Bee Movie added an estimated $26m through Paramount for $72.2m after two weekends, while Gangster raised its total after the same amount of time by $24.3m ...
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Sony finalises multi-territory deal on sci-fi thriller District 9
Sony Pictures Entertainment has finalised its deal for the Peter Jackson-produced sci-fi District 9, taking North American rights and 'a significant number of foreign territories, including all English speaking territories'.Sony began negotiations with the film's financier and worldwide sales agent QED International during the recent AFM in Santa Monica.Jackson will ...
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Aviva My Love wins audience choice award at NY Israel Film Festival
Shemi Zarhin's Aviva My Love won the 22nd Israel Film Festival in New York's (IFF) Panavision Audience Choice Award for best film on November 8.The film-makers receive one month's use of the $60,000 35mm Panavision camera package to use on their next film within two years.Aviva My Love won six ...
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Fries Film Group acquires worldwide on Surviving Evil
Fries Film Group has acquired worldwide rights to Terence Daw's upcoming horror film Surviving Evil.The UK/South African co-production is set to begin shooting in February 2008 and centres on a group of documentary film-makers marooned on a deserted island in the Philippines where they encounter a fearsome creature.Daw wrote the ...
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Fox takes out MGM/UA's Lions For Lambs in 46 territories
Ratatouille's five-week reign would appear to be at an end as the film begins to wind down and Fox International launches the anti-war film Lions For Lambs in approximately 46 territories.Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International's Ratatouille has amassed $377.5m and executives will expect solid holdover business to propel the ...
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In focus - American film market - Mixed fortunes at 'subdued' AFM
The first big play in Hollywood's slide towards an all-out strike in 2008 inevitably cast a pall over the American Film Market (AFM). As the world's buyers and sellers descended on Santa Monica last week, the big question was whether the disgruntled writers would go on strike for the first ...