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Michael Apted will direct third Narnia picture in 2008
Michael Apted will direct Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media's The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.The third instalment in the children's fantasy franchise is scheduled to begin filming in January 2008 in time for release on May 1, 2009.The second episode, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, will ...
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Marc Forster set to direct Bond 22 for Eon, Sony, MGM
Marc Forster will direct the 22nd James Bond film, producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced today with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and MGM.Forster, who directed the 2006 release Stranger Than Fiction for Sony and the upcoming adaptation The Kite Runner for Paramount Vantage and Participant Productions, will start ...
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Hjerdt takes audience prize at Toronto 's Worldwide Short Film Festival
Swedish filmmaker Jorgen Hjerdt won the $5000 Telus Audience Choice Award as the 13th Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF) wrapped on Sunday. In all 10 awards and over $116,000 (C$125,000) in cash and prizes were presented. The C$10,000 Bravo! FACT Award for Best Canadian Short Film went ...
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Global Universal Film Group signs production deal with Hands Free
LA-based Global Universal Film Group, a subsidiary of LitFunding Corp, has signed a deal with Hands Free Entertainment's production team of James Paul and Cory Hudson.Global is scheduled to become a publicly traded company once it has been spun off from LitFunding.Paul and Hudson will assist Global in producing a ...
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Fox Licensing & Merchandising pacts with Walden Media
Walden Media has appointed 20th Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising as its worldwide licensing agent for its future films.The deal will cover upcoming releases such as The Dark Is Rising, Nim's Island, City Of Ember, and The Tortoise & The Hippo.The abovementioned titles will be distributed by Twentieth Century Fox ...
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National Board Of Review to announce annual awards on Dec 5
The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (NBR) will hold its annual awards gala on Jan 15, 2008 in New York.NBR members will screen more than 250 films for awards consideration this year and will announced the honourees on Dec 5.The NBR recently awarded $55,000 in student grants to ...
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Garcia, Quinn, Washington serve as LAFF honorary chairs
Andy Garcia, Aidan Quinn and Kerry Washington will serve as honorary festival chairs for the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival, which kicks off on Jun 21.Garcia will host the opening night event and screening of Kasi Lemmons' Talk To Me.Washington and Quinn will announce the winners of the Target Filmmaker ...
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Glover, Basset, Stiles line up to climb Gospel Hill
Danny Glover, Angela Basset, Julia Stiles, Simon Baker, Adam Baldwin and The RZA have singed on to the political drama Gospel Hill from newly launched Deco Entertainment.The Los Angeles-based company is fully financing the project, which began shooting in South Carolina last week.Giancarlo Esposito makes his directorial debut based on ...
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Academy ranks swell with 115 new invited members
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has invited 115 artists and executives to swell its membership ranks as voting members in 2007.Membership policies adopted by the Academy in 2003 to limit the number of new members would have allowed 150 new members this year but various branch committees ...
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Bernstein promoted to senior vp, production, at Universal
Scott Bernstein has been promoted to senior vice president of production at Universal Pictures, effective immediately.Since Bernstein joined the studio in 2004 he has overseen such projects as last summer's hit The Break-Up and Accepted. He is currently supervising Hellboy 2, which recently began production in HungaryBergstein previously served at ...
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Telefilm Canada greenlights six French-language projects
Telefilm Canada has greenlit six French-language feature film projects, including France-Canada coproduction Instinct De Mort, directed by Jean-Francois Richet and starring Vincent Cassel, Gerard Depardieu and Roy Dupuis; and Belgium-France-Canada coproduction Un Ange A La Mer. Instinct De Mort (Mesrine) partners French producer Thomas Langmann of Paris production house La ...
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MPD sale met by low-ball offers, says owner Fund
The proposed sale of Canadian film distributor Motion Picture Distribution LP (MPD) is mired by low-ball offers, according to Movie Distribution Income Fund, the publicly-traded entity which owns 49 per cent of MPD's limited partnership.Alliance Atlantis (AAC) owns the controlling 51 per cent. AAC is in the process of being ...
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Please Vote For Me wins top feature award at Silverdocs
The Silverdocs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival came to a close at the weekend following a programme of 100 films from 42 countries.The Silverdocs Sterling Award for a feature film was awarded to Weijun Chen's Please Vote For Me. The director receives $10,000 cash and $10,000 in-kind services from Video Labs ...
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Shotgun Stories, Out Of Time take prizes at Seattle
The 33rd Annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) closed at the weekend [June 17] with the presentation of the Golden Space Needle Awards and the North American premiere of Laurent Tirard's Moliere.All in all 405 films screened during the 25-day event, which festival organisers hailed as a record-breaker as they ...
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Silver Surfer conquers domestic box office wth $57.4m weekend
Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer opened top as expected on an estimated $57.4m that marginally beat its predecessor's $56.1m debut two years ago.Weekend box office dropped against the same period last year for the third consecutive weekend as the top 12 films combined for $138.8m, down 4% from ...
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Shrek leads monster weekend at international box office
Shrek the Third won the four-way battle for overseas supremacy at the weekend as Paramount/PPI's animated feature grossed an estimated $46m from 3,693 screens in 36 territories.The film crossed $100m and currently stands at $107m thanks to 13 launches led by a series of record-breaking results.Shrek The Third registered a ...
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Antonia gets US deal with Anywhere Road, Red Envelope
Anywhere Road and Red Envelope Entertainment have acquired Tata Amaral's Brazilian musical drama Antonia for North America.The partners plan a US theatrical release on Aug 17 for the story of four gifted friends from violent and poor backgrounds to release their dreams of becoming a hip hop band. The film ...
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Adam Rifkin's Look takes grand jury prize at CineVegas
Adam Rifkin's drama Look, which was shot on hundreds of surveillance cameras, won the Grand Jury Prize as the 9th Annual CineVegas Film Festival came to a close at the weekend [June 16].A Special Jury Award for best directing was presented to Joy Dietrich for her drama Tie A Yellow ...
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Daryn Okada elected to second term as ASC president
Daryn Okada has been elected to serve a second one-year term as president of the American Society Of Cinematographers (ASC).The other new officers are vice presidents Michael Goi, Richard Crudo, and Owen Roizman, Treasurer Victor J Kemper, Secretary Michael Negrin, and Sergeant At Arms John Hora.The new board of governors ...
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Vaughn & Thykier's Marv strikes three-year deal with Sony
Sony Pictures has entered into a three-year first-look deal with Matthew Vaughn and Kris Thykier's UK-based Marv Films as part of the studio's International Motion Picture Production initiative.Vaughn launched Marv Films in 2003 as the follow-up to Ska Films, the collaboration with Guy Ritchie that spawned Lock, Stock and Two ...