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Baron Cohen gets Israel Film Festival achievement award
Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen has been chosen to be the inaugural recipient of the outstanding achievement award at the 22nd Annual Israel Film Festival.The British comedian will join fellow nominees Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal and Israeli actress Gila Almagor at the opening night gala award dinner on ...
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Screen Index up 8% with continued boom in Italy
Local films helped push collective global box office takings of nine territories up 8% last weekend compared to the same weekend last year, according to Screen International's Screen Index. Italy continues to surge and was up 51.8% year-on-year thanks to the success of Fausto Brizzi's sequel Notte Prima Degli Esami ...
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SPRI's Ghost Rider blazes into UK, Japan, Brazil
Ghost Rider is expected to dominate the international arena for a third consecutive weekend as it prepares to launch in three major markets.Sony Pictures Releasing International's (SPRI) comic book adaptation has amassed $41.3m so far and this weekend rides into the UK and Brazil on Mar 2 on 350 and ...
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EFP supports eight European features at Mar Del Plata
European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support progamme is supporting eight European films at the Mar Del Plata Film Festival. The festival, which runs March 8-18, is one of seven festivals supported by FSS. Sales agents are given grants for promotional costs of up to $6,609 (Euros 5,000) per film. As ...
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Dukakis, MacLaine reteam for Ash's Poor Things
Olympia Dukakis is in talks to join Shirley MacLaine on the dark comedy Poor Things, in what would be their first on-screen reunion in nearly 20 years.The pair last starred together in 1989's box office smash Steel Magnolias. This time around the tone is very different: Poor Things is inspired ...
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Blindsight continues to see sales for Little Film Company
Little Film Company has concluded major territory sales at the European Film Market to Robson Entertainment's documentary Blindsight.The film, which won the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, sold to TAO Cinemathek (Germany), Phantom Films (Japan), Conquest Films (Brazil), and Quality Films (Mexico).Rights also went to Svensk ...
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Paramount veteran Ciccone to head 42West's west coast division
Susan Ciccone has joined 42West to head its West Coast film marketing division. Ciccone will leave her current position as vice president of publicity at Paramount Pictures, where she has served for nearly eight years, and assumes her new role in mid-April.She will work out of the company's Century City ...
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Tarantino to present Grindhouse festival at LA cinema
Heralding the Apr 6 release of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's double feature Grindhouse, a Los Angeles repertory cinema will host Quentin Tarantino Presents the Los Angeles Grindhouse Festival 2007 from Mar 4-Apr 30.The event at the New Beverly Cinema will screen more than 50 exploitation films from the 1970s ...
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Lives Of Others gets English-language remake from Mirage, TWC
Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack will produce an English-language remake of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's foreign-language Oscar winner The Lives Of Others for The Weinstein Company (TWC).The film-makers will serve as producers under their Mirage Productions label, which has renewed its exclusive first-look deal with TWC. It remained unclear last ...
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Binder, Blunt spice up SXSW attractions
The 2007 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference & Festival will host a special screening on March 14 ofMike Binder's Reign Over Me, starring Don Cheadle and Adam Sandler.Some cast and crew are expected to attend. In addition, British pop-star James Blunt is coming to the Austin festival to attend ...
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Sony, SND/M6, Tele Muenchen among buyers of Marvel films
Marvel Studios has announced a series of international deals on Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, the first two films which it is self-financing through its recent $525m credit facility from Merrill Lynch.Sony Pictures has acquired distribution rights to both films in Japan and Spain, SND/M6 has taken them for ...
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JJ Abrams Star Trek movie set for Dec 25 2008 release
Paramount Pictures has confirmed that JJ Abrams' upcoming 11th Star Trek instalment will begin shooting this autumn in time for a Dec 25 2008 release.Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, Abram's co-writers on Mission Impossible III, wrote the screenplay and will serve as executive producers alongside Bryan Burk. Abrams and his ...
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Toho-Towa to handle Universal films in Japan
Universal Pictures will dissolve its distribution venture UIP Japan and will launch a partnership with Toho-Towa this summer.The first films to open through the new partnership will bePaul Greengrass' The Bourne Ultimatum starring Matt Damon.'We are extremely pleased to be in business with Toho-Towa, who will be invested in the ...
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Music Within, Away From Her bookend first AFI Dallas festival
Steven Sawalich's Vietnam veteran saga Music Within and Sarah Polley's Alzheimer's tale Away From Her bookend the inaugural AFI Dallas International Film Festival, scheduled to run from Mar 22-Apr 1.Overall 191 features and shorts will screen, with sponsor Target lining up two $25,000 prizes to the winners of the narrative ...
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GreeneStreet, Katz reteam for third time on Strange But True
New York and Los Angeles-based GreeneStreet Films (GSF) has purchased the screenplay and the rights to John Searles' novel Strange But True.Ross Katz brought the project to GSF and will produce with the company, which will finance and produce. Katz and GSF previously collaborated on In The Bedroom and are ...
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Oscar shorts nominees available on iTunes
Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures joined forces with iTunes to make Oscar-nominated short films available for the public to stream just days prior to the Academy Awards ceremony.The seven independently produced nominated shorts included five live action and two animated shorts. Available to view for free via iTunes were the ...
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Marvel's new Hulk movie set for Toronto shoot in summer
Marvel Studios has confirmed it will shoot The Incredible Hulk in Toronto this summer. The $100m+ comic book adaptation is the second feature of the newly-refinanced studio folllowing Iron Man. The announcement came as welcome news for the city following last week's tentative settlement of a strike by Canadian performers. ...
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BitTorrent goes legit, making deal with major movie houses
BitTorrent Inc, the San Francisco based company that created the software used to download pirated blockbusters from the internet, has entered into a licensing agreement with some of America's top studios in an attempt to dramatically decrease blackmarket activity. Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros and Lionsgate are ...
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'Could you double-check the envelope please'' Scorsese jokes as crime thriller proves biggest winner of the night
The Departed stole the show at the 79th Academy Awards in Hollywood last night, taking top prize for best picture and propelling Martin Scorsese to his long-awaited first directing Oscar.Warner Bros and Initial Entertainment Group's crime thriller remake took four awards overall and had been regarded as a solid contender ...
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Ghost Rider takes international lead with $16.1m from 40 territories
Ghost Rider's fiery lass tightened its grip on the international arena in the film's second weekend, adding an estimated $16.1m from 3,000 screens in 40 markets for a $39.4m international running total.The action film opened at number one in Germany through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) on $2.2m from 363 ...