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Iron Man and Indy push Paramount past $1bn
Paramount Pictures International (PPI) hit the $1bn mark at the international box office on June 14, making it the first studio to reach the figure internationally this year.PPI hit the mark six weeks faster than it did in 2007, thanks to blockbuster summer films, chiefly Iron Man and Indiana Jones ...
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Shultes takes top prize atSochi
Georgian-born Bakur Bakuradze's Shultes won the Grand Prix for Best Film at this year's Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi.Bakuradze's feature debut about an ordinary man living with his old mother in a big city had its world premiere in Cannes ' Directors Fortnight last month and is distributed ...
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Hunger wins Sydney Film Festival's inaugural competition
Hunger, UK artist-turned-filmmaker Steve McQueen's portrait of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in his dying days, has won the inaugural A$60,000 Sydney Film Prize. The film won the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and wowed audiences when it screened twice as part of the Sydney Film Festival just ...
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Chiao's Arc Light, Polybona to co-produce Dream
Peggy Chiao's Taiwan-based Arc Light Films and Beijing-based Polybona Films International will co-produce romantic drama Like A Dream, to be directed by Australia-based filmmaker Clara Law. Daniel Wu and Chinese actress Yuan Quan head the cast of the $2.3m (RMB16m) film, which is scripted by Eddie Fong. Polybona will also ...
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Bangkok International Film Festival announces new dates
The Bangkok International Film Festival (BKIFF) has announced that this year's edition will take place September 23-30. The festival announced in May that it was being pushed back from July to September, but hadn't decided the exact dates. The new timing overlaps with the Thailand Entertainment Expo, which kicks off ...
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Bize, Gomes projects selected for Locarno's Open Doors
New feature films by Chilean director Matias Bize and Brazilian filmmaker Marcelo Gomes are among 12 projects from 10 Latin American countries selected out of a total of 332 submissions to participate in the Open Doors Factory co-production meeting from August 10-12 during this year's Locarno Film Festival.Bize's low-budget HD ...
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Inside Pictures selects 15 UK producers and execs
The Film Business Academy at Cass Business School, Qwerty Films and Skillset have selected the next 15 participants for its pretigious Inside Pictures initiative, a scheme to support rising producers andexecutives across the UK film industry.lWhile Inside Pictures has never been for newcomers, this year's group appears more advanced than ...
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Power strikes DVD distribution deal with Lionsgate UK
After working together on the successful release of Flood, Lionsgate UK and production company Power have formed a long-term, exclusive home entertainment distribution partnership.Power, a TV production company that recently branched out into feature films, will release all its productions including mini-series, features and TV series, through Lionsgate UK.Power's current ...
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Mancini appointed Cinecitta general director
Italy's Cinecitta Studios has named Lamberto Mancini as its new general director, replacing Antonio More who had held the position for more than ten years.Mancini, 40, worked in business and marketing before becoming deputy general director of the Italian studio in June 1999. The appointment was voted in by Cinecitta ...
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David Shaye joins Content Partners in business development
Los Angeles-based financial company Content Partners has hired David Shaye to be its new director of business development.Shaye will report directly to senior vice president Krista Parkinson and Content Partners founders Steve Kram and Steve Blume.The new arrival previously served as a TV development executive and producer and started his ...
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Dan Kolsrud named evp of theatrical physical production at MGM
Dan Kolsrud has been appointed executive vice president of worldwide theatrical physical production at MGM and Mary Parent continues to assemble her team to return the studio to its production roots.Kolsrud joins executive vice president of development Cale Boyter and vice president of production Becky Sloviter.Kolsrud most recently served as ...
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Gen Art Chicago Film Festival opens with Bart Got A Room
The Second Annual Gen Art Chicago Film Festival will open in Chicago on June 23 with Plum Pictures' comedy Bart Got A Room starring William H Macy and Cheryl Hines.Brian Hecker's film was one of the more popular entries at Tribeca, where it received its world premiere in April, and ...
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Summit takes on worldwide rights to Imagi's Astro Boy
Summit Entertainment has swooped on worldwide rights excluding Japan, Hong Kong and China to Imagi Entertainment's manga project Astro Boy.Summit is expected to plan a 2009 release on the animated tale of a young robot who embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Warner Bros and The Weinstein Company previously held ...
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James Gunn to deliver keynote speech at IFTA Production Conference
Film-maker James Gunn will deliver the keynote speech at the Independent Film & Television Alliance's (IFTA) 10th Annual Production Conference in Los Angeles on June 27.Gunn started out with Troma Entertainment where he wrote Tromeo And Juliet. His writing credits include Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Slither and the 2004 ...
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Moviemobz takes Brazilian rights to The Sandman
Moviemobz, the first distribution operation which programmes its titles in theatres equipped with digital projection technology supplied by Rain Network, has acquired theatrical rights in Brazil to Jose Manuel Gonzalez's Spanish romantic drama The Sandman (El Hombre De Arena).Moviemobz plans to release the film in theatres in the next six ...
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Investors assess risks, rewards in China film market
China's booming film industry could provide huge returns to venture capitalists, funds and other investors, but the market is still in its infancy and it'sstill not clearin which areas to invest. These were some ofthe messages to emerge at a seminar at the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) on Monday ...
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Ng calls for changes to China's co-production policy
The chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers, Ng See-yuen, called for a rethink of co-production policy at a seminar on Sino-foreign co-production at the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) on Tuesday. While highlighting positive developments in the China market, Ng said that Hong Kong filmmakers are 'worried that ...
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Melbourne film festival to open with Not Quite Hollywood
The 57th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) will open on July 25 with the world premiere of Not Quite Hollywood, writer-director Mark Hartley's long-awaited tribute to the Australian films of the 1970s and 80s that were high on horror, nudity and car chases. This year's festival is a historic one ...
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USA Films to co-finance Zentropa horrors
USA Films is taking North American rights to a slew of horror pictures from Denmark's Zentropa, in return for stumping up 35% of the slate's combined budget. Produced by the Danish company's international arm, Zentropa Internationale, the films will be labelled Zentropa Zhillers, and range in budget from $3.5m to ...