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NewsRaindance Film Festival moves to Apollo Cinemas
The Raindance Film Festival is moving to Apollo Cinemas for this year’s edition, which runs September 30 to October 11.
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NewsFuture Films and Aramid Capital hit by Soho blaze
A major fire broke out in the London offices housing leading film financiers Future Films and Aramid Capital earlier today.
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NewsMinnie Driver, Rosamund Pike join Dustin Hoffman on Barney's Version
Producer Robert Lantos has confirmed that Minnie Driver, Rosamund Pike and Twilight star Rachel Lefevre will join Dustin Hoffman and Paul Giamatti on Barney’s Version.
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NewsRupert Graves eyes Balkans drama The Filthy War
Rupert Graves is attached to play the lead role of Eduardo in the Balkans-set drama The Filthy War to be directed by John Irvin.Graves will play a war correspondent in former Yugoslavia who creates a platoon of international volunteers to defend a Croatian village from Serb militants.Vinnie Jones has been ...
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NewsTaiwanese film industry looks to China for growth
Taiwan’s major film organisations look set to make an aggressive push into the mainland China market, in a bid to develop a mainstream film industry to complement the country’s current output of low-budget indie fare.
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NewsNo Puedo takes top honours at Taipei film festival
Leon Dai’s No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti was the big winner at the close of the Taipei Film Festival on Saturday night, winning four prizes including best film, best actor and supporting actor and the media choice award.
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NewsBruno struts to the top of the US box office
Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest comedic incarnation Bruno knocked Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen off its perch thanks to an estimated $30.4m number one launch.
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NewsIce Age 3 freezes Bruno out of international box office
Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs dominated Bruno and the rest of the overseas competition with a monstrous second weekend that propelled it past $325m.
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NewsAngel At Sea takes Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary
Frédéric Dumont’s film Angel At Sea was named best feature film at the 44th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, giving the director the Crystal Globe and $30,000.
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Features
Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legends – The Movie
A reboot of the legendary Ultraman franchise under Mighty Morphin Power Rangers director Koichi Sakamoto. Ultraman not only battles over 100 monsters but also faces off against a villainous Ultraman in a first for the 43-year-old film and TV series.
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Features
Golden Slumber
A delivery man races against time to uncover a plot to frame him for the public assassination of the new prime minister. He discovers the conspiracy is somehow connected to the friends he made back in his university days. Based on a best-selling novel by Kotaro Isaka.
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NewsIoan Gruffudd to star in Banking On Mr Toad
Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd will star as The Wind In The Willow’s author Kenneth Graham in Bruce Beresford’s Banking On Mr Toad.
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NewsJason Statham set to star in Blitz
Jason Statham is in final negotiations to star alongside Paddy Considine in the big screen adaptation of Ken Bruen’s crime thriller Blitz.
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NewsFox picks up Spanish rights to Amenabar’s Agora
US studio Fox International has piecked up the Spanish rights to Alejandro Amenabar’s $70m historical epic Agora, starring Rachel Weisz, It will be released on October 9.
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NewsAdvance Harry Potter ticket sales pass $1.6m for Odeon/UCI
Odeon and UCI Cinemas Group’s sales of advance tickets for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince have surpassed $1.6 million (£1 million) in box office takings.
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NewsUniversal releases teen edit of Bruno in the UK
Universal Pictures UK has taken the unprecedented step of releasing a specially-edited version of Bruno with a ‘15’ certificate. It will be released in cinemas across the UK from July 24.
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NewsShooting gets underway on Takashi Miike's Thirteen Assassins
Principal photography has begun on Takashi Miike’s samurai epic, Thirteen Assassins, in Japan’s Yamagata Prefecture.
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NewsWolfe pounces on The Baby Formula, Half-Life
Wolfe Releasing has acquired US rights to gay titles The Baby Formula and Half-Life and plans a simultaneous DVD release with VOD campaign through Warner Brothers Digital Distribution.
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NewsGordon Prend to head marketing efforts at Anchor Bay
Anchor Bay Entertainment has promoted Gordon Prend to executive vice-president of worldwide marketing.