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NewsBFI to offer classic movies through Blinkbox
Blinkbox, the film and TV aggregator, has signed a licensing deal with the British Film Institute (BFI) that will allow it to stream films from its library of classic titles.
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NewsCMG boosts AFM roster with Good Hair, The Collector
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (CMG) will commence international sales at AFM next week on the Chris Rock documentary Good Hair and horror title The Collector.
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NewsTWC's David Glasser to oversee foreign sales for The Film Dept
The Weinstein Company (TWC) international chief David Glasser has taken over foreign sales on Mark Gill and Neil Sacker’s The Film Department slate following the departure of Steve Bickel.
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Screen Media Films takes world on political thriller Formosa Betrayed
Screen Media Films has acquired worldwide rights in all media to the $8m political thriller Formosa Betrayed following its international premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival.
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NewsPetit Nicolas sets sights on becoming biggest French hit of 2009
Laurent Tirard’s Petit Nicolas is poised to become the most successful French film of 2009.
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NewsSummit to re-release Twilight for one day before New Moon
Summit Entertainment will re-release Twilight for one day on November 19, a day before the launch of the sequel, The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
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Medusa names new exhibition chain The Space Cinema
Medusa Film, the company that took over the Warner Bros cinema with Alessandro Benetton’s 21 Investiment, has relaunched as The Space Cinema.
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NewsThis Is It heads into weekend as international box office favourite
Michael Jackson’s This Is It will dominate the international landscape this weekend if the $12.7m opening day gross through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) is anything to go by.
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NewsBleiberg boards Chris Pine drama Small Town Saturday Night for AFM
Bleiberg Entertainment has acquired international rights to writer-director Ryan Craig’s Small Town Saturday Night starring Chris Pine and will launch the film at AFM.
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Buenos Aires to welcome 150 international guests to first Inter-Cine
The 9th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) will kick off tomorrow with plans to show 470 features and shorts in 13 days. The Event will open with two films running out of competition: Mauritian Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and Argentinian Ariel Rotter's Berlinale double award-winning El Otro. The ...
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Pinewood launches website for rebuilt 007 Stage
The Pinewood Studios Group has launched an official website for the rebuilt 007 Stage, located at www.007stage.com. Europe 's largest sound stage has been rebuilt and reopened following the July 2006 fire that made the stage unusable. Currently, the internal area of 59,000-square-feet makes it the biggest stage in Europe. ...
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Hollow Man
Dir: Paul Verhoeven. US. 2000. 114 mins.Prod co: Columbia Pictures. Worldwide dist: Columbia/Columbia TriStar. Exec prod: Marion Rosenberg. Prod: Alan Marshall, Douglas Wick. Scr: Andrew W Marlowe, based on a story by Gary Scott Thompson & Andrew W Marlowe. DoP: Jost Vacano. Prod des: Allan Cameron. Ed: Mark Goldblatt. Mus: ...
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Overture teams with Echo Lake on 105 Degrees And Rising
Fledgling studio Overture Films is partnering with Echo Lake Productions on its first in-house title 105 Degrees And Rising, a drama about the fall of Saigon drama.Jon Amiel will direct the project, named after the code used by Armed Forces Radio in 1975 to alert citizens to evacuate the former ...
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Meet The Robinsons
Dir: Stephen Anderson. US. 2007. 94mins. Walt Disney Feature Animation's second computer-animated outing is a hyperactive mix of retro sci-fi, physical comedy and family drama. As zippy and colourful as it is, though, Meet The Robinsons is not as entertaining or endearing as the division's CG feature debut Chicken Little. ...
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One Hundred Nails (Centochiodi)
Dir/scr: Ermanno Olmi. It. 2007. 92mins. Veteran Italian filmmaker Ermanno Olmi is a devout Catholic, and his work has long had a spiritual agenda. But even in such obvious parables as The Legend Of The Holy Drinker (which won a Golden Lion in Venice in 1988), the message is generally ...
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3-D screens account for 30% of Robinsons opening US gross
Meet The Robinsons became the largest digital 3-D opening in domestic box office history at the weekend as the platform accounted for nearly 30% of the film's $25.1m overall three-day gross.The 581 screens - each of which was formatted by Los Angeles-based Real D - generated $7.1m for the weekend.Furthermore ...
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Stonelock, Cheyenne team up to produce, acquire, sell
Stonelock Pictures president Beni Atoori and Cheyenne Studios president Al Jayez have formed the joint venture Tripod Pictures to produce, acquire and sell films.The Los Angeles-based company claims that it has secured a $200m credit line from a European bank to fund productions, although it refused to name which bank. ...
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Golden Door, La Vie En Rose set for San Francisco
Emanuele Crialese's Italian immigrant drama The Golden Door will open and Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose will close the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival, set to run from April 26-May 10.Festival organisers have culled 108 features and 92 shorts for the event, and the centerpiece ...