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Toho box office grosses reach all-time high in 2006
Toho, one of Japan's oldest studios and its biggest distributor, hasannounced that box office earnings for 2006 have broken an all-time record forthe company.Grosses from January untilthe end of November totaled $476.24m (Y55.95bn), with end of year estimates at$502.69m (Y59bn). This beats the previous record of $467.09m (Y54.85bn) set in2001 ...
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Full List Of Golden Globe nominations 2006
Best Motion Picture - Drama:BabelBobbyThe DepartedLittle ChildrenThe QueenBest Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - Drama: Penelope Cruz VolverJudi Dench Notes On A ScandalMaggie Gyllenhaal SherrybabyHelen Mirren The QueenKate Winslet Little ChildrenBest Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - Drama:Leonardo DiCaprio Blood DiamondLeonardo DiCaprio The DepartedPeter ...
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Vivendi won't sell its 20% stake in NBC Universal
Vivendi has announced thatit will not exercise a right to unload its 20% share of NBC Universal inJanuary.Under a 2004 deal whichsaw Vivendi sell Universal to GE, the former retained a 20% stake in the newlyformed NBC Universal and was given the option to begin selling in 2006 althoughthat option ...
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Factory Girl to open Santa Barbara Film Festival on Jan 25
George Hickenlooper's Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl will open the 22nd Santa BarbaraInternational Film Festival, which runs from Jan 25-Feb 4 2007.Sienna Miller stars as Andy Warhol's muse and 1960s 'It Girl',with support from Guy Pearce as Warhol, and Hayden Christensen as "Billy Quinn".The Holly Wiersma production of a Weinstein ...
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Sherry Lansing to receive Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at 2007 Oscars
Former Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing will receive the Jean HersholtHumanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' boardof governors.Lansing will collect the honour during the 79th Academy Awards onFeb 25, 2007. The Hersholt Award is given to an individual whose humanitarianefforts have brought credit to the industry.'Sherry ...
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Reid Sullivan named CFO at Village Roadshow Pics
Reid Sullivan - who for the last five years was responsible for all strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting at Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) - has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer at LA-based Village Roadshow Pictures.He will be responsible for all the classic accounting ...
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Babel, Departed, Dreamgirls lead Globe nominations
Paramount Vantage's maidenrelease Babel leads the fieldheading into January's 64th Golden Globe Awards with seven nominations, whileHelen Mirren earned three acting nods, Leonardo DiCaprio picked up two, andForest Whitaker kept his robust prospects alive with a nomination for TheLast King Of Scotland.Hollywood Foreign PressAssociation (HFPA) voters spread their goodwill far ...
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Euro equity firms buy majority stake in Germany's ProSieben
Lavena Holding 4 GmbH has signed a share purchase agreement forthe acquisition of German Media Partners' majority stake in TV broadcasterProSiebenSat.1 Media AG for 3.1bn Euros ($4.1bn).Upon completion of the share purchase agreement, Lavena Holding 4GmbH, which is controlled by funds advised by KKR and Permira, will acquireapproximately 88% of ...
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Sundance names 12 screenplays in Jan 2007 Screenwriters Lab
12 projects covering themes ranging from the Haitian immigrationexperience to the legacy of violence in Argentina make the cut for the SundanceInstitute's annual Screenwriters Lab, which takes place from Jan 12-17 2007 atthe Sundance Resort in Utah.The five-day writer's workshop gives independent screenwriters theopportunity to work intensively on their feature ...
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Fox's fantasy Eragon flies into 76 territories
Fox International unleashes the fantasy adventure Eragon in 76 territories this weekend day-and-datewith the North American release.The film went out in Germany, Russia and Australia on Dec 14, theUK, Spain and Mexico on Dec 15, and Japan on Dec 16. It opens in France, Italyand Brazil next week and South ...
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Eragon
Dir: Stefen Fangmeier. US. 2006. 103mins.Lord Of TheRings-lite it may be. But Eragon, based onthe hugely successful young adult novel by Christopher Paolini,still manages to deliver some involving fantasy and brisk adventure in itssword-and-sorcery tale of a feisty dragon and her hunky young rider.Lacking the dramatic heft ofthe Rings films, ...
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Arthur Penn to receive Berlin lifetime honour
Veteran American director Arthur Penn will receive a Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement at the forthcoming Berlinale (February 8-18, 2007) as part of a 10-film homage being held in his honour during the festival.The homage will include such classic titles as Bonnie And Clyde, Alice's Restaurant, and Little Big Man."Arthur ...
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The Painted Veil
Dir: John Curran. US-Chi.2006. 125mins.Adapted from W Somerset Maugham's novelabout an idealistic newlywed British couple living in turbulent 1920s China, JohnCurran's The Painted Veil is apalpably alive and heart-rending romantic drama about the extremes -geographic, sexual and emotional - travelled in a struggling marriage. Far morethan an attractive literary period-piece, ...
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New production venture to back low-budget UK films
A new joint venture between UK production outfit Matador Pictures and Regent Capital is to provide up to 30% of the budgets on a series of films qualifying for the new British tax break.The initiative - called Cinema One - will be focused on backing four to five films with ...
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Seven film shortlisted for visual effects Academy Award
Seven film have been shortlisted for consideration for the visual effects Oscar by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).They are Casino Royale, Night At The Museum, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Poseidon, Superman Returns and X-Men The Last Stand.On Jan 17, the Academy's visual effects ...
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Palm Springs to open with Outsourced close with Tiger's Tail
The Palm Springs International Film Festival will open its18th annual event on Jan 4 with the US premiere of John Jeffcoat's Outsourced about a salesman who heads to India to train hisreplacement after his entire department is outsourced. It will close on Jan 14with the North American premiere of John ...
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Film Roman hires Bastianelli for int'l expansion
Film Roman, the children's animation outfit which recently expanded to produce live action TV series, specials and feature films, has retained the services of Eileen Bastianelli to create a worldwide presence for the company. Bastianelli, based in Paris, has been engaged as a consultant to form co-productions and establish other ...
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The Host sweeps Korea's Blue Dragon Awards
Bong Joon-ho's monster film The Host swept Korea's 27th Blue Dragon Awards this Friday (Dec 15),scooping six awards including Best Picture.Producer Choi Yong-bae saidof the film, which is the country's box office record holder with 13 millionadmissions, "I was concerned the film's box office record was overshadowing itsartistic merits," but ...
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Rocky Balboa
Dir/scr: SylvesterStallone. US. 2006. 100mins.Sixteen years since the last installment,multi-hyphenate Sylvester Stallone delivers RockyBalboa, a stirring and pleasingly grounded tale of an erstwhileunderdog-turned-champion coming to terms with his ownageing. The most emotionally resonant film in the iconic series since theOscar-winning 1976 original, it also showcases by far Stallone'sbest performance in ...
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Jiffest hands out awards at inaugural competition
John De Rantau's Denias Senandung Di Atas Awan was namedbest Indonesian film while Rudy Soedjarwo took best Indonesian director for 9 Naga at the 8th Jakarta InternationalFilm Festival (Jiffest). A special mention went toGarin Nugroho's Opera Jawa for its'outstanding artistic value and for the metaphorical and spectacular visualstory'. Jiffest launched ...