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Nina's Heavenly Delights cranks up in Glasgow
ScionFilms and Priority Pictures have announced the start of production on Nina's Heavenly Delights. The filmstarted shooting October 3 in Glasgow. Nina's Heavenly Delights marks the feature filmdebut for director Pratibha Parmar,who also is producing the film. Andrea Gibb (Afterlife, Dear Frankie)wrote the script, about a Glaswegian family running an ...
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Weinsteins secure $490m equity backing
Harvey and Bob Weinsteinhave slotted into place a major piece of the financing jigsaw behind theirfledgling company with today's announcement of a $490m private placement ofequity.Ever since the brothers unveiled plans for The Weinstein Company (TWC) earlierthis year ahead of their split from Miramax, speculation has centred on theprovenance of ...
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Focus hires Timothy Collins as vp business affairs
TimothyCollins has joined Focus Features as vice president of business affairs,effective immediately.Collins will be based in Los Angeles and his duties will include negotiatingtalent deals for Focus and Rogue titles. He reports to Focus' senior vice presidentof business affairs Howard Meyers.He most recently served as MGM's director of businessaffairs and ...
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Disney signs up to Cinea's anti-piracy plan
Heralding a significantdevelopment on the awards season horizon, Disney has become the first US majorto adopt Cinea's anti-piracy technology.The studio will send out itsscreener DVDs for awards contenders Shopgirl and The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The WitchAnd The Wardrobe on discs encryptedby Cinea.The discs can only beplayed on Cinea's ...
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Focus taps into Mexico with Canana Films deal
Focus Features has signed atwo-year term deal with Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and producer Pablo Cruz'fledging Mexico City-based Canana Films.The agreement, which includes an option for a third year, grants Focusworldwide rights to Canana's upcoming slate of mid-budget Spanish-languagefilms shot in Mexico and higher-budget English-language titles.Focus chiefs David Linde ...
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Jamie Foxx turns producer for MTV, Paramount
Jamie Foxx and producing partners Jaime Rucker King and MarcusKing have signed a two-year first-look deal with MTV Films and Paramount Pictures.Foxx, Rucker King and King will offer their servicesin developing, supervising, producing and consulting a slate of projects, withFoxx set to appear in certain MTV and Paramount titles where ...
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Jamie Foxx turns producer for MTV, Paramount
Jamie Foxx and producing partners Jaime Rucker King and MarcusKing have signed a two-year first-look deal with MTV Films and Paramount Pictures.Foxx, Rucker King and King will offer their servicesin developing, supervising, producing and consulting a slate of projects, withFoxx set to appear in certain MTV and Paramount titles where ...
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Jamie Foxx turns producer for MTV, Paramount
Jamie Foxx and producing partners Jaime Rucker King and MarcusKing have signed a two-year first-look deal with MTV Films and Paramount Pictures.Foxx, Rucker King and King will offer their servicesin developing, supervising, producing and consulting a slate of projects, withFoxx set to appear in certain MTV and Paramount titles where ...
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Paramount Classics chooses Equinox for Quebec
Paramount Classics has signed a theatrical distribution output deal with Equinox Entertainment, which sees the Montreal-based producer-distributor releasing all its pictures in Quebec in French and English. Paramount Canada releases Classics pictures in the rest of Canada. The first picture in the Paramount Classics deal, Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides, will ...
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Jamie Foxx turns producer for MTV, Paramount
Jamie Foxx and producing partners Jaime Rucker King and MarcusKing have signed a two-year first-look deal with MTV Films and Paramount Pictures.Foxx, Rucker King and King will offer their servicesin developing, supervising, producing and consulting a slate of projects, withFoxx set to appear in certain MTV and Paramount titles where ...
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Platinum, Valhalla joins forces on Magdalena
Los Angeles-based Platinum Studios is teaming up with Aeon Flux and The Terminator producer Gale Anne Hurd on Magdalena, the first religious-themed comic bookadaptation.Kevin Taft has been hired to write the screenplay about a young woman wholearns she is part of a lineage of female warriors descended from MaryMagdalene.Set in ...
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...as deal with Crescent brings expansion
Village Roadshow Pictures(VRP) is likely to finance and produce more films and possibly acquire relatedinterests under a recently finalised deal that gives US investor Crescent Entertainmentoptions to secure a 50% interest in VRP.Crescent partners Hal Gaba - co-owner with Norman Lear of mediainvestment firm and record company owner Act III ...
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Weinsteins hustle for Kung Fu High School
The Weinstein Company (TWC) haswon a fierce bidding war to develop and produce Kung Fu High School, based on RyanGattis' acclaimed novel about youth gang culture.Ernesto M Foronda will adapt the screenplay and Neal Edelstein and Mike Macariwill produce the Romeo And Juliet tale, which is setin a high school ...
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Wild Bunch unveils $145m pan-Euro joint venture
French sales and financingoutfit Wild Bunch has unveiled a new $145m joint-venture dedicated to acquiringand co-producing feature films. The joint-venture will also release the films througha new pan-European distribution network that Wild Bunch is setting up. At the same time, Europeanmedia fund Iris Capital has increased its investment in Wild ...
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Icon takes Oz, NZ rights to Frears' The Queen
Icon has boughtAustralian and New Zealand rights from PathePictures International for director Stephen Frears' The Queen, which is in its third week offilming. The Queen tracks the UK aftermath of the dramatic death ofPrincess Diana in a car accident in Paris, including the actions of the shocked anddisbelieving British public, ...
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Mrs Henderson, The Libertine lead BIFA nods
Stephen Frears' Mrs Henderson Presents and Laurence Dunmore's The Libertine lead the 2005 British Film Award (BIFA) nominations,announced today in London. Each ofthose films scored eight nods, followed by seven for Fernando Mereilles' TheConstant Gardener.Other films leading the pack are Michael Winterbottom'sA Cock and Bull Story, with fivenominations, including his ...
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Screen presents Mrs Henderson with Hollywood prize
Stephen Frears' Mrs Henderson Presents won The Hollywood World Award, sponsored andpresented by Screen International, ata glitzy Hollywood Film Awards ceremony held at the Beverley Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles last night (Oct 24)Among the already announced winners was another UKdirector, Sam Mendes, who won the best director prize ...
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Two Sons breaks Brazilian box office records
BrenoSilveira's Two Sons of Francisco has overtaken Carandiru tobecome the highest grossing Brazilian film in its home territory in the last 20years. Thebiopic about country music duo Zeze Di Camargo &Luciano has sold 4.8m admissions and grossed $10.6m (R$34m) since itsdebut on August 19, according to local distributor Columbia TriStar. ...
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Senator falls in love with Vinterberg
Germany's Senator Film has boarded Thomas Vinterberg's $10m English-language debut, It's All About Love, as German co-producer. The UK's FilmFour and Italy's Key Films are also co-producing the project, set to shoot in New York next spring.While Senator and Key are taking rights for their respective territories, FilmFour is handling ...
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Haneke's Hidden rejected as Oscar entry
Austria has become thesecond country after Italy to have its candidate for the Foreign Language FilmOscar category rejected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences(AMPAS).The Academy said thatAustria's submission, Michael Haneke's Frenchlanguage Hidden (Cache), had not been predominantly shot in the officiallanguage of the submitting country.Austrian film industry's'umbrella' ...