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Unified falls for teen comedy Cherry ahead of AFM
Los Angeles-based production, financing and international sales company Unified Pictures will arrive at next month’s AFM with the teen comedy Cherry.
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Paranormal Activity 2 rules international on $22.2m launch
Paranormal Activity 2 dominated the overseas arena as the opening wave of releases through Paramount / PPI produced $22.2m according to revised figures issued on Monday [25], knocking Universal’s Despicable Me off its perch. Universal chiefs won’t mind too much as they revealed the company’s combined overseas box office was ...
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Paranormal 2 inspires $42m in US box office activity
A superb $42m debut saw Paranormal Activity 2 soar to the top of the charts as Jackass 3-D secured second place to set up a one-two finish for Paramount.
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Local and international stars on hand as Tokyo kicks off 23rd edition
The 23rd edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) kicked off yesterday evening with the opening screening of David Fincher’s The Social Network.
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Mazursky in line for LAFCA career honour
Paul Mazursky will receive Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s (LAFCA) Career Achievement Award “for his collective work and contributions to film”, the body announced last night [24].
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Heisenberg’s The Robber wins in Zagreb
Benjamin Heisenberg’s The Robber won the Golden Pram award for the best feature film at the eighth Zagreb Film Festival.
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Gabriel Yared to be honoured at EFAs
The European Film Academy’s European Achievement in World Cinema Award 2010 will go to composer Gabriel Yared.
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Silent Souls, Rain take top prizes at Abu Dhabi’s Black Pearl Awards
Silent Souls, from Russia’s Aleksei Fedorchenko, won the award for best narrative film in the Black Pearl Awards at the close of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Oct 14-23).
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Paradox lines up motion comic Conan prequel
Paradox Entertainment and Double Barrel Motion Labs are producing Conan: The Savage Tales, a prequel to the upcoming Conan film that will take the form of a motion comic.
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Spielberg to shoot Robopocalypse in January 2012
Steven Spielberg will commence principal photography on the sci-fi tale in January 2012 in what is expected to become another tentpole for the reconstituted DreamWorks Studios.
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First Beautiful Thing to open Cinema Italian Style in LA
Italy’s Academy Awards submission The First Beautiful Thing (La Prima Cosa Bella) will open the Cinema Italian Style 2010 showcase in Los Angeles on Nov 9.
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Gaga snatches Bodyguards And Assassins
Gaga Corporation has acquired Japanese rights to Teddy Chen’s Bodyguards And Assassins, which will open China Film Week at the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) this week.
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Carlos Cuatros to replace Ignasi Guardans as ICAA director
Spain’s minister of culture Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde made the surprise decision last night to remove Ignasi Guardans from his post as director general of Spain’s film institute, the ICAA, and will replace him with Carlos Cuatros, director of Spain’s film academy.
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Richard Green named executive chairman of Compact Media Group
Rights administrator Compact Media Group has announced the appointment of executive chairman Richard Green and £17m investment from Lyceum Capital.
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Thomas Vinterberg to lead Les Arcs jury
President Thomas Vinterberg will be joined by actors Connie Nielsen and Jonathan Zaccai and writer Philippe Dijan on the jury of the second Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 11-18).
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Universal strikes multi-territory deal for The Troll Hunter
Universal Pictures International (UPI) has acquired a host of territories on The Troll Hunter, the verite-style CGI creature feature from Norway which caused a sensation after its secret screening at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas last month.
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This week's hot projects on Screenbase
Comic book adaptation Captain Thunder, Dreiviertelmond and Les Bien-Aimés are among the productions which are shooting across Europe at the moment.
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Abu Dhabi announces winners of Emirates and Short Film Competitions
Ahmed Zain’s Gheamt Shroog won the first prize for best short narrative in this year’s Emirates Competition, while Hadi Shuaib’s The Queen took first prize in the best short documentary section.
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Celestial signs output deal with Emperor Motion Pictures
Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures has signed a multi-year output deal with Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP), giving it exclusive first run pay-TV rights to screen EMP’s upcoming slate on its Celestial Movies channel.
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Paranormal Activity 2 ushers in early Halloween overseas
Paramount unleashes the much anticipated Paranormal Activity 2 through PPI in around 20 territories over the next several days.