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Transformers sequel sets Wednesday opening record with $60m
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen grossed $60.6m on its first day of North American release, according to a preliminary estimate from Paramount, making it the biggest Wednesday opener ever.
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Farrah Fawcett dies from cancer at age 62
Actress Farrah Fawcett has died today (Thursday) after a battle with anal cancer, her spokesman confirmed.
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NuImage's Elizabeth Wolfe moves to Freud's LA office
Veteran publicist Elizabeth Wolfe will Freud Communications as Senior Vice President beginning July 1.
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Magnet scares up US deal for Tribeca horror hit House Of The Devil
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired US rights to Ti West’s horror film The House Of The Devil.
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Weinstein Company comes on board for The Hammer
Cinemavault has confirmed new sales on Charles Herman-Wurmfeld’s comedy The Hammer.
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Oscars to widen field to 10 Best Picture nominees
In a bold move, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced that the number of Best Picture Oscar nominees will rise to 10, doubling the field from the current five contenders.
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$40m independent studio underway in Russia
Moscow authorities have given the go-ahead for the construction of a new fully independent film studio, Movie Town.
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Gigantic launches new online platform for first-run indie films
Gigantic Group is launching a full-service “online exhibition venue” for first-run independent films, called Gigantic Digital Cinema.
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New York, Terminator set to kickstart Indian box office
India’s box office market swings back into action this week with the release of three US films and Yash Raj Films’ New York, the first in a string of big-ticket Hindi films that were delayed by the stand-off between producers and multiplexes.
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Training scheme to launch careers of British talent
Eleven British filmmakers will participate in Second Picture Syndrome, a training programme that develops and packages mid-budget ($10m to $25m) films for the international market.The film-makers have been chosen for their ability and ambition to make mainstream commercial cinema with international appeal. The scheme will help them to develop projects ...
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Israel Film Festival wraps successful LA run
The Israel Film Festival, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the United States, set a new attendance record during the two-week run in Los Angeles. More than 19,000 people attended.
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Palm Springs Shortfest kicks off 315-film programme
The 2009 Palm Springs International Shortfest kicked off its 300+ film programme last night in the California desert resort town.
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Sarkozy taps Frederic Mitterrand as culture minister
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has reshuffled his cabinet with at least one key change affecting the entertainment business.
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Cine Expo crowd gets preview of Avatar
20th Century Fox gave a Cine Expo audience a preview of footage from James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar last night. It was the first public screening of footage from the eagerly anticipated 3D picture.
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Grand Rapids plans first festival in August
Grand Rapids, Michigan will host the inaugural Grand Rapids Film Festival from August 26-28.
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Tessa Ross honoured by London Film School
Tessa Ross, Controller of Film and Drama at Channel 4, has been named an Honorary Associate of The London Film School. She was given the title last night at a Q&A event which followed a screening of Slumdog Millionaire.
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Pierre Morel to be honoured at Cinema Expo Awards
Pierre Morel is to be named International Director of the Year, for his film Taken, at the 2009 Cinema Expo Awards Ceremony tonight. The film starring Liam Neeson took $77m internationally and grossed $222m at the box office worldwide.
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Norwegian cinemas sign digital roll-out deal with US studios
The Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino, has signed a virtual print fee (VPF) agreement with five Hollywood studios, to help finance the world’s first non-commercial national digital expansion.
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UK film censor takes softer view on drugs
The British Board of Film Classification has revised its guidelines to allow references to drugs in ‘U’ rated films, if they are ‘infrequent and innocuous’. In the past such reference would have earned a film a ‘PG’ classification.
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Stephen Fry to star in Dardentor
Three aspiring teenage film-makers have scored a coup after British writer and actor Stephen Fry signed on to act in their debut project.