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Samuel Goldwyn Films takes US rights to (Untitled)
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to (Untitled), a comic take on the state of contemporary art from director Jonathan Parker.
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Shimizu to direct Japan’s first live-action 3D feature
Asmik Ace Entertainment has unveiled details of Japan’s first live-action digital 3D feature, The Shock Labyrinth, which The Grudge director Takashi Shimizu started shooting earlier this week.
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Terminator Salvation squares up to Night At The Museum 2 in overseas box office battle
Terminator Salvation unleashes a furious assault on overseas champion Night At The Museum 2 this weekend as the latest entry in the long-running sci-fi canon rolls out the big guns.
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Skip City fest increases support for local filmmakers
Japan’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival has unveiled the line-up for its six edition (July 10-20), including a new section and awards designed to support local filmmakers.
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Lionsgate teams up with Jose Padilha, Braulio Mantovani on Agent In Place
Jose Padilha and his Elite Squad screenwriter Braulio Mantovani are teaming up on the action thriller Agent In Place for Lionsgate.
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Max Films rolls on Aubert’s A L’Origine D’Un Cri
Principal photography has begun on Robin Aubert’s A L’Origine D’Un Cri for Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal of Montreal-based Max Films. The $3.9m film shoots until July 12 in the Montreal region and the north coast of the St. Lawrence River.
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Italy's Eagle Pictures swoops on six new titles
Italy’s Eagle Pictures has added six films to its slate of commercial but eclectic fare.
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Danny Boyle takes film rights to Mehta’s Mumbai set novel
Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle is set to return to Mumbai after acquiring the rights to Suketu Mehta’s novel Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found.
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Warp Films and Film4 to shoot zombies at The Big Chill
Warp Films and Film4 are offering Big Chill festival-goers the chance to appear as extras in Chris Boyle’s I Spit on Your Rave.
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Tsar, Public Enemies bookend Moscow Film Festival
Russian director Pavel Lungin will chair the jury at the 31st Moscow International Film Festival, where competition films include Waldemar Krzystek’s Little Moscow and Duncan Jones’s Moon.
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Scorpio East, RAM to co-finance Tong’s Kidnapper
Singaporean filmmaker Kelvin Tong is set to direct a suspense thriller, Kidnapper, which will be co-financed by Singapore’s Scorpio East Pictures and Malaysia’s RAM Pictures & PMP Entertainment.
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Finecut finds new homes for A Brand New Life
Korean sales agent Finecut has announced a slew of deals closed during Cannes, including the sale of Ounie Lecomte’s A Brand New Life to Cineart for Benelux and Filmhouse for Mexico, among other territories.
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Korea’s CJ CGV expands arthouse film programme
Leading Korean exhibitor CJ CGV is establishing a specialty films team and expanding its “Movie Collage” arthouse film programme from seven to ten screens.
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Locarno to honour producer Martine Marignac
France’s Martine Marignac will receive the Raimondo Rezzonico Prize for Best Independent Producer at the Locarno International Film Festival in Augus
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Catherine Hardwicke and Emile Hirsch board Overture's Hamlet
Catherine Hardwicke will reunite with Emile Hirsch in a contemporary adaptation of Hamlet for Overture Films.
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Stephen Gilula, Nancy Utley named Fox Searchlight presidents
Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley’s leadership of Fox Searchlight has been formalised with their promotion to presidents following the departure last March of Peter Rice.
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Lionsgate, Paul Haggis reunite on The Next Three Days
Lionsgate has set Paul Haggis to direct the thriller The Next Three Days after acquiring remake rights to the 2008 French release Pour Elle from Wild Bunch and Fidelite Films.
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Northern Screen Agencies create talent resource
Screen Yorkshire, Northern Film & Media and Northwest Vision + Media have launched an online database showcasing crew, facilities, creative and digital talent from across the North.
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Portugal's Pantheon picks up Kinatay and Milk Of Sorrow
Portuguese distributor Pantheon has picked up Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay and this year’s Berlin Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow by Peru’s Claudia Llosa.
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Up soars for third-best opening in Pixar history
Disney Pixar’s Up shot to the top of the North American box office chart this weekend, opening with an estimated gross of $68.2m.