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Radio Canada invests $11m in French-language features
Radio-Canada, the French-language arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has announced it will invest $11.3m (C$12m) in French-language feature film production through 2010. It will mark the third multi-year cycle of production financing via Radio-Canada's 'cinema d'ici' initiative begun in 1999.Francine Allaire, director of dramatic programming for the public broadcaster, ...
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Hoffman, Thompson set for Overture's Last Chance Harvey
Overture Films is lining up a September shoot in London on the romance Last Chance Harvey starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.Joel Hopkins, who directed the 2001 UK film Jump Tomorrow, wrote the screenplay and will direct the story of a down-at-heel man who finds a new companion while attending ...
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Walden, Phoenix hire Kwapis to direct teen mayor project
Walden Media has hired Ken Kwapis to direct its untitled teen mayor project that Phoenix Pictures' Mike Medavoy and Arnold Messner will produce.Surf's Up co-writers Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse have come aboard as screenwriters on the story of a high school slacker who runs for mayor to bolster his ...
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Spider-Man 3 snags $20m worldwide on IMAX
Spider-Man 3: The IMAX Experience has grossed more than $20m worldwide since its May 3 premiere, according to Sony Picture Entertainment and IMAX. It is the fastest-grossing digitally-remastered giant-screen release of a conventional film, earning its take in 31 days. Not surprisingly, the film marked the widest release in IMAX's ...
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Chaotic Ana, Summer Rain sell well for Sogepaq
Spanish distribution house Sogepaq has announced a round of sales at Cannes for Julio Medem's Chaotic Ana and Antonio Banderas' Summer Rain, the actor's second directorial effort.Chaotic Ana, the follow-up to Medem's successful Sex & Lucia, pre-sold at the festival in Korea (Sponge); Brazil (Visual Films); Israel (Shapira); Colombia, Peru, ...
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Canadian author sues Universal over Knocked Up
A Canadian writer is suing Universal Studios, alleging that its hit film, Knocked Up, borrows from her work. The film, writer-director Judd Apatow's follow-up to The 40 Year Old Virgin, follows the post-coital relationship of a young professional and the slacker who impregnates her during a drunken encounter. Rebecca Eckler, ...
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Fortissimo Cannes deals led by Live! and Pleasure Factory
Fortissimo Film Sales had a strong Cannes, with hot sellers including Tim Hamilton's comedy Mama's Boy, reality TV satire Live!, the Martin Scorsese Rolling Stones project Shine A Light, Singapore red-light story The Pleasure Factory and Bela Tarr's Competition Title The Man From London. Fortissimo co-chairman Wouter Barendrecht said: 'We ...
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Sulzer leaves Universal for job as svp, media at Overture
Former Universal Pictures marketing executive Elana Sulzer has joined Overture Films as senior vice president of media.Sulzer will report directly to Overture's president of worldwide marketing, distribution and new media Peter Adee.Sulzer started her career at Universal nearly 10 years ago and rose through the marketing ranks to the position ...
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Trinidad & Tobago starts new film tax incentive with rebate up to 30%
Trinidad & Tobago, the twin island nation in the Carribean, has today unveiled its first tax incentives for film, TV and advertising shoots. The new rebates system ranges from 12.5% for productions of expenditures up to $500,000, 15% for productions from $500,000 to $1m, or 30% rebates for productions spending ...
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Joost to host Bollywood content from New York's Saavn
Internet television service Joost has signed a deal with New York-based film, music and TV show packager Saavn for the Internet distribution of Bollywood music videos from the Saavn library. Initially, Joost users worldwide will be able to choose from around 150 clips from Bollywood movies featuring songs such as ...
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Kimmel has strong Cannes with Synecdoche, Unthinkable
Kimmel International chief Mark Lindsay has reported a successful Cannes in which he and his team closed key territories on Charlie Kaufman's feature directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, and Tarsem Singh's upcoming thriller Unthinkable.Rights to Synecdoche, New York, which is being produced by Spike Jonze and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, ...
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Knocked Up spawns knockout domestic opening, but Pirates clings on
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End took a big tumble in its second weekend but still had enough puff to sail past $200m and see off the challenge of Universal's much lauded comedy Knocked Up.Buena Vista's juggernaut fell 62.4% to an estimated $43.2m as it raised its domestic tally ...
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Pirates 3 crosses international $400m mark in record time
As expected Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End ruled the waves in its second weekend as an estimated $105.4m propelled the international running total past $400m in record time.The weekend haul from 17,500 theatres in 103 countries boosted the tally to $408.8m, making this latest high seas episodic the ...
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J-horror hit-makers join forces for US project
J-horror hit-makers Hideo Nakata and Taka Ichise are set to team up on US horror project Inhuman, from Twentieth Century Fox and Regency Enterprises. The film will be based on a script - inspired by a real Japanese murder case - by Eric Heisserer, writer of the in-development Warner/Heydey ...
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Tomorrow Unlimited to host Creators Series in New York and LA
New company Tomorrow Unlimited, which was founded by former executives from Res Media Group with Tribeca Enterprises, will host its first event next week. The Creators Series events will run in New York (June 8-10) and Los Angeles (June 14-17). The multidisciplinary conference will present artwork, video, and interactive installations ...
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Random House and Rogue work on series including Sigler's Infested
Scott Sigler's novel Infested, to be published in the US and Canada next spring by Random House's Crown imprint, has been acquired for development by Random House Films and Rogue Pictures. The thriller is the first in a series of at least two books. Crown has a world rights multi-book ...
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Film Sales Company strikes three new deals for Crazy Love
The Film Sales Company has announced theatrical rights sales of documentary Crazy Love to Tartan Films for the UK, Palace Films for Australia and Shani Films for Israel. All three distributors plan an early autumn release for the film, which is directed by Dan Klores and co-directed by Fisher Stevens ...
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Liddell makes directorial debut with psychological thriller
Veteran producer Mickey Liddell is to make his directorial debut with She Lived, a psychological thriller starring Haley Bennett, Jake Weber and Shannon Woodward. The Liddell Entertainment production will start shooting in July on location in Los Angeles. Liddell Entertainment's Jennifer Hilton will produce with Stephen Kay as executive ...
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Fox sells Mexican studio to investors' group
Twentieth Century Fox has sold the Mexican studio used to shoot parts of Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies to a group of private investors. The 46-acre Baja Studios near Rosarito, about 150 miles south of Los Angeles, was built in 1996. Its huge water tanks housed a replica of ...
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Warner Bros brings forward Potter opening in US
Warner Bros has brought the US opening of Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix forward from Friday, July 13 to Wednesday, July 11. The domestic launch now coincides with the film's first major-territory international opening, in France. The extra days will also help boost the film's opening ...