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Schwarzenegger to star for Lionsgate in The Last Stand
Lionsgate has confirmed that Kim Jee-Woon will make his English-language debut and the embattled former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will take the lead in the action tale about a sheriff in a sleepy border town who faces off a notorious fugitive.
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Mandate confirms Spike Lee will direct Oldboy remake
The filmmaker’s 40 Acres & A Mule label will produce alongside Roy Lee and Doug Davison’s Vertigo Entertainment.
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Maya Entertainment forms advisory board
Noted Latino figures will help the company develop its goals and launch a cable channel.
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Transformers stands firm on top of domestic box office
Paramount’s Transformers adventure stayed top of the North American charts and pulled in an estimated $47m as the running total climbed to $261m after two weekends.
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Canadian premiere of Red State to kick off Fantasia Festival
Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark will also receive its Canadian premiere as the festival’s official closing film.
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Arte's Reilhac to deliver keynote at Canada's Strategic Partners
Michel Reilhac [pictured], executive director of Arte France Cinema, will be delivering a key note speech at co-production market Strategic Partners, which will take place during the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Canada (Sept 15-18).
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Hollywood, ISPs launch voluntary anti-piracy plan
The MPAA and its membership, internet service providers, IFTA and the leading music industry body the RIAA has launched a standardised protocol whereby ISPs will notify subscribers when their accounts are used for online copyright theft.
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Focus developing UK director Daniel Mulloy’s debut feature A Cold Day
Arta Dobroshi and Melissa Leo favoured to co-star in story set in tough New York high school.
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Eli Roth's next projects include producing Chilean earthquake film
New projects include producing next film by young director Nicolas Lopez; he also talks about radical solution to film piracy.
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Nancy Fishman Film Releasing boards Romeo And Juliet In Yiddish
The San Francisco Bay Area-based distributor negotiated the deal with director and producer Eve Annenberg and holds US rights and non-exclusive broadcast and festival international rights.
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Mikael Hafstrom to direct Wake for Exclusive's Hammer label
The genre director behind 1408 and The Rite will direct the thriller about a sociopath without any sense of fear.
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IFC Midnight pounces on Autoerotic
Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard’s film stars Kate Lyn Shiel, Amy Seimetz, Lane Hughes, Kris Swanberg, Ti West and Frank V Ross.
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Mandate, Reiser, Levine reunite on Jamaica
Will Reiser teams up with longtime collaborators Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Jonathan Levine to develop the comedy feature.
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Christian Grass steps down from role at Universal
Industry stalwart Christian Grass has stepped down from his role as President, Universal Pictures International Productions & Acquisitions.
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Liddell, Roadside eye awards run for Albert Nobbs
Mickey Liddell has jumped on board his latest US acquisition, teaming up with Roadside Attractions on rights to the Glenn Close-starrer.
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Twilight's Stephenie Meyer to produce rom-com Austenland
Meyer’s Fickle Fish, the production company the Twilight author runs with Meghan Hibbett, is financing the feature directorial debut of Jerusha Hess, who co-wrote Napoleon Dynamite with her husband Jared Hess.
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Sony, Adam Sandler reunite for Hotel Transylvania
The comedian continues his long association with the studio and is set to voice the lead role in the film, set for release on Sept 21 2012.
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Well Go USA takes all rights to Let The Bullets Fly
The Asian cinema specialist picked up North American rights to four films from Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures.
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Netflix stock soars as company announces LatAm plan
Netflix stock surged by more than 5% to reach an historic $293 today [5] as the company announced plans to expand into 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean later this year.
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Graham Leggat steps down from San Francisco Film Society
Leggat had served as executive director since October 2005 and told colleagues he was leaving due to his ongoing battle with cancer after years of “unalloyed pleasure”.