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The Mummy opens tops in 16 of its 22 new markets
The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor kept The Dark Knight at bay for a second consecutive weekend and earned its stripes with another eye-popping result thanks to an estimated $56.1m from 6,453 sites in 49 Universal/UPI territories. The adventure sequel stands at $141.1m after two weekends and led ...
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Le, Gigandet, Moehring join cast of Alvart's Pandorum
Martial arts world champion Cung Le, US actor Cam Gigandet (winner of the MTV Movie Award for Best Fight Scene for his performance in Never Back Down), and German actors Wotan Wilke Moehring and Andre Hennicke have joined Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster in the cast of Christian Alvart's futuristic ...
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The Match Factory picks up Turkish Venice title Milk
Cologne-based The Match Factory has picked up international distribution for its third Venice competition title with the acquisition of Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu's Milk (Süt), the second part of his Yusuf trilogy.With a mother-son relationship as its main focus, Milk stars Melih Selçuk, Basak Köklükaya, and Riza Akin, and is ...
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TrustNordisk picks up Glasner's This Is Love
TrustNordisk will handle worldwide distribution for Matthias Glasner's latest feature This Is Love which is currently shooting on location in Berlin before moving to North Rhine-Westphalia next week.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, co-producer Jörg Schulze of cine plus Filmproduktion explained that the contact to the Scandinavian sales company had come via ...
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Mummy should continue to dominate Dark Knight with 23 territories opening
Universal's The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor should dominate the international arena for the second consecutive weekend after knocking The Dark Knight off its perch.The adventure sequel has raced to $80.7m after breaking a string of records last weekend and touches down in a further 23 territories through UPI.Highlights ...
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Jonathan Demme to chair San Sebastian jury
Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme will chair the official jury at this year's San Sebastian film festival.Demmeis known for films includingThe Silence Of The Lambs, Philadelphia, The Manchurian Candidate, Stop Making Sense and Neil Young: Heart Of Gold. He will also be presenting a 'work in progress' version of his ...
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Sarajevo lines up shorts jury; Kevin Spacey to attend fest
The jury of the 14th Sarajevo Film Festival's short films competition will be comprised of Michael J. Werner, co-chairman of Fortissimo Films; Sejla Kamerlic, artist and filmmaker whose short film What Do I Know had premiere at last year's Venice Corto Cortissimo, and won the best short film award at ...
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Polish exhibitor Multikino plans 10 Ukraine cinemas
Polish multiplex operator Multikino is planning to open 10 cinemas in Ukraine in the next five years. The first of these, in Lviv, will open at the end of 2009.The company further plans to open four additional multiplexes in Poland by the end of 2009.Wojciech Kostrzewa, CEO of International Trading ...
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Cinema City International goes digital in 3D
Cinema City International is in the process of equipping its theatres in Central and Eastern Europe and in Israel with D-Cinema technology suitable for 3D projection.The multiplex operator has ordered 50 Kinoton DCP 30 Digital Cinema Projectors with integrated Dolby 3D system, several of which have already been installed in ...
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Media Luna picks up Locarno competition title Autumn
With the Locarno film festival kicking off last night, Media Luna Entertainment has picked international distribution rights for Turkish director Özcam Alper's feature debut Autumn (Sonbahar) which has its international premiere in Locarno's International Competition on Thursday.Onur Saylak, Megi Koboladze, R. Gulefer Yenigul and Serkan Keskin are the cast in ...
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Fitzgerald, Arriaga expected to attend fifth Eurasia festival
The fifth Eurasia International Film Festival hopes to welcome guests including Jack Nicholson, Antonio Banderas, Michael Fitzgerald, and Guillermo Arriaga to Astana, Kazakhstan from Sept 7-13.Other invitees include Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Armand Assante, Sean Penn, Fred Ross, Bruce Beresford, Lucrecia Martel, Nae Caranfil, Johnny To, Jia Zhangke, Fatih ...
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Vladivostok festival to host new Coproduction & Financing Forum
Vladivostok, Russia'sPacific Meridian International Film Festival of Asian-Pacific countries is staging a Coproduction & Film Financing Forum and the Generation Campus for young film-makers as part of its first Eurasia International Film Summit (Sept 14-17).[The name is not to be confused with Kazakhstan's Eurasia film festival also in September.]The financing ...
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Bavaria takes on Toronto world premiere Krabat
Bavaria Film International has picked up international distribution rights for Marco Kreuzpaintner's $15.5m (Euros 10m) fantasy film Krabat which will have its world premiere in the official selection of the forthcoming Toronto International Film Festival.Set in the 17th century, the story of Krabat, an orphan boy who is apprenticed to ...
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Weber steps down as CEO of Senator parent to take LA head job
As of Sept 1, Marco Weber will acquire all shares in Los Angeles-based Senator Entertainment Inc. and step down as chief creative officer of the German parent company Senator Entertainment AG.Weber, who is currently CEO and President of Senator Entertainment Inc., will then focus solely on production of English-language films ...
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Ghent to honour Harold Lloyd with exibition, screenings
The 35th Ghent International Film Festival will honour the late silent film star Harold Lloyd with an exhibition of personal photos and memorabilia and a screening of newly restored versions of Safety Last!, The Freshman, Speedy and Welcome Danger.The exhibition will feature photos, sheet music, scripts and costumes and has ...
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French illegal downloads equal to box-office admissions
Illegal downloading of films in France has reached 450,000 per day according to a report by anti-piracy association ALPA.The figure represents the same level as box-office entries, the report said. Speaking to wire service Agence France Presse, Frederic Delacroix, the director of ALPA, said, 'We are facing a major phenomenon ...
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Harrison starts Unstoppable shoot in Portugal and Spain
UK writer/director Richard Harrison started shooting yesterday in Portugal for his debut feature Unstoppable.The film is now shooting in Praia da Bordeira in Portugal, and will move to Andalucia on Aug 10 and wrap on Aug 31.The Portuguese government and Andalucian Film Commission have helped with location scouting and filming ...
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Sven Sturm to head new Paramount Pictures Germany
Sven Sturm has been appointed general manager of Paramount Pictures Germany, the newly set up German operation from Paramount Pictures International.Sturm had been head of marketing at Sony Pictures Releasing (Germany) since 2000. Prior to that he worked at Universal Music in Germany. He takes the Munich-based post as of ...
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Beta Cinema handling 1936 Olympics drama
Beta Cinema will handle international distribution for Kaspar Heidelbach's drama Berlin 1936 (working title) which begins shooting in North Rhine-Westphalia on Wednesday (Aug 6), just two days before the opening of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.The production by Cologne-based Gemini Film, one of co-producers of the Dardenne brothers' Cannes ...
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Silent Light wins at Motovun
Carlos Reygadas's Silent Light won the Motovun Propeller, the main prize of the 10th Motovun Film Festival, which wrapped Aug 1. The festival favourite and Cannes jury award winner was named Best Film by Slovenian actress Milena Zupancic, British director Pawel Pawlikowski and Pavle Levi, professor of film studies at ...