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International - Killer opening
Twentieth Century Fox International's Valkyrie is the new international number one after making its debut in 13 markets. Grossing $12.8m from 2,089 screens over the January 23-25 weekend, the film opened at number one in Germany ($3.6m from 689 screens), Australia ($1.3m from 232) and the Netherlands ($900,000 from 96).Directed ...
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Summit arrives at EFM with Furry Vengeance, Next Day Air
Summit International arrives at EFM with the $50m family adventure Furry Vengeance starring Brendan Fraser and urban comedy caper Next Day Air starring Mos Def and Mike Epps.Summit Entertainment plans a 2010 North American release on Furry Vengeance, in which Fraser plays a conniving developer whose cruel intentions meet with ...
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Myriad takes on international rights to McGehee/Siegel drama
Kirk D'Amico's Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Myriad Pictures has acquired all international rights to the action drama Uncertainty starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins.Myriad will screen the film and commence sales at EFM next week after Myriad's Luiza Ricupero negotiated the deal with Christine Kim of Cinetic. ...
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UK government to legislate against piracy
The UK government has announced that it will legislate to tackle piracy resulting from peer to peer file sharing. The government's plans are set out in the report Digital Britain issued today, January 29, by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory ...
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins Swank in Hammer's The Resident
Watchmen star Jeffrey Dean Morgan has joined Hilary Swank in Hammer Films' thriller The Resident, which will be available at next week's EFM in Berlin.Hammer will produce for parent company Exclusive Media Group, the global company that combines Hammer and Los Angeles-based Spitfire Pictures and is backed by strategic investment ...
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Rossi, Mori hired by Paramount in acquisitions group
Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions Group (PWAG) has appointed Alexandra Rossi to vice president of the group in London and Mineko Mori to director of the group in Mexico City.The group was set up in July 2008 as Paramount's centralised acquisitions and local co-production division servicing Paramount Pictures International and its territories ...
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Warner Bros' Josh Berger joins UK Film Council board.
Minister for Culture Barbara Follett has announced today that Josh Berger, President and MD of Warner Bros. Entertainment UK Ltd (WBEUK) has been appointed to the UK Film Council's board of directors. Berger, who has been with Warner Bros Entertainment Inc. since 1989, has been WBEUK's President and MD since ...
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M-Appeal picks up international sales for Simon Chung's End Of Love
M-Appeal has picked up international distribution for Hong Kong filmmaker Simon Chung's drama End Of Love, which will have its world premiere in the Panorama Special at the Berlinale next month. End Of Love's cast includes Lee Chi Kin, Guthrie Yip and Clifton Kwan, Scripted by Chung, the film centres ...
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Russia and CIS box office up 46.9% year on year
Russia and CIS box office grossed $830m in 2008, a 46.9% year on year rise from 2007's $565m, according to Russian Film Business Today. The main reasons behind the increase are a significant rise in admissions combined with a considerable hike in ticket prices. Admissions for 2008 totalled a record ...
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Japanese box office down 1.8% in 2008
According to annual data published today by The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren), overall box office revenues for 2008 totalled $2.164bn (Y194.84bn), a 1.8% decrease from 2007's $2.204bn (Y198.44bn). The figure represents earnings on 160.49 million admissions, a 1.7% drop on the previous year's 163.19m cinemagoers. The average ...
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UK lottery funding for the Film Agency for Wales drops 21%
The Film Agency for Wales is to receive $1.1 million (£750,000) of lottery money to invest in Welsh film production and development in 2009. The investment fund is significantly lower than the figure allocated for the previous year. Over the course of 2008 the agency invested almost $2.5 million (£1.7 ...
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Samuel L. Jackson joins cast of Rodrigo Garcia's Mother And Child
Samuel L. Jackson has joined the cast of Rodrigo Garcia 's Mother and Child,he joinsNaomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, and Jimmy Smits.Prinicpal photography has now started with writer and director Rodrigo Garcia directing from his own screenplay. Mother And Child tells the intersecting story of three women - a ...
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Amanda Seyfried takes the lead in A Woman Of No Importance
Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried has signed on for the leading role of Hester Worley in Myriad Pictures' Oscar Wilde adaptation A Woman Of No Importance.Bruce Beresford is directing and Donald Zuckerman producing, with Myriad president and CEO Kirk D'Amico serving as executive producer.Annette Bening and Sean Bean also star ...
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Suso D'Amico to receive first WGAW Jean Renoir Award for screenwriting
Italian screenwriter Suso D'Amico will receive the inaugural Writers Guild Of America West's Jean Renoir Award for screenwriting achievement.D'Amico is credited with writing more than 100 films including The Bicycle Thief, Rocco And His Brothers and Big Deal On Madonna Street.The lifetime achievement award will be given on an occasional ...
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International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009 update
More than midway through the 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), there is a clear feeling of relief among industry delegates. Some had feared that thanks to the global economic downturn, even an event as well-established as IFFR's coproduction market CineMart might have fallen completely flat. However, despite a cautious ...
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UK Film Council search engine for audiences in the digital age
The UK Film Council (UKFC) has launched the film search engine FindAnyFilm.com. in a response to audience needs in the digital age. The engine enables users to find out when, where and how a film is legally available anywhere in the UK, across all formats and platforms - cinema, TV, ...
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UK's Shine Pictures to produce 1066
Shine Pictures, the newly created joint venture between Shine Group's Kudos Pictures and New Regency has hired William Nicholson (Gladiator, Elizabeth: The Golden Age) to write an epicscreen version of the battle between King Harold and William the Conqueror, for the throne of England. The project, 1066 is expected to ...
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Charles Dance to direct The Inn At The Edge Of The World
Charles Dance ( Ladies In Lavender ) is to direct The Inn at the Edge of the World , from his screenplay based on the Alice Thomas-Ellis' novel of the same name. The Inn at the Edge of the World tells the story of a group of people who go ...
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Fortissimo to start pre-sales at EFM on Todd Solondz's Forgiveness
Fortissimo Films has confirmed that it has acquired international rights from Werc Werk Works to Todd Solondz's Forgiveness and will commence pre-sales at EFM next month on the loose sequel to the director's 1998 dark comedy Happiness.Fortissimo has always been connected to the project but the film has undergone several ...
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Two new awards for Edinburgh international film festival in 2009
The Edinburgh international film festival has announced the introduction of two new significant international awards; best new international feature award and best international short film at this year's festival. The film festival prides itself on its focus on the discovery and recognition of British film, and the Michael Powell award ...