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HBO buys US TV rights to Magic Hour's Sundance doc Burma VJ
As Sundance 2009 prepared to roll into action tonight (January 15) Submarine Entertainment and First Hand Films announced they had closed a deal with HBO for US television rights to Magic Hour Films’ documentaryBurma VJ.Submarine’s Josh Braun and Esther van Messel of First Hand Films brokered the deal with HBO ...
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WBPI exports Indian actioner Chandni Chowk to 35 markets
Warner Bros Pictures International opens the Bollywood kung-fu comedy Chandni Chowk To China day-and-date with North America in more than 35 markets on January 16 as part of a 40-territory release.Chandni Chowk To China will open on more than 125 screens in the US and Canada, making it the biggest ...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films takes US rights to Brothers At War
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights from to Jake Rademacher's documentary and festival winner Brothers At War.Rademacher produced the film with Norman S Powell about his two brothers who are US Army soldiers and have collectively served seven tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gary Sinise and Dave Scantling served ...
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Vietnamese American film-makers launch new US distribution company
Timothy Linh Bui, Stephane Gauger, Ham Tran and Wyn Tran's newly launched distributor Wave Releasing targeting Vietnamese-American and discerning independent audiences and will roll out its maiden title Owl And The Sparrow on January 16.The Vietnamese-American partners have worked in various capacities on each other's projects and were inspired to ...
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China's SARFT sends draft film promotion law to State Council
Hopes that China will implement a film rating system have been raised as drafting of the Film Promotion Law has been finalized and submitted to China's State Council for approval. The draft was drawn up by the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). According to Zheng Dongtian, ...
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Admissions down by just 1% in Argentina in 2008
Cinema attendance figures in Argentina dropped by an estimated 1% in 2008. The period saw 34.2 million admissions as opposed to 34.5 million in 2007.However, total box office gross was 18% up from last year because of a 20% rise in the average ticket price, according to provisional figures from ...
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Cape No.7 gets green light in mainland China
Previously suspended Taiwanese hit Cape No. 7 has finally received a screening permit in mainland China. The film is now scheduled to be released on February 14, according to distributor China Film Group. Weng Li, spokesperson for the China Film Group today confirmed the release date and said the film ...
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UK tops local fare down underbut Aussie releases less discriminate
UK films earned more than twice as much as Australian films in Australian cinemas in 2008 according to figures released today. The 40 Australian films contributing to the overall 2008 local share sold US$23.3 million (A$35.5m) worth of tickets and represented 3.8 per cent of the total annual box office ...
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Elevenworld premieres in 14 latest titles for Berlinale Competition
Some eleven of the 14 latest films announced for the Berlinale's Competition programme are world premieres, including new films by Stephen Frears (Cheri), Bertrand Tavernier (In the Electric Mist), Francois Ozon (Ricky) and Andrzej Wajda (Sweet Rush). 25 of the 26 films screening in the Competition programme have now been ...
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Government to consider UK co-production report early in 2009
The UK's Departmentfor Culture, Media and Sport is analysing a report on the effect of the country's tax credit on co-production activity with recommendations to ministers expected in the next few months.The report from Oxford Economics, whichhas been seen by Screen,warns that theUK film tax credit has created adverse effects ...
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Slumdog Millionaire and Benjamin Button top BAFTA nominations
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire looks favourite to add BAFTA honours to its huge Golden Globe success.The film - which picked up four Globes this week including best picture - is nominated in 11 categories including best film, best director (Boyle), best actor (Dev Patel), best supporting actresss (Freida Pinto), best ...
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Revolver takes UK rights to Slamdance premiere City Rats
Revolver Entertainment has snapped up UK rights from Facefilms and Scanner Rhodes Productions to City Rats ahead of its world premiere in competition at Slamdance.Steve M Kelly directed from Simon Fantauzzo's script about eight individuals who seek to help each other improve their lives. Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, MyAnna Buring ...
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Oscilloscope buys So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain for North America
Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up North American rights to So Yong Kim's South Korean drama Treeless Mountain, which premiered in Toronto and will screen in the Forum section at next month's Berlinale.The new York-based company plans an April 22 theatrical release at the Film Forum in New York City followed ...
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Richard Matson joins Anywhere Road as vice president
Marketing executive Richard Matson has joined San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York-based distributor Anywhere Road as vice president and head of distribution and marketing.Anywhere Road's 2009 release slate includes the drama Sinner starring Nick Chinlund as priest who faces a crisis of faith when a fundamentalist junior colleague clashes ...
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Brendan Fraser joins Harrison Ford in CBS Films' true life drama
Brendan Fraser will star opposite Harrison Ford in drama The Untitled Crowley Project for CBS Films, the first production to go for the new division when shooting commences in April.Fraser will play John Crowley, the father who recruited the services of a maverick scientist to solve a mystery that could ...
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Focus teams up with Universal's production arm to create global entity
Focus Features has joined forces with the international production arm of Universal Pictures to create a global financing, production and distribution entity on the heels of a successful 2008 in which both divisions’ films grossed more than $350m worldwide.Styled as a one-stop shop for the world’s film-makers, the venture will ...
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In Focus: the 2009 Hollywood blockbusters
Some of the world's biggest film-makers, including James Cameron, Peter Jackson and Martin Scorsese, have new films this year, while the latest in the Harry Potter, Terminator, X-Men and Twilight franchises will hope to build on their existing fanbases.Some - Knowing, Surrogates and The Box, for example - are new ...
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SPC takes on North America to Mexican smash Rudo Y Cursi
Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed it has taken North American rights to Carlos Cuaron's Mexican blockbuster Rudo Y Cursi, which gets its North American premiere at Sundance on January 16.Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna reunite for the first time since Y Tu Mama Tambien opened in 2001 and are ...
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Consortium gets together to launch new east coast film studio
A consortium of business partners led by real estate billionaire Arthur G Cohen, Adi Cohen and Joseph Grinkorn of Killer Films owners GC Venture Capital Fund's, Baldwin Entertainment's Howard and Karen Baldwin and City Lights Media are launching the East Coast studio United Studios Of America.The group is expected to ...
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Unified signs two-picture US distribution deal with Cinema Epoch
Keith Kjarval's Los Angeles-based production, finance and international distribution company Unified Pictures has signed a two-film US distribution deal with Cinema Epoch.The deal covers mystery noir The Perfect Sleep directed by Jeremy Alter and starring Roselyn Sanchez, and Craig Carlisle's romance Bob Funk starring Rachael Leigh Cook. Both films are ...