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Peter Webber to directThe Spider's House
Peter Webber, who directed the Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated Girl with a Pearl Earring and Hannibal Rising, will direct Timothy Burrill's next production The Spider's House. Burrill's co-producer credits include La Vie En Rose and Swimming Pool. The screenplay for The Spider's House is by Laurie Cooke ...
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Passchendaele to screen for Canadian troops in Afghanistan
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) opener Passchendaele will be presented to Canadian military personnel serving in Afghanistan at an advance screening Oct. 3 in Kandahar. The WWI saga is released across Canada Oct. 17 through Alliance Films. Paul Gross, writer, director and star of the film, said the screening acknowledges ...
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Ayres' Scratch The Surface one of ten at SPAAmart
Tony Ayres is attached to direct Scratch The Surface, which is inspired by the murder of two-year-old James Bulger, who was brutally murdered by the two youngsters that calmly lead him away from a UK shopping centre 15 years ago. The film is one of ten projects given the thumbs ...
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Eleven Arts indulges in Daytime Drinking
Ahead of the upcoming Asian Film Market, South Korea's Fine Cut has announced deals for Toronto Discovery section film Daytime Drinking, which sold to Eleven Arts for North America, and horror film Hansel And Gretel, which went to Terracota Media for the UK and MFA+ Distribution for Germany and Austria. ...
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China's Voole.com launches legal film streaming network
Beijing-based Voole.com has launched an online film distribution network, which will stream around 1,500 films from the US, Hong Kong and Korea. Shao Yiding, CEO of Voole, announced at the China Internet Conference that Voole has signed digital distribution deals with Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers Pictures, Koreanbroadcaster MBC and Hong ...
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Hicks starts production on Boys Are Back In Town
Scott Hicks has started shooting UK-Australia co-production The Boys Are Back In Town, which is billed as a love story between a single parent, played by Clive Owen, and his two sons. The producers Tim White (Two Hands) and Greg Brenman (Billy Elliott) have sold North American rights in advance, ...
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UK exhibitors urged to boycott Revolver's all-platform release
The UK's Cinema Exhibitors Association (CEA) has called on members to boycott Revolver Entertainment's planned Boxing Day release of Mum & Dad simultaneously on theatrical, DVD and online platforms.In a letter leaked to ScreenDaily, CEA chief executive Phil Clapp says that while the film was 'clearly only of at best ...
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Tiziana Finzi steps down from Locarno team
Italian-born Tiziana Finzi is to leave her post at the Locarno Film Festival team after nine years citing 'personal reasons.' A graduate in Architecture and History of Cinema at the universities of Venice and Trieste, Finzi joined Locarno in 1999 when she became the chief programmer for the Filmmakers of ...
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South Korea, New Zealand sign co-production treaty
South Korea and New Zealand have signed a co-production treaty that will allow films from both countries to enjoy the same benefits for financing, incentives and support programmes. The treaty also provides for the importation of film equipment and visas for location shoots.Recent Korean films shot in New Zealand include ...
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Adams relocates to Australia to produce studio-financed films
Former Participant Productions executive Chris Adams is planning to relocate from Los Angeles to Brisbane, Australia, and expand his business interests to encompass financing features developed by Melbourne-based actor, writer and filmmaker Steve Kearney. 'Steve is the creative genius and I'm the deal maker,' said Adams, who is American. Asked ...
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Japan's Toy-be changes names, launches Singapore co-production
Japanese film and media company Toy-be Entertainment is being renamed and relaunched as Adways Entertainment Co, following a capital alliance with Tokyo-listed mobile and internet advertising agency Adways Group in August. Adways Entertainment has also announced the first project for its 2008/2009 slate, which is a Japan-Singapore co-production tentatively titled ...
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Global Film Initiative has Getting Home, Mutum in 2009 series
The Global Film Initiative has announced its Global Lens 2009 series of touring films, a typically cosmopolitan selection that features entries from as far afield as Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Macedonia and Mozambique.The series includes three North American premieres for Nan Triveni Achnas' Indonesian drama about a struggling prostitute The Photograph, Teresa ...
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Heaven On Earth to open eighth MIAAC Film Festival in New York
Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth will open the eighth Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival in New York on November 5 while Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is the centerpiece screening and Sooni Taraporevala's Little Zizou will close the event on November 9.Heaven On Earth references Indian mythology and magical ...
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Paramount signs to handle worldwide on next five Marvel films
Buoyed by the $574m global success of the sumer tentpole Iron Man, Paramount Pictures has signed a deal to handle worldwide distribution on the next five films from Marvel Studios.The deal extends the original agreement between Paramount chairman and CEO Brad Grey and Marvel and covers territories previously served by ...
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Asia Film Finance: The world turns East
From an investor's point of view, the East Asian film industry is an exciting story: large markets across the region, lower production costs relative to the US and Europe, and the major growth engine of China, where box office has quadrupled to $459m in five years. Due to the rising ...
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Four festival favourites nominated for European Film Award
The directors of Hunger, Snijeg, Tatil Kitabit and Tulpan have been nominated for a European Film award. The European Discovery award is given to a young, upcoming director for a first full-length feature film.Steve McQueen has been nominated for Hunger, which covers the events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike ...
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Reliance subsidiary signs video deal with Paramount
India's Big Music & Home Entertainment, owned by Reliance ADAG group, has entered into a video licensing deal with Paramount Home Entertainment for library titles from Paramount and DreamWorks in India and Sri Lanka. Titles included in the deal include classics such as the Godfather films, The Ten Commandments and ...
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Entertainment One plans North American stock exchange listing
Multi-national content company Entertainment One (E1) is planning a reverse takeover of Canadian television producer and distributor DHX Media, a move that will give E1 a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange. E1 currently trades on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), a sub-market of the London bourse.E1 CEO Darren Throop ...
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International sales for Chinese Lala's Gun picked up by Three Dots
Taipei-based Three Dots Entertainment picked up international sales rights to Chinese director Ning Jingwu's Lala's Gun, at the annual Beijing Screenings held last week.The deal marks the first time that Three Dotsis handlinginternational sales for a film directed by a mainland Chinese filmmaker.Three Dots follows Peggy Chiao's Arclight Films as ...
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Korea's Gwangju Citygets promotionboost from October,Metafive
Hong Kong-based October Pictures and Korean visual effects company Metafive Art, Science And Magic have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOU) with South Korea's Gwangju Metropolitan City to promote Gwangju as an Asian hub for international CGI projects. The two companies are also collaborating with Kinomotive Studio - founded by ...