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Japan's TBS to stream first-run films through VoD service
Major Japanese broadcaster Tokyo Broadcast System (TBS) will stream newly released feature films through its existing VoD service, the network announced yesterday. The service will launch on September 1 under the TBS On Demand banner. Established in November 2005, TBS' VoD service was one of the first in the territory. ...
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EFA announces 2008 nominees for People's Choice Award
The European Film Academy has announced the nominees for this year's People's Choice Award. Among the 12 films are Joe Wright's Atonement, David Yates's Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, and Nic Balthazar's Ben X. From Sept 1 to Oct 31, film fans across the continent can vote ...
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Thessaloniki International Film Festival to honour Youssef Chahine
An homage to a legendary figure of Arab cinema, Youssef Chahine, will be the centerpiece of a tribute to the cinema of Middle East organised by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in November.The festival will screen the Egyptian master's classic film Alexandria Why' (Iskanderija ... lih') along with other ...
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Toronto: The Buzz Films
THE BUZZ FILMSGALA PRESENTATIONSDean Spanley (UK-NZ)Dir: Toa FraserThe story: Based on Lord Dunsany's novel My Talks With Dean Spanley, this charts the relationship between a stiff Englishman and his son.The cast: Peter O'Toole plays opposite Jeremy Northam as his son and Sam Neill as an eccentric dean.The buzz: A co-production ...
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Hancock hits Japan on 400 screens for SPRI
Warner Bros Pictures International's The Dark Knight should cross $400m by Friday [Aug 29] to consolidate its ranking as the second biggest overseas release of the year-to-date behind Indiana Jones 4.The action crime spectacular has opened in all its major markets and looks good to finish in the $415-$420m range.Meanwhile ...
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Buzz Films - Toronto 2008: the lowdown
GALA PRESENTATIONSDean Spanley (UK-NZ)Dir: Toa FraserThe story: Based on Lord Dunsany's novel My Talks With Dean Spanley, this charts the relationship between a stiff Englishman and his son.The cast: Peter O'Toole plays opposite Jeremy Northam as his son and Sam Neill as an eccentric dean.The buzz: A co-production between New ...
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Critical comment: Literary adaptations
Cinema is the most confident and insecure of art forms. When it's on home ground, it's a strutting gang leader, but as soon as it meets one of the old bosses - literature, say, or theatre - it lies down and plays the doormat. And literature and theatre, for their ...
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Interview: Kathryn Bigelow
The Hurt Locker, which has its world premiere at Venice followed by the North American premiere in Toronto, is Kathryn Bigelow's first feature in six years and yet the director remains as relevant and absorbing as ever.Despite a bombardment of contemporary war films over the past year or so, the ...
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Screen Opinion: Refining the business
There was a bitter Breton joke back in the days when oil spillages from supertankers off the Brittany coast were a regular occurrence: 'We'd be rich if we could work out how to pick it up.' It's a thought that springs to mind during what are now unequivocally tough times ...
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In focus: Canadian distribution
On the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, Canadian distributors Alliance Films and Entertainment One (E1) are circling each other like prize fighters - but they do so on top of a shifting canvas.The unpredictable nature of the international film market and the US marketplace's tendency to lob spanners ...
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Profile: Online company mediapeers
'We do not want to replace the Mipcoms and AFMs of this world,' says Moritz Viehweger, co-managing director of mediapeers, the new Berlin-based virtual film and TV market.'Our goal is to complement the traditional rights business with a new form of promoting and licensing film and TV programming,' he explains.Crucially, ...
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In Focus: Shoreline Entertainment
Morris Ruskin, chief of the Los Angeles-based financing, sales and production outfit Shoreline Entertainment, is expanding the business by returning to his roots.The sales agent launched the company years ago primarily as a production entity and recently he has concluded that greater focus on production will build momentum for Shoreline's ...
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Preview: Toronto International Film Festival
This is the strongest year we've had since I started programming Canadian films,' says Steve Gravestock, head of Canadian programming at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff).To see buzz films click hereTo visit Toronto special site click hereThat was five years ago. 'Not only is there a wider range of ...
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Lionsgate UK:Ready to roar
It's a fascinating opportunity,' Zygi Kamasa says of his job as head of Lionsgate UK. He has the power (and financial backing) of a major US player while also having the autonomy to run the UK operation as a separate business. No wonder Kamasa has just signed a new three-year ...
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Sam Taylor-Wood to direct feature about John Lennon's early years
Sam Taylor-Wood will direct Ecosse Films' Nowhere Boy recounting the story of John Lennon's early years and his first steps towards superstardom.Taylor-Wood, riding high after the Cannes screening of her debut short Love You More, plans a March 2009 shoot on location in Liverpool. Worldwide sales agent HanWay Films will ...
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IFC picks up US rights to Danish smash Flame & Citron
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Ole Christian Madsen's Danish box office hit Flame & Citron ahead of its screening at the Telluride Film Festival and the official international premiere at Toronto.The company will release the tale of second world war resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Denmark day-and-date in theatres ...
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Searchlight steps into US release of Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire
Fox Searchlight is teaming up with Warner Bros on the upcoming Danny Boyle release Slumdog Millionaire after scheduling issues made it 'impossible' for Warner Bros to handle the release this calendar year. The film was originally acquired by the now defunct Warner Independent Pictures (WiP).Searchlight will handle marketing and distribution ...
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LA Latino Film Festival hosts Days Of Wrath, Hotel California
Celia Fox's gang drama Days Of Wrath starring Wilmer Valderrama and Laurence Fishburne will screen in the Opera Prima Competition of the 12th Annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF), which runs from September 12-19.LALIFF co-founders Edward James Olmos and Marlene Dermer will also present the West Coast premiere ...
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Fox moves Australia forward in US to Thanksgiving weekend
Twentieth Century Fox has moved Baz Luhrmann's Australia into the lucrative Thanksgiving weekend slot, announcing that it will release the adventure saga in North America on November 26.The film was originally scheduled to open on November 14 however studio chiefs took the decision to move it after Warner Bros switched ...
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UPI France cranks up, hires Lorenzi, Rethore and Peyre
Universal Pictures International France has named several key hires as it expands the studio's presence in the territory. Stephane Huard, managing director Universal Pictures International France made the announcement Thursday.Jean-Michel Lorenzi will be UPI France's sales director while Stephane Rethore has joined as marketing director and Myriam Peyre is moving ...