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Paramount sets up Acquisitions Group for International, Vantage
Paramount Pictures has created the new Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions Group (PWAG), a centralised acquisitions and local productions arm that will service Paramount Pictures International and its worldwide territories as well as US-based Paramount Vantage.PPI president Andrew Cripps and Paramount Vantage president Nick Meyer jointly announced the plans today.Matt Brodlie, Paramount ...
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Deauville competition includes Snow Angels, Towelhead
The line up for the 34th Deauville Festival of American Film includes the first directorial effort from American Beauty writer Alan Ball, Towelhead. Also on deck for the competition are David Gordon Green's Snow Angels and Tom McCarthy's critically acclaimed The Visitor. In total, the competition includes 11 films, five ...
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Film Export UK works with Skillset for new sales training scheme
As film sales company trade assocation Film Export UK celebrates its first birthday, there are a number of initiatives to celebrate.Chairman Ralph Kamp notes: 'We have just had the go-ahead from Skillset for a placement scheme for new entrants which will deliver £100,000 worth of training directly to the sales ...
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Locarno Critics Week world premieres include Mr December
Locarno's Critics Week sidebar will present four world premieres and three international premieres in this year's programme of creative documentaries.The complete lineup of seven titles is:Apology Of An Economic Hitman, dir: Stelios Koul (Greece), international premiereBill - Das Absolute Augenmass, dir: Eric Schmid (Switzerland), world premiereFour Wives - One Man, ...
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Stillking hopes to lure Tarantino's Bastards to Czech Republic
Prague-based Stillking Films is in talks with Lawrence Bender and Quentin Tarantino to bring Tarantino's upcoming project Inglorious Bastards to the Czech Republic.Stillking marketing director Romana Paskova told local press that the company had offered the producers various locations but that the project was under a strict embargo.Earlier reports mentioned ...
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Six-stage Russian World Studios to open in September
The elephant doors will soon open on a new film-making facility in St. Petersburg. Russian World Studios, after three years of construction delays, plans to open its new studios in September.The facility will feature six sound stages - four of them 750-square meters - plus support and post-production facilities. Russian ...
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One-To-One with John Maybury
One-To-One: UK Star Of Tomorrow director China Moo-Young talks to John Maybury, whose work includes Edinburgh opener The Edge Of Love, 2005 hit The Jacket.China Moo-Young: What's the difference between working with Hollywood and British producers'John Maybury: To be honest, none. Now in this country, as soon as you're above ...
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Stewart Wade's Tru Loved gets North American home with here!
here! Films has acquired North American rights to Stewart Wade's gay-themed drama Tru Loved that sister company Regent Releasing will distribute this autumn.Tru Loved follows a 16-year-old girl who is moved by her lesbian mothers from their tolerant San Francisco community into a conservative environment in Southern California where she ...
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Disney acquires home video rights to Hindi hit
Walt Disney Co has acquired home video rights for North America, the UK and Australia to hit Hindi movie, Taare Zameen Par, directed by and starring Aamir Khan. Mumbai-based UTV Motion Pictures holdsinternational rights to the film which was a big hit when it was released in December last year, ...
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CineTel acquires international to Lundgren-directed Icarus
Production and distribution company CineTel Films has acquired international rights to the upcoming action title Icarus that Dolph Lundgren will direct and star in.Production is scheduled to begin this autumn in Vancouver on the story of a former Soviet hitman whose past catches up with him as he lives with ...
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VIZ Productions launched to film Japanese graphic novels
San Francisco-based publishing, animation and licensing company VIZ Media has launched the wholly owned Hollywood-based film and television company VIZ Productions to adapt Japanese graphic novel properties.The new company will specialise in manga and will draw on a large library of manga properties owned by its Japanese parent companies Shogakukan ...
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Film Movement buys Berlin prize-winner In Love We Trust
Film Movement has acquired Wang Xiaoshuai's Silver Bear winning Chinese family drama In Love We Trust and plans a limited theatrical run.The story centres on a divorced couple that learns the only way to save their ailing daughter is to have another child.The film won the Silver Bear for best ...
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Nowak promoted to COO at New Wave Entertainment
Rick Nowak has been promoted to COO at New Wave Entertainment, while Alan Duke has been promoted to executive vice president and general counsel and Greg Woertz has moved up to executive vice president and CFO.The executive trio will oversee operations for all New Wave services and brands, which include ...
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Dark Knight's domestic opening was bigger than expected
The Dark Knight grossed considerably more than Warner Bros distribution chiefs originally thought at the weekend as actual results confirmed today [July 21] reveal the film set a three-day opening weekend record of $158.4m.The Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures superhero sequel also broke records for Thursday midnight screenings ($18.5m), opening ...
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Pathe UK adds Tisne, Cowen to production team
Pathe UK is expanding its production team by hiring Louis Tisne as Director of International Production and Michael Cowen as Director of Development.Tisne, who previously worked with Momentum, will report directly to Cameron McCracken, Managing Director of Pathe UK.Cowen will identify emerging talent in the UK as well as working ...
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UK Film Council says box office could rebound for 'strong year'
The second half of 2008 looks set to be a success for the UK box office, despite the rise of home entertainment and new media alternatives, and the impact of the credit crunch, according to a report fromthe UK Film Council. In the UK, the number of tickets sold in ...
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Era New Horizons hosts 650 screenings at eighth festival
Poland 's Era New Horizons festival kicked off July 17 with Jerry Skolimowski's Four Nights With Anna and Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, and will continue until July 27 in Wroclaw, Poland.The festival, in its eighth edition, will close with the Dardennes' Lorna's Silence. The festival will host 650 screenings of ...
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Fortissimo takes on Omarova's Native Dancer
Fortissimo Films has acquired world rights (excluding CIS) to writer-director Guka Omarova'sNative Dancer, about a spiritual healer from Kazakhstan. (The film debuted in Sochi under the title Baksy.)The film was co-written and produced by Sergei Bodrov. Native Dancer was co-produced and financed by The CTB Film Company, The National Studio ...
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Doc The Elephant In The Room to get online release
Film-makers are planning a Sept 1 online release for a new UK documentary, The Elephant In The Room.The film follows UK film-maker Dean Puckett as he looks into the global movement of conspiracy theorists offering alternative explanations of September 11.The full film will be released on the website www.nosmokewithoutfire.co.uk on ...
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Ivin starts Australian shoot for Last Ride starring Hugo Weaving
Glendyn Ivin starts shooting Last Ride today in South Australia's Flinders Ranges.The film stars Matrix and Lord Of The Rings veteran Hugo Weaving as a dad on the run with his son (played by Tom Russell) as they venture 'deeper into the outback and deeper into trouble.' The cast also ...