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China's Sichuan province delays Kungfu Panda
Cinemas in China's earthquake-hit Sichuan Province have decided to postpone the release of DreamWorks' Kungfu Panda for five days in the wake of recent protests about the film. The film opened in China on Friday, June 20 except for all cinemas in Sichuan Province.Sichuan's five cinema circuits - Pacific Cinema ...
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She Unfolds By Day wins grand jury prize at CineVegas
Rolf Belgum's She Unfolds By Day won the 10th Annual CineVegas Film Festival's grand jury prize while Rachel Samuels' Dark Streets earned a special jury award.Bill Pullman received a Special Jury Award for his role as the science fiction writer William J Frick in Your Name Here.Aaron Rose and Joshua ...
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Carell's Smart roundly beats Myers' Guru at US box office
The changing face of US comedy delivered a stinging rebuke to the old guard as Steve Carell, one of the biggest success stories of recent years, outgunned the prodigal genius Mike Myers, back in his first live-action role in five years.Get Smart, in which Carell reprises the role of the ...
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Indiana Jones reclaims international crown
Indiana Jones ruled the roost over the weekend thanks in large part to a spectacular $13.1m number launch in Japan that left Paramount/PPI within touching distance of $400m.It was close at the top. Marvel Studios' The Incredible Hulk, released almost everywhere through Universal/UPI, bashed its way through 12 new territories ...
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Eric Lagesse takes control of Pyramide Films
Eric Lagesse has taken a majority stake in French sales and distribution outfit Pyramide Films and will henceforth be the company's president.Fabienne Vonier, who owns the entirety of production company Pyramide Productions, will maintain a minority share in Pyramide Films.In mid-2005, Lagesse became managing director of Pyramide Films after having ...
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Graham, McDonald take key footballer roles in The Damned United
As the shoot continues for Tom Hooper's Brian Clough story The Damned United, Stephen Graham and Peter McDonald have taken the roles of legendary 1970s footballers Billy Bremner and Johnny Giles, respectively. Bremner was the Leeds Captain and Giles was a midfielder.Other actors taking on footballing roles are Mark Cameron ...
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Eagle Pictures reveals first slate since Ben Ammar takeover
Eagle Pictures has announced the first titles to make up the 2008-2009 slate of the company since its take over last year by Franco-Tunisian financier Tarak Ben Ammar.Eagle Pictures head of acquisitions Maria Grazia Vairo told Screen the titles announced will be released in Italy, and in some cases will ...
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City Screen goes beyond DSN to back five new digital installations
In an important step in the evolution of digital cinema in the UK, independent exhibitor City Screen Picturehouse Cinemas is planning to commercially back the installation of five new digital screens.The 18-cinema small chain (which has 50+ screens) has already seen the UK Film Council's Digital Screen Network install 18 ...
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Anders Banke's Newsmakers moves from Moscow to Trollywood
Swedish-born Anders Banke's Newsmakers (Goryachie Novosti), a Russian remake of the Johnnie To 2004 film Breaking News (Daai Si Gin), is now moving to the Trollywood studios in Western Sweden's Trollhattan after shooting on location in Moscow since April 29. The $4m co-production between Moscow-based Tandem Pictures and Gothenburg's Illusion ...
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Tajudin takes international home entertainment role at Sony
Norman Z Tajudin has been named vice president of international for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE).Tajudin will oversee SPHE's portfolio of emerging global markets andwill oversee distribution partnerships and other strategic initiativesin the company's international territories.He reports to SPHE senior vice president of international Paul Miller.Tajudin previously served as vice ...
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Universal Pictures ties up Family Bond
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Marc Platt Productions and Millar/Gough Ink's action comedy Family Bond.Jeff Lowell, who wrote John Tucker Must Die, will write the screenplayabout a spy and his relationship with his daughter.Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are producing for Marc Platt Productionsalong with Alfred Gough and ...
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Universal Pictures ties up Family Bond
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Marc Platt Productions and Millar/Gough Ink's action comedy Family Bond.Jeff Lowell, who wrote John Tucker Must Die, will write the screenplayabout a spy and his relationship with his daughter.Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are producing for Marc Platt Productionsalong with Alfred Gough and ...
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Screen Australia announces seven board appointments
Chief executive of IBM Australia and New Zealand, Glen Boreham, is the first chair of the new super agency Screen Australia,while entertainment lawyer Ian Robertson is his deputy. Arts Minister Peter Garrett set the Australian film industry abuzz today by announcing the first board; the make-up should please everyone given ...
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Leung joins Distribution Workshop as head of sales
Hong Kong distribution executive Virginia Leung has joined start-up international sales outfit Distribution Workshop as head of sales. Leung was formerly senior manager, distribution, at Hong Kong-based Mandarin Films where she oversaw international sales of films such as action hits Dragon Tiger Gate and Flash Point and Tsui Hark's recent ...
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Profile: Luis Berdejo
Many international directors working in Hollywood can fall victim to being over-hyped by agents and publicists. There has been plenty of buzz, for example, surrounding Spanish director Luis Berdejo and his first English-language film, The New Daughter, which is produced by Gold Circle Films and stars Kevin Costner.This time, if ...
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European Box Office Review
While Sex And The City and Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull battle it out with local super-hits for European box-office supremacy, the words 'recession', 'credit crunch' and 'weak dollar' are worrying the region's distributors and exhibitors.Click for country reviews: United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Russia & ...
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Profile: The public life of Rebecca Miller
The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee is a homecoming of sorts for Rebecca Miller. The film is based on her own novel of the same name and is being shot in the area of Connecticut where she grew up.'The house I'm staying in while I film is where I grew ...
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Palme d'Orwinner The Class opens Munich Filmfest
Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner The Class (Entre Les Murs) will open this year's Munich Filmfest on Friday evening (June 20), which will show 237 films from 41 countries, including a retrospective dedicated to the Bavarian film-maker and artist Herbert Achternbusch and an homage to the UK actress Julie Christie ...
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Gigantic picks up Dews documentary
Gigantic Releasing, the new distribution arm of New York-based Gigantic NYC, has acquired all North American and English-speaking rights to Morgan Dews' documentary, Must Read After My Death.The film will receive its US premiere on June 20 at the Los Angeles Film Festival and Gigantic Releasing plans to open it ...
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Lightning takes international rights to Shortcut
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has picked up internationalrights from Leomax Entertainment to the recently announced thrillerShortcut.Ingo Vollkammer's Leomax Entertainment is financing the film andco-producing with Adam Sandler's newly launched production label ScaryMadison.Nicholaus Goosen will direct from a script by Scott Sandler and DanHannon about two brothers who discover a strange ...