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Eros strikes co-production deal with Nadiadwala Grandson
India's Eros International has entered into a four-picture co-productionagreement with local production house Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. The deal will encompass two unidentified projects directed by Siddharth Anand (Salaam Namaste), along with Kambakht Ishq, directed by Saabir Khan and featuring Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor in the lead roles, which goes ...
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Ed Clarke leaves Capitol to be development head at Kudos
Kudos Pictures has hired Ed Clarke as head of development. Clarke spent the last three years at Capitol Films as head of development and acquisitions.Kudos Pictures, which was lead producer on David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, is the film arm of Kudos Film and TV. Its forthcoming productions include wildlife documentary ...
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Revamped Baker Street partners with Darkside on Kitchen Games
UK producer and film financier Baker Street Entertainment is partnering with London based animation studio Darkside Entertainment on ambitious new $8m (£4m)CGI animated feature, The Kitchen Games. The film comes billed as 'a tale of cutlery from opposite sides of the table, which compete once a year to decide who ...
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EFP selects 22 producers for Cannes Producers on the Move
The Hamburg-based, pan-European promotional organisation European Film Promotion (EFP) has selected 22 aspiring European producers for its Producers On The Move networking initiative to take place during the Cannes Film Festival next month.Since being launched in 2000, Producers On The Move has enabled over 140 up-and-coming European producers to meet ...
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Latest UK film production listings
To see other production listings click hereUK PRODUCTIONS IN DEVELOPMENTIvan and MariaGenre: Historical DramaSynopsis: Tormented by a cacophony of voices in his head, Tsar Ivan fights to build a Russian empire as court conspirators try to poison his wife and heirs in order to seize power for themselves.Origin: UKLanguage: EnglishContact: ...
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Mediaplex to shut down Motion 101 production arm
Major Korean entertainment company Mediaplex is set to close down its upstart production arm Motion 101, giving rise to speculation regarding its parent company Orion Group's future intentions for the film business. Mediaplex houses major investor/distributor Showbox and operates the Megabox theatre chain.It sold off the latter, which it built ...
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Miyazaki's Ponyo On A Cliff set for July 19 release
Japan's Studio Ghibli has announced a release date and other details of director Hayao Miyazaki's latest film Ponyo On A Cliff By The Sea. At a press conference held at the screening facilities of Studio Ghibli's regular distribution partner Toho, Ponyo producer Toshio Suzukisaid the film will open on Saturday, ...
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The Warlords rules the roost at Hong Kong Film Awards
Peter Ho-sun Chan's epic war drama The Warlords dominated the Hong Kong Film Awards last night (April 13), scooping eight prizes including best film, best director and best actor for Jet Li. The film, which was a big hit in China last year grossing more than $29m, was also awarded ...
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Daily rejoins Fox to spearhead Blu-ray marketing in North America
Mary Daily has been named executive vice president of marketing for North America at Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.Daily previously worked for the studio for nine years in its European marketing unit in London, when she pioneered the concept of selling television programming to consumers via VHS and DVD.She will ...
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Visit Films acquires international rights to Momma's Man
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's fledgling sales company Visit Films has acquired international rights to Azazel Jacobs' comedy Momma's Man, which premiered at Sundance earlier in the year.Visit will commence sales in Cannes next month on the story of a businessman who moves back in to his parents' downtown New ...
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Bartha stars opposite Zeta-Jones in Freundlich's The Rebound
Justin Bartha has joined Catherine Zeta-Jones in The Film Department's upcoming romantic comedy The Rebound, written and to be directed by Bart Freundlich.The Film Department is financing and producing the film, which is set to start production on April 21 in New York.Tim Perell, Freundlich, Mark Gill and Robert Katz ...
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Munyurangabo, Stranded takes top prizes at Sarasota Film Festival
Lee Isaac Chung's feature Munyurangabo and Gonzalo Arijon's documentary Stranded: I Have Come From A Plane That Crashed On The Mountains won the key competition prizes at the 2008 Sarasota Film Festival as Joshua Safdie's The Pleasure Of Being Robbed took the Independent Visions Competition Award.All three winners receive a ...
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Horton leads international box office with $10.6m weekend
Fox International ruled the roost yet again as Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who! swept past the $100m mark thanks to an estimated $10.6m weekend haul from 5,300 screens in 56 markets. The family film stands at $104.9m and has become the highest grossing international release from the Dr Seuss ...
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Mendoza's Slingshot dominates Singapore awards
Philippine director Brillante 'Dante' Mendoza's Slingshot dominated Singapore's Silver Screen Awards, walking away with best film, best director and the NETPAC award.Actress Inessa Kislova won best performance for Abai Kulbai's coming-of-age tale Swift while Abdellatif Abdelhamid's Syrian comedy Out of Coverage received a special jury award at the ceremony organised ...
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Belladonna, Matson team to bring Latin American films to US
New York-based Belladonna Productions and NYC distributor Matson Films have partnered to acquire six new films from emerging South American directors to distribute theatrically in the United States using a unique brand sponsorship model.The Buenos Aires office of Streiffschuss Films AG will be identifying Latin American movies for the New ...
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Prom Night screams to top of domestic box office for Screen Gems
Screen Gems' horror film Prom Night had too much in the tank as it launched at number one on approximately $22.7m, some $11m ahead of Fox Searchlight's new police thriller Street Kings in second place.However the box office slide continued as the top 12 releases combined for $82.6m, down 16% ...
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International film-makers relive Italian jobs
WIM WENDERSName: Wim Wenders, producer director.Production: The Palermo Shooting. The Germany production shot on location in the German cities of Dusseldorf and Essen before moving to Palermo and Rome for a month in October-November last year.Why did you shoot in Italy'My story was written for the city of Palermo. I ...
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Once, The Secret of Grain and [Rec] to open Linz's Crossing Europe
John Carney's Oscar-winning Once and Abdellatif Kechiche's Cesar winner The Secret Of Grain will be the opening films at this year's fifth anniversary edition of the Crossing Europe Film Festival being held in Linz from April 22 - 27.The first evening will also see Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza's Spanish ...
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Cinema City wants to invest millions in Czech Republic
Cinema City International has announced plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the Czech Republic in the coming years. The Israel-based company recently opened its fifth multiplex in the Czech Republic and its first outside the capital city of Prague: a 10-screen, 1,721-seat facility at the new ...
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TrustNordisk to handle Schmid's Hague dramaStorm
TrustNordisk will handle international sales for German filmmaker Hans-Christian Schmid's first major international project Storm (Sturm) which sees him reunited with Requiem screenwriter Bernd Lange, this time as co-writers.'The film is about a prosecutor at the war tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia in The Hague who is trying to persuade a witness ...