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Film Source acquires Urban's Preaching To The Perverted
Alex Massis' Florida-based Film Source has acquired Stuart Urban's cult 1998 film Preaching To The Perverted.Preaching To The Perverted is an erotic romp though the underground world of British fetish clubs and tells of a computer geek who is dispatched by moral crusaders to infiltrate and gather evidence against London's ...
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TWC pacts with Bob Marley's widow for reggae biopic
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has teamed up with Rita Marley and producer Rudy Langlais on the adaptation of Marley's autobiography No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley.Production will most likely begin in the first quarter of 2009 in Jamaica and other locations in time for a late 2009 ...
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UK web users demand online distribution - but only for free
UK consumers are enthusiastic about online distribution of films - but few are willing to pay.That's the finding of a survey commissioned by media lawyers Wiggin. Entertainment Media Research spoke to 1,608 UK consumers aged 15-54 in January 2008 and found strong interest in online entertainment, particularly films.But 70% want ...
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Away From Her sweeps the board at Canada's Genie Awards
Debut filmmaker Sarah Polley wore out her boots at the 2008 Genie Awards Monday night. The director and screenwriter of Away From Her and her collaborators made their way to the podium seven times in the evening, picking up every major award including Best Picture for producers Daniel Iron, Simone ...
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Alison Lohman takes lead role in Raimi's Drag Me To Hell
Alison Lohman has replaced Ellen Page in Ghost House Pictures and Mandate Pictures' upcoming supernatural thriller Drag Me To Hell.Page exited the project at the weekend due to scheduling conflicts. Lohman will now star as an ambitious career woman who gets cursed by a witch.Sam Raimi will begin directing on ...
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Little Girl Blue named Best Film at Czech Lion Awards
Alice Nellis' Little Girl Blue has been named Best Film at the annual Czech Lion awards, the Czech equivalent of the Oscars. The film's producer, Jan Sverak, received the award at a gala ceremony Saturday at Prague's Lucerna Palace and immediately shared it with the film's director, Alice Nellis. Sverak ...
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Canadian filmmakers denounce proposed law as censorship
Canada's film and television community is up in arms amidst the revelation of proposed federal legislation that could potentially retract a production's tax-credit eligibility after the fact. Under changes to Bill C-10 introduced by the minority Conservative government, the Income Tax Act would deny a production company its tax credit ...
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Comedy Bienvenue sets record for opening weekend in France
The Dany Boon-directed comedy Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Tis has overtaken Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith with the all-time best opening weekend in Paris and its environs.The film, which is set in the north of France and whose title refers to the local denizens, has sold 604,126 ...
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Man leaves Singapore's MDA for Mark Burnett
Man Shu Sum has resigned as director of the Singapore Film Commission (SFC) and director of strategic relations for the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA). He will join Mark Burnett Productions Asia (MBPA) as CEO to produce Asian television content for the international market. The company is a new ...
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Chinese scriptwriters call on SARFT for rights protection
More than 80 Chinese film and TV scriptwriters have collectively filed a petition to the State Administration of Film, Radio and Television (SARFT) demanding greater recognition and rights protection. The scriptwriters' three major demands are: to ensure their names are credited in the proper places in films and TV programmes; ...
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Zentropa starts new fund to back challenging Danish films
Lars von Trier's Danish production outfit Zentropa has started a new fund to give up to $1.2m (Euros 800,000) to challenging local film projects.Lars von Trier will judge the proposed projects himself and the production funds will go to films where the director is working outside the usual language of ...
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Ingenious acquires Human Capital, launches consulting arm
UK-based finance powerhouse Ingenious Media has moved into consulting with the launch of Ingenious Consulting Network (ICN). Ingenious has acquired Human Capital, a strategy, research and development consultancy that concentrates on media, entertainment and telecoms.ICN said it planned to acquire other businesses offering consulting to media and entertainment businesses.Kip Meek, ...
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UK's John Akomfrah at work on Fela Kuti documentary
UK film-maker John Akomfrah, who recently collected an Order Of The British Empire (OBE) for his services to film, has several new projects in the works.His Smoking Dogs Films production outfit, with Lina Gopaul and David Lawson, is currently working on a feature-length documentary about Afro Beat legend Fela Kuti. ...
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Belgrade Meetings boost projects from Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Serbia
The third Belgrade Industry Meetings, also known as B2B (Business to Belgrade) took place this weekend as a part of the 36th Belgrade International Film Festival FEST(Feb 22- Mar 2).B2B focuses on 'Europe out of Europe'- a concept including countries which are geographically in Europe but not yet fully included ...
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Valchanov's Which Way Today to open Sofia festival
The 12th Sofia International Film Festival (March 6-16) will present 100 feature films, 20 documentaries and 60 shorts in 11 programmes. Bulgarian Rangel Valchanov's Which Way Today, the legendary director's first film in 14 years will open the festival, and Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven will close it.The international ...
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Revolver Germany on board for Czech co-production Normal
Revolver Film Germany, the German outpost of Raymond van der Kaaij's Dutch production outfit Revolver Film, has boarded its first co-production Normal by Julius Sevcik with Czech producer Karla Stojakova's Axman Production.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, Marta Lamperova, van der Kaaij's partner in Revolver Film Germany, described the filmmaker as 'young ...
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NZ Film Commission boards Second Hand Wedding
The New Zealand Film Commission has taken international sales rights and invested in the post-production of the feel-good drama Second Hand Wedding. The film was directed by Paul Murphy from a script by Nick Ward (Stickmen, The Ferryman). It is about Jill (Geraldine Brophy), a school teacher who is so ...
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Singapore's Scorpio East buys six-pack from EMP
Singapore's Scorpio East Pictures has inked a six-movie package deal with Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP), including Derek Yee's Japan-set Shinjuku Incident starring Jackie Chan, Daniel Wu and Naoto Takenaka. The deal also includes Chen Kaige's Mei Lanfang, a biopic of the legendary Peking opera singer with Leon Lai ...
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Screen opinion: Cinema's public advantage
It's the small ironies that often give away the big picture.And this week we have the perfect example in the Northern English town of Huddersfield.The ban on smoking in public spaces, which has been spreading across much of the world, has forced players of the game of bingo out of ...
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Richard Napper takes MD post at UK's Curzon Cinemas
Richard Napper, the former managing director, UK, of Sony Pictures International, has been appointed as the new managing director of Curzon Cinemas.He will oversee all the business operations of exhibition outfit Curzon, part of UK distributor-exhibitor Curzon Artificial Eye Group. Louisa Dent continues as managing director on the distribution side.Philip ...