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LA distributors rep Orange launches film finance division
Mirjam Wertheim's LA-based distributors' rep Orange Entertainment is branching out into film financing through a new division called Orange Film Finance and a first-look deal with Goldcrest Independent.In addition to its existing business, Orange will also serve as a consultant to independent producers helping them secure finance for films by ...
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Vantage Point takes $11.5m for SPRI, but Fox's Jumper is still top
Fox International's sci-fi adventure Jumper triumphed over a strong challenge from Sony's assassination thriller Vantage Point to stay atop the overseas charts for the third consecutive weekend as a $12.8m estimated haul saw the tally vault to $81.9m.Jumper remains active on 4,067 screens in 44 markets and the weekend highlight ...
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Ellen Page drops out of Raimi's Drag Me To Hell
Ellen Page has exited Ghost House Pictures and Mandate Pictures' upcoming horror film Drag Me To Hell due to scheduling conflicts caused by a change in the production start date.Sam Raimi is preparing to direct the tale he co-wrote with his brother Ivan about an ambitious career woman who gets ...
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US box office down with lacklustre Semi Pro opening for New Line
Box office fell for the third consecutive week as the Will Ferrell comedy Semi Pro, New Line's final release before it merges with Warner Bros, launched at number one on a lacklustre $15.3m.This wasn't as good as openings for Ferrell's previous sporting spoofs- Blades Of Glory last year ($33m) and ...
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Flashback: The 2008 awards
2008 reportsAcademy AwardsBAFTAGolden GlobesThe Clean SweepsDaniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood (Best Actor*)Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose (Best actress**)Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men (Best supporting actor)Ratatouille - Brad Bird (Best Animation Feature)* (Golden Globe for best actor in a drama)** (Golden Globe ...
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Unfinished Kurosawa film to be completed
An unfinished 1983 documentary by famed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa will be completed and released in time for the 100th anniversary of the filmmaker's birth in 2010.Kurosawa began work on documentary Gendai No Noh (Modern Noh) during a suspension of filming of prize-winning period epic Ran (1985) due to financing ...
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Telefilm Canada greenlights new films from Villeneuve, Scott
New films from Denis Villeneuve, Sylvain Guy and Ken Scott have been approved through Telefilm Canada's French-language arm. In all seven pictures received a total of $7.13m (C$7m) out of 31 applications. Villeneuve, who has not made a feature since 2000's Maelstrom, returns to the screen with Incendies, his adaptation ...
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Bohm promoted at NBC Universal International TV Distribution
Pauline Bohm has been promoted to senior vice president of marketing at NBC Universal International Television Distribution (NBC UITD).Rachel Mansson has been promoted to vice president of the marketing for the division's international new media unit. She is based in London and reports to Los Angeles-based Bohm.Bohm will continue to ...
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Dano and Deschanel star in Gigantic for Killer, Epoch
Principal photography on the Killer Films and Epoch Films comedy Gigantic starring Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman and Jane Alexander is set to commence in New York on Mar 3.Mindy Goldberg of Epoch and Christine Vachon of Killer Films are producing and first-timer Matt Aselton will direct from a ...
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Jason Isaacs joins Damon, Kinnear in Greengrass' Iraq thriller
Jason Isaacs has joined the cast of Paul Greengrass' untitled Green Zone thriller for Working Title Films and Universal Pictures.Based on the non-fiction book Imperial Life In The Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the film is set in and around the Green Zone, the base of operations for US troops ...
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Material takes on three Treasure Island pre-quels
UK production company Material Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to John Drake's Flint & Silver as well as the book's two follow-ups.The author makes his debut with the adult adventure novel, a prequel to Treasure Island. The story is about the rivalry between Flint and Silver before their confrontation ...
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MPA and Microsoft launch anti-piracy video contest in China
The Motion Picture Association (MPA), partnering with Microsoft China and in collaboration with Tudou.com, announced the launch of the 'Love Genuine, Protect IPR' online video contest promoting respect for intellectual property rights. Online users in China are being invited to direct and share short films illustrating either the risks of ...
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BBFC oversightlaw shot down in UK House of Commons
Conservative MP Julian Brazier today had a second reading in the House Of Commons for his British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and Appeals) Bill, and the proposal has now effectively been killed off after five hours of discussion.Brazier's proposed Bill points to violent and sexual material allowed ...
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As Hermeling departs A-Film, Wolfers said to be tipped as MD
Following Pim Hermeling's departure from Dutch distributor A-Film (announced yesterday), Wilco Wolfers of Warner Bros Netherlands is being strongly tipped to be appointed managing director in his stead.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com, Philipp Wolff of W2Media BV, the investment company which already owned the majority of the shares in A-Film and has ...
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Terry Pratchett, Vadim Jean on board for Screenwriters Festival
The International Screenwriters' Festival, hosting its third event in Cheltenham this July, has announced several more key attendees.Fantasy writer Terry Pratchett and director Vadim Jean will discuss their recent collaboration The Colour Of Magic (a Sky project), which brought them together after The Hogfather.Other speakers already lined up for the ...
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Tiberius' EFM pick-ups include Girl In The Park, Arn
QED International's Sigourney Weaver/Kate Bosworth thriller The Girl In The Park by David Auburn is among eight titles acquired by the Munich-based distributor Tiberius Film at the recent European Film Market in Berlin.The other acquisitions are:Michael and Peter Spierig's scifi drama Daybreakers, starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill, ...
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IM Internationalmedia appoints Prestel to management board
Sascha R. Prestel is joining IM Internationalmedia's CEO Konstantin Thoeren as a new member of the management board as of March 1, 2008.Prestel, who will be responsible for the areas of finance, investor relations, corporate communications and administration, had previously worked for two years from 2005 to 2007 overseeing the ...
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Nicolas Winding Refn starts Bronson shoot with Vertigo
Danish-born director Nicolas Winding Refn has started a six-week UK shoot for Bronson, his feature about notorious prisoner Charles Bronson.Vertigo Films is producing in association with 4DH Films, EM Media, Str8jacket Creations and Aramid Entertainment.Vertigo's Rupert Preston and 4DH Film's Danny Hansford will produce. Executive producers are Nick Love, Allan ...
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SPRI opens Vantage Point in 12 markets including Germany, Italy
Fox International's sci-fi romp Jumper will be looking to stay on top of the overseas charts but the film will face stiff competition this weekend.The film launches in Italy on 250 screens and currently stands at more than $61m internationally.The biggest threat to Jumper's reign will come from Sony Pictures ...
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Mike Leigh to receive Directing Award at San Francisco in May
Mike Leigh, riding high following the enthusiastic critical response to Happy-Go-Lucky at the Berlinale, will receive the inaugural Founder's Directing Award at the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from Apr 24-May 8.The Founder's Award will be presented to Leigh at the Film Society Awards Night benefit gala ...