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French director Gilles Behat to shoot $10.4m thriller with Depardieu
MK2 has announced a $10.4m (Euros 7m) film from director Gilles Behat starring Gerard Depardieu and Olivier Marchal. Diamond 13 will begin shooting in February in Belgium and is expected to be released by MK2 in the autumn of 2008.Also starring Valeria Golino and Aissa Maiga, the thriller is adapted ...
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Oz box office up 3% for second biggest year on record
Australians spent $801.7m (A$895m) on going to the movies in 2007, making it the second best year on record in terms of annual gross box office.The Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (MPDAA) released the figure today and said it represented a 3% rise on the previous year. Only in ...
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Bell promoted in visual effects production at Universal
Jennifer Bell has been promoted to senior vice president of visual effects production at Universal Pictures.Effective immediately, Bell moves up from her previous post as vice president of production technology and will oversee all aspects of visual effects creation and production for the Motion Picture Group. She reports to president ...
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French films sustain solid overseas admissions
French films scored a healthy 53.7 million admissionsoutside France for the year 2007 with revenues of $369m, export body Unifrance announced Thursday.But at home, the box office fell with local market share falling 36.5% from 44.6%, though admissions were still above average.Unifrance's provisional figures, while above average for the past ...
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Legend set to conquer box office with Germany, Italy openings
Warner Bros Picture International's (WBPI) I Am Legend has ruled the roost for the last few weeks and looks good to maintain its number one berth this weekend.The horror sci-fi has amassed $169.3m and could cross $200m this weekend with strong holds and anticipated launches in Germany on Jan 10 ...
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CEC makes single picture financing deal on Frank Miller's The Spirit
Finance and investment firm Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC) has announced its single picture financing deal for Frank Miller's The Spirit and has provided partial production and distribution financing for Odd Lot Entertainment together with funds managed by private investment firm Qualia Capital.Odd Lot and Lionsgate will jointly provide production and ...
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Koch Lorber takes US rights to Scott Hicks' Philip Glass documentary
Koch Lorber Films has picked up Scott Hicks' documentary Glass: A Portrait Of Philip In Twelve Parts, which follows the legendary composer over the course of one eventful year and premiered in Toronto last year.Koch Lorber holds US theatrical and home video rights and has set the US premiere for ...
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TWC close to sealing interim agreement with WGA
Harvey Weinstein was expected to announce that The Weinstein Company interim deal with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) last night [Jan 10] that is said to be similar to the agreement the writers have reached with United Artists and David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants.Weinstein flew into Los Angeles ...
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The international view - The big pictures
Impressive-looking 2007 box-office revenue figures have already been tarnished by questions about the profitability of the films. But there are other questions that should be concerning the industry.The North American box office generated revenues of $9.7bn in 2007 while the international arena rang in with an estimated $15.2bn to bring ...
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Screen Opinion - film industry means business
You don't need to be Alan Greenspan to detect a change of atmosphere in the new year. There's a relatively widespread feeling that 2008 will be a tougher year than 2007.It's the reason, incidentally, why scrapping major awards ceremonies is an indulgence for the business as a whole, whatever the ...
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Yair Landau: Sony's digital driver
Yair Landau could not have timed the start of his Hollywood career any better. After a brief stint in investment banking, the Stanford MBA arrived at what was then Columbia Pictures Entertainment in 1991, soon after the venerable studio had been acquired by Sony.'I joined as the leading global consumer ...
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United Kingdom - English Patience
'When Paris sneezes, all Europe catches a cold,' Austria's Prince Metternich famously quipped in the wake of the French Revolution. When Hollywood sneezes, the global film industry catches a cold. That, at least, is the suggestion of British film commissioner Colin Brown as he surveys prospects for UK film production ...
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South Korea - The profitability factor
South Korea is no stranger to talk of a crisis in the film industry, even in the midst of years of swollen admissions, record-breaking local hits and rising exports.However, a recent study from the Korean Film Council (Kofic) estimates the average local film in 2007 to have earned back just ...
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National Lampoon seals multi-territory deal with Front Row
National Lampoon has slotted the latest piece into its jigsaw of international partnerships following a multi-territory distribution deal with Dubai-based Front Row Film Entertainment.Front Row Film Entertainment will handle Middle Eastern theatrical, home video and broadcast rights to nine National Lampoon features, which include the company's first self-produced titles National ...
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Chaiken and Dungan pact to remake Devil Came On Horseback
Jen Chaiken and Sebastian Dungan of Los Angeles-based 72 Productions will produce a feature-length version of the Darfur genocide documentary The Devil Came On Horseback.Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg's documentary premiered at Sundance 2007 and is based on the memoir of former US Marine Captain Brian Steidle who secretly photographed ...
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Lionsgate's Marni Wieshofer joins Media Rights Capital
Marni Wieshofer has joined Media Rights Capital as senior vice president, corporate development and mergers and acquisitions.Since 2002 Wieshofer has served as executive vice president of corporate development at Lionsgate and orchestrated acquisitions and facilitated the integration of Mandate Pictures, Redbus Films Distribution UK, Trimark Pictures and Artisan Entertainment, among ...
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Peter Morris re-elected as chairman of BAFTA/LA
BAFTA/LA has re-elected Peter Morris as chairman and announced its board of directors for the new year.
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WGA announces annual awards nominees
The embattled Writers Guild Of America has announced its nominations for the 2008 Writers Guild Awards that will take place in Los Angeles and New York on February 9.In the original screenplay category Diablo Cody is named for Juno, as are Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton, Tamara Jenkins for The ...
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Dutch producers IDTV Film and Motel Films join forces
Dutch film- and television production companies Motel Films & IDTV Film have joined forces. From January 1st, two parties continued together under the name of IDTV Film.IDTV will also house its drama activities in IDTV Film. Motel Films chairmen Jeroen Beker and Frans van Gestel had concluded that in order ...
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Kings, Garage lead Irish Film & Television Awards Nominees
Kings and Garage lead the nominees for the fifth-annual Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs), which take place in Dublin on February 17.Kings, an Irish-language feature submitted as Ireland's first Foreign Language Oscar entry, has received 14 nominations while the multi award-winning Garage has 11 nominations. Kings and Garage were ...