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Bae TV series set for Korean theatrical release
Korea's most expensive television series, Taewangsashin-gi, aka The Four Guardian Gods Of The King, featuring Korean Wave mega-star Bae Yong-joon, is due to hit local theatres in May. The announcement from producer Kim Jong-hak follows on the heels of the TV drama's theatrical release in Japan on 10 screens nationwide, ...
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Sony signs VOD deal with Belgium's Belgacom
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed a video on demand (VOD) agreement with Belgian telecom operator Belgacom.The deal was negotiated by Andreas Brosjo at SPTI and Ingrid De Coninck at Belgacom.Under the deal, SPTI will provide movie content from the Sony Pictures current slate as well as library titles. ...
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Roger Beck leaves Technicolor for Ascent Media UK
Roger Beck has joined Ascent Media Group as the director of film services, a new position based in London.He will manage the film operations at Soho Images and Todd-AO.Beck had been CEO of Technicolor Creative Services and is also a veteran of Deluxe, Thames Television, Granada and Vidfilm Europe.Santa Monica, ...
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Gothenberg announces 450-film line-up
This year's Gothenberg International Film Festival (Jan 25-Feb 4) will comprise 450 films from 67 countries, with around 40 seminars, the Nordic Film Market andnumerous concerts.The festival will be bookended by two local films, both about brothers in conflict - Jens Jonsson's The Ping Pong King (Ping-pongkingen), competing in Sundance's ...
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Taubin leaves Warner Bros after almost 20 years at studio
Dawn Taubin has stepped down as president of domestic marketing at Warner Bros Pictures in the wake of restructuring following the formation of the Warner Bros Pictures Group.'My professional relationship with Dawn has been one of the most satisfying in my 35 years in the entertainment industry, the studio's president ...
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Media speculation mounts that Canal Plus will buy Kinowelt
France's Canal Plus is reportedly closer to sealing a deal to buy German distributor Kinowelt. According to Agence France Presse, a report set to be published in German daily Leipziger Volkszeitung on Thursday claims the long-rumored acquisition is near completion.'There only remain a few points to settle and the deal ...
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Arts Alliance America rocks with Heavy Metal In Baghdad
Arts Alliance America has picked up domestic rights to VBS.TV's documentary Heavy Metal In Baghdad by Eddy Morretti and Suroosh Alvi.The film follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to present day and will be released theatrically in spring.Arts Alliance America president ...
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Laemmle/Zeller carries The First Basket to US audiences
Los Angeles-based Laemmle/Zeller Films has acquired all North American rights to David Vyorst's documentary The First Basket.The film explores the influence of basketball on modern Jewish History as well as the impact of Jewish sports pioneers on the evolution of the sport.'The First Basket reveals the rich history and amazing ...
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Zeitgeist takes domestic rights to Chris & Don. A Love Story
Zeitgeist Films has acquired all North American Rights from The Film Sales Company to Chris & Don. A Love Story from first-time directors Guido Santi and Tina Mascara.Produced by Mascara and Santi with Julia Scott and James White, the film charts the 30-year love affair between the iconic literary figure ...
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Picturehouse to split from HBO, align fully with New Line
Picturehouse will split from parent company HBO and move over to the New Line stable within months, sources close to the move said today [Jan 9].Spokespeople from all three companies declined to comment, however it is understood the move stems from the poor theatrical box office performance of HBO Films ...
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Pye-Dog set forsimultaneous theatrical, TV release in Singapore
Singapore telco SingTel and Hong Kong-based Mei Ah Entertainment are planning to give Derek Kwok's directorial debut The Pye-Dog a same-day premiere in cinemas and on television. The film will be telecast on Mei Ah Movies Channel, via SingTel's IPTV platform mio TV, on Jan 10, the day it also ...
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Emir Kusturica launches new Kustendorf Film Festival in Serbia
Emir Kusturica has announced a new international film festival to be held in his villageDrvengrad at the mountain Mokra Gora in the Southwest of Serbia. The first Kustendorf Film Festival will be held Jan 14-21, organised by Kusturica's production company Rasta Film International and under the auspices of the Ministry ...
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Berlinale adds competitors including Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky
New films by Mike Leigh, Isabel Coixet and Amos Kollek are among another nine titles confirmed for this year's Berlinale Competition section in addition to the eight previously announced last month.The nine additions are all world premieres except for the international premieres of Kabei and Quiet Chaos:Elegy by Isabel Coixet ...
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International box office drops 22% week on week with few openers
An absence of heavy-hitting new releases could be attributable to the 22.2% week-on-week drop in the international top 40 this weekend, with the only four new entrants all failing to enter the top 30. The top 40 international films generated $208.8m from 49,452 screens for the period of January 4-6. ...
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Karlovy Vary to honour Dusan Hanak and Juraj Jakubisko
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has announced that its two Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema in 2008 will go to Dusan Hanak and Juraj Jakubisko.Both of the legends turn 70 in April. Both are natives of Slovakia and well regarded for their decades of work ...
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Italian box office rises 12.28% in 2007
The Italian industry is jubilant over 2007 box office results, with Italy's exhibitor organisation ANEC calling it 'one of the best in the past 20 years.' The exception is 1998 - when Titanic reigned at the box office and 118m tickets sold. According to estimates, 2007 will see 115m tickets ...
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Coach 14 takes on Berlin Panorama title Shiver
Coach 14 has announced the acquisition of Isidro Ortiz's Shiver. The Spanish horror film is produced by Fausto Producciones, Telecinco Cinema and ApuntoLapospo and stars Junio Valverde, Blanca Suarez.The action is set in a remote mountain village where a lonely teenager becomes a suspect in a series of odd events. ...
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Bac's three new projects include Amazonia, The Green Planet
Bac Films will offer three new projects at the upcoming Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris as well as screening three films. New to Bac's slate is Commis D'Office starry Roschdy Zem and directed by Hannelore Cayre. The film is produced by Dolce Vita Films and follows the 'education' ...
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Canada's Entertainment One to acquire RCV in Benelux
Toronto-based Entertainment One (E1) has agreed to acquire venerable Netherlands-based distributor RCV Entertainment. Having amassed a library of around 1,900 titles since its foundation in 1979, the Benelux stalwart is the latest target of a fast-paced acquisition spree launched by fledgling E1, which only started trading in March of last ...
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Rotterdam to open with Lucia Cedron's debut Lamb Of God
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the 15 films competing for the VPRO Tiger Awards at this year's festival (Jan 23-Feb 3).The competition line-up includes eight world premieres; all films are first or second features. Five of the 15 have been backed by Rotterdam 's Hubert Bals Fund.Films ...