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Korea's Doosabu pacts with Polygon Entertainment
Korea's Doosabu Film has announced a deal for two effects-laden films with US-based Polygon Entertainment, headed by former ILM computer graphics supervisor Hans Uhlig. Uhlig's credits include The Perfect Storm and The Day After Tomorrow. The Korean company, which produced gangster comedy My Boss, My Hero and dramedy Sex Is ...
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Myriad signs one year, first look deal with comic book outfit Studio 407
Myriad Pictures has entered into a one-year first-look deal to make live-action features with Bangkok and US-based comic book creator Studio 407.Studio 407's US staff will operate out of Myriad's Santa Monica offices for the duration of the deal. Myriad get first look at all potential feature adaptations from Studio ...
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Cohen named consultant for Digital Distribution Coalition
Steven B Cohen has been appointed as consultant to manage DigitalCinema Distribution Coalition, the alliance between Warner BrosEntertainment, Universal Pictures and Digital Cinema ImplementationPartners (DCIP).DCIP was originally announced on March 6 2007 and was set up to develop the most cost-effective form of digital delivery.Cohen has more than 20 years ...
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Mann, Dushku star in The Thacker Case
Principal photography has begun in and around Los Angeles and in Iowa on the true-life wrongful death story The Thacker Case.Set in small town Iowa, the film stars Gabriel Mann as a young attorney who uncovers a web of lies and cover-ups following the mysterious death of Kevin Thacker, a ...
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Peace Arch acquires Canadian rights to 32 First Look titles
Toronto-based Peace Arch Entertainment Group has acquired exclusive Canadian rights to 32 films from First Look Studios Los Angeles.Peace Arch will release five of the films theatrically in Canada, followed by DVD, video-on-demand and television distribution. The titles are An American Crime starring Catherine Keener, Smiley Face with Anna Faris, ...
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Day-Lewis to be honoured with achievement award at Palm Springs
Daniel Day-Lewis will receive the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Desert Palm Achievement Award at the festival's annual awards gala on January 5 2008.Day-Lewis has earned rave reviews for his latest performance as a ruthless oil baron in Paul Thomas Anderson's film There Will Be Blood, which ...
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Fred Claus leads UK box office for Warner Bros
Christmas season is in full swing as Fred Claus opens to number one in the UK box office, generating nearly $4m (£2m) in its first weekend. For the full UK/Ireland chart click here.The festive comedy, distributed by Warner Bros, took $3.9m (£1.9m) from 445 sites and enjoyed the highest site ...
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Eros starts shoot for Sujoy Ghosh's Aladin
Eros International has started shooting Sujoy Ghosh's Aladin, a modern day retelling of the Arabian Nights story with a Bollywood twist. Eros makes its first move into visual effects through its new venture EyeQube Studios on the project. Eros is producing Aladin in association with Sujoy Ghosh's company Boundscript. Amitabh ...
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Unknown starRappoport takes lead in new Serebrennikov feature
Russian-born actress Ksenia Rappoport, who was nominated for European Actress 2007 at last weekend's European Film Awards for her performance in Giuseppe Tornatore's The Unknown, has taken the lead in Kirill Serebrennikov's new feature Yuriev Den which has now begun shooting on location in the Russian town of Yuriev near ...
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XXY continues winning streak at Argentina's Sur prizes
The Argentinian Academy of Film Arts and Science awarded Lucia Puenzo's XXY with six Sur prizes (out of 13 nominations), including best film, best first film, best director, best adapted script, best new actress (Ines Efron) and best supporting actor (Martin Piroyansky), at a gala held in Buenos Aires on ...
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Gaumont starts shoot for Splice starring Adrien Brody
Vincenzo Natali has started principal photography on Splice, which Gaumont is co-producing with Canada's Copperheart Entertainment. The film is set to shoot until February 29 in Toronto, with a 2009 release planned.Splicestars Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley and Delphine Chaneac.Natali, who found cult success with Cube and also directed a vignette ...
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Norwegian Fund backs projects including epic Max Manus
The Norwegian Film Fund's $3.1m backing hasgiven thegreen light for leading Norwegian producer John M Jacobsen's Max Manus, a WWII epic which will shoot from February. The fund also chipped in for two less expensive first features.From a screenplay by Thomas Nordseth based on Manus' own books, and produced by ...
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Thomson to establish Asian digital cinema hub
Thomson is set to establish its first digital cinema hub in Asia, via its Technicolor Digital Cinema business, in view of the rapid growth for such services in the region's digital media and entertainment industry. With the support of Singapore 's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), the new facility will be ...
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Taiwan's Wall takes top honours at IFFI Goa fest
Taiwanese director Lin Chih Ju's The Wall was awarded the Golden Peacock and a cash prize of $25,500 (Rs1m) at the closing of the 38th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa last night. The Silver Peacock for most promising director and a cash prize of $12,700 (Rs500,000) went ...
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Vaclav Havel's play Leaving eyes big screen
Playwright and former Czech president Vaclav Havel says his new play is likely to become a feature film. (Leaving) Ochazeniwas published in book form in November and will see its stage premiere in May or June 2008.It is the first play in 18 years from Havel, a former dissident who ...
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JPMorgan fortifies Entertainment unit with $200m warchest
JPMorgan is stepping up its involvement in Hollywood with a commitment to invest $200m of its own capital in film and entertainment projects.The New York-based bank, which late last year arranged $225m in production and distribution funding for start-up Overture Films, said it will use subordinated debt for investments such ...
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Overture to produce, distribute family drama Humboldt Park
Overture Films will produce and distribute State Street Pictures and 2DS Productions' lighthearted family drama Humboldt Park to star Freddy Rodriguez and John Leguizamo.The story centres on three siblings who return to their parents' home for the holidays in the Chicago district of Humboldt Park.State Street's Robert Teitel and George ...
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Shugrue steps down from Envoy, Brian Hall named new CEO
Ted Shugrue has stepped down as CEO and left Envoy Media Partners, the majority partner in Vietnam's largest theatre chain MegaStar Media JVC.Shugrue is parting ways with Envoy after he decided he would be unable to relocate his family to Vietnam.He is replaced by Brian Hall, who will be based ...
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Vaughn's MARV strikes first-look deal with publisher Quercus
Matthew Vaughn and Kris Thykier's production company MARV Films has struck a three-year, first-look deal with Quercus Publishing.MARV will have an exclusive first-look window for all of Quercus' fiction material to consider optioning film rights. MARV recently produced Vaughn's Stardust and the company also has a new first-look deal with ...
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Industry veterans launch Chinese cinema company CMG
Exhibition industry veterans Charles Wesoky and Ira Stiegler are teaming with Beijing-based film producer and distributor Jimmy Wu to launch a cinema management company, CMG (China) Limited, which aims to build 50 cinemas in China by 2011. Wesoky, former CEO of AMC and United Cinemas International (UCI), has been named ...