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Steve Coogan to play Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards on screen
Steve Coogan will star in Eddie The Eagle as the eponymous British ski-jumper whose last place ranking in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary endeared him to tens of thousands of fans and came to epitomise British eccentricity and spirit.Producers John Heyman and Rupert Maconick are lining up a January ...
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Simpsons make it into Indian multiplexes after boycott is resolved
After losing out on opening weekend collections for the The Simpsons Movie in India , local distributor Warner Bros reached an amicable settlement with the Multiplex Owners Association leading to the film being back on regular shows from today (Aug 7). The multiplex owners cited unreasonable demands for an increased ...
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Kinowelt International picks up Venice Days film Head Under Water
Kinowelt International has taken on international sales for Andreas Kleinert's thriller Head Under Water (Freischwimmer) which has been selected for its world premiere at this year's Venice Days sidebar at the end of the month. This is Kleinert's first feature film for almost ten years since his Paths In The ...
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Beyond Dreams works with foundation for $20m Buddha feature
Beyond Dreams Entertainment of India has partnered with Sri Lanka 's The Light of Asia Foundation, Sri Lanka for a $20m film project on the life of Gautam Buddha, the historical founder of Buddhism. Leading Indian director Shyam Benegal will direct the project. The Memorandum of Understanding for the production ...
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Cronenberg's Eastern Promises to open San Sebastian
David Cronenberg's new film, Eastern Promises, is to open the 55th San Sebastian Film Festival, which runs Sept 20-29. The Spanish festival will close with Michael Radford's Flawless, a heist film starring Demi Moore and Michael Caine, playing out of competition. Paul Auster - who is to chair the official ...
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Park Circus takes on world rights to Icon back catalogue
UK distributor Park Circus has struck a deal with Icon Entertainment International to handle Icon's back catalogue worldwide, both theatrically and non-theatrically. The library includes more than 350 titles such as The Passion Of The Christ and The Big Easy. The deal represents Icon productions and also other properties including ...
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Empties and King Of England lead Czech box-office recovery
First-half box-office admissions in the Czech Republic grew 13% year-on-year, with local cinemas earning total revenues of nearly $31.3m (CZK 637m). If the trend continues in the second half, 2007 will outpace last year's 11.5m admissions, continuing a recovery from 2005's 9.5m admissions. The Czech Republic, which has a population ...
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Ascot Elite takes German-speaking rights to This Is England
Swiss independent distributor Ascot Elite has taken all German-speaking European rights to Shane Meadows' This Is England from sales company The Works International. Meadows' somewhat autobiographical story of a young boy influenced by skinheads in 1980s England won the best film and best newcomer (Thomas Turgoose) awards at the British ...
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Credit crunch may squeeze slate funders, says Fazio
The rising cost of credit in the US sparked by the recent collapse of the mortgage sector has made film financing a more precarious business, according to Deutsche Bank's new global head of media and entertainment structured finance Laura Fazio.'People are concerned that the debt costs around these transactions have ...
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Peter Paige to star in Brazilian drama Copacabana
Peter Paige from the Showtime series Queer As Folk has joined the cast of Roberto Jabor's Brazilian drama Copacabana, Of Love And Shadows.The $5m English-language production will commence principal photography in Rio De Janeiro in March 2008 and weaves together the stories of a treacherous drag queen, a nightclub diva ...
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Weinstein Company launches $285m Asian film fund
Harvey and Bob Weinstein have announced their long-planned $285m Asian film fund to finance the development, production, acquisition, marketing and distribution of Asian-themed films over the next six years.The Weinstein Company (TWC) will handle worldwide distribution for all films under the deal and domestic DVD distribution will go through Genius ...
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Russell Schwartz leaves New Line after six years
Russell Schwartz is leaving his position as New Line's president of domestic theatrical marketing after more than six years in the role.Schwartz will remain in place until the end of August, by which time studio's leadership will expect to have found a replacement. Beyond that he will be available as ...
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Shabana Azmi to head jury of new Asia Pacific awards
The Indian actress and humanitarian Shabana Azmi has been named president of the international jury at the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), to be held on Australia's Gold Coast on Nov 13. 'The Asia Pacific Screen Awards is strongly committed to cinematic excellence and the promotion of the regions' ...
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OTX expands film tracking service in Russia and China
The OTX (Online Testing Exchange) International Film Tracking service is expanding to Russia and China, the first such tracking service in each country. Clients of the consumer research and consulting company will be able to use the service to evaluate marketing campaigns up to five weeks before release. OTX's weekly ...
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Waintrop named new head of Fribourg festival
Switzerland 's Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) has found a programmer for the 2008 edition, while Austria's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema will be looking for a new director from 2009. The appointment of French film critic Edouard Waintrop as programmer for the next edition of FIFF (March 1-8, ...
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SVT pulls out most expensive Nordic feature, $30m Arn
Swedish public broadcaster SVT has pulled out of Svensk Filmindustri's Arn-The Knight Templar, the two-film adaptation of Swedish writer Jan Guillou's bestselling trilogy of Arn Magnusson, which - with a $30.3m (Euros 22.8m) budget - will become the most expensive feature production in the Nordic countries. 'Unfortunately Svensk Filmindustri cannot ...
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LoveFilm hires BBC iPlayer expert Ben Lavender
Ben Lavender will join LoveFilm as group digital and product director. He joins LoveFilm from the BBC, where he was project manager for celebrity stock market Celebdaq and also pioneered the recent launch of the BBC iPlayer. At LoveFilm, he will develop LoveFilm - including leading new features - across ...
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UTV taps three portals for online film releases
Indian motion picture company UTV has tied up with three portals that will premiere two of their forthcoming feature film releases online. UTV Motion Pictures' library of movies will also be available for viewing via these portals. The first two premieres are the Vikram Bhatt helmed Fear (Aug 10) across ...
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India's Adlabs lines up multi-territory release for Marigold
Indian studio Adlabs has lined up an Aug 17 day-and-date release in the US, UK and India for Hollywood/Bollywood romantic comedy Marigold. The long-gestating fusion pic, starring Ali Larter and Bollywood star Salman Khan, will be rolled out on 80-100 prints in the US, around 50 in the UK and ...
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Cinta takes top best film honours at Malaysian Film Festival
Khabir Bhatia's Cinta, an omnibus of five love stories set in modern-day Kuala Lumpur, was named best film at the 20th Malaysian Film Festival awards ceremony on Saturday night. It also took best supporting actor (for Haji Rahim Razali), best screenplay and best editor. A total of 29 awards were ...