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Thai talent watch: the new vanguard
Silvia Wong highlights the names to watch out for from the Thai film sectorAnanda Everingham, actorAfter debuting in Shutter, the Bangkok-based actor has become one of the most familiar faces in Thai cinema. His films this year include Ploy, Pleasure Factory, Bangkok Time and Queens Of Pattani.Anocha Suwichakornpong, directorAnocha has ...
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Thailand: projects in the pipeline
Thai productions coming to the screen soon, compiled by Silvia Wong. Click on link to be taken to related websiteFirst Flight (completed)Dir: Thanit JitnukulSet during the First World War, a young Thai peasant aspires to become a pilot in the country's first flying division.Contact: Golden Network, (852) 2751 1886www.goldnetasia.comMuay Thai ...
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Remakes: Thai take two
Remake rights for Thai genre movies are increasingly in demand from film-makers in Asia and the US. Silvia Wong reports. Initial Entertainment Group's take on Danny and Oxide Pang's 1999 action thriller Bangkok Dangerous stars Nicolas Cage and is directed by the Pang brothers themselves.It is the first high-budget English-language ...
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Transformers breaks US July 4 box-office record with $29m
Robots have taken over the domestic box office this Independence Day as DreamWorks and Paramount 's Transformers raked in $29.08m on the US national holiday, the biggest July 4 gross to date. The film's performance beats Spider-man 2 at $21.9m in 2004. Transformers - which has a 6.5 day opening ...
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Toronto adds debuts from David Auburn and Helen Hunt
Two high-profile directorial debuts are among five films added to the Toronto International Film Festival's September Special Presentations line-up. Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn (Proof, The Lake House) has directed his own screenplay with The Girl In The Park. The film features Sigourney Weaver as long-suffering mother who encounters a ...
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Metrodome plans August theatrical run for Wild Style
Metrodome is planning the first UK theatrical release of hip-hop classic Wild Style. The 1982 film by Charlie Ahearn will hit cinemas on August 10. The film is a slice-of-life from the South Bronx , starring the likes of Grand Master Flash , Grand Wizard Theodore, D.St,, Grand Master Caz, ...
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German Fund exceeds cap again for Bryan Singer's Valkyrie
The United Artists' production of Bryan Singer's WWII drama Valkyrie - which begins shooting in Berlin and Babelsberg from July 18 - is the second international film after Speed Racer to be granted support from the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) greater thaan the cap of $5.4m (Euros 4m). The ...
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France's CNC creates fund to back experimental new media projects
France 's film center the CNC has announced the creation of a new fund designed to aid in the development of experimental projects for new media. Submissions are currently being solicited from French and European Union nationals and residents and/or French production companies. The projects must be destined for at ...
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Sakkalli takes new Asian sales post at producer Power
European film and TV producer and distributor Power has named George Sakkalli to the new post of vice president, Asian sales and distribution. Sakkalli had been at Granada International where he was vice president of sales, Asia. Prior to that he worked for NBC Entertainment. Chris Philip, Power's worldwide sales ...
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Eurimages backs new films fromMoodysson, Dardennes
At its latest meeting July 1-3, the board of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund has agreed to back 12 new feature films with a total of $6m(Euros 4.38m). The selections include new films from Lukas Moodysson, The Chorus director Christophe Barratier and from Palme d'Or winners the Dardenne brothers. ...
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Nicholson launches competition at Cheltenham screenwriting festival
At the International Screenwriters Festival in Cheltenham, Oscar-nominated screenwriter William Nicholson today announced the call for entries for the new Screenwriter Development Competition from regional screen agency South West Screen. ‘I think the competition is a fantastic opportunity and I’m very much looking forward to reading the shortlisted entries and ...
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Valerio Zingarelli joins Babelgum as new CEO
New Internet TV platform Babelgum has appointed Valerio Zingarelli as its new CEO. Zingarelli succeeds Babelgum co-founder Erik Lumer, who will now focus on strategic product development. Zingarelli previously worked at Vodafone, where he was global director of networks and service platforms, and he also served as an independent board ...
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Korea's Megabox opens its first cinema in Beijing
Major South Korean exhibitor Megabox Mediaplex opened its first multiplex in Beijing yesterday (July 4). Billed as a '5-star modern multiplex cinema', the Beijing Megabox is the first internationally co-owned theatre in the capital. With eight screens and 1,700 seats, the cinema boasts a VIP and membership system, and internet ...
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Yereven to host 12 projects at first regional co-production forum
Nine features and three documentary projects from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Serbia, Russia and Turkey are to be pitched to potential co-producers and financiers at the Directors Across Borders' (DAB) first Regional Co-Production Forum (July 10-12) during next week's Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan. The low-budget projects include the ...
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Comweb becomes equity partner in Toronto's FILMPORT studio
Toronto-based Comweb Corporation has joined as an equity partner in a new company that will control Toronto's FILMPORT studio project. The new entity, Filmport Inc, will also own Toronto Film Studios (TFS) and other FILMPORT properties. Principal shareholders will be Comweb, merchant bank The Rose Corporation and a company owned ...
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Chandra and Screwvala line up for MIPCOM's India Day
TV and digital content market MIPCOM will have a spotlight on India at its next event, to be held October 8-12 in Cannes. India Day is planned for October 8, organised with The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and will examine the growth and potential of ...
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Rio favelas to host new Cine Cufa festival in September
Organisers are planning a new festival in Rio, Cine Cufa, which will run September 4-16. Non-profit group Central Unica das Favelas is planning the festival, based in the City Of God favela where Fernando Meirelles film of the same name was set. The festival is set up 'with the purpose ...
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Margaret Hodge takes UK film minister post under James Purnell
Following last week's news that James Purnell has taken over as the UK 's Secretary for Culture, Media & Sport, Margaret Hodge has now been named Minister Of State at the DCMS, handling film activities. Purnell replaces Tessa Jowell as head of DCMS (she now is Olympics Secretary), and Hodge ...
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Children Of Glory selected as new opener for Bangkok fest
Children Of Glory , directed by Hungary's Krisztina Goda, has been selected as the new opening film of the Bangkok International Film Festival following last week's withdrawal of Persepolis . The Andy Vajna-produced film was made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against the Soviet regime. ...
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3 Mills joins Sohonet network
London-based 3 Mills Studios has installed entertainment-industry Internet platform Sohonet. Sohonet provides high-speed connectivity to a system of users that already includes Pinewood Studios, Warner Bros, Technicolor, HBO, The Mill and Framestore CFC. 'As a leading UK facility, it is essential that our clients be provided with the best possible ...