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Stockholm plans film centre to co-finance 10 features per year
Regional authorities in the Swedish Stockholm-Malardalen area will set up a new film centre, 'Stollywood', which - when in full operation - will co-finance up to 10 feature films annually. 'Today 90% of all Swedish actors and film companies are based in this region, yet only 10% of of domestic ...
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3D begins big push into global cinemas
The number of digital 3D cinema screens has nearly tripled during the first six months of 2007, suggesting exhibitors are stepping up to meet Hollywood studio's increasing investment in exclusive 3D movies.According to a report from Screen Digest - 'The Business Case For Digital Cinema Exhibition' - there were 258 ...
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Global entertainment industry to be worth $2 trillion by 2011
The global entertainment & media market will see sustained growth and a 6.4% compound annual growth rate to hit $2 trillion in 2011, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report. In particular, convergent platforms will rise at double-digit rates and will represent more than 50% of global entertainment spending by 2011. ...
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Pony Canyon acquires Korean romance Hwang Jin Yi
Seoul-based CJ Entertainment (CJE) has sold period romance Hwang Jin Yi to Pony Canyon for Japan. Directed by Chang Yoon-hyun (Some, Tell Me Something), the film deals with the life of Korea's most famous gisaeng (aka geisha) and poetess Hwang Jin Yi and her love affair with a lowly manservant. ...
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Chou's Secret directorial debut set for summer release
Hong Kong's Edko Films officially unveiled Taiwanese star Jay Chou's directorial debut Secret in Shanghai today. The shooting of the film, budgeted at $2.5m, was as tight-lipped as the film's title.Edko announced that the film will be released almost simultaneously in Taiwan, China and Hong Kong in late July or ...
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Korea's CJ, China Film sign MoU for co-production
Korea's CJ Entertainment and state-owned China Film Group Corp signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Shanghai Film Festival today to become strategic partners on film co-productions. According to CJ Entertainment president Kim Joo-sung, the partnership involves the production of both Chinese and Korean-language films to be set in ...
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Wotling named cinema director of CNC
Olivier Wotling has been named cinema director of France's national film organisation, the CNC. Wotling replaces outgoing cinema director Francois Hurard who has left to join the cabinet of newly-appointed culture minister, Christine Albanel. Hurard will act as spokesman for the government under the heading of Film Counsellor. Wotling began ...
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Thai resort Phuket to host international film festival
Thai holiday resort Phuket will host its first ever international film festival this autumn, which will showcase around 30 films, including the international premieres of Oscar Aibar's Dance Machine and Panos Angelopoulos' A Hero in Rome. The seven-day event (September 30 - October 6) is scheduled to be held at ...
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Mamoru Oshii set to direct adaptation of Sky Crawlers
Japanese animation director Mamoru Oshii is gearing up to start work on a big-budget adaptation of Hiroshi Mori's five-part novel series The Sky Crawlers. The film will be produced by Oshii's long-time backer Production IG in collaboration with Nippon Television Network (NTV). Warner Brothers Japan will distribute the film as ...
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Jim Broadbent joins cast of Indiana Jones 4
Jim Broadbent has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones 4, which has begun principal photography and will be released by Paramount on May 22, 2008.It is understood Broadbent will play a mentor figure to Harrison Ford's titular character, along the lines of Dr Marcus Brody played by the ...
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Brillstein-Grey rebrands as Brillstein Entertainment Partners
Brillstein-Grey Entertainment has rebranded itself Brillstein Entertainment Partners, chief executive officer Jon Liebman and partner Cynthia Pett-Dante, who together acquired the company from Brad Grey in July 2005, announced today [June 20].Grey's co-founding partners Bernie Brillstein, Marc Gurvitz and Sandy Wernick will continue to help Liebman and Pett-Dante lead the ...
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Kate Hudson joins Dane Cook in Lionsgate comedy Bachelor No 2
Kate Hudson will star opposite Dane Cook in Lionsgate's comedy Bachelor No. 2, which is set to begin filming in Boston in August.Cook plays a man who specialises in reuniting women with their ex-boyfriends and ends up falling for his best friend's girlfriend, played by Hudson. Lionsgate has earmarked a ...
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Garelik named senior vp, theatrical distribution, at Overture
Former Nielsen EDI vice president of client services Matt Garelik has joined Overture Films as senior vice president of theatrical distribution.Based in Overture's Beverly Hills offices, Garelik will handle Overture's western distribution, and will work alongside senior vice president of theatrical distribution Greg Forston who handles eastern distribution. Garelik reports ...
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Paramount's Fragen moves to head domestic TV distribution at Summit
Alex Fragen has been hired as Summit Entertainment's president of domestic television distribution and will oversee the company's free and pay television, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, and hotel and airline sales.Fragen will also be involved in developing the new media distribution strategy for Summit's Home Entertainment division.He arrives from Paramount, where he ...
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Mitulescu's Romanian Way finds US home in Film Movement
Film Movement has picked up domestic rights to Catalin Mitulescu's Romanian drama The Way I Spent The End Of The World, on which Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders served as executive producers.The film takes place in 1989 in the last year of Ceausesu's regime as a seven-year-old boy who vows ...
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Box-office: undiscovered territory
Current measures of the international market fail to include more than a sixth of the world's population, says Len KladyThere was an odd popular culture annotation to the story of British seamen held captive in Iran, which was this week the subject of a major inquiry in the UK. One ...
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When LUFF comes to town
Cementing its place in the international calendar, the London UK Film Focus (June 25-28) is attracting influential buyers and a growing number of premieres. Geoffrey Macnab reports. Four years after its inception, the London UK Film Focus (Luff) is now an established part of the calendar. UK sales agents are ...
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Jamie Morgan: the explorer
Wendy Mitchell meets Jamie Morgan, a first-time documentary film-maker who created a stir in Tribeca with his provocative and personal documentary, The Workshop. Documentary film-maker Jamie Morgan set out on a personal spiritual quest and ended up with a legal battle hours before the world premiere of his film at ...
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Pirates' ship gets Shrek'd
Good things come in threes, as Shrek The Third knocked Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End off the top spot this weekend. The royal ogre grossed $46.6m over the three-day period - an 86% increase after expanding to an additional 11 territories.Pirates held on strongly to second place, generating ...
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Locarno to honour actresses in Italian cinema
The 60th Locarno International Film Festival is planning a special programme, Signore & Signore, of 19 films that highlight great actresses in Italian Cinema. The programme is supported by Cinecitta Holding and curated by Piera Detassis.The films stretch from 1941 to today, and all will be shown in Locarno on ...