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Paramount plans Japanese theatrical unit after UIP office shuts
Following the news that United International Pictures (UIP) Japan will close at the end of 2007, Paramount Pictures International (PPI) has announced that it will start its theatrical distribution buisiness in Japan at the start of 2008. PPI Japan will be combined with the existing Paramount Home Entertainment Japan. Andrew ...
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Dolmen strikes deal for 50 Cristaldi classics including Cinema Paradiso
Dolmen Home Library has acquired DVD distribution rights for 50 films from the Cristaldi Film Library, including several Oscar-winning titles produced by the legendary Italian producer Franco Cristaldi. The deal was signed by Cristaldi library heirs Zeuda Araya and Massimo Cristaldo with Dolmen chief Alessandro Usai. Titles in the package ...
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New Anglo-Jamaican co-production treaty unveiled
From Broadcast:The British and Jamaican governments are joining forces to encourage filmmakers from the two countries to work on co-productions. Broadcasting minister Shaun Woodward and Del Crooks, Jamaica's film commissioner, joined together at a specially organised press conference at the BroadcastLive trade show in London today to publicise the deal, ...
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Shanghai film market has slow first edition
Shanghai International Film Festival's (SIFF) film market wrapped yesterday with only a few sales concluded. And although it could have potential, most buyers at the three-day event felt there was a lot to be improved. By the time that festival workers began to dismantle the booths, there were only two ...
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Moscow to host Emir Kusturica for opening night film Promise Me This
The 29th Moscow International Film Festival (June 21-30) will open with Promise Me This (Zavet), directed by Emir Kusturica, and will close with Claude Lelouch's Roman de gare. Kusturica will travel to Moscow for the opening night as well as a retrospective of his early work. The festival will show ...
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Edinburgh Film Festival to open with Mackenzie's Hallam Foe
The 61st Edinburgh International Film Festival will open with David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe, which is largely set in the Scottish city. Jamie Bell stars alongside Sophia Myles, Ciaran Hinds and Claire Forlani in the story of a voyeuristic teenage boy who struggles with the aftermath of his mother's suicide and ...
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Cologne's MMC Studios to launch in-house strand
MMC Independent, the production arm of Cologne's MMC Studios, will start developing feature films in-house in addition to serving as a co-producer on third-party projects. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com during this week's Medienforum NRW, MMC Independent production executive Basti Griese explained that MMC Independent's recently expanded team 'intends to become ...
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EM Media to offer producers tour of Nottingham
UK regional screen agency EM Media is hosting a tour of Nottingham for film and TV producers. The familiarisation tour on June 27 will include visits to the Galleries of Justic, post-production house Spool Films, and former Carlton TV studios. Similar tours have already been held in Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, ...
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Terence Davies joins screenwriters festival
Terence Davies, director of House Of Mirth, Distant Voices, Still Lives, and The Long Day Closes, has joined a packed line-up of speakers for the second International Screenwriters Festival.Liverpool-born Davies is one of the UK's most influential directors. The British Film Institute has restored Distant Voices StillLives, which ...
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National Lampoon acquires worldwide on Rifkin's Homo Erectus
National Lampoon has acquired worldwide rights to Homo Erectus by Adam Rifkin, whose feature Look just won the Grand Jury Prize at the CineVegas Film Festival.The National Lampoon, Burnt Orange Productions and University Of Texas Film Institute co-production premiered at Slamdance this year and will be released in September as ...
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Akamas wins best feature prize at LA Greek Film Festival
Panikos Chrysanthou's Akamas won the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival's Orpheus Award for best narrative feature and Valerie Kontakos's Who's On First won corresponding documentary honours as the festival closed on Jun 17.A Special Jury Award went to Dimitris Koutsiabasakos for The Guardian's Son. Alexander Voulgaris was named best director ...
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Former ICM CFO Murphy joins Participant Productions
Former ICM chief financial officer Robert Murphy has joined Participant Productions as chief financial officer and executive vice-president.Murphy will report directly to chief executive officer Jim Berk and will oversee the company's financial activities and operations, and act as a key member of the management team responsible for long-term strategic ...
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Charlotte Mickie leaving Dreamachine to reunite with Robert Lantos
Canadian producer Robert Lantos is stepping back into the distribution business, according to industry sources in Toronto. While it's unclear whether the new operation will be part of Lantos' production company Serendipity Point Films, it is certain that veteran sales executive Charlotte Mickie has left her post as a director ...
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Matt Brown promoted to evp, international, at SPHE
Matt Brown has been promoted to executive vice president - international at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE).Former Coca-Cola Company senior manager Simon McDowell has joined as senior vice president and general manager, Europe, and will report to Brown.Brown will be based in Los Angeles and manage SPHE's international business including ...
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MGM signs Goldsmith-Thomas to production deal
MGM has signed producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas to an overall production agreement through her Goldsmith-Thomas Productions.Goldsmith-Thomas was a partner at Revolution Studios for seven years and her credits include the recent release Perfect Stranger, Mona Lisa Smile, and Maid In Manhattan.Headquartered in New York, Goldsmith-Thomas and current vice president of development ...
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Michael Apted will direct third Narnia picture in 2008
Michael Apted will direct Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media's The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.The third instalment in the children's fantasy franchise is scheduled to begin filming in January 2008 in time for release on May 1, 2009.The second episode, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, will ...
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Marc Forster set to direct Bond 22 for Eon, Sony, MGM
Marc Forster will direct the 22nd James Bond film, producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced today with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and MGM.Forster, who directed the 2006 release Stranger Than Fiction for Sony and the upcoming adaptation The Kite Runner for Paramount Vantage and Participant Productions, will start ...
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Terence Davies among finalists in Northwest's Digital Departures
Northwest Vision + Media has named the 12 finalists in its Digital Departures micro-budget film-making initiative. Three teams will be selected to each make a $500,000 (£250,000) feature film in the next 14 months. Other partners on board for Digital Departures include Liverpool Culture Company, the UK Film Council and ...
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UCI Italia buys 10 cinemas from Cinestar Italia
UCI Italia, a division of the Odeon & UCI Cinema Group, has signed a pact to acquire 10 cinemas from Cinestar Italia. The sites include 104 screens. The deal means that UCI Italia adds cinemas in Mestre, Pordenone, Ferrara, Reggio Emilia, Andria, Molfetta, Messina, Piacenza, Como & Alessandria. Odeon and ...
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PiFan to open with For Eternal Hearts and close with Kala
Korea 's Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) announced the line-up for its 11th edition today. The festival will open with the world premiere of Korean director Hwang Qu-dok's For Eternal Hearts - a love story that travels through time, and close with the international premiere of Indonesian director Joko ...