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India's BR Films sets March 9 release date for Water
Indian distributor BR Films has scheduled the local release of Deepa Mehta's Oscar-nominated Water on 100 prints nationwide, with a focus on multiplexes, on March 9. 'We decided to shift the release as we were not ready before. Now we have enough time to get to the consumer and the ...
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Italian box-office up massive 79.1% year-on-year; other regions struggle
Global box office takings of nine major territories collectively fell 9.7% year-on-year this week, pushed by dips in the French, Korean and North American markets, according to Screen International's Screen Index. France dropped by 32.6% compared to the same week last year despite new entries from studio Oscar-nominated films. Blood ...
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Berlinale to show Lost In Beijing in uncensored version
China's Li Yu's Lost In Beijing will have its world premiere tonight (Friday) in the Berlinale's official competition at the Berlinale Palast in the uncensored version after all. Speaking to ScreenDaily.com exclusively, festival director Dieter Kosslick announced: 'We are showing the film tonight in the version which the producer is ...
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Bavaria seals deals on Competition films and market titles
Bavaria Film International has closed a slew of deals on Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England ahead of its international premiere in the Berlinale competition this afternoon. The adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's novel starring Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, and Julia Jentsch was sold to Distribution Company (Argentina, Chile, ...
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Cinema China premieres new Zhang Yimou in the UK
Cinema China, a celebration of the past and present of Chinese film-making, will launch on March 9 in Edinburgh and unfold across 20 cities until March 18. The line-up brings together over 20 significant films, from the three Chinas of the People's Republic, Hong Kong and Taiwan, going back to ...
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Sony Classics gets North American rights for The Children Of Huang Shi
Sony Pictures Classics has taken North American rights to Roger Spottiswoode's The Children Of Huang Shi. The epic tale is set in war-ravaged China in 1938. Production on the project ends today in Shanghai, with a cast including Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh. Arthur Cohn ...
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Hot Fuzz rocks UK box office with preview figures
Universal's cop comedy Hot Fuzz has generated over $2.9m (£1.5m) in its first two days in the UK box office, hinting at the film's potential weekend success. British lovers preferred the spoof to romantic rival Music And Lyrics as it generated $1.8m (£946,448) on Valentine's Day - its opening day ...
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Opus Dei to consult on Lux Vide feature film
Opus Dei - the controversial Catholic religious order exposed in Dan Brown's runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code - announced they will act as consultants on an upcoming feature film on the life of their founder, Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer. The announcement was made at a Friday press conference held ...
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Banderas' Summer Rain wins Europa Cinemas prize in Berlin
Antonio Banderas' Summer Rain (El Camino de los Ingleses) won the Europa Cinemas Label prize for Best European film in Berlinale Panorama. The award comes with theatrical exposure and additional promotion from the Europa Cinemas network of 690 cinemas. The jury for the Europa Cinemas prize was comprised of four ...
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Sony launches web promotion for Spider-Man 3
Sony is launching a competition to find two online correspondents to report on breaking news about Spider-Man 3 in the run-up to the May 4 release. Two fans of the franchise - one male and one female - will be charged with creating videos presenting news, information and special promotions. ...
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New Brizzi film sets Italy Wednesday opening record
Italian director Fausto Brizzi's second feature Night Before Finals: Today (Notte prima degli esami - oggi) broke records for an Italian film released on a Wednesday earning $1.18m (Euros 900,000) on its Valentine's Day opener. The picture is the sequel to last year's local sleeper hit Night Before Finals. Today's ...
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German-Indian film agreement signed in Berlin
Germany's Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, India's Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, and Germany's Minister of State for Culture and the Media Bernd Nuemann signed a German-Indian film agreement in Berlin on Friday afternoon providing a legal framework for cooperation between producers from Germany ...
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Screenwriters festival launches script market
This year's international Screen Writers Festival is to launch a speculative script market.scriptMARKET offers writers the chance to send in a script for consideration by a panel of agents, producers, commissioners, developersand/or sales agents.The panel will meeet the top 30 at the festival in the UK town of Cheltenham on ...
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Leslie Unger named new communications director at AMPAS
Leslie Unger will succeed the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' longtime communications director John Pavlik after the 79th Academy Awards on February 25.Pavlik is stepping down after 15 years of service, in which time he has been the only communications chief in the Academy's history.He had earlier served ...
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Roadside picks up zen cooking doc
Roadside Attractions has acquired North American rights from Atrix Films to Doris Doerrie's documentary How To Cook Your Life.The film will open in the US this summer and profiles the SanFrancisco-based zen priest and master chef Edward Espe Brown as heoutlines zen and the art of culinary sustenance.Franz Xaver Gernstl ...
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World Cinema Fund casts its net wider
As of this summer, the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF) will be open to projects by film-makers from South East Asia and the Caucasus in addition to the existing focus regions of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Central Asia. 'After the positive development of the WCF in the ...
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Sundance Institute announces fellowships and grants
Sundance Institute has announced this year's annual Feature Film Program fellowships and grants for emerging independent film-makers.'We are thrilled to offer additional support to these uniquely talented and visionary artists,' Michelle Satter, director of the Feature Film Program, said.'We are committed to a year-round programme that provides our film-makers with ...
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Meserve promoted to president of Wind Dancer
Dete Meserve has been promoted to president of Wind Dancer Films and will be based in the company's new Beverly Hills office.As president, she will oversee production, financing and distribution of Wind Dancer's film slate, continuing to manage the company's development fund and working with financiers to put films into ...
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Studios offer triple punch of Ghost Rider, Good Shepherd and Hot Fuzz
A diverse trio of studio-distributed films make their international debuts this weekend, with Sony launching comic book-based action outing Ghost Rider and Universal opening spy drama The Good Shepherd and British comedy Hot Fuzz. Ghost Rider, with Nicolas Cage as the Marvel Comics title character, opens through Sony Pictures Releasing ...
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Gail Lyon appointed president of production at Initial
Gail Lyon has been hired as president of production at Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group, effective immediately.Lyon, who most recently produced Disney/Spyglass' comedy Stick It starring Jeff Bridges, will report directly to King while working closely with vice president of development Grey Rembert and production executive Denis O'Sullivan.'Gail elegantly combines ...