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Chinese box office to double by 2010, says report
Chinese box office revenues will almost double over the next three years, according to analyst Screen Digest and Nielsen NRG, from last year's $336m to $720m by 2010.The rapid box office growth that has been driven by the opening up of the Chinese market and the fast development of modern ...
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Barab named international chief at American World Pictures
Martin Barab has joined Los Angeles-based distributor American World Pictures as president of international production and distribution.Barab, who recently exited his post as president of beleaguered Bauer Martinez Studio's production division Lucky 50 Productions, will work closely with American World Pictures chairman Mark Lester and production president Dana Dubovsky.Aside from ...
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Bogeydom acquires Kitamura's LoveDeath for EFM launch
Toronto-based Bogeydom Licensing has acquired world rights to Japanese cult director Ryuhei Kitamura's LoveDeath, a production of Tokyo-based companies Napalm Films and Suplex Inc. The film, which premieres at Berlin's European Film Market, follows two lovers whose passion for each other incites the wrath of everyone around them, from the ...
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Fox promotes key production and animation executives
Fox Filmed Entertainment has announced a number of promotions of key production executives, with Hutch Parker appointed vice chairman, to also oversee Fox Animation in addition to Twentieth Century Fox (TCF) Film Group. He had been president of Twentieth Century Fox since 2005 and joined Fox in 1995. Emma Watts ...
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UK investigations lead to arrest of 16 pirate DVD suspects
The UK 's Federation Against Copyright Theft announced that its anti-piracy investigators have worked with law enforcement officials to target pirate DVD sellers at markets in Durham and Nottingham, England. There were 16 suspects arrested: nine at Tanfield Lea, Durham and seven at Hucknall, Nottingham. More than 18,000 pirate DVDs ...
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Japanese films take 53% share of local box office
As predicted, Japanese films had their most successful year ever at the local box office in 2006, grossing $884.48m (Y107.75bn) for a 53.2% market share, according to the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren). The strong results mark an increase of 31.8% over 2005 when the local industry had ...
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Berlinale Cameras to be awarded to Mina, Meszaros and KINO publishers
The Berlinale Camera awards will be presented at this year's festival as part of the Berlinale Special section to Hungary's Marta Meszaros, the Italian documentary filmmaker Gianni Mina, and Dorothea Moritz and Ron Holloway, publishers of KINO German Film. Announcing this year's programme at a press conference on Tuesday morning ...
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Rome aims to lure 300 buyers to second Business Street event
The Rome Festival's industry event Business Street is looking to target buyers and sellers yet more aggressively. Speaking in Rotterdam, Sylvain Auzou, who runs Business Street with Diamara Parodi, has explained just how the market will be expanded further. The second festival is to run from October 18-27 (just a ...
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Klimt finally gets UK release
Raoul Ruiz's film Klimt, about the fin de siecle Austrian painter, is to be released in the UK in the summer by Soda Pictures. Two versions of the film are in circulation - a 129 minute director's cut and a shorter producer's version. After consulting with exhibitors, Soda has decided ...
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Bavaria Film International to handle Israel's Beaufort
Bavaria Film International has taken on international sales for Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar's powerful anti-war statement Beaufort which will have its world premiere in the forthcoming Berlinale's Competition.Produced by Metro Communications in cooperation with United King Films and Movie Plus, Beaufort was adapted by Cedar from the novel of the ...
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Coach 14 takes Heros and Shotgun to Berlin
New French sales house Coach 14 has acquired two films heading into Berlin. The first, Heros, is a $2.6m (Euros 2m) psycho drama in the styleof Fabrice du Welz's Calvairesays Coach 14 co-founder Pape Boye.Directedby first-timer Bruno Merle, the film stars Michael Youn, Patrick Chesnais andElodie Bouchez. Heros marks adeparture ...
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Irish industry questions impact of $188m funding announcement
There remains some confusion in Ireland concerning the Government announcement last week of a $188m (Euros 145m) contribution to the film industry under National Development Plan (NDP) spending for 2007-2013. In an election year, sceptics might conclude that the sum only amounts to what the Irish Film Board is likely ...
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Hungarian Film Week kicks off with competition title Noah's Ark
Ulrich Gregor will chair the feature film jury of the 38th Hungarian Film Week (HFW), which begins today. Gregor is a film critic and the co-founder and chairman of Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek. The jury also includes Ellis Driessen, head of Holland Film Meeting and the Netherlands Production Platform; Screen ...
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Colin Farrell heads to Belgium for In Bruges shoot
UK playwright Martin McDonagh, who won an Oscar for is short Six Shooter, will start shooting his feature debut In Bruges on Feb 5 in the Belgian city. The cast for the project -- Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Clemence Poesy, Jeremie Renier, Jordan Prentice and Thekla Reuten -- is gathering ...
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Gabriele Muccino's brother Silvio set to direct first feature
Silvio Muccino, brother of Pursuit of Happyness director Gabriele, will direct his first feature film entitled Talk to Me About Love (Parlami d'Amore) based on a book of the same name that he co-wrote with Carla Vangelista. Talk to Me About Love is a romance focusing on four intersecting stories ...
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Negativ lines up shoots for Country Teacher and Protektor
Reflecting the recent upswing in Czech producers' fortunes, Prague-based independent production outfit Negativ has revealed further details of a bulging development slate. Negativ representatives have been in Rotterdam this week attending CineMart with new project Country Teacher by Bohdan Slama. The $1.7m feature, already supported by Pallas Film in German, ...
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Grohne to spearhead new London office for First Look
First Look International (FLI) is opening a London office and has hired sales executive Tim Grohne from Celsius Entertainment to front the UK operation as vice president, international sales.FLi is also relocating LA-based international sales manager John Vista Neis to London. Joining them will be vice president, European TV/DVD sales ...
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Soren Kragh-Jacobsen plans political thriller for Nimbus
Danish director Soren Kragh-Jacobsen will start shooting political thriller Det som ingen ved (literal translation: What No One Knows) on Feb 19. The eight-week shoot will take place in Denmark and Sweden. The project will star Anders W. Berthelsen, who starred in the director's Mifune as well as in another ...
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KISS rock duo glam up Platinum Studios
Los Angeles-based Platinum Studios has added glam rock starts to its independent library of comic book characters following a deal with KISS Catalog Ltd.The partners will create a new comic book entertainment company called the KISS Comics Group, which gives former glam rock band members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley ...
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Bell hired as Paramount's technology chief
Paramount Pictures has hired former Warner Bros executive vice president of advanced technology Alan Bell as executive vice president and chief technology officer.In the newly created position, Bell will oversee worldwide technology strategy and advise on all related technical, business, legal and regulatory matters.In addition he will explore, evaluate and ...