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Scott Frank's The Lookout to open SXSW
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference & Festival will open with the world premiere of The Lookout, written and directed by Scott Frank, who was Oscar nominated for his Out Of Sight screenplay.Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Isla Fisher, Matthew Goode and Jeff Daniels star in the story of a man with ...
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Rotterdam to open with Sapir's La Antena
The 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam opens on January 24th with the world premiere of Argentine feature The Aerial (La Antena) by director Esteban Sapir. Festival director Sandra den Hamer calls the black-and-white feature 'one of the most original productions of the year. It is a cinematic statement again the ...
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Hong Kong box office remains flat in 2006
Hong Kong's box officeremained flat in 2006 with overall takings of $116.5m (HK$907m), a marginalincrease of 0.22% compared to the $116.3m (HK$905m) taken the previous year. At the same time, localproduction continued its steady decline although the decreases in box officeand production volumes were not as great as some in ...
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SBIFF lines up world premiere of The Number 23
Joel Schumacher's psychological thriller The Number 23 starring Jim Carrey gets its world premiere at the 2007 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), which runs from Jan 25-Feb 4.The festival will open with George Hickenlooper's Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl starring Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce and closes with Sue ...
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Writers Guild of America, West to honour Larry Gelbart
Tootsie screenwriter Larry Gelbart will receive the Writers Guild of America, West's (WGAW) Valentine Davies Award at the 2007 Writers Guild Awards on Feb 11 in Los Angeles.'The Valentine Davies Award recognises service to the entertainment industry and to the community at large,' WGAW president Patric M Verrone said.'We are ...
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PGA announces annual awards nominees
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced the film nominees and eligible producers for the 18th Annual PGA Awards to take place on Jan 20 in Los Angeles.The nominees for the Darryl F Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Picturesare:BabelAlejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Steve Golin, Jon KilikThe ...
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CJ Entertainment appoints Shin as head of international
Leading Koreaninvestor/distributor CJ Entertainment (CJE) has appointed David Shin asexecutive vice president and head of international business, replacing MarkShaw, who recently left for a job in the US financial sector. Most recently senior vice presidentin charge of commercial development at ESPN Star Sports in Singapore, Shin comes with a master's ...
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Autism documentary gets late Sundance slot
Lauren Thierry's documentary Autism Every Day has joined the Sundance Film festival line-up as a special screening.The world premiere will screen out of competition on Jan 21 and will be followed by an autism awareness panel featuring the filmmakers and parents who appear with their children in the documentary.Autism Every ...
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Autism documentary lands late Sundance slot
Lauren Thierry’s documentary Autism Every Day has joined the Sundance Film festival line-up as a special screening.The world premiere will screen out of competition on Jan 21 and will be followed by an autism awareness panel featuring the filmmakers and parents who appear with their children in the documentary.Autism Every ...
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Canadian performers set strike deadline
Canadian performers guild ACTRA has set a strike deadline of 12:01am on Jan 8 if ongoing 'last-ditch' talks break down.In a statement, ACTRA national executive director and chief negotiator Stephen Waddell said: 'ACTRA wants to avoid a strike. We're going to try hard this week to negotiate a new agreement. ...
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Sara Keene changes roles at Premier PR
Sara Keene has stepped down as one of the chief executives of Premier Public Relations to take on a role as non-executive director. She will act as a consultant to the board and will continue to run Premier's Personal Department, which handles publicity for individual celebrities including Daniel Craig, Kate ...
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THINKFilm picks up worldwide rights to War/Dance
THINKFilm has acquired worldwide rights to War/Dance, which will receive its world premiere in the Independent Film Competition: Documentary section at Sundance later this month.Directed by the husband and wife team of Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, the film centres on three child refugees from the Ugandan civil war ...
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Danielle Arbid starts shoot for A Lost Man
France's MK2 has announced the start of production on Danielle Arbid's second feature A Lost Man. The UK's Alexander Siddig and France's Melvil Poupaud star in the road movie set in the Middle East.Filming will start early this year in Beirut, Amman and Paris. MK2 is producing and will handle ...
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Museum stays top in North America to cross $100m
Ben Stiller's cast iron holiday season credentials held firm as Fox's family film Night At The Museum stayed top and crossed $100m in its second weekend.The film added an estimated $46.7m for $125.8m and dominates the world stage following this weekend's superb $47.3m overseas haul.Sony's The Pursuit Of Happyness stayed ...
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Museum rules the waves with superb $47.3m haul
The family film Night At The Museum kicks off 2007 as the international champion after a formidable $47.3m three-day estimated haul raised the overseas tally to $58.1m after two weekends.The Fox International release has grossed close to $51m in a week following last weekend's limited launch in Asia and is ...
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Curse continues to be blessed in Asian rollout
Zhang Yimou's $45m Curse Of The Golden Flower topped the box office in China, Hong Kong and Malaysia over the Christmas holidays.Following its record-breaking opening in China over the weekend of Dec 14-17, the lavish costume drama had grossed $25m (RMB200m) in its home territory by Dec 26, according to ...
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Moretti steps down as Turin artistic director after two days
Italian film-maker Nanni Moretti has renounced his appointment asartistic director of the Turin Film Festival just two days after hisnomination was made public.Moretti's nomination to top the Turin fest - which is dedicated tocutting edge fare and young directors - was hailed as a positivereaction to pressures created by the ...
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Moretti steps down as Turin artistic director after two days
Italian film-maker Nanni Moretti has renounced his appointment asartistic director of the Turin Film Festival just two days after hisnomination was made public.Moretti's nomination to top the Turin event- which is dedicated tocutting-edge fare and young directors - was hailed as a positivereaction to pressures created by the splash of ...
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Chinese fine Sohu and Shanghai store for copyright infringement
Chinese courts madetwo separate judgements against copyright infringers over the Christmasholidays, reflecting the increasing pressure that the country is under tocombat its high levels of piracy. On December 27, aBeijing court ruled that Beijing Sohu Internet Information Service Co, asubsidiary of NASDAQ-listed web portal Sohu.com, was guilty of copyrightinfringement when ...
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Sohu and Shanghai store fined for copyright infringement
Chinese courts have made two separate judgements against copyright infringers over the holiday period, reflecting the increasing pressure that the country is under to combat its high levels of piracy. On December 27, a Beijing court ruled that Beijing Sohu Internet Information Service Co, a subsidiary of NASDAQ-listed web portal ...