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Toho box office grosses reach all-time high in 2006
Toho, one of Japan's oldest studios and its biggest distributor, hasannounced that box office earnings for 2006 have broken an all-time record forthe company.Grosses from January untilthe end of November totaled $476.24m (Y55.95bn), with end of year estimates at$502.69m (Y59bn). This beats the previous record of $467.09m (Y54.85bn) set in2001 ...
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Full List Of Golden Globe nominations 2006
Best Motion Picture - Drama:BabelBobbyThe DepartedLittle ChildrenThe QueenBest Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - Drama: Penelope Cruz VolverJudi Dench Notes On A ScandalMaggie Gyllenhaal SherrybabyHelen Mirren The QueenKate Winslet Little ChildrenBest Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - Drama:Leonardo DiCaprio Blood DiamondLeonardo DiCaprio The DepartedPeter ...
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Ennio Morricone to receive honorary Oscar in 2007
Italian composerand conductor Ennio Morricone will receive an honorary Oscar at next year'sAcademy Awards ceremony on Feb 25, 2007, 'for his magnificent and multifacetedcontributions to the art of film music.'Remarkably,Morricone, who has received five nominations before, has never won the Oscar.His nominations were for Days Of Heaven (1978), The Mission ...
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Sherry Lansing to receive Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at 2007 Oscars
Former Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing will receive the Jean HersholtHumanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' boardof governors.Lansing will collect the honour during the 79th Academy Awards onFeb 25, 2007. The Hersholt Award is given to an individual whose humanitarianefforts have brought credit to the industry.'Sherry ...
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Factory Girl to open Santa Barbara Film Festival on Jan 25
George Hickenlooper's Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl will open the 22nd Santa BarbaraInternational Film Festival, which runs from Jan 25-Feb 4 2007.Sienna Miller stars as Andy Warhol's muse and 1960s 'It Girl',with support from Guy Pearce as Warhol, and Hayden Christensen as "Billy Quinn".The Holly Wiersma production of a Weinstein ...
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Fox's fantasy Eragon flies into 76 territories
Fox International unleashes the fantasy adventure Eragon in 76 territories this weekend day-and-datewith the North American release.The film went out in Germany, Russia and Australia on Dec 14, theUK, Spain and Mexico on Dec 15, and Japan on Dec 16. It opens in France, Italyand Brazil next week and South ...
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The Hands dominates Argentinian Academy Awards
The Argentinian Academy ofFilm Arts and Sciences awarded Alejandro Doria's The Hands (Las Manos) with eight Sur prizes, including best film,director, actor (Jorge Marrale) and actress (Graciela Borges), at a gala heldin Buenos Aires on Tuesday.The local Academy, comprisedof 222 renowned professionals (directors, producers, screenwriters, actors andtechnicians), also named Rodrigo ...
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AFC outlines plans for digital cinema network
The Australian FilmCommission (AFC), which has been planning a digital cinema network in regional Australia for quite some time, has at last gone public withits plans. Eight independently-ownedregional cinemas - one in each state and two in New South Wales - will receivedigital equipment on loan and in exchange will ...
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Away From Her, Rasmussen in TIFFG's annual Canada's Top Ten list
Sarah Polley's directorial debutAway From Her and Zacharias Kunukand Norman Cohn's The Journals Of Knud Rasmussen were among the titles listed in the TorontoInternational Film Festival Group's Canada's Top Ten. The annual announcement,published in alphabetical order, highlights ten titles produced in Canadaduring the year. Other titles to make the cut ...
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Biel to get Rising Star award at Palm Springs
The 18th AnnualPalm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will honour Jessica Biel withthe Rising Star Award.Biel, who starsin The Illusionistand upcoming release Home Of The Brave, will collect her honour at the festival's annual AwardsGala on Jan 6, 2007.'This isone of our most star-studded award galas to date and we're ...
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PGA Vanguard award goes to TV awards producer Ken Ehrlich
Televisionawards producer Ken Ehrlich will receive the Producers Guild of America's (PGA)2007 Visionary Award at the Annual PGA Awards on Jan 20 in Los Angeles.The VisionaryAward honors producers and/or a television or film production that demonstratesa 'unique or uplifting quality.'Ehrlich has beenthe creative force behind televised shows for the Grammys, ...
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Babel, Departed, Dreamgirls lead Globe nominations
Paramount Vantage's maidenrelease Babel leads the fieldheading into January's 64th Golden Globe Awards with seven nominations, whileHelen Mirren earned three acting nods, Leonardo DiCaprio picked up two, andForest Whitaker kept his robust prospects alive with a nomination for TheLast King Of Scotland.Hollywood Foreign PressAssociation (HFPA) voters spread their goodwill far ...
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FFC greenlights Scott Hicks' The Boys Are Back In Town
Film Finance CorporationAustralia (FFC) has given three features a green light, including director ScottHicks' comic drama The Boys Are Back InTown, his first film back in Australia since he made Shine over 10 years ago.The other films that werefinanced are Mary & Max, thefirst feature from animator Adam Elliot who ...
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Euro equity firms buy majority stake in Germany's ProSieben
Lavena Holding 4 GmbH has signed a share purchase agreement forthe acquisition of German Media Partners' majority stake in TV broadcasterProSiebenSat.1 Media AG for 3.1bn Euros ($4.1bn).Upon completion of the share purchase agreement, Lavena Holding 4GmbH, which is controlled by funds advised by KKR and Permira, will acquireapproximately 88% of ...
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Gitai, Springali films to screen at New York Jewish Film Festival
The 16th annualNew York Jewish Film Festival will run from Jan 10-25 2007 featuring 31 filmsand two world, nine US and nine New York premieres.Highlightsinclude Amos Gitai's documentary News From Home/News From House, Christian Delage's documentary Nuremberg:The Nazis Facing Their Crimes, and the US premiere of Alejandro Springall's comedy MyMexican ...
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UK producers voice concerns over new tax laws
UK producers remain concerned about the scope of the new British tax laws, a panel of government representatives were told in London yesterday.The UK's new film tax breaks will come into practice on Jan 1, 2007, after a long journey of uncertainty but producers remain concerned about the qualifying criteria ...
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Happy Feet ends James Bond's UK reign
Warner Bros' animatedfeature film Happy Feet has kicked JamesBond from the top spot in the UK box office this weekend, taking $5.43m (£2.76m). The penguins barely knockedSony's Casino Royale from itsthree-week tenure at number one by raking-in a site average of $12,206 (£6,217)from 445 sites across the UK. The animated ...
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German funds back new films by Khrzhanovsky, Madsen
New featurefilms by Doris Doerrie, Esther Gronenborn, Ilya Khrzhanovsky, and Ole ChristianMadsen are among the projects supported with more than $5.3m (Euros 4m) by thethree German regional funds FFF Bayern, FilmFoerderung Hamburg and MDM at their last funding sessions for2006. The largestamount allocated by the Bavarian fund - $663,024 (Euros ...
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Metrodome strikes UK deal for Sherrybaby
UK distributor Metrodome has acquired all UK rights to the award winning drama Sherrybaby, starring Maggie Gyllenhaaland written and directed by Laurie Collyer. The deal was negotiatedbetween David Jourdan, general manager from US sales agent Katapult and Metrodome's general managertheatrical Sara Frain and acquisitions manager Kate Falconer.Frain said: 'Maggieproves once ...
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Cinemavault acquires Chatham with Reynolds, Hopper
Cinemavault Releasing International has picked up internationalrights to the $8m romantic comedy Chatham starring Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper and Martin Landau.Anne Archer and Peter Boyle also star in the story, which takesplace in Cape Cod in 1905 and follows three retired sea captains as they try toseduce an attractive middle-aged ...