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Inferno spearheads US remake of Germany's Das Experiment
Los Angeles-based Inferno Entertainment is partnering withAdelstein/Parouse on The Experiment, a remake of Oliver Hirschbiegel's German thriller DasExperiment.Inferno is fully financing and will handle worldwide saleson the project, which is set to begin principal photography in spring 2007.Paul Scheuring, who created Fox's primetime series Prison Break, wrote the screenplay and ...
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NBC Universal signs multi-year Japanese VOD deal with Jupiter
Jupiter VOD and NBC Universal International TelevisionDistribution have agreed a multi-year licensing agreement for video-on-demand rightsin Japan covering current, library and upcoming Universal features.The roster includes such releases as King Kong, Nanny McPhee, BrokebackMountain, The Ice Harvest, Two for the Money, Serenity and Doom. Library titles include The BourneIdentity, Apollo ...
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MGM to handle domestic TV syndication of New Line product for two years
MGM and New Line Television have formed a strategic relationship wherebyMGM will handle domestic distribution for TV syndication of New Line featuresand series programming for the next two years.MGM will also handle future barter sales. David Spiegelman, NewLine Television's senior executive vice president of domestic television distributionand marketing, will continue ...
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Thai Film Federation drops Waves for Ahimsa
In an unexpected move, Thailand has dropped Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Invisible Waves as its entry for the bestforeign-language film category of the Oscars and submitted Kittikorn Leosakun'sAhimsa: Stop To Run instead. The Federation of National FilmAssociation, responsible for selecting and submitting a Thai candidate, told Screendaily that it was forced to ...
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Leung to star in See Movie's Chinese Fairy Tale
Tony Leung Ka-fai has signedup to star in Lam Wai Lun's The ChineseFairy Tale (working title), to be co-produced by Hong Kong's See Movie and mainland Chinese partners.Written and directed by LamWai Lun, the film is based on a true story which took place in Changchun in northern China, where ...
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Days Of Glory star Debbouze barred from Algerian screening
Days Of Glory star, and Palme d'Or winner, Jamel Debbouze has been refused a visa to enter Algeria for a screening of the film.Debbouze, who was born in France, is of Moroccan origin and, according to reports earlier this year in Moroccan daily Maroc Soir was already refused entry ...
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Besson reconsiders directing 'retirement'
Luc Besson says he will reconsider returning behind the camera if he finds, "a good script" - despite a recent interview announcing his retirement from directing.Speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair, he told Agence France Presse: "I made 10 films and I never would have imagined being able to do ...
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Yacoubian Building takes Golden Eye at Zurich
Egyptian filmmaker Marwan Hamed's The Yacoubian Building (Omaret Yacoubian) won the Golden Eye Award in the best debut category at this year's Zurich Film Festival.The International Jury, headed by veteran US producer Edward R. Pressman, praised the film's approach of "using classic melodrama to discuss issues and conflicts in ...
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UK-French co-productions face testing times
The new UK film tax credit may hamper thedevelopment of some co-productions but shouldn't stop UK and French producers from workingtogether. That was the message reiterated at the Franco-British co-productionmeeting hosted at this weekend's film festival in the French seaside town of Dinard.The conferencechair, producer Nik Powell of the National ...
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Beach gets Rising Star award at 18th Palm Springs festival
The 18th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF)will honour Adam Beach with the Rising Star Award at its annual awards gala onJan 6, 2007.Beach will next be seen alongside Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford,Barry Pepper and Paul Walker in Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima epic Flags Of OurFathers. Paramount willrelease the ...
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Fry to host BAFTA/LA's Britannia Awards on Nov 2
Comedian, author and filmmaker Stephen Fry will host the 2006BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards on Nov 2 at The Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotelin Los Angeles.Fry, who has hosted the Orange British Academy Film Awards inLondon for the past five years, will be joined at the LA event by presenters HalleBerry, ...
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Film Independent announces participants in 2006 Producers Lab
Film Independent has announced the participants in its annual ProducersLab, which runs in Los Angeles for seven consecutive weeks starting on Oct 16.The participants are: Greg Corbin (Senor Vasquez And The HolyDonut); Sarah DiLeo (BlessMe, Ultima); ScottFoster (Crystal Messiah);Jasmine Jaisinghani (SuperMacho); Charlotte Pai and Ben Wagner (Baja); Sean Shodahl and ...
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Outfest to honour Regent Media, 25 years of films about AIDS
Outfest's annual Honours gala in Los Angeles on Oct 13 willbenefit the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation.The event will pay tribute to Regent Media and 25 years ofcreative films about AIDS, specifically the landmark television drama AnEarly Frost (1985) alongwith creators Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman.Outfest and the ...
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51st Valladolid line-up announced
Fifteen feature films willcompete for the top Golden Spike Award at this year's 51st International FilmWeek of Valladolid, Spain, also known as Seminci (Oct 20-28).Last year's Golden Spikewinner, Matias Bize's In Bed (En LaCama), has been selected to represent Chile in the nominations to the foreign-language Oscar.Bize will sit on ...
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Argentinian director Eduardo Mignogna dies at 66
AcclaimedArgentinian director and writer Eduardo Mignogna died today of cancer in BuenosAires. He was 66.Mignognashot eight multi-awarded feature films and was also a published writer and arenowned TV director. His filmssuch as Sol de Oto-o (Autumn Sun), La Fuga(The Escape), Cleopatra, El Faro (The Lighthouse), Flop and most recently El ...
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Midori, Noble sign agreement for Scandinavia
An exclusiverepresentation agreement has been signed between Scandinavian distribution company Noble Entertainment and Ontario's Midori Multimedia inall media for the territory of Scandinavia.The deal includes projecttracking, acquisitions and co-production activities with a focus on Asianproductions. Acquisitions will behandled from Noble Entertainment's headquarters in Stockholm by Per Samuelsson, SaraSöderberg and AlbertAvramovic. ...
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WTC, Prada, Vice, Click all hit major territories
Paramount's World Trade Center took the international arena by stormlast weekend and executives will be looking for more of the same when overseasdistributor UIP launches the picture in 16 further territories.Oliver Stone's 9/11 drama opens in Australia on Oct 5 and Japan onOct 7. It has grossed $22.5m from the ...
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Babel to open, Host to close Hawaii festival
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's ensemble drama Babel and the US premiere of Lee Sang-il'sfeel-good Japanese picture Hula Girls booked the 26th Hawaii International Film Festival (LVHIFF),which straddles several Hawaiian islands from Oct 19-Nov 5.Bong Joon-ho's South Korean horror blockbuster The Host is named the centerpiece gala, while KenWatanabe will collect the ...
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Zonemedia gets NBC Universal cable rights in Poland, Hungary
London'sZonemedia has acquired exclusive basic cable rights in Poland and Hungary tofeature films from NBC Universal International Television Distribution. The films will be screened on Zonemedia's channel ZoneEurpoa, and include La Haine,Highlander, Delicatessen, Leaving Las Vegas, Europa and Kundun as well as the works ofdirectors Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Jacques Beinex, ...
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Pecs unveils Central European Pitch Forum
Screenwriters from Centraland Eastern Europe could have betterchances of finding a producer to come onboard their projectthanks to theCentralEuropean Pitch Forum (CEPF) initiative which was unveiled at the Pecs InternationalFilm Festival in Hungary this week.The event, which is to beheld for the first time in Pecs ina year's time, has ...