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Avex Asia appoints Koo to head production arm
Avex Asia, the Hong Kong-based subsidiary of Japan's Avex Group, has established a film production armto be headed by former Applause Pictures executive Esther Koo. Koo, who has been named headof film development, will be responsible for generating film productions in Hong Kong, China, Korea and Japan. Based in Hong ...
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BFI announces opening program for Southbank
The British Film Institute(BFI) has announced the opening program of the refurbished National FilmTheatre, which is set to reopen as BFI Southbank on 1 Feb, 2007. The opening season willinclude a restored print of Luis Bunuel's Los Olvidadosand a special run of Distant Voices,Still Lives, including an onstage presentation by ...
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UK cracks down on film piracy
A Scottish man has beenjailed and more are awaiting trial in a nationwide crackdown on film piracy inthe UK. The initiative is a partnership between local TradingStandards agencies, the Federation Against CopyrightTheft (FACT) and police.On Oct 2, Brent and HarrowTrading Standards Service working with Metropolitan Police and FACT targetedblack-market DVD ...
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Raindance to host Sean Lennon's Friendly Fire
Sean Lennon will present his"conceptual feature" Friendly Fire atthe 14th Raindance Film Festival in London. The screening - previously asurprise -- will be held Saturday Oct 7 at 3:45at London's Cineworld Shaftesbury Avenue. Lennon will present Friendly Fire and then participate in a Q&A after the screening.The film is tied ...
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Canana finishes first picture Cochochi in Mexico
Canana, the new Mexicanproduction company founded by Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz,has wrapped the six-week shoot of its first film Cochochi in co-production with Donald K Ranvaud's Buena OndaLtd.The movie, about Mexico'snative Raramuri Indians, was co-financed by LA-based Alcove Entertainment whoseprincipals Robin Fox and Amina Dasmal are ...
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Affleck, Film Foundation to receive HFA honours on Oct 23
MartinScorsese's non-profit organisation The Film Foundation will receive theHollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Film Preservation Award and Ben Affleckwill collect the Hollywood Supporting Actor of the Year Award.Festivalorganisers will bestow the awards at the 10th Annual awards ceremony in LosAngeles on Oct 23.Scorseselaunched the non-profit Film Foundation in 1990 with the ...
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Aronofsky, Lynch films set for AFI FEST gala slots
Darren Aronofsky's time-travel epic The Fountain starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weiszand David Lynch's mystery INLAND EMPIRE starring Laura Dern and Jeremy Irons have been added to theroster of AFI Fest centerpiece galas.Festival organisers have also scheduled an on-stage interview withEd Zwick, which will feature clips from the director's upcoming ...
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Tran joins ICM after ten years at Lakeshore
Bic Tran hasleft Lakeshore Entertainment and joined ICM independent and international filmdivision chief Hal Sadoff's team in Los Angeles.Tran starts workimmediately and joins Sarah Lash and B J Ford. ICM's independent andinternational film division has packaged and arranged financing on a burgeoningroster of prestigious titles that includes Mark Palansky's fantasy ...
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Peace Arch hires Herne, picks up four new titles
Peace Arch Entertainment Group has acquired US and internationalrights to four new features and hired Mary Herne as executive vice president ofinternational television and home entertainment.The projects include Melanie Orr's domestic violence drama Harm'sWay starring KathleenQuinlan, and psychological thriller The Stillborn, which stars Lukas Haas as a father wholost his ...
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Joe Wright honoured with Hospital award
UK film-maker Joe Wright was honoured for his "outstanding creativecontribution" in the medium of film at the inaugural Hospital Awards.Joe Wright directed thecritically acclaimed Pride and Prejudicestarring Keira Knightley,which received four Academy Awards nominations and three BAFTA nominations, oneof which Wright won for most promising newcomer. Wright's next feature is ...
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Vantage picks up horror script Details, Blum to produce
Paramount Vantage has made a preemptive purchase of Dan Kay'shorror screenplay Details.Detailsis based on a short story by China Mieville and centres on a man who searchesfor his missing daughter who uncovered a demonic force that only she could see.Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions will produce andSteven Schneider and Ian ...
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Mark Jay starts shooting Dolphins in Brighton
Writer/directorMark Jay has started filming his debut feature, Dolphins, in Brighton, UK.Themovie is a teenage love story set in Brighton's custom-car culture and stars Emmerdale's Karl Davies, FootballFactory's Frank Harper, Popcorn's Layke Anderson and sees UK hip-hop singer Roots Manuva inhis first screen role.Jay haspreviously made music videos, documentary films ...
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Reitman to direct Page, Cera in Mandate's Juno
Ellen Page and Michael Cera have signed to star in MandatePictures' coming-of-age comedy Juno, which Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking) is preparing to direct based on ascreenplay by Diablo Cody.Page, who made a revelatory breakthrough in Hard Candy, will play a quick-witted teenager whoselife takes a bizarre turn when ...
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Fortissimo picks up worldwide rights to Guest's Consideration
Fortissimo Films has picked up worldwide rights excludingNorth America and the UK to Christopher Guest's upcoming comedy For YourConsideration.The picture, which received its world premiere at Toronto inSeptember, takes a tongue-in-cheek swipe at the Hollywood Awards season.Fortissimo will offer to buyers at the AFM next month and the picture will ...
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Development package lures Mediterranean documentary makers
Registration hasopened for Greenhouse, a development program funded by the European Union forMediterranean documentary film makers. The project wasorganised by The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and Television, Turkey's Ankara Cinema Foundation, The CzechRepublic's Institute of Documentary Film and VOF Appel & Honigmann - The Netherlands.The incentivetargets film-makers ...
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Golden Village installs 3D digital cinema system
Through its brand newflagship multiplex GV Vivocity, Singapore's largest exhibitor Golden Village has become the first in South-East Asia toinstall a 3D digital cinema system provided by Kodak. Using Real D's 3Dstereoscopic technologies, the new system is equipped with a Kodak cine-serverand Barco projector. Upcoming 3D releases include the international ...
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Film piracy a $1billion business in Latin America
Piracycost the Brazilian cinema market $102m last year according to figures announcedby the Motion Picture Association (MPA) at the Rio International Film Festival.Aseminar featuring producer Diler Trindade, Total Filmes' Walkiria Barbosa,producer Luiz Carlos Barreto, the MPA's Marcio Goncalves and attorney MarceloGoyanes heard that piracy was worth over $1bn across the ...
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Brazilians vie for Latin American Film Fund
Brazilianproducers need to build bridges with the financial community in order toattract more private production investment, delegates at the Rio InternationalFilm Festival (Sept 21 - Oct 5) were told.A seminaron production included speakers Joseph Woolf, Citigroup entertainment financingdirector, Doug Hansen, COO ofEndgame Entertainment, and Steve Mangel, president of Int'l Film ...
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Macedonia set to become Film City
Macedonia is to be established as a"one-stop shop" for the digital entertainment industry, according toplans by Collaborative Media Group (CMG) to create the Film City Macedonia with support from theMayor of Skopje, the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, and the United StatesAgency for International Development (USAID).CMGwas founded as an ...
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Peter Howitt begins shooting Dangerous Parking
SlidingDoors'director Peter Howitt started shooting his latest production on Oct 3.Howitt wrote, directs and stars in the film, anadaptation of Stuart Browne's 1999 cult novel Dangerous Parking. Richard Johns produces under Howitt and Johns'production outfit Flaming Pie Films.Howitt and Johns raised the finance for the filmindependently, from private investors, including ...