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Pirates breaks record in Italy, with $12.8m in five days
Buena Vista International(BVI) reported its second consecutive one-two punch overseas as Pirates Of TheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest crossed$600m and usurped Cars to returnto the top.DeadMan's Chest used a late Italiandebut to boost its already formidable box office, and set a new five-dayindustry opening record in the territory of $12.8m.The result ...
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Qantas named best inflight entertainment airline by WAEA
Qantas has been named thebest inflight entertainment airline of all large fleets by a 23-personinternational media panel.The panel, sponsored by theWorld Airline Entertainment Association's Avion Awards, declared KLM and CathayPacific runners-up.Jet Airways (India) Ltd wonthe Small Fleet category, followed by Hawaiian Airlines and Sri LankanAirlines.The best inflight magazineaward went to ...
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Gridiron Gang tops lacklustre North American box office
Sony set a record tenth number one release for a distributor in asingle year as the American football drama Gridiron Gang starring The Rock opened top on anestimated $15m.Four new pictures were not enough however to rouse the businessfrom its early autumnal slumber as the top 12 pictures trailed the ...
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Barker & Bernard, Murphy to receive honours at HFA ceremony in Oct
Sony Pictures Classics' (SPC)co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard will receive the Hollywood LeadershipAward at the Hollywood Film Awards on Oct 23 in Los Angeles.Running With Scissors director Ryan Murphy will collect the Hollywood BreakthroughDirector of the Year Award.Barker and Bernard formedSPC with Marcie Bloom 15 years ago and their ...
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IFP Filmmaker Conference kicks off Monday, keynote speakers include Battsek, Sehring
IFP's1st Annual Filmmaker Conference, formerly known as the IFP Market &Filmmaker Conference, will kick off in New York today and last for the rest ofthe week.Eventsinclude panel discussions, on-stage interviews, networking opportunitiesfor filmmakers, and screenings.Panelists scheduled to speakinclude Forest Whitaker and his The Last King Of Scotland director Kevin Macdonald, ...
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Fortune Star acquires China Star library
Regional broadcaster StarGroup's content arm, Fortune Star, has acquired 100 library titles from Hong Kong's China Star Entertainment Group, in a deal valued at $18m. Most of the titles wereproduced in the past five years by China Star production subsidiaries OneHundred Years of Film, China Star Pictures and S&W. The ...
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DOAP, Bella, Reprise top TIFF prizes
UK filmmakerGabriel Range's Death Of A President won the FIPRESCI prize while Joachim Trier's Reprise(Norway) won the Diesel Discovery Award as the 31st TorontoInternational Film Festival wrapped here on Saturday. The prizes went to arange of films, many of them debut features. The audienceprize, the People's Choice Award, was asurprise: ...
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Picturehouse takes Lopez/Anthony starrer El Cantante
Picturehouse has swooped on North American rights to ElCantante following itsworld premiere at Toronto in what sources close to negotiations said was thebiggest deal of the festival so far.The distributors' senior vice president of acquisitions Sara Roseand New Line's executive vice president of business affairs and co-productionsCarolyn Blackwood concluded marathon ...
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New Manchester festival commissions film by Greg Hall
The Manchester InternationalFestival has commissioned director Greg Hall and composer Steve Martland to create a new feature film that will premiere atthe inaugural festival in 2007. Greg Hall's feature debut The Plague, a low-budget urban dramachampioned by Mike Leigh, will be released in UK cinemas on Oct 6. Martland'smusic has ...
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Japan names Hula Girls as Oscar selection
The MotionPicture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren) hasannounced Lee Sang-il's Hula Girls as Japan's official entry for Best ForeignLanguage Film for the Academy Awards. The final five films nominated in thecategory will be announced by AMPAS on January 23.Hula Girls tells the true story of a group of Japanese coalminers' ...
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Susanne Bier to direct UK shoot for The Duchess
Director Susanne Bier willdirect period love story The Duchessfor Qwerty Films and MagnoliaMae Films. The project will shoot onlocation in the UK in early 2007 after Bier completes work on her current project, Dreamworks' Things WeLost InThe Fire, starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro.The Duchess is based onAmanda Foreman's ...
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Fox, MySpace launch preview screenings programme with Borat
Twentieth Century Fox and corporate sibling MySpace have teamed upon a new promotional tool that will enable MySpace users to see previewscreenings of upcoming features.The Black Carpet scheme will kick off with the preview screeningof Toronto hit Borat.MySpace users in six countries Ð the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany andCanada ...
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Spain's Lolafilms readies Aranda's Lolita's Club
Spanish production house Lolafilms is preparing director Vicente Aranda'sLolita's Club, the follow-up to his English-languageromp The White Knight.The estimated $6.4m (Euros5m) film will star Eduardo Noriega (Alatriste) and is expected to start shooting in Spain in early 2007. Producer Andres Vicente Gomez says hewill seek co-producers, likely starting in Italy.The ...
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Revolver and Shooting People team for Destricted short competition
Revolver Entertainment andShooting People are hosting a short film competition tied to Revolver's releaseof Destricted,a compilation of films with sexy themes. Larry Clark will judge theentries, which will be shorts under five minutes madeby emerging film-makers that "challenge the boundaries between art and porn." Clark's own 38-minute Impaled isincluded on ...
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Bunny Chow's Dv8 renews slate deal with South Africa's NFVF
Joel Phiri and Jeremy Nathan's Dv8 Films, the production companybehind John Barker and Dog Pack's Toronto world premiere comedy Bunny Chow, have renewed their slate deal with theSouth African government's entertainment industry agency NFVF.The deal commits to the production of at least fourfeatures over the next 18 months, with a ...
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Cruz, Williams, Bullock added to lineup of Oct Hollywood Film Awards
The Hollywood Film Awards has added Robin Williams, Penelope Cruzand Sandra Bullock to its line-up of honorees at its annual bash on Oct 23 inBeverly Hills.Williams stars in drama The Night Listener and will receive the Hollywood CareerAchievement Award, while Cruz will appear later this year in the Spanish drama ...
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BVI's Pirates has final territorial opening in Italy
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest will cross the $600m international markthis weekend as it launches in its final market of Italy.Buena Vista International's (BVI) adventure yarn has taken$594.6 to date and will surely pass $600m with the Sept 13 Italian release.Meanwhile Cars,which overtook its BVI stablemate as the ...
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Sachar to oversee financing, development at Kindred Media Group
Filmmaker and actor Jonathan Sachar has joined USdistribution outfit Kindred Media Group as executive vice president and willoversee development and financing.Sachar has been working with Kindred on One Part Sugar starring Danny DeVito, Dylan Walsh andJustin Long; Southern Gothic; and Superheroes.Kindred Media Group president Jeffrey D Erb said:'We're very happy ...
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Loewy to return to MPD, focusing on New Line product, says report
The dispute between filmdistributor Motion Picture Distribution and its former chairman Victor Loewyhas been resolved, according to a newspaper report in Canada. Citing unnamed sources, theGlobe and Mail newspaper said Loewy had negotiated a return to the MPDexecutive suite which will see him deal exclusively with the output deal withNew ...
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Pinewood in partnership to fund Shepperton development
UK studio company Pinewood Shepperton has announced plans to enter into a joint venture with Morley Fund Management to form a partnership that will further develop Shepperton Studio. Pinewood had previously announced plans for the expansion and growth at both Pinewood and Shepperton, and this new partnership will enable the ...