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Cirrus jumpstarts racer drama Nitro
CirrusCommunications, the Montreal-based production company behind last year's smash C.R.A.Z.Y., has begun production on its nextfilm, the $6.4m action romance Nitro.Directedby hot Quebec TV director Alain Desrochers from a screenplay by BenoitGuichard, the film takes its lead from the high-octane adrenalin rush of TheFast And The Furious,according to C.R.A.Z.Y. producer ...
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Memento signs up Jia's Venice winner
Paris-basedsales agent Memento Films has moved to sign up Venice Golden Lion winner StillLife, directed byChina's Jia Zhangke.Mementohas also come on board Jia's documentary East (Dong), which played in Venice's Horizonssection.It hasalso emerged that Jia's next film will be a period costime drama, set to startshooting next Spring. Office Kitano ...
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Pirates 3 set for global day-and-date launch in 2007
On the weekend that Piratesof the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chestpassed the $1bn worldwide gross mark, The Walt Disney Company has revealed thatsequel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End will be released day-and-date around the world nextsummer."We're going to open onthe weekend of May 25 in every country around the ...
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Barab named to run Bauer Martinez's Lucky 50 Productions
Martin Barab has been appointed president of Bauer MartinezStudios' production arm Lucky 50 Productions.Barab formerly served as the company's general counsel and priorto that had been the president of Bauer Martinez Distribution before it wasrenamed Bauer Martinez Entertainment (BME).He will work alongside BME chairman and chief executive officer PhilippeMartinez and ...
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Hong Kong set to lose only arthouse cinema
Hong Kong's only dedicated arthouse cinema, the Cine-ArtHouse, is facing closure as its owner Sil-Metropole Organisation is havingdifficulty renewing the lease.The two-screen cinema, locatedat the Sun Hung Kai Centre in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island, programmes mainland Chinese, foreign-language and other kinds of arthouse and specialist cinema. It has ...
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The Covenant leads new releases at US box office
Three new releases divided the spoils at the NorthAmerican box office this weekend, and in the end it was Sony's teen horrorouting The Covenant that managed to top the chart with a relativelymodest $9m gross.Focus Features' Hollywoodland opened in secondplace with an estimated $6m and The Weinstein Company's The Protectorcame ...
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Rich promoted senior vp at Warner Bros Pictures International
Blair Rich (pictured) has beenpromoted to senior vice president of marketing and creative advertising atWarner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).The new appointment will expand Rich's strategic role at thecompany. She will continue to direct and oversee creative campaigns fornumerous studio releases, including the upcoming Blood Diamond, 300, HarryPotter And The Order ...
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IMAX, Cinearte sign for IMAX cinema in Sao Paolo multiplex
IMAX Corp and Brazilian exhibitor Circuito Cinearte have signed anagreement that will see an IMAX cinema as part of a 10-screen mulitplex in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new facility is scheduled to open in 2007. The deal is IMAX'ssecond in Brazil. In all there will be 29 IMAX theatres in ...
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Former Disney executive Jongmans joins PHEI as vp of EMEA licensing
Former Buena Vista Home Entertainment International executive OnnoJongmans has joined Paramount Home Entertainment International (PHEI) as vicepresident of Europe, Middle East and Africa Licensing.He previously served as emerging markets director for Europe, theMiddle East and Africa at Buena Vista Home Entertainment International.Prior to that he held several roles in sales ...
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Transmedia gets UK rights to Our Fathers and The Run
New UK distributor Transmedia hasadded two more films to its slate: OurFathers and The Run. Dan Curtis' Our Fathers, about sex abuse scandals inthe Catholic Church, stars Ted Danson, ChristopherPlummer, Daniel Baldwin, Ellen Burstyn and Brian Dennehy.Tania Meneguzzi's The Run, abouta young London couple drawn into the world of drug ...
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Tokyo Filmex to open with Venice winner Still Life
Tokyo Filmex has announcedJia Zhangke's Venice Gold Lion winner StillLife as the opening film at this year's edition. Jia's fifth feature focuseson the lives of couples and families set against the backdrop of the massiveThree Gorges Dam project in China. The film, which was not tipped to win but walkedaway ...
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TWC to handle international sales on two Mayhem Projects films
The Weinstein Company (TWC) hassigned a deal to handle international sales on LA-based production andfinancing company The Mayhem Project's first two pictures, Clock Tower and Make It Happen.TWC's president of international Glen Basner is keen to build upthe sales agency side of the company, and concluded a raft of deals ...
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Jia's Still Life is surprise winner of Venice's Golden Lion
Still Life (Sanxia Haoren), thelast-minute competition entry by cult Chinese director JiaZhangke, was the surprise winner of the Golden Lionfor Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. Added to the list of 21 competitionfilms halfway through the 12-day Italian festival, Zhangke'sfifth feature, with a slow pace and near absence of ...
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TF1 kicks off sales on Calderon's wildlife tale White Tuft
TF1International is launching sales here on wildlife feature White Tuft, TheLittle Beaver.Thefilm is directed by Philippe Calderon whose The Besieged Fortress will be released in France by TFM Distribution nextmonth and screened here for buyers yesterday.Afamily film using real animals, White Tuft is set in northern California and follows the ...
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Weinstein Co extends output deal with MPD in Canada till 2010
The Weinstein Company hasextended its output deal with MPD, a notch in the favour of the Canadiandistributor as it tussles with its former chairman Victory Loewy and former CEOPatrice Theroux. Given that the agreement had another three years to run - thetermination date was December 31, 2009 Ð the extension ...
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Voltage sells six-picture creature feature package to AMG in Japan
Voltage Pictures has sold a trio of upcoming Romanian-UK creaturefeatures to Japan's AMG as part of a package of six titles.The live-action family picture Mammoth 2 and adventures Sherlock Holmes andTerracotta Warriors arebeing co-financed by Voltage and will shoot in Romania from October tomid-2007.Voltage previously sold King Arthur And The ...
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Vancouver's Anagram readies three pictures from three founders
Vancouver-based productioncompany Anagram Pictures, whose Fido went over to rapturous public response here, is readying a three-pictureslate for production in 2007. As with previous Anagram projects, the company'sthree founders, Trent Carlson, Blake Corbett, and Andrew Currie, are eachdirecting projects while working in support roles on the others. First up is ...
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Cars passes billion dollar Pirates on international track
Buena Vista International had a lot to celebrate thisweekend, as Cars took over pole position at the international box officeand previous leader Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest passedthe $1bn worldwide gross milestone. A powerful opening in Germany helped Cars gross anestimated $9m from 3,900 screens in 34 countries ...
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Bruce Weber plots Robert Mitchum documentary
Bruce Weber, in Toronto, tosupport a Dialogues screening of his 1988 documentary Let's Get Lost, has announced that his next project will definitelybe his long-cherished Nice Girls Don't Stay For Breakfast: A Portrait OfRobert Mitchum.Described by Weber as a'musical documentary,' the project is a profile of Hollywood's original badboy, Mitchum. ...
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Chechik to direct Pornographer's Poem for House Of Films, Fondry
Jeremiah Chechik, directorof Benny And Joon, TheAvengers and Diabolique, hassigned on to direct The Pornographer's Poem through Bill House's House Of Films and Daniel Ironsof Fondry Films, co-producer of Sarah Polley's TIFF Gala Away From Her. Karen Walton is adapting thescreenplay from the book by Michael Turner, a story of ...