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Fox draws Cine Expo cheers for Night At The Museum
Day two of the 15thanniversary Cinema Expo International saw strong response to the presentationfrom Twentieth Century Fox. Paul Hanneman, Tomas Jegeus, Fox Searchlight's Rebecca Keareyand a mix of on-screen and off-screen talent provided introductions to thecompany's product reel and evening screenings.A key scene from The Last King OfScotland, starring Forest ...
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Gold Reel awards go to 18 films crossing $100m
Yesterdayat Cinema Expo, Nielsen EDI International handed out its annual Gold ReelAwards.The awardsare given to distributors whose films have crossed $100m at the internationalbox office in the 12 months since the last Cinema Expo.This year18 films achieved the mark, but while this did not match the record number toreceive the ...
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Future Films' Australian plans derailed by tax office
FutureFilms Australia today blamed the Australian Tax Office (ATO) for ditching, at least in theshort term, its plans to raise up to $182m (A$250m ) for new Australian filmsthis financial year. FutureFilms won't say how much it expected to raise by theJune 30 deadline but hinted that it was significant. ...
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Shochiku enlists Centro for live-action Kitaro movie
Japanese major Shochiku andHong Kong-based special effects house Centro Digital Pictures are collaboratingon live-action creature feature Gegege NoKitaro. The film, directed byKatsuhide Motoki, is the first live-action feature based on Shigeru Mizuki'sfamous character, created in 1954, and popularised in the Gegege No Kitaro manga series from 1966-1970.Centro, established in 1987,is ...
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Pressman to bring Robert Maxwell story to the screen
Ed Pressman is preparing to make a film of the London stage play LiesHave Been Told aboutRobert Maxwell, the British media tycoon and pension fund swindler who vanishedin mysterious circumstances 15 years ago.Pressman secured film rights with one of the play's producers DaleDjerassi, who was formerly married to Maxwell's daughter ...
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Allen promoted to evp, creative advertising and new media, at Searchlight
Stephanie Allen has been promoted to executive vice president ofcreative advertising and new media at Fox Searchlight.For the past six years Allen has served as senior vice presidentof creative advertising, where her brief included overseeing online content anddesign for the studio pictures. She reports to chief operating officer NancyUtley.In 2004 ...
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TWC hires new general counsel from BMO Merchant Bank
Attorney Peter Hurwitz has been hired as general counsel at TheWeinstein Company (TWC).Hurwitz will be based in New York and will assume a broad range oflegal affairs including new business acquisitions, joint ventures andintellectual property matters for TWC and Dimension Films.He will report to Charles Layton, executive vice president officeof ...
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Warner Bros opens Death Note at the top in Japan
Warner Bros became the first non-Japanese distributor to launch aJapanese picture number one at the local box office with the release of DeathNote.Shusuke Kaneko's horror tale about a fateful missive that killsits readers opened on Jun 17 and grossed $3.5m over two days, the equivalent of409million Yen.Warner Bros plans to ...
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Quinn joins Streep, Liu in Dark Matter
Aidan Quinn has joined Meryl Streep, Blair Brown and Chinese starLiu Ye on American Sterling Productions (ASP) and Saltmill Productions' drama DarkMatter.Based on a true story about the cultural difficulties experiencedwhen a brilliant Chinese student comes under the tutelage of a US science professor,Dark Matter is beingfinanced by ASP. Myriad ...
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German-French funders back films by Jacquot and de Chalonge
Newfeature films by Benoit Jacquot and Christian de Chalonge are among four projects backed with a total of $1.4m(Euros 1.1m) by the German-French Funding Commission which is administered bythe German Federal Film Board (FFA) and France's CNC to promoteco-production between the two countries.Thelargest sum - $339,754 (Euros 270,000) - went ...
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Glickman stresses importance of international markets
Day two of the15th anniversary Cinema Expo International got underway with a typicallyrousing speech from MPAA chairman and CEO Dan Glickman.Glickman praised the international and European marketsquoting figures that the international market had grown 89% in the past fiveyears, that 19 of 2005's top 20 films made more money internationally ...
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German industry fights piracy with innovative campaign
Attendees at Cinema Expo in Amsterdam heard how real progress is being made in getting themessage to consumers about copyright theft.Jan Oesterlin,managing director of Zukunft KinoMarketing,explained that the problem in Germany was that previous education-oriented campaigns didnot show results, so a decision was made in September 2003 to become more ...
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CineExpo told of great threat from closing release windows
Theproblem of closing release windows is 'the only issue that can end cinemaas we know it,' John Fithian of the National Association of Theatre Owners(Nato) in the US told Cinema Expo Internationaldelegates in Amsterdam yesterday on the thornyissue.'Thepreservation of theatrical release windows is the most important issue weface,' he said, ...
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The Holiday gets strong response for UIP at CineExpo
Anyregular attendee of Cinema Expo International knows that Monday has becomeknown as UIP day. This year was no different, although CineExpo'sBob Sunshine introduced the beginning of the UIP presentation yesterday as'the end of an era' as chairman and CEO Stewart Till and presidentand COO Andrew Cripps prepared to deliver the ...
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Gaumont to shoot thriller Avatar in September
Frenchstudio Gaumont has announced that it is inpreparation on Avatar, a first film by Julien Leclercq. The film is scheduled to begin shooting onSeptember 12 for ten weeks in Paris.Avataris a $10.9m (Euros 8.7m) production starring Albert Dupontel,Marie Guillard, Melanie Thierry, MartheKeller, Estelle Lefebure and Francis Renaud. Set in Parisin ...
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Germany's Splendid Film revives theatrical business
Cologne-basedlicense trader Splendid Film is to revive the theatrical arm Splendid Filmverleih to handle the releases of its own films inGerman cinemas.Responsibilityfor Splendid's theatrical releases will be assumed bydistribution veteran Veronika Morawetzwho will continue managing her own independent distribution outfit Stardust Filmverleih at the same time.Splendid's first new release will ...
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Moviemax gets rights to Mr Magorium and King Of California
Italian distributor Moviemax has acquired rights totwo upcoming US films: Mr Magorium'sWonder Emporium and King OfCalifornia.Sold by Freeway Entertainment, Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium stars Natalie Portman as the awkward clerk of a fantastical toy store. But whenthe 243 year-old eccentric store owner (Dustin Hoffman) leaves it to her, shemust decide ...
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Edinburgh picks Reed's Odd Man Out for closing night
The Edinburgh International FilmFestival (EIFF) announced that Carol Reed's 1947 film noir Odd Man Out will be the closing-night film at this year's 60thanniversary festival. The film opened the same year that the festival waslaunched, and a digitally restored version will be shown in Edinburgh (as well being shown in ...
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Toronto names 25 North American premieres
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced 25 NorthAmerican premieres for its 31st outing this September, a line-updescribed as the best picks fromthe 2005-2006 international festival calendar. The selection includes Cannes highlights such as Ken Loach's Palmed'Or winner The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Grand Prize winner Bruno Dumont's ...
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Toronto names 25 North American premieres
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival has announced 25 North American premieres for its 31stouting this September, a line-up described as the best picks from the 2005-2006 internationalfestival calendar. The selection includesCannes highlights such as Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner The Wind That ShakesThe Barley, Grand Prize winner BrunoDumont's Flandres, AlejandroGonzalez Inarritu's ...