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THINKFilm reports bumper sales on Cannes slate
THINKFilmInternational has reported brisk business on its Cannes slate, with multipleterritory deals concluded on such titles as The Farce Of The Penguins, Half-Nelson, and OffThe Black.BobSaget's R-rated spoof nature documentary The Farce Of The Penguins closed in Japan (Movie-Eye), Germany (Constantin), France (Metropolitan),Brazil (ESR Films), Portugal (Prisvideo), Singapore (Shaw Renters), ...
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AFC low-budget scheme backs four features
The Australian Film Commission's(AFC) IndiVision initiative, which aims to encourage the production oflow-budget films, is supporting four new features by first-time directors.The eerie supernatural drama Lake Mungo will be shot in an investigative documentary styleby writer-director Joel Anderson and tracks what happens after a teenagerleading a double life drowns.David Rapsey, ...
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Sil-Metropole backs Ma Liwen romantic comedy
Hong Kong-based Sil-MetropoleOrganization has teamed up with Emperor Motion Pictures and Beijing-basedZhenhua Investment Co to co-finance Ma Liwen's Tao Hua Yun (lit trans: TheLuck Of Romance) which started shooting yesterday in Beijing.Vivian Wu (The Last Emperor), Ge You (The Banquet) and Fan Bingbing (Battle Of Wits) star in the $2.5m ...
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London film delegates to visit Shanghai
As part of the new London and Shanghai city-to-city partnership announced in February,members of the UK film industry will visit Shanghai from June 14-20. Shanghaidelegates visited Londonearlier this year. UK Trade and Investment is funding the officialdelegation, with representatives John Chang of KAI Computer Services, AndrewKeogh of Fresh Paint Pictures, ...
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TWC signs McGuigan to direct Four Knights
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has confirmed that ithas hired Paul McGuigan to direct Four Knights, a Western-style take on the assassinationof the 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.Production is set to start in the UK this autumn based on PaulWebb's play Four Knights In Knaresboro. It is understood the ...
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InnoForm makes theatrical move with Thai package
Singapore video distributor InnoForm Media has snapped up allrights to a package of 37 titles from Thailand's Sahamongkolfilm International as part of its pushinto theatrical distribution.The jumbo deal includesalmost all of Sahmongkolfilm's upcoming productions including Tony Jaa-vehicle Ong Bak 2, martial arts film Chocolate, horror thrillers 13 and Colic, action ...
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French cinema admissions up 22% so far in 2006
French box office is up 22% for the first five months of 2006 ascompared to 2005. France's National CinemaCenter (CNC) released figures on Mondaywhich put total admissions for January-May 2006 at 91.12m tickets.The month of May alone saw an increase of 34% on the same month lastyear with 18.48m tickets ...
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Guillermo Del Toro to speak at Screenwriters' Festival
The International Screenwriters' Festival has added Guillermo Del Toro toits speakers slate. The writer-director, whose Pan's Labyrinth just premiered in Cannes, will be at the UK-basedfestival on June 28 to discuss and show his work with film writer Nigel Floyd.The inaugural event runs June 27-30 in Cheltenham in the UK's ...
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Swipe takes on Earthlings and Real Time
London-based filmproduction, sales and distribution company SwipeFilms has signed a two-film deal with Shoreline Entertainment, acquiring Earthlings and Real Time.AlexandreO. Philippe's Earthlings is afeature-length documentary about Star Trek fans and the KlingonLanguage Institute.Fabrizio Prada's Real Time (Tiempo real) is aMexican crime thriller shot in one continuous take on a single ...
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Central Europe could see admissions boom by 2010
Cinema admissionsin central Europe could pass 80 million by 2010, an increaseof 40%, according to a new report from Dodona Research.The Cinemagoing Central Europe report profilesBulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia andSlovenia. Each of those countriessaw a downturn in admissions in 2005, led by Romania's 29% drop, ...
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Transilvania gives top honours to 12:08 East Of Bucharest
Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu's film 12:08 East Of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost') followedits Cannes wins with the top prizes at the fifth Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF). The feature received $12,612 (Euros 10,000) and the Transilvania Trophy for Best Film, anadditional $2522 (Euros 2,000) for best film in ...
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Transilvania gives top honours to 12:08 East Of Bucharest
Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu's film 12:08 East Of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost') followedits Cannes wins with the top prizes at the fifth Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF). The feature received $12,612 (Euros 10,000) and the Transilvania Trophy for Best Film, anadditional $2522 (Euros 2,000) for best film ...
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Cucinotta plans Indian-Italian film Bollywood Cop
Il Postino star Maria Grazia Cucinotta is to co-produceand star in a new Indian-Italian film entitled Bollywood Cop.Writtenand directed by Aditya Bhattacharya (Senso Unico), the $2.5m(Euros 2m) project is an action movie-noir set in Mumbai, about a rogue cop whobecomes obsessed with the actress he is protecting.Rome's IstitutoLuce is backing ...
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Fox International races past $1bn gross in record time
Comingoff a modest worldwide opening for The Omen, Fox International nevertheless announced today that ithas crossed $1bn in overseas ticket sales in what it believes to be recordtime.Thismarks the second consecutive year that Fox International has reached themilestone before any of its rivals -- six months is astonishingly fast intoday's ...
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Lionsgate picks up CG-animated comedy for North America
Lionsgate has picked up North American rights to the CG-animated familycomedy Happily N'Ever After.Paul J Bolger directed from a screenplay by RobertMoreland that retells the story of Cinderella and styles her as the leader of aresistance group that takes on a posse of villains led by her stepmother.John H Williams ...
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Believe In Me, Thin share top honours at Jackson Hole
RobertCollector's Believe In Me and LaurenGreenfield's Thin won top narrative anddocumentary honours respectively at the Jackson Hole Film Festival, which ranin Wyoming from Jun 7 to 11.HilaryBrougher was named best director for Stephanie Daley, while the Audience Choice Award went to AuroraBorealis by James Burke.Inother Cowboy Awards, Believe In Me ...
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Bradfield joins Tartan Video in new marketing post
Mylene Bradfield has been named catalogue marketing managerat Tartan Video. Thenewly created post will focus attention on Tartan's catalogue titles. Bradfieldhas served as marketing manager for Momentum Pictures' DVD label and Channel 4 DVD. "Mylene will make a lively addition to the team at a timewhen Tartan Video's popularity is ...
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Eschenasy's role at Focus broadens into strategic planning
FocusFeatures executive vice president of business affairs Avy Eschenasy has beengiven an expanded role of executive vice president of strategic planning,business affairs and acquisitions.Basedin the company's West Coast offices, Eschenasy has served as executive vicepresident at Focus since its inception in spring 2002.Thecompany's business affairs departments in Focus' Manhattan and ...
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Cars roars out of the gates for Disney and Pixar
Pixar's latest creation Cars destroyed the competition at the weekend as it roared tothe top on an estimated $62.8m through Buena Vista. Box office for the top 12pictures combined for $148.8m, up 8% against the same weekend last year.The result, while slightly below expectations, maintained Pixar'sperfect record of number one ...
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French & Saunders join Coraline voice cast
British comedy duo DawnFrench and Jennifer Saunders will join Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher in LaikaEntertainment's stop-motion animated feature Coraline (pictured).Focus Features has worldwiderights to the story of a young girl who enters a parallel universe and fightsto return to reality before she is taken captive by her counterfeit parents.French ...