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Polar Express IMAX version crosses $60m worldwide gross
Warner Bros' Christmas titleThe Polar Express has crossedanother milestone in its IMAX format release, entitled The Polar Express: An Imax 3D Experience.It is now the most successful digitally-remastered IMAX film to date. The giant-screen version hasgrossed $60m worldwide, having earned $45m in its first release beginning in2004 and some $15m ...
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Infinity Media to back Hailwood story Mike The Bike
Capoteproducer Infinity Media is preparing Mike The Bike, a biography based on the life oflegendary British motorcycle world champion Mike Hailwood.Hailwood, voted the greatestmotorcyclist of all time in a recent worldwide poll, won the world championship10 times in the 1960s and 1970s before a near-fatal crash left him crippled."Mike The ...
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Bob Yari in lawsuit mayhem over Crash
With just four days to go before the Academy Awards, Crash financier Bob Yari was last nightengaging in a legal snowstorm over his official role on the picture andbusiness dealings with former associates Cathy Schulman and Tom Nunan.Yesterday evening Yari filed a suit with the Los Angeles SuperiorCourt against the ...
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King Kong breaks box office records in China
Peter Jackson's King Kong has lumbered past the RMB100m($12.4m) threshold at the mainland Chinese box office to become thetop-grossing imported film of the past five years and the third biggest foreignfilm in the history of Chinese cinema.Up until Monday (Feb 27), King Kong had taken in RMB100.49m sinceits release on ...
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Telefilm Canada greenlights seven French-language films
Telefilm Canada has approvedproduction financing on seven French-language feature films through the CanadaFeature Film Fund (CFFF). In a release Teiefilm saidthe CFFF's overall goal was to increase Canadian audiences in theatres forCanadian feature films to a five per cent share of the Canadian box office andthat goal had been realized ...
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Cinema Libre picks up worldwide rights to Giuliani Time
Politically-drivenUS distributor Cinema Libre Studio has acquired worldwide rights to KevinKeating's documentary Giuliani Time about former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's personal background and hiscontentious Zero Tolerance policy.Thecompany plans a limited launch in New York in May followed by a DVD release inSeptember.GiulianiTime played at the Rotterdam andVancouver international film ...
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Taiwan's oldest studio closes
Taiwan's oldest film company, the Central Motion Picture Corporation (CMPC), hasofficially closed its studio lots and once-popular theme park in northern Taipei marking the symbolic end of an era for local cinema.No recent films have shot at the studio lots, although Jay Chou's music videofor Jet Li's Fearless was recentlyfilmed ...
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Cuesta to direct true life horror Shiver for Dimension
Dimension Films has acquired newcomer Mikey Wigart's thriller screenplayShiver, which is setto be directed and produced by Twelve And Holding director Michael Cuesta.Inspired by true events, the story follows a group of New Year'sEve party-goers stranded in a snowstorm who stumble upon the home of a torture-obsesseddoctor."Shiver is a perfect ...
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LA French Film Festival to open with La Doublure
City Of Lights,City Of Angels (COLCOA) French Film Festival in Los Angeles unveiled its lineupyesterday for its tenth annual event which takes place April 3-9.Funded by theFranco-American Cultural Fund - a collaboration of the Directors Guild OfAmerica (DGA), SACEM, Writers Guild Of America, west (WGA), and the MotionPicture Association (MPA), ...
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Women In Film International launches first short film showcase
Women In Film AndTelevision International (WIFTI), the global network of 35 Women In Film AndTelevision chapters, is launching its first annual Short Film Showcase next Wed(March 8) on 18 screens in five countries. For one nightonly, WIFTI chapters in the five countries will present collections of shortfilms by female film-makers ...
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Supernatural thriller Shut In finishes shooting in LA
Independentfeature Shut In hascompleted shooting in and around Los Angeles, marking the feature debut ofPablo Proenza, whose 33-minute short VIDI played at festivals around the world.A supernaturalthriller about a woman photographer whose camera makes people disappear, ShutIn stars Lisa Vidal,David Chisum and Lupe Ontiveros (Real Women Have Curves, DesperateHousewives).A Cut ...
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Working Title lines up March shoot for Hot Fuzz
Working Title has confirmed that Hot Fuzz, the new film from Shaun of the Dead co-creators EdgarWright and Simon Pegg, will start shooting in Marchin the UK.Wright will direct the action comedy, which heco-wrote with Pegg. The action comedy is about London police officer(Pegg), who is sent to a sleepy ...
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British cinematographers announce 2006 award nominees
The British Society ofCinematographers has announced the 2006 nominations for its best cinematographyaward. The nominees are Cesar Charlone for TheConstant Gardener, Andrew Dunn for MrsHenderson Presents, John Mathieson for Phantom of the Opera, Wally Pfister for BatmanBegins, and Roger Pratt for HarryPotter and the Goblet of Fire. In a change ...
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New pan-African co-production market for Sithengi market
A new pan-African co-production market will be launched at this year's Sithengi Film And TV Market in Cape Town.The African Co-Production Forum is an initiative between Sithengi and various international and African funds andfestivals to select two projects to pitch at Rotterdam's co-production market CineMartin 2007.A total of 15 projects ...
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Miramax gets North American rights to Becoming Jane
Miramax has taken North American rightsto Becoming Jane, starring AnneHathaway as young novelist Jane Austen.Becoming Jane is set to start its eight-week shoot in Ireland on March 27. Director Julian Jarroldpreviously directed Kinky Boots,another UK project that Miramax distributed. James McAvoyhas joined the cast starringas Tom Lefroy, Jane's love interest. ...
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Skillset picks 26 for Guiding Lights mentor programme
Skillset, the Sector SkillsCouncil, and training provider Lighthouse have announced the 26 successfulapplicants for mentoring scheme Guiding Lights. The scheme runs for 12months and pairs the applicants with established mentors including directors Paul Greengrass, GurindaChadha, Peter Cattaneo, andStephen Frears, writers Julian Fellowesand Tony Grisoni, producers Andrew Eaton and MichaelKuhn, and ...
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Arista planning UK development conference in April
Arista Development is planningits third Business of Development Conference, to be held in London on April25-26. The topics will includeinformation on development investments in the UK, US studio involvement in UK film development, the newfilm tax credit, case studies of film financing, making a second film, and areview of the ...
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Alan Menken signs multi-picture deal with Disney
Composer Alan Menken, who has won eightAcademy Awards for his music for Walt Disney films such as The Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and Pocahontas, has signed a non-exclusivemulti-picture deal with Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone Pictures. Menken, whose most recent score was writtenfor the upcoming Disney comedy The ShaggyDog, ...
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Triangelfilm acquires six features from Wild Bunch at EFM
Swedish film distributor Triangelfilm acquiredsix titles during the Berlin Film Festival, all of them from French salescompany Wild Bunch. Triangelfilm secured distribution rights for Sweden,Norway, Denmark and Finland for Marilyn Manson's Phantasmagoria, Emir Kusturica's Maradona, Nanni Moretti's IlCaimano, Emanuele Crialese's TheGolden Door, Luc Jacquet's The Foxand the Child, and Sabine ...
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Artificial Eye enjoys box office returns with Hidden
Hidden became the latestfilm to join the select few foreign language titles to pass £1m ($1.7m) in theUK at the weekend and became distributor Artificial Eye's first £1m hit since1994. Hidden (Cache) opened onJanuary 27 and crossed the mark after just five weekends in the territory. Thefilm, which won best ...