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Rothman and Gianopulos sign new deals with Fox Filmed Entertainment
Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE)chairmen Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos have signed new five-year deals withthe company and been named joint chief executive officers.The pair assumed their posts in2000, in which time 20 of the studio's pictures have grossed more than $100m atthe domestic box office and 26 have reached the ...
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Julio Medem selects an international cast for his new film
Spain'sSogecine has unveiled new details of Spanish auteurJulio Medem's next film, Caotica Ana, set to begin shooting on February 13.Literally "Chaotic Ana,"the $6m (Euros 5m), majority Spanish-language film will star an internationalcast headlined by newcomer Manuela Velles, in herfeature debut, as the title character and singer Bebe,a recent best new ...
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Cillian Murphy launches Dublin Festival programme
Cillian Murphy last night launchedthe programme for the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF) whichkicks off on February 17 with the world premiere of Paul Mercier's debutfeature, Studs.Studs will be thefirst in a strong line up of new Irish films being shown at this year's event.They include Anthony Byrne's modern ...
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Police seize£500,000 of pirate DVDs in raid
AUK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a jointoperation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).Morethan 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chroniclesof Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory inBurnt Oak, North-West London and a related facility ...
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Police seize£500,000 of pirate DVDs in raid
AUK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a jointoperation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).Morethan 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chroniclesof Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory inBurnt Oak, North-West London and a related facility ...
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Police seize£500,000 of pirate DVDs in raid
AUK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a jointoperation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).Morethan 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chroniclesof Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory inBurnt Oak, North-West London and a related facility ...
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Rotterdam CineMart reports brisk business on 45 projects
Rotterdam's international co-productionmarket CineMart wrapped its 23rd edition on a high note last night,with general praise for the overall quality of the 45 productions being pitchedto 800 producers, financiers and sales agents at the Dutch city port. Prizes were awarded to three of the projects: Lasya, by Anup Singh took ...
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High-tech competition demonstrates digital potential
ScreenDaily readers are today invited to take part in a unique digital cinema experiment.Three film-makers are creating short movies using digital footage, mobile phones and downloads from web sitesand are editing them live at the Screen International Cinema Next conference at Bafta in London using affordable commercial software and hardware. ...
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Police seize£500,000 of pirate DVDs in raid
AUK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a jointoperation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).Morethan 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chroniclesof Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory inBurnt Oak, North-West London and a related facility ...
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Police seize $500,000 of pirate DVDs in UK raid
A UK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a joint operation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).More than 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chronicles Of Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory in Burnt Oak, North-West ...
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Lightning picks up Conversations With God adaptation
Lightning Entertainment haspicked up international sales rights to Stephen Simon's adaptation of thebestselling book series ConversationsWith God and will commence sales in Berlin next week.Lightning enjoyed strongbusiness with the spiritually themed WhatThe Bleep Do We Know, which grossed more than $11m from selectinternational markets in 2005, and will be looking ...
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Rogue to release Fearless in North America
Rogue Pictures will handlethe North American release of Fearless,which Jet Li has said will be his final martial arts picture, following itsmighty international launch in Asia last weekend.Ronny Yu directed theaccount of martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia's rise to fame and power inturn-of-the-century China. Veteran filmmaker Bill Kong produced.Li's credits ...
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Turney appointed European sales director Fox TV
Steve Turney has beenappointed director of sales for Twentieth Century Fox Television Distributionin Europe, effective immediately.Turney will oversee sales offeatures and scripted television programming to free and basic broadcasterswithin European territories. Based in the company's London office, he will report to vice president of salesYoni Cohen."We are delighted to haveSteve ...
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Intrepid appoints Fischer, Brown to key roles
Fledgling production andfinancing company Intrepid Pictures has named the two senior executives whowill take charge of finance and development of projects in the recent dealsigned with Universal and Rogue Pictures.Jonathan Fischer will serveas chief financial officer and Katherine Brown as vice president ofdevelopment, Intrepid founders Trevor Macy and Marc Evans ...
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Mehta's Water makes a splash at Canadian box office
DeepaMehta's Waterhas crossed the C$2m ($1.75m)threshold at the Canadian box office.Released on Nov 4, 2005, the film has played in more than 115 theatres andcontinues its run on 12 screens.Featuring Bollywood stars Lisa Ray and John Abraham and shot in Hindi, theperiod film was recently nominated for nine Genie Awards, ...
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Warner Bros promotes Rowe to svp of corp comms
Twelve-year Warner Brosveteran Scott Rowe has been promoted to senior vice president of corporatecommunications.Rowe will assume greaterresponsibility for the company's internal and external positioning in thebusiness, trade and consumer press.Working with executive vicepresident of corporate communications Sue Fleishman, to whom he will continueto report, Rowe will also share responsibility for ...
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Disney, Walden Media set to shoot Prince Caspian
Confirming what has been anopen secret for several weeks, Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures issued ajoint statement announcing they have begun pre-production on the sequel totheir global smash The Chronicles OfNarnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe.Andrew Adamson reprises hisdirector's role on The Chronicles OfNarnia: Prince Caspian, which ...
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Fifth TIFF tour to set sail for UK, Eire
The TorontoInternational Film Festival Group's Film Circuit will present seven Canadiantitles during a tour of Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and the Republic ofIreland from Feb 19-May 5.The fifth annual event, entitled Canadian Cinema Showcase: North Of Hollywood,features recent Canadian productions including Thom Fitzgerald's 3 Needles, Francis Leclerc's Memoires Affectives (UK/Irish ...
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Moore, McAvoy to star in Foresight's Twist Of Fate
Mandy Moore and James McAvoyare in final talks to star in the thriller TwistOf Fate for Mark Damon's Foresight Unlimited. Jennifer Elster will directfrom a screenplay by Wendy Riss about a love triangle that develops between aworking class girl and an intense young man haunted by a car wreck they ...
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Singapore's I Not Stupid Too has strong opening
Jack Neo's Chinese New Yearoffering I Not Stupid Too has rackedup the biggest six-day opening for a local film in Singapore with $865,611 (S$1.41m), narrowly beating theprevious record of $848,856 (S$1.39m) set by Neo's Liang Po Po The Movie in 1999.Released through UIP, thesocio-comedy opened on 37 prints on Jan ...