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UIP signs exclusive licensing agreement in Pakistan
UIP has become the first major theatrical distributor to sign anexclusive license agreement in Pakistan following the December launch of KingKong.UIP's new agent, BoxOffice Limited, is the distribution affiliate of Cinepax, the country's firstcineplex company that plans to develop 120 screens in Pakistan's larger cities.King Kongopened through Box Office Limited ...
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China's Huayi Brothers brings Banquet to Berlin
Beijing-based productioncompany Huayi Brothers Film Investment will be making its debut as a seller atthe upcoming European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin.The company will be offeringits two latest productions - The Banquetand One Foot Off The Ground - whichrecently wrapped and are both in post-production. Period drama The Banquet, which ...
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Lumet and Panahi complete Berlin Competition line-up
World premieres from Sidney Lumet and Iranian director Jafar Panahi are the final Competition selections for this year's Berlinale.Lumet's Find Me Guilty, starring Vin Diesel, is based on the true story of the 1980s trial of Mafia boss Jack DiNorscio. The veteran director won the Golden Bear back in 1957 ...
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Sundance: Revolver buys UK rights to explicit portmanteau film Destricted
London-based Revolver Entertainment has bought UK rights to theexplicit shorts compilation Destricted, featuring contributions from Matthew Barney, Larry Clark,Gaspar Noe, and Sam Taylor-Wood, among others.Neville Wakefield, MelAgace and Andrew Hale produced the compilation, which first screened here overthe weekend.Revolver's Nick Taussig and Justin Marciano negotiated the dealwith Katapult Film Sales ...
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Shelton, Clarke join London's Capital FX
London post-production company Capital FX has expanded its team, with Rod Shelton joining as head of digital intermediate and Liz Clarke joining as head of sales and marketing. Both formerly worked at the VTR Group. Shelton leads Capital's new digital intermediate division, which was created due to an increase in ...
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MPA settles Singapore piracy case
The Motion PictureAssociation (MPA) and Singapore home video licensee Alliance Entertainment havereached an out-of-court settlement with the TS Group which was sued forcopyright infringement. As part of the settlementterms, TS, a group of home video companies with over 20 retail outlets in Singapore, has admitted illegally infringing four copyrightedtitles (Die ...
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Deal finalised for Usen-Daiwa content fund
Gaga Communicationsannounced at its first board meeting of the year (Jan 25) that the $259m (Y30bn)content fund partnership between its parent company Usen Corp and DaiwaSecurities SMBC, tabled last December, is now a done deal. The two partners and their respectivegroup companies will each contribute 50% of the 10-year fund, ...
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Korea set to cut screen quota in half
South Korea's government is to cut its 146-day screen quota forlocal productions in half starting July 1. Deputy Prime Minister andFinance Minister Han Duck-soo announced in a weekly briefing today (Jan 26)that the government is planning to legislate the enforcement ordinance on Jan27. As Korea's second-largest trade partner, the US ...
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Lionsgate enters Sundance fray with global deal on Door
As Sundance started to wind down, Lionsgate took worldwide rightsto Chris Gorak's dirty bomb thriller Right At Your Door, which gathered rapid momentum this weekfollowing its Monday world premiere.In another deal - the first for a documentary at this Sundance -IFC acquired North American rights to Patrick Creadon's crossword documentary ...
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Berlinale announces final sidebar entries
Newfilms by Lukas Moodysson, Christian Vincent, AnnetteK. Olesen, and Romuald Karmakar are among the final titles to be confirmed for theline-up of the Berlinale's Panorama whose mainprogramme will be opened by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe'sBrothers Of TheHead about young Siamese twins who appeared on the punk rock scene in ...
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Fabio Ferzetti to replace Giorgio Gosetti at Venice Days
Italian critic Fabio Ferzetti isto replace Giorgio Gosetti as head of Venice'sDirectors' Fortnight - known as Venice Days.Gosetti, who had been in charge ofthe independent Venice sidebarsince its creation in 2004, will now concentrate on his role as generaldirector of the new Rome Film Festival, officially called "Cinema Festa Internazionale ...
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Silverline takes rights to UK film Displaced
Silverline Entertainment has takenon worldwide rights to the science fiction adventure film Displaced. The UKproject, currently in post-production, is directed by Martin Holland and producedby Mark Strange.Lancashire-based SkylandianPictures produced with Chee KeongCheung from Intense Productions as associate producer. The film is about a humanoid alien who works with a Britishsolider ...
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Israeli company United King to begin shooting two new features
United King, the leading distributor of domestic films in Israel,is launching two new productions one by Josef Cedar and the other by Avi Nesher in February. The first, The Secret,an Israeli-French co-production, starts shooting next month with Avi Nesher inthe director's chair. Nesher, whose previous effort, Turn Left at the ...
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Disney buys Pixar in deal worth $7.4bn
Following months of speculation The Walt Disney Company hasacquired Pixar in an all-stock transaction that is expected to be finalised by thesummer.Under the terms of the deal 2.3 Disney shares will be issued foreach Pixar share. Based on Pixar's fully diluted shares outstanding, this putsthe transaction value at $7.4bn.Ed Catmull ...
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Korean law firm to take action against online piracy
Korean law firm Ilsong LawOffice and film portal site Cinetizen.com have announced an initiative to tackleillegal internet distribution which is estimated to cost the local film industry$300m a year. Ilsong will carry outcopyright infringement suits on behalf of film importers and producers, actingon information provided by Cinetizen.com, starting February 1. ...
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Peace Arch buys Canadian home entertainment outfit KaBOOM!
Toronto-based Peace ArchEntertainment Group has acquired Canadian home entertainment outfit kaBOOM!Entertainment.The deal gives Peace Arch a DVDplatform for its burgeoning feature slate, which is being handledinternationally by executive vice president of international sales andmarketing Penny Wolf.Under a long-term employmentagreement, kaBOOM! president Berry Meyerowitz will continue to run the companyon a ...
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Arrival picks up US rights to La Tragedia De Macario
Arrival Pictures hasacquired domestic rights to Pablo Veliz' immigration drama La Tragedia De Macario, which premiered in the Spectrum programme atSundance last week.Negotiations between ArrivalPictures president Charles Acosta and Strategic Film Partners principals AlexBarder and Lawrence Silverstein closed early Monday morning.Veliz' directorial debutfollows a Mexican's bid to cross the US ...
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Jet Li, Statham to star in martial arts thriller for Lionsgate
Lionsgate has bought Lee Anthony Smith and Gregory J Bradley's screenplayRogue and will beginproduction on the thriller in spring with Jet Li and Jason Statham in theleads.Philip G Atwell is directing and Cory Yuen serves as the martialarts action designer on the tale of an FBI agent played by Statham ...
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Noyce to be honoured by Australian Screen Directors
Director Phillip Noyce is toreceive an outstanding achievement award on April 6, the top annual honourbestowed by the Australian Screen Directors Association (ASDA).Noyce was in the first classof students at the Australian Film, Television & Radio School and his first feature was Newsfrontin 1978, which won best film in the ...
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Miike's Big Bang Love joins Panorama line-up
Japan's Shochiku hasannounced that Big Bang Love, Juvenile A,the latest outing by prolific cult filmmaker Takashi Miike, has been selectedto compete in the Panorama section of the upcoming Berlin International FilmFestival. Starring Ryuhei Matsuda (Gohatto) and Masanobu Ando (Battle Royale), the film tells the storyof a young man who, while ...