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Charlie continues to deliver the international goods
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory produced another strong weekend as it added $11.4m from 3,900 screens in 54 countries to raise itsrunning total to $219.9m.Released through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI), the family picturestayed top in its fourth consecutive weekend in Japan on $3.1m on 361 screensfor $28.1m.It stayedtop for ...
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Carnahan signs to adapt State for Universal
Matthew MichaelCarnahan will adapt the BBC's BAFTA award winning political thriller StateOf Play for UniversalPictures, which acquired remake rights to the mini-series last year fromMission Pictures.Andrew Hauptmanwill produce the feature through Mission Pictures along with executive TracyFalco. State Of Playmini-series creator Paul Abbott will serve as executive producer.UniversalPictures president of ...
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Love embarks on London shoot for Carnaby
CarnabyFilms has started a five-week shoot in London for its romantic comedy AreYou Ready For Love' DirectorHelen Grace, a former executive with ITN News who also directed several shortfilms, is making her feature debut. Grace co-wrote the script with Roberto Trippini and the film's producer, Trudy Sargent. AreYou Ready For ...
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Holroyd joins UK's Casarotto Ramsay agency
Rachel Holroyd will joinUK-based Casarotto Ramsay & Associates as an agent, effective November 1. Holroyd will serve on theboard and will work alongside Jenne Casarotto in the agency's film andtelevision department.Holroyd previously served ashead of business affairs at Working Title Films, managing director of TigerAspect Pictures, and most recently as ...
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Indian government postpones onscreen smoking ban
The Indian government'sproposed ban on smoking scenes in films and television programmes has beendelayed from Oct 2 to Jan 1, 2006.Following strong protestsfrom the film and TV industry, the Indian Information and Broadcasting Ministryinformed the Indian Health Ministry about the practical difficulties involvedin implementing the ban. This is the secondpostponement ...
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SPE names Blake as Col TriStar worldwide marketing chairman
Jeff Blake has been named Chairman of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for theColumbia TriStar Motion Picture Group.His appointment wasannounced by Michael Lynton, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Amy Pascal,Chairman of SPE's Motion Picture Group.Blake directsand oversees the global marketing and distributionof all films from SPE'S production entities ...
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Japan submits Blood And Bones as Oscar entry
Yoichi Sai's Blood AndBones has been selected by the Japan Motion Pictures Association (Eiren) asJapan's nominee for the best foreign-language film AcademyAward.The drama stars TakeshiKitano as a violent but charismatic Korean man who becomes a family patriarchand community power in postwar Osaka, while spreading misery, resentment and fear. Sai, of ...
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Film, publishing industries to link up at Frankfurt Book Fair
Relationsbetween the publishing and film industries are to be intensified with a yetcloser collaboration between the Berlin International Film Festival and theFrankfurt Book Fair with the staging of joint industry events during thisyear's event between October 19-23.Thecollaboration was initially launched at the begining of this year with a seriesof professional ...
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Cohen, Faber to co-head Weinstein Co marketing dept
One day before The WeinsteinCompany officially launches, the brothers have announced that longtime Miramaxexecutives Matthew Cohen and Gary Faber will jointly head up the new company'smarketing department.Cohen is named executivevice president of marketing and creative affairs and Faber becomes executivevice president of marketing.Both executives will reportdirectly to Bob and Harvey ...
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Till says 'too early' to predict post-UIP plans
United International Pictures chairman and CEO Stewart Tilltold ScreenDaily.com today that it's "much tooearly" to predict his career path after UIP's planned restructuring at the endof 2006. He didn't, however, rule out the possibility suggested in aninterview with the UK's The Guardiannewspaper on September 30 that he'd establish a new ...
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Tokyo Project Gathering unveils full line-up
The Tokyo Project Gathering,a new section of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), has announcedthe full list of twenty projects to be presented at the TIFF's main venue fromOct 26 to 28.Six of the titles are"presentation projects", meaning that the producer will make thirty-minutepresentations to prospective partners, followed by meetings. ...
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Mukta Arts film school set to open in January
Whistling Woods International,the film school established by Mumbai-based production company Mukta Arts, itset to open its doors to the first batch of students in January 2006. The film school, which cost$11m to set up, is the first private initiative of its kind in the Indian filmindustry. Located in Mumbai, it ...
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Zellweger to play Beatrix Potter for Phoenix, Kirschner
Renee Zellweger has signedon to star as Beatrix Potter in the biopic Miss Potter, which Babe director Chris Noonan will direct forDavid Kirschner Productions and Phoenix Pictures.Thefilm, which at one point in its evolution had Cate Blanchett attached to starin the title role, is scheduled to begin shooting on March ...
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Black, Bow Wow head up Fast & Furious 3 cast
Principal photography is setto begin in October in the US and Japan on Universal's The Fast And TheFurious: Tokyo Drift, with LucasBlack heading up an ensemble cast that includes rapper Bow Wow. Justin Lin, who directed the2002 Sundance hit Better Luck Tomorrow and the upcoming Naval Academy drama Annapolis, will ...
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Germany's TV-Loonland launches distribution arm
Family programmingspecialist TV-Loonland has launched its own theatrical and home entertainmentdistribution arm Loonland Pictures to market in-house and third partyproductions in Germany.The first title - Alan Simpson's animationfeature Heidi - will be released in collaboration with 20th Century Foxand NFP Marketing as distribution and marketing partners.The co-production between TV-Loonland, its ...
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Austria, Poland, Sweden, Norway name Oscar films
Austria, Poland and Swedenhave announced their contenders for the foreign language Oscar category.- Veteranfilmmaker Feliks Falk's The Collector (Komornik), which charts 48 hoursin the life of a ruthless debt collector, has been selected as the Polish entry.Falk's first film for ten years, The Collector was the bigwinner at the 30th ...
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Corbijn takes Control with Joy Division biopic
Rock photographer and musicvideo director Anton Corbijn is preparing for an early 2006 shoot for his firstfeature film, tentatively titled Control, about the life of the late JoyDivision singer Ian Curtis. Producers Orian Williams andTodd Eckert of US-based Claraflora first announced the project in January andCorbijn tells ScreenDaily.com that they ...
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Shankman to direct Hairspray at New Line
Adam Shankman will directthe remake of John Waters' classic musical Hairspray for New Line.Based on Waters' 1988 filmand the Broadway musical it spawned, Hairspray is set in 1960s Baltimore where a local girl lands aspot on a television dance show. Neil Meron and Caig Zadanare producing with New Line production ...
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Lamping to head distribution at Nu Image/Millenium
David Lamping has joined NuImage/Millennium Films as head of distribution and will be based in thecompany's new international distribution office in London.Lamping previously served aspresident of Signature Pictures where he handled the upcoming Brian De Palmaproject The Black Dahlia, whichSignature produced and co-financed with Nu Image/Millennium Films. He previously headed ...
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Jobson reteams with Tartan for New Town Killers
Writer-director Richard Jobson is re-teaming with HamishMcAlpine's Tartan Films on his next project, The New Town Killers, dueto shoot in Edinburgh early next year. This will be the third collaborationbetween Jobson and McAlpine following on from 16 Years Of Alcohol and A WomanIn Winter.The £1 million thriller is set against ...