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US network AZN buys in Asian movies from Sony
AZN Television,Comcast's wholly owned cable channel targeting Asian-Americans, has securedexclusive US broadcast rights to the next 10 Asian features released in the USby Sony Pictures Classics.The overalloutput deal with Sony Pictures Television includes rights to 16 recent Asianfeatures from Sony Pictures Classics and six from Sony Pictures HomeEntertainment, including Kung ...
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Happiness takes top honours at Athens festival
Just days after winning theGolden Shell for Best Picture at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Czech-Germanco-production Something Like Hapiness (Sesti) directed by Bodhan Slamawas named best film at the 11th Athens International Film Festival-Opening Nights.The Golden Athena awardcarrying together a Euros 5,000 purse was received by the leading actress ofthe ...
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Indian filmmaker challenges onscreen smoking ban
Hindi film director andproducer Mahesh Bhatt has taken the Indian government to court over newlegislation that bans the depiction of smoking in films and TV serials. The New Delhi High Court hasdirected the Indian government to make a submission by Sept 30 in response toBhatt's petition. Acting through his counsel, ...
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Solondz heads to Russia for Palindromes bow
Todd Solondz will attend theRussian premiere of Palindromes at the American Autumn In Moscowfestival of contemporary American culture, which runs from Oct 12-16.Solondz will also be on handfor a special screening of his 1995 feature Welcome To The Dollhouse,playing in the IndieVisual programme that focuses on American independentcinema.Gus Van Zant's ...
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Two Sons strikes a chord at Brazilian box office
Two Sons Of Francisco, a biopic about Brazilian country music duo Zeze DiCamargo & Luciano, has become the highest-grossing Brazilian film of theyear in its home territory. The film has topped thecharts for six weeks straight, grossing just over $10m (R$22.7m) since itsdebut on August 19, according to local distributor ...
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Hollywood presses charges in Star Wars piracy case
Hollywood fired off significant anti-piracy broadsides thisweek as eight people faced charges for their roles in the illegal distributionof Star Wars: Episode III days before the picture's global release.In a separate case, RonaldRedding pleaded to illegally distributing a "screener" copy of MillionDollar Baby, the Warner Bros drama that won four ...
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Warner, Universal seal China-Russia video deal
Warner Home Video (WHV) andUniversal Pictures International (UPI) will release each other's titles in China and Russia respectively in a joint venture aimed at thwartingpiracy in both emerging markets.CAV Warner HomeEntertainment, a joint releasing operation between WHV and China Audio Video,will handle Universal's video titles, and UPI will release WHV ...
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Xingu wraps Guide starring Downey Jr
Rosario Dawson,Dianne Wiest, Chazz Palminteri and Eric Roberts joined Robert Downey Jr in thecast of A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, which has completed principal photography for TrudieStyler's Xingu Films. Orlando (Dito)Montiel's directorial debut is a product of the Sundance Institute's Directorsand Screenwriters Labs and centres on Montiel's youth growing ...
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DreamWorks exits merger talks with NBC Universal
DreamWorks has pulled out of$1bn merger talks with NBC Universal as two months of exclusive negotiationsended without a deal this week. Both parties were optimisticin July when talks got underway for Universal to acquire the studio founded bySteven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg. However any eventual dealbetween the parties ...
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Gerolami named md, Europe, of NBC Universal Global Networks
Olivier Gerolamihas been named managing director, Europe, for NBC Universal Global Networks.Beginning Nov 1in London, Gerolami will oversee NBC Universal Global Networks' television assetsin Europe, where the company's established channels include 13th Street and SCIFI in France, Das Vierte, 13th Street, SCI FI and GIGA in Germany, StudioUniversal in Italy, ...
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HK bets on Love, China has Promise in Oscar race
Peter Chan's musical PerhapsLove has been selected as Hong Kong's candidate for thebest foreign-language film category at next year's Oscars, while China has submitted Chen Kaige's fantasy epic ThePromise. Both films are scheduled toopen in December and both are being released on a single screen in theirrespective territories this week ...
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Hardwicke joins Gang at Columbia
Columbia Pictures hasacquired film rights to Edward Abbey's comic bestseller The Monkey WrenchGang which Catherine Hardwicke willdevelop and direct. The film has long been indevelopment with Ed Pressman's Edward R Pressman Film Corp and Pressman will serveas one of the producers on the project alongside Gary Burden and LloydPhillips. Alessandro ...
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Trier turns to comedy with Manager
Lars von Trier has said hisnext film, The Manager Of It All, will be a comedy that he will shoot inFebruary next year.Speakingat a seminar at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Jutland, Trierrecently elaborated on the genre of the new dogme film."I hope to get the joy ofmaking films ...
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Rio festival expands market activities
The Rio Film Festival (Sept 22 -Oct 6) is expanding itsmarket activities and has now declared itself the largest industry gathering inLatin America. Some 900 film and TV distributors, producers, exhibitors,trade groups, festival programmers and film commissioners from around the worldhave registered to attend the event. More than 200 projects ...
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Australia's FFC announces funding for seven features
Film Finance CorporationAustralia (FFC) has agreed to invest in seven features, two of which will behandled internationally by Celluloid Dreams and two by Arclight Films.The seven projects include actor/theatre director Richard Roxburgh'sdirectorial debut Romulus, My Father, to star Eric Bana; director CherieNowlan's long-awaited follow-up to Thank God He Met Lizzie, ...
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India selects Paheli as Oscar entry
Hindi feature Paheli,starring Shah Rukh Khan and directed by Amol Palekar, has been selected as India's entry in the best foreign-language film categoryof the Oscars.A ten-member jury, headed byIndian filmmaker Vinod Pandey, made the selection in Mumbai after week-longdeliberations. It beat fourteen other Indian films including The Rising: The Ballad ...
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Foreign language Oscar race hots up
A slew of countries haveannounced their selections for the foreign language category of the AcademyAwards, just days before the final deadline on October 3.- Anders Thomas Jensen Adam's Apples has been selected as theDanish entry. The popular comedy has sofar sold more than 350,000 tickets in Denmark.Anders Thomas Jensen haspreviously ...
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Japanese industry ramps up production
Asthe Japanese industry continues to ramp up production, releasing 310 films in2004, compared with only 251 a decade earlier, producers are making more filmsinspired by, based on or remade from earlier hits, domestic or foreign. A sign of flagging creativity' Perhaps, but the Japanesemovie industry has long ridden winning formulas ...
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Czechs study ways to attract film-makers
The CzechMinistry of Culture has contracted Olsberg-SPI, the London-based strategicadvisory firm, to conduct a study of the local film industry's effects on theCzech economy and to make recommendations as to how local conditions can bemade more attractive to film-makers.Radomir Docekalis managing director of the Czech Audiovisual Producers' Association (APA),which is ...
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Barney's Restraint draws buyers for Celluloid
Paris-basedsales outfit Celluloid Dreams is stirring up buyers' interest in artist MatthewBarney's film Drawing Restraint 9, an experimental epic set aboard a Japanese whaling ship. Deals havealready been concluded with Spain (Bistel) and Australia (Accent), andCelluloid Dreams is in negotiations with France, Germany, Greece, Russia, Italyand Japan. Cinetic Media holds ...