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Local films flourish in international box office chart
Local films continued to make an impact on theinternational chart this week with 13 films in the top 30 produced outside theUS.Fourof these came from the powerhouse territory for local product, South Korea. Thetop four films in the territory all made the international chart including newlaunches Crying Fist (Show East) ...
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Pinewood share price hit by Watchmen wavering
The share price of UK studios Pinewood Shepperton has fallenover 20% this week to £1.43 on news of the likely loss of The Watchmenshoot. Pinewood Shepperton has confirmed ScreenDaily.com'sreport on Monday that Paramount Pictures are re-evaluating plans to shoot the$120m superhero thriller in the UK. PinewoodShepperton said it has a ...
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Brogliatti to leave Warner Bros after 18 years
Warner Bros executive vicepresident and chief corporate communications officer Barbara Brogliatti isretiring from the company after 18 years to focus on teaching, philanthropy andwine-making in the Napa Valley.Brogliatti's full-timeduties as official spokesperson and chief press officer and strategist for thestudio will end on May 31, however she will continue as ...
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German box office plunges in first quarter of 2005
German box office and admissions plunged by 11% in thefirst three months of 2005 compared to the same period last year.German cinemas took Euros 181.5m in box office, while thenumber of cinema-goers slipped from 34.8m to 31.1m in the first quarter.The sobering statistics have dispelled any optimism feltby German exhibitors ...
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Reno, Franco star in Electric's World War I actioner Flyboys
Jean Reno andJames Franco will star in the epic wartime adventure Flyboys, which is being directed by Tony Billand will be produced by Electric Entertainment principal Dean Devlin and MarcFrydman.Lions Gate Films International will handle worldwiderights excluding the US and Canada, which are being represented by ICM.Principalphotography is due to ...
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Apted signs on for Walden's Wilberforce pic Amazing Grace
Michael Aptedhas signed on to direct the political thriller Amazing Grace, a Walden Media, Sunflower Productionsand FourBoys Films co-production about 18th century British politician WilliamWilberforce's campaign to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire. Dirty PrettyThings screenwriterSteven Knight will write the script, while Terrence Malick and Ed Pressman willproduce ...
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New York's Steiner Studios to host Arbus biopic Fur
Brooklyn-basedSteiner Studios has struck a deal with River Road Productions to host the shootof Steven Shainberg's Fur, an imagined chronicle of the life of New York photographer DianeArbus starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr.Set constructionwill begin immediately on the 16,000 sq ft sound stage, one of two that will ...
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Graham King signs first-look production deal with Warner Bros
Graham King has signed afirst-look deal with Warner Bros that will bring him in as producer on twoprojects for the studio and shifts Initial Entertainment Group's deals withLeonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil to Warner Bros.Initial Entertainment willremain an international sales entity for projects that King does ...
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Olmi cranks up One Hundred Nails
Italian writer-directorErmanno Olmi is currently lining up a new film, entitled Cento Chiodi(literally, One Hundred Nails).Rai Cinema is believed to bein advanced negotiations to co-produce the film, which is produced by Olmi'sMilan-based company, Cinemaundici.Olmi, one of Italy's mostacclaimed directors, is currently writing the film whose budget is said to beset ...
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Bond watch: The Sun tips Daniel Craig
The new James Bond film, CasinoRoyale, is scheduled to shoot at the end of 2005. To date, one of the fewfacts confirmed about the film is that it is to be directed by Martin Campbell(GoldenEye) With ongoing rumourscirculating throughout the media world, it can be difficult to keep tabs on ...
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UK parties set out film policies as General Election called
Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced that the UK generalelection will take place on May 5, kick starting a month of politicalcampaigning that will see the main political parties set out their policiestowards the film industry.ChancellorGordon Brown spelt out the key plank of the ruling Labour Party's policytowards film in ...
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UK set to lose Paramount's $120m Watchmen
In a move underlining justhow tough it is to keep big budget Hollywood movies in the UK, theproducers of Paramount's superhero thriller Watchmen are on the verge of taking the film away fromPinewood Studios. The $120m sci-fi epic isalready in pre-production at Pinewood, but last week, several crew members -some ...
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Field, Chaplin finish shooting drama 2 Weeks
Custom Productions haswrapped filming in Nashville, Tennessee, on Steve Stockman's featuredirectorial debut 2 Weeks,starring Sally Field, Ben Chaplin and Clea Duvall.The bittersweet comedy tellsof four estranged siblings who return to their childhood home in North Carolinato care for their ailing mother, played by Field, who won Academy Awards forbest actress ...
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Germany's FFA doles out Euros 25m of funding
The German Federal Film Board (FFA) has paid out a total ofEuros 24.9m in retroactive "reference" funding to local producersand distributors.The FFA pays out the money each year to producers anddistributors whose films have racked up significant box office admissions. Themoney must then be invested in the production of new ...
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Glickman to address convention in Mumbai today
MPAA chief Dan Glickman willgive the keynote address at the Frames Convention in Mumbai, India, today [Apr4], as he continues to develop his profile as an international bridge-builderstrong on anti-piracy.Since succeeding JackValenti as Hollywood's top bureaucrat last year, Glickman has been quick totake the anti-piracy agenda beyond North American borders, ...
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Pan-Europeenne snaps up Sin City for France
French sales and financing house, Wild Bunch, has acquiredFrench rights to Dimension's Sin Cityfor its new distribution arm, Pan-Europeenne Edition. The deal was concluded with Miramax International inDecember. Although Miramax has its own distribution joint-venture, TFM, withTF1 in France, Miramax has the option to sell to the highest local bidder. ...
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Italy pledges to introduce film tax shelter
Italian culture minister Giuliano Urbani has announced thatSilvio Berlusconi's government will introduce a tax shelter to help fund theentertainment industry before the end of its term in 2006. While the local industryhas long supported a tax shelter, a succession of post-war governments havefailed to stand by their promises to see ...
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Filmax options Iraq war Invader
Spain's Filmax has optioned the rights to Fernando Marias'novel Invader (Invasor).The novel blends reality and horror fantasy in the tale of aSpanish doctor who returns from a peace mission in the Iraq War, where he wasunwittingly involved in a double murder, to find his home and family lifemysteriously afflicted.Filmax is ...
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Plum picks up movie rights to life of mathematical genius
New York-based Plum Pictures has picked up rights to the lifestory of Andrew Wiles, the mathematical genius who solved Fermat's LastTheorem, the world's most bafflingmathematical mystery that remained unsolved for more than 300 years.Fermatwas a recluse and one of the great mathematical theorists of the 17th century who scribbled a ...
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Katzenberg to address UK's Animated Encounters festival
Jeffrey Katzenberg,co-founder of DreamWorks SKG, has been lined-up to speak at this year'sAnimated Encounters Festival in Bristol (April 21-24). Katzenberg, who has producedfilms such as Shrek, is delivering the Industry Summit keynote speech onApril 22. He will outline his view onanimation and its future and then open the floor for ...