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HONG KONG 20 August
Emperor MotionPicture Group's The Twins Effect IIhas scored the highest opening of the year so far for a local film, grossingUS$1.4m from 65 screens.The film has notoutpaced the original, which grossed US$2m in its opening week last July, butis nonetheless a welcome boost for the local industry which has struggledagainst ...
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Freeman to be honoured in PGA's 3rd Celebration of Diversity
MorganFreeman will be among recipients of honorary awards at the Producers Guild ofAmerica's (PGA) third Annual Celebration of Diversity in Los Angeles onOct 7.Freeman'sexecutive producing credits include Along Came A Spider, Levity, and the in-production drama Colours Straight Up.Previoushonorees include Salma Hayek, John Singleton, Phil Roman, Ang Lee, DannyGlover, and ...
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The Village gears up for first major launches through BVI
M NightShyamalan's latestmystery The Village launches in its first major markets in the UK and France this weekendthrough Buena Vista International (BVI).While thepicture's domestic performance has been below par by Shyamalan'sstandards, international prospects should be promising. The picture opened in Franceon Aug 18 and goes out in the UK on ...
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CMG takes international rights to Venezuelan drama Punto Y Raya
Los Angeles-based CinemaManagement Group (CMG) has picked up exclusive international distributionrights to Elia Schneider's Venezuelan drama Punto Y Raya, which recently won best picture at the Los AngelesLatino International Film Festival.CMG will seek to licensethe picture immediately and plans market screenings in Los Angeles and in SantaMonica at the upcoming ...
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Universal, Focus strike multi-year deals with Vertigo
UniversalPictures and specialty division Focus Features have signed multi-yearagreements with Roy Lee and Doug Davison's dynamic production outfitVertigo Entertainment.Specifically, Universal Pictures has entered into afirst-look agreement with Vertigo, arguably Hollywood's leading Asiangenre remake specialists, for feature development and production, with Vertigoretaining the option to co-finance certain projects.Focuswill act as Vertigo's ...
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Zabaltegi unveils festivals' top titles
Walter Salles' TheMotorcycle Diaries, Joshua Marston's MariaFull Of Grace, Mike Leigh's VeraDrake and three memorable documentaries are among the thirteen titlesselected by the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 17-25) for itspopular "Festivals' Top" selection of hits from other festivals.Calling this year's selection "daring," San Sebastian haschosen three documentaries for ...
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Zhang, Yeoh, Watanabe, Gong sign up for Memoirs Of A Geisha
Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe and Gong Li and are to star in the long-gestating Memoirs Of AGeisha adaptation, which RobMarshall will direct and Columbia Pictures is co-financing with DreamWorks andSpyglass Entertainment.Productionis set to begin in Los Angeles and Japan in September. Spyglass, which has afirst-look,non-exclusive deal with ...
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Sabatini named svp physical production at MGM
Veteranproduction executive Diane Sabatini has been named senior vice president ofphysical production at MGM.Sabatinihas worked for the past decade as production supervisor orproductioncoordinator on a dozen movies and her credits include Armageddon, Batman & Robin, The Rock, 21 Grams, and Anchorman: TheLegend Of Ron Burgundy.Executivevice president of production Andy Davis ...
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Deauville unveils 30th anniversary programme
The Deauville Festival of American Film has announced itsprogramme for the upcoming 30th anniversary event.Set to run from September 3 - 12, the festival's jury willbe headed by Claude Lelouch. The director, whose relationship with the seasideNormandy town can be traced back to his seminal film A Man And A ...
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Tsui Hark readies $12m martial arts epic
Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark is gearing up tostart shooting his next feature as director - the US$12m wuxia epic Seven Swords which is scheduled to startproduction next month.Hong Kong stars Leon Lai and Charlie Young are headliningthe cast of the film which is also expected to feature talent ...
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Korean exhibitor to become producer and distributor
Lotte Cinema, operator of one of Korea's largest exhibitionchains, has announced a new andambitious drive to become a major player in the fields of exhibition,distribution, and film finance.The company's plans foresee its current circuit of 10multiplexes -- mostly housed in upscale Lotte department stores - swelling to45 by the end ...
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Wild Bunch takes most of Low Life rights
Frenchsales house Wild Bunch has picked up most international rights to Low Life(Haryu Insaeng) which appears in competition at next month's Venicefestival.The film,directed by Korea's "living legend" Im Kwan-taek, was previously handled byCinema Service and had been presented under the working title Raging Years.The film marks a return to the ...
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German DVD distributor moves into theatrical
Leading German DVD distributor e-m-s new media is to take amajority 52.38% stake in theatrical distributor 3L Filmverleih which was set upat the beginning of this year by e-m-s new media's Chairman and CEO WernerWirsing and his wifeIn a statement, e-m-s new media, which will finance itsstake by a capital ...
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Motorcycle kickstarts Edinburgh Film Festival
The EdinburghInternational Film Festival kicked off last night with the gala premiere of The Motorcycle Diaries, with director Walter Salles in attendance.Before the the screening of the film, Salles said: "This is a film made with an open heart and passion and it's a privilege to be here at a ...
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Local titles fend off Hollywood fare
Despite a great performance from The Bourne Supremacy the highest screen average for the week wasagain reserved for a local film playing in South Korea. Fighter In The Wind (Paramui Paito) placed thirteenth. The film isbased on a comic book based on the life of legendary Korean martial artist ChoiBae-dal ...
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Romanian productions get state funding
Romania'sstate film funding body CNC it to contribute to the production of elevenfeatures and eleven shorts.Sixof the features - funded with around Euros 200,000 each - are debuts andinclude Love Sick, byproducer-director Tudor Giurgiu. His previous works include the short film Popcorn Story, a former Berlinaleparticipant.Love Sick is a coming-of-age ...
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HONG KONG Production Listings - August 19
HONG KONG - August 19PRE-PRODUCTIONINVINCIBLE ARMOUR(I-Animation Ltd) Co-prods: Yuk LongMultimedia, Mandarin Films. Budget: US$2.3m. Backers: Yuk Long Multimedia,Mandarin Films, I-Animation. Int'l sales: Mandarin Films Distribution.Animation. Animated feature film (2D and 3D) based on the action-packed comicbook Magic Weapons. Exec prods: Tony Wong, Raymond Wong, Man Kung. Prod: TonyWong. Dir: Tony ...
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Bigfoot strikes global partnership with Filmmakers Alliance
Fledgling Hong Kong-based production and distribution companyBigfoot Entertainment has signed a worldwide production and distribution dealwith Los Angeles-based collective Filmmakers Alliance.The deal, which was negotiated by Bigfoot president James Hoffmanand Filmmakers Alliance president Jacques Thelemaque and announced last night(18) in Los Angeles, paves the way for the joint creation of ...
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Horas De Luz joins San Sebastian competition
Spanish production HorasDe Luz has been added to the official competition of the San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 17-25).The Sogecine title from director Manolo Matji stars EmmaSuarez (former Julio Medem muse) and Alberto San Juan (Football Days) in the true story-inspired tale of redemption andlove between a convicted murderer and ...
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Hong Kong selects foreign-language Oscar entry
Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai's Running On Karma has been selected as Hong Kong's official entryfor the best foreign-language film category of next year's Academy AwardsThe decision was announced by Crucindo Hung, chairman of theFederation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong, who praised the film forcombining elements of mainstream ...