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Fiennes signs on as Potter arch-villain
Ralph Fiennes will play Harry Potter's arch-enemy Lord Voldemortin Warner Bros' upcoming Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, while Miranda Richardson joins the castas the muckraking reporter Rita Skeeter.The production, which is being directed by Mike Newell andproduced by David Heyman, has seen several other recent cast additions.Brendan Gleeson ...
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Bavaria Film picks up Bombon
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has picked up internationalrights for Argentinian director Carlos Sorin's latest film Bombon - El Perro (aka LeChien).Produced by Guacamole Films and OK! Films (Argentina) inco-production with Madrid-based Wanda Vision, Bombon - El Perro tells the moving story of how life perks up for asweet-natured car mechanic ...
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Hollywood studios dismayed over TiVo ruling
The MPAA expressed disappointment yesterday over the FederalCommunications Commission's decision to permit TiVo's new content sharingtechnology TiVOToGo.The FCC ruling will allow TiVo users to record programmingand send it via the internet to up to nine other TiVo devices or computers, allof which will be linked to the same customer account ...
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Italy's Metacinema acquires three new titles
Metacinema, Giovanni Tamberi's Italian production,distribution and communications outfit has picked up Italian rights to threenew films, including Venice Critics Week opener, P.S. I Love You.P.S. I Love You,which marks Dylan Kidd's follow-up to his award-winning debut Rodger Dodger, is a romantic comedyabout a 38-year-old New York woman who believes her ...
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Momentum announces acquisitions, sales appointments
UK distributor MomentumPictures has appointed Lara Thompson as head of acquisitions and Andy Leyshonas head of sales.Thompson has been with thecompany for four years, joining as PA to the MD and moving into acquisitionsunder Sally Caplan until her earlier departure this year."She has strongrelationships within the industry as well as ...
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Hou Hsiao-hsien named Asian Filmmaker of the Year
The PusanInternational Film Festival (PIFF) has announced that Taiwanese filmmaker HouHsiao-hsien (City Of Sadness, MillenniumMambo) will be presented with its Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award.This is the secondtime that the festival has bestowed this honour, following the inaugural awardgiven to Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf last year. It recognises a ...
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'Bully' tactics prevent film piracy
Constantin Film andHerbX, distributor andproducer of Michael"Bully" Herbig's currentbox-office hit (T)Raumschiff Surprise- Periode 1,have struck ablow against filmpiracy.Constantin hasreported that a special anti-piracystrategy - developed with HerbX - hasso far prevented any piratedcopies of (T)Raumschiff beingproduced from originalsource material. "Thisshows that throughthe massive reductionand checking ofcontacts in thearea of productionand ...
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Paton named deputy chairman at DDA
Well-known film publicist, Chris Paton has joined DennisDavidson Associates (DDA) as its deputy chairman.Paton left Premiere PR, where he was co-managing director,after Cannes this year. He joined Premiere three years ago when Corbett &Keene and the UK arm of Falco Ink, where he was co-managing director, wereacquired by David Willing's ...
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French-German co-productions receive funding
New features by Cedric Kahn, Bourlem Guerdjou, Pan Nalin andEmmanuelle Bercot have been awarded over Euros 1m by the Franco-German FundingCommittee as part of the "mini-treaty" co-production fund.The largest amount - Euros 300,000 - was granted by the GermanFederal Film Board (FFA) to Nalin's ValleyOf Flowers which is a German ...
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Marcos documentary a hit in the Philippines
The controversialdocumentary film on former First Lady Imelda Marcos is doing good business inthe Philippines, raking in US$300,000 at the local box office after just twoweeks. The figure was very respectable for a documentary according toPhilippine distributor Unitel Productions.The 103-minute film, simplycalled Imelda, traces her rise from abeauty queen to ...
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New Greek talent focuses on international market
Veteran Greekdirector Theo Angelopoulos is probablythe only name internationallyrecognisable among his local peers. If the Greekfilm industry has any hope of making an impact in the internationalmarket this lies with a handful of new directors who have the means and thetalent required.Womanwriter/director Olga Malea is probably the most prominent among ...
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ITALY 4 August
On a devastatingly bad weekend at the Italian box office,Cinetel, which monitors around 80% of Italian screens, reported that earningsslumped a huge 48% compared to the previous week.There were no changes in the positions of the first ninefilms at the box office, and earnings for the top movies were meagre: ...
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Cox, Nesbitt, Goode join Allen cast
Brian Cox, Matthew Goode and James Nesbitt have joined thecast of Woody Allen's upcoming UK film.The trio will appear alongside Scarlett Johansson, EmilyMortimer and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers when principal photography starts July 12thon location in and around London.Financial partners in the film include BBC Films, Magic HourMedia, Thema Production and Invicta ...
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Lucasfilm sets up Singapore animation studio
Making its first foray intoAsia, US entertainment company Lucasfilm has set up Lucasfilm AnimationSingapore for the production of digital animated content including films.Through the Singapore outfitGeorge Lucas aims to combine Asian cinema with animation. 'We can create a newstyle of animation that will blend East and West and offer something ...
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Hubble goes from Big Bang to big screen
Fledgling Los Angeles-based finance and production company SyntaxEntertainment has licensed the movie rights to Gale E Christianson's book EdwinHubble: Mariner Of The Nebulae, based on the father of the Big Bang theory.The film version, which is being produced with Los Angelesbased production outfit Persistent Entertainment, will be called Hubble and ...
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Santa story gets bi-sexual twist
Paul Colichman's pioneering gay and lesbian cable network here! TVhas begun production in Vancouver on separate gay and straight-themed versionsof the same Christmas family story.Too Cool For Christmas stars George Hamilton as a local Santa who teaches afashion-conscious teenager about the merits of spending the holidays with hertwo fathers, rather ...
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Russian horror breaks box office records
Russia's first realHollywood-style blockbuster NightWatch has broken the local recordfor the biggest grossingbox office hitof all time - taking justover $14.3m asof yesterday, accordingto the press service ofthe First Channelof Russian television.The previous recordwas held by LordOf The Rings 3 with$14.1m and 3.3madmissions. NightWatch beat Lord OfThe Rings on admissions ...
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Toronto revamps Canadian presence
Don McKellar's second feature Childstar will make its world premiere at the TorontoInternational Film Festival as the event announced its local programming andunveiled its inaugural Canadian competition line-up, Canada First!Also making their world premiere are Bruce McDonald's TheLove Crimes Of Gillian Guess, JerryCiccoritti's Blood, ElidaSchogt's Zero The Inside Story,Andre Forcier's ...
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Turtle Crossing takes out Redford's Spin
Spin,the prize-winning dramatic debut by Robert Redford's son James Redford, willembark on a limited domestic release beginning in Salt Lake City and Tucson onOct 15.The picture will be distributed through Mark Borde's SantaMonica-based Innovation Film Group, the theatrical releasing partner of SusanJackson's producers representative Turtles Crossing.The picture will receive its ...
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Cape Town film studio deal challenged
South Africa's Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for ahalt to the Western Cape's film studio development, according to local mediareports.The DA has alleged that 'undue interference had been appliedin the process of awarding the tender for Cape Town's $58m (R400m) filmstudio'.The winning bidder for the project, announced in February,is Anant ...