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Lyon benefits from Bollywood Promise
Over the pastweek, the city of Lyon has welcomed a film crew from India to shoot exteriorshots for Bollywood musical The Promise (Vadaa)."The film is asocial romantic thriller, with six or seven flashbacks," explained the film'sdirector, Satish Kaushik, while watching a musical scene shot in front of thefamous Bartholdi fountain ...
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Ferri juggles Faenza, Benigni projects
EldaFerri, the Italian producer behind Gianni Amelio's likely Venice contender, TheKeys To The House, is lining up two new features by critically-acclaimeddirector Roberto Faenza.Faenza,whose last film The Soul Keeper was a critical and box-office hit inItaly where it grossed over Euros 3.5m, is to shoot a new picture adapted fromElena ...
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Brogliatti promoted to executive vp at Warner Bros
Barbara S Brogliatti (pictured) hasbeen promoted to executive vice president and chief corporate communicationsofficer at Warner Bros Entertainment.Brogliatti will continue tohead up press activities, serving as the company's official spokesperson andchief press officer. She reports directly to Warner Bros Entertainment chairmanand chief executive officer Barry M Meyer.The position involveshandling corporate ...
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Brother To Brother, Wild Side top Outfest winners
Rodney Evans's HarlemRenaissance drama Brother To Brother won the OUTstanding American Narrative Feature awardyesterday (18), while Sebastien Lifshitz won the OUTstanding InternationalNarrative Feature prize for the drama Wild Side at the 22nd annual Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Outfest.Jessica Chandler's A FineState This Is took the OUTstandingDocumentary Feature ...
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Chomet teams with Universal for Despereaux
Academy Awardnominee Sylvain Chomet is attached to direct an animated adaptation of KateDiCamillo's 2004 Newbery Award winning children's book The Tale OfDespereaux for UniversalPictures.The book, whosefull name is The Tale Of Despereaux: Being The Story Of A Mouse, A Princess,Some Soup, And A Spool Of Threadim, has resided on the ...
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ProSieben strikes DreamWorks package deal
The ProSiebenSat.1 Group has secured the Germanfree-TV, first-run rights to all DreamWorks feature films and selected TVseries from 2006 to 2010 from Telepool.The deal with the Munich-based license traderextends the original agreement from 1997 when Telepool acquired the DreamWorkspackage of free-TV rights and sold on the rights to the ProSiebenSat.1 ...
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Markline gets vp stripes in international publicity at Universal Pictures
Mark Markline has beenpromoted to vice president of international publicity at Universal Pictures,where he will oversee the bulk of the studio's international theatricalcampaigns from production through release in all territories.Based on the studio lot inLos Angeles, Markline will immediately begin work on such titles as TheBourne Supremacy, Ray, and KingKong, ...
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EC proposes Euros 1bn for MEDIA budget
The European Commission (EC) has adopted the plan for a newMEDIA Programme - entitled MEDIA 2007 - to run from January 1 2007 to 31December 2013 with a proposed budget of Euros 1.055bn, up from the currentProgramme's Euro 493m.In the seven-year budget breakdown, Euros 318m would beallocated for the improvement ...
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Spider-Man 2 spins worldwide web of $500m
Spider-Man 2 passed $200m on its 19th day as it added $62.3m on 9,400 printsin 61 countries for an estimated $200.1m - the biggest weekend of all time for Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI).Despite a very warm weekend across most parts of northern Europe,there were 10 number one bows led ...
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Oz funding body gets proactive about scripts
In a challenge to Australia's filmmaker-is-kingculture, state agency the Pacific Film and Television Commission (PFTC) istesting a couple of US people for the job of in-house development executive.PFTC head of production Henry Tefay is looking for someonewho understands cinematic storytelling and reaching audiences, could well takeexecutive producer credits on projects ...
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French Top Gun takes off above Paris
Billing itself asa "Top Gunà la Française," the movie Chevaliers du Ciel (Knightsof the Sky), beganfilming in Paris at the beginning of July, and shot its climax scene over theheads of thousands on Wednesday.Loosely based onthe French aviation comic book Tanguy & Laverdure, which was created 40 years ago, themovie ...
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Telefilm Canada to back ten low budget projects
TelefilmCanada has announced it will back ten projects, six in English and four inFrench, as part of its $1.3m (C$1.7m) Low Budget Independent Feature FilmAssistance Program (LIFAP). All the films are budgeted under $570,000(C$750,000).Theprogramme, introduced in 2000, was given a boost last year when one of itsrecipient projects, Jacob Tierney's ...
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Riddick opens for Universal in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
Universal's The Chronicles Of Riddick expanded into Latin America through UIPat the weekend with openings in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.The picture opened sixthin Brazil on an estimated $200,000 on 112 screens, while it opened fifth inMexico on $525,000 on 313. Colombia results will be announced this week; thepicture's early international ...
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Harry Potter can't stop grossing for Warner Bros
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban grossed an estimated $20.4m fromapproximately 6,300 screens at the weekend to raise its internationalcumulative score to $435.2m.Key drivers were South Korea, where the family picture opened on apowerful $5.5m on 302 screens including previews, and took $2m in Seoul alone.Azkabanremained top in its ...
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Singer hired to direct new Superman for Warner Bros.
Warner Bros' on-again, off-again Superman project appears to be back on track asthe studio announced yesterday (18) that it had signed a deal with Bryan Singerto direct."We have always been committed to bringing Superman back to thescreen, and we're very happy to have Bryan on board this project," Warner Brosproduction ...
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Palm picks up domestic, UK rights to rap doc Freestyle
PalmPictures has acquired North American, UK and Caribbean rights to KevinFitzgerald's documentary Freestyle: The Art Of Rhyme.Palm'shead of acquisitions and production David Koh negotiated the deal withFitzgerald (aka DJ Organic) and producer Henry Alex Rubin, who were representedby attorney Joseph Tedeschi.Thedistributor plans a theatrical release in New York this weekend ...
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Veteran producers to pitch at SPAAMart
The 14 Australian and six New Zealand projects in thepre-financing market SPAAMart in Queensland next month include second featuresfrom the directors Ana Kokkinos (Head On),Ivan Sen (Beneath Clouds), andChristina Andreef (Soft Fruit).Producers coming with projects include Jan Chapman (ThePiano, Lantana), Trevor Haysom (InMy Father's Den), Daniel Scharf (RomperStomper), Martin Fabinyi ...
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HONG KONG 19 July
Johnnie To action drama ThrowDown opened in third position with a respectable US$628,172 from 33screens, but was no match for Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkabanwhich grossed more than US$2m in its opening week.Produced by To's MilkywayImage for China Star Entertainment, Throw Down tells the story of aretired judo ...
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EMI buys into Hong Kong's Golden Harvest
EMI Group, the world'sthird-largest music company, plans to buy a stake in Hong Kong film maker anddistributor Golden Harvest Entertainment.Golden Harvest said in astatement on Monday it wants to raise US$4.9m (HK$38m) via the issue of 155million new shares to Typhoon Music (PRC) Ltd. which is jointly owned by EMIGroup ...
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Smith delivers the goods for Fox with I, Robot
It takes an army of robots and a mega-star to beat Spider-Manthese days, and 20th Century Fox's I, Robot did just that at the weekend, consigningthe arachnid to second place as it opened top on a mighty estimated $52.3m.Meanwhile Spidey passed $300m on the 19th day of release - the ...