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Paramount Digitaland Gaumont create Web series
Paramount Digital Entertainment (PDE) and French film company Gaumont are developing an interactive Web series to be distributed in the U.S. by MySpace. Endemol will handle worldwide distribution. Section 8, a supernatural thriller, will tell the tale of an ill-fated cast, all but one of which will be killed off ...
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Istituto Luce, Medusa unveil 2001 line-up
Italian mini-majors Medusa and Istituto Luce have announced their distribution slates for the second half of 2001.Medusa, part of Silvio Berlusconi's media empire Fininvest, will be handling high-profile US titles such as Tony Scott's Spy Game, starring Brad Pitt and Robert Redford; Bounce, directed by Don Roos and starring Gwyneth ...
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Park Circus signs deal with Sony Pictures to distribute classics
Park Circus Films has signed a deal with Sony Pictures Repertory to handle the worldwide theatrical distribution of its classic film back catalogue. It includes David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.The deal, which does not include North America, covers 3,500 classic and modern titles from 1924 ...
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UK Actors to give evidence to House of Lords inquiry
Quantum of Solace actor Rory Kinnear and actress Maggie Steed will give evidence to the House of Lords Communications Committee's inquiry into British film and television tomorrow (April 1). The Committee will question the pair on the prospects for the UK film and TV industries and particularly on employment and ...
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Fakir Of Venice to premiere at Indian Film Festival of LA
The World Premiere of Anand Surapur’s conmen drama The Fakir Of Venice and Megan Doneman’sYes Madam, Sir bookend the seventh Annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, which runs April 21-26.
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Elberg, Canty launch online distributions services company
Former CinemaNow executives Bill Elberg and Jessica Canty have launched VLADICast to offer a portfolio of online distribution services.Among the new company's services is GoScreening Public, which allowsany company or film-maker to build and maintain a branded VOD huband/or an ad-supported video sharing site that enables film-makers toshowcase work to ...
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Kino City plans to double 3D screens in Russia
Kino City, the Russian cinema initiative to open 122 new screens in mid-sized cities, is planning to nearly double the number of 3-D screens in the country. The company is looking to install 3-D screens and digital equipment at all of the planned Multimedia and Education Film Centres. The initiative, ...
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Finnish Film Foundation receives $6.7m funding boost
The Finnish Film Foundation will receive $6.7 million (Euro 5m) of state funding in addition to the 30% increase in production funding it received following last year's conflict with the industry. The new money was announced today (March 31) as part of a package to support the Finnish economy. Stefan ...
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Luis Tosar joins cast of Spanish biopic Lope De Vega
Spanish actor Luis Tosar has joined the cast of Brazilian director Andrucha Waddington's historical biopic Lope De Vega about the Spanish playwright and poet. Tosar will play Frey Bernadino De Sahagun, a Franciscan missionary who wrote the first encyclopedia of the new world and The General History of New Things ...
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Planeta appoints Spinetta for production move
Planeta 2010, the start-up multimedia division of publishing giant Grupo Planeta, is advancing plans to move into feature production after appointing Emanuela Spinetta, to the newly-created post of head of production. Spinetta joins the fast-moving operation from Pearson TV in Spain, where she was director general. Under Spinetta, the firm ...
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John Hart teams with Smuggler Partners to form Smuggler Films
Veteran independent film producer John Hart has teamed up with Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody of commercial and music video outfit Smuggler Partners to form Smuggler Films, a production company designed to produce content in film, theatre, television and other media.With offices in New York, Los Angeles and London, ...
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IFC to handle US on Pattinson comedy How To Be via VOD platform
IFC’s VOD platform IFC Festival Direct will releaseUK comedyHow To BefeaturingTwilightstar Robert Pattinsonon April 29.
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Five US studios sign with Scrabble for digital screens in India
Indian company Scrabble Entertainment has signed a deal with five of the six US majors to deploy digital screens in India.
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Slumdog Millionaire has strong opening weekend in China
Slumdog Millionaire grossed $2.93m (RMB20m) during its first four days on release in mainland China, which marks the biggest opening for a non-US foreign filmfor the past ten years.The film was released on Thursday, March 26 with 400 film prints and more than 200 digital screens across major Chinese cities. ...
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Perfect Life takes Golden Digital award at HKIFF
Emily Tang’s Perfect Life, about people coming to terms with the new social and economic realities of mainland China, was awarded the Golden Digital Prize in the Asian Digital Competition at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF). The Silver Digital Prize went to Malaysian director James Lee for ...
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NewsInternational revenues now account for 65% of studios' box office pie
Global box office in 2008 surged 5.2% on 2007 from $26.7bn to a new high-water mark of $28.1bn, according to figures released by the Motion Picture Association of America, while international revenues climbed 7% to $18.3bn and accounted for 65% of the worldwide total.The statistics were part of a salvo ...
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Korea's Jeonju film festival launches indie projects market
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) is celebrating its tenth edition with a number of events including the launch of a Korean indie projects market and anniversary screenings of JIFF previous awardees and first films. The projects market aims to support Korean filmmakers with low-budget and independent films by ...