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The Spirit takes Dec 25, 2008 slot for Lionsgate
Lionsgate has moved Frank Miller's The Spirit into a 2008 slot and will release the classic comic strip adaptation on December 25.The film was originally set to open on January 16, 2009 and stars Garbiel Macht as a former police officer who returns as an avenging angel to protect the ...
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Pete Travis starts shoot for Endgame starring William Hurt
Fresh off Vantage Point for Sony, director Pete Travis has started principal photography on his next feature, another political thriller entitled Endgame. The project is shooting in the UK and South Africa.Penny Wolf is pre-selling the film in Cannes on behalf of Target Entertainment.Endgame's cast features William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, ...
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Via Digital signs up as Valencia sponsor
Spanish digital satellite platform Via Digital has announced that it will sponsor this year's 21st annual Valencia Film Showing (Mostra de Valencia/Cinema del Mediterrani) which runs October 16-23.Via Digital committed to a three-year sponsorship last year of the Malaga Film Festival alongside Antena 3. As a result, the event boasted ...
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Locarno to honour US indie icon Christine Vachon
US producer and Killer Films co-founder Christine Vachon (Boys Don't Cry, I'm Not There) will be this year's recipient of Locarno's Raimondo Rezzonico Prize to highlight the work of major independent film producers.Commenting on the decision to select Vachon for this honour at the festival's 61st edition, artistic director Frederic ...
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3DD to present Cannes market premiere of The Day After Peace
3DD Entertainment is planning a Cannes launch for The Day After Peace, a feature documentary featuring Jude Law. Jeremy Gilley directs the BBC/Passion Pictures/Peace One Day production.A Cannes market screening, the world premiere, will be at the Olympia Cannes on May 19 at 6 pm and Jude Law is expected ...
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Toho, Toeiboost Japanese films at international box office
While Iron Man kick-started the summer season with a tremendous bang after taking nearly $100m across 56 territories in its opening weekend, a slew of Japanese films still managed to account for 7.7% of the total revenue of international films.The top 39 films generated $183.5m from 37,648 screens for the ...
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Odeon Sky Filmworks takes UK rights to Lynch's Surveillance
Distributor Odeon Sky Filmworks has acquired the UK rights to thriller Surveillance, which will screen out of competition at Cannes.Arclight Films is selling the title. Head of Odeon Sky Filmworks Tony Miller struck the deal with Arclight's executive vice-president Liz Mackiewicz.Jennifer Lynch writes and directs and her father David Lynch ...
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European Film Export Association lines up 16 arbitrators
The European Film Export Association (EFEA) has named their arbitrators - 16 in all- whose role will be to assist in resolving problems that crop up between exporters and distributors - the association's president Jacques-Eric Strauss, and vice president Adrianna Chiesa told ScreenDaily.The 16 arbitrators completed a training session in ...
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Menemsha crosses $1m mark with art doc The Rape Of Europa
Menemsha Films has passed the $1m gross mark with The Rape Of Europa after a year on release in cities across the country.Based on the book by Lynn H Nicholas and narrated by Joan Allen, the film takes a look at the fanaticism, greed and warfare that threatened to wipe ...
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David Maisel, Kevin Feige boosted at Marvel Entertainment
Marvel Entertainment has extended the contract of Marvel Studios chairman David Maisel until 2010 and promoted Kevin Feige to president of the film studio.The move follows the successful global launch last weekend of Iron Man, Marvel Studios' first project as an autonomous financing, development and production entity.Paramount distributed the film ...
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IFC owner Rainbow buys Sundance Channel
Rainbow Media Holdings, the Cablevision subsidiary which owns The Independent Film Channel (IFC), has reached an agreement to acquire The Sundance Channel for $496m, bringing together the two channels under the same umbrella in a move which could have major implications for film sellers worldwide.Sundance and IFC have long been ...
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Peter Cattaneo's The Rocker will open tenth annual CineVegas
The world premiere of Peter Cattaneo's comedy The Rocker starring Rainn Wilson and Christina Applegate will open the 10th annual CineVegas Film Festival and Sean McGinly's The Great Buck Howard with John Malkovich will close the event, set to run in Las Vegas from June 12-21.World premieres in competition include ...
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Hyde Park, Platinum to co-produce film of Italian comic book Dylan Dog
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment Group and LA-based comic book company Platinum Studios have teamed up to co-produce Dead Of Night, a film of best-selling Italian comic book series Dylan Dog.Brandon Routh, who played Superman and Clark Kent in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns, will play Dylan, a private investigator drawn ...
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Cinema Libre doc The End Of Poverty' added to Critics Week
Cinema Libre Studio's documentary The End Of Poverty has been added to the Critics Week line-up in Cannes.Cinema Libre founder Philippe Diaz' film will premiere on May 19 and explores the theory that poverty is a deliberate ploy by wealthy nations to exploit and subjugate the poor. Martin Sheen has ...
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LA property owners now responsible for piracy on their premises
Hollywood's ongoing war on piracy took another step forward in the wake of a ruling that will hold property owners in Los Angeles liable for the manufacture and sale of counterfeit music and videos on their premises.The Los Angeles County Board Of Supervisors approved the new ordinance on May 5, ...
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Shoreline travels West Of Brooklyn and to Serbian Stars
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment acquired worldwide rights ahead of Cannes to the comedy West Of Brooklyn and action adventure Serbian Scars.West Of Brooklyn is directed by Danny Cistone and stars Ronnie Marmo, Natalia Livingston and Joe Mantegna in the fish-out-of-water story of an Italian American who moves from New York ...
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Terrence Malick's Tree Of Life planted at Summit
Summit Entertainment has acquired international rights to Terrence Malick's modern-day drama Tree Of Life starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain.River Road is financing Tree Of Life, currently shooting in Texas from Malick's original screenplay. River Road founder Bill Pohlad is producing alongside Malick regularsSarah Green and Grant Hill ...
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Jim Harvey joins Denton at Bold Films International
Jim Harvey has joined president of worldwide distribution Stephanie Denton at the fledgling Bold Films International in the role of executive vice president of international sales.The two executives previously worked together at Lakeshore International. Harvey arrives from Media 8 and previously served at Element Films International, where he handled sales ...
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After Dark to produce two original horror films, Foresight to sell
Courtney Solomon's After Dark Films will produce and distribute the horror films Faithless and Perkins' 14, marking the first time After Dark will produce films released as part of its annual 8 Films To Die For horror series.Both films will shoot consecutively in Romania starting in May and Mark Damon's ...
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24 frames buys North American rights to Mexico's Partes Usadas
US-based distributor 24 frames has acquired North American rights to Aaron Fernandez' Mexican crime drama Partes Usadas (Used Parts).The film won the 2007 Mayahuel Award for first time film-makers at Guadalajara last year.Partes Usadas was released in Mexico on April 18 through Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna's Canana Films ...