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Narnia takes crown away from Partners in Japan
Disney's The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian ascended to the throne at the box office this past weekend, earning $5.34m (Y551.84m) on 782 screens for a per screen average of $6,831.In an atypical release pattern, Caspian opened last Wednesday (May 21) without being tied in to a holiday or designated ...
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High Point continues Nothing To Lose sales, including US deal
High Point Films has racked up more sales on Pieter Kuijper's thriller Nothing To Lose.In Cannes, High Point closed deals for North America (BFS Entertainment), Latin American pay TV (LAPTV), German-speaking Europe (Ascot Elite), French-speaking Europe (Sidonis Productions), FYROM (MCF), and Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore and Indonesia (Suraya Filem).'Nothing to Lose ...
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Fortissimo's racks up Cannes deals for Tokyo Sonata, Serbis
Fortissimo Films has announced further sales from its Cannes slate.Wong Kar Wai's Ashes Of Time Redux, which screened out of competition, sold to Korea (Sponge) and the UK (Artificial Eye).Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata, in Un Certain Regard, sold to Korea (Sponge), France (ARP), Israel (United King), and Singapore (Cathay).Nathan Rissman's ...
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Bastion Pictures takes on Lovric's The Remedy
Independent UK production company Bastion Pictures has optioned Michelle Lovric's novel The Remedy. The novel, a romance-thriller set in 1785, explores London's medical underworld, as two lovers search for truth amongst dangerous secrets and elaborate lies.Bastion Pictures, who are currently working with music video director Kevin Godley on Where the ...
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Menemsha picks up Captain Pantoja
Los Angeles-based Menemsha Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Peruvian hit Captain Pantoja And The Special Services (Pantaleon Y Las Visitadores), directed by Francisco Lombardi. The erotic comedy has attracted more than one million admissions in Peru, an impressive tally in a country that boasts an estimated 132 ...
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Ibiza Festival starts new digital programme in second year
The Ibiza International Film Festival kicked off its second edition May 23 and continues through May 31.The festival's new digital strand runs May 29-31, backed by the Balearic Islands government initiative SAITUR. Workshops will be on topics including finance in the digital era, a Filmotech.com presentation, University of the Balearic ...
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Pathe works with Sky for The Cottage simultaneous VOD/DVD
Pathe Distribution are working with Sky to release Paul Andrew Williams' The Cottage simultaneously on DVD and Sky Box Office.The film will be available on DVD and to 8.8m Sky subscribers as pay-per-view both through TVs and new online VOD service Sky Player as of July 14. The film will ...
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Kinowelt's Cannes acquisitions include Toback and Aronofsky
Germany's Kinowelt has announced its first raft of acquisitions from the Cannes official programme and market as well as projects picked up on the strength of their screenplays.James Toback's documentary Tyson, which screened in the Un Certain Regard sidebar and won the Knock Out Award, was bought from Wild Bunch ...
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Twelve titles competing at Transilvania International Film Festival
The seventh Transilvania International Film Festival opens Friday in Cluj, Romania, with a screening of Michael Haneke's new US remake of his 1997 Austrian hit Funny Games.Catherine Deneuve will receive a lifetime achievement award at this year festival, which will close June 8 with a gala awards ceremony and a ...
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Cantet's The Class takes top honours from Screen's Critics Jury
Laurent Cantet's The Class not only won the jury's Palme d'Or in Cannes, it also is the top-rated film from Screen International's Cannes critics jury. It scored an average of 3.3 out of a possible 4.0, making it the most popular of the 22 films in Competition.This year's jury votes ...
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Venice to show restored version of Celentano'sYuppi Du
The 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival will host a special event dedicated to the newly restored and remixed version of Adriano Celentano's 1975 Cannes competition film Yuppi Du, which was set primarily in Venice.The film, considered a 1970s cult classic, will be shown in Venice's Sala Grande on ...
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Cannes hit Gomorrah crosses $8m in Italy
While Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull clearly took the international crown this weekend, representing a whopping 65% of the top 40 revenue, a couple of Cannes competition films fared well in their home territories, each passing the $1m mark.The top 40 international films generated $225.5m across ...
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Metrodome sees Mark Of An Angel with Celluloid Dreams
UK distributor Metrodome has taken all UK rights to French psychological thriller Mark Of An Angel from Celluloid Dreams.The deal was struck between general manager - theatricaland broadcast Sara Frain, acquisitions & business affairs manager Kate Edwards and CEO Peter Urie for Metrodome, with Pierre Menahem for Celluloid Dreams.Safy Nebbou ...
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Sorrentino and Levy line up for Locarno jury duty
Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, whose latest feature film Il Divo won the Jury Prize in Cannes' Official Competition, and Swiss actor-director Dani Levy (Mein Fuehrer) are among the first names to be confirmed as jury members for this year's International Competition at the Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16).The other ...
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Brandauer joins cast of Coppola's Tetro as Gallo's father
Klaus Maria Brandauer is the latest addition to the cast of Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro which is in its ninth week of shooting in Buenos Aires.He plays Carlo Tetrocini, a symphony conductor and the father in the story. 'The father is a man of great complexity, arrogance and cruelty,' explained ...
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Dinosaur storms into UK's number one spot
Six months after its North American release, Dinosaur hit UK screens with a robust three-day gross of $3m (£2.1m) last weekend. Playing at 374 sites, Walt Disney Pictures' computer-animation set in a real-life background secured a healthy screen average of $8,319 (£5,690) taking the number one place in the box ...
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X Verleih takes German-language rights to Egoyan's Adoration
Germany distribution company X Verleih has picked up all German-language rights to Atom Egoyan's Cannes competitor Adoration. Written, produced and directed by Egoyan, the film won the Ecumenical Prize at the festival. It stars Arsinee Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard and Devon Bostick.As well as a key sale to Sony ...
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Graphic novels get the Disney treatment through Kingdom Comics
The Walt Disney Studios has signed a multi-year deal with Ahmet Zappa, Harris Katleman and Christian Beranek's graphic novel imprint Kingdom Comics to create stories with adaptation potential.Kingdom Comics, a new wholly owned Disney company, will develop original graphic novels and reinvent live-action brands from the Disney's film library. Disney ...
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The Secrets to open Israel Film Festival in LA
The US premiere of Avi Nesher's The Secrets will open the 23rd annual Israel Film Festival, which is set to run from June 12-26 in Los Angeles, before moving to New York and Miami at the end of the year.The event, which is the largest showcase of Israeli cinema in ...
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Regent to handle release of Pendergast's Kabluey
Regent Releasing will partner with Whitewater Films to release first-timer Scott Prendergast's comedy Kabluey starring Lisa Kudrow, Teri Garr and Christine Taylor.Prendergast himself plays a man who helps his sister-in-law care for her unruly children while his brother is off fighting in Iraq.Rick Rosenthal, Gary Dean Simpson, Rhoades Rader, Jeff ...