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NewsSri Lanka enters Flowers Of The Sky in Academy Awards race
Wonderphil Productions Flowers Of The Sky has been named as Sri Lanka’s official selection for best foreign film in the 2010 Academy Awards race.
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Calgary shoot underway on Tucker And Dale Vs Evil
Production has begun in Calgary on the comedy Tucker And Dale Vs Evil starring Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk.
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NewsBruno soars in Australia with $1.4m first-day haul
Bruno has scored the second biggest opening day of the year in Australia behind Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen with a $1.35m Wednesday launch.
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NewsTransformers 2 becomes second fastest North American release to reach $300m
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen has became the second fastest film in history to reach $300m at the North American box office.
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NewsFox International becomes first distributor to cross $1bn in 2009
Fox International has become the first distributor to cross $1bn this year following a string of mighty performances by Ice Age 3, Night At The Museum 2 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
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Sony hires Raja Gosnell to direct The Smurfs
Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation have hired Raja Gosnell to direct the live-action and animated Smurfs feature.
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Brooke Shields joins Brendan Fraser on Furry Vengeance
Brooke Shields and Dick Van Dyke have joined Brendan Fraser in Summit Entertainment and Participant Media’s family comedy Furry Vengeance.
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NewsSalt closes key pre-sales on The Infidel
London-based sales and financing outfit The Salt Company has confirmed a number of key pre-sales closed during and after Cannes on its UK comedy The Infidel which is now in post-production.
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NewsWriter, critic and festival director Juan Carlos Frugone dies in Spain aged 71
Writer, film critic and festival director Juan Carlos Frugone died at a hospital outside of Madrid on July 7 after losing a battle with cancer. He was 71.
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NewsOptimum acquires Tolstoy love story The Last Station
Optimum Releasing has acquired the UK rights to Michael Hoffman’s love story The Last Station, starring Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer.
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CommentRestoring lustre to prestige titles
Increasing the number of films in the best picture category could be the shot in the arm Oscar needs as audiences turn their back on the cynical ‘awards movie’.
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NewsNottingham's ScreenLit Festival honours Paul Schrader
Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader was presented with the ScreenLit lifetime achievement award in screenwriting at the inaugural Screenlit Festival of Film, TV and Writing at Broadway Cinema in Nottingham.
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FeaturesThree strikes and you're out...sort of
Nancy Tartaglione examines the implications of France’s controversial Internet and Creation Law.
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FeaturesBattle to convince courts of the threat of piracy
Martin Blaney looks at how the German film industry is effected by piracy.
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FeaturesLaw enforcer on the front line
The UK-born, Singapore-based Mike Ellis is integral to the clampdown on piracy, in his role as head of the MPA’s Asia-Pacific region. He tells Wendy Mitchell why he has the perfect job for an ex-cop who loves movies
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FeaturesProsecution of young offenders reaches record levels
Jean Noh brings you the South Korean piracy report.
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FeaturesUS: Barack Obama throws his weight behind anti-piracy efforts
Wendy Mitchell brings you the US piracy lowdown.
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FeaturesDay-and-date and world premieres raise the spectre of increased piracy
Jason Gray on Japan’s zero-tolerance policy on content piracy.
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FeaturesWhy is Canada so high on the IIPA's priority watch list?
Denis Seguin’s piracy report from Canada.
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FeaturesGlobal Piracy Report
ScreenDaily’s special issue on piracy brings you reports from all over the world.