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Italy's Panorama pacts with US' Full Circle
Rome's Panorama Films has partnered with Los Angeles-based Full Circle Entertainment to develop and produce English-language films in Europe and the US, the Italian company has announced. Full Circle's Jolie Chain and Panorama co-directors Marco Valerio Pugini and Ute Leonhardt are in talks with local filmmakers Eduardo Winspeare (Sangue Vivo) ...
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Pirates generates mighty $46.6m in seven international territories
Buena Vista International(BVI) films amassed more than $60m over the weekend in which Pirates Of TheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chestdominated the world stage.The adventure sequel'soverseas performance complemented the record breaking North American debut bygrossing an estimated $46.6m, an astonishing tally that produced runaway numberone debuts in all seven of its markets.Pirates ...
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Visual effects specialist Mietkowski dies aged 51
Rick Mietkowski, one of the leading lights of the UK visual effects industry, has died aged 51.Mietkowski was about to start work on the latest James Bond film in Prague, part of an impressive catalogue of feature films.Recent work included The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Da Vinci ...
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Visual effects specialist Mietkowski dies aged 51
Rick Mietkowski, one of the leading lights of the UK visual effects industry, has died aged 51.Mietkowski was about to start work on the latest James Bond film in Prague, part of an impressive catalogue of feature films.Recent work included The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Da Vinci ...
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Kluft leaves Universal to take senior vp publicity job at SKE
Stephanie Kluft is joiningSidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE) in the newly created position of executivevice president of publicity.Kluft arrives fromUnviersal, where she served as senior vice president of publicity. She willreport to SKI marketing and distribution president Mark Kristol.Kluft began her career atthe boutique PR agency Clein + Feldman, and moved ...
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TWC reorganises publicity department as Burnett leaves
Ten months after joining TheWeinstein Company as executive vice president of publicity, Liza Burnett isleaving her post to pursue other opportunities in the industry.She will consult with thecompany until the end of the month to assist with the transition. In theinterim, senior vice president Liz Biber will oversee the Dimension ...
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CJ's Gwangju Massacre pic starts production
Production started July 7 onKim Ji-hoon's $10m drama, Hwaryuh-hanHyuga (lit trans: Splendid Holiday),about South Korea'sGwangju Massacre.Old-school production houseKeyweckshidae, which previously worked with director Kim on Mokpo Gangster's Paradise, is producing.CJ Entertainment is co-financing and plans to release the film in March. Set against the real eventsof the military government's ...
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Taipei film festival wraps with record ticket sales
The 8th edition of theTaipei Film Festival closed this weekend with ticket sales of $300,000, almost50% up on last year's box office record.Cheng Yu-chieh's Do Over, receiving its world premiere,was voted best film in the Taipei Grand Awards by both the jury and festival audience.The $30,000 prize was presented at ...
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UK visual effects specialist Mietkowski dies
Rick Mietkowski, a visual effects specialist with a strong record in film, has died aged 51.Mietkowski was about to start work on the latest James Bond film in Prague, part of an impressive catalogue of feature films.His work as director of photography for visual effects included The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...
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Karlovy Vary gives top prize to Sherrybaby
Laurie Collyer's Sherrybaby has taken the grandprize at the Karlovy Vary International FilmFestival.At the festival's closing ceremonies July 8, the director received theCrystal Globe for Best Feature and $20,000 for her film about a recovering drugaddict who struggles to reconnect with her daughter after being released fromprison.Collyer also accepted the ...
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Appeals deadline looms for studios in Spanish case
Monday marked the deadline forappeals to be filed in the ruling which found five studios guilty ofanti-competitive practices in Spain.Disney/Buena Vista, SonyPictures, Hispano Fox, UIP and Warner Sogefilms werefined $3m (Euros 2.4m) each for cartel-like practices in a decision handed downby Spain's Competition Defense Court (Tribunal de Defensa de laCompetencia) ...
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United, Malone confirm broadband partnership
UnitedGlobalCom (United), the cable group that already controls one of the fastest growing broadband networks in Europe, will become the most important cable TV and high-speed internet player in Latin America. It is acquiring most of the international distribution and programming assets belonging to John Malone's Liberty Media.Under the terms ...
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Unifrance renews Menegoz as president
French film export body Unifrancehas renewed the mandate of its president Margaret Menegoz.Three new vice presidents have also been elected: Elzevir Films' producer Marie Masmonteil,director Tonie Marshall and Francois Yon, co-founder of sales outfit Films Distribution. The VPs will oversee three of the four maincommissions which fall under the Unifrance ...
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New Britdoc festival names 20 features in competition
Britdoc, a new international feature documentary festivalbeing launched by the Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation, hasannounced the 20 films in its two feature competition sections. The British competition willfeature Ben Hopkins' 37 Uses for a DeadSheep, Rex Bloomstein's KZ, Marc & Nick Francis' BlackGold, Stevan Riley's Blue Blood, Xiaolu ...
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German funds back new initiatives for Eastern Europe
Three German funding bodieshave launched new initiatives to support the film industry in Central andSouth-Eastern Europe.Baden-Wuerttemberg's MFG andLeipzig-based MDM have joined forces with the Vienna Film Fund tooffer up to six grants worth $5097 (Euros 4,000) each for young producers fromCentral and South-Eastern Europe to participate in the EAVE producers ...
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Corbijn starts UK shoot for Ian Curtis biopic
Anton Corbijnstarted filming today for Control, hisbiopic of late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. Thisshoot starts before a rival Curtis project, Jamie Thraves'All The Time,goes into production with US-based Washington Square Films. The Control film-makers have set up a studio and production base in Nottingham, with additional shooting on location ...
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April Snow director's cut breaks Japanese record
The director's cut version ofhit Korean film April Snow, starringBae Yong-joon, has broken the all-time record for first-day advance ticketsales in Japan. Distributed by UIP in Japan, the film grossed $24.2m (Y2.75bn) last year, makingit the second most successful Korean film ever at the Japanese box officebehind A Moment To ...
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Liu, Murphy star in Detectives for Plum, Peace Arch
Lucy Liu andCillian Murphy will star in Peace Arch Entertainment and Plum Picture'sromantic comedy Watching The Detectives, which is set to begin shooting in New York this week.New York-basedPlum is producing, with Peace Arch serving as co-financier and worldwidedistributor.Paul Soter wroteand makes his feature directorial debut on the story of ...
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Intermedia options Alleca's sci-fi action thriller script Man
Intermedia hasoptioned Adam Alleca's speculative sci-fi action thriller screenplay TheDrowning Man.Based on HideshiHino's manga book Living Corpse, the story follows a man who wakes up without a pulse and discovershe's at the heart of a sinister government experiment.On the run fromruthless enemies, he must team up with a former lover ...
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Magnolia buys multiple territorial rights to Cocaine Cowboys
MagnoliaPictures has acquired rights in North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealandto Billy Corben's Tribeca Film Festival premiere Cocaine Cowboys.The picturedocuments the explosion of the drug trade in 1980s Miami and featuresinterviews with some of the era's leading law enforcement officers,traffickers, suppliers, dealers and killers.Jan Hammer, whowrote the score ...