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Hong Kong box office up 11% due to multiplex expansion
After years of falling revenues or at best flat growth, Hong Kong was back on its feet in 2007 with total box office revenues at $129.63m (HK$1.01bn), the best in recent years, according to local industry body, the Motion Picture Industry Association (MPIA). It not only represented a big jump ...
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Golden Globe Awardsfate to be decided today
An announcement is expected later today (Monday) in Los Angeles concerning the fate of this year's Golden Globe Awards in the midst of the Hollywood writers' strike. Stay tuned to ScreenDaily.com for breaking news.There is rampant speculation of several outcomes concerning the Globes: that the ceremony could be postponed in ...
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Korean admissions down for first time inadecade
Leading South Korean exhibitor CJ CGV has announced its year-end statistics for 2007, with nationwide admissions taking a dip for the first time in 11 years. Total admissions numbered 157,525,412, down 5.5% since 2006, but still the second highest on record. Korean films market share fell to 50.8%, down 25.7% ...
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UK film-makers offer 'pay what you like' film download
A UK film-making team at Molehill Productionshas made a feature film available as a pay-what-you-likeoffering online, in what they say is a world first.Guy Rowland posted his film, Sam Jackson's Secret Video Diary, up for download starting Dec 28. Viewers can choose to pay as much or as little as ...
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WMA's Steve Kenis unveils own UK talent agency
Steve Kenis, former managing director at William Morris Agency (WMA) in London, has launched UK-based talent agency Steve Kenis & Co to represent clients including Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, Bruce Beresford and Rowan Atkinson.Kenis, who left WMA in May when it closed theatrical activities in London, has recently cut deals ...
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Shochiku lines up sequel to Gegege No Kitaro
Japan's Shochiku Studios is producing a sequel to its biggest hit of 2007, action fantasy Gegege No Kitaro. Director Katsuhide Motoki will again direct and singing idol-turned-actor Eiji Wentz will reprise his role as Kitaro, a half-human half-yokai (creatures and supernatural beings).He is joined by returning cast members Rena Tanaka, ...
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Deakins, Elswit, Kaminski and McGarvey nominated for ASC award
Roger Deakins (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford and No Country For Old Men), Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood), Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly) and Seamus McGarvey (Atonement) have been nominated for the 22nd Annual American Society Of Cinematographers' (ASC) feature film ...
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Amalric, Kurylenko and Arterton join Craig in Bond 22
Principal photography has begun at Pinewood Studios in the UK on Eon Productions, Sony Pictures Entertainment and MGM's Bond 22.Marc Forster directs and Daniel Craig reprises his role as 007 in the film following his acclaimed debut in the global smash Casino Royale, which launched in 2006 and is the ...
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Seven films make shortlist for best make-up Oscar
Seven films have made the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' shortlist for the make-up category.The films in alphabetical order are: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly; Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix; La Vie En Rose; Norbit; Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End; Sweeney Todd ...
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Relativity Media forms investment fund subsidiary
Relativity Media has formed wholly owned subsidiary Relativity Capital to act as a principal investor in its major media transactions.Essentially a fund that is expected to commit more than $1bn in transactions, Relativity Capital's investments will include studio slates, the Relativity Single Picture Business, library acquisitions and other media-related cash ...
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Tarantino, Reitman, Luna lined up for Sundance jury
Quentin Tarantino, Marcia Gay Harden, Juno director Jason Reitman and Diego Luna are among the jurors selected by the Sundance Institute for this month's festival in Park City.Tarantino, Harden and Luna will sit on the dramatic competition jury alongside film-maker Mary Harron and actress Sandra Oh.Documentary competition jurors are IFP ...
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Golden Globes show cancelled under WGA pressure
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has cancelled its full-length awards banquet and telecast on January 13 because of the writers strike and instead will announce the Golden Globe winners in a simple press conference on the same day.The HFPA will unveil the winners in 25 categories of the 65th ...
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Picture This! takes US rights to Voleurs De Chevaux
Picture This! Entertainment has acquired US rights from Paris-based Rezo to first-time feature director Micha Wald's Voleurs De Chevaux.The company will release the epic adventure this summer under its English title In The Arms Of My Enemy following the US premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.The film centres ...
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United Artists reaches agreement with striking writers
Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner's United Artists (UA)has become the first Hollywood Film company to reach a deal with striking screenwriters.The agreement was announced yesterday and welcomed by theWriters Guild of America (WGA), the union at the centre of the dispute.Few details have been revealed buta joint UA-WGA statement said ...
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Eros-owned Ayngaran to back Robot starring Rajnikanth
After much speculation on who would star in his next project, sci-fi feature Robot, Indian director Shankar has confirmed that he is reuniting with the Tamil-language film industry's biggest star, Rajnikanth. Rajnikanth starred in Shankar's Sivaji - The Boss which grossed an estimated $38m-$43m last year from domestic and overseas ...
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Spain's Planeta steps up rights buying with Sins
Raising the stakes in the competitive Spanish rights acquisitions market, start-up Planeta 2010 has acquired all Spanish rights to Sins Of The Father, starring Andy Garcia.Sins, currently shooting in Canada, marks the first major North American product to be picked up by Planeta, the media division of publishing giant Grupo ...
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Indian production Victory drawn into test cricket controversy
There are conflicting reports on whether Victory, an Indian film shooting all this month in Australia, has been affected by a controversy that has greatly intensified in the last 24 hours around the current test cricket series being played between India and Australia. Producer Vivek Aggarwal said none of the ...
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LaBeouf, Riley among nominees for BAFTA Orange Rising Star prize
The BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award has announced this year’s nominees: Shia LaBeouf, Sienna Miller, Ellen Page, Sam Riley and Tang Wei.
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Max Von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood join Solomon Kane cast
Max Von Sydow, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Alice Krige and Mackenzie Crook have joined the cast of Solomon Kane, which as previously reported will star James Purefoy.Michael J Bassett will direct the Davis Film project from his own script. Samuel Hadida for Davis Films will produce with Paul Berrow's Epic ...
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Schreiber to head Power's new home entertainment division
UK production company Power has launched a new home entertainment division. Andy Schreiber, founder and president of Los Angeles-based Forward Marketing International, will relocate to London to join Power as senior VP, Power Home Entertainment.Schreiber will be launching a Power Home Entertainment label in selected markets and selling to all ...