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Casino wins the weekend again for SPRI with $36.2m
Nothing could prise James Bond's kung-fu grip off the number oneberth for a fourth consecutive weekend as Casino Royale swept towards $250m.Sony Pictures Releasing International's (SPRI) 007 adventure addedan estimated $36.2m from 7,730 prints in 63 territories to stand at $247.2m. Itshould overtake Die Another Day's $271.1mnext weekend to become ...
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Iwo Jima voted best picture of 2006 by LA Critics
Clint Eastwood's LettersFrom Iwo Jima, already named bestpicture of the year by the National Board Of Review on Wednesday, was namesbest picture of 2006 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA)yesterday (Sunday). The runner-up was The Queen.The 32nd annualLAFCA achievement awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on ...
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Universal Studios to open theme park in Singapore
Universal Studios is set toopen its largest theme park in Asia after Infinity@The Bay, a joint venture betweenGenting International and Star Cruises, clinched the bid for the project todevelop an integrated resort on Sentosa island in Singapore. To be located on the eastside of the site, the Universal Studios Singapore ...
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Charlotte's Web
Dir: Gary Winick. 2006.97mins.While no live-action/CGI-hybrid about talking animalsis ever likely to match or surpass Chris Noonan's Babe (1995), the film adaptation of Charlotte's Web proves itself a pleasant and engaging addition tothe genre.Since its publication in1952, EB White's classic tale of friendship has been translated into 23languages and has ...
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Letters From Iwo Jima
Dir: Clint Eastwood. US.2006. 141mins.Clint Eastwood's twilight career renaissancecontinues and only further deepens with LettersFrom Iwo Jima,his second film in two months about the best known Pacific battle duringWorld War Two. Shot back-to-back with its companion piece Flags Of Our Fathers, it focuses more explicitly on the conflictand its human ...
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Moscow to close with Storm, premiere Disease
Wolfgang Peterson's The Perfect Storm will close the Moscow International Film Festival (July 19-29) which will also boast world premieres of Life As A Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease, directed by Krzysztof Zanussi, and Gleb Panfilov's The Romanovs -The Imperial Family.The festival is becoming an annual event for the first time ...
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Notes On A Scandal
Dir: Richard Eyre. UK-US.2006. 91mins.Judi Dench's superbperformance galvanises Notes On A Scandal, Richard Eyre's impressive and acutelyobserved adaptation of the Booker-nominated novel. Probing away relentlessly atsuch uncomfortable issues as paedophilia, class envy, sexual jealousy andblackmail, it is a film that has the same queasy, claustrophobic feel as such 1960sBritish films ...
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Owner of film piracy site given four year jail term
The head of a web forum known as PIR8 has been sentenced to four years in jail, the longest term for a film piracy case in the UK to date. A further five men who worked for the site were also sentenced to imprisonment on Friday (8th December) at Birmingham ...
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China halts foreign investment in production companies
A senior Chinese governmentofficial has confirmed that China has halted new foreign investment in film and TVproduction companies. The move overturns aregulation introduced in 2003 which allowed foreign companies to take stakes ofup to 49% in local production houses or Sino-foreign joint ventures.'Our policy is totemporarily not approve the creation ...
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Dubai opens with increased industry ambitions
The thirdDubai International Film Festival has opened with a premiere of Bobby and evident grand plans to becomean industry centrepoint of the Middle East. As Cairo's festival wrappedwith honours going to Zhang Jiarui'sThe Road and Marrakech saw its top prize going to DominikGraf's The Red Cockatoo - heavyweight Dubainow steps ...
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Beefed-up Cairo gives top prize to The Road
The CairoInternational Film Festival (CIFF) closed on Friday with a beefed-up awardsceremony that featured new competitions for Arab feature films and digitalfilmmaking, aimed at promoting emerging talent. The $10,000 first prize in thedigital competition went to Italian director Carlo Luglio'sSotto la StessaLuna (Beneath The Same Moon). As expected, theinternational jury, ...
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Berger promoted to president at Warner Bros UK
Joshua A. Berger has been promoted to President & Managing Director, Warner Bros. Entertainment United Kingdom and Ireland.Berger has been with Warner for 17 years, most recently serving as Executive Vice President & Managing Director, WBEUK.He will continue to oversee all of the company's business in the UK, including theatrical ...
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Berger promoted to Warner Bros UK director
Joshua A. Berger has been promoted to president and managing director of Warner Bros Entertainment UK and Ireland (WBEUK) after 17 years at the studio.Berger previously served as executive vice president and managing director and will continue to report to Barry Meyer, chairman and chief executive officer, Alan Horn, president ...
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New Barrandov facilities open with Babylon
Canal+ sci-fi thriller Babylon A.D. will be the first feature film to shoot at a new 4,000-square-meter soundstage at Barrandov Studios in Prague. Mathieu Kassovitz will direct the film, which will star Vin Diesel and Vincent Cassel.A Peugeot automobile commercial will inaugurate the new soundstage before year's end. Kassovitz's crew ...
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German film fund invests $9.3m in co-productions
New feature films by Michael Glawogger, Ludi Boeken, Benoit Jacquot, Samuel Maoz and Tom Schreiber are among a raft of international co-productions supported in the latest round of funding by the German regional public fund Filmstiftung NRW, which distributed over $9.3m (Euros 7m) to 29 projects.The largest single sum - ...
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New York critics opt for United 93 as year's best
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) has named United 93 the best film of 2006, while Martin Scorsese’s best director award for The Departed kept his long-running Oscar quest on track.Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren won respective acting honours for The Last King of Scotland and The Queen, the ...
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Benton to receive Screen Laurel Award from Writers Guild Of America
Robert Benton will receive the Writers Guild of America, West's(WGAW) Screen Laurel Award at the 2007 Writers Guild Awards ceremony on Feb 11,2007.'What an impressive and varied screenwriting career RobertBenton has had,' WGAW president Patric M Verrone said. 'Yet whathasn't varied is the quality of his work and audiences' appreciation ...
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Sunshine to receive Vanguard award at Palm Springs
Little Miss Sunshine will receive the Chairman's Vanguard Award at the 18th Annual PalmSprings International Film Festival (PSIFF) awards gala on Jan 6, 2007.Cast members will attend along with screenwriter MichaelArndt and directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris to collect the honour.Previously announced honorees at Palm Springs this year includethe ...
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Clickstar signs distribution deals with Sony, Universal, Warner
ClickStar, the US broadband entertainment company founded byMorgan Freeman and Lori McCreary's Revelations Entertainment along with IntelCorporation, has announced digital distribution agreements with several leadingstudios.Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios HomeEntertainment and Warner Bros Home Entertainment have agredd to provide contentahead of ClickStar's launch this week as a purveyor of ...
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Dimension picks up multiple rights to Storm Warning
Dimension Films has pickedup all North American, Australian and New Zealand rights from Darclight Filmsto the horror-thriller Storm Warning.Jamie Blanks directed from ascreenplay by Everett De Roche. Darclight general manager Gary Hamilton andPeter Ford produced and Martin Fabinyi, Michael Gudinski, Greg Sitch and MarkPennell served as executive producers.Nadia Feres, Robert ...