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Playtone and Walden to shoot City Of Ember in Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission (NIFTC) has announced that Hollywood production City Of Ember will shoot in the region this summer. Playtone Productions and Walden Media are producing the children's fantasy sci-fi adventure adapted from American writer Jeanne DuPrau's book. Monster House director Gil Kenan will direct from ...
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UK Film Council P&A Fund backs films including The Lives Of Others
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has supported a number of new features in its latest round of Lottery funding. The specialised, foreign and arthouse films backed in this round are: $ 482,769 (£250,000) to Lionsgate UK for The Lives Of Others $197,458 (£102,231) to Metrodome for Days ...
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Knocked Up
Dir/scr: Judd Apatow. US, 2007. 126 mins. In 2005, Judd Apatow scored big with the surprise hit, The 40-Year Old Virgin, which, with its novel combination of gross-out elements and old-fashioned, recognisably human emotion, earned critical plaudits and went on to do some $177m box-office world-wide. With his new film, ...
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Viacom files $1bn lawsuit against Google, YouTube
Viacom has filed a lawsuit suing Google and its hugely popular online video subsidiary YouTube for $1bn yesterday [March 13] for making available close to 160,000 unauthorised clips of Viacom material.In papers filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the plaintiff claimed that the ...
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Mittur moves to Paramount for interactive and mobile job in Asia
Pradeep Mittur has been appointed Paramount Pictures' vice president of interactive and mobile entertainment for the Asia Pacific region.Based in Singapore, Mittur will drive Paramount Digital Entertainment's interactive and mobile businesses across the region, and explore new revenue streams and technologies.Mittur, who will report to senior vice president of interactive ...
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Tribeca adds star-studded world premieres in Encounters section
The Tribeca Film Festival unveiled the Encounters, Restored/Rediscovered and Midnight sections yesterday [March 13], as well as two special events.The new Encounters section is designed to offer provocative film-making from new and established talents. Screenings include the world premieres of The Air I Breathe starring Forest Whitaker, Brendan Fraser, Andy ...
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Spike Lee to receive directing award at 50th San Francisco festival
Spike Lee will receive the Film Society Directing Award at the upcoming 50th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) that runs from Apr 26-May 10.Lee will collect the honour at the Film Society Awards Night on May 3, when attendees will see a reel of Lee's film-making highlights followed by ...
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Book will open, Eagle to close 10th Bermuda festival
Paul Verhoeven's Black Book and Taika Waititi's Eagle Vs Shark bookend the 10th Bermuda International Film Festival, which runs from Mar 16-24.Bermuda-born actor Earl Cameron will return to the island to be honored with a film retrospective and take part in an on-stage interview on Mar 17. Cameron's credits include ...
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Malaysia, MPA unleash sniffer dogs on DVD pirates
Malaysia 's Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (MDTCA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have jointly launched Operation Double Trouble, the latest anti-piracy effort which engages a pair of the world's first dogs trained with DVD-sniffing abilities. A demonstration was held today at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport ...
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Showest keynotes offer upbeat message
Showest's state-of-the-industry addresses by Motion Picture Association of America chairman Dan Glickman and National Association of Theater Owners president John Fithian had an upbeat message.Both men characterised the record of 2006 movie attendance as an upswing and predicted even better performance in 2007. The MPAA last week announced 2006 US ...
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Belmont joins Haas in WT2's Long Time Dead
Lara Belmont from Tim Roth's The War Zone has joined Mars Attacks!' Lukas Haas in the ensemble cast of WT2's British Scream picture, Long Time Dead, the company announced this week.Other young actors and actresses in the cast of the urban horror flick are Alec Newman, Joe Absolom, James Hillier, ...
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Japan's VAP ships Death Note DVDs in record numbers
Japanese video distributor Video Audio Project (VAP) has made an initial shipment of 500,000 box sets of Death Note and its sequel Death Note 2: The Last Name for a total of one million discs. The shipment sets a record for any domestic film released in 2006. The set also ...
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Sony signs TV distribution deal with Korea's CJE
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed a long-term distribution agreement with leading Korean film distributor CJ Entertainment (CJE). The deal gives SPTI the right to distribute a limited number of films from CJE's current and future slates to broadcasters across Asia excluding Japan, mainland China and Korea. Yu Ha's ...
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UTV to co-produce Shyamalan's Happening with Fox
Indian entertainment conglomerate UTV Motion Pictures has announced that it will co-produce M Night Shyamalan's next film The Happening with Twentieth Century Fox. UTV and Fox will share global revenues from the $57m film in all media, in perpetuity, equally. The deal is part of UTV's ongoing relationship with Fox ...
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Suffering Man's Charity
Dir: Alan Cumming. USA. 2007. 92 mins Suffering Man's Charity is one of those films that attempts to hide humourless and cruelty behind the generic label 'black comedy'. Instead of being funny, it is rather a relentless harangue, an assault of over-the-top acting that attempts to disguise or make up ...
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Williams, McGregor and Macfadyen on board for Maguire's Incendiary
Bridget Jones's Diary director Sharon Maguire will start shooting her new project Incendiary later this month in London with a cast featuring Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor and Matthew Macfadyen. Archer Street 's Andy Paterson and Anand Tucker are producing, with Aramid Entertainment Fund financing. Capitol Films is handling international sales. ...
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Eurimages to support digitisation of its funded films
The Council of Europe's Eurimages fund is planning to provide support for the digitisation of its funded films from the middle of this year to boost their circulation throughout Europe.Speaking at this year's Sofia Meetings, Eurimages' executive secretary Jan Vandierendonck revealed that he is currently drafting the guidelines for an ...
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Contender takes on Daddy's Girl starring Jaime Winstone
UK distribution company Contender Entertainment Group has taken all UK rights from Carnaby International to horror film Daddy's Girl. The UK psychological thriller was directed by Welsh first-time feature director DJ Evans. Nerys Lloyd of Boda Cyf produced. The project is a Boda/Carnaby co-production in association with the Arts Council ...
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Women directors dominate SXSW awards
Films by women directors dominated the prizes at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW), the hip indie film festival and conference held in the Texan capital city of Austin.Jamie Babbit's narrative feature Itty Bitty Titty Committee won the top dramatic jury prize taking Best Narrative Feature. Jennifer Venditti's Billy The ...
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The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair
Dir: Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein. US, 2007. 72 minutes. Shown in the Spotlight Premieres section of SXSW Festival, The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair is a powerfully moving documentary about one Iraqi man's mistreatment at the hands of the US military in that infamous hellhole ...