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Singapore's Scorpio East to distribute Shaw Bros titles
Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures has licensed Singapore video distribution rights to over 500 titles from its Shaw Brothers' film library to Singapore 's Scorpio East under a long-term agreement. Scorpio East will distribute titles ranging from comedies and martial arts to period dramas and action movies. Key titles include films ...
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Grindhouse
Dirs: Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino. US. 2007. 192mins. Intended as an enthusiastically grimy, collagist tribute piece to low-budget, ultra-violent and offbeat exploitation flicks of yore, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse delivers an uneven mixture of patchwork, sugar-rush thrills.Consisting of two discrete features strung together by a series of fake trailers ...
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Blades gets top marks at top North American box office
Will Ferrell enjoyed the second best opening of his career as Paramount's ice skating comedy Blades Of Glory launched at number one on an estimated $33m.Ferrell and co-star Jon Heder play banned rival skaters who learn the only way to get back into the sport is to compete as a ...
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Mr Bean's Holiday basks in $33.3m international weekend
Rowan Atkinson's bumbling Brit overthrew Warner Bros' Spartan army as Universal/UPI's Mr Bean's Holiday reaped the benefits of a wide launch and grossed an estimated $33.3m from 3,061 sites in 26 territories.Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) won't be unduly bothered however, as 300 crossed $100m overseas and has amassed more ...
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Shut Up And Shoot Me, New Year Baby win AFI Dallas
Steen Agro's Shut Up And Shoot Me won the AFI Dallas International Film Festival's Target narrative feature award while Socheata Poeuv's New Year Baby took corresponding documentary honours.The HDNet Award for the best feature shot in HD went to Rob Stewart's documentary Sharkwater.Additional Awards went to Eric Chaikin's A Lawyer ...
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Start-up outfit F.A.M.E. teams with Becker
F.A.M.E. Film & Music Entertainment - the latest German production outfit destined for the Neuer Markt - has sealed a three-year agreement with Australia's Becker Entertainment to jointly develop and produce a raft of features over the next three years. The first project under the agreement will be Esben Storm's ...
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Ken Kwapis to direct He's Just Not That Into You
New Line Cinema and Flower Films have hired Ken Kwapis to direct the comedy He's Just Not That Into You.Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's bestselling novel of the same name serves as the inspiration for the project about cross-gender misunderstandings in love.Flower Films principals Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore are ...
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CR Land, Shanghai Film Group invest in Jia Zhangke's 24 City
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke has announced that he is set to direct a film project, tentatively titled 24 City, in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan province. The project, which includes a feature film and documentary, will be jointly financed by Shanghai Film Group, Jia's Xstream Pictures and real estate ...
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Imagica Robot acquires majority share in animation company
Japanese post-production giant Imagica Robot Holdings (IRH) has acquired a majority share in animation company Genco, which now becomes a subsidiary in the company's contents division. IRH announced the investment as part of its strategy to strengthen its animation production and licensing business. Genco will collaborate with IRH group company, ...
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Jeonju fest to open with Offroad, close with Exiled
The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) today announced the line-up for its eighth edition, which will kick off with the world premiere of Offroad by Han Seung-ryong and close with Johnnie To's Exiled. Han was previously a co-editor on films such as E J-yong's Untold Scandal and Jang Sun-Woo's Resurrection ...
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Aardman signs exclusive three-year, first-look deal with Sony Pictures
UK-based Aardman Features will enter a three-year, exclusive first-look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) for all of Aardman's features in development. Aardman, known for Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and Flushed Away, ended its increasingly tense partnership with DreamWorks in late January 2007. The new pact was struck with ...
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Park Circus joins UK trade group FDA
Park Circus Films has joined the UK's Film Distributors' Association (FDA), the trade body of UK theatrical distributors. The Glasgow-based company is the UK's only commercial distributor specialising in classic films. It becomes the FDA's 18th member and one of 12 indies on the FDA Council. 'As the UK market ...
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Rogers & Cowan divides London office into UK and international units
PR company Rogers & Cowan's London branch has launched two separate business units: a UK division for film, video and TV promotion solely in the UK, and an internatioal division to handle worldwide publicity campaigns. The London office has been open for a year, and both divisions will continue to ...
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AAM signs downloadable content deal with Revolver Entertainment
UK-based digital distribution services company Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has struck a deal with distributor Revolver Entertainment for Revolver's content to be offered for download on AAM 's Vizumi Network. The deal covers an initial 30 titles for download-to-rent and download-to-own through AAM 's distribution partners including LoveFilm and Empire. ...
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Koch Lorber elopes with Syrian Bride in US
Koch Lorber Films has acquired all US rights to The Syrian Bride, the political comedy that won prizes at Locarno and Montreal. World sales are handled by France's TF1 International.Structured as a French-German-Israeli co-production, Bride is the story of a woman who crosses from the disputed territory of theGolan Heights ...
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FRANCE 10 December
Both Pixar's powerhouse TheIncredibles and French cop drama 36, Quai Des Orfevres remained atthe top of the chart this week with a 33% and 38% drop off resepectively.New entry Narco, acomedy starring Guillaume Canet, opened strongly in third place with a $7,365per screen average. That film was followed by The ...
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Development heaven for UK Film Council winners
Capitol Films, EalingStudios, Pathe and Jeremy Thomas' Recorded Picture Company are amongstthe seven winners of the UK Film Council's development franchises, theGovernment-backed support body announced today.The consortia of producers,sales agents, financiers and distributors will pump £15m into the UKdevelopment sector over the next three years, half from the council'slottery coffers ...
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Amazon piles into UK online DVD rental market
Internet retailer Amazon has launched into the hugely competitive online DVD rentalmarket in the UK.The service was launched today (Dec 10), and is integrated into Amazon's UK site, which is already a popular DVD retail store.Unlike most other services,Amazon imposes a limit on the number of DVDs customers can ...
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UK indie exhibitor wins first Europa Cinemas award
UK independent exhibitioncompany City Screen and its directors Tony Jones and Lyn Goleby have beenhonoured with the first ever 'Entrepreneur of the Year' award by EuropaCinemas.The award celebrates theirachievements in developing a platform for European film in the UK and waspresented to Jones at a ceremony in Paris by Claude ...
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HUNGARY 10 December
The Incredibles saw off the challenge from seven newreleases at the Hungarian box office last weekend. The film managed to stay atthe top of the chart and is now standing at nearly 70,000 admissions. IstvanSzabo's Being Julia has also maintained its strong performance and hasalready passed the 55,000 admissions mark.The ...