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MPAA, JIMCA win Japanese online piracy suit
A 23-year-old Japanese manhas been ordered to stop selling pirate tapes on the Yahoo! Auctions site andagreed to pay $6,400 in damages following a civil action by the MPAA and theJapan International Motion Picture Copyright Association (JIMCA).Toshihiko Hiura from Fukuokawill also provide the MPAA and JIMCA with all materials infringing ...
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LA's New Wave Films buys management/production co E-Squared
LosAngeles-based entertainment marketing and production house New WaveEntertainment has acquired management/production company E-Squared and hiredE-Squared's literary manager and producer Chris Emerson.The deal allowsNew Wave to expand its roster of filmmakers, writers and actors and work withEmerson and E-Squared on its existing production commitments.Emerson bringsto New Wave's talent division a client ...
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Barrymore and Juvonen move Flower Films to Warner
Warner Bros hassigned a two-year first-look deal with Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen'sFlower Films. Flower has spent the last four years in two first-look deals at Sony Pictures and before that were based at 20th Century Fox.The partners'producing credits include Fever Pitch, which is set to open in North America ...
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Comic book hero The Spirit gets movie treatment through Odd Lot, Batfilms
Odd LotEntertainment and Batfilm Productions are gearing up on their live-actionadaptation of 1940s superhero property The Spirit, and have signed the renowned comic bookwriter Jeph Loeb to adapt the series.Based on thelate Will Eisner's series, The Spirit centres on a masked detective who fights crime in CentralCity and is believed ...
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Denzel and Spike reteam for Universal's Inside Man
DenzelWashington has singed on to star in Imagine Entertainment's robbery thriller InsideMan for Universal, whichSpike Lee will direct and Brian Grazer will produce.The film marksWashington's fourth collaboration with Lee after Mo Better Blues (1990), MalcolmX (1992) and He GotGame (1998).British Golden Globe winner Clive Owen is in talks to jointhe ...
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Trijbits, Bregman among new members of IFP/New York board
In a busy weekfor IFP/New York the organisation has elected Ira Deutchman as new boardchairman, added four new board members, and announced the first formal meetingof a new producers coalition formed under the aegis of IFP/New York.Deutchman, afounding father of Cinecom and Fine Line Features and currently president andchief executive ...
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LA-based FilmMates adds 39 titles to library after three company buys
LosAngeles-based finance, production and distribution company FilmMatesEntertainment has bolstered its library with 39 new titles after completing itsacquisition of the Cayman Islands-based company Camden Equities, World WideMulti-Media, and the Beverly Hills-based Hollywood International Finance.Among the newtitles are James Toback's thriller Harvard Man starring Sarah Michelle Gellar andAdrien Grenier, and Matthew ...
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Carver leaves Sony to head up Steven Paul's Crystal Sky
Former SonyScreen Gems senior vice president of acquisitions and co-productions BenedictCarver has been named president of Steven Paul's Crystal Sky Productions.Reporting to Paul, Carver will oversee Crystal Sky's slatethat includes the Marvel Comic adaptation Ghost Rider at Columbia Pictures starring Nicolas Cage and EvaMendes, which Paul is producing with Avi ...
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Pinewood share price hit by Watchmen wavering
The share price of UK studios Pinewood Shepperton has fallenover 20% this week to £1.43 on news of the likely loss of The Watchmenshoot. Pinewood Shepperton has confirmed ScreenDaily.com'sreport on Monday that Paramount Pictures are re-evaluating plans to shoot the$120m superhero thriller in the UK. PinewoodShepperton said it has a ...
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Euro producers link up for Carreras' Wind
New Spanish company Ficcion Producciones has signed on fourEuropean co-producers to its debut feature, 18th century drama Talking WithThe Wind starring Luis Tosar.Italy'sD'Ursi, Germany's Pictorion Pictures and Portugal's EPC Lisboa will each bring12% of the Euros 2.8m budget to the film, shooting next autumn for directorDavid Carreras (Hipnos).Spain's Intuition Films ...
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George Litto Pictures sues insurance giant AXA Re
Producer George Litto has initiated arbitration proceedings against French insurance AXA Re for revoking two insurance contracts to provide the funding for five films. According to Litto's complaint, George Litto Pictures (GLP) obtained two lines of credit from Chase Manhattan Bank worth more than $100m. The issuance of each loan ...
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Israel experiences festival outbreak
A stringof international film festivals are set to play in Israel over the next fewmonths, triggering calls for a re-evaluation of the country's festival scene.Threeinternational film festivals, all of them competitive, are scheduled in Israelduring April, with a fourth announced for late May. That's before Israel's veteranJerusalem International Film Festival ...
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France's Freshline revs up Forestier's Show
Paris-basedFreshline Production has announced a slate of films set for production laterthis year including the next feature from Dead Weight director FredericForestier. Forestier hassigned to direct One Man Show, a black comedy set in the media world.Forestier is currently in post-production on comedy Les Parrainsstarring Gerard Lanvin, Gerard Darmon and ...
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Goal! wraps in Los Angeles
Milkshake Films and IconEntertainment finished filming the first part of the $100m football trilogy Goal!on April 4 in Los Angeles. The film, directed by DannyCannon, follows the life of a young Latino footballer from East Los Angeles.who fulfils his lifelong dream as he moves to the UK to play football ...
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Local films flourish in international box office chart
Local films continued to make an impact on theinternational chart this week with 13 films in the top 30 produced outside theUS.Fourof these came from the powerhouse territory for local product, South Korea. Thetop four films in the territory all made the international chart including newlaunches Crying Fist (Show East) ...
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Pathe acquires UK rights to Arclight's Bad Men
Pathe has acquired UK rights to Three Bad Men fromArclight Films, which has also confirmed that Simon Pegg (Shaun Of The Dead)will be in the cast alongside Woody Harrelson and Brendan Fraser. Falcom Media has already snapped up German rights to thecomedy thriller, which is being produced under the banners ...
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New Line buys rights to Japanese comic Monster
US mini-major New Line has acquired rights to make alive-action version of Naoki Urasawa's hit comic Monster, Japanesepublisher Shogakukan has announced. Running in Big Comic magazine from 1994 to 2001, Monsterhas sold 20 million copies in paperback editions in Japan. It has also beenmade into an animation series broadcast on ...
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Redford joins all-star voice cast of 2006 family tentpole Charlotte's Web
Robert Redfordhas joined the voice cast on Gary Winick's upcoming adaptation of EB White'sfamily fantasy global bestseller Charlotte's Web.Redford will play anarachnophobic horse and joins a talent roster that includes Julia Roberts (asCharlotte), Dakota Fanning, Steve Buscemi, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric The Entertainerand Thomas Haden Church.The storycentres on a young farm ...
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Polley, McKellar call for Canadian content quotas in theatres
Canadian filmmakers SarahPolley and Don McKellar are calling on the federal government to take strongmeasures to improve the fortunes of local television and film, includingintroducing local content rules in cinemas. The two, both actors,writers and directors, made a presentation on behalf of the Canadian actors'guild ACTRA before the House of ...
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Toronto's Temple Street hire Quarrington to adapt book Galveston
Canadian novelist andscreenwriter Paul Quarrington will pen the screen adaptation of his book, Galveston, for Toronto-based Temple Street Entertainment.Temple Street's Ivan Schneeberg and David Fortier will produce, with TempleStreet Productions' Patrick Whitley acting as executive producer. The book, to be published inthe US in July under the title "Storm Chasers", ...