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Fernandes gets promotion and vp stripes at Warner Bros India
Blaise Fernandes has been promoted to the newly created positionof vice president and managing director of Warner Bros Pictures India PrivateLimited.Fernandes will oversee all of the company's businesses in the sub-continentwith particular focus on film, and will liaise with Warner Bros divisional andregional chiefs on corporate strategy.He will report to ...
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Mandate's buys supernatural thriller script 27 Times
Mandate Pictures has bought the screenplay to Thomas Thonson'ssupernatural thriller 27 Times.The story centres on a paranoid man named Arthur, who cares forhis teenage brother who himself is tortured by precognitive visions of violentdeaths.The project will be overseen by Mandate's Mary Lee and produced byMandate Pictures' president of motion pictures ...
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Stone's World Trade Center has strong first day
World Trade Center grossed $4.4m from 2,803 theatres at the North American box officeon its opening day yesterday (Wednesday)."It's a very strong opening," Paramount's executive vicepresident, general sales manager Don Harris said. "The movie has producedan emotional and powerful response and the exit polls that we did yesterdaywere sensational."Oliver Stone's ...
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Spanish actress Fernandez gets lead role in JSA remake
Spanish actress Dafne Fernandez has been cast in the lead in Gladiator producer David Franzoni's remake ofKorean political thriller Joint Security Area.Franzoni is directing the story of a Spanish army officer (Fernandez) sent by the Hague toinvestigate a violent confrontation between US Marines and Mexican SpecialForces. Shooting on the low ...
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Balcony to release Tony Kushner documentary in North America
Balcony Releasing has picked up North American rights to FreidaLee Mock's documentary Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner.The American Film Foundation production, which premiered atSundance, profiles the award-winning writer of the acclaimed Angels InAmerica.Mock wrote and produced the documentary, and Terry Sanders servedas executive producer. It will open in New ...
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Alliance Atlantis reports 21% revenue boost
Fuelled by an increase in library revenue, Alliance Atlantis released strong fourth quarter results this week, with revenue up 21.8% to $771.6m compared to $633.4m the previous year. Gross profit was up 37.1% to $179.2m compared to $130.7m. The company's television group was the principal engine, with library revenue up ...
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Chest set to be filled with Spanish gold
Buena Vista International (BVI) will looking to plunder anotherbig weekend as Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest sets course for $500m.The picture has reigned supreme for five consecutive weekends andwill surely hold on to its crown on the back of a wide Spanish debut on Aug 11.The picture crossed ...
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Korean court clears banned footage from President's Last Bang
Seoul CentralDistrict Court dismissed the defamation suit against ImSang-soo's ThePresident's Last Bang to be screened in its full version yesterday (Aug 10).Selected forCannes Director's Fortnight in 2005, ThePresident's Last Bang dramatises the events thatsurrounded authoritarian president Park Chung-hee'sassassination on the night of Oct. 26, 1979.The defamation suitwas brought by Park ...
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Bet Collector gets year's first A rating in Philippines
Filipino directorJeffrey Jeturian's The Bet Collector (Kubrador), which isset for a North American premiere in Toronto, has become the first film to begiven an A rating this year by the Philippines' Cinema Evaluation Board (CEB).According to the CEB,the low-budget digital film that revolves around the daily life of an aging ...
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Australians on board for mockumentaries
Australia is not known forfeature-length mockumentaries but Palace has justsigned on for Razzle Dazzle - A Journey Into Dance, while Madman next week releases Kenny, which is getting rave reviewsfrom some critics for its humour and loveable nature.Both productions are shot in fly-on-the-wall style. Razzle Dazzle is set in the ...
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Das Fraulein
Dir: Andrea Staka. Sw-Ger-Bos-Cro-Serb. 2006. 81mins.Cross-cultural relationships and the immigrantexperience are given a new twist in Das Fraulein, AndreaStaka's debut feature, which examines three womenfrom the former Yugoslavia and how they deal with their past, their present andtheir future.Working from a script shewrote with Austrians Marie Kreuzer andwriter/director Barbara Albert ...
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San Francisco Film Festival gets $150,000 grant from AMPAS
The San Francisco FilmSociety has received a $150,000 three-year 'secure foundation' grantfrom the Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(AMPAS).The rare award will bepresented to the San Francisco International Film Festival in the form of$50,000 in its 50th anniversary year next year, and $50,000 for each ...
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Locarno gives Golden Leopard to Das Fraeulein
AndreaStaka's fiction feature debut Das Fraeulein has become the first Swiss film to win Locarno'sGolden Leopard in more than 20 years, since the top honour went to Fredi M.Murer's Hoehenfeuer in 1985. TheSwiss-German co-production between Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion and QuinteFilm of Staka's drama about three women coping with life far ...
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Ricky Bobby still reigns at North American box office
Sony's Tallladega Nights:The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby stayed inpole position in its second weekend at the North American box office ahead ofBuena Vista's dance drama Step Up andParamount's 9/11 drama World Trade Center.Talladega Nights will cross $100m later this week after adding anestimated $23m for $91.2m.Step Up, which stars Channing ...
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Peace Arch close to $20m credit facility with JPMorgan
Toronto-based film andtelevision production and distribution company Peace Arch Entertainment Groupis finalising a four-year $20m senior secured revolving credit facility withJPMorgan.The funds will be used byPeace Arch to finance its recently announced acquisition of the film librariesof Castle Hill Productions and Dream, as well as other company operations.Closing of the ...
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TLA takes multiple territory rights on Boy Culture
TLA Releasing has acquiredall North American, UK, Australian and New Zealand theatrical and homeentertainment rights to Q AllanBrocka's gay drama Boy Culture.The picture received its USpremiere at Tribeca and tells of a male escort who must learn to open up to hisfeelings before he can have sex with an elderly ...
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Jet Set takes off at French box office
Two smaller French titles - Fabien Onteniente's comedy Jet Set and Lionel Delplanque's horror film Promenons Nous Dans Les Bois - have been the hottest tickets in France for the week ending June 20.Jet Set, a fish out of water tale, has attracted a smash 428,000 admissions in its first ...
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Pirates continues to roll with record Spanish opening
Buena Vista International(BVI)'s Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest remained the top international picture for the sixthconsecutive weekend after posting a record breaking Spanish debut.The adventure romp grossedan estimated $44m from all its territories to raise the cumulative total to$463m. The result was powered by an industry high Spanish ...
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National Geographic lines up third annual film festival in LA and Washington DC
Minority filmmakers fromVietnam and gay and lesbian communities in Israel and Palestine will be amongthe line-up at National Geographic's third annual All Roads Film Festival. The event, which runs at theEgyptian Theatre in Los Angeles from Sept 28-Oct 1 and at the NationalGeographic Society in Washington DC from Oct 5-8, ...
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Edinburgh starts new Diamond Awards
TheEdinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), which opens tonight with theworld premiere of Douglas Mackinnon's The Flying Scotsman, is introducing a newset of awards at its 60th anniversary event. The new Diamond Awardswill "acknowledge excellence in cinema in celebration with the spirit of EIFF."Theinaugural recipients are actors Sigourney Weaver and TildaSwinton, ...