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Police seize $500,000 of pirate DVDs in UK raid
A UK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a joint operation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).More than 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chronicles Of Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory in Burnt Oak, North-West ...
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Shadow Of The Vampire
Dir: E. Elias Merhige. UK-US. 2000. 93 mins.Prod co: Long Shot Films. Int'l Sales: Lions Gate Films. Prods; Nicolas Cage, Jeff Levine. Exec Prod: Paul Brooks. Co-prods: Jimmy De Brabant, Richard Johns. Scr: Steven Katz. DoP: Lou Bogue. Prod Des: Assheton Gorton. Ed: Chris Wyatt. Mus: Dan Jones. Main cast: ...
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Police seize $500,000 of pirate DVDs in UK raid
A UK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a joint operation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).More than 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chronicles Of Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory in Burnt Oak, North-West ...
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Police seize $500,000 of pirate DVDs in UK raid
A UK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a joint operation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).More than 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chronicles Of Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory in Burnt Oak, North-West ...
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Something New
Dir: Sanaa Hamri. US. 2006. 100mins.Enjoyable, without being especially deepor involving, the romantic comedy SomethingNew should appeal to fans of Waiting To Exhale and HowStella Got Her Groove Back. Like them, this latest picture features astrong, black female protagonist who finds it difficult to find a suitablepartner and, as such, ...
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Julio Medem selects an international cast for his new film
Spain'sSogecine has unveiled new details of Spanish auteurJulio Medem's next film, Caotica Ana, set to begin shooting on February 13.Literally "Chaotic Ana,"the $6m (Euros 5m), majority Spanish-language film will star an internationalcast headlined by newcomer Manuela Velles, in herfeature debut, as the title character and singer Bebe,a recent best new ...
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Moviemax acquires all Italian rights to The Darwin Awards
AmbitiousRome distributor Moviemaxhas acquired all Italian rights to Sundance title The Darwin Awards.Sold byIcon Entertainment International, TheDarwin Awards is a dark comedy starring Joseph Fiennes and Winona Ryder asinvestigators who check people's posthumous entitlement to awards celebratingludicrous accidental deaths. Thepicture, directed by Finn Taylor, was picked up for North America ...
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Fifth TIFF tour to set sail for UK, Eire
The TorontoInternational Film Festival Group's Film Circuit will present seven Canadiantitles during a tour of Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and the Republic ofIreland from Feb 19-May 5.The fifth annual event, entitled Canadian Cinema Showcase: North Of Hollywood,features recent Canadian productions including Thom Fitzgerald's 3 Needles, Francis Leclerc's Memoires Affectives (UK/Irish ...
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Mehta's Water makes a splash at Canadian box office
DeepaMehta's Waterhas crossed the C$2m ($1.75m)threshold at the Canadian box office.Released on Nov 4, 2005, the film has played in more than 115 theatres andcontinues its run on 12 screens.Featuring Bollywood stars Lisa Ray and John Abraham and shot in Hindi, theperiod film was recently nominated for nine Genie Awards, ...
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Katapult Film Sales heads to Berlin with impressive slate
Katapult Film Sales will arrive atnext week's European Film Market in Berlin with its most prestigious slate ever.Heading up the roster are Sundance acquisitions TV Junkie and Destricted,as well as the Brazilian smash hit TwoSons Of Franciscoand BalthasarKormakur's LittleTrip To Heaven.Katapult holds internationalrights to TV Junkie, Michael Cain and Matt ...
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Korea's CJ sells its DreamWorks stake to Paramount
Following the completion of Paramount's acquisition of DreamWorks, Korean conglomerate CJCorporation has sold its 4.95% stake in the studio to Paramount for $35.8m. CJ Corp gave public noticeof the Jan 31 sale of approximately 2.31 million shares yesterday (Feb 2). CJ Entertainment became amajor founding investor in DreamWorks in 1995 ...
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High hopes for Walk The Line as it begins its international run this weekend
Buoyed by five Academy Award nominations, 20th Century Fox'sWalk The Line begins itsinternational run this weekend.The acclaimed Johnny Cash biopic launches in 23 territoriesincluding Germanyon February 2, followed a day later in the UK,Mexico and Spain.Fox International chiefs will be relying on the picture'sstrong reputation to ensure solid debuts in ...
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Korea's CJ CGV to open cinema in Los Angeles
Leading Korean multiplexchain CJ CGV plans to open a three-screen, 650-seat cinema in Los Angeles. The cinema, which isscheduled to open in June 2007, will provide a launch pad for Korean films intothe US market by playing them day-and-date with their Koreanrelease. Recently restructured fromits position of subsidiary to CJ ...
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Rothman and Gianopulos sign new deals with Fox Filmed Entertainment
Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE)chairmen Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos have signed new five-year deals withthe company and been named joint chief executive officers.The pair assumed their posts in2000, in which time 20 of the studio's pictures have grossed more than $100m atthe domestic box office and 26 have reached the ...
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Bleiberg Entertainment acquires rights to Danny Lerner's Frozen Days.
Los Angeles-based Bleiberg Entertainment has acquiredinternational rights to Danny Lerner's psycho-thriller Frozen Days.The picture won best film at the Haifa 2005 InternationalFilm Festival and centres on a woman who assumes the identity of her blind dateafter he falls into a coma following a bomb blast. AnatKlausner, Uli Sternberg andSandra Sade ...
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Voltage Pictures picks up international rights to Hector Lavoe biopic El Cantante
Voltage Pictures has picked up international rights to MarcAnthony and Jennifer Lopez's Hector Lavoe biopic El Cantanteand will commence sales at Berlinnext week.Anthony will play the celebrated salsa singer and Lopez willplay his wife Puchi. Leon Ichasodirected the story set in New York'ssalsa scene during the 1960s and 1970s.Production is ...
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Pathe, MTV, Vertigo Start Dirty Sanchez Film
Pathe Pictures, MTV FilmsEurope and London-based Vertigo Films have teamed up to start production on Dirty Sanchez: TheMovie.Pathe will distribute the filmin the UK and PathePictures International will handle worldwide sales. Jim Hickey directs withBobby Allen and Vertigo's Rupert Preston serving as producers. Jonathan Zilli, Allan Niblo, James Richardson,and Sean ...
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New president, Andrew Cripps, to start at Paramount International Theatrical January 2007
Andrew Cripps' start date as president of ParamountInternational Theatrical has been confirmed as January 2007.UIP's president and chiefoperating officer will be responsible for the marketing, distribution andoperations of the company's new global structure.As Paramount'stake-over of DreamWorks officially closed this week, it emerged that former president of Paramount Home Entertainment Tom ...
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Jeff Pryor appointed MGM's executive vice president of corporate communications
Jeff Pryor has been appointed to the new post of MGM'sexecutive vice president of corporate communications.Pryor reports directly to MGMChairman Harry E Sloan and will direct communication and public relationsstrategies for all MGM's operating divisionsincluding United Artists and MGM TelevisionEntertainment.He will also be involved in the communication and publicitystrategies and ...
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Warner Bros and Alcon Entertainment sign new agreement
Warner Bros and AlconEntertainment have signed a new agreement continuing their eight-yearrelationship under which Warner Bros distributes features developed andfinanced by Alcon.The new deal will include a minimum of six pictures over thenext three years, starting with Richard Donner'sthriller 16 Blocks starring BruceWillis, and Neil LaBute's remake of The Wicker ...