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Lea Pool begins shooting Une Belle Mort in Luxembourg
Swiss-Canadian filmmaker Lea Pool has begun principal photography on Une Belle Mort for Montreal-based Equinoxe Pictures and Luxembourg's Iris Productions. At a budget of $4.3m (C$5.4m), it is the first-ever official Canada-Luxembourg coproduction.The screenplay is co-written by Pool and Quebecois novelist Gil Courtemanche, based on his 2005 novel of the ...
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Alan Zhang opens US offices in LA for his Red Maiden Entertainment
Alan Zhang, the film-maker and CEO and founder of Beijing-based Red Maiden Entertainment, has opened the company's Los Angeles offices in Beverly Hills.The move coincides with the theatrical release in China of Zhang's directorial debut Waiting In Beijing, a romance that will open in the US on December 12 through ...
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Warner Brothers content to go on KTF mobiles in Korea
Korean mobile internet provider KTF will be offering latest Warner Brothersmovies and TV series in a specialscreening section starting tomorrow (Nov 26). KTF's Warner Brothers special section will feature 150items including hit movies such as Speed Racer and the Harry Potter and Matrix series, as well as popular TV shows ...
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La Graine Et Le Mulet wins European Film Academy Critics' Award 2008
The European Film Academy Critics' Award 2008 - Prix Fipresci has been awarded to Abdellatif Kechiche for La Graine Et Le Mulet (The Secret of the Grain) The announcement was made by the European Film Academy, EFA Productions, and the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI.FIPRESCI's director of the department ...
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XME teams with US-Chinese talent on five-picture slate
Xinhua Media Entertainment (XME), a subsidiary of Chinese media group XFMedia, has announced a slate of five China-US co-productions to be made over the next three years. The slate, which aims to showcase Chinese culture and top talents through collaboration with US directors, writers and producers, includes the previously announced ...
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Dubai International Film Festival to feature 11 world premieres.
The Dubai International film festival will feature eleven world premieres across its programme.The premieres comprise narrative and documentary films, feature length and shorts and works from established feature directors as well as feature debuts.The festival's mandate to present diverse and engaging cinema while highlighting film of Arab origin is strongly ...
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Neil Marshall promoted to deputy managing director at Warner Brothers UK
Neil Marshall, previously sales director at Warner Brothers Pictures International UK (WB), has been promoted to the role of deputy managing director at the company. He will report to Josh Berger, president & managing director of Warner Brothers International UK.In his new role, Marshall will be increasingly involved in the ...
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UK London mayor Boris Johnson puts focus on film
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has set out his plans to make film a key part of Londoners' experience of arts and culture in the capital. The publication of Cultural Metropolis yesterday highlights cultural initiatives to be taken and focuses on film amongst the creative industries.Planned initiatives include:- the London ...
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Marshallmade deputymdat Warner Brothers Pictures International UK
Neil Marshall, previously sales director at Warner Brothers Pictures International UK (WB), has been promoted to the role of deputy managing director. He will report to Josh Berger, president & managing director of Warner Bros. UK.In his new role, Marshall will be increasingly involved in the day-to-day running of the ...
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Japan's Fuji TV celebrates 50th year with film by Hiroshi Nishitani
Japanese broadcaster Fuji Television is to mark its 50th anniversary with a special feature film production Amalfi: Megami No 50-Byou (Amalfi: 50 Seconds of a Goddess), starring Yuji Oda, which will be shot entirely on location in Italy.The film is directed by Hiroshi Nishitani and stars Yuji Oda, Yuki Amami, ...
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Mamma Mia! - The Movie is fastest selling UK DVD ever
Day one sales of Mamma Mia! - The Movie have beaten Titanic's record, to become the fastest selling DVD of all time in the UK.Sales reached 1.669 million units, following its launch on November 24.The previous record for day one DVD sales was held for 10 years by James Cameron's ...
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Rich Raddon resigns as director of LA Film Festival
Rich Raddon has resigned his post as director of the Los Angeles Film Festival in the wake of his much publicised $1,500 donation to the Yes On 8 campaign in support of the ban on same-sex marriages in California.Raddon, a devout Mormon who has served as director since 2000, issued ...
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Herod's Law wins top prize at Ajijic fest
Herod's Law (La Ley de Herodes), Luis Estrada's controversial political satire, added to its growing collection of prizes when it took home Best Feature at the Ajijic Festival Internacional de Cine 2000 in Mexico (November 8-12). The film won several Ariel awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor, ...
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CP Global signs first-look deak with Japan's Formula Entertainment
CP Global, the parent company of Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters' Cerenzie-Peters Productions, has signed a first-look deal with Japan's Formula Entertainment.CP Global and Formula chief Daisuke 'Dais' Miyachi and CP are preparing to adapt John Woo's 1986 crime drama A Better Tomorrow and are in talks on developing two ...
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Paul Gross in the saddle for William Phillips' Gunless
Fresh from the success of his WWI epic Passchendaele, Canadian actor Paul Gross has signed for the lead in writer-director William Phillips' Gunless, a fish-out-of-water tale of a US gunslinger in the distinctly unwild Canadian West. The project will be coproduced by Toronto's Rhombus Media and Vancouver's Brightlight Pictures. Rhombus ...
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Canada's Sook-Yin Lee starts shoot of Year Of The Carnivore
Canadian actress Sook-Yin Lee has begun principal photography on her directorial debut Year Of The Carnivore. The film, which is shooting outside of Vancouver, is co-produced by Vancouver-based Screen Siren Pictures and Toronto-based The Film Farm, producers of Atom Egoyan's Adoration. Screen Siren's Trish Dolman is producer with Kryssta Mills ...
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TFI International generates strong sales for Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs
TFI International has generated strong sales on Jean-Pierre Jeunet's upcoming Micmacs following the recent American Film Market. Micmacs went to Entertainment One for the UK and Canada; Odeon for Greece, Cyprus and Romania; Scanbox in Scandinavia and Hollywood Classic in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.The film , which began shooting ...
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Europa Distribution highlights challenge of digital switchover
European distributors called for a collective approach to the common challenges presented by digitisation at Europa Distribution's 2nd Annual Conference.70 European distributors, including 50 independents, met in Estoril Portugal, where the conference was held as a part of the Estoril film festival.Europa Distribution also held its General Assembly and elected ...