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Cerenzie-Peters acquires remake rights to Thai Devil
Paramount Pictures-based production and finance company Cerenzie-Peters Productions has acquired English-language remake rights to Thai horror hit Art Of The Devil 2 from Thailand's Five Star Production. The picture is part of a successful franchise that has spawned three films. The other two films are also included in the deal ...
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Reviews
What Happens In Vegas
Dir. Tom Vaughan. US. 2008. 98 mins.A bit like Las Vegas itself, frenetic romantic comedy What Happens In Vegas offers some diversions that are mildly entertaining but really just postpone an inevitable outcome (in Vegas the house always wins and in rom-coms the bickering stars always get together in the ...
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Swipe to handle Cannes market title Vanechka
Frank Mannion's UK-based Swipe Films will be handling international sales at Cannes on the Russian film Vanechka, which will have its international premiere in the Cannes market on May 17.The film is set during 1998, against the backdrop of Russia in an economic crisis and centres on an aspiring actress ...
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Hot Fuzz wins BAFTA/LA Comedy prize
Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz won Best British Comedy Film Award at the inaugural BAFTA/LA British Comedy Award in Los Angeles last night and star Simon Pegg took home Best British Comedy Performer In Film.Billy Connolly received the BAFTA/LA Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy and Extras won Best British Comedy Television ...
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The Hospital Club starts list for emerging UK talents
UK members club The Hospital is launching a new initiative, The Hospital club 100, to search for the most powerful movers and shakers in London's media and creative industries, including film.Voting is open to anyone in the publishing industry and The Hospital seeks to uncover unsung heroes and emerging talents.Nominations ...
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Lorraine Lydon joins UK post house Evolutions
London-based post-production company Evolutions has appointed Lorraine Lydon as operations manager.Lydon joins from a similar position at Envy Post and she previously worked at TMR and Blue.Lorraine will be based in Evolutions Soho Square facility and will manage the library, edit and media support team plus be responsible for maintaining ...
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Wales plans first international film and music fest Soundtrack
The Film Agency For Wales is planning the country's first international film and music festival to be held in Cardiff in November. The Soundtrack festival will replace the Cardiff Film Festival. Its focus will be on film music, and Danny Boyle will headline the first festival by giving a ...
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Warner launches remastered Movies That Matter series in UK
Warner Bros. is planning a Movies that Matter Film to bring 15 of its classics to the big screen, remastered and restored.The initiative is being created with the British Film Institute, The Times (of London), Vue Cinemas, Arts Alliance Media and distributor Park Circus.The films, all rematstered to 2K digital ...
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Coach 14 Cannes slate includes Critics Week entry La Sangre Brota
French sales company Coach 14 has announced its line-up heading into the Cannes Film Festival.The company boasts Critics Week title La Sangre Brota, a second film from Pablo Fendrik. Fendrik's first film, El Asaltante, ran in Critics Week last year.Coach's Pape Boye says the director is a 'sure thing, an ...
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Wenders & Shepard reteam for untitled 2001 project
Wim Wenders and Sam Shepard who last collaborated on Wenders' 80s classic Paris Texas are to reteam on the screenplay for Wenders' next feature, an as yet untitled road movie set across the US. The new film which will be produced by Wenders' Berlin-based Road Movies Filmproduktion GmbH is set ...
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Wendy And Lucy added to Memento slate
Memento Films International has added Un Certain Regard title Wendy And Lucy to its sales slate.The film, by Kelly Reichardt, stars Michelle Williams and Will Patton and is especially particular in that Cannes Festival chief Thierry Fremaux cited it as the one film that made its way into the official ...
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Iron Man boosts global box office with superheroic $200m opening
Iron Man smashed its way to the top of the charts with a mighty $100.8m three-day launch that kicked off the summer season in fine style.The Marvel Studios film, which Paramount is releasing around the world, registered the eight biggest three-day debut of all time and easily scored the biggest ...
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Iron Man grosses include $10.3m in UK, $9.6m in Mexico for PPI
Iron Man stamped his mark all over the world as Marvel's latest superhero sensation launched through Paramount Pictures International (PPI) on an estimated $96.8m in 57 territories.The storming debut combines with the $100.8m domestic launch to put the film on $197.6m after three days. The film opened day-and-date with North ...
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War Child wins the audience award at Tribeca Film Festival
C Karim Chrobog's documentary War Child won the 7th annual Tribeca Film Festival's audience Cadillac Award as the event came to a close last night [May 4].Chrobog will receive a cash prize of $25,000 and an art award for his film, which chronicles the life of hip-hop artist and former ...
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Screen opinion- The Games people play
Reading the coverage of the launch of videogame Grand Theft Auto IV this week, one might be forgiven for thinking the main crime was against the poor old film industry.For those uninitiated in the gaming world, the latest instalment of the role-playing phenomena is set to be the biggest entertainment ...
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Focus: the changing face of Japanese distribution
As the world's third largest box-office territory behind the US and UK, Japan is a hugely influential player in the international sales business. And until a few years ago, Japanese distributors would regularly stump up 10%-12% of the budget of heavyweight independent films.So it is not surprising Usen Corp's recent ...
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Features
In focus - Talking points - 'We just have to be more targeted'
IM Global chief Stuart Ford was in Tokyo visiting buyers when the news about Gaga broke. "I think the announcement's been interpreted as a more drastic change of strategy than may actually be the case," he says. "The Gaga brand is an important one in Japanese cinema and I think ...
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Profile: The Latin Amercian Film Company
Eduardo Costantini Jr first met Harvey Weinstein at a dinner during the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.Costantini is the son of an Argentinian tycoon who made his fortune in asset management and commercial real estate. At the time of the Weinstein meeting, Costantini Jr was running the Museum of Latin American ...
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Latin America - Lure of the Latin beat
BRAZILThe country's cities and the mighty Amazon are providing the backdrop to a growing number of US productions. Elaine Guerini reports.Brazil is gradually shedding its image as a violent and volatile place for film-making by welcoming a host of international footloose productions to the territory. Not content with stunning and ...
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Latin America - Q&A - Niv Fichman
Name: Niv Fichman, producer, Rhombus MediaProduction: BlindnessFernando Meirelles' Blindness is set in an unnamed modern city. Last year, it shot in Sao Paulo for four weeks in October, in Montevideo, Uruguay for one week in September and in Canada for five weeks in August and September- Why did you shoot ...