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Kismat scores second highest opening of the year in India
UTV Motion Pictures release Kismat Konnection grossed $6.3m (Rs270m) worldwide on its opening weekend (July 18-20), including $4.9m (Rs208m) in India, which makes it the second biggest opener of the year in its home territory. Directed by Aziz Mirza and produced by Tips Production, the Hindi-language film was shot in ...
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Carlton Screen Advertising promotes Atkinson to sales director
Carlton Screen Advertising has promoted Gemma Atkinson to sales director.Atkinson joined the company in 1996 and served recently as sales controller.Atkinson will be responsible for continuing to attract advertisers to cinema advertising, working with both agencies and clients.She said: 'I fully believe in the ever-increasing power of the cinema space ...
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Torsten Koch and Oliver Koppert to head Constantin's distribution arm
Torsten Koch and Oliver Koppert have been appointed as managing directors of Constantin Film's theatrical distribution arm Constantin Film Verleih with effect from Oct 1.Koch, who has been Marketing & Publicity Director for Constantin Film since 1999, will serve as Marketing/Distribution Managing Director for Constantin Film Verleih, while Koppert will ...
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Istituto Luce grabs Semana Santa
Italian state-funded distributor Istituto Luce has acquired local rights to Pepe Danquart's English-language thriller Semana Santa, starring Mira Sorvino and Olivier Martinez, which is currently shooting in Seville.UGC International is handling sales on the $5m film about a female US police detective who becomes involved in a double murder case ...
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UK, Israel pledge to develop film co-production treaty
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, this week visiting Israel, has announced plans for a UK-Israel film co-production treaty. Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said they would work together to develop the treaty to encourage closer ties between the UK and Israeli film industries.Negotiations will start in the coming ...
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Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging
Dir. Gurinder Chadha. 2008. UK . 100 mins.Relighting Sixteen Candles in the UK for a new generation, Gurinder Chadha's Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is an amiable if fairly anodyne teen outing which will face a tough challenge breaking out from its girlie demographic. This target audience, however, will be ...
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Bals Fund Plus gives $317,000 to bring on Dutch co-producers
The Hubert Bals Fund Plus initiative, from the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Netherlands Film Fund, is granting a total of $317,470 (Euros 200,000) for Dutch co-producers on new films.Dutch companies Isabella Films, IDTV Motel Films, Waterland Film and Volya Films will each receive $79,360 (Euros 50,000) to each ...
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Canada's Cineplex plans massive 3D expansion
Canadian exhibitor Cineplex Entertainment has signed a long-term agreement to install a minimum of 175 3D systems from LA-based technology company RealD.Cineplex currently has 41 such systems in operation; however, the expansion is contingent on Cineplex's entering a digital deployment agreement with Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP), the technology acquisition ...
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Summit acquires rights to Virgin Comics' graphic novel The Leaves
Summit Entertainment has acquired the film rights to Virgin Comics' graphic novel The Leaves and hired the property's author Kevin J Walsh to adapt the screenplay.Virgin Comics founder, chief creative officer and editor-in-chief Gotham Chopra will produce with company CEO Sharad Devarajan.The Leaves is an action thriller about a New ...
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Polson's Tropfest NY separates from Tribeca Film Festival
Short film festival Tropfest NY has cut free from the Tribeca Film Festival family and will run as a stand-alone outdoor event in Manhattan on September 26.The event previously operated as Tropfest@Tribeca in association with Tribeca and will now be presented independently by Tropfest and its founder John Polson.Approximately 15,000 ...
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Maizel leaves Sarasota to take over at Newport festival
Jennifer Maizel has left her post as managing director of the Sarasota Film Festival and joined the Newport International Film Festival (NIFF) as executive director.Maizel had a prior stint with NIFF in 2006 as director of guest services and becomes the fifth director in the festival's 11-year history.Co-founder Christine Schomer ...
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Jenna Dewan, Luke Goss to star in Magdalena
Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures, Platinum Studios and Top Cow Productions have hired Jenna Dewan and Luke Goss to star in Magdalena.The project is based on Top Cow's comic book about a young woman who learns she belongs to a line of female warriors descended from Mary Magdalene and ...
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Garcia, Margulies, Mortimer, Arkin journey to City Island
Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer and Alan Arkin will star in Raymond De Felitta's dysfunctional family comedy, City Island.Dominik Garcia-Lorido and Ezra Miller round out the key cast on the production, which began shooting this week in City Island, a fishing village in the Bronx where the ...
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Sarajevo documentary competition includes five world premieres
The Sarajevo Film Festival's documentary competition is to include five world and three internationalpremieres.The programme opens with Slovenian film Sky Too High, Soil Too Hard by Rudi Uran, which looks at the lives of young people in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, scene of the brutal massacre of 8,000 men ...
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McDougal to plough Metro Tartan's Fields
UK-based distribution to production concern Metro Tartan is readying to shoot its Martin Amis adaptation London Fields after securing Charles McDougal as director.McDougal, whose previous credits include UK TV show Queer As Folk, is to direct the project this spring in the UK. Producing duties fall to Chris Hanley, whose ...
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Shoreline starts 3-D animated feature The Living Corpse
Sales and production company Shoreline Entertainment has commenced production in Los Angeles on its first 3-D animated feature The Living Corpse.The film is financed by Shoreline and independent investors and based on Buz Hasson and Ken Haeser's cult comic book of the same name about a zombie who embarks on ...
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Oscilloscope buys domestic rights to Wendy And Lucy
New York-based Oscilloscope Pictures has picked up North American rights to Kelly Reichardt's road movie Wendy And Lucy, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.Oscilloscope plans a December 10 release at Film Forum in New York City followed by a national expansion in early 2009.The film is based on ...
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Impact Film Festival to launch in US during political conventions
Fair trade, the national debt, stem cell research and Hurricane Katrina are among the topics covered in the upcoming Impact Film Festival, a four-day event that will take place during each of the Democratic and Republican Conventions in Denver and Minneapolis.Screenings include the world premiere of Jessica Gerstle's stem cell ...
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Studio Ghibli's Ponyo claims Japanese summer box office crown
As expected, director Hayao Miyazaki's latest animated feature Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea claimed the number one spot atJapan's box office over the three-day holiday weekend (July 19-21), earning $14.84m (Y1.58bn) on 1.25 million (1,251,207) admissions Distributor Toho opened the Studio Ghibli film on 481 screens, the widest ...
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A&E veteran Ryan Harrington joints online distributor IndiePix
Ryan Harrington, formerly of A&E IndieFilms, has been hired as the new head of New York-based Internet distributor IndiePix.The recently launched IndiePix allows indie film-makers to submit their films for distribution via the virtual stuiod and monitor sales online.At IndiePix, Harrington will be responsible for overseeing all film-making relations and ...