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Studio Ghibli's Ponyo reaches Y10bn milestone
Japanese distributor Toho has announced that Studio Ghibli's Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea has cracked the Y10bn ($91.02m) milestone within a month (31 days)of its release on July 19. As of August 18, Ponyo has grossed Y10.136b ($92.26m) on 8.44 million admissions.The last time the Y10bn milestone was ...
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Soundtrack nominees include Golden Compass, Kite Runner
Organisers at the World Soundtrack Awards announced the nominees in the three major categories of film composer of the year, best original score and best original song.Composer of the year nominees are: Alexandre Desplat for The Golden Compass; James Newton Howard (Charlie Wilson's War, Michael Clayton and I Am Legend); ...
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Chung exits Taewon to launch non-listed production outfit
Korean producer Chung Tae-Won has sold his shares in KOSDAQ-listed production company, Taewon Entertainment, and is launching a new production outfit, Taewon Productions. In an $18.5m deal announced yesterday (Aug 19), Taewon sold his 17% share of the company, along with another 52% owned by Fireworks International and a foreign ...
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Constantin's theatrical distribution up 92% in first half of 2008
Constantin Film's theatrical distribution arm generated 92% more revenues year-on-year to June 30, according to the group's interim management report issued today for the first six months of 2008.Constantin garnered a 9.9% market share and held on to its position as Germany's leading independent distributor with box office takings of ...
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SKy Movies launches six new genre high-def channels
UK television company Sky Movies will launch six new genre-themed high definition channels on the Sky+ HD service in October 2008, bringing the total number of Sky Movies HD channels to nine.The new channels are: Sky Movies Action/Thriller HD; Sky Movies Sci-Fi/Horror HD; Sky Movies Drama HD; Sky Movies Modern ...
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Gotham Award Tribute planned for Penelope Cruz
Penelope Cruz will receive a Gotham Award Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards in New York on Dec 2.Cruz currently stars in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, released in North American through The Weinstein Company, and Isabel Coixet's Elegy, which is being handled by Samuel Goldwyn Films.The Spanish actress ...
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Yume to release Nic Roeg's Puffball on DVD in September
UK-based distributor Yume Pictures will handle the DVD release of Nic Roeg's Puffball.The DVD, out from Sept 22, includes extras such as interviews with Roeg and the film stars, a making-of featurette, trailer, podcast, photogallery and more.The supernatural drama is about a young woman who moves to a remote area ...
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Honigmann's Oblivion to open Horizones Latino in San Sebastian
San Sebastian has announced the films in its Horizones Latinos section, devoted to Latin American productions, films made by film-makers of Latin American origin, or films that address Latin America.Dutch director Heddy Honigmann's Oblivion (El olvido), set in Peru, will open the section and compete.Fourteen films, including works from Argentina, ...
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Rome's first selections include 8, The Duchess,Baader Meinhof
The International Film Festival of Rome has unveiled the first titles for its upcoming third edition, which runs Oct 22-31 in the Italian capital.8 (Huit), a composition of eight shorts by Jane Campion, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jan Kounen, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noe, Abderrahmane Sissako, Gus Van Sant and Wim Wenders ...
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Zurich to welcome Sly Stallone for first Golden Icon Award
Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone is to receive the Golden Icon Award which is presented for the first time in recognition of an actor or actress's life's work at this year's Zurich Film Festival (Sept25 to October 5).The award ceremony on Sept 26 will be accompanied by a small retrospective of ...
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Canadian author Bezmozgis begins directorial debut Victoria Day
Award-winning Canadian author David Bezmozgis is set to begin principal photography on his directorial debut Victoria Day. Written by Bezmozgis, the film is produced by Bezmozgis and Judy Holm and Michael McNamara of Toronto-based production company Markham Street Films. Holm, Robin Cass and Anna Stratton of Toronto's Triptych Media serve ...
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AMPAS to preserve archives from UA/MGM library
MGM will present the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library with the UA photo archives including original still photography, publicity materials and paper documents relating to MGM and UA releases called the MGM/United Artists Collection.The Academy will review, restore, catalogue and exhibit the collection as part ...
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Toronto's Filmport officially open for business
Toronto's long-awaited mega-studio, Filmport Studios, was officially opened today. Filmmaker David Cronenberg was on hand for the event alongside Toronto mayor David Miller and Filmport president Ken Ferguson.The facility is the largest studio complex outside of Los Angeles and lays claim to the continent's largest purpose-built sound stage: 45,900 sq. ...
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Paramount relaunches made-for-home-entertainment division
Paramount Pictures is relaunching its made-for-home entertainment production division under the banner Paramount Famous Productions (PFP).Since the division's launch in 2007, president Louis Feola has overseen operations and preparing the division for 2010, when it plans to release five or six titles based on a mix of sequels, prequels and ...
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Pam Postrel named svp of creative services at Universal Pictures
Pam Postrel has joined Universal Pictures as senior vice president of creative services, returning to the studio following a six-year stint as vice president and creative director of animation at Craig Murray Productions.In her new position Postrel will oversee all in-house creative audio-visual projects assigned by marketing executives within Universal's ...
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Eddie Izzard plays Charlie Chaplin for Bogdanovich
Ramping up its production activities, Lions Gate Films is to back The Cat's Meow, a drama set against the golden age of Hollywood that intriguingly casts Kirsten Dunst as Marion Davies and Eddie Izzard as Charlie Chaplin under the direction of maverick cinephile director Peter Bogdanovich.Lions Gate, which last week ...
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Steve Friedlander named evp of theatrical distribution at CBS Films
CBS Films took a big step forward with its domestic distribution plans today [Aug 20] as it announced that Steven Friedlander has been named executive vice president of theatrical distribution.Friedlander arrives from the defunct Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) and will oversee the domestic theatrical distribution for the studio's films and ...
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Scott Parish promoted to COO at Alcon Entertainment
Scott Parish has been promoted to COO at Warner Bros-based Alcon Entertainment.Parish joined Alcon Entertainment in 2000 as vice president of finance and was promoted to CFO in 2004. He will retain the title of CFO and oversee all finance and operations duties for the company.The former New Regency vice ...
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Haugesund's New Nordic Films kicks off with record 325 attendees
Opening on today with a record number of 325 participants, New Nordic Films - the three-day market section of the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund - will this year present 23 recent Nordic features and 11 works-in-progress, adding 18 projectsat the Nordic Co-Production Forum.'The showcase is intended support Nordic ...
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The Works takes on Belgian titles Unspoken and Loft
Ahead of this year's Toronto film festival, London-based The Works International has picked up the world sales rights to a brace of Belgian films: Unspoken, written and directed by Fien Troch, and Erik Van Looy's Loft.Unspoken will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. It is scheduled ...