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PUSAN: Casting directors discuss cultural differences
International casting directors, including Tokyo-based Yoko Narahashi and Susan Shopmaker from the US, talked about the differences in casting practices between their respective territories in a seminar at Pusan on Monday. Part of the Co-prod PRO and Star Summit Asia programmes, the panel also featured Sung-hye Park from Korean talent ...
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Piracy-ravaged Elite Squad still makes impact in Brazil
Jose Padilha's controversial Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite) logged the biggest opening weekend for a Brazilian film this year.The portrait of police corruption sold around 178.000 tickets - 40% up on the next most seen local film of 2007, A Grande Familia. Elite Squad grossed about $970,000 (BRL 1.7m).The performance ...
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Content remains king in digital age, says CBS chief
'We are striking back against the view that network TV is doomed in thedigital age.' That was the message from CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves at this year's Mipcom in Cannes, where he was named personality of the year.He told an audience at a packed Salle Lumiere that content ...
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IFC takes North American rights to Chabrol, Tedeschi films
IFC has picked up two films screening at this month's New York Film Festival, taking North American rights to Claude Chabrol's thriller A Girl Cut In Two and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's comedy Actresses.A Girl Cut In Two previously screened in Venice and Toronto and was ahit earlier this summer in ...
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Halcyon gets first-looks rights to Dick works
Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek's The Halcyon Company has secured first-look rights to the works of science fiction and cyber-punk writer Philip K Dick.Halcyon will develop film, television and other media adaptations of Dick's works alongside Electric Shepherd Productions, the production arm of the late science fiction writer's estate run ...
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Warner wins rights to Brazil's Xuxa sequel
Warner Bros has beaten off competition from Columbia TriStar, 20th Century Fox and Lumiere Brasil to acquire Brazilian rights to local children's feature Xuxa Pop Star, the third film in domestic TV star Xuxa's franchise.The last Xuxa film - Xuxa Wiggles (Xuxa Requebra) - distributed by 20th Century Fox through ...
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Sony launches new production division Stage 6 Films
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has officially moved into production with the formation of Stage 6 Films, a new division that will acquire and produce genre films with an eye for sequels and prequels of existing properties.Screen Gems vice presidents of production Peter Nelson and Nick Phillips will oversee ...
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Lambs, Cholera get North American premieres at AFI FEST
1000 Journals, Cyrano Fernandez, It's Better If Gabriela Doesn't Die, Manuela Y Manuel; Pop Skull, Public Enemy - Welcome To The Terrordome; and Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story will receive their world premieres at the AFI FEST 2007, which runs in Los Angeles from Nov 1-11.Seventeen films will get ...
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Nunnari options Father Christmas script by Posehn & Duggan
Gianni Nunnari's Hollywood Gang Productions has optioned the rights to Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan's graphic novel The Last Christmas.The story finds a misanthropic Father Christmas who has shunned the annual seasonal holiday forced out of seclusion in a bid to save the holiday and the world.Nunnari will produced and ...
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Kadin promoted to senior vice president at Columbia Pictures
Jonathan Kadin has been promoted to senior vice president of production at Columbia Pictures.Kadin, who joined Columbia as a creative executive in 2000 and most recently worked on development and production on Superbad, will continue to report to production presidents Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach.Kadin was promoted to director of ...
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PUSAN: Japanese producers pitch trio of projects
Three Japanese companies presented projects to potential investors via UniJapan's J-Pitch initiative, as part of the Pusan AFM's Co-production PRO programme. Presenters had ten minutes to explain their company track record, the talent involved, project outline and current status, and what they are looking for at Pusan. Gaga Films producer ...
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Fog's The Art Of Crying takes Nordic Council Film Prize
Danish director Peter Schonau Fog's feature debut, The Art of Crying (Kunsten at græde i kor), will be awarded the Nordic Council's Film Prize at a ceremony during the council's session in Oslo on Oct 31. Scandinavia 's largest film award - it comes with $65,000 (Euros 47,000) - will ...
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EFA documentary nominees include Forever and The Monastery
The European Film Academy has announced the 10 nominees for the Prix Arte award for best documentary. The documentary jury, comprised of Switzerland's Francine Brucher, Israel 's David Fisher and Germany's Philip Groning, will convene in Berlin to screen the nominees and select the winner. The award will be presented ...
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Golden Lola winner and Perfume actress join Daldry's The Reader
Golden Lola winner Hannah Herzsprung and Perfume's Karoline Herfurth have joined the cast of Stephen Daldry's The Reader, which has been shooting in Berlin and Goerlitz since the end of September. Herzsprung, who is one of the Rising Stars at this month's Hamptons International Film Festival, was named Best Newcomer ...
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Australia tries to ramp up Asian co-productions with new event
A search has begun in China, India, Korea and Singapore for films and television programmes that would be suitable co-productions with Australia. The projects will form the heart of an event, announced today, which will run alongside the annual conference of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA). The conference ...
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PUSAN: b.o.m. to handle sales on Hong's Night And Day
Renowned Korean arthouse director Hong Sang-soo (Woman Is the Future Of Man) wrapped production on his eighth film Night And Day last week (Oct 2), with major Korean production company b.o.m. Film Productions repping the film internationally. 'Depending on what kind of sales deals we do - if for instance ...
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Innocence, Le Gout share top gong at Montreal
French director Agnes Jaoui's The Taste Of Other (Le Gout Des Autres) and Australian Paul Cox's Innocence shared the top prize at the 24th Montreal World Film Festival which wrapped on Monday. The Grand Prix of the Americas is the second major prize for the Cox title after Taormina. Iranian ...
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PUSAN: Everingham to star in first Laos film in three decades
Thai rising star Ananda Everingham is set to star in Sabaidee, Luang Prabang, a Thailand-Laos co-production which marks the first feature film from Laos in over three decades. The $319,000 (10m baht) production is co-produced by Lao Art Media and Thailand 's Sparta Creative. Established in 2000, the Laotian company ...
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PUSAN: CJ strikes four-film deal with Splendid
In the midst of a subdued Asian Film Market, Seoul-based distributor CJ Entertainment has clinched a four-film deal with Splendid Film for German-speaking territories and the Benelux. The package showcases CJ's first US-Korea co-production West 32nd, which is playing in the Pusan film festival and made its market debut here. ...
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Abu Dhabi festival to include talks with Weinstein and Haggis
Harvey Weinstein and director Paul Haggis have joined the line-up of industry executives attending Abu Dhabi's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (Oct 14-19).After several weeks of negotiation, Weinstein has agreed to open the festival's Film Financing Circle (FFC) with a speech on international co-productions, while Haggis will teach a ...