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Morante named as mistress of Cannes ceremonies
Italian actress Laura Morante will act as mistress of ceremonies for the 57th Cannes Film Festival which begins on May 12.Morante succeeds Monica Bellucci who held the post last year.Her duties will include opening and closing the official competition and welcoming jury president Quentin Tarantino on the first night of ...
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Teen comedy Formula cracks Taiwan box office
Taiwanese teen comedy Formula 17, produced by start-up production company Three Dots Entertainment, has surpassed expectations for a local film over its opening weekend in Taipei, achieving a screen average of US$11,777 (NT$387,660) - the highest among all new releases.Following its premiere at the Taipei Film Festival on March 22, ...
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French cinema looks to boost profile in China
For the first time ever, Unifrance is to organise a French film Panorama in Beijing (April 8-11) with the aim of boosting the profile of French cinema in China.In conjunction with the Chinese authorities and the French embassy in China, ten French films have been selected by the Chinese Film ...
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Warner Bros strikes mobile distribution deal with Vodafone
Warner Bros. Online and mobile phone company Vodafone have signed a distribution deal which will bring Warner Bros. Entertainment brands as well as current information on upcoming projects to Vodafone customers across the world.The global agreement covers 16 countries. Initially, Warner Bros. Online will provide Vodafone with games, screensavers, alerts ...
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Morante named as mistress of ceremonies
Italian actress Laura Morante will act as mistress of ceremonies for the 57th Cannes Film Festival which begins on May 12.Morante succeeds Monica Bellucci who held the post last year.Her duties will include opening and closing the official competition and welcoming jury president Quentin Tarantino on the first night of ...
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Sponsors sign up for Cannes Producers Network
The Cannes Market has attracted a number of sponsors and consultants toits new Producers' Network.The network includes a newrange of facilities and meeting specifically designed to serve the needs ofproducers during the festival and market.Professional partners include theAustralian Film Commission, New Zealand FilmCommission, IFP/New York, Telefilm Canada, SODEC, Region Ile ...
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Sponsors sign up for Producers Network
The Cannes Market has attracted a number of sponsors and consultants toits new Producers' Network.The network includes a newrange of facilities and meeting specifically designed to serve the needs ofproducers during the festival and market.Professional partners include theAustralian Film Commission, New Zealand FilmCommission, IFP/New York, Telefilm Canada, SODEC, Region Ile ...
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High Point strikes MIP-TV deals on feature slate
At the recent MIP-TV, UK sales house High Point Films And Television secured a number of deals for its feature film slate.Dutch blockbuster Peter Bell was sold to Belgium's VRT, Hungary's (HBO) and TV Markiza of the Slovak Republic. TV Markiza also picked up another Dutch film, Bella Bettien, while ...
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Kill Bill Vol 2 review
Dir: Quentin Tarantino.US. 2004. 136 mins.Rather like ThePassion Of The Christ, weknow how Quentin Tarantino's four-hour-plus epic Kill Bill will end. Yes, plot spoiler ahead, she killsBill. The pleasure, of course, comes in the journey, and, in contrast to thehigh style and stylized action of Vol 1, Vol 2 is ...
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Sundance Channel, Wellspring team up for Cho's third concert film
US pay-cable network TheSundance Channel and independent theatrical and video distributor Wellspringhave teamed up to acquire distribution rights to Margaret Cho's latest comedyfilm Revolution (pictured).Sundance will air the worldpremiere of the film on June 19 as part of its Out Loud programming month andWellspring will then release it on home ...
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Knots to close Gen Art Film Festival on Apr 20
Greg LombardoC;s comedy Knots has been named the closing night film of this yearC;sGen Art Film Festival on April 20 in New York City.The festival which starts onApril 6 is now in its ninth year and was founded in 1996 to showcase emergingUS independent film-makers. Among the films it has ...
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Knots to close Gen Art Film Festival on Apr 20
Greg Lombardo's comedy Knots has been named the closing night film of this year'sGen Art Film Festival on April 20 in New York City.The festival which starts onApril 6 is now in its ninth year and was founded in 1996 to showcase emergingUS independent film-makers. Among the films it has ...
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Tribeca snags Cholodenko, Burns world premieres
LisaCholodenko's latest Cavedweller,Ed Burns' Looking For Kitty andDavid Duchovny's directorial debut House Of D starring Robin Williams will have their worldpremieres at this year's Tribeca Film Festival which takes place May 1 to 9.Allthree films are featured in the Spotlight section unveiled yesterday, whichfocuses on the work of movie stars ...
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Asian territories embrace The Christ
IconEntertainment's The Passion Of The Christ showed that it could play beyond traditional US and European strongholds over the weekend, placing number one in the market in five Asianterritories for Fox International. In South Korea, where 49% of the population is Christian, it amassed a huge $2.3m opening on 157 ...
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Japan's Klockworx makes entry into US distribution
Japanese distributor TheKlockworx Company is boldly stepping into the US distribution market, teamingup with US independent Pathfinder Pictures to buy and release films in the US.Klockworx plans to acquirebetween 20 and 30 films for theatrical and DVD release in its first year ofoperation, about half of which will go theatrical. ...
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CTFDI's Gothika surges to $6.1m weekend
Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) saw its horror thriller Gothika surge to $6.1m on 1,737 screens over the weekend oninternational release, including a strong $2.6m opening in the UK on 306screens for third position in the market.The Halle Berry-starrer hasnow totaled $58.1m in CTFDI territories which consist of all internationalexcept ...
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Alliance Atlantis gets Canadian rights to Super Size Me
Alliance Atlantis's OdeonFilms has acquired Canadian rights to Morgan Spurlock's Sundance-prize winning SuperSize Me. The deal was negotiated bySpurlock and Odeon president Bryan Gliserman between Sundance and Austin'sSouth-By-Southwest Festival (SXSW).Odeon vice-president ofmarketing and publicity Mark Slone told ScreenDaily that the film was the idealtheatrical documentary release because of its marketability. ...
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Telefilm Canada strikes deal with CAA to boost Canadian films
Telefilm Canada has hired anagent. Canada's public sector film financier has entered an agreement with CreativeArtists Agency (CAA) that could see Hollywood's largest talent agency packagingprojects for production in Canada.According to a leaked memodirected to Canadian producers from Telefilm executive director RichardStursberg, the purpose of the agreement is "to assist ...
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Nicks signs on to direct Destination's Slackers
Commercials and music video director Dewey Nicks has signed to direct Slackers which is being produced and distributed domestically by Destination Films. Set to start principal photography on May 24, the film is written by first-time writer David Steinberg (currently writing the sequel to American Pie) and follows three college ...