All articles by Theodore Schwinke – Page 10
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Big Screen Entertainment Group teams with Five Star Picture
Big Screen Entertainment Group (BSEG) has entered a joint venture with Florida production companies Five Star Pictures for the primary purpose of producing feature films in Florida.Over the coming weeks, BSEG and Five Star will be announcing specifics regarding their partnership, which includes over a dozen film projects, most with ...
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Christopher Hampton to speak at International Screenwriters' Festival
Christopher Hampton, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Atonement, has been added to the high-profile line-up of speakers at this year's International Screenwriters' Festival, to be held July 1-3 in Cheltenham. Previously announced speakers include BBC Fiction controller Jane Tranter, Oscar winners Julian Fellowes, Guillermo Del Toro, Lucy Prebble, Deborah Moggach, Peter ...
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Pathe announces brisk sales on 16 titles at EFM
Before the European Film Market, Pathe executive vice-president Francois Iverne predicted that the relatively few US titles at EFM this year, owing to the WGA strike, would be good news for Pathe. A just-announced raft of sales on 16 titles would appear to bear him out. Miguel Kohan's homage to ...
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New Line's Golden Compass to be released in China
New Line Cinema's fantasy adventure The Golden Compass has passed censorship in China and will be released by the China Film Group and Hua Xia on 300-400 screens beginning on Mar 28.The film has already grossed more than $322 million worldwide since its Dec 7 release and is also scheduled ...
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Universal signs deal to produce movies based on Hasbro games
Universal Pictures and Hasbro have formed a six-year strategic partnership to produce at least four motion pictures based on Hasbro brands, including Monopoly, Candy Land, Clue, Ouija, Battleship, Magic, The Gatherin and Stretch Armstrong.Under the terms of the deal, Hasbro will partner exclusively with Universal Pictures for feature films, with ...
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UK Film Council's P&A Fund announces $1m in awards
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund is backing U2 3D, the first-ever feature length live action film shot and exhibited in breakthrough digital 3D. Released on Feb 22 by Revolver Entertainment, the film documents the band U2's 2006 Buenos Aires concert in the Vertigo tour. The film is ...
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New Berlin deals on James Marsh's Man On Wire
The Works International has concluded four new distribution deals for James Marsh's documentary Man On Wire. Diaphana has acquired distribution rights for France, Madman has taken Australia and New Zealand, Cineart will distribute in Benelux, and Arsenal in Germany and Austria. A deal is close to completion for Spain. The ...
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Worldwide Bonus signs UK distribution agreement with Rovinge
Worldwide Bonus Entertainment has announced a five-film distribution deal for all UK rights with production company Rovinge Motion Picture Company. The agreement will commence with the distribution of new British comedy Three And Out, starring Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Imelda Staunton and Gemma Arterton.Directed by Jonathan Gershfield, Three And Out ...
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Alfred Molina, Orlando Bloom, Sally Hawkins join cast of An Education
Alfred Molina, Orlando Bloom and Silver Bear-winner Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) will join the cast of An Education, shooting in London in March and April. Award-winning Danish director Lone Scherfig (Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, Italian For Beginners) will direct the film. Nick Hornby adapted the screenplay from the memoir of ...
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Gail Egan, Elisabeth Murdoch named to UK Film Council board
Elisabeth Murdoch, chairman and CEO of the Shine Group, and Gail Egan, producer and founder of Potboiler Productions, have joined the UK Film Council Board of Directors.'It's fantastic news that Elisabeth and Gail have agreed to join the UK Film Council board,' said UK Film Council chairman Stewart Till CBE. ...
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Hungary plans three new studio facilities
Despite industry jitters over the future security of Hungary's 20% tax rebate for film production, developers have announced plans for three new facilities. The Hungarian press reports that construction should begin this spring on a studio complex located on a 15,000-hectare site in Rakospalota in northeast Budapest. Luxembourg-based Orco Group ...
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Local exposure
Czech cinemas enjoyed their highest-grossing year ever in 2007, with box office receipts reaching a total of $66.9m (ckr1.2bn). This represents a 20% increase on 2006, although ticket prices also increased 3% in 2007. Admissions were 12.8 million, up 11% from 2006.Much of the success has been down to strong ...
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Mundruczo's Delta takes Golden Reel at Hungarian Film Week
Kornel Mundruczo's highly anticipated new film, Delta, received top honours at the 39th Hungarian Film Week. The powerful story of a young man's fateful attempt to return to his home and family received the Golden Reel for best picture as well as the Gene Moskowitz prize, awarded by foreign film ...
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Production - Hungary - Feast or Famine'
Before the new facilities at Budapest's Korda Studios opened for business in 2007, Hungary was attracting more international footloose productions than the country's crews could handle. Thanks largely to its lauded 20% tax rebate on productions shooting in the country, the annual spend by film productions in Hungary has multiplied ...
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All quiet on the Eastern front
With the exception of Davis Films' comic-book adaptation Solomon Kane, which began filming on location in Prague in early January, the streets and sound stages of Eastern Europe are mostly silent right now. The US writers' strike is damaging the production business at all levels, from major facilities such as ...
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Czech box office rises 20% and sets new recordin 2007
Sales as Czech cinemas were at $66.9m (CZK 1.2bn) in 2007, the highest-grossing year ever at Czech box offices. The sales represent a 20% increase on 2006. Admissions were at 12.8m, up 11% from 11.5m in 2006; the Czech Republic has a population of 10.2m. Average ticket price grew 3%.The ...
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Romanian Film Center awards $4.5m for new films
The Romanian Film Center (CNC) has approved just over Euros 3.1m($4.5m) in support for 11 new feature films, including projects from Radu Mihaileanu, Titus Munteanu and Razvan Radulescu. The largest sum - $626,000 (Euros 432,000) - went to Mihaileanu's film The Concert, about a Bolshoi Theater manager who loses his ...
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Hungarian Film Week to feature world premiere of Delta
Eighteen films, including nine world premieres, will compete at the 39th Hungarian Film Week in Budapest Jan 29-Feb. Among the most anticipated titles in the competition is the world premiere of Kornel Mundruczo's new film, Delta . The director's 2002 film, Pleasant Days, won a Silver Leopard at Locarno for ...
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Czech box office climbs but 2008 might not continue trend
The Czech box office is trending toward another healthy year, but questions remain whether the upward trend will continue in 2008. Czech admissions passed the 11m mark in October, well ahead of last year's numbers, which were at 10.4m at the end of November. Box office sales were at $57.3m ...
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Czech film-makers see boosts in government and private funding
Three recent developments in the Czech Republic -- one private, two public -- will make an additional $12.8m available to Czech productions next year. The government decided in November to increase the budget of the Culture Ministry this year by $5.7m (CZK 100m) earmarked for Czech cinematography. The money would ...