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NewsDeauville reveals line up for 35th edition
The Deauville Festival of American Film has unveiled its line-up for the upcoming 35th edition.
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NewsHarry Potter sweeps the globe with $104m opening day gross
Warners Bros Pictures’ Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince took $58.18m in North America, including the record Tuesday midnight screening tally of $22.2m, and a further $45.85m in 33 international markets for a record breaking one-day global total of $104m.
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NewsCharles Matthau to adapt Elmore Leonard novel Freaky Deaky
Charles Matthau’s production outfit is teaming up with Future Films and Blackwood Entertainment Group to produce Elmore Leonard’s Freaky Deaky.
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NewsGeorge Lucas tops Hollywood earners list
George Lucas was Hollywood’s highest male earner over the past year, racking up £170m between June 2008 and June this year, according to Forbes.com.
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NewsIce Age 3 freezes Bruno out of international box office
Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs dominated Bruno and the rest of the overseas competition with a monstrous second weekend that propelled it past $325m.
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NewsBruno struts to the top of the US box office
Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest comedic incarnation Bruno knocked Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen off its perch thanks to an estimated $30.4m number one launch.
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NewsLionsgate fights off Icahn with board appointment
Independent studio Lionsgate has moved it defend itself from investor activist Carl Ichan by nominating major shareholder, Mark Rachesky, to the board.
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FeaturesUS: Barack Obama throws his weight behind anti-piracy efforts
Wendy Mitchell brings you the US piracy lowdown.
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FeaturesWhy is Canada so high on the IIPA's priority watch list?
Denis Seguin’s piracy report from Canada.
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FeaturesAttack on the Wolf
What impact did the high-profile online leak of X-Men Origins: Wolverine ahead of its theatrical release have on its worldwide box-office performance, asks John Hazelton
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FeaturesExpanding the indie audience
The independent sector may have as much to lose from piracy as the majors. But for some, ‘sharing’ their films - often for free - can build an audience. Wendy Mitchell reports.
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NewsBritish doc Mugabe selected for Oscar-qualifying showcase
Mugabe And The White African, the British-made documentary, has been selected for an Oscar-qualifying screening at the International Documentary Association’s (IDA) 13th Annual Documentary Showcase in Los Angeles and New York.
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FeaturesTales from the script
The hotshot Hollywood duo Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman explain how they learned the key elements of screenwriting and applied them to some of the biggest pictures in the business.
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NewsEurope gives green light to French tax break
The European Commission has given the go-ahead to a French tax break that aims to encourage big-budget foreign films to shoot in the country.
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NewsFox's Ice Age 3 sets opening record for animated film
Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs crushed all before it as an estimated $148m haul from 101 markets through Fox delivered the sixth biggest international launch ever and the biggest animated debut in history.
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NewsDe Menezes film sees strong opening in Brazil
Henrique Goldman’s Jean Charles has taken $416,121 in its opening weekend in Brazil, catapulting it into Screen’s International top 40 chart, despite only opening in the one territory.
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NewsFox's Ice Age 3 dawns in 68 territories day-and-date
20th Century Fox International launches its animated blockbuster-in-waiting Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosuars this weekend on 11,370 prints in 68 territories day-and-date with North America in a bid to knock megahit Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen off the top spot.
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NewsThe Orchard strikes digital distribution partnership with National Lampoon
New York-based entertainment service company The Orchard has struck new partnerships with National Lampoon, IndiePix Films and Indepedent Film Sales.
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CommentIn times of crisis, film must make itself heard
Producer and policy-maker Lord Puttnam called for a stronger political voice from film-makers, when he delivered the keynote at last week’s Edinburgh International Film Festival
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NewsArthur Allan Seidelman to direct Chickadee
Arthur Allan Seidelman is to direct Chickadee, the true story of an Italian immigrant girl who takes her abusive grandfather to court and wins a landmark ruling.