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United Artists reaches agreement with striking writers
Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner's United Artists (UA)has become the first Hollywood Film company to reach a deal with striking screenwriters.The agreement was announced yesterday and welcomed by theWriters Guild of America (WGA), the union at the centre of the dispute.Few details have been revealed buta joint UA-WGA statement said ...
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Picture This! takes US rights to Voleurs De Chevaux
Picture This! Entertainment has acquired US rights from Paris-based Rezo to first-time feature director Micha Wald's Voleurs De Chevaux.The company will release the epic adventure this summer under its English title In The Arms Of My Enemy following the US premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.The film centres ...
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Golden Globes show cancelled under WGA pressure
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has cancelled its full-length awards banquet and telecast on January 13 because of the writers strike and instead will announce the Golden Globe winners in a simple press conference on the same day.The HFPA will unveil the winners in 25 categories of the 65th ...
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Tarantino, Reitman, Luna lined up for Sundance jury
Quentin Tarantino, Marcia Gay Harden, Juno director Jason Reitman and Diego Luna are among the jurors selected by the Sundance Institute for this month's festival in Park City.Tarantino, Harden and Luna will sit on the dramatic competition jury alongside film-maker Mary Harron and actress Sandra Oh.Documentary competition jurors are IFP ...
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Relativity Media forms investment fund subsidiary
Relativity Media has formed wholly owned subsidiary Relativity Capital to act as a principal investor in its major media transactions.Essentially a fund that is expected to commit more than $1bn in transactions, Relativity Capital's investments will include studio slates, the Relativity Single Picture Business, library acquisitions and other media-related cash ...
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Seven films make shortlist for best make-up Oscar
Seven films have made the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' shortlist for the make-up category.The films in alphabetical order are: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly; Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix; La Vie En Rose; Norbit; Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End; Sweeney Todd ...
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Amalric, Kurylenko and Arterton join Craig in Bond 22
Principal photography has begun at Pinewood Studios in the UK on Eon Productions, Sony Pictures Entertainment and MGM's Bond 22.Marc Forster directs and Daniel Craig reprises his role as 007 in the film following his acclaimed debut in the global smash Casino Royale, which launched in 2006 and is the ...
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Deakins, Elswit, Kaminski and McGarvey nominated for ASC award
Roger Deakins (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford and No Country For Old Men), Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood), Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly) and Seamus McGarvey (Atonement) have been nominated for the 22nd Annual American Society Of Cinematographers' (ASC) feature film ...
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Golden Globe Awardsfate to be decided today
An announcement is expected later today (Monday) in Los Angeles concerning the fate of this year's Golden Globe Awards in the midst of the Hollywood writers' strike. Stay tuned to ScreenDaily.com for breaking news.There is rampant speculation of several outcomes concerning the Globes: that the ceremony could be postponed in ...
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WBPI's Legend survives with $34m take at international box office
I Am Legend kept on top of the overseas competition as an estimated $34m weekend haul through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) from approximately 3,900 prints in 36 territories catapaulted the cumulative total to $170.2m.The weekend was dominated by a mighty $8.5m (A$9.8m) Australian number one launch on 338 prints ...
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Blood is runaway favourite at National Society Of Film Critics
The National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) voted Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood best picture at the weekend and named Anderson best director and the film's Daniel Day-Lewis best actor.The group voted Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days best foreign language film and No End ...
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AMPAS names winners of Scientific & Technical achievement awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced 10 winners of Scientific and Technical Academy Awards that will be presented at a ceremony in Beverly Hills on February 9.Unlike other Academy Awards, achievements receiving scientific and technical awards need not have been developed and introduced during 2007, however ...
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Disney gets more box office Treasure in US, while Juno soars
Buena Vista's National Treasure: Book Of Secrets held on to top spot for the third consecutive weekend thanks to an estimated $20.2m haul that raised the tally to $171m as the first weekend of 2008 got off to an auspicious start.The adventure sequel starring Nicolas Cage should overtake the $173m ...
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Seven films shortlisted for Visual Effects Oscar
Seven films have been shortlisted for the Oscar for achievement in visual effects by the effects branch of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences. They are 300, The Bourne Ultimatum, Evan Almighty, The Golden Compass, I Am Legend, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End and Transformers.Members of ...
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BAFTA unveils five foreign nominees including Lust, Caution
The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) have announced five nominees for its Film Not In The English Language Award. Those films are The Diving Bell and The Butterfly; The Kite Runner; The Lives OfOthers; Lust,Caution; and La Vie En Rose.
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27 Dresses
Dir: Anne Fletcher. US, 2008. 111minsWell cast, slickly produced and performed with enough spirit to counterbalance its frequently stupendous lack of originality and plausibility, 27 Dresses pulls all the right levers for (mostly female) diehard romantic comedy audiences looking for just a pinch of wistfulness to go alongsidestray wish-fulfillment scenarios.Having ...
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Chipmunks land in Australia, Brazil, six other territories
Warner Bros Pictures International top brass will expect robust holdover business to boost the $117m running total of last weekend's box office champion I Am Legend.There are no releases scheduled for the sci-fi horror this weekend however several major launches lies ahead in the coming weeks, the first of which ...
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Maycock appointed managing director of Technicolor (Thailand)
Ian Maycock has been appointed managing director of Technicolor (Thailand), the Bangkok-based facility film lab which provides servicing for films, commercials and documentary projects.Maycock moves into the position from his role as director, business development. He has been with Technicolor since May 2007.The facility was established in Bangkok in 1977 ...
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Keinohrhasen leads non-US films in Screen international chart
German film Keinohrhasen was this weekend's highest non-US performer in the international top 40, generating a robust $7.6m over the three-day period.The top 40 international films generated $269.1m from 49,546 screens for the period of December 28-30.For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.The romantic comedy was ...
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Sean Penn to head 61st Cannes Film Festival jury
Sean Penn will head the jury at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, organisers have announced.The 61st festival runs May 14-25.'In the last few years, it seems there has been a rejuvenation of cinema building worldwide; increasingly thoughtful, provocative, moving, and imaginative films by talented filmmakers: that a new generation of ...