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Montreal to throw spotlight on Bavarian Cinema for 32nd event
The Montreal World Film Festival will spotlight filmmaking from Bavaria at its upcoming 32nd edition. Festival president Serge Losique told Screendaily it was too early to announce any titles. A major delegation of Bavaria-based producers and filmmakers along with representatives of regional funding agency FFF Bayern will attend the event, ...
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11 features lined up for VCU French Film Festival
The 16th annual VCU French Film Festival will take place in Richmond, Virginia, from March 28-30.The event, an initiative of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), is sponsored by the French Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, Unifrance, l'ARP and SACD.11 features will screen at this year's festival. They are Laurent Boutonnat's Jacquou Le ...
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IMAX, Northstar Media pact on 21-title library sales package
IMAX Corp. and US television sales outfit Northstar Media have signed a multi-media distribution agreement that will see Northstar handling worldwide rights on a 21-title package of HD IMAX titles for television, VOD, mobile, and broadband. Compiled under the moniker, the IMAX XXI Film Package, the library slate features such ...
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Torresblanco to speak at US-Mexico Border States conference
Frida Torresblanco, the New York-based producer of Pan's Labyrinth, will be the keynote speaker at a conference entitled US-Mexico Border States Conference: Film-making, Economic Development and Intellectual Property Rights to be held in Tucson, Arizona, March 27 and 28.The event is being sponsored by the University Of Arizona's Hanson Film ...
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World premiere of Mamet's Redbelt set for April 25 at Tribeca
David Mamet's martial arts drama Redbelt will have its world premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and also serve as the gala premiere of the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival on April 25. Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) is releasing the film in North America.Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in the film as ...
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US exhibitor Regal adds 30 IMAX digital screens
Regal Entertainment Group and IMAX Corp. have signed a joint venture agreement that will see an addition 30 digital projection systems to the Regal Cinemas circuit.The deal, which covers 20 major US markets, greatly expands a previously announced joint venture of eight screens and will raise Regal's IMAX screen count ...
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TWC to release two different versions of Fanboys
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has announced the home video release of two separat versions of its comedy Fanboys - about a bunch of Star Wars fans who travel cross country in 1998 to raid George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch and watch the then unreleased Episode I. The company also says it ...
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Tribeca All Access announces 2008 programme, expansion
The Tribeca Film Institute has announced the 37 projects selected for Tribeca All Access, a programme designed to help foster relationships between film industry executives and filmmakers from traditionally under-represented communities.The programme takes place April 21-26 during the Tribeca Film Festival, which takes place April 23 to May 4. Participating ...
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Horton holds on in North America
School kids on their Easter holiday helped keep Fox's Horton Hears A Who! on top at the North American box office this weekend, with the computer animated comedy dropping 44% from its debut weekend to gross an estimated $25.1m over three days. Horton's closest competitor was Tyler Perry's Meet The ...
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10,000 edges Horton at international box office
Leading the international field for the third time in a row, Warner's holdover 10,000 BC grossed an estimated $28.2m from 7,400 prints in 62 territories over the Easter weekend, just beating the estimated $25.2m from 6,600 screens in 49 markets grossed by Fox's expanding Horton Hears A Who!With school breaks ...
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Waisbren warns of impending calamity in US slate financing
In a prescient speech more than a month ago in Berlin, financier Ben Waisbren talked of impending calamity for the US wave of slate financing - banks won't touch such mega-deals again until there is more transparency and a better alignment of investor and studio interests.Click here for comment fromScreen ...
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Screen comment on US equity crisis: Monte Carlo And Bust'
Wall Street's death spiral has claimed its biggest victim so far with the collapse of investment bank, Bear Stearns. Like so many other financial institutions engulfed in the mortgage meltdown, Bear Stearns was also a film financer; as is its new owner, JP Morgan Chase. Now the question is when ...
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Hyde Park's Street Fighter starts shooting in Thailand
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and Capcom have begun principal photography in Thailand on action film Street Fighter - The Legend Of Chun-Li which is based on the popular Japanese video grame franchise.20th Century Fox has domestic distribution rights through its first look, co-production deal with Hyde Park; Hyde Park ...
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Vail Film Festival set for April 3-6 with (RED) collaboration
The fifth annual Vail Film Festival will take place April 3-6 in the popular US ski resort, and is continuing its collaboration with Bono and Bobby Shriver's (RED) initiative which aims to raise awareness and money for AIDS charity The Global Fund.(RED) and the festival will premiere the RED Vision ...
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Yari Film Group drops Alliance for E1 as Canadian output partner
Bob Yari's Yari Film Group has dropped Alliance Films as its Canadian partner in favour of fast-rising Canadian entertainment group Entertainment One (E1).YFG and E1 have signed an exclusive all-rights deal that will see YFG's films released through E1's Seville Pictures subsidiary through 2010.The pact, which begins with the August-scheduled ...
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Truly Indie teams with horse racing venue operator on Saturday doc
US horse-racing venue operator Churchill Downs is partnering with Wagner Cuban distribution division Truly Indie on the US theatrical release of Brad and John Hennegan's documentary The First Saturday In May which will open on April 18.The film chronicles the journey of a cast of six hard-working trainers as they ...
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SPC to launch English-language Persepolis on April 11
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) will release the English-language version of Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis in 100 screens throughout North America on April 11.The English-language version features the voices of Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve in the same roles they voiced for the original - Marjane and Marjane's mother ...
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Lovett, Stanton join stellar cast of Odd Lot's The Open Road
Lyle Lovett and Harry Dean Stanton have joined the cast of Michael Meredith's The Open Road which is currently in production in Louisiana and other parts of the south.The film, produced by Odd Lott Entertainment, stars Jeff Bridges, Justin Timberlake, Kate Mara and Mary Steenburgen in the story of a ...
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Participant teams with Tapestry on comedy Minimum Wage
Participant Media is teaming with Tapestry Films for the comedy Minimum Wage, the story of a crooked corporate executive convicted of fraud and sentenced to spend a year living on minimum wage in the town his company bankrupted.Tegan West and Scott Atkinson will write the screenplay for the project which ...
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The Film Department greenlights Zeta Jones, Freundlich comedy
Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's The Film Department has greenlit an untitled romantic comedy starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and written and directed by Bart Freundlich which is set to start shooting on April 17.The project is a romantic comedy set in New York City about a 25 year-old man who becomes ...