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Wachowskis' Speed Racer set for simultaneous IMAX release
Warner Bros has announced that the Wachowski Brothers' Speed Racer will be released on IMAX screens simultaneous with its conventional release May 9, 2008.Produced by Joel Silver, written and directed by The Matrix filmmakers and based on the anime series by Tatsuo Yoshida, the film stars Emile Hirsch as the ...
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EFP backs eight European projects in Guadalajara
European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support initiative is backing a range of European films at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in March for the second year.Eight European films are being supported for promotional campaigns via their sales agents at the festival (March 7-14).The films and their sales companies are: Stephan ...
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The Grocer's Son goes to North America with Film Movement
Film Movement has picked up North American rights to Eric Guirado's drama The Grocer's Son.The story centres on a 30-year-old city dweller who is forced to return to Provence to look after his ailing father. Nicolas Cazale and Clotilde Hesme star.'We are so happy to be distributing this incredibly charming ...
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IFC picks up domestic rights to Fear(s) Of The Dark
IFC has picked up all North American rights to Fear(s) Of The Dark, a collection of nightmarish visions by six graphic artists and cartoonists.Blutch, Marie Caillou, Pierre DiSciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire and Charles Burns directed and Valerie Schermann and Christophe Jankovic produced the French-language animated film.IFC Entertainment's vice president ...
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Burn After Reading set for Sept 12 opening in the US
Focus Features will release Joel and Ethan Coen's upcoming comedy Burn After Reading on Sept 12.The dating gives the film prime positioning for premieres at the Venice and Toronto film festivals.George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton star in the story of an ousted CIA agent ...
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New Films International extends Latin American deal with MGM
New Films International (NFI) and MGM Television Group have extended their Latin American output deal by five years.Under the deal MGM will have the right to distribute 70 films from NFI's library as well as any titles produced or acquired during the life of the agreement.The two most recent NFI ...
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Film Source acquires Urban's Preaching To The Perverted
Alex Massis' Florida-based Film Source has acquired Stuart Urban's cult 1998 film Preaching To The Perverted.Preaching To The Perverted is an erotic romp though the underground world of British fetish clubs and tells of a computer geek who is dispatched by moral crusaders to infiltrate and gather evidence against London's ...
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TWC pacts with Bob Marley's widow for reggae biopic
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has teamed up with Rita Marley and producer Rudy Langlais on the adaptation of Marley's autobiography No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley.Production will most likely begin in the first quarter of 2009 in Jamaica and other locations in time for a late 2009 ...
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Away From Her sweeps the board at Canada's Genie Awards
Debut filmmaker Sarah Polley wore out her boots at the 2008 Genie Awards Monday night. The director and screenwriter of Away From Her and her collaborators made their way to the podium seven times in the evening, picking up every major award including Best Picture for producers Daniel Iron, Simone ...
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Alison Lohman takes lead role in Raimi's Drag Me To Hell
Alison Lohman has replaced Ellen Page in Ghost House Pictures and Mandate Pictures' upcoming supernatural thriller Drag Me To Hell.Page exited the project at the weekend due to scheduling conflicts. Lohman will now star as an ambitious career woman who gets cursed by a witch.Sam Raimi will begin directing on ...
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Canadian filmmakers denounce proposed law as censorship
Canada's film and television community is up in arms amidst the revelation of proposed federal legislation that could potentially retract a production's tax-credit eligibility after the fact. Under changes to Bill C-10 introduced by the minority Conservative government, the Income Tax Act would deny a production company its tax credit ...
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LA distributors rep Orange launches film finance division
Mirjam Wertheim's LA-based distributors' rep Orange Entertainment is branching out into film financing through a new division called Orange Film Finance and a first-look deal with Goldcrest Independent.In addition to its existing business, Orange will also serve as a consultant to independent producers helping them secure finance for films by ...
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Vantage Point takes $11.5m for SPRI, but Fox's Jumper is still top
Fox International's sci-fi adventure Jumper triumphed over a strong challenge from Sony's assassination thriller Vantage Point to stay atop the overseas charts for the third consecutive weekend as a $12.8m estimated haul saw the tally vault to $81.9m.Jumper remains active on 4,067 screens in 44 markets and the weekend highlight ...
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Ellen Page drops out of Raimi's Drag Me To Hell
Ellen Page has exited Ghost House Pictures and Mandate Pictures' upcoming horror film Drag Me To Hell due to scheduling conflicts caused by a change in the production start date.Sam Raimi is preparing to direct the tale he co-wrote with his brother Ivan about an ambitious career woman who gets ...
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US box office down with lacklustre Semi Pro opening for New Line
Box office fell for the third consecutive week as the Will Ferrell comedy Semi Pro, New Line's final release before it merges with Warner Bros, launched at number one on a lacklustre $15.3m.This wasn't as good as openings for Ferrell's previous sporting spoofs- Blades Of Glory last year ($33m) and ...
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Telefilm Canada greenlights new films from Villeneuve, Scott
New films from Denis Villeneuve, Sylvain Guy and Ken Scott have been approved through Telefilm Canada's French-language arm. In all seven pictures received a total of $7.13m (C$7m) out of 31 applications. Villeneuve, who has not made a feature since 2000's Maelstrom, returns to the screen with Incendies, his adaptation ...
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Bohm promoted at NBC Universal International TV Distribution
Pauline Bohm has been promoted to senior vice president of marketing at NBC Universal International Television Distribution (NBC UITD).Rachel Mansson has been promoted to vice president of the marketing for the division's international new media unit. She is based in London and reports to Los Angeles-based Bohm.Bohm will continue to ...
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Dano and Deschanel star in Gigantic for Killer, Epoch
Principal photography on the Killer Films and Epoch Films comedy Gigantic starring Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman and Jane Alexander is set to commence in New York on Mar 3.Mindy Goldberg of Epoch and Christine Vachon of Killer Films are producing and first-timer Matt Aselton will direct from a ...
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Jason Isaacs joins Damon, Kinnear in Greengrass' Iraq thriller
Jason Isaacs has joined the cast of Paul Greengrass' untitled Green Zone thriller for Working Title Films and Universal Pictures.Based on the non-fiction book Imperial Life In The Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the film is set in and around the Green Zone, the base of operations for US troops ...
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SPRI opens Vantage Point in 12 markets including Germany, Italy
Fox International's sci-fi romp Jumper will be looking to stay on top of the overseas charts but the film will face stiff competition this weekend.The film launches in Italy on 250 screens and currently stands at more than $61m internationally.The biggest threat to Jumper's reign will come from Sony Pictures ...