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National Lampoon’s Cattle Call

PKG Entertainment has reached an agreement with Sunset Pictures and Proactive Media for the rights to domestic retail distribution of the soundtrack from the soon-to-be-released National Lampoon film, “Cattle Call.” “Capturing the distribution rights on this National Lampoon soundtrack represents a major stepping stone for PKG, not only because it moves us into the film arena, ….

Korea becoming filmmaker’s haven?

As the high quality of Korean film-related technology has become known, thanks to the so-called Korean syndrome that is sweeping across Asia, the Korea Tourism Organization plans to expand the Korean heat even further by conducting an aggressive campaign to attract foreign filmmakers and producers to Korea. The Board’s Bangkok office successfully convinced a major ….

21st Israeli Film Festival

The 21st Israeli Film Festival runs from February 23rd – March 9, 2006. The festival’s Opening Night Film is the sensitive drama OUT OF SIGHT, directed by Daniel Syrkin, winner, Best Director 2005 Israeli Film Academy Awards. After the suicide of her best friend, Ya’ara, a beautiful, intelligent, confident blind woman returns to Israel for ….

Prizes for ManiaTV Film Festival

ManiaTV! Film Festival Forum I wanted to let you know that ManiaTV!’s 2nd annual Film Festival is around the corner and we got some awesome prizes for you to win. Each category winner will receive 1 of the following: A collection of 15 DVDs, either a Lowepro Omni Trekker and Trekker Extreme or a Rolling ….

Final Destination 3 hits theaters runnin’

New Line Cinema’s Final Destination 3 opened with an impressive $19,173,000 million performance at the box office this weekend, marking the most successful opening in the franchise’s history. Final Destination 3, which opened in 2,880 theaters, improved on the openings of the first two installments of the franchise significantly – the first Final Destination opened ….

IMAX to Get V for Vendetta

IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that V For Vendetta, a thrilling action- adventure from the creators of The Matrix trilogy, will be simultaneously released to IMAX and conventional theatres on March 17, 2006. Produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski Brothers, directed by James McTeigue and starring Natalie Portman, V For Vendetta ….

Cannes Film Festival Looking for Hip Hop Films

The Cannes Film Festival’s International Critics’ Week (SIC – Semaine Internationale de la Critique) has joined forces with Hip-Hop multimedia communications company, Punch Media to ensure a greater influx of diverse films for potential 2006 jury selection. In order to better meet its goals of diversity in selection, particularly from the U.S. market, SIC is ….

Zathura movie clips here

Here are 11 movie clips from Zathura, which opens on November 11, 2005: Clip 1 – “2 Favorite People”  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip1_high.asx  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip1_low.asx  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip1_high.ram  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip1_low.ram  Clip 2 – “Meteor Shower”  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip2_high.asx  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip2_low.asx  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip2_high.ram  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip2_low.ram  Clip 3 – “Sleep Chamber”  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip3_high.asx  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip3_low.asx  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip3_high.ram  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip3_low.ram  Clip 4 – “Zathura Awaits”  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip4_high.asx  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip4_low.asx  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…clip4_high.ram  http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/z…/clip4_low.ram  Clip 5 – “Defective Robot”  ….

G opens in theaters on October 28th

This is part of an open call to drum up support for “G,” a new movie which  opens around the country on Friday October 28th. “G” is a contemporary  African-American romance inspired by the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald story  The Great Gatsby. This film was produced independently because Hollywood Studios chose to pass on it based on their ….

Hannibal is back

Here is a brief synopsis of Young Hannibal, a.k.a. Behind the Mask, a.k.a. Hannibal 4, a.k.a. The Lecter Variation: The Story of Young Hannibal Lecter: Based on Thomas Harris’ upcoming book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lechter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ….