All Americas articles – Page 156
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NewsTerminator Salvation squares up to Night At The Museum 2 in overseas box office battle
Terminator Salvation unleashes a furious assault on overseas champion Night At The Museum 2 this weekend as the latest entry in the long-running sci-fi canon rolls out the big guns.
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NewsNight At The Museum 2 sets Chinese record for Fox
Night At The Museum 2 took over the top spot at the international box office this weekend, while Up made a strong start in a single territory.
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NewsPhiladelphia gay & lesbian festival relaunches as Philadelphia QFest
In its 15th year the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival has been rebranded the Philadelphia QFest as organisers announced other changes ahead of the July 9-20 event.
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NewsNantucket to start new children's festival in August
The Massachusetts island of Nantucket will host the inaugural Nantucket children’s Film Festival from August 9-14, 2009.
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NewsParamount Vantage rounds up buyers for Eisner's Crazies
Paramount Vantage saw strong sales in Cannes for director Breck Eisner’s The Crazies, the reinvention of George A Romero’s 1973 horror thriller that has just wrapped production.
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NewsStar Trek ready to land in Japan as Angels fly to India
The international debut of Up in Russia and Star Trek’s landing in Japan are the highlights of a relatively quiet weekend at the international box office.
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NewsNew York City hopes to extend but trim film tax credit
Legislation is being introduced this week to seek $24m to extend New York City’s popular film and TV tax credit programme until 2011, but the move aims to trim the rebate from 5% to 4%.
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NewsLAFF to open with Paper Man starring Jeff Daniels
The Los Angeles Film Festival will open on June 18 with the world premiere of Paper Man.
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NewsCassian Elwes, Rena Ronson to leave William Morris Endeavor
William Morris Independent’s heads Cassian Elwes and Rena Ronson will leave the merged William Morris Endeavor (WME) Entertainment superagency, a company spokesman has confirmed.
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NewsGoldwyn ties up US rights to Yellow Handkerchief
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Udayan Prasad’s The Yellow Handkerchief.
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NewsBAFTA/LA to honour Blunt with Britannia Award
BAFTA/LA will honour Emily Blunt with the Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year.
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NewsHBO dances with Sweethearts Of The Prison Rodeo
HBO Documentary Films has acquired US rights to Sweethearts Of The Prison Rodeo directed by Bradley Beesley.
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NewsLos Angeles Film Festival to host US premiere of Transformers sequel
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen will have its US premiere on June 22 as part of the Los Angeles Film Festival.
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Sarasota's Kielbasa heads to Virginia Film Festival
Jody Kielbasa has been named as the new director of the Virginia Film Festival.
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NewsAdlabs' BIG to open Chicago multiplex
Adlabs’ exhibition arm, BIG Cinemas, is opening its first BIG-branded cinema in the US, with a five-screen multiplex planned in Chicago.
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NewsNewport festival to kick off June 3 with In The Loop
The 12th annual Newport International Film Festival will open June 3 with Armando Iannucci’s In The Loop, and will close on June 7 with Pierre Marcel’s new documentary Tabarly.