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Sony leads domestic box office weekend with Paul Blart, Underworld 3
Kevin James, the star of TV's King Of Queens and a familiar supporting player in comedy features, confirmed his place in the big league as his first lead role in Sony's Paul Blart: Mall Cop stayed top in its second weekend, grossing an estimated $21.5m for an impressive $64.8m after ...
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Arthouse Films picks up worldwide on Doug Pray's Art & Copy
Arthouse Films announced last night [January 24] that it had picked up worldwide rights to Doug Pray's Sundance documentary Art & Copy as the festival came to a close.David Koh and Lilly Bright negotiated the deal on behalf of Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment with Josh Braun of Submarine ...
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Slumdog takes PGA Award, inches closer to Oscar glory
Slumdog Millionaire produced by Christian Colson maintained its remarkable awards season momentum by taking the Darryl F Zanuck Producer of the Year Award for a theatrical feature in the 2009 Producers Guild Of America awards on Saturday night [January 24].Wall-E won the award for animated feature of the year and ...
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Sundance sensation Push wins both jury and audience prizes
Push: Based On The Novel By Sapphire, Lee Daniels' universally acclaimed redemptive tale starring Gabourey Sidibe as a troubled young girl in Harlem, has won the 2009 Sundance US Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize and the audience award. Heading into Saturday night's awards ceremony [January 24] a number of buyers ...
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GK Films sets Knightley, Farrell for London Boulevard
Keira Knightley and Colin Farrell have boarded GK Films' crime drama London Boulevard, set to begin shooting in and around London in early summer.William Monahan, who won the 2007 adapted screenwriting Oscar for The Departed that also earned GK Films chief Graham King the best picture award, wrote the screenplay ...
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A Quiet Little Marriage wins narrative jury award at Slamdance
Mo Perkins' A Quiet Little Marriage won the grand jury award for best narrative feature and the grand jury award for best documentary feature went to Strongman by Zachary Levy as the 15th annual Slamdance Film Festival came to a close at the weekend.Best narrative short went to Kazik Radwanski's ...
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David Mackenzie's Spread sold to Anchor Bay in $3.5m deal
Anchor Bay has paid in the region of $3.5m for US and Australian rights to Spread, David Mackenzie's LA hustler tale starring Ashton Kutcher.The distributor, which is ramping up its theatrical operations, closed the deal with CAA and Endeavor Independent late on Friday afternoon [January 23] following several days of ...
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Nominees react to their Oscar nods from Mumbai to Hollywood
Nominees were celebrating from Los Angeles to Mumbai to London on Thursday as news of the Academy Awards nominations flashed around the world. Speaking from the Indian premiere of Slumdog Millionaire in Mumbai, producer Christian Colson said local celebrations over the ten nominations earned by the film - which was ...
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Williams, Cattrall, Wilkinson, Belushi join Polanski's The Ghost
Roman Polanski will commence shooting his French-German-UK contemporary thriller The Ghost starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan and new cast members Olivia Williams, Kim Cattrall, Tom Wilkinson and Jim Belushi in Berlin on February 4.Filming will take place mainly in Studio Babelsberg as well as additional locations in Berlin. Summit International ...
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Valkyrie gets big international launch through Fox in eight territories
Seven Pounds ruled the roost last weekend as the Sony Pictures Releasing International drama edged past $40m with a $19m haul.Providing strong competition to the Will Smith movie this weekend will be Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International's Bedtime Stories, which has reached $70m. The family release launches this weekend ...
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Lerman, Hadzihalilovic among Sundance/NHK award winners
Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have announced the four winners of the 2009 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards.The winners were selected from 12 finalists chosen from the regions of Europe, Latin America, the US and Japan by members of an international jury.Winners will be honoured at the Sundance awards ...
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Paramount unveils direct-to-cinema digital support plan
As Hollywood continues to thrash out industry-wide digital cinema strategy and requirements, Paramount Pictures has gone ahead and unveiled a direct-to-cinema support plan.The initiative works in tandem with previously announced agreements with Digital Cinema Implementation Partners, Cinedigm (formerly Access IT), Kodak and Sony, but allows theatre owners to seek financing ...
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IFC Films takes UK comedy In The Loop for US distribution
IFC Films has bought US distribution rights to Armando Iannucci's comedy farce In The Loop, set to get its world premiere here tonight [January 22], and will release on its IFC In Theaters platform later this year.The film will also get channelled through IFC Entertainment's exclusive deal with Blockbuster. IFC's ...
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MarVista attends first EFM with new films including Hutton thriller
Los Angeles-based MarVista Entertainment has unveiled the first EFM slate in its five-year history, led by the action thriller Reflections starring Timothy Hutton and thriller The Watch with Clea DuVall.Reflections sees Hutton cast as an agent who travels to Barcelona to track down a serial killer and finds he has ...
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Summit, Participant partner for multi-year distribution deal
Summit Entertainment and Participant Media have entered into a multi-title, multi-year non-exclusive distribution deal through 2013.The agreement covers co-financing, international sales and a rent-a-system deal encompassing domestic and international theatrical, home entertainment and pay TV. The companies will combine their marketing prowess on releases.Plans call for as many as four ...
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CBS Films names senior marketing team
CBS Films has announced key marketing posts and appointed Teri Boggess, Cherie Crane and Maggie Schmidt to senior positions.The three executives start work in February and will be responsible for designing and implementing all CBS Films' creative advertising, media and publicity campaign outreach and report directly to executive vice president ...
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Peter Morris re-elected as chairman of BAFTA/LA
BAFTA/LA has re-elected Peter Morris as chairman and announced its board of directors for the newyear.
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Nu Image, Pony Canyonstrike multi-title distribution deal in Japan
Los Angeles-based Nu Image has struck a multi-title distribution with Japan's Pony Canyon kicking off with Sylvester Stallone's upcoming action film The Expendables starring Stallone, Jason Statham and Jet Li with Forest Whitaker and Mickey Rourke in talks to join the cast.The story centres on a mercenary suicide mission to ...
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Rosen, McManus named interim co-directors of LAFF
Film Independent senior director Sean McManus and director of programming Rachel Rosen will serve as interim co-directors for the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, filling the gap left by Rich Raddon following his ignominious departure last November.Raddon resigned his post in the wake of a $1,500 donation to the Yes ...