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Kerasotes Showplace Theatres heads to be honoured at ShoWest
Kerasotes Showplace Theatres chairman and CEO Tony Kerasotes and president and COO Dean Kerasotes will be honoured as 2009 ShoWesters Of The Year in Las Vegas on March 31.Tony Kerasotes has more than 40 years of experience in exhibition and sits on the executive committee of the National Association Of ...
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LA's Principal Communications Group allies with Abrams Research
Paul Pflug and Melissa Zukerman's strategic corporate communications firm Principal Communications Group has struck an alliance with new consultancy Abrams Research Group.Principal will identify new clients in the media and entertainment fields for Abrams, which offers business leaders industry insight through its network of freelance media professionals.Abrams Research was founded ...
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Myriad sets Puerto Rico shoot for comic book adaptation Hybrid
Principal photography will commence in May in Puerto Rico on Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Myriad Pictures and Studio 407's live-action comic book adaptation Hybrid.The horror story falls under the first-look deal between Myriad and Studio 407 and is being directed by Ernie Barbarash. Myriad is handling worldwide ...
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Four producers named in The Reader's best picture Oscar nomination
The producers branch executive committee of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has ruled that the late Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack shall be credited with producing The Reader alongside Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris.The executive committee convened because four producers were listed on the credits form submitted ...
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San Francisco Film Society secures $3m in funding over next five years
The San Francisco Film Society has secured $3m in funding over the next five years from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation to support narrative features made in the San Francisco Bay Area.The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants support films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, anti-discrimination, ...
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John Irvin to direct Bosnian conflict action film The Filthy War
New York-based Mozgofilms has hired Briton John Irvin to direct the Bosnian conflict action film The Filthy War.Filming is scheduled to begin in spring on location and studios in Hungary with a yet-to-be announced international star in the lead.The story centres on Eduardo, a footloose journalist who organises an international ...
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Death Ray Films, Maya team for comic book adaptation El Zombo Fantasma
Death Ray Films and Maya Entertainment are to adapt the Dark Horse comic book El Zombo Fantasma for the big screen.El Zombo Fantasma was created by David Wilkins and Kevin Munroe and will be produced under the Death Ray Films label recently formed by Chris Patton, Munroe and Robert Sanchez, ...
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Film Movement picks up US rights to Sorin's The Window
Film Movement has picked up all US rights to Carlos Sorin's Argentine drama The Window (LA Ventana) and will release the drama theatrically in May.The Spanish-language film won the FIPRESCI Award at the Valladolid International Film Festival and was an official selection in Toronto last year.Antonio Larreta stars as a ...
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E1 Entertainment to distribute Christal Films titles worldwide
E1 Entertainment (formerly Entertainment One) has signed an exclusive long-term Canadian distribution and international sales agreement with Christal Films Productions for all the Montreal company's feature films worldwide. The deal covers all films produced by Christal founder Christian Larouche. Larouche's distribution company, Christal Films Distribution, declared bankruptcy in May of ...
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Jim Amos promoted to president of Sony Pictures Releasing
Jim Amos has been promoted to president of Sony Pictures Releasing to fill the slot vacated by Rory Bruer, who was recently promoted to president of worldwide distribution for Sony Pictures Worldwide Marketing & Distribution.Amos previously served as Sony Pictures' division manager and senior vice president of distribution for the ...
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Ortenberg leaves Lionsgate to run theatrical arm of TWC
The Weinstein Company has issued a bold statement of intent about the strength of its upcoming slate and commitment to theatrical releasing by hiring Lionsgate veteran Tom Ortenberg as president of theatrical films.Ortenberg served more than 12 years at Lionsgate, most recently as president of theatrical films, and will commence ...
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Hardwicke, Hunt, Levine among Film Independent Directors panelists
Directors Catherine Hardwicke, Courtney Hunt and Jonathan Levine will be among the panelists at Film Independent's ninth annual Directors Close-Up: Conversations On The Art Of Filmmaking series, set to run at The Landmark - West Los Angeles from February 4- March 11.Subjects under discussion will include music and sound design, ...
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Slumdog takes ensemble cast honours at the SAG Awards
Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire cemented its status as the Oscar favourite as it won the 15th annual SAG Awards' ensemble cast prize on Sunday night [January 25], while Sean Penn, Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet and Heath Ledger took the top individual acting honours.Penn's acclaimed performance in Focus Features' Milk as ...
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Valkyrie leads international box office with $13.2m in 13 markets
20th Century Fox continues to dominate the International box office in 2009 with another strong showing this weekend, lead by the much anticipated opening ofValkyrie.Tom Cruise sits atop the Hollywood overseas releases after the MGM/UA release Valkyrieplundered an estimated $13.2m through Fox International from 2,283 screens in 13 markets.The wartime ...
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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 ...