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Dark Knight, Benjamin Button among seven effects Oscar finalists
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has announced the seven films shortlisted for the visual effects Oscar.They are: Australia, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Iron Man, Journey To The Center Of The Earth and The Mummy: Tomb Of The ...
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Global Film Initiative signs deal with Virgin America
The Global Film Initiative has signed a deal with Virgin America to show the Global Lens series on the North American domestic airline's RED in-flight entertainment system.Films from the series are now available on demand on all Virgin America flights. The current Global Lens series includes South African comedy Bunny ...
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Regent acquires domestic rights to The Little Traitor
Regent Releasing has acquired North American rights to Panther Productions and Evanstone Films' historical drama The Little Traitor starring Alfred Molina.Lynn Roth wrote and directed the timely story set in Palestine in 1947 about a friendship between a Palestinian boy and a sergeant in the occupying British Army. Ido Port ...
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Lechner to steer production slate for Washington Square
Producer and development executive Jack Lechner has struck a first-look deal with New York and Los Angeles-based based Washington Square Arts & Films (WSF) to expand the company's film slate.Lechner will be based at WSF's Manhattan office in charge of bringing in new projects and shepherding those already on WSF's ...
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Visit Films takes worldwide rights to The Missing Person
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's Visit Films has boarded worldwide rights to Noah Buschel's The Missing Person, set to premiere at Sundance and receive its market premiere in Berlin.Michael Shannon, red hot following his stand-out turn in Revolutionary Road, stars alongside Amy Ryan, and Tony Award winner Frank Wood as ...
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Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, Dark Knight among PGA nominees
The Curious Case Of Benjamin, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Milk and Slumdog Millionaire will contest the Producers Guild Of America's The Darryl F Zanuck Producer Of The Year Award.Man On Wire, Standard Operating Procedure and Trouble The Water are the documentary nominees while Bolt, Kung Fu Panda and Wall-E will ...
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Departures finds US home with Regent Releasing
Regent Releasing has picked up Yojiro Takita's Japanese foreign language Oscar submission Departures for North American distribution.Regent's West Coast general manager and executive vice president distribution and acquisitions Mark Reinhart negotiated the deal with Satoko Ishida of Shochiku. The company plans a limited release this summer.Departures earned 13 Japanese Academy ...
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Relativity Media completes acquisition of Rogue from Universal
Relativity Media has completed its purchase of Rogue Pictures from Universal Pictures, Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh announced on Sunday [January 4].Relativity acquired Rogue's entire library, more than 30 projects in development and ownership of Rogue's producing deals, which encompasses relationships with Wes Craven and Intrepid.The first picture set for release ...
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Marley & Me soars past $100m after second weekend on release
With no major new releases in play the top seven titles stayed put as Fox's comedy Marley & Me started the year as top dog and tore past $100m in its second weekend. Overall box office gained 7.4% on the same weekend last year as the top 12 releases grossed ...
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Waltz With Bashir, Happy-Go-Lucky win with National Society
Waltz With Bashir was named best picture of the year by the National Society of Film Critics with 26 votes, ahead of Happy-Go-Lucky and Wall-E tied in second place with 20 votes apiece.Sean Penn ran away with the best actor prize for Milk on 87 votes, followed by Mickey Rourke ...
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Madagascar 2 continues to lead international with $32.2m weekend
DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa entered 2009 as the top international release and held on to the crown over the weekend courtesy of an estimated $32.2m haul through PPI that raised the tally to $340m.Active in 6,771 sites in 60 territories, the animated sequel has now overtaken the $338m ...
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Cinema Libre, Corsan team on US release of Waiting For Dublin
Cinema Libre Studio will partner with Belgium-based Corsan on the US theatrical release of Roger Tucker's drama Waiting For Dublin.The parties will open the film in New York on March 13 followed by a wider roll-out.Andrew Keegan stars as a second world war fighter pilot who gets involved with the ...
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AFI names 2008 Moments Of Significance
The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced its AFI Moments Of Significance for 2008, the eight noteworthy events 'determined to have had an impact on the world of the moving image during the calendar year 2008.'The AFI Moments of Significance selections are:Slumdog Millionaire - A celebration of the global filmThe ...
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Sundance adds Strouse's The Winning Season to festival lineup
Sundance has added the world premiere of Jim Strouse's comedy The Winning Season starring Sam Rockwell as a misfit brought in to coach his local girls high school basketball team.Emma Roberts, Rob Corddry, Shareeka Epps and Emily Rios also star in the film, which will play out of competition and ...
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Madagascar 2 tops lucrative international holiday weekend
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa had the chops to stay on top of the competition and surge past $275m in a rigorous final weekend of 2008 that delivered strong results for Fox's Australia and The Day The Earth Stood Still, Disney's Bedtime Stories, Warner Bros' Yes Man and Summit International's Twilight.DreamWorks ...
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Fox's Marley & Me leads domestic Christmas box office
Fox's comedy Marley & Me starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston soared to the top of the charts over a lucrative Christmas weekend on an estimated $37m, beating out heavyweight contenders from Buena Vista and Paramount.Marley & Me, a tale about a couple and their dog, set a new Christmas ...
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Fox launches Australia into 44 territories for Christmas weekend
Fox International's epic adventure Australia gets a big push over the Christmas weekend in a jam-packed few days that is expected to produce considerable gains too for sci-fi stablemate The Day The Earth Stood Still, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International's new family release Bedtime Stories and Warner Bros Pictures ...
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Sao Paulo critics name Linha de Passe, Hills Of Disorder best of 2008
The film critics of APCA, Sao Paulo Arts Critics Association, gave their top honor of best film this year to two titles: Linha de Passe, Walter Salles' and Daniela Thomas' urban drama which premiered in competition at Cannes, and Andrea Tonacci's The Hills of Disorder. Linha de Passe follows the ...
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Carrey's Yes Man leads North American box office with $18.2m take
Jim Carrey won the face-off with Will Smith as Warner Bros' comedy Yes Man debuted at number one in the pre-Christmas weekend on an estimated $18.2m, but it was a subdued weekend as storms battered the North-East.Overall box office fell off 44% against the same period last year as the ...
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Koltai-Levine sets up marketing company MKL Partners
Former Picturehouse marketing chief Marian Koltai-Levine has announced the marketing company MKL Partners.'Today more than ever, the marketplace seems ripe for a new kind of marketing firm: One that develops diverse, strategic campaigns, offers a breadth of talent to deliver results, and expands or contracts based on client needs,' Koltai-Levine ...