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Screen Media Films takes domestic rights to Lymelife
Screen Media Films has picked up US rights to Derick Martini's drama Lymelife following its world premiere at Toronto last month, where it won the FIPRESCI Discovery AwardLymelife takes place in the 1970s in a Long Island community afflicted by an outbreak of Lime Disease. The ensemble cast features Alec ...
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DreamWorks and Universal sign distribution deal
Universal and DreamWorks have signed a seven-year worldwide distribution deal in a much anticipated move that is understood to cover up to six films a year commencing sometime in 2009.Speculation had been rife in recent weeks as to which studio would distribute the DreamWorks slate following the recent departure from ...
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Evans, Jurjens launch sales outfit Tavix Pictures at AFM
Producer Casey Evans and director Brad Jurjens have announced they will launch the distribution company Tavix Pictures at AFM, which runs from November 5-12 in Santa Monica.The inaugural slate includes Jurjens' action thriller Hired Gun starring Michael Madsen, John W Kim's Hitchcockian thriller Blur and Michael O'Brien's baby boomer documentary ...
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Chihuahua bites $17.5m for number one spot at domestic box office
Historically American audiences have been happy to anoint talking animals as their champions and so it was little surprise that Buena Vista's Beverly Hills Chihuahua was the top dog in its second week of release.The family film added an estimated $17.5m to raise the running total to $52.5m and had ...
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Russia's Admiral has huge local bow for Fox International
A local Russian hit and a Hollywood paranoia thriller knocked Mamma Mia off its perch after a grand five-week reign as international champion.The Russian market has yielded mighty returns this year for local titles in particular and the trend continued as Fox International opened Channel 1/Solyaris' Admiral (Kolchak) in Russia ...
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Theresa Peters leaves WMA to become partner at UTA
United Talent Agency (UTA) has scored a coup and lured Theresa Peters following a 14-year stint at the William Morris Agency.Peters becomes the 18th partner and an agent in the UTA talent department and brings a client list that includes James McAvoy, Kirsten Dunst, Mads Mikkelsen, Mandy Moore and Hugh ...
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Danny Glover joins voice cast of UK animatronics feature Agent Crush
Danny Glover has joined the voice cast of animatronics adventure Agent Crush which is being sold worldwide by Fantastic Films International.He joins a cast already including Ioan Gruffudd, Neve Campbell, Brian Blessed, Brian Cox, Alice Evans and Roger Moore.The film has already completed principal photography in the UK using state-of-the-art ...
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Erin Stam joins Participant as svp of production
Erin Stam has been named senior vice president of production at Participant Media, and will be responsible for supervising the development and overseeing the production of narrative features for the company.She reports to Jonathan King, executive vice president of production at Participant.Stam joins Participant from Spyglass Entertainment where she was ...
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Sundance Institute, Time Warner name 2008 storytelling fellows
The Sundance Institute and Time Warner have named the recipient of the 2008 Time Warner Storytelling Fellows as playwright Kristen Greenidge and film-makers John Magary and Dees Rees.Greenidge participated in the 2008 Sundance Theatre Lab with her project Bossa Nova while Magary with Blood Abundance, Or The Half-Life Of Antoinette ...
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Rio winners led by Should Nothing Else Work Out, Dead Girl's Feast
The winners of the 2008 Rio International Film Festival were announced tonight at the closing award ceremony at Odeon theatre. The Premiere Brasil's best film prize, known as the Redentor award, was given to Se Nada Mais Der Certo (Should Nothing Else Work Out), directed by Jose Eduardo Belmonte. One ...
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Eagle and Bunny chase Mamma in international marketplace
Expansion by studio releases including Eagle Eye and The House Bunny could finally end the reign of international box office queen Mamma Mia! this weekend. Having hunted down $17.5m to date from the first stage of its international roll-out, DreamWorks-Paramount thriller Eagle Eye swoops into its first major European and ...
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Interview: Ridley Scott
'Ridley Scott is the most efficient director I've ever worked with,' says Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars in Scott's latest epic Body Of Lies.'There are not many people able to focus simultaneously on six or seven different cameras at various angles and be a human editing machine. He's got seven monitors ...
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Eight films shortlisted for documentary short subject Oscar
Eight films have been shortlisted for the documentary short subject Oscar by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Three to five will make the final nominations shortlist announced on Jan 22 next year.Voters from the Academy's documentary branch viewed this year's 31 eligible contenders and submitted their ballots ...
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AFI FEST to include tributes to Danny Boyle, Tilda Swinton
AFI FEST has announced its full programme which includes a tribute to Danny Boyle preceding a screening of Slumdog Millionaire and a tribute to Tilda Swinton including a clip retrospective of her career and a Q&A session with the actress.The 22nd annual festival, running from Oct 30 to Nov 9, ...
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Canadian government reverses course on tax credit legislation
Canada's Conservative minority government has promised to drop controversial tax credit legislation that chilled the film and television production industry earlier this year. The omnibus tax bill, C-10, would have allowed the government to withhold a producer's tax credit if that production were deemed contrary to 'public policy.' With Canadians ...
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Cinetic Rights Management plans online premiere for Yeast
Cinetic Rights Management (CRM) is planning a web premiere of Mary Bronstein's SXSW title Yeast on the online video site Dailymotion. Headed by former SXSW film festival director Matt Dentler, CRM was launched earlier this year with a mandate to exploit the online potential of its clients' work. Yeast, which ...
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IFC picks up Jaoui's Let It Rain, Annila's Sauna
IFC Films has acquired Agnes Jaoui's latest film Let It Rain which has its North American premiere on Friday at the New York Film Festival.IFC has also picked up North American rights to AJ Annila's gothic horror film Sauna which had its world premiere at Toronto recently.Jaoui's social satire stars ...
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Shoreline picks up worldwide rights to Spring 1941
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Spring 1941 the first ever Israeli-Polish co-production, which stars Joseph Fiennes and Clare Higgens. Directed by Uri Barbash (Beyond The Walls) and financed by the Israeli Rabinavitz Film Fud and the Polish Film Insititute, the film is the story ...
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Competitive 3D Film Festival launches this month in Florida
The first ever 3-D Film & Interactive Festival (3DFF) will take place in Orlando, Florida, from Oct 10-12 and continue at nearby Cocoa Beach from Oct 17-19. The festival is hosted by AMC Entertainment and presented by RealD 3D, The Kerner Company, Domaine de Canton and Florida's Space Coast. The ...