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Brad Pitt joins Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards for TWC/Universal
Brad Pitt has joined the cast of Quentin Tarantino's upcoming second world war drama Inglorious Bastards for The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Universal Pictures.Pitt, who had been in talks with the director for several months, will play Lieutenant Aldo Raine, the leader of a band of convicts sent on a ...
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Bahman Naraghi joins GK Films as COO
Bahman Naraghi has joined Graham King's GK Films in the newly created role of COO and will lead the Santa Monica-based company's financial and operational development and plan and implement the distribution structure. Naraghi reports directly to King and arrives from Netflix, where he spearheaded that company's push into ...
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Dance Of The Dragon wins in West Hollywood
John Radel's Singaporean drama Dance Of The Dragon was crowned best festival picture as the first annual West Hollywood International Film Festival concluded its four-day run.The film earned best director editing and cinematography prizes.Festival founder Martin De Luca and his team corralled more than 100 films during the event, which ...
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TIFF announces Asian and Spanish-language titles
The Toronto International Film Festival has added a raft of Spanish-language and Asian titles to its September line-up, including the world premiere of South Korean filmmaker So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain, the follow-up to her acclaimed 2006 debut In Between Days. Inspired by events in her own life, the new ...
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Montreal unveils competition titles, full line-up
The Montreal World Film Festival announced its full line-up, including 20 films in its official competition alongside festival opener Christophe Barratier's period drama Paris 36 announced yesterday. In all, MWFF festival president Serge Losique and vice-president Danielle Cauchard unwrapped 234 feature films, 105 of which are world or international premieres.Competition ...
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Break-Up Artist wraps for Legacy, Double Edge and Triumphant
Production has wrapped on Legacy Filmworks, Double Edge Entertainment and Triumphant Pictures' romantic comedy The Break-Up Artist.Amanda Crew, who stars opposite James Marsden in Summit Entertainment's upcoming release Sex Drive, plays a businesswoman who runs a break-up service and falls in love with a client.Legacy Filmworks' Deboragh Gabler produced and ...
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Anita Nelving named managing director of CineVegas
Anita Nelving has been appointed managing director at the CineVegas Film Festival and will oversee all festival departments and its year-round schedule of events.Nelving begins work on September 2 and will also be responsible for approving budgetary decisions and overseeing the festival's relationships with other arts organisations and Las Vegas ...
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Regent signs two-year deal with horror man De Coteau
Regent Studios has signed a two-year deal with horror film-maker David DeCoteau's Rapid Heart Pictures that includes ten films and two TV series.DeCoteau is currently in development with Regent on Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit And The Pendulum as well as two further films in The Brotherhood vampire franchise that ...
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Russian action star Nevsky announces Hercules project
Russian action star Alexander Nevsky will star in Hercules: The Beginning and will produce through his Hollywood Storm production company.The $12m title is in pre-production and comes at a time when Universal Pictures and Nu Image/Millennium are also lining up projects based on the Greek deity.Hollywood Storm wrapped production recently ...
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Barratier's Paris 36 to open Montreal World Film Festival
Christophe Barratier's Paris 36 will make its world premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 21. Written by Barratier from an original idea by Frank Thomas, Jean-Michel Derenne and Reinhardt Wagner, the film stars Gerard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder, Bernard-Pierre Donadieu and Maxence Perrin. Set ...
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Gore Verbinski signs three-year, first-look deal at Universal
Universal Pictures has signed a three-year first-look deal with Gore Verbinski that will kick off with the adaptation of 2K's hit video game BioShock.John Logan, who earned Oscar nominations for The Aviator and Gladiator, adapted the screenplay. The game requires players to assume the role of a crash survivor who ...
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Shoreline acquires worldwide rights to Asylum Seekers
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Rania Ajami's comedy Asylum Seekers.The story centres on six bored people who attempt to get admitted into an insane asylum in a bid to spice up their lives. With only one bed available, the six men and women must compete against each other ...
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Sloan has contract extended for three years as head of MGM
Harry E Sloan has extended his tenure as MGM chairman and CEO and said the next three years will be 'a testament to the power, passion and creative vision of our new management team.'Sloan joined MGM in October 2005 and has worked to revive the company's ambitions to return as ...
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Canadian newcomer NeoClassics buys The Black Balloon from Icon
Canadian distributor NeoClassics Films has paid mid-six figures for North American rights from Icon Entertainment International to the Australian coming-of-age comedy The Black Balloon.Neoclassics, a start-up that has offices in Los Angeles, plans a limited release in October on Elissa Down's feature directorial debut about a teenage boy whose efforts ...
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Pinewood & Shepperton photo exhibit to open in New York City
A photography exhibition showcasing behind-the-scenes images of great star at work at the UK's Pinewood and Shepperton Studios over the last 50 years will open at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Aug 14 and run through to Sept 5.Entitled 'Capturing Film History In The Making', the exhibit ...
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The Dark Knight nears $400m in North America, beats Mummy 3
The Dark Knight stayed on top for the third consecutive weekend, edging out The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor as it bears down on $400m in record time. Warner Bros' champion added an estimated $43.8m for $394.9m in what was the second biggest third weekend in history behind Spider-Man's ...
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Dragon Emperor reigns over international box office for UPI
Launching across 3,559 sites in 28 territories, Universal's The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor was Hollywood's runaway champion of the international arena this weekend and grossed an estimated $59.5m for asuperb $16,700 per-screen average. Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) The Dark Knight crossed $200m and remains a potent force ...
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Italian executive Gianandrea Mutti dies after motorcycle accident
Gianandrea Mutti, a ten-year employee of the marketing department for Italian distributor BIM has died while recovering from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.Bim's founder and President Valerio De Paolis told Screen Daily in an emotional conversation, 'I felt an affection for him that went beyond work.'The forty-one year old ...
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Kaltman named to vp corporate communications post at MPAA
Elizabeth Kaltman has been named vice president of corporate communications at The Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) in the wake of Kori Bernards' departure to become senior vice president of media relations at Universal Pictures.Kaltman has served as director of corporate communications for more than two years and will ...
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Arthouse acquires worldwide rights to documentary Milton Glaser
Arthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to Wendy Keys' documentary Milton Glaser: To Inform And Delight and plans a 2009 theatrical release.Arthouse Films will also distribute the portrait of the iconic American graphic designer through its output deals with Mongrel Media in Canada, Revolver Entertainment in the UK, Madman Entertainment ...