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Deauville competition includes Snow Angels, Towelhead
The line up for the 34th Deauville Festival of American Film includes the first directorial effort from American Beauty writer Alan Ball, Towelhead. Also on deck for the competition are David Gordon Green's Snow Angels and Tom McCarthy's critically acclaimed The Visitor. In total, the competition includes 11 films, five ...
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Stewart Wade's Tru Loved gets North American home with here!
here! Films has acquired North American rights to Stewart Wade's gay-themed drama Tru Loved that sister company Regent Releasing will distribute this autumn.Tru Loved follows a 16-year-old girl who is moved by her lesbian mothers from their tolerant San Francisco community into a conservative environment in Southern California where she ...
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CineTel acquires international to Lundgren-directed Icarus
Production and distribution company CineTel Films has acquired international rights to the upcoming action title Icarus that Dolph Lundgren will direct and star in.Production is scheduled to begin this autumn in Vancouver on the story of a former Soviet hitman whose past catches up with him as he lives with ...
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VIZ Productions launched to film Japanese graphic novels
San Francisco-based publishing, animation and licensing company VIZ Media has launched the wholly owned Hollywood-based film and television company VIZ Productions to adapt Japanese graphic novel properties.The new company will specialise in manga and will draw on a large library of manga properties owned by its Japanese parent companies Shogakukan ...
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Film Movement buys Berlin prize-winner In Love We Trust
Film Movement has acquired Wang Xiaoshuai's Silver Bear winning Chinese family drama In Love We Trust and plans a limited theatrical run.The story centres on a divorced couple that learns the only way to save their ailing daughter is to have another child.The film won the Silver Bear for best ...
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Nowak promoted to COO at New Wave Entertainment
Rick Nowak has been promoted to COO at New Wave Entertainment, while Alan Duke has been promoted to executive vice president and general counsel and Greg Woertz has moved up to executive vice president and CFO.The executive trio will oversee operations for all New Wave services and brands, which include ...
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Dark Knight's domestic opening was bigger than expected
The Dark Knight grossed considerably more than Warner Bros distribution chiefs originally thought at the weekend as actual results confirmed today [July 21] reveal the film set a three-day opening weekend record of $158.4m.The Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures superhero sequel also broke records for Thursday midnight screenings ($18.5m), opening ...
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Verhoeven attached to direct The Forgotten Soldier
Paul Verhoeven, whose last film Black Book was one of his most acclaimed in years, has become attached to another World War II story The Forgotten Soldier based on the memoir by Guy Sajer.The story follows Sajer's harrowing experiences as a teenager as a French recruit in the German army ...
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Hancock leads international but Dark Knight arrives with a bang
Sony Pictures Releasing International's Hancock returned to the top of the international arena thanks to an estimated $44.8m haul from 8,286 screens in 71 markets, however the superhero that will capture the headlines is Batman.The Dark Knight stormed out of the gates day-and-date with North America and in far fewer ...
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The Dark Knight conquers all-time domestic opening record
Cinema's perfect storm rolled across North America and lived up months of hype as The Dark Knight tore up the record books with an all-time high $155.3m North American three-day opening weekend that consigned Spider-Man 3's $151.1m May 2007 mark to history.Warner Bros' hugely anticipated $185m sequel to the 2005 ...
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IFC Films brings Ping Pong Playa to US theatres on Sept 5
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Jessica Yu's drama Ping Pong Playa, which will screen on closing night of the Asian-American Film Festival in New York on July 19.IFC Films plans to release Ping Pong Playa in theatres on September 5.Yu co-wrote the screenplay with Jimmy Tsai, who also ...
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Jeff Maynard joins TWC as svp of post-production
Jeff Maynard has joined The Weinstein Company (TWC) as senior vice president of post-production.Maynard, who previously worked on various projects as a producer, technical consultant and post-production supervisor, will oversee post on all original productions and acquisitions for TWC and Dimension Films.He will be based in TWC's Los Angeles office ...
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MGM to remake Valley Girl as musical with 80s hits
Mary Parent has green lit her first musical since arriving as chairman of the worldwide motion picture group at MGM and announced that the studio will revisit its 1983 comedy Valley Girl.The inspiration comes from an idea by Idealogy Inc's Sean Bailey and Matt Smith that will update the storyline ...
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The Dark Knight descends on 4,400 screens in 20 territories
Months of hype and anticipation give way to actuality this weekend as Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) launches The Dark Knight on 4,400 screens in 20 territories day-and-date with North America.The first results are in and if they are anything to go by the sequel to Batman Begins will eclipse ...
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Veteran entertainment attorney Suddleson joins Wildman Harrold
M Kenneth Suddleson has joined Wildman Harrold to head its new Los Angeles Office, effective July 18.Suddleson will focus on building a leading media and entertainment practice for the firm. The 30-year entertainment law veteran arrives from Foley & Lardner, where he served as chair of the media and entertainment ...
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New films from Demme, Eyre get gala screenings at Toronto
Programmers at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have boosted the line-up with gala presentations of Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married and Richard Eyre's The Other Man.Rachel Getting Married gets its North American premiere and stars Anne Hathaway as a sharp-witted drama queen who returns to the family homestead for ...
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IMAX signs deal for four new theatres in Japan
IMAX Corporation has signed a deal with Japanese exhibitor Tokyu Recreation to install four IMAX theatres in Japan.The announcement follows a record setting event in Japan recently in which 25,000 people watched the Japanese premiere of Speed Racer: The IMAX Experience at the Tokyo Dome. The venue was converted into ...
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TWC strikes exclusive pay-TV deal with Sky Italia
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has signed an exclusive deal with digital pay-TV operator Sky Italia to distribute its films in Italy.The deal is the latest piece in TWC's international free and pay-TV jigsaw that already includes Star TV in Asia, Canal+ in France, ARD in Germany, Village Roadshow in Australia ...
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Admissions tumble in Brazil by 11.3% in first six months 2008
In the first six months of 2008 Brazil recorded a 11.3% fall in admissions and a 8.8% drop in box office revenues over the same period last year. According to figures released by Filme B, a local company that reviews theatrical market data, the country's sales amounted R$352m ($221.3m), as ...
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Leonsis launches online doc distributor SnagFilms
Ted Leonsis, the AOL vice chairman, self-styled 'filmanthropist' and producer of Nanking and Kicking It has launched the online destination and documentary distributor SnagFilms.The site enables film-makers to sidestep the perilous arena of traditional distribution by offering an alternative platform that allows viewers to stream films or share them on ...