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Shaye, Lynne form Unique with three-year Warner Bros deal
Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne haven't completely left the Warner Bros fold. Months after New Line Cinema was absorbed into the parent company, the entrepreneurs have resurfaced with Unique Features and have secured a three-year first-look deal at the studio.The Los Angeles and New York-based company aims to produce two ...
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IMAX pacts with Australia's Hoyts for four new digital systems
IMAX Corporation has secured a deal to install four IMAX theatres in theatres in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney operated by Australian exhibitor Hoyts Cinemas.The agreement marks IMAX Corporation's first international joint venture featuring the new IMAX Digital Theatre System and will double IMAX's footprint in Australia.The partners will share in ...
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The Duchess, Secret Life Of Bees get TIFF gala screenings
Programmers at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have added two gala presentations and seven special presentations to the line-up, as well as 13 additions to the Masters and Contemporary World Cinema strands.The gala screenings are the world premiere of Gina Prince-Bythewood's Southern States family drama Secret Life Of Bees ...
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Jean Charles de Menezes drama gearing up for August shoot
Jean Charles, the drama about Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian electrician killed by British police three years ago, will be filmed in London and Paulinia, a city of Sao Paulo State.With Stephen Frears as executive producer, the co-production between Luke Schiller's UK-based Mango Films and Brazil's TV Zero is ...
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Film Department, Downtown Music Publishing form TFD Music
The Film Department (TFD) and music publisher Downtown Music Publishing have formed the film music company and partnership TFD Music.Through the partnership, Downtown Publishing will serve as the exclusive worldwide administrator for TFD Music copyrights and master recordings and offer music supervision and soundtrack consulting services on features.The first TFD ...
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Participant hires Title, Penner to write eco-horror The Colony
Participant Media has hired Stacy Title and Jonathan Penner to write eco-horror tale The Colony.Steven Schneider of ROOM 101 and Vertigo Entertainment's Doug Davison and Roy Lee are producing and Gabriel Mason will serve as executive producer.Participant's executive vice president of production Jonathan King brought in the project and will ...
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Wild Bunchto handle sales and French distribution on Chanel film
Wild Bunch will handle international sales and French distribution on Chanel And Stravinsky. The film is to be directed by Jan Kounen and produced by Claudie Ossard and Chris Bolzli of Eurowide Film Production.Anna Mouglalis starring as the legendary designer.While other Chanel films are currently in the works, Wild Bunch ...
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SPWAG lands domestic rights to animated Planet 51
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has acquired all US rights to the $60m CGI animated family picture Planet 51.Sony Pictures Releasing will give the picture a wide North American release under the TriStar Pictures label on November 20 2009.Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman ...
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Sci-fi actioner Road To Hell starts shooting in LA
Santa Monica-based Filmwerks has begun principal photography in Los Angeles on the action sci-fi Road To Hell starring Michael Pare, Clare Kramer, and Courtney Peldon. Albert Pyun (Left For Dead, Invasion) is the director.Cynthia Curnan wrote the screenplay about a soldier whose attempt to return to a normal life after ...
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New York-based Palisades buys Tartan Films' UK film library
New York-based P&A financier Palisades Media Corp has bought the majority of Tartan Films UK's film library of more than 400 titles several weeks after the company went into administration.The move follows Palisades' acquisition of Tartan's US film library in May. The catalogue includes Super Size Me, La Haine, Secretary, ...
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here! Films take domestic on gay comedy Breakfast With Scot
here! Films has acquired North American rights to Laurie Lynd's family comedy Breakfast With Scot, the opening night screening of Outfest 2008: The 26th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.Based on Michael Downing's novel of the same name, the picture charts the lives of a gay couple who take ...
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Screen Media Films buys worldwide on Lake City
Screen Media Films has taken worldwide rights to Hunter Hill and Perry Moore's Southern drama Lake City starring Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity and Rebecca Romijn.Dave Matthews, Keith Carradine, Drea De Matteo, Allison Sarofim and newcomer Colin Ford star in the story of an estranged mother and son who reunite years ...
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Berk promoted to svp of Universal's creative services division
Universal's vice president of creative services Julie Berk has been promoted to senior vice president of the division.Berk formed the creative services department when she joined the studio in 1995 as director of creative advertising. She was promoted to vice president in 2000.Over the last 12 years she has streamlined ...
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Sriraman, Macias get senior vp stripes at Vivendi Entertainment
Soumya Sriraman (pictured) has been promoted to senior vice president of theatrical marketing at Universal Music Group's theatrical arm Vivendi Entertainment and Yolanda Macias has been promoted to senior vice president of business development and acquisitions.One of their first projects is the portmanteau New York, I Love You, featuring segments ...
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Czuchry, Bradford lead cast of I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
Matt Czuchry, Jesse Bradford and Geoff Stults will star in Darko Entertainment's I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell based on Tucker Max's bestseller.Czuchry will play Max, a real-life American hedonist and blogger who gets banned from his friend's wedding after he persuades the hapless man to accompany him on ...
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Annette Bening joins Academy board of governors for actors branch
Eight governors have been re-elected to the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' board along with six film-makers who return after a period of absence.The sole first-time governor is Annette Bening representing the actors branch. All governors will serve three-year terms.Returning to the board after a hiatus are Jeffrey ...
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Hancock scores exceptional $78.3m international opening for SPRI
Seven letters dominated the box office over the weekend as Hancock, pushed out by Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) across half the world, demolished its rivals thanks to an estimated $78.3m gross from 5,444 screens in 50 markets.The exceptional result is borne out by the comparisons. Based on grosses in ...
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Will Smith takes July 4th weekend - again - with Hancock
Will Smith, an Independence Day weekend winner four times over the past 12 years, maintained his champion's form as Hancock savaged the competition with an estimated $66m haul over three days rising to $107.3m over five following Tuesday night's launch.The tale of a reluctant, boozy superhero who has to change ...
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Alliance Films reverses Globe and Mail screening ban
Distributor Alliance Films has reversed its decision to ban critics from the Globe and Mail newspaper at its preview screenings.The Toronto-based distributor had told the paper its reviewers were no longer welcome following a negative review and a negative column of Sex And The City as well as a front-page ...
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SPRI unleashes Hancock on 5,500 prints across the world
Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) unleashes Will Smith in half the world's multiplexes this weekend to tie in with the action picture's Independence Day holiday launch in North America.The story of an alcoholic superhero who makes good will touch down on approximately 5,500 prints in 50 territories.Despite a mostly lukewarm ...