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Armand Assante, Christina Vidal join Nevsky in Magic Man
Armand Assante and Christina Vidal have joined Russian star Alexander Nevsky, Billy Zane and Bai Ling on the US-Russian mystery Magic Man that started filming in Las Vegas last week.The story revolves around a famous magician played by Zane who is suspected of being a serial killer. Nevsky plays the ...
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Toronto adds world premieres including Disgrace, Miracle Of St Anna
The Toronto International Film Festival has added six films to its Special Presentations line-up for 2008.The films include four world premieres: Steve Jacobs' Disgrace, Vicente Amorim's Good, Spike Lee's Miracle At St Anna, and Peter Sollett's Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist.North American premieres are Paolo Sorrentino's Cannes jury prize-winner Il ...
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Williams named co-president, Hogan named COO at GreeneStreet
Longtime GreeneStreet Films (GSF) head of production Tim Williams has been promoted to co-president while Michael Hogan has been named COO.Williams will share the president title with founding partner John Penotti. GSF co-founder Fisher Stevens will no longer have an active day-to-day role in the company but will continue to ...
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Trina Wyatt joins Intrepid Pictures as COO and CFO
Trina Wyatt has joined Trevor Macy and Marc D Evans' production and finance outfit Intrepid Pictures as COO/CFO and Anil Kurian has been promoted to vice president of development, effective immediately.Wyatt will run day-to-day operations and financial activities of the company as well as strategic planning, business development, production finance, ...
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National Board Of Review awards $75,000 in student grants
The National Board Of Review Of Motion Pictures (NBR) will award $75,000 in student grants in 2008 with this year's allocation including ten schools near or around the tri-state New York area.Each participating school will receive between $3,000 and $11,500 to be distributed to its top film-makers based on their ...
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Sundance Institute selects five for Creative Producing Initiative
The Sundance Institute has selected the five Fellows for its inaugural Creative Producing Initiative, a year-long Fellowship programme for emerging producers.The initiative includes attendance at the Creative Producing Lab, the Independent Producers Conference and the Sundance Film Festival, as well as year-round mentorship, a living stipend and pre-production grant, and ...
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Scoggins promoted in digital asset management at Universal
Stan Scoggins has been promoted to senior vice president of worldwide digital asset management at Universal, continuing a run that has seen him oversee the group since 1998.During his tenure Scoggins developed and implemented a comprehensive online repository of all Universal publicity and advertising materials. He continues to report to ...
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Prince Of Broadway, Loot take top prizes at LA Film Festival
The winners of the Los Angeles Film festival's Target Filmmaker Awards and two unrestricted cash prizes of $50,000 were announced at closing night on June 28.Closing night film Hellboy II's director Guillermo del Toro presented the Target Filmmaker Award for best narrative feature to Sean Baker for Prince Of Broadway ...
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Rose McGowan to play Red Sonja for Nu Image/Millenium Films
Rose McGowan will star as Red Sonja in Nu Image/Millennium Films' bid to revive the character last seen on the big screen in the 1985 action picture that starred Brigitte Nielsen.Robert Rodriguez will present the picture and is producing with Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Joe Gatta and George Furla.Douglas Aarniokoski ...
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Kino replaces THINKFilm as US distributor on Mamma's Man
Kino International has acquired US rights to Azazel Jacobs' Momma's Man, which was one of the highlights of Sundance earlier in the year when it received its world premiere.The film was formerly acquired by THINKFilm but was resold in light of the company's current financial difficulties.The picture will open in ...
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Van Galder, Weinstock named marketing co-chiefs at SPE
Valerie Van Galder and Marc Weinstock have been promoted to co-presidents of worldwide theatrical marketing at Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE).Van Galder and Weinstock will jointly develop and oversee campaigns for all films released by Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Animation and will report to chairman of worldwide marketing ...
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Wanted shoots to top of international box office with $33m gross
Angelina Jolie, a bulked up James McAvoy and one of the world's most dynamic action directors stole the show at the weekend as Universal/UPI's Wanted took charge of the international marketplace with a $33m estimated launch.The graphic novel adaptation about an unassuming office worker who learns he descends from a ...
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Wall-E, Wanted deliver gigantic numbers at domestic box office
Disney/Pixar's latest slice of magic coupled with Angelina Jolie in glorious kick-ass action mode created the figurative perfect storm as the top 12 pictures combined for $179m to beat the same weekend last year by 22%.In the fifth consecutive year-on-year climb, Wall-E led the way with an excellent $62.5m estimated ...
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Relativity to finance, produce War Of Gods directed by Tarsem
Relativity Media has acquired rights to finance, develop and produce the mythological Greek tale War Of Gods, which is already in pre-production and expected to begin filming before the end of the year.Tarsem will direct from a screenplay by Vlas Parlapanides and Charley Parlapanides and the project reunites Hollywood Gang ...
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UPI's Wanted roars into in 22 territories including Russia
Indiana Jones will have a battle on his hands to hold on to pole position this weekend as Russian director Timur Bekmambetov's first English-language picture Wanted goes out in 22 territories through Universal/UPI.The graphic novel adaptation opens day-and-date with North America in Russia on 850 prints on June 26 and ...
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Disney focuses on brand values
If the key to navigating a volatile and uncertain market is concentration on core strengths, then Disney has got it right.And the rock on which the future will be built is the Disney brand itself, according to Mark Zoradi, president of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group.Over the last couple of ...
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DGA, Film Foundation set up Zinnemann Fund for artists' rights
The Directors Guild Of America (DGA) and The Film Foundation have set up The Zinnemann Fund to protect and promote artists' rights.DGA member Tim Zinnemann, son of the late director and DGA lifetime achievement award winner Fred Zinnemann, developed the idea with money from a court settlement in his favour ...
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Overture signs first-look deal with Philip Seymour Hoffman's company
Overture Films has signed a two-year first look deal with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Emily Ziff's Cooper's Town Productions.The first collaboration will be the film of Brett C Leonard's play Unconditional, which explores gender and racial issues within New York City and is being adapted for the screen by Leonard.Hoffman ...
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Francis Ford Coppola finishes 63-day shoot of Tetro
Francis Ford Coppola has wrapped on his latest feature Tetro after 63 days of principal photography in Buenos Aires and Patagonia. A spring 2009 release is anticipated.Additional shooting of a ballet by Ana Maria Stekelman will still take place in Madrid but the main leg of the shoot is complete. ...
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Toronto books best of Cannes in first programme announcement
The Toronto International Film Festival announced its first tranche of titles, including Cannes competitors such as Atom Egoyan's Adoration, Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale, Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah and Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner The Class. All four will be North American premieres screening as Special Presentations. Kim Jee-woon's The Good, ...