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Moviemobz takes Brazilian rights to The Sandman
Moviemobz, the first distribution operation which programmes its titles in theatres equipped with digital projection technology supplied by Rain Network, has acquired theatrical rights in Brazil to Jose Manuel Gonzalez's Spanish romantic drama The Sandman (El Hombre De Arena).Moviemobz plans to release the film in theatres in the next six ...
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James Gunn to deliver keynote speech at IFTA Production Conference
Film-maker James Gunn will deliver the keynote speech at the Independent Film & Television Alliance's (IFTA) 10th Annual Production Conference in Los Angeles on June 27.Gunn started out with Troma Entertainment where he wrote Tromeo And Juliet. His writing credits include Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Slither and the 2004 ...
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Summit takes on worldwide rights to Imagi's Astro Boy
Summit Entertainment has swooped on worldwide rights excluding Japan, Hong Kong and China to Imagi Entertainment's manga project Astro Boy.Summit is expected to plan a 2009 release on the animated tale of a young robot who embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Warner Bros and The Weinstein Company previously held ...
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Gen Art Chicago Film Festival opens with Bart Got A Room
The Second Annual Gen Art Chicago Film Festival will open in Chicago on June 23 with Plum Pictures' comedy Bart Got A Room starring William H Macy and Cheryl Hines.Brian Hecker's film was one of the more popular entries at Tribeca, where it received its world premiere in April, and ...
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Dan Kolsrud named evp of theatrical physical production at MGM
Dan Kolsrud has been appointed executive vice president of worldwide theatrical physical production at MGM and Mary Parent continues to assemble her team to return the studio to its production roots.Kolsrud joins executive vice president of development Cale Boyter and vice president of production Becky Sloviter.Kolsrud most recently served as ...
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David Shaye joins Content Partners in business development
Los Angeles-based financial company Content Partners has hired David Shaye to be its new director of business development.Shaye will report directly to senior vice president Krista Parkinson and Content Partners founders Steve Kram and Steve Blume.The new arrival previously served as a TV development executive and producer and started his ...
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Bize, Gomes projects selected for Locarno's Open Doors
New feature films by Chilean director Matias Bize and Brazilian filmmaker Marcelo Gomes are among 12 projects from 10 Latin American countries selected out of a total of 332 submissions to participate in the Open Doors Factory co-production meeting from August 10-12 during this year's Locarno Film Festival.Bize's low-budget HD ...
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The Happening leads international with $32.1m, but Hulk is stronger
M Night Shyamalan's mystery The Happening took the international box office crown at the weekend thanks to an estimated $32.1m through Fox International from 5,714 screens in 88 markets.However the clear pound-for-pound champion was Marvel Studios' The Incredible Hulk, which grossed $31m through UPI in 3,165 venues in 38 territories ...
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John Hadity named chair of PGA East's executive board
John Hadity has succeeded David Picker as chair of the Producers Guild Of America East's executive board following a recent election.Meanwhile Dana Kuznetzkoff and Mark Marabella will serve as the board's vice chairs and succeed Lydia Dean Pilcher and Harvey Wilson.Wilson was one of five members elected to the board's ...
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Tony Barbieri's Em, Issac Julien's Derek win at Seattle
Tony Barbieri's Em won the 34th Seattle International Film Festival's grand jury prize and Isaac Julien's Derek Jarman essay Derek took top documentary honours at the closing awards ceremony on Sunday [June 15].Everything Is Fine from Canada's Yves-Christian Fournier took the New Directors Showcase Prize for a director of a ...
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Marvel's Hulk is incredible with $54.4m three-day US opening
Almost five years to the day after Ang Lee's ill-fated Hulk opened in North America, Marvel Studios took a big stride towards exorcising that painful memory as The Incredible Hulk stormed to the top through Universal and led a bumper box office weekend with a muscular $54.4m estimated launch.Marvel Studios ...
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Disney teams with Castle Hero, Ying Dong on second Chinese film
Walt Disney Studios is teaming up with China’s Castle Hero Pictures and Ying Dong Media on its second Disney branded Chinese collaboration, the tentatively titled nature drama Touch Of The Panda.The parties announced the project on Monday [June 16] at the Shanghai International Film Festival and said the film has ...
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Emily Weiss named marketing chief at Autonomous/After Dark
Emily Weiss has joined Autonomous Films/After Dark Films as executive vice president of marketing, media and promotions.Weiss will take the lead on the studio's marketing efforts with executive vice president of creative affairs and acquisitions Stephanie Caleb.She started her career at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising and became corporate media director ...
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Marvel's Hulk goes out in 38 territories, Fox's Happening in 61
Click on film title to see reviewAn intriguing battle is shaping up ahead of this weekend's wide launchess of Marvel's The Incredible Hulk - mostly through Universal/UPI - and M Night Shyamalan's paranoia thriller The Happening through Fox International.While both films boast recognisable talent - Ed Norton and Liv Tyler ...
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A Good Old Fashioned Orgy starts shooting for Endgame
Principal photography has begun in North Carolina on Endgame Entertainment's comedy A Good Old Fashioned Orgy.Pete Huyck and Alex Gregory make their directorial debuts and co-wrote the screenplay about a rich kid who plans one final party in his parents' home in the Hamptons before they sell the place.Things begin ...
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Magnolia buys US rights to SXSW hit Humboldt County
Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs's SXSW favourite Humboldt County.The story centres on a man whose one-night stand with a free spirit leaves him stranded in a community of marijuana farmers in Northern California.Jeremy Strong and Fairuza Balk star alongside Peter Bogdanovich, Frances Conroy, ...
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Seattle Film Festival launches Northwest Production Summit
The First Annual Northwest Production Summit will take place during the 34th Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) from June 12-15.The summit takes place under the aegis of the festival in partnership with the Mayor's Office of Film + Music, WashingtonFilmWorks and the Washington State Film Office.Headline events include an invite-only ...
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Tabb hired to adapt Lukyanenko novel Knights Of 40 Islands
Producers Rubi Zack of Run Entertainment, Maxim Bakhamatov of Ledokol Bakhmatov Group and Evgen Kuch have hired Michael Tabb to adapt Sergey Lukyanenko's Russian sci-fi fantasy novel The Knights Of 40 Islands.Lukyanenko previously wrote the Night Watch fantasy novels that spawned Timor Bekmambetov's Russian box office smashes.The Knights Of 40 ...
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Sarkar Raj, Magic Hour start strong at international box-office
Indian film Sarkar Raj was this weekend's highest non-US entry in the international arena, taking $5.4m from 1,433 screens in 17 territories.The top 40 international films generated $171.2m from 42,947 screens for the period of June 6-8. For the full chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.The Indian thriller is ...
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Soderbergh to present Corrente's The Prince Of Providence
Steven Soderbergh will present Michael Corrente's upcoming political drama The Prince Of Providence starring Oliver Platt as Buddy Cianci, the colourful former mayor from Rhode Island who became one of the longest serving 'big city' mayors in US history.Adam Goldberg, Ed Burns, Dermot Mulroney and Bradley Cooper are also attached ...