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Horton takes over international lead
Fox's Horton Hears A Who! edged into the lead at the international box office over the weekend, grossing an estimated $13.2m from 52 markets while Warner's 10,000 BC, leader for the last three weekends, took $12m from 62. The weekend's biggest new opening, meanwhile, came from Fox's 27 Dresses, which ...
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21 wins the weekend hand at US box office
Sony's card-counting drama 21 came up trumps at the North American box office this weekend, opening at the top of the domestic chart with an estimated three-day gross of $23.7m. Last week's leader Horton Hears A Who! held up well in its third weekend, but three other new releases had ...
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Mos Def, Gabrielle Union join the cast of Cadillac Records
Mos Def has been cast as Chuck Berry and Gabrielle Union will play Geneva Wade in Sony BMG Film's Cadillac Records, a music drama set in 1950s Chicago and following the turbulent lives of legends like Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess and Elvis Presley.Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyonce Knowles, Columbus Short, ...
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Cast assembled for Ti West's The House Of The Devil
Jocelin Donahue, Greta Gerwig, Tom Noonan, Mary Waronov, AJ Bowen and Dee Wallace head the cast of Ti West's horror thriller The House Of The Devil which has started shooting in northern Connecticut.In the film, which West also wrote, Donahue plays a broke college student who answers an ad seeking ...
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Seven Arts strikes investment deal with UK's Zeus Partners
Los Angeles-based Seven Arts Pictures has struck a deal with Manchester, UK-based financial services company Zeus Partners to raise investment capital for Seven Arts' production and distribution activities.The first part of the investment closed March 19 and the rest is expected to close by the end of June.The investment covers ...
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Lionsgate acquires film rights to Einstein thriller The Last Equation
Lionsgate has acquired film rights to The Last Equation, the debut novel by screenwriter Stuart Gibbs.The novel is about the mystery surrounding Albert Einstein's last equation which he named Pandora. The Pandora equation had the potential to solve the world's energy problems but Einstein either hid or destroyed the equation ...
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Abuse and accountability: Errol Morris on Iraq doc
Errol Morris had a simple starting point for his latest documentary Standard Operating Procedure. Intrigued by the infamous snapshots taken by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison depicting Iraqi detainees who had been forced to form naked pyramids and adopt other sexually degrading poses, the acclaimed US director of The ...
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Summit options screenplay The Tomb for Jeff Wadlow to direct
Summit Entertainment has optioned the action screenplay The Tomb by Miles Chapman which is currently in development.Jeff Wadlow will direct the project and Jason Keller has been hired to rewrite. The Tomb marks Summit's second collaboration with Wadlow after Never Back Down. He also directed Cry_Wolf for Rogue Pictures.The Tomb ...
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Becky Sloviter rejoins Parent in MGM's production group
Mary Parent's aggressive recruitment drive to build a production team at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) continued yesterday with the news that she had hired Becky Sloviter as vice president of production at MGM Pictures.Parent, who is chairperson of MGM's Worldwide Motion Picture Group, yesterday named former New Line executive Cale Boyter as ...
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Horton chases down $100m at international box office
With only scattered new openings scheduled in the wake of the Easter holiday, marketplace leaders Horton Hears A Who! and 10,000 BC are set to dominate the international box office again this weekend. Fox International's Horton opens in three smaller territories - Taiwan, South Africa and Croatia - before entering ...
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RiverRun Film Festival opens with Phoebe In Wonderland
The RiverRun International Film Festival, which takes place in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has announced its lineup of films for its 10th anniversary edition which takes place April 23-28.The festival will open with Daniel Barnz's Phoebe In Wonderland while Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me will be the centerpiece premiere on ...
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Arts Alliance America picks up US rights to Chops
US distribution outfit Arts Alliance America, formerly Hart Sharp Video, has acquired US rights to Chops, the documentary which follows high school jazz students from around America who compete in the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival at New York's Lincoln Center.Arts Alliance plans to release the ...
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E1 acquires THINKFilm's Canadian assets
Entertainment One (E1) and THINKFilm have signed a three-year all-rights output deal that will see E1 distributing THINKFilm's motion pictures in Canada through 2010. E1 has also acquired Canadian rights to THINKFilm's 235-title library for the remainder of the term that THINKFilm holds license to the properties. The content will ...
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Voltage takes on Eric Valette's creature car movie Hybrid
Voltage Pictures has acquired international rights to Stallion Media's horror action film Hybrid which will be directed by Eric Valette (One Missed Call, Malefique).Oded Fehr and newcomer Shannon Beckner (pictured) are starring in the film about a female mechanic in a Chicago police garage who spends a night of terror ...
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Silent Light takes five Ariels in Mexico including film, director
Silent Light, directed by Carlos Reygadas was the big winner at the 50th annual Ariel Awards, the Mexican equivalent of the Oscars which took place on Tuesday night.The third feature from Reygadas took prizes for best film, director supporting actress (first time actress Maria Pankratz), cinematography (Alexis Zabe) and original ...
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Titles screening at IFFLA 2008 include Frozen, The Pool, Shot In Bombay
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) has announced the full schedule of films for the sixth edition of the festival which runs April 22-27 in Hollywood.As previously announced, Richie Mehta's Amal will open the festival and the world premiere of portmanteau film Mumbai Cutting A City Unfolds will ...
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Cale Boyter joins MGM in senior production role from New Line
Cale Boyter has been named executive vice president, production, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM), marking the first hire in the worldwide motion picture group by its new chair Mary Parent who joined the company a week ago.Boyter arrives at MGM from New Line Cinema where he has spent ten years, most ...
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Scott Shooman promoted to vice president at SPWAG
Scott Shooman has been promoted to vice president, acquisitions and productions, for Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG). He will continue to report to both Steven Bersch, president of SPWAG, and Lara Thompson, senior vice president of acquisitions for the division.He will continue to acquire both finished films and projects ...
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Miller named evp, worldwide marketing, at nascent CBS Films
Debbie Miller has been named executive vice president, worldwide marketing, for CBS Films which was established in 2007 to develop and produce four to six films a year with budgets up to $50m a film. The films will be released domestically through a new US theatrical distribution unit to be ...
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Argentina's Campanella ramps up for The Question Of His Eyes
Acclaimed Argentinian director Juan Jose Campanella will begin shooting his sixth feature film La Pregunta De Sus Ojos (The Question of His Eyes) this September in Buenos Aires.Campanella's own outfit 100 Bares will co-produce the film with local producer Jorge Estrada Mora and Gerardo Herrero's Tornasol Films of Spain. The ...