All Americas articles – Page 257
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David Lee steps down as EVP at Weinstein Company in Asia
DavidLee has stepped down as executive vice president of Asian Operations atThe Weinstein Company, where he was responsible for overseeing creativeaspects of the company's Asian Film Fund. He will be partially replaced by Steve Squillante who has come on board as a consultant for the fund. Squillantewill work alongside TWC's ...
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here! picks up North American rights to Holding Trevor
here! Films has picked up North American rights from Stray Films to Rosser Goodman's relationship drama Holding Trevor.here! plans a May release on the story of a gay man whose life is turned upside-down by his drug addict boyfriend, a new lover and jealous friends.Brent Gorski wrote and produced and ...
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David Alcade to direct The Seeing For Leomax
Los Angeles and Berlin-based Leomax Entertainment has optioned the screenplay The Seeing (formerly 27 Times) and set Spanish effects supervisor and commercials director David Alcade to direct.Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Regina, Canada, in the early summer on the story of a 14-year-old boy haunted by visions of ...
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Cinema Libre acquires worldwide rights to Bloodline
Cinema Libre Studio has acquired worldwide rights to Bruce Burgess' hot-button Holy Grail documentary Bloodline and has set the US premiere for May.The film-makers interviewed archaeologists and members of secret societies and investigated a tomb that some say could prove the existence of a Jesus Christ-Mary Magdalene bloodline.The subject of ...
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Jewison to receive ACE Filmmaker Of The Year Award
Norman Jewison will receive the American Cinema Editors' (ACE) Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award at the 58th Annual ACE Eddie Awards in Los Angeles on Feb 17.'Norman Jewison is an industry treasure,' a statement from the ACE board of directors read. 'Over the course of his 50-year career, ...
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Jumper
Dir: Doug Liman. US. 2008. 88mins.A cool, high concept science-fiction premise is executed with breezy, facile insouciance in Jumper. Director Doug Liman's first feature project since Mr And Mrs Smith (2005), is a globe-trotting, action packed thriller where the spectacle and special-effects easily overwhelm the broad brushstrokes storytelling.Comparisons with The ...
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In Berlin, Madonna says directorial debut was 'learning curve'
Madonna, in Berlin with her directorial debut Filth And Wisdom, says the 81-minute feature was her version of 'film school.' 'I wanted to do it under the radar because I had to learn how to make a film,' the star told Screen International. 'I paid for it myself and begged, ...
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Hayes, Coolidge join cast of Dimension's Soul Men
Sean Hayes and Jennifer Coolidge have joined Samuel L Jackson and Bernie Mac on Dimension Films' road movie Soul Men.The story centres on two estranged soul legends who reunite for a tribute concert and are forced to bury their differences on the long drive to the gig from Los Angeles ...
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The Path (El Camino)
Dir: Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez. Costa Rica/Nicaragua/France. 2008. 91 mins. The road trip of two desperately poor Nicaraguan kids in search of their absent mother becomes an other-worldly journey with echoes of The Night Of The Hunter in Costa Rican director Ishtar Yasin's impressive debut, which screened in the Forum. ...
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Fortissimo seals raft of deals on Marley, CSNY docs
Fortissimo Films has closed a raft of deals on its recently-announced Bob Marley documentary, which Martin Scorsese is directing for delivery in 2010. The as-yet-untitled film, produced by Shangri-La Entertainment and unveiled at the beginning of the EFM, has already been snapped up by the UK's Contender, South Africa's Nu ...
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Braude, Muskala named co-directors of Sprockets at TIFFG
The Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) has appointed Allen Braude and Elizabeth Muskala as co-directors of learning. The appointments follow recent changes at TIFFG anticipating the opening of the Bell Lightbox, the new film centre under construction in Toronto. In December, then TIFF co-director Noah Cowan stepped into the ...
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Francois Martin named senior vp of marketing at Dimension
Francois Martin has been appointed senior vice president of marketing at Dimension Films.Martin will continue to work closely with Gary Faber, executive vice president of marketing for TWC, on media planning and media promotions for all TWC titles as well as remain involved in media buying for home video distributor ...
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Renee Zellweger is Essential's One And Only
Renee Zellweger is in final negotiations to star in Richard Loncrane's 1950s-set comedy My One And Only, which is set to begin filming in the US in mid-April.Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment is handing worldwide sales at EFM.The project is based on a true story told by George Hamilton to Merv ...
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Standard Operating Procedure
Dir. Errol Morris, USA, 2008, 117minsWhatever the future brings in Iraq, the US role there will always be remembered for the abuse of prisoners documented in the photographs taken by American guards in 2003 at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. Errol Morris's cold Standard Operating Procedure scrutinizes the pictures and ...
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IFC takes North America on Kinney's Diminished Capacity
IFC has picked up all North American rights to Terry Kinney's comedy Diminished Capacity following its premiere at Sundance last month.Matthew Broderick plays a former newspaper editor with short-term memory loss who bonds with his aging uncle. Alan Alda and Virginia Madsen also star.Sherwood Kiraly adapted her own novel. Plum ...
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Voltage closes key sales on Kutcher/Pfeiffer drama Effects
Nicolas Chartier's Voltage Pictures has closed key sales on the upcoming Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Pfeiffer drama Personal Effects.Rights have gone to Germany (ARD), Mexico (Gussi), Minerva (Italy), CIS (EEAP), Brazil (Imagem), South Korea (Cinema Valley), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Hollywood) and the Middle East (Gulf).Deals also closed in the Philippines ...
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Arsenal Pictures picks up Locarno, CineVegas film Loren Cass
Arsenal Pictures has picked up international sales rights on Chris Fuller's adolescent drama Loren Cass.Fuller and Kayla Tabish produced and star alongside Travis Maynard and Jacob Reynolds in the story of intersecting lives at the time of the 1996 riots in St Petersberg, Florida.The film played at CineVegas and Locarno, ...
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Sony takes Australia, Latin America on Frozen River
Sony Pictures has acquired Australia/New Zealand and Latin American rights fromWilliam Morris Independent (WMI) to Courtney Hunt's drama Frozen River. Sony Pictures Classics had already acquired the film for North America in Sundance where it won the grand jury prize in dramatic competition.Melissa Leo stars in the film as a ...
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PHEI switches to SPI in New Zealand
Paramount Home Entertainment International (PHEI) has assigned its New Zealand license for Paramount and DreamWorks titles to SPI Entertainment NZ with effect from Feb 1.PHE previously distributed its titles in New Zealand through Roadshow.Paramount's 2008 international releases include No Country For Old Men, Iron Man, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom ...
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
Dir: Mark Waters, 2008, USIn The Spiderwick Chronicles the Grace family find trouble when they move into their creaky New England home - and it isn't trouble with the mortgage. The house smells strange and creatures are heard moving behind the walls.Mark Waters's film is the adaptation of the popular ...