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Liman's Jumper out-leaps Spiderwick over US holiday weekend
Fox's sci-fi adventure Jumper starring Hayden Christensen as a globe trotting teleporter dominated the four-day Presidents' Day weekend thanks to a $31.7m estimated haul.The film has grossed $38.3m since it opened on Thursday and also stars Samuel L Jackson, Diane Lane and Jamie Bell. Doug Liman directed.Opening in second place ...
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Regan spearheads NatGeo's digital mapping business
Charles Regan has been named vice president of digital mapping business at National Geographic Global Media (NGGM).Regan will be responsible for leveraging National Geographic's content, products and services across multiple platforms. He reports to NGGM's senior vice president of corporate strategy, development and extended platforms Paul Levine.Prior to joining NGGM ...
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Summit completes casting on romantic vampire franchise
Summit has completed casting on its upcoming romantic thriller Twilight with Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz joining Kristen Stewart and Edward Cullen.Catherine Hardwicke is poised to commence filming later this month on Melissa Rosenberg's adaptation of the bestselling series of books by ...
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Shoreline bolsters sales slate with double acquisition
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Marius Balchunas' drama The Elder Son starring Shane West, Leelee Sobieski and Rade Serbedzija and international rights to Dave McLaughlin's comedy On Broadway starring Eliza Dushku and featuring Will Arnet and Amy Poehler.The Elder Son tells the story of a Russian clarinetist living ...
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Discovery, Magnolia walk tightrope together with Man On Wire doc
Discovery Films and Magnolia Pictures have acquired North American theatrical and DVD rights to James Marsh's Sundance world documentary jury and audience winner Man On Wire.Magnolia Pictures plans a late summer theatrical release followed by DVD roll-out through Magnolia Home Entertainment.Man On Wire is based on French high-wire walker Philippe ...
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THINKFilm acquires Ellen Page drama
THINKFilm has acquired all US rights from Corvid Pictures to Bruce McDonald's drama The Tracey Fragments starring Ellen Page.The national release will commence with a May 9 platform release in Manhattan on the heels of its premiere on March 14 as part of New York's Museum of Modern Art's Canadian ...
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Fox's Jumper leaps to top of international chart with $28.2m in 30 markets
The sci-fi adventure Jumper leapt to the top of the overseas charts over the weekend thanks to an estimated $28.2m haul from 2,800 screens in 30 markets through Fox International.The result was all the more impressive given that Jumper launched at number one almost everywhere and only seven of the ...
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US box-office bounces with Jumper; Hannah Montana nears $60m
Fox's sci-fi adventure Jumper starring Hayden Christensen as a globe trotting teleporter stormed to the top of the domestic charts at the weekend on an estimated $27.2m.The film has grossed $33.9m since it opened on Thursday and also stars Samuel L Jackson, Diane Lane and Jamie Bell. Doug Liman directed.Opening ...
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Berlin 2008 film reviews
Click on a film title to see reviewCompetition Black Ice (Musta Jää) (Petri Kotwica, Finland)Cherry Blossoms (Doris Dorrie, Germany) Elegy (Isabel Coixet. US)Elite Squad (Jose Padilha. Brazil)Gardens Of The Night (Damian Harris. US/UK)Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, UK)In Love We Trust (Wang Xiaoshuai. China)Lake Tahoe (Fernando Eimbcke. Mexico)Night and Day (Hong Sangsoo, ...
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Padilha's The Elite Squad takes Golden Bear in Berlin
Click on film title to see reviewBrazilian film The Elite Squad by Jose Padilha was the surprise winner of this year's Golden Bear at the Berlinale, beating off critics favourites such as There Will be Blood and Happy-Go-Lucky. It is the first Brazilian film to receive the top honour in ...
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UK's Sky Movies Indie gets broadcast rights to Spirit Awards
UK channel Sky Movies Indie has struck a deal for the exclusive UK broadcast of Film Independent's Spirit Awards. The winners are announced in Santa Monica February 23 and highlights will be shown at 9 pm GMT March 1 on Sky Movies Indie.The channel will also run a week's worth ...
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Everything is Fine (Tout est parfait)
Dir: Yves Christian Fournier. Canada. 2008. 118mins.Quebec director Yves Christian Fournier's first feature, Everything is Fine, is a sombre, frequently moving portrait limning the emotional and social aftermath of a tragedy. Fournier's reach sometimes exceeds his grasp, but his complicated and nuanced study of sorrow and loss is sharpened by ...
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Canadian Film Centre receive C$1m donation from Cineplex
Canadian exhibitor Cineplex Entertainment is providing the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) with a five-year C$1m donation as well as a C$100,000 endowment towards an annual scholarship to aid one film resident. In return, the CFC Film program will be named the Cineplex Entertainment Film Program. The scholarship will be similarly ...
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New Line's John Sinayi joins Overture Films as SVP
Overture Films has hired John Sinayi as senior vice president theatrical distribution. Sinayi previously served as vice president/district manager of Western and Central Divisions for New Line Cinema where he worked in both the Los Angeles and Dallas offices. During his 14-year tenure at New Line he oversaw ...
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Picture Entertainment, Plum take on Faulkner's Intruder In The Dust
Picture Entertainment and Plum Pictures are partnering on an adaptation of William Faulkner's 1948 classic Intruder In The Dust.Intruder tells the story of black farmer Lucas Beauchamp who is falsely accused of murdering a white man in Depression-era Mississippi. Locked in jail and facing the imminent arrival of a lynch ...
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Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page flock to Mandate's Peacock
Mandate Pictures has cast Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page in the psychological thriller Peacock. The story takes place in a small Nebraskan town where Murphy's schizophrenic character fools inhabitants into thinking he is man and wife. Page will play a struggling mother who holds the key to his ...
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Murphy, Page to star in Mandate Pictures' Peacock
Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page are to star in the psychological thriller Peacock for Mandate Pictures. Michael Lander is directing, from a script he co-wrote with Ryan Roy.Barry Mendel will produce the film with Roy; Mandate Pictures' head of production Nicole Brown will executive produce with Nathan Kahane.Murphy will play ...
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Jetset Studios - Online high flyers
Last month, Russell Scott and Patrick Young were the matchmakers who put male movie-goers together with Carmen Electra, star of 20th Century Fox's genre spoof Meet The Spartans. And last year, they took audience members out for a spin on the ice with Will Ferrell and Jon Heder, stars of ...
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Restless
Dir: Amos Kollek. Israel/ Canada/ Germany/ France/ Belgium, 2007. 100 mins.Back home in Israel after many years of self-imposed exile in Manhattan, Amos Kollek presents Restless as his most personal film to date. With a reputation as an American independent specializing in portraits of anti-social dropouts, he has apparently decided ...