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Gay drama Misconceptions starts shooting in Florida
Principal photography began on Jan 14 in St Petersburg, Florida, on the independent feature Misconceptions.Ron Satlof is directing from the script he co-wrote with Ira Pearlstein that examines the ongoing culture war between same-sex parents and Christian conservatives.Steven J Brown is producing and Ted Perkins and J A Bremont act ...
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Dark Matter finally gets domestic deal with First Independent
First Independent Pictures has picked up Dark Matter and will release it in North American in April.The drama premiered at Sundance 2007 and won the Alfred P Sloan Award for its portrayal of a brilliant Chinese cosmology student who is marginalized when he goes to the US to study for ...
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Maike Haas rejoins Sony in international production unit
Maike Haas has returned to Sony following an eight-year stint at Buena Vista International Germany and has been named vice president of international production, Europe, for Sony Pictures Entertainment's International Motion Picture Production division.Haas will oversee European operations from Berlin and identify and develop projects with a focus on German-language ...
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Former CinemaVault executive Arroyave launches new sales outfit
Former Cinemavault Releasing executive Steve Arroyave has launched a new world sales outfit, Arrow Entertainment. Based in Toronto, Arrow will make its debut at the European Film Market with writer-director Stewart Raffil's Mysterious, a supernatural thriller starring James Brolin, Antonio Sabato and Annalynne McCord and produced by Diane Kirman of ...
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Alliance Films loses one owner, expects a new one
Alliance Films has lost one co-owner but a new one is expected to be announced shortly. According to a report in the Globe and Mail newspaper, Toronto-based private equity firm EdgeStone Capital Partners has sold its 49 per cent stake in the Canadian distribution company, formerly Motion Picture Distribution (MPD). ...
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Media Rights Capital strikes interim deal with WGA
Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu's film, television and digital financing and production firm Media Rights Capital (MRC) has struck an interim deal with the Writers Guild Of America (WGA).The agreement is similar to the one signed by the WGA and The Weinstein Company late last week and earlier deals closed ...
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PGA's five finalists include Diving Bell, Juno, Michael Clayton
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood will contest the Darryl F Zanuck Producer Of The Year Award In Theatrical Motion Pictures at this year's 19th Annual Producers Guild Of America (PGA) awards ceremony.The PGA's animated nominees are ...
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Then She Found Me, Autism take audience honours at Palm Springs
Helen Hunt's first outing as director Then She Found Me won the Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Audience Award for best narrative feature as the event came to a close on Jan 13.Tricia Regan's Autism: The Musical earned the Audience Award for best documentary feature. The FIPRESCI award For ...
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Atonement, Sweeney Todd win best picture Golden Globes
No film dominated the 65th Golden Globes last night [Jan 13] as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association spread its largesse across a wide field in a drastically truncated news announcement due to the ongoing writers strike.
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Legend produces legendary international grosses in fifth weekend
Just as Will Smith's character repels hordes of infected assailants in I Am Legend, so the Warner Bros release has fended off wave after wave of competitors to maintain its status as the number one international film.Despite solid performances by National Treasure: Book Of Secrets, Alvin And The Chipmunks, Bee ...
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The Bucket List tops domestic box office with $19.5m weekend
Warner Bros' The Bucket List, which stars Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as terminally ill men who take the road trip of a lifetime,expanded wide and climbed 22 places to the top on an estimated $19.5m.The weekend haul raised the tearjerker's running total after three weekends to $20.9m and demonstrated ...
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HFPA to announce Globe winners in unpicketed news conference
Following discussions with NBC, Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) president Jorge Camara has announced that the HFPA will assume complete control of its 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards Announcement on Sunday [Jan 13].The announcement is scheduled to take place at 6pm PST in the International Ballroom of The Beverly Hilton ...
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Paramount confirms executive shuffle for Moore, Lesher
Rob Moore has moved up from Paramount Pictures president of worldwide marketing, distribution and home entertainment to vice chairman as part of the studio's anticipated executive shuffle.Former Paramount Vantage president John Lesher becomes president of president of Paramount Film Group in recognition of his efforts in reinvigorating Vantage witha string ...
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Veteran film and TV sales executive Gene George joins Starz Media
TV executive Gene George has been named executive vice president of worldwide distributionat Starz Media, effective immediately.George will be based at Starz Media's Burbank headquarters and will report to presidentand COO Kent Rice.In his role George will oversee Starz' sales and distribution activities functions,forge partnerships with domestic and international broadcasters ...
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Paz Vega steps in to star with Baker in Not Forgotten
Paz Vega has replaced Jordana Brewster opposite Simon Baker in thesupernatural thriller Not Forgotten to be directed by Dror Soref.Donald Zuckerman and Soref are producing the story steeped in Latinomysticism about a young couple forced to confront their tortured pastsin order to save their missing daughter. Production is set to ...
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Theatrical admissions down by 5.2% in Brazil in 2007
Movie attendance fell by an estimated 5.2% at Brazil's theatres in 2007, according to Filme B, a local film company that reviews theatrical market data. Since 2005 there has been a drop in admissions in the country, where 85.5m tickets were sold last year. Box office revenues went down slightly ...
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Bell promoted in visual effects production at Universal
Jennifer Bell has been promoted to senior vice president of visual effects production at Universal Pictures.Effective immediately, Bell moves up from her previous post as vice president of production technology and will oversee all aspects of visual effects creation and production for the Motion Picture Group. She reports to president ...
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Legend set to conquer box office with Germany, Italy openings
Warner Bros Picture International's (WBPI) I Am Legend has ruled the roost for the last few weeks and looks good to maintain its number one berth this weekend.The horror sci-fi has amassed $169.3m and could cross $200m this weekend with strong holds and anticipated launches in Germany on Jan 10 ...
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CEC makes single picture financing deal on Frank Miller's The Spirit
Finance and investment firm Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC) has announced its single picture financing deal for Frank Miller's The Spirit and has provided partial production and distribution financing for Odd Lot Entertainment together with funds managed by private investment firm Qualia Capital.Odd Lot and Lionsgate will jointly provide production and ...
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Koch Lorber takes US rights to Scott Hicks' Philip Glass documentary
Koch Lorber Films has picked up Scott Hicks' documentary Glass: A Portrait Of Philip In Twelve Parts, which follows the legendary composer over the course of one eventful year and premiered in Toronto last year.Koch Lorber holds US theatrical and home video rights and has set the US premiere for ...