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Jason Lee to star in dark comedy Thicker for Feverpitch
Jeffrey D Erb and Joe Nicolo's Feverpitch Pictures has lined up the dark comedy Thicker to star Jason Lee and Christopher Lloyd.Erb and Nicolo will produce with Leslie Zemeckis and Terry Nemeroff will direct Thicker, which the producers describe as a tale of 'lethal greed and even deadlier desire.'Production is ...
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Goldwyn, Red Envelope team to buy domestic rights to Trumbo
Samuel Goldwyn Films and Red Envelope Entertainment have jointly acquired Peter Askin's documentary Trumbo about the life of blacklisted Oscar winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.The partners plan a late spring 2008 release on the film, which recounts Trumbo's eventful life through his letters and is based on his son Christopher's stage ...
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Halle Berry to receive Achievement Award at Palm Springs in Jan
Halle Berry will collect the 19th Annual Palm Springs InternationalFilm Festival's (PSIFF) Desert Palm Achievement Award on January 5 2008.Berry stars opposite Benicio Del Toro in Susanne Bier's debutEnglish-language drama Things We lost In The Fire and earned praisefrom festival chairman Earl Greenburg for her 'dramatic acting andpowerful emotion'.Berry won ...
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Gosling to receive Santa Barbara's first Independent Award
Ryan Gosling will receive the first Independent Award at the 23rd Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), which runs from January 24-February 3 2008.The Independent Award was established to recognise an actor who has made 'a significant and unique contribution to independent film' and will be presented to Gosling on ...
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Universal moves Wanted into prime summer 2008 release slot
Universal Pictures has moved its graphic novel adaptation Wanted starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy into a prime summer 2008 slot.The film was scheduled to open on March 28 but will now go out on June 27 2008.'After an early look at Wanted, we are certain that it fulfils its ...
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Warner to handle three pictures from Media Rights Capital
Warner Bros Pictures has signed a distribution agreement with Los Angeles-based Media Rights Capital (MRC) to handle three upcoming projects from the recently formed company.Warner Bros will handle worldwide distribution on Robert Rodriguez' family film Shorts as well as domestic distribution on Richard Kelly's thriller The Box starring Cameron Diaz, ...
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Rossellini, Dunst to present shorts at Sundance
Films directed by Isabella Rossellini and Kirsten Dunst are among 83 entries in the Sundance Film Festival's short film line-up.Festival programmers said global submissions grew by 15% over last year as they sifted through 5,107 hopefuls from 17 countries.Dunst arrives in the US Short Films programme with Welcome, which stars ...
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Randy Quaid comedy to open Slamdance Film Festival
Randall Cole's comedy about a doomed gambler Real Time starring Randy Quaid will open the 14th Slamdance Film Festival on January 17 2008.Event president and co-founder Peter Baxter and his team whittled down more than 1,200 submissions to the final roster of 29.Entries include Steve Clark's rites of passage tale ...
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No Country off to flying start with National Board Of Review wins
The National Board of Review has announced the first winners of the North American 2007 awards season, naming Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country For Old Men best film of the year.The Coen Brothers' unflinching adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's crime thriller also takes the best adapted screenplay prize, while the ...
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Kiarostami, Panahi and Puiu among CineMart 2008 selections
CineMart, the co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, has selected 39 projects for its 2008 edition, out of a record 550 entries. CineMart, celebrating its 25th anniversary, runs Jan 27-31, 2008 and comes with prize money of Euros 25,000.The selections are low- and medium-budget features including new projects ...
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Italy heats up as Beowulf leads international box-office chart
Italian box office may typically be dormant during summer months but it's making up for it now as three titles generated nearly $7m this weekend, accounting for 5.5% of the international top 40's revenue.For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.New entry Winx Club: Il Segreto Del ...
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Myriad signs one year, first look deal with comic book outfit Studio 407
Myriad Pictures has entered into a one-year first-look deal to make live-action features with Bangkok and US-based comic book creator Studio 407.Studio 407's US staff will operate out of Myriad's Santa Monica offices for the duration of the deal. Myriad get first look at all potential feature adaptations from Studio ...
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Cohen named consultant for Digital Distribution Coalition
Steven B Cohen has been appointed as consultant to manage DigitalCinema Distribution Coalition, the alliance between Warner BrosEntertainment, Universal Pictures and Digital Cinema ImplementationPartners (DCIP).DCIP was originally announced on March 6 2007 and was set up to develop the most cost-effective form of digital delivery.Cohen has more than 20 years ...
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Mann, Dushku star in The Thacker Case
Principal photography has begun in and around Los Angeles and in Iowa on the true-life wrongful death story The Thacker Case.Set in small town Iowa, the film stars Gabriel Mann as a young attorney who uncovers a web of lies and cover-ups following the mysterious death of Kevin Thacker, a ...
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Peace Arch acquires Canadian rights to 32 First Look titles
Toronto-based Peace Arch Entertainment Group has acquired exclusive Canadian rights to 32 films from First Look Studios Los Angeles.Peace Arch will release five of the films theatrically in Canada, followed by DVD, video-on-demand and television distribution. The titles are An American Crime starring Catherine Keener, Smiley Face with Anna Faris, ...
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Day-Lewis to be honoured with achievement award at Palm Springs
Daniel Day-Lewis will receive the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Desert Palm Achievement Award at the festival's annual awards gala on January 5 2008.Day-Lewis has earned rave reviews for his latest performance as a ruthless oil baron in Paul Thomas Anderson's film There Will Be Blood, which ...
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XXY continues winning streak at Argentina's Sur prizes
The Argentinian Academy of Film Arts and Science awarded Lucia Puenzo's XXY with six Sur prizes (out of 13 nominations), including best film, best first film, best director, best adapted script, best new actress (Ines Efron) and best supporting actor (Martin Piroyansky), at a gala held in Buenos Aires on ...
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Gaumont starts shoot for Splice starring Adrien Brody
Vincenzo Natali has started principal photography on Splice, which Gaumont is co-producing with Canada's Copperheart Entertainment. The film is set to shoot until February 29 in Toronto, with a 2009 release planned.Splicestars Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley and Delphine Chaneac.Natali, who found cult success with Cube and also directed a vignette ...
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JPMorgan fortifies Entertainment unit with $200m warchest
JPMorgan is stepping up its involvement in Hollywood with a commitment to invest $200m of its own capital in film and entertainment projects.The New York-based bank, which late last year arranged $225m in production and distribution funding for start-up Overture Films, said it will use subordinated debt for investments such ...