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Kanter, Malick form I Am Third Productions in LA, Austin
Producers Conroy Kanter and Ecky Malick have formed I Am Third Productions and announced their first two projects.Based in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, I Am Third Productions is developing Father Elijah, based on Michael O'Brien's books about a Carmelite priest sent to defeat a man believed to be the ...
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More Sunshine in 2008 Sundance Film Festival lineup
Sundance Film festival director Geoff Gilmore and director of programming John Cooper unveiled the 2008 competition line-up today [Nov 28], hailing an eclectic roster of 'passionate and personal' storytelling culled from a record number of submissions.Including the Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontiers and Park City At Midnight selections - all of ...
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UTV scores Goal in 16 territories, while Beowulf keeps hold of top slot
Indian distributor UTV Communications had an international hit this weekend with Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal, which enjoyed a $3.5m take and was the highest non-US entry into the top 40 chart.For the full chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.The film, which is the second feature from director Vivek Agnihotri, ...
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Peace Arch's Weapon stars UFC middleweight champion Franklin
Peace Arch Entertainment Group has started principal photography on the action film Weapon in Hamilton, Ontario.UFC Middleweight champion Rich Franklin, Bruce Greenwood and Tiffani Thiessen will star in the story of a US border patrol agent who apprehends a genetically enhanced super-soldier who is being pursued by his creator.John Stead ...
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Drea Clark named executive director of Slamdance Film Festival
Drea Clark has been appointed executive director of the Slamdance Film Festival, which next year runs from January 17-25 2008.Clark has worked her way through the ranks since joining the festival as an intern in 1998 and will now manage all aspects of festival preparation and production and serve as ...
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Strand picks up Fatih Akin's latest The Edge Of Heaven
Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Fatih Akin's official German foreign language Oscar submission The Edge Of Heaven.The film studies how the lives of four Turks and two Germans intersect through love and tragedy and stars Tuncel Kurtiz and Hanna Schygulla.Strand co-president Jon Gerrans struck the deal with ...
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Weinstein Co picks up worldwide rights to novel from Bridie Clark
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has pounced on worldwide publishing, film and television rights to Bridie Clark's novel I Think She's Got It.The company has optioned the right to develop and produce film and television versions of Clark's modern retelling of Pygmalion, which transplants the action to Manhattan where a man-about-town ...
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Haynes, Schnabel, Reitman films lead Independent Spirit nominations
Fox Searchlight led the way at the 2008 Independent Spirit Award nominations earlier today with 11 nods for Juno, The Savages and Waitress, among others, followed by Focus Features and Paramount Vantage on five apiece and Miramax and The Weinstein Company (TWC) on four each.TWC's I'm Not There was the ...
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LA PR agency Fifteen Minutes names Harrison president & COO
Howard Bragman has appointed recent hire Bill Harrison president and COO of Los Angeles-based public relations agency Fifteen Minutes.The promotion comes barely four months after Harrison came aboard following a stint as head of corporate communications at the boutique talent agency Paradigm.'In just a few months Bill has demonstrated the ...
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Bill Harrison promoted at PR company Fifteen Minutes
Howard Bragman has appointed recent hire Bill Harrison president and COO of Los Angeles-based public relations agency Fifteen Minutes. The promotion comes barely four months after Harrison came aboard following a stint as head of corporate communications at the boutique talent agency Paradigm. 'In just a few months Bill has ...
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David Cronenberg to write his debut novel for Penguin Canada
Canadian auteur David Cronenberg has signed a deal with Penguin Canada to write his debut novel, the publishing house announced today. The deal was negotiated by Nicole Winstanley, executive editor at Penguin Group Canada, and UK literary agent Andrew Wylie of the Wylie Agency. Wylie is handling world rights on ...
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New Line takes domestic on Handmade's animated Planet 51
New Line Cinema has picked up domestic rights from Handmade Films International to its first CGI animated film Planet 51, written by Shrek and Shrek 2 writer Joe Stillman.Ilion Animation Studios' $60m feature is currently in production and due to be complete around mid-March 2009.Jorge Blanco is directing and Javier ...
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Mungiu's 4 Months set for Oscar qualifying run in LA
IFC Films & Red Envelope Entertainment will open Cristian Mungiu's acclaimed drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days for a one-week qualifying run in Los Angeles on Friday December 21.The film will officially re-open on January 25 2008 at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and IFC Center in New York ...
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Robinov promoted at Warner Bros to oversee marketing, distribution
Jeff Robinov has been named president of the newly formed Warner Bros Pictures Group, a streamlined production operation that encompasses the studio's worldwide production, marketing and distribution units as well as Warner Independent Pictures.Robinov will assume his new post in January 2008 following the announcement by Warner Bros president and ...
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Piche begins principal photography on Nothing Really Matters
Jean-Marc Piche has begun principal photography on his entirely self-financed film Nothing Really Matters, a black comedy starring Yannick Bisson, Pascale Bussieres, Kenneth Welsh and Canadian musician Gord Downie, lead singer and composer of The Tragically Hip. Written by Piche and Catlin Stothers, the film shoots in Toronto through December ...
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Leomax buys North American rights to Norway's Cold Prey
Leomax Entertainment has picked up North American rights from Sweden's AB Svensk Filmindustri to the Norwegian psychological horror title Cold Prey.Leomax' first acquisition will be released in the US and Canada through Anchor Bay Entertainment via Leomax's genre label Indigomotion.Roar Uthaug makes his feature directorial debut on the tale of ...
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Some Enchanted opening for Disney with $50m in five days
Buena Vista's fairy tale Enchanted stormed to the top of the charts over Thanksgiving weekend on an estimated $35.3m from three days and $50m from five.Amy Adams stars as a fairy tale princess who is thrust into that also stars Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden and Susan Sarandon.This was the second ...
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Warner's Beowulf rules the roost at international box office
Once again Beowulf ruled the waves as the animated ancient English adventure story grossed an estimated $26m through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) from more than 5,400 prints in 43 markets for $48.5m.The film ranked number one in approximately 20 of its new 23 markets this weekend, fired up by ...
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Jellyfish wins top prize at Argentina's San Luis festival
Shira Geffen and Etgar Keret's Jellyfish won the Golden Puntano prize for best film at San Luis International Film Festival first edition, which closed on Sunday in the small and prosperous city located 800 km far from Buenos Aires.The Israeli-French co-production, which won the Camera d'Or at this year's Cannes ...
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Sundance Documentary Programme gives $750,000 in grants
Thirty feature projects will receive a record number of financial grants from the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program amounting to almost $750,000.Sundance Institute Documentary Fund administrators scrutinsed 300 applications from more than 25 countries and announced the chosen titles on November 21.The line-up, which programme director Cara Mertes described an ...