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There Will Be Blood
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson US, 2007. 158minsThere Will Be Blood is a vivid, sprawling parable about greed and moral corrosion. Set in the majestic American Southwest circa 1900, Paul Thomas Anderson's film will ride to the box-office largely on Daniel Day Lewis's volcanic performance as Daniel Plainview, the monstrous rags-to-riches ...
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Hansel's Sounds Of Sand takes top prize at Amazonas
Marion Hansel's Belgium-France coproduction Sounds Of Sand won the grand prize at the fourth annual Amazonas Film Festival in Manaus, Brazil. The jury, headed by film-maker John Boorman, split its second prize between Micha Wald's Belgium-France-Canada coproduction Horse Thieves and Feng Xiaogang's The Assembly. The audience prize winner was Brazilian ...
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Broadbent, McCrory join regulars in Harry Potter VI
Jim Broadbent and Helen McCrory have joined the regular Harry Potter cast on the upcoming sixth episode Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince.Broadbent will play the potions professor Horace Slughorn, who gives Harry an old tome with a mysterious past. McCrory will play Draco Malfoy's mother Narcissa.Newcomers Jessie Cave, Hero ...
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Paramount scores US number one with Beowulf on $28.1m
Beowulf ruled the world at the weekend as Robert Zemeckis' animated adaptation of the epic English poem launched at number one in North America with an estimated $28.1m haul that complemented the table topping overseas tally of $17m.Well over one-third of the domestic gross came from 3D screens through Real ...
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Warner's Beowulf leads international box office with $17m
Beowulf destroyed the competition as the animated epic saga grossed an estimated $17m through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).The film drew approximately 1.7million admissions from 2,500 prints in 13 markets led by a $4.4m (£2.2m) second place launch in the UK in 552 sites that included previewsBeowulf ranked top in ...
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Sounds Of Sand takes top prize at Amazonas Film Festival
Marion Hansel's Belgium-France coproduction Sounds Of Sand won the Grand Prize at the fourth annual Amazonas Film Festival in Manaus, Brazil. The jury, headed by filmmaker John Boorman, split its second prize between Micha Wald's Belgium-France-Canada coproduction Horse Thieves and Feng Xiaogang's The Assembly. The Audience Prize winner was Brazilian ...
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Focus, Groundswell team to finance Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic
Sean Penn will star in Gus Van Sant's biopic of the gay rights icon Harvey Milk for Focus Features and Groundswell Productions, which has been set for a January 2008 start date.American Beauty producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen will produce Milk through The Jinks/Cohen Company with Michael London, whose ...
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Rogen, Banks to star in Kevin Smith's next film for TWC, Dimension
Seth Rogen, riding high on the success of this year's sleeper summer hit Knocked Up, will star for The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Dimension Films in Kevin Smith's Zack & Miri Make A Porno.Elizabeth Banks, who along with Rogen appeared in The 40 Year Old Virgin, stars in the story ...
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Kounelias promoted in New Line marketing restructure
Christina Kounelias has been promoted to executive vice president of marketing at New Line and will report to the studio's domestic marketing chief Chris Carlisle.In the newly created position Kounelias will work closely with Carlisle to oversee a newly created marketing department infrastructure and continue to oversee the studio's publicity, ...
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Kristen Stewart gets lead role in Hardwicke's Twilight for Summit
Kristen Stewart will star as Bella Swan in Summit Entertainment's upcoming romantic thriller Twilight to be directed by Catherine Hardwicke.Production is set to begin in February 2008 on the story of a 17-year-old girl who moves to a small town in the state of Washington where she gets caught in ...
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American Gangster goes international in UK, France, Germany
Universal's crime saga American Gangster will make an aggressive foray into the international market this weekend, launching through UPI in 11 territories including France, Switzerland and French-speaking Switzerland on November 14.The film debuts a day later in Germany and German-speaking Switzerland, and opens in the UK on November 16.The US ...
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Shearer, Braun to receive honours from IDA
Jocelyn Shearer will receive the International Documentary Association's 2007 IDA Preservation and Scholarship Award on behalf of National Geographic Digital Motion and Darfur Now director Ted Braun will receive the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.Shearer and Braun will be feted during the 23rd Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award ...
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Magnolia takes Roxburgh's Romulus, My Father to US
Magnolia Pictures has acquired all US rights from Arclight Films to the hit Australian drama Romulus, My Father starring Eric Bana and Franke Potente.Magnolia will offer the film on its new HDNet Ultra Video On Demand platform, which grants subscribers access to films up to three weeks before their theatrical ...
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Truly Indie takes US rights to Fighting For Life
Truly Indie has picked up US rights to Terry Sanders' documentary Fighting For Life, which focuses on the work of military doctors in Iraq.Sanders tracks the careers of students at Uniformed Services University, the de facto West Point of military medicine, as well as a veteran who strives to deal ...
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CMG closes multiple territories on No Man's Land: Reeker 2
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) closed multiple territory sales at AFM on Dave Payne's horror sequel No Man's Land: Reeker 2.Rights went to Germany (Capelight Pictures), Brazil (Flashstar Films), Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines (Suraya Films), Indonesia (P T Rapi Films), and Central America (Passatiempo).Deals closed prior to ...
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Schuermann steps down as CEO of Intermedia USA
Martin Schuermann has now stepped from his post as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Los Angeles-based Intermedia Film Equities USA to return to 'hands-on' production. In July, Schuermann had cited 'personal reasons' for leaving his other post as CEO of the IM Internationalmedia Group which he had held ...
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Bill Grantham joins Greenberg Taurig practice in LA
Attorney Bill Grantham has joined Greenberg Traurig's burgeoning corporate and securities practice in Los Angeles.Grantham has extensive experience representing international investors, studios, producers and distributors across a range of entertainment platforms.'Continuing changes in the global entertainment content financing marketplace demand creativity and skill,' Tom Loo, co-managing shareholder of Greenberg Traurig's ...
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Lionsgate picks up Tyler Perry's next two films
Lionsgate has picked up rights to Tyler Perry's next two films, The Family That Preys Together and Madea Goes To Jail.These releases will mark the sixth and seventh titles in Lionsgate's Tyler Perry franchise, which scored its third number one box office hit with Why Did I Get Married, which ...
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Summit buys remake rights to Korean thriller Seven Days
Summit Entertainment has picked up remake rights from Prime Entertainment to the South Korean thriller Seven Days directed by Won Shin-Yeon.Summit is believed to have paid a low six-figure sum at AFM for the story of a defence lawyer who is blackmailed into representing a rape suspect after her daughter ...
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IMAX signs four-picture deal with DreamWorks Animation
IMAX Corporation will release DreamWorks Animation's first three 3D films around the world in IMAX 3D in the company's first multiple film deal with a Hollywood studio.Monsters Vs Aliens will open in March 2009, How To Train Your Dragon in November 2009 and Shrek Goes Fourth in May 2010. A ...