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All Americas articles – Page 312
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Ang Lee's Lust, Caution gets NC-17 rating in US
Focus Features said today [Aug 23] that it will not contest a ruling by the Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) to award Ang Lee's Lust, Caution an NC-17 rating.MPAA officers had not returned calls at time of writing, however the ruling is believed to be in response to the ...
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Yablans' Promenade launches with The Ten Commandments
Former Paramount president Frank Yablans' Promenade Pictures will enter the US theatrical distribution arena with the 3-D CGI feature The Ten Commandments on Oct 26.The film is the first in the 12-title Epic Stories Of The Bible series to be launched by the family-oriented production and distribution outfit.Each film will ...
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Tomassini, Mooij launch publicity firm Silversalt PR
Claudia Tomassini and Thessa Mooij have launched the Berlin and New York-based publicity firm Silversalt PR.The company will specialise in international publicity for major festivals and represents three films at Venice including Andrea Porporati's competition entry Il Dolce E L'Amaro.The other Venice titles are Barbara Cupisti's Madri and Albert Maysles ...
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First Independent, Magnolia team on Moving McAllister
First Independent Pictures (FIP) and Magnolia Home Entertainment have co-acquired North American rights to Ben Gourley's road movie Moving McAllister.The picture stars Utah-born Gourley as a Miami law firm intern who agrees to escort the senior partner's attractive niece across the States. Rutger Hauer, Jon Heder and Mila Kunis also ...
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Sundance renews programming arrangement with US arthouses
The Sundance Institute announced yesterday [Aug 22] it had renewed its affiliation with art house cinemas across the US to create specialised screening programmes of Sundance films for local audiences.The Sundance Institute Art House Project pairs the Institute with arthouse theatres in 12 cities ranging from Orlando, Florida, to Nashville, ...
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Transformers to hit IMAX screens eight weeks after release
Michael Bay's summer hit Transformers is to be distributed in IMAX cinemas, according to the giant-screen company and DreamWorks/Paramount. Having already grossed more than $300m domestically and $350m internationally since its release, the film will be digitally remastered for release on more than 80 IMAX screens worldwide September 21. Asked ...
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Ryan, Bening et al start shooting Jagged/Inferno's The Women
Principal photography has begun in Boston, Massachusetts, on Jagged Films and Inferno Distribution's comedy The Women.The film will shoot on location in and around Boston and New York City through mid-October and is being distributed in North America by Picturehouse.The story centres on two well-appointed New York women whose friendship ...
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Eva Mendes boards The Spirit for Odd Lot, Lionsgate
Eva Mendes has joined Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L Jackson and Gabriel Macht in Odd Lot Entertainment and Lionsgate's live-action comic book adaptation The Spirit.Production is set to begin in October in New Mexico and will take place entirely at Albuquerque Studios.The fantasy thriller tells the tale of a rookie cop ...
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Palm picks up US rights to Canadian hit The Rocket
Palm Pictures has acquired US rights to the biographical ice hockey film The Rocket: The Legend Of Rocket Richard.The film won nine awards at the 2007 Genie Awards including best director for Charles Biname and best actor for Roy Dupuis.Palm Pictures plans for a late autumn theatrical release followed by ...
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Scott Bailey gets lead role in Jabor's Copacabana
Scott Bailey has been cast as the lead in Roberto Jabor's English-speaking, US-Brazil co-production Copacabana, Of Love And Shadows.Bailey, whose credits include The Guiding Guide, the upcoming Seducing Spirits, and TV series Saints & Sinners, joins Peter Paige, Gabriel Canella, Emily Holmes and Maite Proenca in the key cast.The $5m ...
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The Nanny Diaries
Dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, US, 105 minutes, colour, 35 mm.In The Nanny Diaries, adapted from the best-selling picaresque roman a clef about tending to the offspring of New York's elite, Scarlett Johansson plays a would-be anthropology student immersed in a foreign culture as a nanny to a ...
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Gross starts shooting $20m WWI epic Passchendaele
Actor-director-screenwriter Paul Gross has begun shooting his WWI drama Passchendaele in Calgary, Alberta. Produced by Niv Fichman of Rhombus Media, Frank Siracusa of Whizbang Films and Francis Damberger of the Damberger Film and Cattle Company, the $20m, 45-day production will follow the exploits of Canadian soldiers leading up to one ...
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Universal buys rights to Lone Survivor for Berg to direct
Universal Pictures has bought the rights to Lone Survivor, true story of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell's wartime experiences in Afghanistan.The studio is understood to have beaten out several bidders for rights to the book, which is currently in the top five on the New York Times' non-fiction bestseller list.Peter Berg, ...
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Carl Perkins life story comes to screen via Fastlane Entertainment
Santa Monica-based Fastlane Entertainment has acquired exclusive film rights to the life story of one of the founding fathers of rock and roll, Carl Perkins.The story will be based on a screenplay by Perkins' daughter and former songwriting partner Debbie 'DJ' Perkins. Fastlane founder Frank Miniaci will produce with Chesley ...
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AFI to name annual award winners on Dec 16
The eighth annual AFI Awards, which records each year's most outstanding achievements in film and television, will be announced on Dec 16.Ten AFI Movies Of The Year, 10 AFI Television Programs Of The Year and up to 10 AFI Moments Of Significance will be determined by AFI juries. The two ...
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TIFF unveils 2007 Industry Initiatives
The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled a plethora of industry initiatives today [Aug 20] for next month's festival designed to develop and support the Canadian film industry and its partners.The Ontario Media Development Corporation's day-long International Financing Forum (IFF) runs on Sept 10. The event brings together sales agents, ...
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Film Movement acquires domestic rights to Arranged
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Diane Crespo and Stefan C Schaefer's cross-cultural drama Arranged.The story charts the friendship between two Brooklyn teachers - one an Orthodox Jew, the other a Muslim of Syrian origin - who support each other as they each face an arranged marriage.Film Movement ...
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Strand, SPWAG team to acquire Hopkins' Slipstream
Strand Releasing has picked up domestic theatrical and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has taken domestic home entertainment rights to Anthony Hopkins' psychological thriller Slipstream.Hopkins recently received a special directing and acting prize at the Locarno International Film Festival for Slipstream, in which he plays a screenwriter who can ...
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Canada's Entertainment One buys Seville Entertainment
Entertainment One, the newest player on the Canadian film distribution scene, is acquiring Montreal-based distributor Seville Pictures, the company announced today. The move is the first Canadian foray in an ambitious global releasing strategy of Entertainment One Film Entertainment president Patrice Theroux, who launched the division last month. Speaking to ...
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Danna, Desplat, Glass among World Soundtrack Award nominees
Gustavo Santaolalla, Alberto Iglesias, Harry Gregson-Williams and Mychael Danna will participate in a three-day series of concerts at the 34th edition of the Flanders International Film Festival, which runs from Oct 9-20.The annual Benelux event will close with the 7th annual World Soundtrack Awards on Oct 20 honouring Film Composer ...