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Hamed to direct Chicago from Yacoubian author Alaa-Al-Aswani
Egyptian director Marwan Hamed is in talks to direct a film based on Chicago, the follow up book by Yacoubian Building author Alaa-Al-Aswani with Dar El Shorouck, the book's Egyptian publisher as producing partner.The director made the announcement from the Taormina Film Festival where he is serving on the ...
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Byrne to head GE and NBC's $250m Peacock Equity Fund
GE Commercial Finance's Media, Communications & Entertainment business and NBC Universal have appointed Thomas M. Byrne, 40, as managing director of the $250m Peacock Equity Fund. Megumi Ikeda, 37, has been named as London-based executive director, reporting to Byrne. Peacock Equity, a joint venture between GE and NBC Universal, invests ...
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Global entertainment industry to be worth $2 trillion by 2011
The global entertainment & media market will see sustained growth and a 6.4% compound annual growth rate to hit $2 trillion in 2011, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report. In particular, convergent platforms will rise at double-digit rates and will represent more than 50% of global entertainment spending by 2011. ...
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Jim Broadbent joins cast of Indiana Jones 4
Jim Broadbent has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones 4, which has begun principal photography and will be released by Paramount on May 22, 2008.It is understood Broadbent will play a mentor figure to Harrison Ford's titular character, along the lines of Dr Marcus Brody played by the ...
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Brillstein-Grey rebrands as Brillstein Entertainment Partners
Brillstein-Grey Entertainment has rebranded itself Brillstein Entertainment Partners, chief executive officer Jon Liebman and partner Cynthia Pett-Dante, who together acquired the company from Brad Grey in July 2005, announced today [June 20].Grey's co-founding partners Bernie Brillstein, Marc Gurvitz and Sandy Wernick will continue to help Liebman and Pett-Dante lead the ...
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Kate Hudson joins Dane Cook in Lionsgate comedy Bachelor No 2
Kate Hudson will star opposite Dane Cook in Lionsgate's comedy Bachelor No. 2, which is set to begin filming in Boston in August.Cook plays a man who specialises in reuniting women with their ex-boyfriends and ends up falling for his best friend's girlfriend, played by Hudson. Lionsgate has earmarked a ...
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Garelik named senior vp, theatrical distribution, at Overture
Former Nielsen EDI vice president of client services Matt Garelik has joined Overture Films as senior vice president of theatrical distribution.Based in Overture's Beverly Hills offices, Garelik will handle Overture's western distribution, and will work alongside senior vice president of theatrical distribution Greg Forston who handles eastern distribution. Garelik reports ...
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Paramount's Fragen moves to head domestic TV distribution at Summit
Alex Fragen has been hired as Summit Entertainment's president of domestic television distribution and will oversee the company's free and pay television, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, and hotel and airline sales.Fragen will also be involved in developing the new media distribution strategy for Summit's Home Entertainment division.He arrives from Paramount, where he ...
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Mitulescu's Romanian Way finds US home in Film Movement
Film Movement has picked up domestic rights to Catalin Mitulescu's Romanian drama The Way I Spent The End Of The World, on which Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders served as executive producers.The film takes place in 1989 in the last year of Ceausesu's regime as a seven-year-old boy who vows ...
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New Anglo-Jamaican co-production treaty unveiled
From Broadcast:The British and Jamaican governments are joining forces to encourage filmmakers from the two countries to work on co-productions. Broadcasting minister Shaun Woodward and Del Crooks, Jamaica's film commissioner, joined together at a specially organised press conference at the BroadcastLive trade show in London today to publicise the deal, ...
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National Lampoon acquires worldwide on Rifkin's Homo Erectus
National Lampoon has acquired worldwide rights to Homo Erectus by Adam Rifkin, whose feature Look just won the Grand Jury Prize at the CineVegas Film Festival.The National Lampoon, Burnt Orange Productions and University Of Texas Film Institute co-production premiered at Slamdance this year and will be released in September as ...
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Akamas wins best feature prize at LA Greek Film Festival
Panikos Chrysanthou's Akamas won the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival's Orpheus Award for best narrative feature and Valerie Kontakos's Who's On First won corresponding documentary honours as the festival closed on Jun 17.A Special Jury Award went to Dimitris Koutsiabasakos for The Guardian's Son. Alexander Voulgaris was named best director ...
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Former ICM CFO Murphy joins Participant Productions
Former ICM chief financial officer Robert Murphy has joined Participant Productions as chief financial officer and executive vice-president.Murphy will report directly to chief executive officer Jim Berk and will oversee the company's financial activities and operations, and act as a key member of the management team responsible for long-term strategic ...
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Charlotte Mickie leaving Dreamachine to reunite with Robert Lantos
Canadian producer Robert Lantos is stepping back into the distribution business, according to industry sources in Toronto. While it's unclear whether the new operation will be part of Lantos' production company Serendipity Point Films, it is certain that veteran sales executive Charlotte Mickie has left her post as a director ...
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Matt Brown promoted to evp, international, at SPHE
Matt Brown has been promoted to executive vice president - international at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE).Former Coca-Cola Company senior manager Simon McDowell has joined as senior vice president and general manager, Europe, and will report to Brown.Brown will be based in Los Angeles and manage SPHE's international business including ...
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MGM signs Goldsmith-Thomas to production deal
MGM has signed producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas to an overall production agreement through her Goldsmith-Thomas Productions.Goldsmith-Thomas was a partner at Revolution Studios for seven years and her credits include the recent release Perfect Stranger, Mona Lisa Smile, and Maid In Manhattan.Headquartered in New York, Goldsmith-Thomas and current vice president of development ...
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Michael Apted will direct third Narnia picture in 2008
Michael Apted will direct Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media's The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.The third instalment in the children's fantasy franchise is scheduled to begin filming in January 2008 in time for release on May 1, 2009.The second episode, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, will ...
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Marc Forster set to direct Bond 22 for Eon, Sony, MGM
Marc Forster will direct the 22nd James Bond film, producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced today with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and MGM.Forster, who directed the 2006 release Stranger Than Fiction for Sony and the upcoming adaptation The Kite Runner for Paramount Vantage and Participant Productions, will start ...
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Hjerdt takes audience prize at Toronto 's Worldwide Short Film Festival
Swedish filmmaker Jorgen Hjerdt won the $5000 Telus Audience Choice Award as the 13th Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF) wrapped on Sunday. In all 10 awards and over $116,000 (C$125,000) in cash and prizes were presented. The C$10,000 Bravo! FACT Award for Best Canadian Short Film went ...
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Global Universal Film Group signs production deal with Hands Free
LA-based Global Universal Film Group, a subsidiary of LitFunding Corp, has signed a deal with Hands Free Entertainment's production team of James Paul and Cory Hudson.Global is scheduled to become a publicly traded company once it has been spun off from LitFunding.Paul and Hudson will assist Global in producing a ...