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Screen Gems picks up spoof script Armageddagain
Screen Gems has picked up Robert Moniot's upcoming comedy spoof Armageddagain: The Day Before Tomorrow.Production is scheduled to begin in August and Screen Gems will release in 2008. Screen Gems' Michael Helfand negotiated the deal with Moniot's agents at ICM.Noah Emmerich makes his major producing debut through Sandbox Entertainment, alongside ...
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Talk To Me to open Los Angeles Film Festival
Talk To Me, Kasi Lemmons' biopic of radio DJ Ralph Waldo Greene, and Danny Boyle's Sunshine bookend the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival, which will screen more than 230 features, shorts and music videos between Jun 21 and Jul 1.The eight narrative competition entries will vie for a $50,000 unrestricted ...
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WBITD signs Hong Kong VOD deal with ViDeOnline
Warner Bros International Television Distribution has signed a multi-year video-on-demand and subscription video-on-demand deal with ViDeOnline Communications for the Hong Kong rights to current features and library titles.The agreement will initially cover more than 100 Warner Bros titles that ViDeOnline will offer for download through its recently launched 08Media portal.Films ...
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Amritraj, Hyde Park set Asian ambitions
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment has created an Asian division Hyde Park Asia with ambitions to produce both international and local films in the region while securing local backing from various institutions and investors.Amritraj says he already has an office opened in India and is planning to open one shortly ...
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Mandate to sell Ghost House/Vertigo horror Incident
Mandate Pictures will commence sales in Cannes on the Ghost House Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment horror tale Incident At Sans Asylum.Daniel Calparsoro is directing from a screenplay by S Craig Zahler about volunteer cooks at an insane asylum who get trapped inside the building with the cream of the criminally ...
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Warner Bros ceases all preview screenings in Canada
Warner Bros Canada fired a broadside at Canadian lawmakers yesterday when it announced it was immediately ceasing all preview screenings in the territory as a result of what it regarded as inadequate anti-piracy policy.Citing ongoing state and federal efforts to curb piracy in the US, Warner Bros' anti-piracy chief Darcy ...
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Warner Japan wins government import award for fourth time
Warner Entertainment Japan has received the 2007 Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award for best importer-distributor of the year for the fourth time.The award was handed out at a ceremony on Apr 18 at the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce. Warner Japan president and representative director William Ireton accepted the ...
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Dubinet leaves Myriad and heads to Revelations
Revelations Entertainment partners Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary have hired former Myriad Pictures distribution chief Ann Dubinet to head their new financing arm Global Revelations.The new venture will nurture a 'talent inspired' consortium of equity and hedge fund personnel ranging from studios and financiers to international players in Europe, Asia ...
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Spider-Man 3 actual weekend gross higher than estimates
Spider-Man 3 actually grossed more than initial weekend estimates suggested, taking $382m worldwide and $231m internationally in its first six days, and $151m in its first three days in North America.The action epic screened in 4,252 domestic theatres for a $35,540 per-theatre average, and played in 8,900 overseas venues.It opened ...
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Intrepid buys rights to graphic novel The Expendable One
Los Angeles-based production and financing company Intrepid Pictures has acquired Jason M Burns' graphic novel The Expendable One and has hired Shane Kuhn and Brendan Cowles to co-write the screenplay.The Expendable One is an action-comedy about an ordinary man who realises after accidentally drinking his friend's scientific experiment that his ...
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WHV signs five-year extension on Zaentz distribution deal
Warner Home Video (WHV) has signed a five-year extension to its global distribution deal with producer Saul Zaentz.WHV will continue to distribute Zaentz' films, which include the HD DVD and Blue-Ray releases of Oscar winners One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus in February 2008.'Warner respects the passion I ...
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Dori Begley joins Tom Quinn on Magnolia's acquisitions team
Dori Begley has joined Magnolia Pictures' New York office in the newly created role of director of acquisitions and will report to head of acquisitions Tom Quinn.Begley recently served as associate programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival. Prior to that she worked from 1998-2006 in various capacities at Sony Pictures ...
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Lightning picks up Bonneville starring Lange, Bates, Allen
Los Angeles-based Lightning Entertainment has added Christopher Rowley's female road movie Bonneville starring Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and Joan Allen to its Cannes slate.The film premiered at Toronto last year and follows the exploits of a disillusioned woman who enlists two friends and embarks upon a trip across the Great ...
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Three German films in running for Student Foreign Academy Award
Five finalists selected from a record 49 entries representing 33 countries will vie for the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2007 Honorary Foreign Film Award in the 34th Annual Student Academy Awards.The winning film-maker will be brought to Los Angeles in June to participate in a week of ...
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CORRECTION: Nanking to get fulll theatrical release
A profile of Bill Guttentag which ran in Screen International on April 20 and on Screendaily on April 24 incorrectly stated that Guttentag's Nanking would receive a short theatrical release in North America through THINKFilm.In fact, the film will have a full domestic release in December.
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Til Schweiger takes the lead in Boll's latest Far Cry
Til Schweiger has been cast in the lead of Uwe Boll's latest video game adaptation Far Cry.Filming on the $25m Boll and Brightlight Pictures co-production is scheduled to begin on Jun 13 in Vancouver. Boll, Brightlight's Shawn Williamson and Dan Clarke are producing.Schweiger will play Jack Carver, a former Special ...
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Bleiberg to handle sales on He Was A Quiet Man
Bleiberg Entertainment has bulked up its Cannes slate with international rights to Frank A Cappello's drama He Was A Quiet Man starring Christian Slater and Elisha Cuthbert.The film, which premiered at the 2007 South By Southwest Film Festival, follows a downbeat office worker whose potentially homicidal trajectory is radically shifted ...
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We Are Together wins Tribeca Audience Award
Paul Taylor's South African orphans documentary We Are Together (Thina Simunye) has won the 6th annual Tribeca Film Festival's Cadillac Award.The audience award was announced before the closing night premiere of HBO's documentary The Gates.Taylor, who produced with Teddy Liefer, earns a $25,000 cash prize for his account of the ...
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Domestic opening record established by Spider-man 3
The spandex one-piece and wise-cracking come-backs weren't the only familiar things about Spider-Man 3, as Sony's favourite super-hero swung back into action with a sensational estimated $148m three-day domestic opening that returned the franchise to its record-breaking ways established by the first episode in 2002.Spider-Man 3 spun a staggering $375m ...
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DreamWorks wins bidding for Jackson's Lovely Bones
Peter Jackson's upcoming Alice Sebold adaptation The Lovely Bones has landed at DreamWorks, the studio announced late on Friday after it won the auction for Jackson's project in association with Film 4.Sony, Warner Bros and Universal had also pursued the New Zealander, whose ongoing legal spat with New Line meant ...