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Cusack, Hayes join voice cast of TWC's Igor
John Cusack and Sean Hayes have joined the voice cast of Exodus Film Group's CG-animated comedy Igor, which The Weinstein Company (TWC) is scheduled to release in North America on Oct 24, 2008.Cusack will voice the title character of Igor, a mad scientist's assistant who secretly harbours dreams of becoming ...
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Emerging to screen Global Film Initiative programmes in US cinemas
Distributor Global Film Initiative (GFI) is expanding its reach through a deal with Emerging Pictures that enables GFI's touring Global Lens 2007 series to screen in digitally equipped cinemas. 'Up to now we have been limited by the costs and logistics of screening only 35mm film,' GFI executive director Kristin ...
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Harper named Regency chairman and CEO
Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE) vice chairman Robert Harper has been named chairman and chief executive officer of Regency Filmed Entertainment. He replaces David Matalon who left the company earlier this month to return to his own production company.Harper will oversee Fox-based Regency's film production unit, New Regency Productions, as well ...
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Filmstreet gets rights to Beatles-signed band's story
Los Angeles-based Filmstreet Productions has taken the film rights to new book All You Need Is Luck or How I Got A Record Deal By Meeting Paul McCartney. Paul Tennant's book is about three teenage musicians in Liverpool in 1967 who became the first group signed to the Beatles' Apple ...
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RGM to co-finance Winged Creatures starring Forest Whitaker
Singapore-based media financing company RGM Entertainment is co-funding and executive producing Winged Creatures, its third international project under the Loan Guarantee Facility (LGF) in collaboration with the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA). Directed by Rowan Woods, the ensemble drama is about survivors of a random restaurant shooting. The cast ...
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Latin American locations: welcome to the jungle
During the past decade Latin America has attracted more and more international production with its stunning and varied locations and cheap labour costs.Leading directors to have shot in the region include James Cameron (Titanic), Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill Vol 2), Gus Van Sant (Gerry) and more recently Mel Gibson for ...
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Sweet Mud, Cashback share top prize at Bermuda Fest
The 10th Annual Bermuda Film Festival came to a close at the weekend, with the Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Award for Best Narrative Feature going to Dror Shaul's Israeli drama Sweet Mud and Sean Ellis' UK comedy Cashback.Linda Hattendorf's Cats Of Mirikitani won best documentary honours, with special mentions going to ...
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WBPI's 300 has earth-shaking $48m international weekend
The Spartan army continued to sweep all before it as 300 grossed an estimated $48m through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI), an exceptional result from 5,000 prints in 33 markets that raised the overseas tally to $79m.The epic opened at number one in 20 markets, led by $8.9m in the ...
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Turtles take the lead from 300 at domestic box office
Warriors continued to hold sway at the North American box office but this weekend the Spartan heroes of 300 were usurped by the might of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.The computer-animated stars from the 1980s claimed the number one post with a solid $25.4m estimated launch through Warner Bros.Kevin Munroe ...
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Canana to release Francisco Vargas'El Violin in Mexico
Canana, the Mexican production company founded by actors Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna with producer Pablo Cruz, has acquired Francisco Vargas' El Violin for distribution as its first theatrical release in Mexico.Despite winning 25 international awards and scoring sales in many foreign territories - including the US (Film Movement) ...
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Anita Monga joins Seattle Film Festival programming team
Anita Monga has been hired as senior programmer at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), reporting to festival director Carl Spence. She will work with Spence and his team on the annual 25-day festival in May and June but primarily focus on programming the new SIFF Cinema in Seattle.Monga comes ...
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Mendes, Winslet and Di Caprio embark on Revolutionary Road
Sam Mendes is set to direct his wife and five-time Oscar nominee Kate Winslet and three-time Oscar nominee Leonardo di Caprio on an adaptation of Richard Yates's respected 1961 novel Revolutionary Road.Mendes is teaming with BBC Films and DreamWorks on the film, which tracks the disillusionment and desperate search for ...
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SPC acquires North American rights to Coppola's new film
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has acquired North American rights to Francis Ford Coppola's first film in 10 years, the mystery Youth Without Youth.Coppola directed, produced and adapted the screenplay from a novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade about an elderly professor who undergoes a mysterious rejuvenation that makes him a ...
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Gen Art to open with Crashing, closes with Quiet Man
The Gen Art Film Festival, set to run from Apr 11-17, will open with the New York premiere of Gary Walkow's drama Crashing starring Campbell Scott, Lizzy Caplan, Izabella Miko and Alex Kingston.Crashing follows a struggling writer who gets to live out the middle-aged man's fantasy when he moves in ...
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Sundance At BAM series includes Savages, Delirious
The Sundance Institute and BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) have unveiled select programme highlights from the upcoming annual Sundance Institute At Bam series of arts event, set to run from May 31-Jun 10.The series presents 21 features and 27 shorts handpicked by Sundance Film Festival's director of programming John Cooper ...
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Norton, Koppelman to be honoured at ninth Sarasota festival
Edward Norton will receive the Humanitarian Award and writer-producerBrian Koppelman the Excellence in Screenwriting Award at the upcomingninth annual Sarasota Film Festival, set to run in Florida from Apr13-22.Executive director Jody Kielbasa, director of programming Tom Hall andtheir team have assembled 207 films for the event encompassingcompetition strands for best ...
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First Look International will continue as normal, says Nu management
First Look Studios (FLS) interim chief executive officer Trevor Short and First Look International (FLI) president Stuart Ford have moved quickly to confirm that FLI will continue to operate as normal heading into Cannes following Nu Image's acquisition of a controlling interest in FLS. Ford said last night [March 22] ...
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Warner's 300 goes to battle in nine new markets
Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) top brass are eyeing another successful overseas campaign as the Spartan warriors of 300 prepare to unleash hell in nine new territories.The military epic has amassed $32m from foreign revenues in less than three weekends and should prove too strong for its rivals yet again.Zack ...
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American Future - Simon Horsman sets up shop in LA
Qualified in the UK and California, British media lawyer Simon Horsman has practised his profession on both sides of the Atlantic. And right now, suggests the head of the new Los Angeles office of London-based production and financing company Future Films, the US is the place to be.Though Future will ...
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Inward investment: coming to America
It does not take long for the film world to turn on its head. A couple of years ago, discussion of the US industry tended to be couched in terms of crisis: runaway production, job losses, an over-ripe domestic market falling into the shadow of international.But suddenly it seems the ...