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Slan reunites with Dart, Garlock at PR agency 42West
Heidi Slan has joined 42West following a 10-year stint at PMK-HBH, and will serve as the company's West Coast senior talent executive based in Century City.'We are delighted to have Heidi join the family here,' 42West partners Leslee Dart and Robert Garlock, who run the company's talent division, said. 'With ...
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Castro documentary lands US TV and DVD deals
The Sundance Channel has taken US TV rights to documentary 638 Ways To Kill Castro, which was also sold to BCI for US DVD rights. FremantleMedia sold the documentary, from Daisy Goodwin's Silver River Productions, about Fidel Castro and Cuba 's relationship with the US. Dollan Cannell directed and Peter ...
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Laroque, Modine star in romantic comedy The Neighbour
Production has begun in Los Angeles on Eddie O'Flaherty's romantic comedy The Neighbor starring Michele Laroque and Matthew Modine.Karen S Shapiro and Michel Rampal are producing the story of two individuals with complicated private lives who find love after they become neighbours.Ed Quinn, Ann Cusack, Gina Mantegna, Meredith Scott Lynn, ...
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Film Movement takes domestic rights to Finnish Mother
Film Movement has acquired domestic distribution rights to Klaus Haro's 2006 Finnish foreign language Oscar submission Mother Of Mine from Nordisk Film Sales.The film recounts little-known events of the second world war, when more than 70,000 children were evacuated to Sweden, Denmark and Norway.Topi Majaniemi, Maria Lundqvist, Marjaana Maijala, Michael ...
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Picture This! takes Taiwan's Eternal Summer to North America
Picture This! Entertainment has picked up North American rights from Taiwan's Three Dots Entertainment to Leste Chen's gay-themed drama Eternal Summer (Sheng Xia Guang Nian).The distributor plans to play Eternal Summer in US and Canadian festivals before taking it on general release later in the year.Eternal Summer follows the longstanding ...
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MPAA's overall 2006 grosses highlight global, international records
MPAA chairman and chief executive officer Dan Glickman hailed a 'bullish' 2006 box office that generated a record $25.84bn in worldwide ticket sales and an above-par $9.49bn domestic haul, and predicted bigger things to come in 2007.Speaking to reporters during a conference call ahead of next week's annual ShoWest industry ...
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Sogepaq closes US deals on Sanchez-Arevalo, Lazaro features
Spain's Sogepaq has closed all-rights deals for distribution in the United States on Daniel Sanchez-Arevalo's DarkBlueAlmostBlack to Strand Releasing and on Emilio Martinez Lazaro's The 2 Sides Of The Bed to Here! Films. Mongrel Media took Canadian rights to both films in deals that were all closed at the European ...
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Film-making looks less risky in 2007,with 37 countries safer
Film-making became slightly less risky across the globe, according to the 2007 Risks in Global Filmmaking Map from risk broker and insurance company Aon/Albert G Ruben. Of the 207 countries measured, overall risk for film-makers in 37 countries decreased slightly from 2006 to 2007. The annual map measures the threats ...
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Mar Del Plata introduces Latin American competition, fund plans
The 22nd Mar del Plata Film Festival will kick off Thursday with plans to show more than 300 features and shorts. The major addition to this year's edition is a Latin American competition reserved for 16 first and second features and documentaries, most making their world premieres. They will compete ...
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Sale-and-leaseback funding caught in UK tax clampdown
The UK government will make no exception for sale-and-leaseback funding arrangements under new tax rules, it was confirmed today.On Friday, a Treasury briefing effectively closed the door on so-called GAAP finance schemes, which some estimates suggested could have raised up to $3.5bn this tax year. Click here to see Revenue ...
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Ira & Abbey, Ice Cream, I Scream are top winners at USCAF
Robert Cary's romantic comedy Ira & Abby won the 13th US Comedy Arts Festival's (USCAF) best feature and Yuksel Aksu's Turkish comedy Ice Cream, I Scream was named best foreign feature.Other winners at USCAF, which ran in Apsen, Colorado, from Feb 28-Mar 4, were Tom DeCillo for best director for ...
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Lantos faces lawsuit over In Praise Of Older Women
Canadian producer Robert Lantos is facing a lawsuit over potential profit-sharing from his 1978 production In Praise Of Older Women. The suit has been brought by the author of the book on which the film was based, Stephen Vizinczey. According to a report in the Toronto Star newspaper, Vizinczey sold ...
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US animator Laika plans Oregon animation campus
Animation studio Laika Inc has selected Portland-based TVA Architects to design a state-of-the-art feature animation campus to house Laika's burgeoning entertainment division.TVA Architects has begun work on a multi-phase master plan beginning with four buildings scheduled to open in late 2009. The Laika campus will be located on 30 acres ...
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Wild Hogs director Becker sells comedy pitch to Dimension
Comedy director Walt Becker has followed up the success of Wild Hogs, which opened at number one in the US last weekend, by selling a comedy pitch to Dimension Films.The company will develop and produce Runt, based on a story idea by Becker and David Gallagher about twin brothers who ...
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Equinoxe saves Everything's Gone Green from THINKFilm limbo
Montreal-based Equinoxe Films has picked up Canadian distribution rights to Paul Fox's Everything's Gone Green, one of the Canadian titles left in limbo by the sale of its previously contracted Canadian distributor THINKFilm. THINKFilm was acquired in October by LA-based entrepreneur David Bergstein, effectively ending the company's status as a ...
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First Look Studios still reeling after sudden departure of Winterstern
An air of uncertainty hovers over First Look Studios following the abrupt departure of co-chairman of the board and chief executive officer Henry Winterstern.Friday's move came as a surprise to many observers and throws into question Winterstern's ambitions to acquire Millennium/Nu Image.This morning a spokesperson said it was 'business as ...
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Berlin mayor to host LA presentation of German Federal Film Fund
Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit and members of regional film funding body Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg are flying in to LA to explain the new German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).The delegation will meet with LA-based film-makers to present the incentive, which offers a 20% rebate on every Euro spent, and will also discuss ...
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Vicki Cherkas joins Picturehouse as evp of operations
Vicki Cherkas has left GreeneStreet Films after six years and joined Picturehouse as senior executive vice president of operations.Cherkas will report directly to Picturehouse president Bob Berney and assumes responsibility for company operations, which encompasses overseeing productions and acquisitions deals, running daily business operations, and liaising with New Line and ...
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Wild Hogs is a smash for Disney with $38m opening
The Walt Disney Company scored its biggest March opening as the ensemble comedy Wild Hogs stormed to the top on an estimated $38m.John Travolta - enjoying a career best first weekend - stars with William H Macy, Martin Lawrence and Tim Allen as suburban bikers who go in search of ...
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Ghost Rider stays top in international markets with $16.3m take
Ghost Rider continued to blaze a trail across the international arena as it dominated the market for the third consecutive weekend.The comic book adventure grossed an estimated $16.3m through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) from approximately 4,000 prints in 56 territories and now stands at $60.7m with $100m well within ...