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All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1132
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Witch Mountain scales domestic box office for Disney with $25m
Disney's decision to plunder the live-action back catalogue and revisit its Witch Mountain franchise from the 1970s exceeded expectations with an estimated $25m launch that still wasn't enough to prevent the first year-on-year drop in six weeks as box office slid 16% against the same weekend in 2008.Dwayne Johnson (formerly ...
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Fox leads international weekend with Marley, Dragonball
Fox International's comedy Marley & Me produced the biggest result of any Hollywood release overseas over a subdued weekend as an estimated $13.9m haul from 2,708 screens in 34 territories raised the running total to $51m.Driving this were nine new launches led by a superb $6.5m number one start in ...
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Unmistaken Child, Paranoids get domestic pickups from Oscilloscope
New York’s Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Nati Baratz’s documentary Unmistaken Child and from Visit Films to Gabriel Medina’s Argentinean debut featureThe Paranoids (Los Paranoicos).Unmistaken Child follows a shy and devoted Tibetan disciple in search of the reincarnated form of his beloved Buddhist teacher, ...
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Fox opens Dragonball Evolution across Asia before North America
Fox International launches Dragonball Evolution in nine territories in Asia this weekend ahead of the April 8 North American opening. The film, directed by James Wong and produced by Stephen Chow, features Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum and Chow Yun-Fat and is based on the classic manga series.Its openings include South ...
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The Answer Man to open Sonoma International Film Festival
John Hindman's romantic comedy The Answer Man (formerly Arlen Faber) starring Jeff Daniels and Benoit Pilon's Canadian drama The Necessities Of Life bookend the 12th annual Sonoma International Film Festival, set to run from April 1-5.All in all more than 75 pictures will screen at the Northern California event featuring ...
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RiP! gets multi-platform distribution deal with B-Side, Disinformation
Rights holders to EyeSteelFilm and the National Film Board Of Canada's RiP! A Remix Manifesto have signed a multi-platform distribution deal ahead of the picture's US premiere on March 15 at the South By SouthWest Film Festival.B-Side Entertainment will handle the US theatrical release while Disinformation will release on DVD. ...
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Peter Rice leaves Searchlight to head Fox Broadcasting
News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has instigated a huge shake-up at the Los Angeles-based Fox businesses in the wake of COO Peter Chernin's departure.Effective immediately, the Los Angeles-based creative production divisions will be combined under a single unit reporting to Fox Filmed Entertainment co-chairmen Jim Gianopulos and Tom ...
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New US distributor Trela Media makes debut acquisition
Fledgling New York distributor Trela Media has made its first acquisition, taking North American rights from Filmlike Films to Paul H-O and Tom Donahue's documentary Guest Of Cindy Sherman.Trela Media president Christopher Trela, a former media consultant and producer who co-founded the production label Pioneer Pictures, said the company planned ...
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Papandrea leaves Groundswell to set up Make Movies
Bruna Papandrea has left her job as president of Michael London's Groundswell Productions and branched out to launch her own outfit Make Movies.Papandrea opens the company's Beverly Hills office this week with several properties ready to go out to actors and directors. The emphasis will be on 'smart movies with ...
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Steve Rash to direct lacrosse comedy Crooked Arrows
Steve Rash has signed on to direct Crooked Arrows, an underdog lacrosse sports comedy set on an upstate New York reservation.The story centres on a 30-year-old of mixed lineage who must postpone his casino-building dreams to coach the inept local Native American high school lacrosse squad against the prep school ...
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Marvel, Sony set Spider-man 4 opening for May 2011
Spider-Man will return to action when Sony Pictures releases the fourth instalment in Marvel Studios' global franchise on May 6 2011.Announcing a revised set of release dates, Marvel Studios revealed that a character-based picture from its stable will launch in theatres each year from 2010-12.Marvel Studios chairman David Maisel ...
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Lorber HT Digital picks up Intangible Asset, Nollywood Bablyon
Lorber HT Digital has acquired all North American rights to Emma Franz's documentary Intangible Asset #82 and US theatrical rights and public performance rights to Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal's documentary Nollywood Babylon.Intangible Asset #82 will receive its North American premiere at the South West Film Festival on March 14 ...
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Rebecca Yeldham named director of Los Angeles Film Festival
Rebecca Yeldham has been unveiled as the new director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Film Independent announced today [March 12].Yeldham acknowledged 'trying times' in the festival sector and said she looked forward to bringing her global perspective to bear on a festival that was 'uniquely positioned' to embrace the ...
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Juan Antonio Bayona said to be in talks for Summit's Eclipse
Summit Entertainment is believed to be on the cusp of signing the upcoming Spanish film-maker Juan Antonio Bayona to direct Eclipse, the third instalment in its Twilight franchise that will open on June 30, 2010.Bayona directed the Spanish-language Gothic tale The Orphanage, whichgrossed more than $78m worldwide after premiering at ...
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Mobile sector, Asia, Middle East trumpeted as new finance sources
With the hedge funds gone and banks fleeing the scene like rats from a sinking ship, the next wave of capital for a largely cash-strapped film industry will come from the mobile telephony sector, according to a leading Hollywood executive.'A lot of it will be tied to technology and the ...
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John Cooper steps up as director of Sundance Film Festival
John Cooper has been named director of the Sundance Film Festival in a widely expected move that takes immediate effect in the wake of Geoff Gilmore's departure.The popular and highly respected Cooper joined Sundance Institute in 1989 and will serve as the festival's artistic director leading programming and strategic growth ...
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Shetty, Yip join Marvel's new international advisory board
Marvel Entertainment has formed an international advisory board as it seeks to export the brand to key foreign markets in the wake of the global success of films like Iron Man.James F Halpin, a Marvel director since March 1995, will chair the board, while Marvel's president of worldwide consumer products ...
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Anil Kapoor to receive tribute at Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles
The 7th Annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles will pay tribute to Bollywood star Anil Kapoor, now famous in the west for his role in Slumdog Millionaire. The festival will close with Megan Doneman's documentary Yes Madam, Sir.The festival will be held from April 21-26 at The ArcLight in ...
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Hawaii Film Partners set to start shooting romantic adventure
Hawaii Film Partners will begin principal photography on March 16 in Hawaii on the romantic adventure You May Not Kiss The Bride.Set in Chicago and Tahiti, the picture stars Dave Annable, Mena Suvari, Katharine McPhee, Vinnie Jones, Tia Carrere and Ken Davitian.Annable plays a Chicago pet photographer who accidentally maims ...
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Redford to receive honour from San Francisco Film Festival
The San Francisco Film Society will honour Sundance founder Robert Redford with the Peter J Owens Award at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival on April 30.The Owens Award, named after the longtime arts patron, philanthropist and Film Society board member, honours an actor whose work exemplifies 'brilliance, independence ...