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Sass, Peterson hired in key postions at Werc Werk Works
Elizabeth Redleaf and Christine Kunewa Walker's production and finance company Werc Werk Works has appointed Geoff Sass chief marketing officer and Andrew Peterson (pictured) vice president of production.Sass will oversee strategic development of the Werc Werk Works brand as well as all marketing and advertising on all company projects, which ...
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Cast assembles for UA's The Cabin In The Woods
Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz and Jesse Williams will join previously announced Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford in UA's horror project The Cabin In The Woods.Drew Goddard is directing from a screenplay by Goddard and Joss Whedon, who is also producing. Details of the plot ...
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Bratt's homegrown La Mission to open San Franciso Film Festival
Peter Bratt's redemptive drama La Mission will open the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from April 23-May 7.Bratt's brother Benjamin Bratt stars in the tale of an ex-con whose powerful bond with his son and his peaceful way of life are threatened by a sudden revelation. Erika ...
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Ted Hatfield to receive career achievement award at ShoWest
Regal Entertainment Group director of film marketing Ted Hatfield will receive the Marvin Levy Career Achievement in Film Marketing Award at ShoWest 2009.Hatfield will collect the honour on April 1 in Las Vegas. He joined Regal Entertainment in 1997 after serving seven years as vice-president of exhibitor relations at Sony ...
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First Run takes US rights to documentary Four Seasons Lodge
First Run Features has acquired US rights to New York Times journalist Andrew Jacobs' documentary Four Seasons Lodge and will announce the theatrical release date shortly.Jacobs' picture recounts the final season for a group of Holocaust survivors that gather each year in a mountain idyll located in New York's Catskills. ...
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Tribeca lineup has world premieres from Polish Brothers, Kirby Dick
Citing a ‘panorama’ of generational US independent film-makers and a strong international contingent in the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival’s world narrative and documentarycompetition strands, director of programming David Kwok struck a defiant note in the face of budget cuts inflicted by the recession.
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Wolfe Releasing takes US rights to Pedro Zamora biopic Pedro
Wolfe Releasing has acquired domestic rights to the feature Pedro, based on a screenplay by Milk Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black about the life of the Real World star and AIDS activist Pedro Zamora, who died aged 22.Quinceanera film-makers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland executive produced the film. Nick ...
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Mitchell Micich, Amy Dotson promoted at IFP in New York
Mitchell Micich has been promoted to deputy director, finance & operations at New York's independent film non-profit organization IFP and Amy Dotson has been promoted to deputy director.Both report directly to IFP executive director Michelle Byrd. Meanwhile Jennifer Smith is named producer of the Gotham Independent Film Awards.Micich is a ...
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Watchmen leads international pack with $27.5m in 45 territories
The superhero saga Watchmen ruled the overseas box office as Paramount Pictures International reported an estimated $27.5m day-and-date launch in 5,097 sites in 45 territories.The number one international debut complemented the $55.7m North American launch through Warner Bros and meant Zack Snyder's adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic ...
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Watchmen performs well, but not as well as 300, in domestic opening
As expected Watchmen dominated the North American charts at the weekend with an estimated $55.7m launch through Warner Bros that fell short of expectations but nonetheless secured with ease the biggest weekend debut of the year-to-date.The haul for the R-rated movie included a $5.5m tally from 124 IMAX theatres that ...
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Cast lined up for African American version of Death At A Funeral
Screen Gems, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Chris Rock have rounded out the cast on their American remake of the 2007 UK film Death At A Funeral.Joining Rock, who is starring, producing and co-writing the screenplay, are Loretta Devine, Ron Glass, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Martin Lawrence, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, ...
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Menon, Keenan launch India-US consultancy Nuclear Mango
Hot on the heels of the Academy Awards and commercial success of Slumdog Millionaire, Bollywood producer Govind Menon and US independent executive William Keenan have launched the Indian-US production consultancy Nuclear Mango.Based in Los Angeles, New York and Mumbai, Nuclear Mango's core business will be the strategic packaging of creative, ...
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San Francisco to offer $100,000 in prizes at 52nd festival
Prize money at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival will amount to more than $100,000 this year,organisers said as they announced the documentary and new directors competition entries for the April 23-May 7 event.Winning documentaries will be eligible for $60,000 in awards, with$25,000 going to best investigative feature, $20,000 ...
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PPIto unleashWatchmen asyear's first major launch
The first major day-and-date global launch of the year takes place this weekend when Zack Snyder's ambitious Watchmen adaptation touches down in more than 45 territories.Paramount Pictures International (PPI) president Andrew Cripps canlook forward to a dominant opening weekend in most markets when PPIunleashes the postmodern superhero saga simultaneously with ...
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Adam Cohen joins Metan Development Group
Development and marketing executive Adam Cohen has been hired as production executive of original programming at Metan Development Group, the content producer and distributor launched in February to target the Chinese market.Cohen will seek to strengthen ties with feature and televisionproducers in Hollywood with a view to developing the slate. ...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment said to be cutting 300 jobs
Sony Pictures Entertainment is believed to be cutting in the region of 300 jobs in the latest move by a US major to trim costs as the world heads further into recession.Sources at the studio would neither confirm nor deny reportscirculating within Hollywood that the cuts were being implemented.It is ...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment said to be cutting 300 jobs
Sony Pictures Entertainment is believed to be cutting in the region of 300 jobs in the latest move by a US major to trim costs as the world heads further into recession.Sources at the studio would neither confirm nor deny reportscirculating within Hollywood that the cuts were being implemented.It is ...
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Michael Caine to get Lifetime Achievement Award at ShoWest
Michael Caine will receive the ShoWest 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award at the final night banquet and awards ceremony on April 2.Caine will next be seen in Big Beach, Heyday Films, and BBC Films'drama Is Anybody There' that will open in Los Angeles and New York onApril 17.The Veteran English actor ...
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Palm Springs ShortFest moves from August to June
The 15th Palm Springs International ShortFest, Short Film Festival & Film Market has moved forward its dates from August and will run this summer from June 23-29.'We've been considering a date change for some time, and ultimatelydecided that the June dates would provide better placement on theannual festival calendar and ...
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Turner, Warner Bros team for English-language channel for India
Turner and Warner Bros Entertainment have partnered to launch WB, a new 24-hour English-language Warner-branded channel aimed at the Indian market carrying features and television series.Available in Indian homes from March 15, WB will showcase programming licensed from Warner Bros International Television Distribution. The channel will be distributed by Zee-Turner ...