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Dion, Oakes promoted in development roles at Bold Films
Garrick Dion has been promoted to senior vice president of development at Bold Films while Jon Oakes is promoted to vice president of development at Gary Michael Walters and David Lancaster's Los Angeles-based company.Rounding out the development team is creative executive Naia Cucukov. The promotions reflect the continued growth of ...
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Shoreline picks up worldwide rights to Dada's Dance
Shoreline Entertainment has swooped on another Sundance title as the festival got ready to kick off last night [January 15], taking worldwide rights to Zhang Yuan's Chinese drama Dada's Dance.Shoreline's director of acquisitions Brandon Paine and director of worldwide distribution Sam Eigen signed the deal with Yuan, adding to the ...
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Profile:RandallMiller's Consolidated Picture Group
Randall Miller, who directed the 2008 Sundance entry Bottle Shock, returns to Park City in a different guise as president of acquisitions and film development at the new distributor Consolidated Pictures Group.Backed by equity investors, the company was set up after Miller and his producing partner Jody Savin were approached ...
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United States - Prohibition's era
Ten years after Twin Falls Idaho premiered at Sundance and established Michael and Mark Polish as darlings of independent cinema, the brothers return to Park City this month with Manure, one of two films they shot back-to-back last summer.A satirical riff on the US salesman archetype, Manure, which screens in ...
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Awards Countdown - Golden Globes - Slumdog has its day
Kate Winslet scored a stunning double triumph at the 66th Golden Globes last Sunday, while Slumdog Millionaire upset the form guide to shut out pre-show favourites The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon.Winslet made herself an Oscar front runner after taking home the first two Globes of her career ...
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HBO buys US TV rights to Magic Hour's Sundance doc Burma VJ
As Sundance 2009 prepared to roll into action tonight (January 15) Submarine Entertainment and First Hand Films announced they had closed a deal with HBO for US television rights to Magic Hour Films’ documentaryBurma VJ.Submarine’s Josh Braun and Esther van Messel of First Hand Films brokered the deal with HBO ...
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WBPI exports Indian actioner Chandni Chowk to 35 markets
Warner Bros Pictures International opens the Bollywood kung-fu comedy Chandni Chowk To China day-and-date with North America in more than 35 markets on January 16 as part of a 40-territory release.Chandni Chowk To China will open on more than 125 screens in the US and Canada, making it the biggest ...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films takes US rights to Brothers At War
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights from to Jake Rademacher's documentary and festival winner Brothers At War.Rademacher produced the film with Norman S Powell about his two brothers who are US Army soldiers and have collectively served seven tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gary Sinise and Dave Scantling served ...
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Vietnamese American film-makers launch new US distribution company
Timothy Linh Bui, Stephane Gauger, Ham Tran and Wyn Tran's newly launched distributor Wave Releasing targeting Vietnamese-American and discerning independent audiences and will roll out its maiden title Owl And The Sparrow on January 16.The Vietnamese-American partners have worked in various capacities on each other's projects and were inspired to ...
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Revolver takes UK rights to Slamdance premiere City Rats
Revolver Entertainment has snapped up UK rights from Facefilms and Scanner Rhodes Productions to City Rats ahead of its world premiere in competition at Slamdance.Steve M Kelly directed from Simon Fantauzzo's script about eight individuals who seek to help each other improve their lives. Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, MyAnna Buring ...
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Oscilloscope buys So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain for North America
Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up North American rights to So Yong Kim's South Korean drama Treeless Mountain, which premiered in Toronto and will screen in the Forum section at next month's Berlinale.The new York-based company plans an April 22 theatrical release at the Film Forum in New York City followed ...
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Richard Matson joins Anywhere Road as vice president
Marketing executive Richard Matson has joined San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York-based distributor Anywhere Road as vice president and head of distribution and marketing.Anywhere Road's 2009 release slate includes the drama Sinner starring Nick Chinlund as priest who faces a crisis of faith when a fundamentalist junior colleague clashes ...
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Brendan Fraser joins Harrison Ford in CBS Films' true life drama
Brendan Fraser will star opposite Harrison Ford in drama The Untitled Crowley Project for CBS Films, the first production to go for the new division when shooting commences in April.Fraser will play John Crowley, the father who recruited the services of a maverick scientist to solve a mystery that could ...
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Focus teams up with Universal's production arm to create global entity
Focus Features has joined forces with the international production arm of Universal Pictures to create a global financing, production and distribution entity on the heels of a successful 2008 in which both divisions’ films grossed more than $350m worldwide.Styled as a one-stop shop for the world’s film-makers, the venture will ...
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SPC takes on North America to Mexican smash Rudo Y Cursi
Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed it has taken North American rights to Carlos Cuaron's Mexican blockbuster Rudo Y Cursi, which gets its North American premiere at Sundance on January 16.Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna reunite for the first time since Y Tu Mama Tambien opened in 2001 and are ...
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Consortium gets together to launch new east coast film studio
A consortium of business partners led by real estate billionaire Arthur G Cohen, Adi Cohen and Joseph Grinkorn of Killer Films owners GC Venture Capital Fund's, Baldwin Entertainment's Howard and Karen Baldwin and City Lights Media are launching the East Coast studio United Studios Of America.The group is expected to ...
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Unified signs two-picture US distribution deal with Cinema Epoch
Keith Kjarval's Los Angeles-based production, finance and international distribution company Unified Pictures has signed a two-film US distribution deal with Cinema Epoch.The deal covers mystery noir The Perfect Sleep directed by Jeremy Alter and starring Roselyn Sanchez, and Craig Carlisle's romance Bob Funk starring Rachael Leigh Cook. Both films are ...
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Jaman.com to launch first localised site in the UK
Entertainment website Jaman.com has begun its international expansion plan by launching its first localised site in the UK.Former executive vice president and managing director of MySpace and Fox Interactive Media David Fischer, is named managing director of Jaman's UK and international operations.Based in London, Fischer will be responsible for international ...
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Cinetic Rights Management signs content deal with iTunes
Cinetic Media's digital aggregator for independent producers Cinetic Rights Management has signed a deal to make its film and TV content available on iTunes store.Among the feature film programming is Rob Epstein's Oscar-winning documentary The Times Of Harvey Milk, Dave McLaughlin's comedy On Broadway and Randall Sharp's period drama Henry ...
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IFC Films acquires supernatural thriller The Objective
IFC Films has confirmed its US acquisition of The Blair Witch Project co-creator Daniel Myrick's supernatural thriller The Objective, which premiered at Tribeca 2008.The Objective will open on February 4 through IFC's theatrical and VOD day-and-date distribution platform IFC In Theaters. The Objective will also go through IFC Entertainment's exclusive ...