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Waltz With Bashir, Happy-Go-Lucky win with National Society
Waltz With Bashir was named best picture of the year by the National Society of Film Critics with 26 votes, ahead of Happy-Go-Lucky and Wall-E tied in second place with 20 votes apiece.Sean Penn ran away with the best actor prize for Milk on 87 votes, followed by Mickey Rourke ...
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Madagascar 2 continues to lead international with $32.2m weekend
DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa entered 2009 as the top international release and held on to the crown over the weekend courtesy of an estimated $32.2m haul through PPI that raised the tally to $340m.Active in 6,771 sites in 60 territories, the animated sequel has now overtaken the $338m ...
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Cinema Libre, Corsan team on US release of Waiting For Dublin
Cinema Libre Studio will partner with Belgium-based Corsan on the US theatrical release of Roger Tucker's drama Waiting For Dublin.The parties will open the film in New York on March 13 followed by a wider roll-out.Andrew Keegan stars as a second world war fighter pilot who gets involved with the ...
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AFI names 2008 Moments Of Significance
The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced its AFI Moments Of Significance for 2008, the eight noteworthy events 'determined to have had an impact on the world of the moving image during the calendar year 2008.'The AFI Moments of Significance selections are:Slumdog Millionaire - A celebration of the global filmThe ...
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Sundance adds Strouse's The Winning Season to festival lineup
Sundance has added the world premiere of Jim Strouse's comedy The Winning Season starring Sam Rockwell as a misfit brought in to coach his local girls high school basketball team.Emma Roberts, Rob Corddry, Shareeka Epps and Emily Rios also star in the film, which will play out of competition and ...
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Madagascar 2 tops lucrative international holiday weekend
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa had the chops to stay on top of the competition and surge past $275m in a rigorous final weekend of 2008 that delivered strong results for Fox's Australia and The Day The Earth Stood Still, Disney's Bedtime Stories, Warner Bros' Yes Man and Summit International's Twilight.DreamWorks ...
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Fox's Marley & Me leads domestic Christmas box office
Fox's comedy Marley & Me starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston soared to the top of the charts over a lucrative Christmas weekend on an estimated $37m, beating out heavyweight contenders from Buena Vista and Paramount.Marley & Me, a tale about a couple and their dog, set a new Christmas ...
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Fox launches Australia into 44 territories for Christmas weekend
Fox International's epic adventure Australia gets a big push over the Christmas weekend in a jam-packed few days that is expected to produce considerable gains too for sci-fi stablemate The Day The Earth Stood Still, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International's new family release Bedtime Stories and Warner Bros Pictures ...
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Carrey's Yes Man leads North American box office with $18.2m take
Jim Carrey won the face-off with Will Smith as Warner Bros' comedy Yes Man debuted at number one in the pre-Christmas weekend on an estimated $18.2m, but it was a subdued weekend as storms battered the North-East.Overall box office fell off 44% against the same period last year as the ...
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Koltai-Levine sets up marketing company MKL Partners
Former Picturehouse marketing chief Marian Koltai-Levine has announced the marketing company MKL Partners.'Today more than ever, the marketplace seems ripe for a new kind of marketing firm: One that develops diverse, strategic campaigns, offers a breadth of talent to deliver results, and expands or contracts based on client needs,' Koltai-Levine ...
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Madagascar 2 soars past $200m after $33.5m weekend for PPI
DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa swept past $200m thanks to another strong haul that saw the animated sequel add an estimated $33.5m for $218.5m though PPI from 5,959 venues in 56 territories.The film opened in ten territories and ranked number one in Italy on $6.5m from 463 sites, Australia ...
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Nigel Clark returns to Sony after stints at UIP, Eon
Nigel Clark has returned to Sony as senior executive vice president of international marketing following his role as executive vice president of international marketing at UIP and a recent consultancy stint for Eon Productions on Quantum Of Solace, which Sony released worldwide.Clark first joined Sony in London as European marketing ...
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Madagascar 2 continues rollout in Italy andAustralia
A subdued pre-Christmas weekend will should carry DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa over $200m and push Fox International's The Day The Earth Stood Still towards $60m in its second weekend.Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa has reached $182.8m and there are 14 launches on the cards through PPI. Significant debuts are ...
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Gary Yates' High Life from Shoreline gets Panorama slot in Berlin
Gary Yates' heist caper High Life starring Timothy Olyphant and Joe Anderson will get its world premiere in Panorama at the 59th Berlinale, set to run from February 5-15.Robert Cass is producing along with Yates through his Triptych Media. Triptych partner Anna Stratton serves as executive producer with Shoreline Entertainment's ...
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Luhrmann, Jackson to receive legend awards at Capri
Baz Luhrmann and Samuel L Jackson will join Quentin Tarantino to receive the Capri Legend Award at the 13th Capri, Hollywood - Honda International Film Festival.Festival chairman and producer Mark Canton and festival director Pascal Vicedomini made the announcement today [December 18].Luhrmann and Jackson will attend screenings of their latest ...
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2008 Review of the Year - Specialty crunch: Reality bites
The talk in the specialty and independent sector right now is all about the importance of discipline and modest scales of economy. The inflated budgets of previous high-profile awards contenders such as Cold Mountain and last year's There Will Be Blood may have raised eyebrows, but now the industry has ...
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2008 Review of the Year - North America box office and international charts
The headline story of the 2008 box office can be summed up in three words - The Dark Knight. Warner Bros' triumphant follow-up to Batman Begins made history when it became only the second film to cross the half-billion dollar mark in North America and ended up as the second ...
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Slumdog Millionaire named best film by Florida Film Critics Circle
Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler's Mickey Rourke and Frozen River's Melissa Leo are the big winners in the Florida Film Critics Circle's annual poll. Slumdog Millionaire won best picture and also earned the best director award for Danny Boyle and best screenplay for Simon Beaufoy.Marisa Tomei's supporting role in Darren Aronofsky's ...
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here! acquires worldwide rights to Eleven Minutes documentary
here! Films has acquired worldwide rights to Michael Selditch and Rob Tate's documentary Eleven Minutes about fashion designer Jay McCarroll, winner of Season One of the reality TV show Project Runway.here!'s sister company Regent Releasing and here! Networks will distribute the film day-and-date in theatres and on the cable network ...
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SAG Award nominations include Penn, Winslet, Streep, Langella
As Hollywood actors pitch their tents on either side of the strike authorisation vote, the Screen Actors Guild announced its nominees today [December 18] for the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on January 25.Richard Jenkins, Frank Langella, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and Mickey Rourke will contest the lead actor ...