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Jim Fredrick moves to Screen Gems as evp of marketing
Jim Fredrick has joined Screen Gems as executive vice president of marketing, effective immediately.Fredrick replaces Marc Weinstock, who has transitioned to co-president of worldwide marketing for the studio.Reporting to Sony's worldwide marketing and distribution chairman Jeff Blake, Fredrick will get to work on campaigns for such 2009 Screen Gems titles ...
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Milk to receive Stanley Kramer Award from Producers Guild
The Producers Guild Of America's annual Stanley Kramer Award recognising work that 'dramatically illuminates provocative social issues' will be presented to Focus Features' drama Milk.The film stars Sean Penn as the real-life slain gay San Francisco city official and was directed by Gus Van Sant. Josh Brolin, James Franco and ...
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I Sell The Dead to open 15th Slamdance Film Festival
The US premiere of Glenn McQuaid's comedy horror I Sell The Dead starring Dominic Monaghan and Ron Perlman will open the 15th Slamdance Film Festival, which runs from January 15-23.As always the festival will run concurrently with Sundance and screen roughly 100 features, short films and music videas. Twenty features ...
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Lion's Den, Cold Lunch take prizes at Bahamas Film Festival
Pablo Trapero's Lion's Den won the 5th Bahamas International Film Festival's Spirit Of Freedom: Narrative award while Cold Lunch by Eva Sorhaug of Norway collected the New Vision Award.The Spirit Of Freedom: Documentary prize went to Chai Vasarhelyi's Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love and Darier Hentsch's Gone Fishing ...
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PPI's Madagascar 2 scores sensational $50.2m international weekend
Madagascar 2 dominated the international box office this weekend with an estimated $50.2m haul through PPI from 5,129 sites in35 territories that raised the relatively early tally to $125m.The animated sequel opened top in Germany on $11m from 820 venues including previews and produced the biggest single day for any ...
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Christmases top in North America, Twilight rallies in third weekend
Warner Bros' comedy Four Christmases stayed atop the charts in its second weekend while Summit's indie phenomenon Twilight surged past Buena Vista's Bolt to claim second place in its third weekend as the top 12 releases amassed $77.5m, driving overall box office to a 6% climb on last year.Four Christmases ...
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Nick Meyer leaves Paramount Vantage, Guy Stodel stands in
Paramount Vantage president Nick Meyer is leaving the company and executive vice president of production and acquisitions Guy Stodel will step in as the division shifts its focus to acquisitions and international productions.The shock departure comes as part of sweeping cuts across the Paramount fold announced earlier in the day ...
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Madagascar 2 set to land across western Europe for PPI
DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa on $78.3m opens in 13 territories through PPI this weekend and will pose the mightiest challenge to Sony Pictures Releasing International's Quantum Of Solace.Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa arrives in France, French-speaking Switzerland, Switzerland and Belgium on December 4, followed by Germany, German-speaking Switzerland and ...
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Justin Chadwick to direct Tenderness Of Wolves for Film4, Target.
Justin Chadwick will direct a feature adaptation of by Stef Penney's Costa Prize-winning novel The Tenderness Of Wolves.Chadwick is writing the script and will direct the film for Film4 and Target Entertainment Group. Production is set to begin next year on the project, which was developed by Film4's Katherine Butler. ...
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Amy Adams to receive Spotlight Award at Palm Springs
Amy Adams will receive the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Spotlight Award for her performance in Doubt.Adams, whose credits include Enchanted and Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day, will collect the honour at the awards gala on January 6.She recently wrapped production on Night At The Museum ...
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Sundance unveils high-profile films in Premieres, Spectrum
World premieres of Carlos Cuaron's comedy Rudo Y Cursi starring Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal as rival football brothers, David Mackenzie's sex comedy Spread starring Ashton Kutcher and the comedy Adventureland from Superbad director Greg Mottola starring Twilight's Kristen Stewart are among the non-competition line-up at Sundance, set to ...
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Slumdog Millionaire named year's best film by National Board Of Review
In its centenary year the National Board Of Review has named Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire the 2008 Best Film of the Year and Sergei Bodrov's Mongol best foreign film of the year.James Marsh's Man On Wire is best documentary and Wall-E is best animated feature. Clint Eastwood is named best ...
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St. Pierre named svp of distribution services at Lionsgate
Danny St Pierre has been named senior vice president of distribution services at Lionsgate and will oversee day-to-day international distribution logistics and roll-out for Mandate International's titles as well as continued servicing of select films from Lionsgate's 12,000-plus library.St Pierre continues to report to executive vice president of post-production and ...
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Sundance unveils competition lineup in four sections for 2009
After a period of sombre meditation on the myriad iterations of post-9/11 angst, the upcoming 25th anniversary edition of the Sundance Film Festival from January 15-25 appears to have trained its sights on romance and stories with high emotional resonance.'This is a festival that's going to make people cry,' festival ...
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Santa Fe festival stages gala screenings of Doubt, Che, Harvey
The ninth annual Santa Fe Film Festival (SFFF) will take place from December 3-7 when the programme will include gala screenings of Doubt, Che, Last Chance Harvey and Sunshine Cleaning.The Eye On The World international selection includes this year's Palme d'Or winner The Class, Waltz With Bashir, Everlasting Moments and ...
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Rachel, River, Ballast lead Spirit Award nominations with six apiece
Sony Pictures Classics' (SPC) Frozen River and Rachel Getting Married and Alluvial Film Company's Ballast lead the way in the Film Independent Spirit Awards race with six nominations apiece, followed by Focus Features' Milk on four.Today's nominations ceremony in Los Angeles [December 2] rewarded many of the season's smaller films ...
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Katzenberg continues rallying cry for 3D cinema growth
3D represents the biggest economic opportunity to the film industry in three decades, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told delegates at the 3D Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles on Monday [December 1].In a typically passionate sermon Katzenberg, Hollywood's 'high priest' of 3D who announced last year that starting in 2009 ...
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Farrelly, Wessler produce comedy of shorts for Overture, A Bigger Boat
Peter Farrelly and Charles Wessler will produce a comedy comprised of 24 short films for in a deal announced today by Overture Films and A Bigger Boat Films.The untitled project is described as being in the vein of the 1970s comedy hits Kentucky Fried Movie and Groove Tube and Farrelly ...
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here! Films acquires North American rights to Sex Positive
To commemorate World AIDS Day on December 1 here! Films announced it has acquired North American rights to Daryl Wein's documentary Sex Positive.The company plans a March 13 limited theatrical release through sister company Regent Releasing on the film about AIDS activist Richard Berkowitz. Wein and David Oliver Cohen produced.Sex ...
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SPHE and United Entertainment Korea Co strike distribution alliance
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) and United Entertainment Korea Co Ltd (UEK) have formed a distribution alliance whereby the South Korean company will distribute SPHE titles on DVD and Bu-ray in the territory.UEK sprung from the closure of SPHE's South Korean office and is headed by SPHE's former managing director ...