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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 ...
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Last Chance Harvey will open Palm Springs festival on Jan 6
Joel Hopkins' romance Last Chance Harvey and Guillermo Arriaga's drama The Burning Plain bookend the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, set to run from January 6-19.The line-up of 210 films culled from 73 countries includes the US premiere of Nigel Cole's road movie $5 A Day and the ...
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ITVS International Call 2008 backs five documentaries
Independent Television Service (ITVS) has boarded five projects from its recently completed ITVS International Call 2008 that drew 385 submissions from 74 countries.Since 2005, nearly 100 international programmes including Ari Folman's acclaimed Waltz With Bashir have been supported through ITVS International's Global Perspectives Project and its International Media Development Fund.The ...
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Christopher Nolan to receive ASC Board Of Governors Award
The Dark Knight director, producer and co-writer Christopher Nolan will receive the American Society Of Cinematographers' Board Of Governors Award during the 23rd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration in Los Angeles on February 15.Nolan's credits include Batman Begins, Memento, The Prestige and Insomnia.'Chris Nolan is infused with talent with ...
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49 songs cleared for contention at 81st Academy Awards
Forty-nine songs will vie for the best original song at the 81st Academy Awards on February 22.The original songs and the film in which they appear are listed belowin alphabetical order by song title:Another Way To Die Quantum Of SolaceBarking At The Moon BoltThe Boys Are Back High School Musical ...
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The Film Department to remake Italy's Perfect Man with Chelsom
The Film Department has hired Peter Chelsom to direct The Perfect Man, a remake of Luca Lucini's 2005 comedy L'Uomo Perfetto.Colleen McGuinness is adapting the screenplay about a jealous young woman who hires a male model to lure a woman away from her best friend.Di Novi Pictures is producing the ...
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DreamWorks' I Love You, Man to open SXSW on March 13
The world premiere of DreamWorks' comedy I Love You, Man starring Jason Segel and Paul Rudd will open the 2009 South By SouthWest Film Festival on March 13.Rudd plays a friendless real estate agent who embarks on a series of 'man dates' to find a best man for his upcoming ...
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Sundance Institute selects 12 projects for annual Screenwriters Lab
Sundance Institute has selected 12 projects for the annual January Screenwriters Lab to be held from January 9-14.The five-day writer's workshop is designed to give independent screenwriters the chance to work intensively on their feature scripts with the support of established writers.The projects selected for the 2009 January Screenwriters Lab ...
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Gumpert promoted to president of department at Columbia Pictures
Andrew Gumpert has been promoted to president of business affairs and administration for Columbia Pictures.Gumpert will work closely with Columbia presidents Matt Tolmach and Doug Belgrad and will not only oversee deal negotiations and administration for the studio but will be integrally involved in the budgeting and financing aspects of ...