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Columbia signs Mullens to adapt Moore's novel The Swap
Columbia Pictures has signed the writing team of Tim and Tom Mullen to adapt Antony Moore's comedy novel The Swap.The story centres on an out-of-shape comic book dealer who loses a priceless part of his collection and follows that up by getting involved in romance and murder at his high ...
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Seattle Film Festival announces $780,000 in grants
The Seattle International Film Festival has received $750,000 in grants from The Wallace Foundation and $30,000 from The Academy Foundation Of The Academy Of Motion Picture Art And Sciences.The Wallace Foundation award will be spread out over four years to develop ethnic, youth and family outreach.The $30,000 received from The ...
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Bruce Tuchman promoted to president of MGM Networks
Bruce Tuchman has been promoted to president of MGM Networks and will continue to be based in New York City.Tuchman reports to MGM chairman and CEO Harry Sloan and will continue to oversee the division, which manages and develops the company's activities in MGM and non-MGM branded international television channels ...
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Eastwood to receive Modern Master award at Santa Barbara
Clint Eastwood will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's highest honour The Modern Master Award on January 29.Eastwood has two films in contention this awards season with Changeling and the upcoming Gran Torino and has won the directing Oscar twice for Million Dollar Baby in 2005 and Unforgiven in ...
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Perez, Ferguson, Hall join Ricci in voice cast of Hero Of Color City
Rosie Perez, Craig Ferguson and Arsenio Hall have joined Christina Ricci on the voice cast of Exodus Film Group's CG animated feature The Hero Of Color City.Exodus Film Group founder and CEO John D Eraklis and president Max Howard are producing the story of a pack of crayons who save ...
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Claymation feature Mary And Max to open Sundance Film Festival 2009
The 2009 Sundance Film Festival will launch on January 15 with the world premiere of Oscar winning animator Adam Elliot's claymation feature Mary And Max.Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette voice the lead characters, a lonely Australian girl and a middle-aged New Yorker with Asperger's Syndrome who become pen pals.The ...
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IMAX signs five-film deal with Disney starting 2009
IMAX and Disney will finally work together after signing a five-film deal that kicks off with Robert Zemeckis' 3D retelling of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey in November 2009.According to Disney sources close to the deal the roster may include films from Tim Burton and ...
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Jeff Skoll to win Visionary Award at annual PGA Awards
Jeff Skoll will receive the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) 2009 Visionary Award at the 20th Annual PGA Awards on January 24 in Hollywood.Skoll is a philanthropist and the chairman and founder of Participant Media, which financed such films as The Visitor, Charlie Wilson's War, The Kite Runner, Darfur Now, ...
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Overture signs two-year, first-look deal with Cheadle's Crescendo
Overture Films has signed a two-year first look deal with Crescendo Productions headed by Don Cheadle, Lenore Zerman and Kay Liberman.The arrangement gives Overture access to film product from Crescendo. Cheadle starred in the terrorism thriller Traitor that Overture released in August and went on to gross more than $23m.This ...
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HDNet's Mark Cuban charged by SEC with insider trading
The Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged HDNet founder Mark Cuban with insider trading.The SEC alleges that the flamboyant billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team sold 60,000 shares of internet search engine Mamma.com after he received confidential information about an imminent stock offering.According to the official ...
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Morris, Marsh, Herzog down to shortlist for documentary Oscar
The Academy has unveiled the shortlist of 15 documentaries that will advance to the next stage in 81st Academy Awards.The 15 films are:At the Death House DoorThe Betrayal (Nerakhoon)Blessed Is The Match: The Life And Death Of Hannah SeneshEncounters At The End Of The WorldFuelThe GardenGlass: A Portrait Of Philip ...
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SPHE launches International Product Expansion Group
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has launched the International Product Expansion Group to coordinate the production and acquisition of overseas titles for global distribution by SPHE. Based in Culver City, Los Angeles, the group is headed by newly appointed International Product Expansion vice president Tony Ishizuka.As well as broad operational ...
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Maya backs Robinson brothers thriller Preparation For A Murder
Vertically integrated entertainment company Maya Entertainment has boarded the thriller Preparation For A Murder written and to be directed by Jonathan and R M Robinson.The Robinson brothers make their feature directorial debut on the story of two young men who embark on a hit without realising the repercussions that will ...
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LongTale International sells Milarepa to Axess TV in Sweden
Los Angeles-based LongTale International has licensed Neten Chokling's Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint to Sweden's Axess TV.The exclusive free and pay cable and broadcast rights deal closed at AFM.The Tibetan-language revenge and redemption saga tells of Milarepa, Tibet's greatest spiritual warrior.
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Myriad sells Dino Mom to Gussi, Imagem among others at AFM
Kirk D'Amico's Myriad Pictures' closed key territories on the 3D English-language animated feature Dino Mom at AFM.Myriad holds worldwide rights to the film, currently in production in South Korea, about three children who travel back in time 65 million years.This is the first English-language 3D animated feature to come out ...
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Zvyagintsev's The Banishment wins best film at Lone Star
Andrei Zvyagintsev's The Banishment was named best foreign language film as the Lone Star International Film Festival in Fort Worth, Texas, wrapped at the weekend.Igor Volshin's Nirvana won the grand jury prize for narrative feature competition and Eric Bricker's Visual Acoustics - The Modernism Of Julius Shulman took documentary honours.Clay ...
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Sony Classics takes multiple territory rights on It Might Get Loud
Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed the acquisition from The Little Film Company of Davis Guggenheim's music documentary It Might Get Loud.SPC has taken rights for North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa on the story of the evolution of the electric guitar featuring rock luminaries Jimmy Page, ...
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LAFCA to announce winners on Dec 9, present awards on Jan 12
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) will announce this season's winners immediately after the voting meeting on December 9.The 34th annual film achievement awards ceremony will take place on January 12 at the InterContinental Los Angeles in Century City.LAFCA president Lael Loewenstein made the announcement earlier today [Nov 17]. ...
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Dutch Filmworks reports big buys for Benelux at AFM 2008
Dutch Filmworks (DFW) reported brisk business at AFM despite the global economic crisis and acquired Benelux rights to a number of high profile titles including the Sylvester Stallone action saga The Expendables from Nu Image/Millenium.Stallone will direct The Expendables from his own screenplay about a team of mercenaries sent on ...
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The Secrets wins audience award at Israel Film Festival in NYC
Avi Nesher's closing night film The Secrets won the 23rd Israel Film Festival's audience award as the event came to a close in New York on November 13.The winners receive a $60,000 package including a full month's use of a 35mm Panavision camera package to shoot their next film in ...