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Producers Guild Of America Awards to take place on Jan 24, 2009
The Producers Guild of America will hold its 20th Annual PGA Awards at the Hollywood Palladium on January 24, 2009.'Our event is all about providing an entertaining show for our guests and the newly remodeled Palladium is the ideal location for the type of event we are planning,' awards co-chair ...
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Film Society Of Lincoln Center gets new executive director
Mara Manus has been appointed executive director of the Film Society Of Lincoln Center, effective September 15.Manus becomes the third person to hold the title and succeeds Claudia Bonn, who served the organisation for 15 years and took over as executive director from Joanne Koch in 2003.Manus joins the organisation ...
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here! buys domestic rights to Sarif's The World Unseen
here! Films has acquired North American rights from Enlightenment Films to Shamim Sarif's The World Unseen, which plays in official selection at Outfest 2008: The 26th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.Sister company Regent Releasing will launch the film in autumn. The World Unseen takes place in Apartheid-era South ...
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Rosenberg hired to adapt BBC series Second Sight for Universal
Universal Pictures has hired Craig Rosenberg to adapt the BBC series Second Sight as a thriller for producers Don Murphy and Susan Montford.The project is based on the UK crime drama that gave Clive Owen his breakout role as a hard-living homicide detective suffering from a rare degenerative eye condition ...
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Cantet's The Class to open New York Film Festival
Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or The Class (Entre Les Murs) will open the New York Film Festival, set to run from September 26-October 12.Two showcases at the Film Society's Walter Reade Theater will round out the festival's main line-up with historical and alternative perspectives.The first, In The Realm Of Oshima, runs ...
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Films from McGowan and Skogland lead Canadian charge at TIFF
Michael McGowan's One Week starring Joshua Jackson, Liane Balaban and Campbell Scott and Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking with Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Rose McGowan and Kevin Zegers have joined the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival's line-up of Canadian gala presentations.Special Presentations include Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth, Fernando ...
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DeVito to direct Charlotte Doyle for HandMade, Plaza Productions
Danny DeVito will direct The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle from his own screenplay for HandMade Films and El-Ad US Holding's Plaza Productions International.The family action adventure will star Morgan Freeman, Pierce Brosnan and Saoirse Ronan, who earned an Oscar nomination this year for her role in Atonement.DeVito, who will ...
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Weinsteins get their own pay-TV deal, finally, with Showtime
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has signed a seven-year pay-TV deal with Showtime Networks in a key move for both companies.Select TWC titles had been going to Showtime through its distribution relationship with MGM, but once it became clear that MGM was reconfiguring its modus operandi and said it would partner ...
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Jaman.com signs deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment
Online film destination Jaman.com has signed a distribution deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment to rent or sell titles online.The move marks the latest gambit in Jaman.com's expansion plans as founder and CEO Gaurav Dhillon seeks to expand the library and turn the company into the biggest online destination for film ...
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Jason Constantine promoted to acquisitions chief at Lionsgate
Jason Constantine has been promoted to president of acquisitions and co-productions at Lionsgate, filling the void left by former incumbent Peter Block.Constantin is an eight-year veteran of the company and will report to Lionsgate co-COO and motion picture group president Joe Drake.He will continue to oversee the tracking and acquisition ...
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Sundance names six musicians selected for Composers Lab
The Sundance Institute has unveiled the six musicians selected for its Composers Lab that runs from July 22-August 7 in Sundance, Utah.This year's Composers Lab Fellows are Matt Cartsonis, T Griffin, iZLER, JJ Lee, Vivek Maddala and Nicholas Pavkovic.During the two-week Lab, Fellows take part in workshops and creative exercises ...
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Lara Thompson leaves Sony for top acquisitions job at E1
Lara Thompson has left her role as senior vice president of worldwide acquisitions at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) to join Canadian film and TV company Entertainment One (E1) in the same capacity.Thompson started work on July 14 and will assess and acquire properties in all the company's territories ...
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Film Movement acquires US rights to Lanner's Eldorado
Film Movement has acquired US rights to Bouli Lanners' bittersweet Belgian-French road movie Eldorado.The story centers on a vintage car dealer who befriends a potential burglar and takes him on a trip to visit his parents. Eldorado won the FIPRESCI Quinzaine award at Cannes this year.Film Movement president Adley Gartenstein ...
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Kate Hudson joins all-star ensemble of musical Nine
Kate Hudson has joined Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Marianne Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench and Sophia Loren on the cast of The Weinstein Company's Broadway musical adaptation Nine.Rob Marshall is directing the story, loosely based on Federico Fellini's 1963 classic 8 1/2, as a harried film director who balances the ...
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Hancock rules international, but Mamma has sensational launch
Sony's Hancock continued to rule the roost despite another excellent weekend for Paramount's Kung Fu Panda that pushed it well over $200m and a sensational launch for Universal Mamma Mia!Sony Pictures Releasing International's (SPRI) superhero saga Hancock starring Will Smith stayed on song following last weekend's July The Fourth weekend ...
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Universal's Hellboy II soars above Hancock at domestic box office
Universal's gamble to acquire the Hellboy franchise after Revolution Studios released the 2004 original got off to a good start as Hellboy II: The Golden Army launched at number one on an estimated $35.9m.Sony's Hancock slipped to second place while New Line's classic adventure tale Journey To The Centre Of ...
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Sundance Documentary Program announces 16 grant recipients
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program has announced the 16 film projects that will receive a total of $512,500 in grants as well as creative support from the Sundance Documentary Fund.Grants are announced twice a year and submissions are judged on their approach to storytelling, artistic treatment and innovation, subject ...
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Hancock set for second weekend at the top in international
Hancock should cross $100m overseas by Friday and Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) top brass expect the picture to begin the serious business of consolidating its early gains this weekend.The superhero saga starring Will Smith stood at $98.7m on Thursday and launches in more than a dozen key markets including ...
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IMAX prepares for its biggest ever launch of The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight will open in 94 North American and 15 international IMAX theatres on July 18, day-and-date with Warner Bros' conventional launch.A further 23 international IMAX sites will accommodate the release in the weeks following the worldwide premiere, which is set to take place on July 14 at the ...
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Tommy Gargotta takes top creative advertising job at SPE
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has promoted Tommy Gargotta to president of worldwide creative advertising.Gargotta will report to the studios' co-presidents of worldwide theatrical marketing Valerie Van Galder and Marc Weinstock and will guide the creative marketing team in the creation of posters, commercials, trailers and in-theatre materials.He joined Columbia in ...