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Venezuela names The Colour Of Fame its Oscar submission
Alejandro Bellame Palacios' The Colour Of Fame (El Tinte De La Fama) has been selected as Venezuela's foreign-language Oscar submission from a shortlist of ten.In related news, Los Angeles-based Cinevolve Studios has acquired all worldwide rights excluding Venezuela and plans a limited theatrical release between now and early 2009.The Colour ...
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Kristina Warner joins RealD as vp of marketing
Kristina Warner has joined 3D provider RealD as vice president of marketing and will oversee the global expansion of the brand.Warner previously served as vice president of exhibitor relations for New Line Cinema and started her career in 1995 at Columbia Pictures International.'Kristina's background and her solid relationships with exhibitors ...
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NATO welcomes digital agreement between five studios, exhibitors
The National Association Of Theatre Owners (NATO) has hailed the agreement between five leading studios and North American's three largest exhibitors that paves the way for the long overdue conversion to digital cinema.Disney, Paramount, Fox, Universal and Lionsgate are understood to have reached an agreement with AMC Entertainment, Cinemark and ...
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here! buys worldwide rights to gay marriage doc Saving Marriage
here! Films has acquired worldwide rights to John Henning and Mike Roth's 2006 gay marriage documentary Saving Marriage.here! sister company Regent Releasing has moved up the release date to October 10 in select cities as part of the push to defeat Proposition 8 in California. If passed, the controversial ballot ...
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Franklin, Milano promoted to vps of production at Columbia
DeVon Franklin and Adam Milano have been promoted to vice presidents of production and Lauren Abrahams has been named creative executive for Columbia Pictures.Franklin joined the studio in 2005 from MGM where he served as an executive and shepherded such projects as Be Cool and Beauty Shop. During his tenure ...
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513 films, 102 world premieres lined up to screen at AFM
Organisers at the 29th AFM have announced a line-up of 513 films in 35 languages including 102 world premieres and 375 market premieres to screen at the event, set to run in Santa Monica from November 5-12.World premieres include QED International's drama Powder Blue starring Jessica Biel, Kris Kristofferson, Ray ...
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Clint Eastwood named director of the year at Hollywood Awards
Clint Eastwood will receive the Hollywood Director Of The Year Award at the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards Gala on October 27 in Beverly Hills.'Just when you think Clint Eastwood is about to take a breath, he shoots two films in a year and starts prepping a third ...
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Pierre Morel to direct action thriller Hunter-Killer for Relativity
District B13's Pierre Morel is in talks to direct the action thriller Hunter-Killer for Relativity Media, who acquired the screenplay from producer Arne Schmidt based on the novel Firing Point by Don Keith and George Wallace.Kavanaugh will produce with Original Film's Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe. Relativity's Tucker Tooley will ...
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Deepa Mehta to be honoured by LA's Loyola Marymount SFTV
Loyola Marymount University's School Of Film And Television (SFTV) will honour Deepa Mehta with the 2008 Infinite Power Of Story Lifetime Achievement Award.Mehta will receive the award during the univesity's Film Outside The Frame Festival on October 13 at the DGA in Los Angeles.. She will also be the first ...
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David J Anderman named general counsel for Lucasfilm
David J. Anderman has been named general counsel for Lucasfilm Ltd and will now oversee all business affairs and legal issues for the privately held company.Anderman has been a key member of Lucasfilm's legal team since he joined the company in 1998 as associate director of business affairs. He was ...
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Global Film Initiative has Getting Home, Mutum in 2009 series
The Global Film Initiative has announced its Global Lens 2009 series of touring films, a typically cosmopolitan selection that features entries from as far afield as Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Macedonia and Mozambique.The series includes three North American premieres for Nan Triveni Achnas' Indonesian drama about a struggling prostitute The Photograph, Teresa ...
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Heaven On Earth to open eighth MIAAC Film Festival in New York
Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth will open the eighth Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival in New York on November 5 while Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is the centerpiece screening and Sooni Taraporevala's Little Zizou will close the event on November 9.Heaven On Earth references Indian mythology and magical ...
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Paramount signs to handle worldwide on next five Marvel films
Buoyed by the $574m global success of the sumer tentpole Iron Man, Paramount Pictures has signed a deal to handle worldwide distribution on the next five films from Marvel Studios.The deal extends the original agreement between Paramount chairman and CEO Brad Grey and Marvel and covers territories previously served by ...
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Rudin & Weinstein announce that The Reader will be released in 2008
Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin appear to have buried their differences over Stephen Daldry's Oscar contender The Reader starring Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet as The Weinstein Company announced it will release the film in North America on December 12.The move ends debate over whether the drama would get a ...
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Hollywood mourns passing of screen legend Paul Newman
Tributes have poured in all weekend for Paul Newman, who died at his farmhouse home near Westport, Connecticut, on Friday [September 26] following a long fight against cancer. He was 83.'There is a point where feelings go beyond words,' Robert Redford, a longtime friend who famously starred alongside Newman in ...
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Eagle Eye lifts Sept box office in North America with $29.2m opening
The paranoia thriller Eagle Eye starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan stormed to the top of the charts over the weekend, grossing an estimated $29.2m and helping overall box office climb 12.3% against the same weekend last year.Overall ticket sales amounted to $102m compared to $90.8m in the same weekend ...
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DiLorenzo named evp of strategy and business development at FFE
Marc DiLorenzo has been named executive vice president of strategy and business development for Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE).DiLorenzo will take an active role in extending the brand of FFE properties into digital and other revenue channels both inside and outside the studio. He will also oversee deal analyses for all ...
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UPI celebrates as Mamma Mia! stays top and passes $350m
Mamma Mia! swept past $350m as yet another dominant display saw Universal's musical adaptation exceed last weekend's gross by 1% and take an estimated $15.3m from 4,562 sites in 48 territories through UPI to raise the international running total to $356.4m.Combined with the $142.2m domestic gross the worldwide figure stands ...
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PPI's Eagle Eye to challenge Mamma Mia! in international
Can Mamma Mia! keep the momentum going and stay atop the international charts for another weekend' Universal's musical arrives in three new markets including Russia on September 25 and currently stands at $340.2m through UPI.The biggest competition for Mamma Mia! will come from DreamWorks-Paramount's thriller Eagle Eye when it launches ...
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Roger Corman among new officers elected to IFTA board
The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) has announced the results of its board of directors election in which four industry leaders will join the global trade organisation's executive committee.Elected to two-year terms on the IFTA executive committee are: Roger Corman, vice chairperson (New Horizons Picture Corporation); Elisabeth Costa De ...