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High School 3 beats off Saw V in blockbusting US box office weekend
Hollywood served a timely reminder that film-going appears to be recession-proof as two mighty brands powered the box office to its biggest weekend of the last ten weeks.The top 12 films climbed 40% against the same period last weekend after grossing approximately $120m and were led by Disney Channel's phenomenally ...
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High School Musical dances to 22-country $40m opening
High School Musical 3: Senior Year finished top of the class overseas thanks to an estimated $40m haul from 3,100 screens in 22 countries through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International that set a new opening weekend record for an international launch in October.Dominant in North America as well with ...
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J Andrew Greenblatt and Eric Bresler join Philadelphia Film Society
J Andrew Greenblatt has been appointed executive director and Eric Bresler has been named managing director of the Philadelphia Film Society, which presents the Philadelphia Film Festival and the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.Greenblatt is the managing partner in OG Consulting and president of Film 101 Productions and ...
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Arclight picks up rights to The Red Baron
Arclight Films has acquired worldwide rights excluding German-speaking Europe and the Czech Republic ahead of AFM to the $23.3m (Eu18m) German aerial action title The Red Baron. Matthias Schweighofer, Til Schweiger, Lena Headey and Joseph Fiennes star in the Niama Film tale of the legendary first world war German ...
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High School Musical ready to rock international marketplace
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (WDSMPI) will seek to mobilise the tweens this weekend as Disney Channel's smash High School Musical brand makes its first foray into theatres in the form of High School Musical 3: Senior Year.Zac Efron and his posse of all-singing, all-dancing friends step into more ...
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Summit picks up rights to romcom Kicked, Bitten And Scratched
Summit Entertainment has acquired feature rights to the romantic comedy Kicked, Bitten And Scratched, based on Amy Sutherland's books Kicked Bitten And Scratched: Life And Lessons At The World's Premier School For Exotic Animal Trainers and What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love And Marriage.Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky are ...
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New York Women In Film & Television honours Linney and Sedgwick
Laura Linney and Kyra Sedgwick will be among the honourees at the New York Women In Film & Television's (NYWIFT) 28th annual Muse Awards on December 9.Linney earned an Academy Award nomination this year for The Savages and won an Emmy for the HBO miniseries John Adams. She has wrapped ...
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Paramount pulls AFI opening night screening of The Soloist
Paramount has pulled world premiere of The Soloist from AFI Fest opening night, due to new 2009 release date for potential awards vehicle. Paramount has pulled its world premiere AFI Fest 2008 opening night screening of The Soloist that was due to screen next week, October 30, citing the new ...
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Joe Dante ready to enter the 3D Hole
Joe Dante will commence shooting the 3D supernatural thriller The Hole starring Teri Polo, Chris Massoglia and Haley Bennett for Bold Films and Benderspink in Vancouver on December 2. Bold Films International will commence pre-sales at AFM next month on the story of two brothers and their neighbour who ...
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I've Loved You So Long opens AFI EU film showcase
Philippe Claudel's drama I've Loved You So Long featuring an acclaimed turn by Kristin Scott Thomas as a woman blighted by a terrible secret will open the The 2008 AFI European Union Film Showcase in Washington DC on November 6. For the first time, the AFI EU Showcase will ...
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Scott Nemes takes production role at Film Department
The Film Department has appointed former Adelstein Productions film chief Scott Nemes as vice president of production and development. Nemes, who reports directly to The Film Department's president of production Robert Katz, previously set up projects at Adelstein with a range of studios and financiers. He also served ...
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Mike Gabrawy named head of production for ambitious Arclight
Constantin Film production executive Mike Gabrawy has been named head of production for Arclight Films as the company steps up its slate. Gabrawy will be based in Los Angeles and oversee development and production of the company's slate of eight-to-10 productions per year and co-ordinate Arclight's international productions in ...
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Lightning Entertainment picks up crime thrillerLa Linea
Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has acquired international rights to the crime thrillerLa Linea starring Andy Garcia and Ray Liotta.Lightning Entertainment co-president Richard Guardian will commencesales at AFM next month on the story of a veteran assassin on thetrail of a Mexican cartel leader. Endeavor holds North ...
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Mickey Rourke and Jason Statham among cast for 13 remake
Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Sam Riley and 50 Cent will star in 13, Gela Babluani's remake of his 2005 French thriller 13 Tzameti that Paramount Vantage will begin to pre-sell at AFM. Endeavor represents North American rights on the story of a young man who steals a mysterious package ...
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Laurence Fishburne to be honoured at Bahamas festival
Laurence Fishburne will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Career Achievement Award in Nassau in December 7. Festival patron Sean Connery will present the honour, which was set up to recognise film-makers whose work has had a 'major impact and has advanced the frontiers of cinematic artistry around ...
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Ron Perlman joins cast of Season Of The Witch.
Ron Perlman has joined Nicolas Cage in Relativity Media and Atlas Entertainment's supernatural thriller Season Of The Witch. Mandate International will commence pre-sales at AFM on the story of a 14th century knight who escorts a suspected witch across Europe. Production is set to begin in Austria and ...
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Ballast earns four nominations atGotham Independent Film Awards
Lance Hammer's Ballast is nominated for best feature, director, breakthrough actor and ensemble performance at IFP awards, 22 films nominated in six categories. Lance Hammer's Ballast leads the pack in the 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards with four nominations for best feature, director, breakthrough actor and ensemble performance.Six titles ...
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Troubled Water wins Hamptons' Golden Starfish
Erik Poppe's Norwegian-Swedish film Troubled Water won the 16th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival's Golden Starfish Best Narrative Feature and an awards package of more than $185,000 of in-kind production services. Megumi Sasaki's US entry Herb And Dorothy took the documentary award and a $5,000 cash prize while special ...
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Captain Abu Raed wins Heartland's grand prize
Amin Matalqa's Jordanian foreign-language Oscar submission Captain Abu Raed won the 17th Heartland Film Festival's grand prize at the weekend for best dramatic feature and a $100,000 prize. Click here for review. The annual Crystal Heart Awards Gala anointed Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker's Pray The Devil Back To ...
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North American box office soars with Max Payne
The US economy may be in dire straits but Hollywood remains recession-proof as the North American box office climbed for the fourth consecutive weekend against the same period last year after Fox's videogame adaptation Max Payne starring Mark Wahlberg opened top on an estimated $18m. Fox Searchlight's Civil Rights ...