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AMPAS invites 96 countries to submit films for foreign language Oscar
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has posted entry forms for the 81st Academy Awards' foreign language competition to 96 countries.Countries need to be return the forms so they are received at the Academy by October 1. To qualify for the 81st Academy Awards a film must be ...
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Cole promoted to evp of media at Universal Pictures
Suzanne Cole has been promoted to executive vice president of media at Universal Pictures and will continue to oversee the studio's print, broadcast, online and outdoor media strategy.Cole has served as senior vice president of media since 2004 and continues to report to president of marketing Eddie Egan.During her nine-year ...
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SILVERDOCS fetes The Garden, The English Surgeon
Scott Hamilton Kennedy's The Garden won the SILVERDOCS Sterling US Feature Award and Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble The Water earned a special jury mention.Geoffrey Smith's The English Surgeon won the Sterling World Feature Award and a special mention went to Chao Gan's The Red Race.In the Sterling Short ...
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Justin Long, Fred Willard join Cera in Youth In Revolt
Justin Long and Fred Willard have joined Michael Cera and newcomer Portia Doubleday on the cast of Dimension Film's tale Youth In Revolt.Zach Galifinakis, Ari Graynor, Erik Knudsen, Adhir Kalyan, Jonny Wright, Tricia Mara and Mary Kay Place have also come aboard.The Permut Presentations and Shangri-La Entertainment project is based ...
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Ballast, Frozen River win top prizes at Provincetown Film Festival
Ballast director Lance Hammer won the John Schlesinger Award for a first time film-maker as the 10th Provincetown Film Festival came to a close at the weekend.Another Sundance premiere, Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, won the audience award for best feature while Irena Salina's FLOW: For Love Of Water took the ...
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Chapa to star in Gangster for his own Amadeus Pictures
Amadeus Pictures is lining up a July start in Los Angeles for its action adventure Mexican Gangster starring company founder and president Damian Chapa.Mexican Gangster is based on the true story of Johnny Sun, an ex-con who struggles to break free from his former life of crime.Christine Manoukian, Romanian newcomer ...
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Man On Wire, American Teen among winners at Nantucket
FM Strype's Anna Down East won Showtime's Tony Cox Screenplay Competition as the 13th Annual Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) came to a close on Sunday (June 22).Showtime's Tony Cox Award For Screenwriting was presented to Daniel Schechter for Goodbye Baby, while the second annual Adrienne Shelley Excellence In Filmmaking Award ...
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Paramount gets to $1bn in domestic grosses in record time
Paramount Pictures has crossed the $1bn mark in domestic ticket sales in record time just days after its international division PPI achieved the same feat. Paramount becomes the first studio to reach the milestone this year and bettered the old record by three weeks.The studio was the first to reach ...
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She Unfolds By Day wins grand jury prize at CineVegas
Rolf Belgum's She Unfolds By Day won the 10th Annual CineVegas Film Festival's grand jury prize while Rachel Samuels' Dark Streets earned a special jury award.Bill Pullman received a Special Jury Award for his role as the science fiction writer William J Frick in Your Name Here.Aaron Rose and Joshua ...
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Carell's Smart roundly beats Myers' Guru at US box office
The changing face of US comedy delivered a stinging rebuke to the old guard as Steve Carell, one of the biggest success stories of recent years, outgunned the prodigal genius Mike Myers, back in his first live-action role in five years.Get Smart, in which Carell reprises the role of the ...
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Indiana Jones reclaims international crown
Indiana Jones ruled the roost over the weekend thanks in large part to a spectacular $13.1m number launch in Japan that left Paramount/PPI within touching distance of $400m.It was close at the top. Marvel Studios' The Incredible Hulk, released almost everywhere through Universal/UPI, bashed its way through 12 new territories ...
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Tajudin takes international home entertainment role at Sony
Norman Z Tajudin has been named vice president of international for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE).Tajudin will oversee SPHE's portfolio of emerging global markets andwill oversee distribution partnerships and other strategic initiativesin the company's international territories.He reports to SPHE senior vice president of international Paul Miller.Tajudin previously served as vice ...
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Universal Pictures ties up Family Bond
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Marc Platt Productions and Millar/Gough Ink's action comedy Family Bond.Jeff Lowell, who wrote John Tucker Must Die, will write the screenplayabout a spy and his relationship with his daughter.Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are producing for Marc Platt Productionsalong with Alfred Gough and ...
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Universal Pictures ties up Family Bond
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Marc Platt Productions and Millar/Gough Ink's action comedy Family Bond.Jeff Lowell, who wrote John Tucker Must Die, will write the screenplayabout a spy and his relationship with his daughter.Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are producing for Marc Platt Productionsalong with Alfred Gough and ...
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Profile: Luis Berdejo
Many international directors working in Hollywood can fall victim to being over-hyped by agents and publicists. There has been plenty of buzz, for example, surrounding Spanish director Luis Berdejo and his first English-language film, The New Daughter, which is produced by Gold Circle Films and stars Kevin Costner.This time, if ...
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Gigantic picks up Dews documentary
Gigantic Releasing, the new distribution arm of New York-based Gigantic NYC, has acquired all North American and English-speaking rights to Morgan Dews' documentary, Must Read After My Death.The film will receive its US premiere on June 20 at the Los Angeles Film Festival and Gigantic Releasing plans to open it ...
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Lightning takes international rights to Shortcut
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has picked up internationalrights from Leomax Entertainment to the recently announced thrillerShortcut.Ingo Vollkammer's Leomax Entertainment is financing the film andco-producing with Adam Sandler's newly launched production label ScaryMadison.Nicholaus Goosen will direct from a script by Scott Sandler and DanHannon about two brothers who discover a strange ...
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Kaplan takes anti-piracy role at Warner Bros
David P Kaplan has been named senior vice-president and intellectualproperty counsel on worldwide anti-piracy operations at Warner BrosEntertainment.Kaplan will be responsible for the coordination and execution of thestudio's anti-piracy strategy and reports to president of Warner BrosTechnical Operations Darcy Antonellis.He joined the studio in 1996 and previously served as vice ...
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Grover Crisp takes seniorSony library role
Grover Crisp has been named senior vice president of asset management, restoration and digital mastering for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE).Crisp previously served as vice president and will oversee all facetsof the restoration, preservation and mastering programme for theColumbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures feature film and televisionlibraries.Under Crisp the feature and ...
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AMPAS changes foreign-language Oscar rules
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has tweaked itsforeign-language picture rules and made changes to its original songcategory.The first stage in the two-step process to determine the foreignlanguage entries for the 81st Annual Academy Awards has been amended so the Phase I Committee, open to any voting member ...