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Hulk casts green shadow over weekend box office
Marvel Studios' The Incredible Hulk has amassed more than $36.1mmostly through UPI and is expected to dominate this weekend as itlaunches in 12 territories including Italy on June 18 and India onJune 20.The comic-book adaptation has amassed more than $36.1m and wasreleased in Australia and New Zealand through PPI.Comedy Forgetting ...
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Bertha Bay-Sa Pan lauches New York-based Slew Pictures
New York-based Bertha Bay-Sa Pan has launched Slew Pictures to focus on making 'universal stories that will both entertain and inspire' and has lined the company's first feature, Almost Perfect.Pan wrote and will direct the story in New York this autumn of a young career woman who tries to pick ...
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Toulon named general counsel at CBS Films
Rik Toulon has been named executive vice president and general counsel at CBS Films.Toulon reports to CBS Films COO Bruce Tobey and will oversee all legal matters on behalf of the division.He arrives from the law firm of Katten Muchin Rosenman where he served as partner in the firm's entertainment ...
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National Geographic to distribute Grand Canyon in 3D worldwide
National Geographic will distribute Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets to mark the film's 25th anniversary in 3D worldwide.The company will sell the film to exhibitors through Cinema Ventures' film distribution arm. Giant screen pioneer Destination Cinema will oversee updates to the script and musical score and the conversion of the ...
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Robert Davi, Bai Ling join US/Russia co-production Magic Man
Robert Davi and Bai Ling have joined Russian star Alexander Nevsky and Billy Zane on the US-Russian Magic Man set to start filming in Las Vegas on June 25.The story revolves around a famous magician (Zane) who is suspected of being a serial killer. Nevsky plays an investigative policeman and ...
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IFC Films buys the world on Medicine For Melancholy
IFC Films has picked up worldwide rights to Strike Anywhere's romance Medicine For Melancholy, which will play in competition in the Los Angeles Film Festival later this week.IFC will release the film in 2009 through its theatrical and VOD day-and-date platform IFC in Theaters.Medicine for Melancholy is a love story ...
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Choke wins narrative feature prize at Maui Film Festival
Clark Gregg's Choke starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston won the narrative feature prize at the 2008 Annual Maui Film Festival while Charles Kinnane's The Human Experience took the documentary award.In the world cinema programme, Amin Matalqa's Captain Abu Raed was named best narrative feature and Christian Karim Chrobog's War ...
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Christian Gaines leaves AFI for Withoutabox.com
Christian Gaines has joined IMDb's festival and networking community 0Withoutabox.com as film festival director.Gaines previously served as director of festivals at the American Film Institute (AFI) where he oversaw festival and film programming projects including AFI FEST.He was heavily involved with the inception of Silverdocs and AFI Dallas International Film ...
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Pope's Toilet rides into US with Film Movement
Film Movement has acquired Cesar Charlone and Enrique Fernandez' Uruguayan comedy The Pope's Toilet and plans a limited release in October followed by DVD roll-out in 2009.The story centres on the people of a small town who prepare to capitalise on an upcoming visit from the Pontiff.The Pope's Visit played ...
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Tim Sommerfeld named svp of creative advertising at Summit
Tim Sommerfeld has been appointed senior vice president of creative advertising at Summit Entertainment.Sommerfeld gets to work straight away on upcoming releases Fly Me To The Moon, Twilight, Sex Drive, The Brothers Bloom, Push and Knowing.He most recently served as creative director and producer at The Ant Farm, where he ...
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Universal acquires graphic novel series The Last Call from Oni
Universal has acquired the graphic novel series The Last Call from Oni Press and has hired Evan Spiliotopoulos to adapt the screenplay.The Last Call was first published in 2007 and centres on two joyriders who have the misfortune to get hit by a train that happens to be an inter-dimensional ...
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James Gunn to deliver keynote speech at IFTA Production Conference
Film-maker James Gunn will deliver the keynote speech at the Independent Film & Television Alliance's (IFTA) 10th Annual Production Conference in Los Angeles on June 27.Gunn started out with Troma Entertainment where he wrote Tromeo And Juliet. His writing credits include Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Slither and the 2004 ...
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Summit takes on worldwide rights to Imagi's Astro Boy
Summit Entertainment has swooped on worldwide rights excluding Japan, Hong Kong and China to Imagi Entertainment's manga project Astro Boy.Summit is expected to plan a 2009 release on the animated tale of a young robot who embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Warner Bros and The Weinstein Company previously held ...
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Gen Art Chicago Film Festival opens with Bart Got A Room
The Second Annual Gen Art Chicago Film Festival will open in Chicago on June 23 with Plum Pictures' comedy Bart Got A Room starring William H Macy and Cheryl Hines.Brian Hecker's film was one of the more popular entries at Tribeca, where it received its world premiere in April, and ...
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Dan Kolsrud named evp of theatrical physical production at MGM
Dan Kolsrud has been appointed executive vice president of worldwide theatrical physical production at MGM and Mary Parent continues to assemble her team to return the studio to its production roots.Kolsrud joins executive vice president of development Cale Boyter and vice president of production Becky Sloviter.Kolsrud most recently served as ...
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David Shaye joins Content Partners in business development
Los Angeles-based financial company Content Partners has hired David Shaye to be its new director of business development.Shaye will report directly to senior vice president Krista Parkinson and Content Partners founders Steve Kram and Steve Blume.The new arrival previously served as a TV development executive and producer and started his ...
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The Happening leads international with $32.1m, but Hulk is stronger
M Night Shyamalan's mystery The Happening took the international box office crown at the weekend thanks to an estimated $32.1m through Fox International from 5,714 screens in 88 markets.However the clear pound-for-pound champion was Marvel Studios' The Incredible Hulk, which grossed $31m through UPI in 3,165 venues in 38 territories ...
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John Hadity named chair of PGA East's executive board
John Hadity has succeeded David Picker as chair of the Producers Guild Of America East's executive board following a recent election.Meanwhile Dana Kuznetzkoff and Mark Marabella will serve as the board's vice chairs and succeed Lydia Dean Pilcher and Harvey Wilson.Wilson was one of five members elected to the board's ...
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Tony Barbieri's Em, Issac Julien's Derek win at Seattle
Tony Barbieri's Em won the 34th Seattle International Film Festival's grand jury prize and Isaac Julien's Derek Jarman essay Derek took top documentary honours at the closing awards ceremony on Sunday [June 15].Everything Is Fine from Canada's Yves-Christian Fournier took the New Directors Showcase Prize for a director of a ...
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Marvel's Hulk is incredible with $54.4m three-day US opening
Almost five years to the day after Ang Lee's ill-fated Hulk opened in North America, Marvel Studios took a big stride towards exorcising that painful memory as The Incredible Hulk stormed to the top through Universal and led a bumper box office weekend with a muscular $54.4m estimated launch.Marvel Studios ...