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Melvin Van Peebles to receive Gotham Award tribute
Melvin Van Peebles will receive a Gotham Award Tribute at IFP's 18th Annual Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York.Van Peebles stamped his authority on 1970s US cinema, championing the independent scene and playing an influential role in the emerging blaxploitation wave of the early 1970s, notably directing, producing ...
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Former FCC general counsel John Rogovin moves to Warner Bros
Former general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) John Rogovin has joined Warner Bros as executive vice president and general counsel following John Schulman's announcement yesterday [September 16] that he is retiring.Rogovin will report directly to chairman and CEO Barry Meyer and will oversee the studio's team of more ...
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Nancy Kirkpatrick takes marketing chief role at Summit
Former Paramount executive vice president of worldwide publicity Nancy Kirkpatrick has formally joined Summit Entertainment as president of worldwide marketing following a consultancy stint at the company.Kirkpatrick will report to Summit COO Bob Hayward and work closely with Summit co-chairmen Patrick Wachsberger and Rob Friedman, who called Kirkpatrick 'an incredible ...
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HighRoad Entertainment options Cheech Marin original script
Los Angeles-based HighRoad Entertainment has optioned the rights to the script Angel Of Oxnard from Cheech Marin, one half of the celebrated stoner duo Cheech And Chong.Marin will direct and star in the story of a local broadcaster who finds himself at the centre of a global media storm when ...
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Nighy, Blunt, Grint, Everett star in UK comedy Wild Target
Principal photographyhas begunon the comedy Wild Target starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint and Rupert Everett.Jonathan Lynn is directing the story of an uptight hitman who falls for his intended victim from a screenplay by Lucinda Coxon based on Pierre Salvadori's 1993 French film Cible Emouvante that earned two ...
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John Schulman leaves Warner Bros after 25 years at the studio
Long-time Warner Bros Entertainment executive vice president and general counsel John Schulman is retiring after a 25-year career at the studio.Schulman joined Warner Bros in 1984 as vice president and general counsel and set about building the studio's in-house legal department. Five years later he was promoted to senior vice ...
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Lance Still joins TWC as evp of promotions and integrated marketing
Lance Still has arrived from New Line as executive vice president of promotions and integrated marketing for The Weinstein Company (TWC).Still will oversee global promotions, branded entertainment, consumer products, licensing, product integrations, corporate sponsorship and strategic alliances for TWC and Dimension Films.Still will be based in Los Angeles and reports ...
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here! buys North American rights to Sarif's I Can't Think Straight
here! Films has acquired North American rights to author and film-maker Shamim Sarif's lesbian romance I Can't Think Straight.Sister company Regent Releasing will distribute Sarif's The World Unseen on November 7 in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto followed by I Can't Think Straight on November 21 in the same ...
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Flash Of Genius wins Alfred P Sloan prize at the Hamptons
Marc Abraham's Flash Of Genius starring Greg Kinnear as the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper has won the Hamptons International Film Festival's $25,000 Alfred P Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize.The cash prize is awarded to a feature that 'explores science and technology themes in fresh, innovative ways and depicts ...
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Franco, Hawkins to receive breakthrough acting awards at HFA
James Franco and Sally Hawkins, riding high following acclaimed performances in Pineapple Express and Happy-Go-Lucky, will receive the breakthrough acting awards at the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards gala on October 27.Doubt director John Patrick Shanley and Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will each collect breakthrough honours for ...
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Imagi raises $30m in financing to develop four CG-animated films
Imagi International Holdings announce today [Sept 16] that it has raised $30m in financing through two separate subscription agreements.Both agreements are expected to be completed later this month subject to regulatory procedures. The proceeds of the two transactions will be used to develop four CGI animated features including Astro Boy ...
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Star India, STAR DEN Media Services to carry MGM Channel in India
MGM is extending its cable channel reach into India after signing a deal that will see News Corp's Star India and DEN Digital Entertainment's STAR DEN Media Services carry the MGM Channel in the world's third largest cable market.The MGM Channel is currently available in India through satellite group Dish ...
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Sony Classics buys Toronto doc favourite Every Little Step
Sony Pictures Classics has beaten out other bidders and picked up North American and Australian rights to Every Little Step hot on the heels of the documentary's world premiere at Toronto. Click here to see review.Endgame Entertainment served as majority financier and produced the project, which traces performers as they ...
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Dark Sky strikes alliance with Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix
Dark Sky Films has struck an alliance with Larry Fessenden's New York-based production company Glass Eye Pix, whose drama Wendy And Lucy starring Michelle Williams played at Toronto last week.The partners will make films that Fessenden described as 'little bit pulpy, a little bit high-brow' and kick off with the ...
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San Francisco Film Society launches $25,000 doc award
The San Francisco Film Society has launched a new $25,000 Golden Gate Award for investigative documentaries to be presented at the Film Society's San Francisco International Film Festival next spring.Society top brass will also introduce an annual week-long theatrical run of a leading non-fiction film beginning this autumn with Secrecy ...
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Rockwell, Roberts to star in The Winning Season for Gigi, Plum
New York-based Gigi Productions and Plum Pictures have attached Sam Rockwell, Emma Roberts and Rob Corddry to star in the comedy The Winning Season, set to begin shooting in October in the New York region.James Strouse will direct The Winning Season from his original screenplay about a washed-up divorcee basketball ...
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Hanks to receive gala tribute at Film Society Of Lincoln Center
Tom Hanks is next in line to receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center's gala tribute and will be guest of honour at a special event on April 27, 2009.Hanks becomes the 36th recipient and follows in the footsteps of Jane Fonda, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Shirley Maclaine, Federico Fellini, ...
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Focus, Coens have career best openings with Burn After Reading
Fuelled by high profile world and North American premieres at Venice and Toronto, Focus Features scored its first number one launch and the Coen Brothers enjoyed the best debut of their careers as Burn After Reading opened top of the charts on an estimated $19.4m.The all-star ensemble dark spy comedy ...
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Mamma Mia! leads international with $17.5m weekend for UPI
Universal films ruled the roost at the weekend led by an estimated $17.5m haul for Mamma Mia! from 4,296 sites in 44 territories through UPI that took the musical adaptation over $300m.The film opened top in France on $2.4m and Belgium on $1m, as well as in French-speaking Switzerland on ...
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Mamma Mia! set to surge past $300m with France, Mexico openings
Universal UPI's smash stage adaptation Mamma Mia! is set to lead the international weekend again. The musical blockbuster has reached $288.6m and will cross $300m this weekend, driven by six launches that include France, French-speaking Switzerland and Belgium on September 10 followed by Hong Kong a day later and Mexico, ...