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Michele Garra promoted to svp of Asia Pacific at SPHE
Michele Garra has been promoted to the newly created position of senior vice president of Asia Pacific for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE).Sony's former managing director of Australia and New Zealand will move from Sydney to the studio's Los Angeles headquarters in Culver City.Reporting to executive vice president of international ...
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Panda-monium at North American box office for DreamWorks
Kung Fu Panda ate up the competition as it shot to the top and left no doubt about what was the biggest comedy in North America over the weekend.The DreamWorks Animation hit grossed an estimated $60m through Paramount, approximately 50% more than Sony's Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess With ...
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Carrie Bradshaw kicks Indiana Jones off international perch
Sex continued to sell overseas as New Line's hit adaptation Sex And The City booted PPI's Indiana Jones and Kung Fu Panda into second and third place, respectively.The comedy saga about four Manhattan women added an estimated $38.1m from 25 new territories and robust holdovers to stand at $91.3m. Combined ...
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PPI's Panda kicks out in nine markets, Sex expands global seduction
Paramount Pictures International is in the enviable position of having two bona fide blockbusters in play as it prepares to launch a third this weekend.As Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull nears $300m and Iron Man consolidates its new status as an inductee of the $200m club, ...
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Irish Film Festival launched in Los Angeles this October
The inaugural Los Angeles Irish Film Festival will run from October 2-5 at the Clarity Theatre in Beverly Hills.Festival directors Lisa McLaughlin-Strassman and Niall McKay aim to develop the profile of Irish cinema and to this end will programme features, documentaries and shorts and stage on-stage interviews.The event is sponsored ...
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Kaczorowksi joins Grosvenor Park as partner, Alper as principal and COO
Los Angeles, London and Toronto-based film financing company Grosvenor Park has named Joseph C Kaczorowski partner and David Alper principal and COO.Kaczorowski most recently served as president of House Of Blues Entertainment, while Alper most recently managed Relativity Media's single-picture equity financing and production business.Backed by a New York-based alternative ...
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Jorge Camara re-elected as president of HFPA
Jorge Camara will serve his sixth term as president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) after he was re-elected to the post on Wednesday night [June 5].
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Russian thriller Magic Man to shoot entirely in US
Billy Zane and Russian action star Alexander Nevsky will star in the US-Russian co-production thriller Magic Man that will shoot entirely in the US.Stuart Cooper will begin directing this month in Los Angeles on the story of a famous magician who might also be moonlighting as a serial killer. George ...
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IFP selects 11 narrative projects for Filmmaker Lab
IFP has selected the 11 narrative feature projects for the Independent Filmmaker Lab support programme set to run from June 10-13.Narrative Lab participants will also be eligible for the Independent Filmmaker Finishing Grant, a new $50,000 annual award courtesy of an anonymous donation.The juried award will be presented at the ...
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Yacovlef, Melocchi attach Leder, Fall to music-themed projects
Beverly Hills-based Little Studio Films partners Alexandra Yacovlef and Alexia Melocchi are fast-tracking the music-themed dramas Woody, Cisco And Me and Stalking Simon Le Bon.Mimi Leder will direct Woody, Cisco And Me from the novel of the same name by Jim Longhi is set during the second world war and ...
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Breakthrough Brits showcased at Hollywood Black Film Festival
The UK Film Council's Breakthrough Brits awards reception will take place in association with the Hollywood Black Film Festival in Los Angeles on June 5.British television director and producer Nigel Lythgoe will host the culmination of the Breakthrough Brits programme, which offers film-makers a networking, creative and business platform in ...
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Focus creams off Cannes sales for Milk, Mendes comedy
Focus Features International has closed key UK deals at the tail end of a successful Cannes market for the sales operation.Sales chief Alison Thompson concluded business with Momentum on Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk feature Milk, which is in post-production and stars Sean Penn as the slain gay rights activist.Contender ...
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Iron Man writing duo to adapt Ludlum thriller for Universal
Universal has hired in-demand Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway to adapt Robert Ludlum's thriller The Sigma Protocol.Paul Sandberg and Marc Abraham will produce with Strike Entertainment's Eric Newman.The Sigma Protocol was the last complete book that Ludlum, whose Jason Bourne novels Universal adapted into a $950m global ...
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Lionsgate delivers Transporter 3 to North America
Lionsgate has picked up North American rights to Transporter 3 in which Jason Statham will reprise his action role as the tenacious former Special Forces operative turned delivery man Chev Chelios.The Transporter films, which launched in 2002, have to date grossed more than $130m worldwide and close to $75m in ...
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Rapper programmes LA Film Festival sidebar
The Los Angeles Film Festival has appointed the rapper Common as its Artist In Residence for the June 19-29 event.Common has programmed a sidebar of personally inspiring films that includes Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.The performer, who stars alongside Angelina Jolie and ...
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Sex defies predictions with $56m US opening
New Line's long awaited TV adaptation Sex And The City defied low-ball predictions and elbowed Indiana Jones off the top perch to launch at number one through Warner Bros on an estimated $55.7m.If the nay-sayers had been concerned about the breadth of the demographic that would turn out to support ...
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Europe goes Sex mad, but Indy still on top overseas
Knocked off its domestic perch, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull stayed on top overseas despite hot weather across Germany and central Europe as a muscular $71.5m haul from 8,439 sites in 60 territories boosted the score to $266m.This weekend's domestic champion Sex And The City came ...
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Europe joins Sex craze as Paramount pair cross $200m
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull will continue to dominate overseas this weekend and should soar past $200m.The adventure currently stands at more than $188.7m through Paramount Pictures International (PPI) and opens in India and several other key markets.Stablemate Iron Man will bring more good news for ...
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3D Journey to premiere at LA Film Festival
Walden Media and New Line's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 3D will receive its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Family Day on June 29.Eric Brevig directed the classic tale of adventure that stars Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, and Anita Briem.The occasion marks the first ...
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Cannes buyers snatch up Michael Moore's latest polemic
Michael Moore's follow-up to Fahrenheit 9/11 led a strong Cannes sales market for Paramount Vantage, solidifying its credentials as an emergent heavyweight supplier.Moore descended on the Croisette to personally introduce the project - which he is now understood to be filming at undisclosed locations - and described it as a ...