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Rudin & Weinstein announce that The Reader will be released in 2008
Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin appear to have buried their differences over Stephen Daldry's Oscar contender The Reader starring Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet as The Weinstein Company announced it will release the film in North America on December 12.The move ends debate over whether the drama would get a ...
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Hollywood mourns passing of screen legend Paul Newman
Tributes have poured in all weekend for Paul Newman, who died at his farmhouse home near Westport, Connecticut, on Friday [September 26] following a long fight against cancer. He was 83.'There is a point where feelings go beyond words,' Robert Redford, a longtime friend who famously starred alongside Newman in ...
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Eagle Eye lifts Sept box office in North America with $29.2m opening
The paranoia thriller Eagle Eye starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan stormed to the top of the charts over the weekend, grossing an estimated $29.2m and helping overall box office climb 12.3% against the same weekend last year.Overall ticket sales amounted to $102m compared to $90.8m in the same weekend ...
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DiLorenzo named evp of strategy and business development at FFE
Marc DiLorenzo has been named executive vice president of strategy and business development for Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE).DiLorenzo will take an active role in extending the brand of FFE properties into digital and other revenue channels both inside and outside the studio. He will also oversee deal analyses for all ...
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UPI celebrates as Mamma Mia! stays top and passes $350m
Mamma Mia! swept past $350m as yet another dominant display saw Universal's musical adaptation exceed last weekend's gross by 1% and take an estimated $15.3m from 4,562 sites in 48 territories through UPI to raise the international running total to $356.4m.Combined with the $142.2m domestic gross the worldwide figure stands ...
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PPI's Eagle Eye to challenge Mamma Mia! in international
Can Mamma Mia! keep the momentum going and stay atop the international charts for another weekend' Universal's musical arrives in three new markets including Russia on September 25 and currently stands at $340.2m through UPI.The biggest competition for Mamma Mia! will come from DreamWorks-Paramount's thriller Eagle Eye when it launches ...
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Roger Corman among new officers elected to IFTA board
The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) has announced the results of its board of directors election in which four industry leaders will join the global trade organisation's executive committee.Elected to two-year terms on the IFTA executive committee are: Roger Corman, vice chairperson (New Horizons Picture Corporation); Elisabeth Costa De ...
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Wrestler, Good get gala screenings at Chicago Film Festival
Darren Aronofsky's Venice Golden Lion winner The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke will screen as a gala presentation and Vicente Amorim's Good will close the 44th Chicago International Film Festival, which runs from October 16-29.Slumdog Millionaire gets a gala screening slot alongside the world premiere of Jada Pinkett Smith's The Human ...
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Hypernia, Brave New Films team for online distribution of Moore film
Hypernia Hosting Corp has signed up as global online partner to distributor Brave New Films headed by activist and film-maker Robert Greenwald in the distribution of Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising.Earlier this week Brave New Films launched a free download of the Oscar-winning film-maker's latest feature, which it claims is the ...
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Plum options feature rights to Harlan Coben's The Innocent
Plum Pictures has acquired feature rights to Harlan Coben's bestselling thriller The Innocent.Coben wrote Tell No One which Guillaume Canet adapted into the acclaimed thriller and went on to gross more than $27m in France and $5m in the US and earned four Cesar Awards including best director.The Innocent follows ...
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Australians In Film launches Heath Ledger Scholarship
Los Angeles-based Australians In Film (AiF) has launched the Australians In Film Heath Ledger Scholarship.The scholarship will be awarded to an emerging Australian actor for up to US $10,000 plus a return airfare from Australia to pursue their career in the US. Applications will be accepted from October 1-November 28 ...
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Robert Fisher promoted to evp at Warner Bros Pictures
Robert A Fisher has been promoted from senior vice president of financial investments at Warner Bros Pictures to executive vice president.Fisher held the post of senior vice president since 1994 and will continue to spearhead the studio's film financing activities and work with government agencies on policies that promote film ...
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Regent continues Fortissimo ties with domestic deal for $9.99
Regent Releasing has picked up North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Tatia Rosenthal's comedy $9.99 following its world premiere at Toronto.Regent plans a limited spring 2009 release on the film, which uses stop-motion animation to portray the existence of apartment residents in Sydney searching for the meaning of life.The ...
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Arthouse acquires worldwide rights to Beautiful Losers
Arthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to the documentary Beautiful Losers directed by Aaron Rose and co-directed by Joshua Leonard.Arthouse will partner on the distribution strategy with Sidetrack Films, which has already opened the film in conjunction with Nike Sportswear in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.Arthouse plans to ...
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Paramount signs digital production deal with Milchan/Van Eyssen
Paramount Digital Entertainment has signed a three-year digital production deal with the producing team of Milchan/Van Eyssen to create exclusive original genre content for the internet and other digital media platforms.Milchan/van Eyssen is led by Alexandra Milchan and David Van Eyssen. Milchan's producing credits include the current release Righteous Kill, ...
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Focus names five winners in Africa First programme
Focus Features CEO James Schamus announced late today [September 24] the five winners in Focus' Africa First Programme designed to support emerging film-makers of African nationality and residence.Earlier this year Focus offered participating film-makers the chance to win financing for production and/or post-production on their narrative short films made in ...
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Cloverfield's Matt Reeves to direct Let The Right One In remake
Cloverfield director Matt Reeves (pictured) will write and direct the English-language adaptation of Tomas Alfredson's acclaimed Swedish contemporary vampire feature Let The Right One In for Overture Films and London-based Hammer Films.Let The Right One In will be the first in a new two-film co-production, financing and distribution deal between ...
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Johnny Depp to star in The Lone Ranger, Pirates 4 for Disney
Johnny Depp will play Tonto in Disney's previously announced The LoneRanger project and has signed on to reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in a fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean instalment, attendees heard at today's [September 24] Walt Disney Studios Showcase in Hollywood.Depp, who will also star as The ...
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AFI FEST will open on Oct 30 with Joe Wright's The Soloist
Theworld premiere of DreamWorks and Universal's drama The Soloist starring Robert Downey Jr and Jamie Foxx will open AFI FEST in Los Angeles on October 30.Joe Wright directed the story of a journalist who comes across a former musical prodigy living rough on the streets of Los Angeles.The Working Title-produced ...
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Magnet acquires North American rights to Thai Chocolate
Magnolia Pictures' Magnet has acquired North American rights to Prachya Pinkaew's martial arts action film Chocolate following its recent world premiere in Toronto's Midnight Madness genre sidebarThe film played in Austin's Fantastic Fest last weekend and took runner-up prize in the Audience Award.Magnet closed the deal on Monday night for ...