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Ghent to honour Harold Lloyd with exibition, screenings
The 35th Ghent International Film Festival will honour the late silent film star Harold Lloyd with an exhibition of personal photos and memorabilia and a screening of newly restored versions of Safety Last!, The Freshman, Speedy and Welcome Danger.The exhibition will feature photos, sheet music, scripts and costumes and has ...
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Break-Up Artist wraps for Legacy, Double Edge and Triumphant
Production has wrapped on Legacy Filmworks, Double Edge Entertainment and Triumphant Pictures' romantic comedy The Break-Up Artist.Amanda Crew, who stars opposite James Marsden in Summit Entertainment's upcoming release Sex Drive, plays a businesswoman who runs a break-up service and falls in love with a client.Legacy Filmworks' Deboragh Gabler produced and ...
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Anita Nelving named managing director of CineVegas
Anita Nelving has been appointed managing director at the CineVegas Film Festival and will oversee all festival departments and its year-round schedule of events.Nelving begins work on September 2 and will also be responsible for approving budgetary decisions and overseeing the festival's relationships with other arts organisations and Las Vegas ...
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Regent signs two-year deal with horror man De Coteau
Regent Studios has signed a two-year deal with horror film-maker David DeCoteau's Rapid Heart Pictures that includes ten films and two TV series.DeCoteau is currently in development with Regent on Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit And The Pendulum as well as two further films in The Brotherhood vampire franchise that ...
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Russian action star Nevsky announces Hercules project
Russian action star Alexander Nevsky will star in Hercules: The Beginning and will produce through his Hollywood Storm production company.The $12m title is in pre-production and comes at a time when Universal Pictures and Nu Image/Millennium are also lining up projects based on the Greek deity.Hollywood Storm wrapped production recently ...
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Gore Verbinski signs three-year, first-look deal at Universal
Universal Pictures has signed a three-year first-look deal with Gore Verbinski that will kick off with the adaptation of 2K's hit video game BioShock.John Logan, who earned Oscar nominations for The Aviator and Gladiator, adapted the screenplay. The game requires players to assume the role of a crash survivor who ...
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Shoreline acquires worldwide rights to Asylum Seekers
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Rania Ajami's comedy Asylum Seekers.The story centres on six bored people who attempt to get admitted into an insane asylum in a bid to spice up their lives. With only one bed available, the six men and women must compete against each other ...
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Sloan has contract extended for three years as head of MGM
Harry E Sloan has extended his tenure as MGM chairman and CEO and said the next three years will be 'a testament to the power, passion and creative vision of our new management team.'Sloan joined MGM in October 2005 and has worked to revive the company's ambitions to return as ...
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Canadian newcomer NeoClassics buys The Black Balloon from Icon
Canadian distributor NeoClassics Films has paid mid-six figures for North American rights from Icon Entertainment International to the Australian coming-of-age comedy The Black Balloon.Neoclassics, a start-up that has offices in Los Angeles, plans a limited release in October on Elissa Down's feature directorial debut about a teenage boy whose efforts ...
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The Dark Knight nears $400m in North America, beats Mummy 3
The Dark Knight stayed on top for the third consecutive weekend, edging out The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor as it bears down on $400m in record time. Warner Bros' champion added an estimated $43.8m for $394.9m in what was the second biggest third weekend in history behind Spider-Man's ...
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Dragon Emperor reigns over international box office for UPI
Launching across 3,559 sites in 28 territories, Universal's The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor was Hollywood's runaway champion of the international arena this weekend and grossed an estimated $59.5m for asuperb $16,700 per-screen average. Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) The Dark Knight crossed $200m and remains a potent force ...
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Kaltman named to vp corporate communications post at MPAA
Elizabeth Kaltman has been named vice president of corporate communications at The Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) in the wake of Kori Bernards' departure to become senior vice president of media relations at Universal Pictures.Kaltman has served as director of corporate communications for more than two years and will ...
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Arthouse acquires worldwide rights to documentary Milton Glaser
Arthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to Wendy Keys' documentary Milton Glaser: To Inform And Delight and plans a 2009 theatrical release.Arthouse Films will also distribute the portrait of the iconic American graphic designer through its output deals with Mongrel Media in Canada, Revolver Entertainment in the UK, Madman Entertainment ...
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Joshua Michael Stern pushes political buttons
Joshua Michael Stern's broad political satire Swing Vote, which opened through Disney's Touchstone label on Aug 1, is about as timely as it gets.With Barack Obama and John McCain both campaigning to take control of the White House in November, Stern's tale of a hapless single father who through a ...
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The Mummy goes up against Batman in 28 territories
The Dark Knight would appear to be the one to beat yet again as the film enters its third weekend, although Warner Bros Pictures International can look for some spirited competition from Universal's The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor which opens in 28 territories.The crime epic has amassed $159m ...
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Di Pierro, Cirillo team up for revenue sharing online distributor
Former Warner Brothers executive Vince Di Pierro and marketing veteran Joe Cirillo have launched the revenue sharing online distributor Indie RoadThe founders will canvas a panel of experts to select material that visitors to the site will be able to download or stream for prices starting at less than a ...
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Lucasfilm wins copyright case against Shepperton Design Studios
The High Court in London has ruled that Shepperton Design Studios and its principal Andrew Ainsworth violated Lucasfilm's US copyrights by manufacturing and selling Stormtrooper helmets and other costume replicas from the Star Wars franchise.The decision handed down from the High Court's Chancery Division today [July 31] affirmed that Lucasfilm ...
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Luke Ryan joins MGM as vp of theatrical production
Former vice president of MTV Films Luke Ryan has joined the MGM motion picture group as vice president of theatrical production.Ryan will oversee the production and development of new MGM projects and reports to chairman of the worldwide motion picture group Mary Parent.He will immediately get to work on priority ...
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Tribeca Film Festival sets 2009 dates as April 22 to May 3
The Tribeca Film Festival's 2009 edition will take place in New York from April 22 to May 3, organisers announced today [July 31].The Tribeca Film Institute's Tribeca All Access (TAA) programme will run from April 20 to April 25.For further information about Tribeca visit the official website at www.tribecafilm.com.
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Sundance Institute names 2008 Annenberg Film Fellows
The Sundance Institute has selected seven film-makers as its 2008 Annenberg Film Fellows, each of whom will receive a living stipend or grant to nurture their projects.The Fellows and their projects are: Fellipe Barbosa with Casa Grande; Frank Budgen with Shockheaded Peter; Daniel Casey with Poletown; John Magary with Blood ...