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Canet's Tell No One gets US distribution deal with Music Box
Music Box Films has acquired all US rights to Guillaume Canet's French box office hit Tell No One, based on the bestseller by Harlan Coben.The thriller earned Canet the best director Cesar and brought the best actor trophy to Francois Cluzet.Tell No One centres on a doctor who gets implicated ...
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Jeff Sakson joins Participant as vice president of publicity
Jeffrey Sakson has joined Participant Media as vice president of publicity and will report to executive vice presidents of marketing Buffy Shutt and Kathy Jones.Sakson will oversee publicity on all Participant releases and social action campaigns related to its films and will also take charge of corporate communications.Sakson is a ...
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Borshell succeeds Greenwald as president of Image Entertainment
Image Entertainment's chief operating officer David Borshell has succeeded Martin W Greenwald as president of the home entertainment producer and distributor.The board of directors has made the title of president the top executive position of the company and does not plan to seek a CEO. Borshell will report directly to ...
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Cinema Libre picks up worldwide rights to disFIGURED
Cinema Libre Studio has picked up worldwide rights to Glenn Gers' disFIGURED, which makes its world premiere at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival on Apr 1.disFIGURED stars Deidra Edwards and Staci Lawrence as strangers who meet through a California-based Fat Acceptance group and become firm friends. Launchpad Productions' David ...
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Slavoj Zizek to preside as guest director at Telluride in Aug
Slavoj Zizek will preside as guest director of the 35th Telluride Film Festival, which is scheduled to run from Aug 29-Sept 1.The Slovenian-born political philosopher and academic has written more than 50 books covering a diverse array of subjects ranging from Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch to Wagner and cyberspace. ...
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James E Curry joins LA law firm Sheppard Mullin
James E Curry has joined the Century City office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP as partner in the law firm's entertainment and media group.Curry most recently practised as a founding partner with White O'Connor Curry in Century City.Curry is an experienced trial attorney who specialises in business lawsuits ...
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United states - Profit Sharing
Nestled in the bustling West Los Angeles neighbourhood of Westwood lies a company that may well become a friend to stars, directors and producers long after their careers have waned.That is not to say that Content Partners, the 2006 brainchild of accountant and former Brillstein-Grey CFO Steve Blume and longtime ...
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Nick Broomfield: Battle Scars
Nick Broomfield adds his voice to the wave of films on modern warfare and terrorism with Battle For Haditha. It is a stirring piece of cinema verite that premiered in Toronto last autumn and will air on March 17 as part of Channel 4's Iraq season in the UK, and ...
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United States - Under The Starz Sign
Fate brought US producer Scott Einbinder and German producer and investment banker Ingo Vollkammer together, but everything since then has followed a clear design.The founders of Los Angeles-based Leomax Entertainment and its genre label Indigomotion, both of which are backed through Zurich-based parent company Leomax AG, met through mutual acquaintance ...
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UPI to open The Mummy 3 in China and Asia a week before domestic
Universal Pictures International (UPI) will release summer tentpole The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor in China and Asia in late July one week before North America on Aug 1.UPI chief David Kosse, who travelled to the US this week to give the keynote address at ShoWest, said the move ...
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Wellness, They Killed Sister Dororthy win SXSW top prizes
Jake Mahaffy's Wellness won the narrative feature and Daniel Junge's They Killed Sister Dorothy took the documentary grand jury prizes at the 2008 SXSW festival.Andrew T Betzer's Small Apartment and David Garrett's Walord shared the Reel Shorts jury award.Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's Madame Tulti-Putli won the animated section and ...
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Tribeca 2008 unveils narrative & documentary competition lineups
The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival's world narrative and documentary competition entries and the Encounters line-up have been annoaunced ahead of next month's event, set to run from Apr 23-May 4.Twelve narrative features and 12 documentaries from 18 countries will compete for combined unrestricted cash prizes amounting to $100,000, including prizes ...
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UPI's Kosse calls for new ways of doing business
Despite ongoing concerns over piracy, the slow rate of digital conversion overseas compared to North America and incremental short term costs accruing from that process, international distributors were in bullish mood about the market on the opening day of ShoWest.In his keynote address UPI president David Kosse reminded delegates that ...
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THINKFilm, Liftime, Red Envelope all team on Phoebe in US
In an innovative three-way play, THINKFilm, Lifetime Networks and Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment have jointly acquired North American rights to Daniel Barnz's Phoebe In Wonderland.THINKFilm will release the drama in exclusive engagements this autumn, while Lifetime takes exclusive television rights and Red Envelope holds non-exclusive DVD and streaming rights.All three ...
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Gareton promoted to evp of international at WBDD
Marc Gareton has been promoted to executive vice president of international, at Warner Bros Digital Distribution (WBDD).Gareton will continue to oversee the studio's digital strategy, partnerships in digital services and emerging business activities outside the US. He reports to WBDD president Thomas Gewecke.Prior to the promotion Gareton served as senior ...
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Len Wiseman reunites with Lakeshore, Sony on Shell Game
Len Wiseman is reuniting with Lakeshore and Sony on his follow-up to the Underworld franchise with the sci-fi action thriller Shell Game.Wiseman is also producing the story of a detective faced with a devastating moral dilemma while investigating the black market trade in immortality. Wiseman and Chris Morgan wrote the ...
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Horak named president of Warner Home Video North America
Mark Horak has been promoted to president of Warner Home Video North America from his previous role as executive vice president and general manager of worldwide operations and new packaged media at Warner Home Video.Horak will continue to oversee the worldwide global sales process and category management and now takes ...
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Film Movement buys Silvio Soldinis Days And Clouds
North American distributor Film Movement has acquired domestic rights to Silvio Soldini's Italian drama Days And Clouds (Giorni E Nuvole).The story charts a couple's near breakdown as they try to provide for their daughter. Following a job loss the couple split up and suddenly realize that what matters most is ...
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IFC takes worldwide rights to Nights And Weekends
IFC Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig's SXSW entry Nights And Weekends.The follow-up to IFC's 2007 release Hannah Takes The Stairs received its world premiere at the Austin, Texas, festival on Mar 9.Nights And Weekends follows a remote couple as their disparate lives in New ...
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Film Source picks up Stuart Urban's doc Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead
Alex Massis' Florida-based The Film Source Company has picked up worldwide rights in all media to Stuart Urban's documentary Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead.Urban's film is a personal journey to solve the mystery surrounding his late father, Garri Urban, a survivor of the Holocaust and the Gulag who may have ...