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Mark Urman takes over from Sackman as THINKFilm president
Mark Urman has been named president of THINKFilm in the wake of Jeff Sackman's departure last week.Urman was a co-founder of the company and previously served as head of the theatrical division. He will remain in New York, which will serve as the company's new headquarters.'Mark has played a crucial ...
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Slater, Bentley to star in Dolan's Cadillac for Film Bridge
Christian Slater and Wes Bentley have signed up to star in the adaptation of Stephen King's novella Dolan's Cadillac.The thriller follows a young man (Bentley) who seeks to avenge his wife's murder by the untouchable Las Vegas mobster Jimmy Dolan (Slater).Emmanuelle Vaugier rounds out the key cast on the project, ...
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Tribeca 2008 kicks off as NY state tax credit is tripled
The seventh Tribeca Film Festival kicked off in high spirits yesterday [April 23] as New York Governor David Paterson signed into law a tripling of the state's tax credit for film and TV productions and festival sponsors American Express extended their commitment for a further five years.The new tax legislation ...
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Danielak's Arsenal to pre-sell Gooding comedy Harold at Cannes
Yarek Danielak's Arsenal Pictures has boarded the Cuba Gooding Jr comedy Harold and will commence pre-sales at Cannes.The City Lights, M.E.G.A. Films and Blue Star Pictures production is in the $3.5m-4m range and will go before the cameras shortly.The story centres on a friendship between a prematurely bald 13-year-old and ...
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Revitalised MGM Studios picks up comedy spec script The Zookeeper
MGM has acquired Jay Scherick and David Ronn's comedy spec script The Zookeeper with Walt Becker attached to direct.Becker directed the 2007 comedy hit Wild Hogs as well as the upcoming comedy Old Dogs and will produce The Zookeeper with Jennifer Eatz for The Walt Becker Company. The story tracks ...
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Ang Lee to take on Taking Woodstock for Focus Features
Ang Lee's next film will be the true story Taking Woodstock, based on events surrounding the legendary 1969 music festival. As always with Lee's films, it is being produced at Focus Features.The comedy will follow Tiber, a Greenwich Village interior designer, as he steps in at the eleventh hour to ...
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Noeltner's CMG brings Under Still Waters to Cannes
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has acquired international rights to Carolyn Miller's noir Under Still Waters and will commence pre-sales in Cannes next month.The film will receive its market premiere on the Croisette on May 15. It stars Lake Bell, who appears with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher in ...
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Secret Of The Grain lands in the US through IFC Films
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Abdellatif Kechiche's Cesar winner The Secret Of The Grain, which will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28.The French-language drama centres on a man from the French port town of Sete whose plans to set up a restaurant heal deep wounds ...
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Golden Globes set awards schedule for 2009
The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 11, 2009, Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) president Jorge Camara announced today [April 22].
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Andre Van Heerden named CEO of Cloud Ten Pictures
Andre Van Heerden has been promoted to CEO at Cloud Ten Pictures, the Canadian producers of the Left Behind series of Christian films.Katherine Kunberger has been brought in as president and Michael Walker as vice president of marketing and operations as the company prepares it upcoming release Saving God starring ...
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Rose and Ravid named to vice presidents at Senator US
Marco Weber's Senator Entertainment has promoted Rachel Rose to vice president of production and finance and hired Orly Ravid as vice president of acquisitions and domestic distribution.Rose has been with Senator for two years and most recently served as executive director of production and finance.Ravid, a former Maxmedia executive, will ...
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Mendes starts production on Big Beach/Focus romantic comedy
Production is set to get underway in Connecticut this week on Sam Mendes' untitled contemporary comedy starring Leatherheads lead John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Toni Collette and Cheryl Hines.Novelist Dave Eggers and his wife Vendela Vida wrote the screenplay and Focus Features is co-financing with producers Big Beach and ...
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Disney unveils nature documentary label Disneynature
Walt Disney Studios unveiled Disneynature on Monday [April 21], a dedicated nature documentary label and the first new Disney brand to launch in 60 years since the True-Life Adventures documentary series launched in 1948.The unit will be based in France under the leadership of Jean-Francois Camilleri, the former senior vice ...
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Apatow, Ryan to receive awards at Nantucket Film Festival
Judd Apatow will receive the Suzanne And Bob Wright Screenwriter's Tribute Award at the 13th Annual Nantucket Film Festival in June.Apatow produced Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which opened in second place in the North American charts at the weekend, as well as 2007 hits like Superbad and Knocked Up, which he ...
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The Cavanaughs wins Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship
Sundance Institute and the Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship have announced [April 21] that this year's Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship goes to John Morgan and Meg LeFauve and their project The Cavanaughs.Presented in partnership with the Maryland Film Office, the annual fellowship provides Morgan and LeFauve with a $10,000 grant to help with ...
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Grain, Ch'tis win critics, audience awards at COLCOA in LA
Abdellatif Kechiche's Cesar-winning The Secret Of The Grain won the first ever critics award at the 12th annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COLCOA) in Los Angeles over the weekend.COLCOA, a week of French film premieres in Hollywood, ended on Sunday and also announced that Dany Boon's smash hit ...
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Icarus buys North American rights to Bitomsky's Dust
Boutique North American distributor Icarus Films has acquired German film-makerHartmut Bitomsky's documentary Dust.Bitomsky's film explores the omniscient particles in a manner that attempts to offer new insight into our bodies, the environment and the cosmos.The film premiered in Venice and screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Philadelphia ...
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Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate team for premium TV, VOD service
Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate will jointly launch a premium TV channel and Video On Demand (VOD) service in autumn 2009 featuring new and library film titles and original programming from the studios.The new venture will have access to Paramount and Paramount Vantage titles released theatrically on or after January 1 ...
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Toronto's Stardust Pictures preps $10m comedy Wing Man
Toronto-based Stardust Pictures has completed financing on its first feature, the $10m comedy Wing Man that will shoot in Toronto in the late summer.Harland Williams will direct and Stardust's Justin L Levine and Howard Kerbel will produceStardust recently acquired Canadian rights to Jamie Kennedy's documentary Heckler and will release on ...
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Jackie, Jet Li and Sarah Marshall storm domestic box office
The long awaited on-screen union of Jackie Chan and Jet Li reaped rewards for Liosgate and The Weinsten Company as The Forbidden Kingdom leapt to number one thanks to an estimated $20.9m three-day gross.The martial arts adventure takes place in modern-day America and a mythical past in China where a ...