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Ann Dubinet takes full-time position at Unified Pictures
Ann Dubinet has joined Keith Kjarval's Los Angeles-based production, distribution and sales company Unified Pictures as head of strategic planning, acquisitions and distribution after spending a period consulting for the company.Dubinet will report to Kjarval and will oversee the company's international sales and distribution operations as well as domestic distribution ...
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Katapult picks up international to Madonna's Filth And Wisdom
Katapult Film Sales has acquired international rights before Cannes to Madonna's feature directorial debut Filth And Wisdom, Richard Ledes' whistle-blowing drama The Caller that premiered at Tribeca last week and Boaz Yakin's drama Death In Love.Filth And Wisdom received its world premiere at Berlin and charts the everyday lives of ...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films, SPWAG team for Lakeshore's Elegy
Samuel Goldwyn Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) have picked up rights from Lakeshore Entertainment to the drama Elegy starring Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz.Samuel Goldwyn Films will release the film theatrically in the US in August and SPWAG will handle home entertainment. SPWAG, which had been tracking ...
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THINKFilm takes US theatrical, home video rights to Polanski doc
THINKFilm has acquired US theatrical and home video rights from HBO to Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired, arguably the most admired film to emerge from a lacklustre Sundance earlier in the year.THINKFilm will launch the film in New York on July 11 following HBO's initial broadcast on June 9. The ...
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Martin Kelley promoted to svp of publicity at Paramount Vantage
Paramount Vantage has promoted Katie Martin Kelley to senior vice president of publicity.She will report to executive vice president of marketing Megan Colligan and executive vice president of marketing and creative advertising Guy Endore-Kaiser.Martin Kelley joined the company in 2006 as vice president of publicity and will continue to work ...
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Tribeca Film Institute names winners of annual fellowships
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) has announced the recipients of its 2008 Media Arts Fellowships founded and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.This year TFI awarded $715,000 to 22 film-makers and media artists. The Fellowships offer financial support for artists working in the narrative, documentary, experimental, installation and computer-generated media genres.The ...
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Five finalists named in Foreign category of student Academy Awards
Five finalists selected from 45 entries representing 29 countries will compete for the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' 2008 Honorary Foreign Film award in the 35th Annual Student Academy Awards.The winning student film-maker will be brought to Los Angeles, along with US-based Student Academy Award winners, to participate ...
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Lightning adds Forever Strong to Cannes sales slate
Santa Monica-based sales agency Lightning Entertainment has added Ryan Little's sports drama Forever Strong to its Cannes slate.Sean Faris stars as a brash rugby talent who winds up in detention centre following a DUI and joins a rival team under the guidance of a counsellor. Sean Astin and Neal McDonough ...
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Pagliuca leaves Nu Image/Millenium for The Film Department
Inc Pagliuca has joined The Film Department from Nu Image/Millennium as vice president of international business affairs and will report to international president Steve Bickel.Pagliuca will assume responsibility for the company's foreign distribution agreements and related documents and will work closely with international clients as well as finance, business and ...
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Filmax takes international rights to Colombian hit Paraiso Travel
Filmax has acquired international sales rights and Spanish theatrical rights to Simon Brand's Colombian smash Paraiso Travel, which had its US premiere at Tribeca at the weekend.The Paraiso Pictures and Grand Illusions Entertainment production was adapted from Jorge Franco's novel of the same name and centres on a lovelorn teen ...
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Summit options sci-fi script Arena by Wagstaff, Howell
Summit Entertainment has optioned the rights to the speculative sci-fi script Arena from first-time writers Toby Wagstaff and Darren Howell.Benderspink will produce along with the writers' manager Jim Thompson, who recently produced War and the hip-hop documentary Diamonds In The Rough.Arena follows a unit of soldiers as they are mysteriously ...
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Sarah Marshall is queen of international with $7m weekend
Universal's Forgetting Sarah Marshall led the international market through UPI thanks to an estimated $7m haul from 1,000 sites in nine territories.The three-day result elevates the comedy's early running total to $9.3m and was driven by an excellent number one UK launch on $4.1m from 393 for producer Judd Apatow's ...
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Baby Mama, Harold & Kumar 2 lead domestic box office
Two new comedies dominated the North American charts as Universal's Baby Mama launched at number one on estimated $18.3m followed by New Line/Warner Bros' Harold And Kumar sequel on $14.6m.Box office was up for the second consecutive weekend as the top 12 titles combined for $91m and climbed 17% against ...
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Shane Meadows leads UK delegation at Tribeca
BAFTA winner Shane Meadows gave a masterclass to Tribeca Film Festival attendees including graduates of the UK Skillset academies on Saturday [April 26].Meadows, whose latest film Somers Town received its North American premiere here, spoke to an audience that included film-makers from seven UK projects selected under the auspices of ...
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Documentaries stir up heat at Tribeca Film Festival
In its short history the Tribeca Film Festival has been slow to trigger buying sprees and sure enough as the event reached the first weekend's halfway mark no major deals had closed.However by Saturday interest had coalesced around Keif Davidson's World Documentary Competition entry Kassim The Dream, which recounts the ...
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Natalie Sakai promoted in film acquisitions at IFDC
Natalie Sakai has been promoted to manager of worldwide acquisitions and operations at entertainment consultants IFDC Inc.Sakai joined IFDC Inc in 2007 and continues to work alongside president Jerome Bliah in international film acquisitions.Sakai began her professional career as an assistant to Academy Award winning documentarian Robert Amram.She moved into ...
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CEC hires Yann Le Quellec as European chief
Citi affiliate Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC) has hired EWB Finance co-founder Yann Le Quellec as managing director.Le Quellec will head the company's new European operation CEC Europe in Paris and will report directly to CEC's president and CEO, Benjamin Waisbren.CEC Europe will provide structured financing solutions to European media and ...
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Tribeca All Access awards narrative prize to Chatmon's $Free.99
Pete Chatmon won the fifth annual Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Awards narrative prize for $Free.99 at the weekend [April 25].Chatmon co-wrote the screenplay with Candice Sanchez McClaren about a bank robber who is more than he appears.In the emerging narrative section screenwriter Leigh Dana Jackson and producer Moira Griffin ...
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Duran named svp at Warner Channel Latin America
Alfredo Duran has been named senior vice president of branded services and general manager of The Warner Channel Latin America.Duran will be based in Miami and will report to Malcolm Dudley-Smith, who as executive vice president of sales and business development for Canada, Latin America and Asia, oversees WBITD's branded ...
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Del Toro to direct Hobbit double bill
Guillermo Del Toro has landed his 'dream' job as the confirmed director of TheHobbit for New Line and MGM, the studios and executive producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh announced on Thursday.The move was widely expected after it emerged four months ago that Jackson would serve as executive producer on ...