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Disney throws weight behind Hollywood's 3D conversion
Walt Disney Studios has become the second studio after Jeffrey Katzenberg's DreamWorks Animation to throw its weight fully behind three-dimensional cinema, pledging that all its future animated releases will be in 3D - starting with Bolt in November.The announcement at a New York press conference this week came as chairman ...
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Dimension rewires Badham's Short Circuit
Dimension Films will remake Short Circuit, John Badham's 1986 family sci-fi romp starring Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg about a robot that goes on the run after it discovers feelings.The original and sequel together grossed more than $60m in North America. Further details on the remake will be announced shortly.S ...
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Magic Flute Diaries to sing at Palm Beach festival
Canadian company Sullivan Entertainment's Magic Flute Diaries will receive its world premiere at the Palm Beach International Film Festival during the week of April 10-17.Kevin Sullivan's contemporary adaptation of the Mozart fantasy is set against the staging of an opera in Salzburg for the 250th celebration of Mozart's birthday.An American ...
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Lakeshore, TF1 team up to adapt eco-terrorism bestseller
Lakeshore Entertainment and France's TFI International are jointly adapting Jean-Christophe Rufin's best-selling eco-terrorism bestseller Le Parfum D'Adam.Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi will develop and produce with TF1 International's Patrick Binet. Lakeshore and TF1 International will jointly handle international distribution and TF1 International will take French rights.The story follows an ...
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Sony's 21 comes up trumps again in US
Sony's card counting drama 21 came up trumps in its second weekend to hold on to the top spot and shut out Universal's George Clooney screwball comedy Leatherheads and Fox/Walden Media's family adventure Nim's Island.Last week's leader added an estimated $15.1m to reach $46.5m in an uninspiring session that bore ...
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MGM snaps up Ludlum thriller to star Denzel Washington
MGM Motion Pictures and Relativity Media have acquired rights to Robert Ludlum's thriller The Matarese Circle.The property had done the rounds at the US majors as executives hunted for a new spy franchise from the late author, whose Jason Bourne series has brought Universal Pictures such lavish rewards.News late last ...
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UTA 'comedy wheel' derails to Endeavor agency
Senior UTA partners Nick Stevens, Sharon Sheinwold and Lisa Hallerman - prominent members of the so-called 'comedy wheel' that came to define UTA as Hollywood's leading laugh factory - have defected to Endeavor.While it remained unclear whether the new arrivals will be anointed as partners in their new Beverly Hills ...
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Mermaid wins best narrative feature in Dallas
Anna Melikyan's Mermaid won an unrestricted $25,000 cash prize for the Target Ten Filmmaker Award for Best Narrative Feature as the AFI Dallas International Film festival came to a close at the weekend.The Russian film was previously shown in the US at the Sundance Film Festival and then at the ...
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Horton hears nearly $100m overseas for Fox
As expected, Fox International's Horton Hears A Who! dominated the Hollywood overseas pack thanks to a three-day haul that delivered an estimated $11.7m from 5,783 screens and raised the tally to $91.5m.The animated family release is several days away from crossing the $100m threshold and owes much of its weekend ...
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Film Sales Company picks up three in advance of Tribeca
Andrew Herwitz's The Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide rights to three titles ahead of Tribeca - the Sissy Spacek drama Lake City, coming-of-age story Ball Don't Lie and documentary Guest Of Cindy Sherman.Lake City stars Spacek as a mother who tries to comes to terms with her past ...
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Summerheat:the battle of the 2008 blockbusters
Hollywood's powerhouse summer of 2007 launched some of the biggest worldwide hits in cinema history. The indications are the 2008 blockbuster season may write itself into the record books too.If last year's summer was distinguished by lucrative third episodes of killer franchises such as Spider-Man, Pirates Of The Caribbean and ...
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Horton still likely to lead international with French opening
Fox International's Horton Hears A Who! currently rules the international waters and stands a good chance of holding on to its perch as it strides towards the $100m mark.The animated family comedy has amassed $80m and heads out to France on Apr 2. It could still be under threat from ...
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Stuck, Looking For Palladin among films at Monaco Charity fest
Stuart Gordon's horror-thriller Stuck starring Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea and Andrzej Krakowski's comedy Looking For Palladin with Ben Gazzara and Talia Shire are among competition entries in the 2008 Monaco Charity Film Festival.Overall nine world premieres will screen at the Mediterranean event, set to run from May 13 to ...
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Palm Pictures acquires Anita O'Day documentary
Palm Pictures has added Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden's documentary Anita O'day The Life Of A Music Legend to its line-up.The film charts the rise of the renowned jazz singer known as 'the Jezebel of Jazz' who achieved international stardom in the 1940s and eventually died in 2004.Ed Arentz brokered ...
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Bromily, Elberg get senior executive roles at Image Entertainment
Bill Bromiley has been appointed chief acquisitions officer and Rick Eiberg has been named executive vice president of operations and chief technology officer at Image Entertainment.Bromiley spearheaded Image's feature film initiative as a consultant from June 2007 until he was hired by Image in January of this year. He reports ...
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Wigan shifts to strategic advisor role for Sony
Gareth Wigan is stepping back from day-to-day operations of Sony's International Motion Pictures Production Group (IMPPG) and has been named strategic advisor to the studio's international film enterprises.The 21-year Columbia Pictures veteran will continue to play a significant role in the studio's overseas operations, which will now rest in the ...
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LA-based Pangea Pictures merges with Direct Response Media
Los Angeles-based technology and production company Pangea Pictures Corporation and South Carolina's Direct Response Media announced today [April 2] the status of a share-for-share exchange.The transaction is expected to be complete by Apr 15. In conjunction with the transaction, Direct Response Media undertook a 1-for-3 reverse split which was effective ...
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Speed Racer to close Tribeca Film Festival on May 3
The Wachowski Brothers' family action extravaganza Speed Racer will closes the Tribeca Film Festival on May 3.Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Matthew Fox, Susan Sarandon and John Goodman star in the adaptation of the 1960s Japanese anime TV series Mach GoGoGo about high speed racing cars.Joel Silver reunites with the film-makers ...
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Sony to distribute Anchor Bay's library on DVD around the world
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has signed a deal to distribute Anchor Bay Entertainment's library around the world.The three-year agreement will include worldwide rights excluding North America, Australia and the UK to a variety of releases such as the Hellboy animated films, manga entertainment titles like Ghost In The Shell ...
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Rick Sands resigns as COO of MGM
Rick Sands has stepped down as COO of MGM in the wake of Mary Parent's recent appointment as head of the worldwide motion picture group as the studio's move back into production.Sands served as COO since January 2006 and official word from MGM said he was leaving 'to pursue other ...