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Vivian Mayer-Siskind moves from Universal to Summit Entertainment
Communicationsexecutive Vivian Mayer-Siskind has been named senior vice president ofworldwide publicity at Summit Entertainment.Mayer-Siskindwill report to Summit's soon to be named president of marketing and mostrecently served as senior vice president of publicity for Universal StudiosHome Entertainment (USHE) brand marketing division.'Vivianis the kind of seasoned executive that we have been ...
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Sundance adds Coogan comedy Hamlet 2 to premieres
Sundance festival organisers have added Andrew Fleming's comedy Hamlet 2 starring Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Shue and Amy Poehler to the line-up.The film, the first to be produced and financed by fledgling Los Angeles-based L+E Productions, will receive its world premiere on January 21.Fleming and Pam Brady co-wrote the ...
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Palm Springs unveils 'streamlined' festival line-up
The Palm Springs International Film festival (PSIFF) will screen 222 films culled from more than 66 countries featuring four world, 40 US and 25 North American premieres.Pierre Salvadori's French romantic comedy Priceless starring Audrey Tautou and Gad Elmaleh will close the festival on January 14 2008 and as previously announced ...
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New Line, MGM team for two Hobbit movies with Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson and New Line have buried the hatchet and will return to Middle Earth together in a two-film deal with MGM to bring JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and an original sequel to the big screen.MGM and New Line will co-finance and co-distribute the projects, which New Line will release ...
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Focus Features launches online film portal Film InFocus
Focus Features has launched the film portal FilmInFocus featuring editorial content that the company said highlighted 'the most original stories from the world's most innovative filmmakers'.The site will feature original content from Refresh Content's crew of Filmmaker Magazine writers and editors Peter Bowen, Scott Macaulay and Nick Dawson, as well ...
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UPI celebrates $1bn gross in year one of operations
Universal Pictures International (UPI) crossed $1bn on December 16, marking a successful launch year for the company and Universal's biggest annual overseas gross since 2001.The top four titles for the year were The Bourne Ultimatum on $213m, Mr Bean's Holiday on $192m with Japan still to go in January 2008, ...
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Wild Bunch, Senator form joint German distribution venture
Wild Bunch and Senator Entertainment are to form a joint distribution venture in Germany as part of a broader agreement that will see the partners collaborate on co-productions and financing.The German distribution deal comes after Wild Bunch acquired 50% of Senator's shares of distribution subsidiary Central Film Verleih GmbH, which ...
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Lucas, Hamm to star in A2/Code's The Boy In The Box
Josh Lucas and Golden Globe TV nominee Jon Hamm will star in A2 Entertainment Group and Code Entertainment's thriller The Boy In The Box.Lucas will play the father of a boy that went missing years ago and whose case bears striking parallels to a current investigation.James Van Der Beek, Rhona ...
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YouTube founders to receive PGA Vanguard Award
The Producers Guild of America's (PGA) 2008 Vanguard Award will go to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.The award, which recognises outstanding achievement in new media and technology, will be presented at the 2008 Producers Guild Awards on February 2 2007 in Los Angeles.'YouTube has connected its global audience ...
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Charlie Wilson's War, Sweeney Todd fail to make AFI's Ten Best list
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced its 10 movies of the year yesterday [Dec 16], an annual roster that in the eyes of the jury advances the art of the moving image, enhances America's cultural heritage, inspires audiences and artists and/or makes a mark on American society.The titles are, in ...
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Warner Bros, Prasad strike strategic alliance for digital post production
Post production services Warner Bros Motion Picture Imaging and India's Prasad Corporation have formed a strategic alliance to offer digital post production and restoration services to global clients.The two companies will transfer content between one another on a dedicated line. Prasad has already begun working with Motion Picture Imaging to ...
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Wright to get Visionary Award from Palm Springs Film Festival
The 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) willhonour Atonement director Joe Wright with the Sonny Bono VisionaryAward at the annual awards gala on January 5, 2008. Festival chairman Earl Greenburg said the talent Wright displayed inAtonement, which leads the field in the Golden Globes race with sevennominations, and ...
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Compass stays top in international with $29m second weekend
The Golden Compass held on to its number one international status and hauled itself to within touching distance of $100m in its second weekend.The fantasy adventure grossed an estimated $29m through New Line International (NLI) to raise the overseas tally to $90m. The Golden Compass has grossed $131m worldwide to ...
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Will Smith, Chipmunks give shot in the arm to North American box office
I Am Legend shot some much needed seasonal sparkle into the box office with a sensational $76.5m launch that set a new mark for December and gave star Will Smith the biggest opening weekend of his career.Combined with a strong $45m support act courtesy of Fox's Alvin And The Chipmunks, ...
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Bee Movie, I Am Legend offer competition to Compass
DreamWorks' animated hit Bee Movie gets a big push through PPI this weekend and launches in 24 territories including France on December 12, Germany on December 13 and the UK on December 14.The film has amassed $39m to date and will pose a major threat to New Line International's The ...
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Classic Jarman, Araki films to screen in Sundance Collection programme
Derek Jarman's Edward II and Gregg Araki's The Living End will be shown at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to mark the 10th anniversary of the festival's From the Collection category.Jarman's 1991 drama Edward II updates Christopher Marlowe's 16th century Elizabethan tragedy about the newly crowned king of England's gay ...
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Sundance Institute names 13 projects in annual Screenwriters Lab
Sundance Institute has announced the 13 projects for the annual January Screenwriters Lab scheduled to take place from January 11-16, 2008.Film projects supported this year explore a wide range of topics including an exploration of class and race in Brazil, a story about a mother reintegrating into society after serving ...
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Santa Barbara Festival to present inaugural Virtuosos Award
Casey Affleck, Marion Cotillard, James McAvoy, Ellen Page, and Amy Ryan will receive the inaugural 2007 Virtuosos Award at the 23rd Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF).The 2007 Virtuosos Award was created this year to recognise 'a select group of young actors who have distinguished themselves through performances in film ...
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Capitol Films signs three-film distribution deal with 3-D outfit StereoVision
Capitol Films has signed a three-film distribution deal with 3-D production company StereoVision and will announce further details in due course.'We believe the timing is perfect to exploit StereoVision's theatrical 3-D movie model,' Capitol Films chairman David Bergstein said.'There is going to be an exponentially growing demand for theatrical 3-D ...
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Golden Globe nominee reactions in full
We’re so overjoyed with the Golden Globe nominations and it’s gratifying that at the end of the year you get an opportunity to acknowledge the company you have been keeping,’ Focus Features CEO James Schamus said in response to the company’s 11 nominations, which included seven for Atonement. ‘It’s so ...