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Quiet weekend at domestic box office led by Enchanted
A borderline comatose domestic weekend saw the top three hold firm as the top 10 stayed largely the same. Buena Vista's family release Enchanted remained the champion in its second weekend as an estimated $17m raised the running total to an impressive $70.6m.Screen Gems' drama This Christmas in second place ...
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Beowulf leads international as WBPI crossed $2bn mark in 2007
Beowulf's $19.4m estimated weekend haul raised the number one overseas film to an even $75m as Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) celebrated reaching the $2bn milestone for the year-to-date.The action film's sterling year-end performance has been a timely one and propelled the distributor to its second $2bn mark after $2.2bn ...
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Universal brings Charlie Wilson's War forward to Dec 21
Universal Pictures has brought forward the release date of Charlie Wilson's War from December 25 to December 21 based on strong tracking from preview screenings.The studio's marketing and distribution president Adam Fogelson said he anticipated word of mouth to sustain the film throughout the holiday season.Tom Hanks plays the eponymous ...
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Equinoxe signs two-year deal for Kimmel slate in French Canada
Montreal-based Equinoxe Films has signed an exclusive two-year deal to release New York-based Kimmel International's slate in all media in English and French-speaking Canada.The upcoming releases include the romantic comedy Management with Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn, the Jack Black comedy Ye Olde Times, and the Haruki Murakami adaptation All ...
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Beowulf, Enchanted expected to lead international weekend
Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) Beowulf still looks like the one to beat this weekend as it bears down on the $50m mark.The animated adventure has amassed $48.4m to date and should race toward $75m this weekend with launches in Australia on November 29, Brazil and Sweden on November 30 ...
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AFI DALLAS festival receives $1m gift
AFI DALLAS International Film Festival has received a $1m gift from Dallas philanthropist Nancy Hamon as organisers plan the second festival in 2008.'This is a significant financial milestone for AFI DALLAS as we continue planning for our second festival,' founder, chairman and festival director Liener Temerlin said.'Nancy Hamon has been ...
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Costume designer Marit Allen dies at 66 in Australia
Costume designer Marit Allen, who recently worked on La Vie En Rose and was collaborating with George Miller on the Warner Bros action title Justice League Of America, died of a brain aneurism in Australia on November 26.Allen was born in England in 1941 and after graduating from the University ...
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Winstone, Gooding, Perlman join cast of Untitled Gehenna Project
Ray Winstone, Cuba Gooding Jr and Ron Perlman have signed to Ice Cold Productions' action thriller Untitled Gehenna Project.Jason Connery will direct the story of a team of elite soldiers that uncovers an evil force during a mission to rescue a government scientist from an underground base.Taryn Manning, Franky G, ...
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61 films named eligible for Golden Globe foreign language award
Sixty-one foreign language films have passed eligibility requirements for consideration in the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards in January 2008.
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Gondry, Spurlock, Levinson, Haneke films to be unveiled at Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival rolled out the star power as they announced the line-up of Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontier and Park City At Midnight films today [Nov 29].As previously announced the festival will open on January 17 with Martin McDonagh's feature directorial debut In Bruges starring Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell ...
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Naomie Harris to receive tribute at Bahamas Film Festival
Naomie Harris will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Rising Star Tribute on December 11.Harris' credits include 28 Weeks Later, Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 and 3, and Miami Vice.Festival organisers also announced that BIFF's Filmmaker Residency Programme will award $10,000 toward development and production on an independent Bahamian ...
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Into The Wild, Sicko take top honours at IFP's Gotham Awards
Sean Penn's Into The Wild won best feature for Paramount Vantage and Michael Moore's Sicko from The Weinstein Company was named best documentary at the IFP's 17th Annual Gotham Awards [Nov 28].Ellen Page took home the Breakthrough Actor Award for her role as a pregnant teen in Jason Reitman's Juno, ...
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Kanter, Malick form I Am Third Productions in LA, Austin
Producers Conroy Kanter and Ecky Malick have formed I Am Third Productions and announced their first two projects.Based in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, I Am Third Productions is developing Father Elijah, based on Michael O'Brien's books about a Carmelite priest sent to defeat a man believed to be the ...
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More Sunshine in 2008 Sundance Film Festival lineup
Sundance Film festival director Geoff Gilmore and director of programming John Cooper unveiled the 2008 competition line-up today [Nov 28], hailing an eclectic roster of 'passionate and personal' storytelling culled from a record number of submissions.Including the Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontiers and Park City At Midnight selections - all of ...
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Peace Arch's Weapon stars UFC middleweight champion Franklin
Peace Arch Entertainment Group has started principal photography on the action film Weapon in Hamilton, Ontario.UFC Middleweight champion Rich Franklin, Bruce Greenwood and Tiffani Thiessen will star in the story of a US border patrol agent who apprehends a genetically enhanced super-soldier who is being pursued by his creator.John Stead ...
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Drea Clark named executive director of Slamdance Film Festival
Drea Clark has been appointed executive director of the Slamdance Film Festival, which next year runs from January 17-25 2008.Clark has worked her way through the ranks since joining the festival as an intern in 1998 and will now manage all aspects of festival preparation and production and serve as ...
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Strand picks up Fatih Akin's latest The Edge Of Heaven
Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Fatih Akin's official German foreign language Oscar submission The Edge Of Heaven.The film studies how the lives of four Turks and two Germans intersect through love and tragedy and stars Tuncel Kurtiz and Hanna Schygulla.Strand co-president Jon Gerrans struck the deal with ...
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Weinstein Co picks up worldwide rights to novel from Bridie Clark
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has pounced on worldwide publishing, film and television rights to Bridie Clark's novel I Think She's Got It.The company has optioned the right to develop and produce film and television versions of Clark's modern retelling of Pygmalion, which transplants the action to Manhattan where a man-about-town ...
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Haynes, Schnabel, Reitman films lead Independent Spirit nominations
Fox Searchlight led the way at the 2008 Independent Spirit Award nominations earlier today with 11 nods for Juno, The Savages and Waitress, among others, followed by Focus Features and Paramount Vantage on five apiece and Miramax and The Weinstein Company (TWC) on four each.TWC's I'm Not There was the ...
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LA PR agency Fifteen Minutes names Harrison president & COO
Howard Bragman has appointed recent hire Bill Harrison president and COO of Los Angeles-based public relations agency Fifteen Minutes.The promotion comes barely four months after Harrison came aboard following a stint as head of corporate communications at the boutique talent agency Paradigm.'In just a few months Bill has demonstrated the ...