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Daniel Frigo gets evp stripes at Disney Europe
Daniel Frigo has been promoted to executive vice president and general manager of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Studios for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.Frigo previously served in the senior vice president role for those territories and will continue to plan the expansion of the Disney brand throughout the European, ...
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Jeff Blake signs longterm contract with Sony to 2012
Jeff Blake has signed a long-term contract with Sony Pictures that will see him continue as chairman of worldwide marketing and distribution for the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group through 2012.Blake's current contract is due to expire at the end of 2008. He was named chairman of worldwide marketing and ...
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Brad Bird to receive WGAW animation writing award
Brad Bird has been selected to receive the Writers Guild of America West's tenth annual Animation Writing Award for lifetime achievement.Bird, who won animated picture Oscars for Ratatouille and The Incredibles and previously directed The Iron Giant, will collect the honour at the WGA West's 2008 Honorary Awards Luncheon on ...
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Palm, Vivendi team for US release of New York shorts portmanteau
Vivendi Entertainment and Palm Pictures will team up on the US release of the portmanteau piece New York, I Love You, which will feature directing debuts by Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson.New York, I Love You is produced by Emmanuel Benbihy and Marina Grasic and is currently in its fourth ...
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Leomax starts shooting Grace next week in Canada
Los Angeles and Berlin-based Leomax Entertainment will begin principal photography on the thriller Grace starring Jordan Ladd on April 21 in and around Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.The story follows a grieving woman who learns that her unborn child has been brought back to life with horrifying consequences.Paul Solet adapted the screenplay ...
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Redwood Palms, Truly Indie, Magnolia form threeway on Graduation
Redwood Palms Pictures has teamed up with Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's Truly Indie and Magnolia Pictures on the release of Mike Mayer's teen heist film Graduation.Redwood Palms Pictures and Truly Indie will handle the theatrical release in select markets on May 2 and Magnolia Home Entertainment will handle DVD.Riley ...
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Matt Dentler leaves SXSW to join Cinetic in New York
Matt Dentler is leaving his job as producer of the South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) to head the programming and marketing division of Cinetic Rights Management (CRM).Janet Pierson, a former producers rep who was involved on films like She's Gotta Have It, Clerks and Slacker, will replace Dentler, who ...
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Academy announces calendar for Oscars 2009
The 81st Annual Academy Awards will take place on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences president Sid Ganis announced the date along with the rest of the timetable on Monday [April 14].Official Screen Credits forms are due on December 1, nominations ...
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Woman wins top award at Beverly Hills Film Festival
The 8th Annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival (BHFF)'s Golden Palm Award for best film in all categories went to Ziad Hamzeh's Woman while Heitor Dhalia's Brazilian feature Drained won the foreign film category.Andrea Melton was named best actress for Time and Justin Lerner won best director for The Replacement ...
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Jaman.com acquires package of films from BBC Worldwide
Online distributor Jaman.com has acquired a collection of films from BBC Worldwide America to add to its growing library.Titles include Abortion Ship, a profile of the Women On Waves activists who facilitate women from countries where abortion is illegal; Face To Face With Sir Ian McKellen; and Jon Jones' drama ...
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Visit Films acquires international rights to Momma's Man
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's fledgling sales company Visit Films has acquired international rights to Azazel Jacobs' comedy Momma's Man, which premiered at Sundance earlier in the year.Visit will commence sales in Cannes next month on the story of a businessman who moves back in to his parents' downtown New ...
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Bartha stars opposite Zeta-Jones in Freundlich's The Rebound
Justin Bartha has joined Catherine Zeta-Jones in The Film Department's upcoming romantic comedy The Rebound, written and to be directed by Bart Freundlich.The Film Department is financing and producing the film, which is set to start production on April 21 in New York.Tim Perell, Freundlich, Mark Gill and Robert Katz ...
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Prom Night screams to top of domestic box office for Screen Gems
Screen Gems' horror film Prom Night had too much in the tank as it launched at number one on approximately $22.7m, some $11m ahead of Fox Searchlight's new police thriller Street Kings in second place.However the box office slide continued as the top 12 releases combined for $82.6m, down 16% ...
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THINKFilm handcuffs The Escapist for North America
THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to Rupert Wyatt's feature directorial debut The Escapist, which was well received at its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year. The company will schedule an autumn release.Brian Cox plays as an ageing lifer who hatches a plot to break out to ...
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Writers Guild of America West fetes Tom Schulman
Writers Guild Of America West (WGAW) board of directors member Tom Schulman will receive the WGAW's Valentine Davies Award in recognition of his career and service to the industry.Schulman has been a WGAW member since 1986 and served as president of the Writers Guild Foundation from 1998 to 2002. He ...
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IFP Market recasts itself as Independent Film Week
With its 30th anniversary coming up in September the IFP has renamed its annual IFP Market to Independent Film Week.The event is also on the move from from Soho's Angelika Film Center and Puck Building to new digs at Chelsea's Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.) and nearby venues.Organisers have also ...
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21, Leatherheads kick off overseas campaigns in Europe as Horton hurtles away
Fox International's Horton Hears A Who! remains the leading Hollywood export and looks like the one to beat this weekend as executives expect it to cross $100m.The family film has amassed $93.9m and opens in 10 territories including Greece on April 10.The romantic comedy 27 Dresses is doing well on ...
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Phang's Half-Life wins Gen Art jury prize
The 13th Annual Gen Art Film Festival Acura Grand Jury Award for Best Feature went to Jennifer Phang's Half-Life and the Acura Grand Jury Award for Best Short went to Christina Voros' The Ladies.The Stargazer Award honouring breakout talent for excellence in acting went to Luis Chavez from the short ...
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Battle In Seattle to open Seattle International Film Festival
Stuart Townsend's directorial debut Battle In Seattle will kick off the 34th Seattle International Film Festival on May 22.The drama puts Seattle front and centre as an ensemble cast star as ordinary people affected by the World Trade Organisation riots that besieged the city in 1999.Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Andre ...
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Universal snares international rights to Ricky Gervais' directorial debut
Universal has picked up all international rights from Media Rights Capital to This Side Of The Truth, the comedy that marks Ricky Gervais' debut as a feature film director.As previously announced, Warner Bros holds North American rights to the story starring Gervais as a man in an alternate universe who ...