All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1228
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Messing joins Overture's family drama Humboldt Park
Debra Messing has joined producer Freddy Rodriguez, John Leguizamo, Alfred Molina, Jay Hernandez, Mercedes Ruehl and Luis Guzman in the cast of Overture Film's family drama Humboldt Park.Production is set to begin in Chicago on Feb 13 on the State Street Pictures and 2DS Productions project. The story revolves around ...
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Beastie Boy pioneer launches film distribution outfit
Beastie Boys founder and film-maker Adam Yauch has launched the full service distributor Oscilloscope Pictures and installed former THINKFilm International vice president David Fenkel to oversee acquisitions, domestic distribution and international sales.Oscilloscope Pictures, an extension of Yauch's music and film production company Oscilloscpoe Laboratories, will handle independent English and foreign ...
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IFC loads up with Sundance double winner Ballast
IFC has picked up North American rights to Lance Hammer's Mississippi Delta-set drama Ballast, which screens in competition in Berlin and won the best director and cinematographer awards at Sundance last month following an enthusiastic reception by critics.Vice president of acquisitions and production Arianna Bocco negotiated the deal with William ...
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Bragman sets up New York arm of LA PR firm 15 Minutes
Howard Bragman's Fifteen Minutes Public Relations has expanded its reach into New York and will be headed up by former vice president of Ogilvy Public Relations' consumer marketing practice Corey R Martin.Broadway, fashion and event publicity specialist Pete Sanders joins Martin and the pair will develop a broad account base ...
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Santa Barbara top honours go to Amal, Beautiful Bitch
The 23rd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) signed off on Sunday night [Feb 3] with the traditional awards ceremony in which the Panavision Spirit Award For Independent Cinema was awarded to Richie Mehta's drama Amal.The Heineken Red Star Award in honour of 'the most progressive and gifted independent ...
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Spain's MediaPro signs to finance three films from Woody Allen
MediaPro will finance the ever-industrious Woody Allen's next three films beginning in 2009.The Spanish company financed and co-produced Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the Spanish-language comedy currently in post-production that Wild Bunch is selling at EFM and The Weinstein Company acquired recently for North America.Allen plans to return to his beloved New ...
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PPI's Cloverfield rules international with $18.6m from 33 territories
Paramount's Cloverfield roared the loudest at the weekend and gobbled up an estimated $18.6m through PPI from 3,174 venues in 33 territories for a $36m running total.The film opened in 15 territories and was led by a strong number one UK launch on $6.7m from 386 sites. Elsewhere the rampage ...
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Hannah Montana 3-D concert film sets US box office records
If there were any lingering doubts over the potency of 3-D they were swept away at the weekend as Disney chiefs extended the release of Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best Of Both Worlds Concert Tour following a sensational number one launch that set a new Super Bowl weekend record.The ...
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Barker's Book Of Blood to be filmed by Matador, Midnight Picture Show
Matador Pictures and Midnight Picture Show are giving Clive Barker's horror story Clive Barker's Book Of Blood the big screen treatment.The project is the first in a series of planned collaborations between Midnight Picture Show and Matador Pictures to turn other Book Of Blood stories into features.Los Angeles-based Essential Entertainment ...
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Sundance review - After the gold rush
'There's no question people were cautious and were being more cautious than ever about the marketing of the film,' says the co-head of the Independent Film Group at UTA, Richard Klubeck, who negotiated the $5m sale of worldwide rights on Chuck Palahniuk adaptation Choke to Fox Searchlight.'They came to each ...
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Nu Image/Millenium brings Conan, Dolph to Berlin
Nu Image/Millennium Films heads to next week's EFM in Berlin intent on drumming up international sales on the recently announced Conan The Barbarian, as well as the action thriller Direct Contact starring Dolph Lundgren.The slate includes the crime thriller Righteous Kill starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino that Overture ...
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IM Global takes on Michael Cera-starrer Not Our Class Dear
Michael Cera, red hot after the success of Juno and last summer's sleeper hit Superbad, will star opposite Sigourney Weaver in the comedy Not Our Class Dear.The $10m production is set to begin filming in Manhattan in April and is being produced by Denise Di Novi and Flagrant Films. Los ...
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Myriad picks up sales on Durst's feature debut Charlie Banks
Myriad Pictures has added Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst's feature film directorial debut The Education Of Charlie Banks to its EFM slate and will introduce it to buyers in Berlin next week.Jesse Eisenberg stars as a university student who is pursued by the bully who tormented him at high school. ...
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Jackson George joins Overture as vp of creative advertising
Jackson George has joined Overture Films as executive vice president of creative advertising and will oversee theatrical creative campaigns for the studio.Prior to Overture, George served as creative director at the theatrical advertising agency In Sync Advertising.During his eight-year tenure he worked on campaigns for more than 100 films, among ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes international on Sundance doc Flow
Celluloid Dreams has acquired international rights to Irena Salina's Sundance documentary Flow: For Love Of Water and will commence sales at EFM next week.Salina shot the film in 12 countries over the course of five years and explores water privatisation, hygiene and the impact of dam construction on local communities. ...
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Kristin Gallagher leaves Warner Bros for New Wave
Former Warner Bros Home Entertainment executive Kristin Gallagher has been appointed vice president of international development at marketing and production services company New Wave Entertainment.Based in Europe, Gallagher will act as international liaison between New Wave's US-based studio clients, while introducing the company's suite of services to the European community.New ...
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PPI's Cloverfield goes on rampage in 15 territories
Paramount's monster movie Cloverfield took a big hit in its second weekend in North America but has everything to gain overseas as it goes on the rampage in 15 territories through PPI this weekend. The film lands in Germany on Jan 31, followed by the UK, Mexico, Italy, Spain and ...
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Smith names evp of production finance at Paramount Pictures
Roderick Smith has been appointed executive vice president of production finance at Paramount Pictures and will report to president of feature production management Mark Bakshi.Smith will oversee day-to-day management of the production finance department including budgeting and cost estimating and will analyse production incentives and tax rebates for worldwide productions.Prior ...
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Ron Gell launches production and sales outfit G-Machine
Longtime producer, sales and acquisitions executive Ron Gell has launched Los Angeles-based sales and production outfit The G-Machine.Gell will arrive at next week's EFM with seven titles, among them the Cannes 2007 Directors Fortnight entry PVC-1 from Spiros Stathoulopoulas, which was shot in one continuous take. A terrorism thriller, it ...
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American Teen gets post-Sundance play at Miami Film Festival
Nanette Burstein's Sundance hit American Teen will get its first major screening outside Park City when it plays at the Miami International Film Festival on Mar 8.Paramount Vantage paid approximately $1m for worldwide rights excluding the UK to the story of four high school students who endure the ups and ...