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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 ...
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Long, Panetierre lined up for Lionsgate/Crest Animation CGI film
Justin Long and Hayden Panetierre have been cast in the lead voice roles in Lionsgate and Indian animation studio Crest Animation Partners' CGI family film Alpha And Omega.Christina Ricci, Danny Glover, Dennis Hopper and Larry Miller round out the key voice cast in the story of bickering wolves who are ...
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Klein leaves SJ Berwin in London for Sheppard Mullin in LA
Robb Klein has joined the Century City office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton as special counsel in the firm's entertainment and media practice group.Klein joins from the London office of leading European law firm SJ Berwin where he was a partner in the media and communications group.Klein specialises in ...
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Jason Brenek to oversee global digital strategy for Disney
Jason Brenek, who most recently served as Walt Disney Studios' vice president of distribution strategy, has been promoted to the newly created position of senior vice president of worldwide digital cinema and cinema programming.Brenek will oversee digital cinema deployment across the globe and develop and oversee cinema programming in digitally ...
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Denton to head new sales arm for Bold Films
Stephanie Denton has resurfaced as president of worldwide distribution at Bold Films following her former employer Lionsgate's merger with Mandate Pictures.Effective immediately, Denton will head Bold's newly formed international division and oversee domestic, marketing, business affairs, delivery and collection.She is assembling her team and reports to Bold co-presidents Gary Michael ...
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Canet's Tell No One gets US distribution deal with Music Box
Music Box Films has acquired all US rights to Guillaume Canet's French box office hit Tell No One, based on the bestseller by Harlan Coben.The thriller earned Canet the best director Cesar and brought the best actor trophy to Francois Cluzet.Tell No One centres on a doctor who gets implicated ...
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Jeff Sakson joins Participant as vice president of publicity
Jeffrey Sakson has joined Participant Media as vice president of publicity and will report to executive vice presidents of marketing Buffy Shutt and Kathy Jones.Sakson will oversee publicity on all Participant releases and social action campaigns related to its films and will also take charge of corporate communications.Sakson is a ...
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Borshell succeeds Greenwald as president of Image Entertainment
Image Entertainment's chief operating officer David Borshell has succeeded Martin W Greenwald as president of the home entertainment producer and distributor.The board of directors has made the title of president the top executive position of the company and does not plan to seek a CEO. Borshell will report directly to ...
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Cinema Libre picks up worldwide rights to disFIGURED
Cinema Libre Studio has picked up worldwide rights to Glenn Gers' disFIGURED, which makes its world premiere at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival on Apr 1.disFIGURED stars Deidra Edwards and Staci Lawrence as strangers who meet through a California-based Fat Acceptance group and become firm friends. Launchpad Productions' David ...
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Slavoj Zizek to preside as guest director at Telluride in Aug
Slavoj Zizek will preside as guest director of the 35th Telluride Film Festival, which is scheduled to run from Aug 29-Sept 1.The Slovenian-born political philosopher and academic has written more than 50 books covering a diverse array of subjects ranging from Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch to Wagner and cyberspace. ...
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James E Curry joins LA law firm Sheppard Mullin
James E Curry has joined the Century City office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP as partner in the law firm's entertainment and media group.Curry most recently practised as a founding partner with White O'Connor Curry in Century City.Curry is an experienced trial attorney who specialises in business lawsuits ...
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United states - Profit Sharing
Nestled in the bustling West Los Angeles neighbourhood of Westwood lies a company that may well become a friend to stars, directors and producers long after their careers have waned.That is not to say that Content Partners, the 2006 brainchild of accountant and former Brillstein-Grey CFO Steve Blume and longtime ...
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Nick Broomfield: Battle Scars
Nick Broomfield adds his voice to the wave of films on modern warfare and terrorism with Battle For Haditha. It is a stirring piece of cinema verite that premiered in Toronto last autumn and will air on March 17 as part of Channel 4's Iraq season in the UK, and ...
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United States - Under The Starz Sign
Fate brought US producer Scott Einbinder and German producer and investment banker Ingo Vollkammer together, but everything since then has followed a clear design.The founders of Los Angeles-based Leomax Entertainment and its genre label Indigomotion, both of which are backed through Zurich-based parent company Leomax AG, met through mutual acquaintance ...
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UPI to open The Mummy 3 in China and Asia a week before domestic
Universal Pictures International (UPI) will release summer tentpole The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor in China and Asia in late July one week before North America on Aug 1.UPI chief David Kosse, who travelled to the US this week to give the keynote address at ShoWest, said the move ...
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Wellness, They Killed Sister Dororthy win SXSW top prizes
Jake Mahaffy's Wellness won the narrative feature and Daniel Junge's They Killed Sister Dorothy took the documentary grand jury prizes at the 2008 SXSW festival.Andrew T Betzer's Small Apartment and David Garrett's Walord shared the Reel Shorts jury award.Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's Madame Tulti-Putli won the animated section and ...
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Tribeca 2008 unveils narrative & documentary competition lineups
The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival's world narrative and documentary competition entries and the Encounters line-up have been annoaunced ahead of next month's event, set to run from Apr 23-May 4.Twelve narrative features and 12 documentaries from 18 countries will compete for combined unrestricted cash prizes amounting to $100,000, including prizes ...