All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1231
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Sundance: Documentaries overshadow dramatic entries
Documentaries continued to overshadow early Sundance business as HBO Documentary Films took all US rights to Marina Zenovich's Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired. Click here to see review.The high six-figure deal closed on Sunday a little over a day after The Weinstein Company pounced on international rights to the film, ...
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Warner continues to lead international box office with Legend
I Am Legend stayed on top of the international rankings for the fourth consecutive weekend and the fifth overall in its six-week run as an estimated $28.7m from 6,200 prints in 54 territories propelled the running total to $262.4m.The highlight of the new launches was a $4.1m (Ps 44.2m) number ...
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Cloverfield tears into January box office for Paramount
Paramount's monster movie Cloverfield delivered the first domestic hit launch of 2008 as it smashed through the competition to open top on an estimated $41m.The film, a Blair Witch-style first-person POV account of a monster attack on New York that was produced by JJ Abrams and directed by Matt Reeves, ...
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Sundance Institute launches Creative Producing Initiative
Sundance Institute today [Jan 20] announced the Sundance Creative Producing Initiative fellowship programme to nurture the next generation of film-makers.The Initiative, unveiled during the Producers Lunch, will be a year-long fellowship that includes a five-day Creative Producing Lab, attendance and industry meetings at the festival and the Sundance Institute 's ...
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American Teen generates early sales buzz at Sundance
While Sundance buyers circled hyped early picks like Sunshine Cleaning and The Wackness, the Saturday nightfocus was on Nanette Burstein's high school documentary American Teen.Fox Searchlight were believed to be among interested parties following the world premiere earlier in the day.Carlos Moreno's Colombian crime saga Perro Como Perro was also ...
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Roman Polanski doc gets international deal at Sundance with TWC
When Harvey Weinstein flies in to Sundance things usually happen and so it proved to be as The Weinstein Comapny (TWC) made the first play of the festival, paying low six figures for all international rights to Marina Zenovich's documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired.The deal excludes North American rights ...
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IMDb buys Withoutabox
Amazon-owned The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has bought global film-maker and film festival resource Withoutabox.Withoutabox was founded in 2000 by David Straus and Joe Neulight and enables film-makers to submit their work online to festivals and provides festival organisers with tools to manage and promote their events online.'For eight years, ...
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Cloverfield hopes for monster opening
Click on film for reviewWarner Bros Pictures International executives will expect their horrorsci-fi release I Am Legend to maintain its excellent form and dominatethe competition for the fourth consecutive weekend and the fifth outof its six-week run.The global hit has amassed more than $221m to date and should cause astir ...
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Greg Mason named vp of marketing for Disney Canada
Greg Mason has been named vice president of marketing for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Canada.Mason will handle marketing duties for all films released under the Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures labels in Canada and reports directly to Brett Dicker, executive vice president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.Mason ...
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HBO Documentary Films buys Sundance doc The Black List
HBO Documentary Films has acquired domestic broadcast rights to portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders documentary The Black List: Volume One, which gets its world premiere here on Jan 22.Film critic Elvis Mitchell interviews 20 high-profile African-Americans about their views on personal identity. Talking heads include Chris Rock, Toni Morrison, Colin Powell, ...
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DGA strikes tentative deal with AMPTP in just two weeks
The Directors Guild Of America (DGA) has struck a tentative deal for its contract renegotiation with studio representative the Alliance Of Motion Picture And Television Producers (AMPTP), putting pressure on the writers to resolve their ongoing dispute.In a typically early settlement for the directors thrashed out months before their contracts ...
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Flashback: Golden Globes 2008
No single film dominated the 65th Golden Globes on January 13 as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Hfpa) spread its largesse across a wide field in a drastically truncated announcement due to the ongoing writers’ strike.
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Relativity, MGM team on Olyphant-starrer A Perfect Getaway
Relativity Media is to produce and MGM will distribute the thriller A Perfect Getaway starring Timothy Olyphant.Production is set to begin in Puerto Rico on Mar 17 on the story of a honeymooning couple in Hawaii who run into a pair of vicious killers while hiking.David Twohy will direct from ...
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Brazilian mini-festival kicks off in New York next week
Latin American cinema promoter Cinema Tropical kicks off the mini-festival Janeiro In New York next week.The event will screen Cao Hamburger's Oscar shortlisted The Year My Parents Went On Vacation, City Of Men produced by Fernando Meirelles and directed by Paulo Morelli and Alice's House by Chico Teixeira.'In recent years, ...
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Amanda Blue joins Myriad as vp, development and acquisitions
Former Inferno Distribution vice president of production and development Amanda Blue has been named vice president of development and acquisitions at Myriad Pictures.Blue will travel to Sundance in her first outing for the company.She previously worked as Capital Films and as an assistant to writers Dana Stevens and Ed Solomon. ...
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Antonellis promoted to president of technical operations at Warner
Darcy Antonellis has been promoted to president of Warner Bros Technical Operations and will lead the studio's efforts to establish new delivery platforms and technical, business and legal standards for digital distribution and copyright protection.Antonellis moves up from her dual role of executive vice president of distribution and technology operations ...
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Apple launches digital film rental service on iTunes
Putting pressure on Netflix, Apple today [Jan 15] said it has signed deals with every US major and will launch a digital film rental service in the US in February.Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the move at the annual Macworld conference in San Francisco and said consumers will be able ...
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First Run takes US theatrical and DVD on Jihad For Love
First Run Features has acquired US theatrical and DVD rights from The Film Sales Company to Parvez Sharma's documentary A Jihad For Love, which has been lined up for a Panorama screening in Berlin next month.The film premiered at Toronto last year and explores the plight of gay and lesbian ...
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Myriad's first-look deal with Studio 407 yeilds Hybrid
Myriad Pictures has announced that the live-action feature Hybrid will be the first project to go under its first-look deal with comic book creators Studio 407.Hybrid is based on the comic book and original screenplay by Peter Kwong about vacationing college students who discover a seemingly abandoned trawler that houses ...
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Stambler promoted to vice president at THINKFilm
Ben Stambler has been promoted to the position of vice president of acquisitions and development at THINKFilm.Stambler will continue to work out of the company's headquarters in New York where he started last March as director of acquisitions.During his relatively short time with the company Stambler has been instrumental in ...