All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1232
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David Mackenzie's Spread seduces Kutcher, Leigh
Ashton Kutcher will play a serial LA womanizer in Spread, the first US movie from Scottish auteur David Mackenzie who was in competition at Berlin last year with Hallam Foe. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a lawyer who is ditched by Kutcher's character in the film which is set to start ...
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Hayden Panettierre to star in Goldbach's Daydream Nation
Hayden Panettiere, star of the smash US series Heroes, will play the lead in the teen comedy Daydream Nation by first-timer Michael Goldbach.Kieran Culkin is in final negotiations to star as Panettiere's gormless boyfriend in the project, which is styled as a coming-of-age tale in the vein of Election and ...
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Albert named vp worldwide ops& business affairs at New Films
New Films International (NFI) has appointed Richard Albert vice president of worldwide operations and business affairs and charged him with overseeing a company restructure.Los Angeles-based Albert has brought on Julie Nong as general counsel and will continue to run his own entertainment law practice. 'We believe that it is essential ...
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Image pulls out of merger with Bergstein's BTP
US video distributor Image Entertainment has pulled out of its merger with David Bergstein affiliate BTP Acquisition Company and demanded prompt payment of a $4.2m business interruption fee.Image made its move after reportedly growing tired of waiting for BTP to complete the necessary financing on the deal, initially announced early ...
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New York Rendez-Vous includes films by Bonnaire, Honore
Organisers at the Rendez-Vous With French Cinema event in New York have unveiled the full line-up of 15 films, which as previously announced will kick off with Claude Lelouch's Roman De Gare on Feb 29.The roster features: Audrey Estrougo's debut drama Ain't Scared (Regarde-Moi) set on a tough Paris housing ...
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Warner Bros boosts post-production with Prime Focus alliance
Warner Bros has broadened the reach of its Motion Picture Imaging post-production division in a strategic alliance with India-based Prime Focus.The agreement allows the companies to work seamlessly across time zones on projects and offers film-makers access to services throughout locations on the sub-continent and London as well as New ...
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Claudia Bonn to oversee Bronx cultural centre
Executive director of the Film Society Of Lincoln Center Claudia Bonn has been named executive director of the Wave Hill 28-acre public garden and cultural centre in the Bronx. She succeeds Kate French, who led the initiative for the past 17 years.Wave Hill marked its 40th anniversary in 2005 by ...
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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. ...