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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 ...
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Lightning takes on sales for Pinkett Smith's directorial debut
Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment will introduce Jada Pinkett Smith's directorial debut feature The Human Contract to buyers at EFM next week.The Human Contract stars Jason Clarke and Paz Vega in the tale of a repressed advertising executive who embarks on a passionate affair that forces him ...
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New York Rendez-Vous with French cinema opens with Lelouch
The US premiere of Claude Lelouch's thriller Roman De Gare will open the 13th Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York on Feb 29.Fanny Ardant stars opposite Dominique Pinon as a bestselling author who is questioned by the police over similarities between her novels and the activities of a serial ...
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Caroline Stern leaves Horizon for Cinemavault
Former Horizon Motion Pictures vice president of sales and acquisitions Caroline Stern has joined Toronto-based Cinemavault as head of sales.Stern relocates from Vancouver and will travel with the Cinemavault team to the EFM in Berlin next week to commence sales on Stephanie Black's new Bob Marley documentary Africa Unite, among ...
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A Very British Gangster finds US home at Anywhere Road
San Francisco-based distributor Anywhere Road has acquired all North American rights to Donal MacIntyre's hit Sundance 2007 documentary A Very British Gangster.Anywhere Road president Robert Ogden Barnum plans a summer release for the edgy profile of Dominic Noonan, head of a celebrated Manchester family who balances a reputation as a ...
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Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona lands with the Weinsteins
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has acquired North American rights to Woody Allen's upcoming comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona starring Javier Bardem, Patricia Clarkson, Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall.Johansson and Hall play two Americans on holiday in Barcelona who become romantically involved with a flamboyant artist and his crazy ex-wife. ...
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Unified Pictures to debut international sales arm at EFM
California-based production, financing and distribution company Unified Pictures has launched an international sales division and retained Ann Dubinet to oversee the debut slate at next week's EFM in Berlin.Unified will commence sales on the revenge noir The Perfect Sleep starring Roselyn Sanchez, drama Bob Funk starring Oscar nominee Amy Ryan ...
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Amy Beecroft named head of GreeneStreet Films International
Amy Beecroft has been named head of GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) in the wake of Ariel Veneziano's departure last autumn to head up Icon Entertainment International.Beecroft previously served as director of international theatrical distribution for HBO and vice president of international theatrical distribution at First Look Studios.Based in Los Angeles, ...
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Day-Lewis, Christie win top film honours at SAG Awards
The 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards crowned Daniel Day-Lewis and Julie Christie king and queen of the acting world on Sunday [Jan 27] and positioned the pair at the forefront of the race for the lead actor Oscars next month.The jovial ceremony at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center ...
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SPC buys The Wackness, Frozen River as Sundance ends
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has paid low seven figures for North American rights to Jonathan Levine's The Wackness, which won the 2008 Sundance Film Festival's Audience Award: Dramatic prize on Saturday [Jan 26].The deal marked SPC's third pick-up following Courtney Hunt's dramatic grand jury prize winner Frozen River and Mark ...
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New Year Parade, Song Sung Blue take Slamdance top prizes
Tom Quinn's The New Year Parade won the 14th Annual Slamdance Film Festival's Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature and Greg Kohs' Song Sung Blue took corresponding documentary honours at the weekend.The Grand Jury Award For Best Animated Short went to Andrew McPhillips's Blood Will Tell, the Grand Jury ...
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Second AFI Dallas festival to open with The Last Lullaby
The World Premiere of Jeffrey Goodman's noir thriller The Last Lullaby starring Tom Sizemore and US premieres of the music documentaries Glass: A Portrait Of Philip In Twelve Parts and Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake are among 15 titles named in this year's AFI Dallas 2008 International Film Festival line-up.Additional ...
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Magnolia to distribute ten Oscar-nominated shorts in US theatres
Magnolia Pictures and Shorts International have announced they will partner for the third year running to bring the 10 Oscar-nominated live-action and animated short films to US theatres on Feb 15 prior to the awards ceremony on Feb 24.The Oscar Shorts programme will at first open in approximately 50 cities ...
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LA's Film Independent wins $150,000 grant James Irvine Foundation
Film Independent has received a three-year $150,000 grant from the James Irvine Foundation to further its Talent Development Programmes and diversity initiatives.The grant will specifically support Film Independent's signature diversity programme, Project: Involve, and three editions of Film Independent's annual talent guide, which spotlights graduates of Film Independent's Talent Development ...