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Focus Features International scores big in Japan at AFM
Focus Features International chief Alison Thompson hailed a resurgent Japanese buying contingent at AFM as she announced key sales following the market earlier this month.'As far as we're concerned Japan is back in action,' Thompson said. 'We really did have an extremely good AFM. It was substantially better than last ...
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Santa Fe Film Festival bookended by Juno, Grace Is Gone
The 8th Santa Fe Film Festival will open with Fox Searchlight's Juno on November 28 and close on December 2 with The Weinstein Company's (TWC) Grace Is Gone.Screenings include Paramount Vantage's Margot At The Wedding with Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh, TWC's Control starring Sam Riley, and SPC's Stefan ...
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Warner launches global VOD channel service Warner TV
Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) has launched the global video-on-demand channel service Warner TV.Warner TV will comprise features and TV shows and will be available in the UK via Virgin Media's digital cable service and on BT's IPTV platform and in Japan on USEN Corporation's broadband broadcasting service GyaO.The ...
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Lionsgate UK to release horror thriller Babysitter Wanted
Lionsgate UK will release Big Screen Entertainment Group's (BSEG) horror-thriller Babysitter Wanted in 2008.Jonas Barnes and Michael Manasseri directed the story of a girl who is terrorised one night while babysitting on a farm.'Lionsgate UK is one of the premiere marketing machines in the horror genre,' BSEG CEO Kimberley Kates ...
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Hairspray to receive ensemble award from Palm Springs
Hairspray will be honoured with the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) ensemble performance award on January 5 2008.The New Line musical will also become the festival's first ever public screening at a special event presented by Netflix the day before when lyric subtitles will encourage the audience ...
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Participant, State Street partner up for Bobby Martinez
Participant Productions and State Street Pictures producers Bob Teitel and George Tillman are developing Bobby Martinez, a biopic about the first Mexican-American professional surfer on the world tour.Robert Munic, who wrote Summit Entertainment and Mandalay Pictures' upcoming teen fight club drama Get Some, has been hired to write the screenplay.The ...
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Andrew Marcus promoted to COO at Relativity Media
Andrew Marcus has been named Relativity Media's COO following his appointment as executive vice president earlier this year.Marcus, who joined the company in summer 2005, will oversee operations and continue to manage the structured finance division. He will continue to report directly to Ryan Kavanaugh.'I believe that having Andrew on ...
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Andrew Marcus promoted to COO at Relativity Media
Andrew Marcus (pictured) has been named COO at Relativity Media following his appointment as executive vice president earlier this year.Marcus, who joined the company in summer 2005, will oversee operations and continue to manage the structured finance division. He will continue to report directly to Ryan Kavanaugh.'I believe that having ...
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Tribeca teams with Gucci for documentary finishing fund
The Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci announced today the launch of the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund for independent film-makers.The initiative will offer finishing funds and post-production guidance to independent film-makers whose films 'promote social change and illuminate issues in need of comprehensive coverage currently missing from mainstream media'.The Tribeca Film ...
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Hannah to receive career achievement award at Bahamas
Daryl Hannah will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Career Achievement Tribute Award on December 8.Nicolas Cage received the honours last year, which recognises an actor or actress whose work has had 'a major impact and has advanced the frontiers of cinematic artistry around the world'.Festival patron Sean Connery ...
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McDonagh's In Bruges to open Sundance Film Festival
Martin McDonagh's feature directorial debut In Bruges will open the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on January 17.Focus Features holds worldwide rights to the film, which stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as London hitmen ordered by their boss Ralph Fiennes to go on an event-filled holiday in the Belgian city ...
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Academy names 15 documentary features on Oscar shortlist
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has announced its shortlist of 15 films that will contest the documentary feature category for the 80th Academy Awards.The 15 films in alphabetical order are: Autism: The Musical; Body Of War; For The Bible Tells Me So; Lake Of Fire; Nanking; No ...
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Broadbent, McCrory join regulars in Harry Potter VI
Jim Broadbent and Helen McCrory have joined the regular Harry Potter cast on the upcoming sixth episode Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince.Broadbent will play the potions professor Horace Slughorn, who gives Harry an old tome with a mysterious past. McCrory will play Draco Malfoy's mother Narcissa.Newcomers Jessie Cave, Hero ...
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Paramount scores US number one with Beowulf on $28.1m
Beowulf ruled the world at the weekend as Robert Zemeckis' animated adaptation of the epic English poem launched at number one in North America with an estimated $28.1m haul that complemented the table topping overseas tally of $17m.Well over one-third of the domestic gross came from 3D screens through Real ...
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Warner's Beowulf leads international box office with $17m
Beowulf destroyed the competition as the animated epic saga grossed an estimated $17m through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).The film drew approximately 1.7million admissions from 2,500 prints in 13 markets led by a $4.4m (£2.2m) second place launch in the UK in 552 sites that included previewsBeowulf ranked top in ...
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Focus, Groundswell team to finance Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic
Sean Penn will star in Gus Van Sant's biopic of the gay rights icon Harvey Milk for Focus Features and Groundswell Productions, which has been set for a January 2008 start date.American Beauty producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen will produce Milk through The Jinks/Cohen Company with Michael London, whose ...
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Rogen, Banks to star in Kevin Smith's next film for TWC, Dimension
Seth Rogen, riding high on the success of this year's sleeper summer hit Knocked Up, will star for The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Dimension Films in Kevin Smith's Zack & Miri Make A Porno.Elizabeth Banks, who along with Rogen appeared in The 40 Year Old Virgin, stars in the story ...
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Kounelias promoted in New Line marketing restructure
Christina Kounelias has been promoted to executive vice president of marketing at New Line and will report to the studio's domestic marketing chief Chris Carlisle.In the newly created position Kounelias will work closely with Carlisle to oversee a newly created marketing department infrastructure and continue to oversee the studio's publicity, ...
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Kristen Stewart gets lead role in Hardwicke's Twilight for Summit
Kristen Stewart will star as Bella Swan in Summit Entertainment's upcoming romantic thriller Twilight to be directed by Catherine Hardwicke.Production is set to begin in February 2008 on the story of a 17-year-old girl who moves to a small town in the state of Washington where she gets caught in ...
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Shearer, Braun to receive honours from IDA
Jocelyn Shearer will receive the International Documentary Association's 2007 IDA Preservation and Scholarship Award on behalf of National Geographic Digital Motion and Darfur Now director Ted Braun will receive the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.Shearer and Braun will be feted during the 23rd Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award ...