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Birgit Moller's Valerie wins Hamptons' top feature prize
Birgit Moller's German drama Valerie won the Golden Starfish for Best Feature and an awards package of more than $185,000 of in-kind production services as the 15th Annual Hamptons International Film festival came to a close on Oct 21.Matthew Galkin's US entry I Am An Animal: This Story Of Ingrid ...
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Longoria, Biggs star in theatrical comedy for Starz Media, Ambush
Eva Longoria, Jason Biggs and Rob Corddry will star in Starz Media and Ambush Entertainment's comedy Lower Learning.Starz Media will handle the worldwide theatrical release. The film will get a domestic theatrical release through an as yet undetermined distributor, and will launch on DVD through Starz Media subsidiary Anchor Bay ...
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Ratatouille becomes 10th Disney film to cross $300m overseas
Ratatouille stayed atop the international box office chart for the third consecutive weekend thanks to an estimated $27.7m haul from 3,793 theatres in 33 territories that raised the running total to $308m.The film ranked number one in 13 countries and the key driver was Italy, where the rat scored Pixar's ...
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Summit reunites with Aronofsky on 1980s-era wrestling drama
Summit International has reunited with Darren Aronofsky and will commence international pre-sales at AFM on the drama The Wrestler starring Nicolas Cage.Aronofsky will direct and is producing alongside Cage and Norm Golightly's Saturn Films and producer Scott Franklin. Jean-Luc De Fanti and Jeff Sagansky's Winchester Capital Partners is financing the ...
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Richard Edlund wins ASC Presidents Award
Richard Edlund will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Presidents Award at the 22nd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on Jan 26.Edlund earned four Academy Awards for his visual effects work on Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) ...
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30 Days Of Night takes $16m box office bite
Columbia/Ghost House Pictures' vampire screamer 30 Days Of Night stole the show at the weekend with an estimated $16m number one launch that provided a suitable prelude to North America's Halloween box office season.David Slade's directorial follow-up to the acclaimed Hard Candy is based on the graphic novel about an ...
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Inferno options Ison's romantic novel The List
Los Angeles-based Inferno Distribution has optioned Tara Ison's romantic novel The List, which was published in March and centres on a dysfunctional couple's desperate final act.The pair make a list of 10 ideal dates before they agree to part amicably. However as the dates progress they begin to see each ...
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Bassett, Wyle join all-star cast of YFG's Nothing But The Truth
Angela Bassett and Noah Wyle have joined Yari Film Group's (YFG) thriller Nothing But The Truth, which Rod Lurie is directing.Bassett and Wyle join Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Alan Alda, Vera Farmiga, Harry Lennix and David Schwimmer on the production, which commenced shooting in Memphis, Tennessee, earlier this month.Bob Yari ...
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Wind Dancer plans US, Provence shoot on Williams' Mistral
Wind Dancer Films is lining up a US and Provence, France, shoot on the romantic fable Mistral with Wind Dancer partner Matt Williams attached to directed.Josh Kesselman and Andrea Smith will produce with Wind Dancer Films based on a screenplay by Brett Hershey and Matt Tilker loosely inspired by a ...
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Melissa Wohl to head international sales at Allumination
Melissa Wohl has been hired as senior vice president of international sales at Allumination FilmWorksWohl will report directly to Allumination chief executive officer and president Cheryl Freeman.She most recently, she served as vice president of sales and acquisitions at Harmony Gold.Prior to that she worked at Circle M Media as ...
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Robbie Coltrane to voice Gooby for PorchLight/Condor
Production began in Toronto this week [Oct 15] on the CGI-live action family film Gooby, which has been acquired by PorchLight's new division Condor Releasing and features Eugene Levy and the voice talent of Robbie Coltrane.Condor has picked up worldwide rights to the $6m-7m project about a children's stuffed toy ...
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Argentina's Gaggero to direct Wildlife for Point Road Films
John Moore and Peter Veverka's Point Road Films has hired Argentinean film-maker Jorge Gaggero to direct the adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winning Richard Ford's coming-of-age novel Wildlife.Producers Moore and Peter Veverka are aiming for a late summer 2008 shoot in Montana on the $3m tale of a 16-year-old who learns ...
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Cinemavault acquires Mexico's Used Parts for AFM
Cinemavault Releasing International has added Aaron Fernandez's Spanish-language drama Partes Usadas (Used Parts) to its AFM slate.The film will screen in competition at the Rome Film Festival alongside Cinemavault's drama Canvas with Marcia Gay Harden and Joe Pantoliano.Partes Usadas centres on a 14-year-old boy seduced by the underworld of stolen ...
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Suharjono named svp of Asian distribution at Warner International
Erlina Suharjono has been named senior vice president of Asia Distribution at Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).Suharjono recently assumed the role of chief representative of Warner New Asia to supervise distribution of the studio's US-made films in China.Based in the Hong Kong office and reporting directly to WBPI distribution chief ...
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Sales veteran Adam Wright joins Maverick
Adam Wright has joined Maverick Global, the international sales arm of US home entertainment genre distributor Maverick Entertainment Group, as senior vice president of international distribution and domestic television sales.Wright will report directly to executive vice president Pamela White and will continue to live in Los Angeles, where he most ...
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Fogelson, Edgan promoted to president positions within Universal
Adam Fogelson has been appointed to the newly created role of Universal Pictures' president of marketing and distribution and Eddie Egan has been promoted to president of marketing.Fogelson assumes executive oversight of Universal's domestic marketing and distribution divisions as well as marketing and distribution of Rogue Pictures.He reports to Universal ...
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Randolph Paul joins Halcyon as COO in LA
Randolph Paul has joined the Halcyon Company as chief operating officer. He will be based in the Los Angeles office and report to Halcyon co-chief executive officers Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson.Paul is an experienced executive who was present at the inception of Miramax Films in the 1980s before moving ...
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Focus bolsters production, Rogue distribution moved to Universal
Focus Features has bolstered its production department as the company moves toward a bigger slate and eyes greater collaboration with parent company Universal Pictures' overseas production group.Focus Features chief executive officer James Schamus also announced that the distribution and marketing of Rogue Pictures releases will henceforth be handled by Universal.Rogue ...
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Shoreline picks up Franco's Max, Kill Kill Faster Faster for AFM
Heading into AFM, Shoreline Entertainment has announced its acquisition of worldwide rights to James Franco's drama Good Time Max also starring Franco and the noir thriller Kill Kill Faster Faster.Franco wrote and directed Good Time Max, about two brothers who grow apart when one becomes a surgeon and the other ...
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IFP to present tribute to Mayor Bloomberg at Gotham Awards
IFP will present a tribute to the New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the 17th Annual Gotham Awards on Nov 27.Bloomberg will be recognised for his leadership in boosting the city's credentials as a film-making hub and for supporting economic, educational, and cultural initiatives throughout the five boroughs including the ...