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Little Film Company takes international rights to The Secrets
The Little Film Company has picked up international rights to Avi Nesher's drama The Secrets, which makes its international premiere in Toronto in the Contemporary World Cinema section on Sept 8.Robbie Little negotiated the deal with Ronna Wallace, who is retaining domestic rights.David Silber produced the story of two Jewish ...
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GreeneStreet sells The Nines on back of Venice Critics Week screening
Ariel Veneziano of GreeneStreet Films International has closed a slew of sales in Venice on John August's feature directorial debut The Nines.Rights have gone to: Argentina (Telexcel), Brazil (Playarte), Eastern Europe (Blue Sky), Greece (Village Roadshow), Iceland (Sena), Israel (Forum Film), the Middle East (Italia Film), Portugal (Castelo Lopes), Scandinavia ...
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Halloween has biggest Labor Day opening ever for MGM/Dimension
Rob Zombie's reinterpretation of John Carpenter's horror classic Halloween brought a record-breaking summer to a close as it opened number one with an estimated $31m four-day haul over Labor Day Weekend.The result surpassed The Transporter 2's 2005 $20.1m launch with ease to become the biggest Labor Day debut in history.In ...
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Dennehy in talks for Righteous Kill
Brian Dennehy is in negotiations to join new cast members John Leguizamo, Dan Futterman, Trilby Glover and professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek on the crime thriller Righteous Kill, which begins filming on Sept 4 in Connecticut and New York. As previously announced in Cannes, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro star ...
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Shrek narrowly beats Bourne to top international box office
In a narrow victory DreamWorks/Paramount's Shrek The Third wrestled the overseas crown from The Bourne Ultimatum and raised its international running total by an estimated $17.2m to $436m.The weekend result struck a blow for the more traditional staggered release pattern in a season where the more spectacular opening grossesgenerated by ...
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United States - Collective thinking
Life just wasn't the same for Michael Green after the co-founder of top management company The Firm sold his stake to partner Jeff Kwatinetz in 2001. "I got bored of sitting on the beach," Green says from the Beverly Hills offices of The Collective, the full service production and management ...
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Dokument takes Strike to Toronto
Dokument Films, a new distributor of independent features for thetheatrical, DVD and digital download markets, has boarded VolkerSchlondorff's Polish Solidarity movement drama Strike under itsinitial slate.The Gdansk shipyard saga is accompanied by John Waters' one-man show This Filthy World directed by Jeff Garlin, and the investigativedocumentary RFK Must Die from ...
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Lions For Lambs to open AFI FEST
Lions For Lambs, the inaugural release under Paula Wagner and TomCruise's revamped United Artists, will get its North American premierewhen it opens the AFI FEST in Los Angeles on Nov 1.The announcement suggests the film is likely to receive its worldpremiere at the 51st BFI London Film Festival that runs ...
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Ellis wins Palm Springs award
Simon Ellis' UK film Soft won the 2007 Palm Springs InternationalFestival of Short Films & Short Film Market's Best Of Festival Awardand a cash prize of $2,000.The Future Filmmaker Award and a $2,000 cash prize went to Dee Reesfor the US entry Pariah, while Pop Foul's US title Moon Molson ...
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First Tropfest@Tribeca competition set for Sept 23
Sixteen short films from four countries have been selected to compete in the inaugural Tropfest@Tribeca competition in New York City on Sept 23.Finalists, chosen from a pool of 161 submissions, were each asked to interpret the word 'slice' in their film.The winner will be chosen by a jury of Rose ...
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NBC Universal acquires Hallmark global pay-TV channels
NBC Universal has acquired Sparrowhawk Holdings and its global portfolio of pay TV channels from Providence Equity Partners, 3i and management shareholders.The move represents a major step forward in NBC Universal's strategy to more than double the size of its international cable channels in the next two to three years.Terms ...
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ASC dedicates Heritage Award to memory of Kovacs
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has dedicated the 2008 Heritage Award competition for film school seniors and recent graduates in the US to the memory of the Laszlo Kovacs, who died on Jul 22.The organisation simultaneously issued a call for entries in the annual competition. The deadline for submissions ...
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New Zealanders McIver, Dando cast in The Lovely Bones
Following a worldwide search Peter Jackson and his team have cast New Zealanders actresses Rose McIver and Carolyn Dando in DreamWorks/Film 4's upcoming drama The Lovely Bones.The Alice Sebold adaptation tells the story of murder victim Susie Salmon, who continues to observe her family on Earth after her death as ...
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Higginson, Huntley promoted at Fox International in Europe
Paul Higginson has been promoted to senior vice president of Europe Theatrical at Fox International, filling the post that will be left by the Universal-bound Christian Grass.Todd Huntley has been promoted to vice president of Europe Theatrical. Both promotions take effect immediately.Higginson will remain in London at Fox's European regional ...
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inDplay, b-side pact to bring festival films to buyers
Online marketplace for film and television content inDplay has struck a deal with data services company b-side to ensure that a broader range of festival films with commercial potential are seen by buyers.The alliance combines inDplay's global network of distributors with b-side's analysis of festival audience feedback to offer buyers ...
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Nazarian closes down Element Films International
Element Films International (EFI) has folded, as owner Sam Nazarian restructures the domestic division of his film business, Element Films.The foreign sales arm headed by Jim Harvey closed on Jul 31. Harvey, who took over the reigns after John Fremes left to join Jere Hausfater at Essential Entertainment earlier this ...
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Ultimatum tops international box office with $14.4m take
Universal/UPI's The Bourne Ultimatum was the number one overseas film at the weekend as it generated a steady $14.4m from 2,100 sites in 25 territories for an early international running total of $55m.The result was fired up by a $2.8m number one launch in Russia from 392 sites, which was ...
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Sony's Superbad is still baddest at North American box office
Superbad was too good for the competition in its second weekend as the Sony comedy held on to top spot following a modest 46% drop and added an estimated $18m for $68.6m.Despite a wave of new films the top three was familiar, as Universal's spy thriller The Bourne Ultimatum and ...
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AFI executive vice president Estrin steps down
The American Film Institute's executive vice president Jonathan Estrin will depart his post after three years on Sept 28 to pursue other opportunities.Estrin will continue as a consultant for AFI on a variety of projects. During his tenure he was instrumental in designing the AFI Dallas International Film Festival and ...
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Ang Lee's Lust, Caution gets NC-17 rating in US
Focus Features said today [Aug 23] that it will not contest a ruling by the Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) to award Ang Lee's Lust, Caution an NC-17 rating.MPAA officers had not returned calls at time of writing, however the ruling is believed to be in response to the ...