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Robbins, Landau join cast of Walden's City Of Ember
Tim Robbins and Martin Landau have joined Bill Murray, Toby Jones and hot child actor Saoirse Ronan on the cast of Walden Media's upcoming children's adventure City Of Ember.Gil Kenan is directing the film in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The story pits two teenagers in a dramatic race to save their ...
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Colligan, Endore-Kaiser named co-heads of marketing at Vantage
Megan Colligan and Guy Endore-Kaiser have been promoted to co-heads of marketing at Paramount Vantage.Colligan and Endore-Kaiser, who both joined the studio in early 2006, will work together on release strategy, marketing campaigns and new marketing initiatives for all Paramount Vantage and Paramount Classics domestic releases.Colligan will continue to oversee ...
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Relativity acquires rights to UK children's book franchise Tunnels
Relativity Media has acquired film rights to Tunnels, the first in a proposed children's franchise by first-time British authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams.Company chief Ryan Kavanaugh will produce with Mark Canton, currently riding high on the global success of 300. Danny Davids and Neil Canton will serve as executive ...
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Harry Potter 5 conjures up $25.7m in initial day one openings
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix has amassed an estimated $25.7m worldwide since going on release at midnight on Tuesday [July 10] in North America and launching in eight territories yesterday [July 11].The Warner Bros sequel grossed $12m in domestic theatres and set a new record for a ...
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Walden to develop feature of children's novel Savvy
Walden Media will develop Ingrid Law's debut children's novel Savvy following a joint acquisition with Penguin Young Readers Group to North American rights to the unpublished book and a pre-emptive multi-book deal with agent Daniel Lazar at Writers House.Savvy centres on 12-year-old Mississippi 'Mibs' Beaumont, who must use the magical ...
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Paramount Classics establishes conservation fund for Arctic Tale
Paramount Classics has established the Arctic Fund for wildlife conservation and will donate proceeds from the upcoming Jul 25 release of documentary Arctic Tale to four charities.The National Geographic Polar Fund, World Wildlife Fund, National Wildlife Federation, and Wildlife Conservation Society will each receive equal shares from a percentage of ...
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Harris, Willis join the cast of Papamichael's horror film From Within
Principal photography has started in Havre De Grace, Maryland, on Phedon Papamichael's psychological horror film From Within.Jared Harris, Amanda and Michelle Babin and Rumer Willis join the previously announced cast of Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth Rice, and Adam Goldberg.The story centres on a small ultra-religious community where residents start to die ...
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Paramount hits domestic $1bn mark in record time
Paramount Pictures has crossed the $1bn at the domestic box office in record time, propelled by Transformers' record-breaking $155.4m launch last week.The studio reached the milestone after 189 days on Jul 8 and executives project 2007 will be Paramount's highest grossing year since 1998, when it reached $1.046bn. That tally ...
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Lionsgate invests in online video site Break.com
Lionsgate has secured a strategic investment in Break.com, an online video entertainment site targeted at 18-to-34-year-old males.The partnership offers Lionsgate the chance to distribute current and upcoming films, television programming, home entertainment and other new content through Break's online channel.It also gives the studio access to Break's young talent pool, ...
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Warner Bros International TV promotes Robertson in Asia Pacific
Greg Robertson has been promoted to senior vice president and managingdirector of Asia Pacific at Warner Bros International TelevisionDistribution (WBITD).The 21-year company veteran will supervise all WBITD's programmelicensing operations in more than 24 territories in the region,including Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, thePhilippines, and Singapore.Based in Sydney, he reports ...
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Aberly joins Participant as VP of publicity
Rachel Aberly has joined Participant Productions as vice-president ofpublicity and will report to the company's executive vice presidentsof marketing Buffy Shutt and Kathy Jones.Aberly previously served as a publicity consultant for Participant,shepherding such films as Good Night And Good Luck, North Country, andSyriana at Warner Brothers and Warner Independent. Prior ...
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Women In Film and GM pact for second Opening Doors scheme
Women In Film (WIF) and the General Motors Corporation (GM) haveannounced the second annual WIF/GM 2007 Opening Doors/AbriendoPuertas: The Acceleration Grant For Emerging Latina Filmmakers.The WIF/GM grant will be presented to five up-and-coming Latinafilm-makers, chosen by a WIF selection committee composed ofprofessional film-makers and entertainment industry executives fromthe New York-based ...
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Transformers tops estimate with first-week gross of $155.8m
Paramount Pictures executives confirmed today that Transformersdid indeed set an industry record for a new release's first-week grossand took more than initially thought.Final studio figures confirm the number one North American filmgrossed $155.8m, considerably more than the $152.5m estimate issued onSunday. The previous mark was Spider-Man's $151.6m set in May ...
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Anywhere Road takes US rights to Brad Gann's Black Irish
Anywhere Road has picked up all US rights to writer-director BradGann's family drama Black Irish starring Michael Angarano and BrendanGleeson.The fledgling San Francisco-based distributor plans an autumn releasefor the story of a Boston youngster who tries to win the affection ofhis emotionally remote father and maintian intimacy with other membersof ...
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Rose Kuo named as AFI Fest's artistic director
Rose Kuo has been hired as AFI FEST's artistic director and ShazBennett has been promoted to associate director of programming.Kuo has been a fixture at Telluride for many years as well as the SanFrancisco, Santa Barbara and Mill Valley Festivals, and is also wellknown on the circuit as an Asian ...
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Loyola Marymount to host second summer workshop
Loyola Marymount University School Of Film And Television Dean Teri Schwartz has announced the second annual Summer Creative Filmmaking Workshop. The event will take place the LMU campus from Jul 9-20 and offers 12 promising high school students from Crenshaw High School's Media Academy the chance to taste the film-making ...
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Spider-Man 3 drives Sony to cross overseas $1bn in record time
The apocalyptic robots of Transformers just about did enough to keep Bruce Willis at bay as Paramount/DreamWorks' Transformers ruled the overseas market at the weekend. The action epic grossed an estimated $43.6m from 3,503 venues in 29 territories following last weekend's robust take-off and now stands at $93.6m. ...
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Transformers set to deliver best US first week for non-sequel
Paramount/DreamWorks' sci-fi action blockbuster Transformersobliterated the competition over the weekend, opening on an estimated$67.6m over three days that rose to $152.5m including previews overthe six-day July 4 holiday week.If estimates hold up this will be the biggest first week result for anon-sequel, overtaking Spider-Man's $151.6m mark set in May 2002.Michael ...
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Transformers expands to 18 new territories; set to cross $100m
Paramount/PPI's Transformers has already amassed $53.5m since opening last weekend and stands a good chance of crossing $100m over the next several days in international markets. The effects-heavy tale of warring robots touches down in 18 new territories this weekend including Russia, Spain and Sweden on July 4. PPI stablemate ...
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Alexander McCall Smith adaptation marks Botswana first
The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Mirage Productions will begin filming on July 9 in Botswana on The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency based on Alexander McCall Smith's bestseller. This marks the first time a major film will be shot entirely in Botswana. The project, which is being made for television ...