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US Women In Film teams with GM for Emerging Filmmakers Award
Women In Film (WIF) and the General Motors Corporation (GM) have announced the second annual WIF/GM Acceleration Grant for Emerging Filmmakers.The 2007 WIF/GM Acceleration Grant for Emerging Filmmakers will again be presented to five up-and-coming female film-makers, chosen through an application process overseen by a WIF selection committee comprised of ...
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Kuffman, Boyd, Pereira, Kim join Odd Lot executive ranks
Odd Lot Entertainment has bulked up its executive suite, hiring Keith Kauffman as senior vice president of business and legal affairs, Andrew Boyd as director of marketing and publicity, Yvette Pereira as manager of accounting, and Shirley Kim as manager of international business affairs.Natalya Petrosova, formerly vice president of finance, ...
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Sony Classics takes North and South America on Brick Lane
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North and South American rights from The Works International to Sarah Gavron's London-set immigrant romance Brick Lane.Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson, Harvey Virdi and Zafreen star in the tale of a Bangladeshi woman who struggles after she comes to London to be in an ...
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Harrison, Perkins join LA-based Fifteen Minutes PR
Former Paradigm corporate communications chief Bill Harrison has resurfaced at Howard Bragman's LA-based consultancy Fifteen Minutes PR. Lisa Perkins has also joined the Los Angeles-based company from Creative Public Relations, where she served as senior publicist since 2002. Bragman has also promoted Gabriel Serrato to partner.'Bill Harrison is one of ...
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Hairspray honoured with ensemble acting nod from Hollywood Awards
Hairspray will be honoured with the 11th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards' Hollywood Ensemble Acting Of The Year Award - Musical/Comedy.The awards will be handed out at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony on Oct 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.'We are very proud that we will be recognising ...
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Steve Coogan to play Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards on screen
Steve Coogan will star in Eddie The Eagle as the eponymous British ski-jumper whose last place ranking in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary endeared him to tens of thousands of fans and came to epitomise British eccentricity and spirit.Producers John Heyman and Rupert Maconick are lining up a January ...
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Credit crunch may squeeze slate funders, says Fazio
The rising cost of credit in the US sparked by the recent collapse of the mortgage sector has made film financing a more precarious business, according to Deutsche Bank's new global head of media and entertainment structured finance Laura Fazio.'People are concerned that the debt costs around these transactions have ...
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Peter Paige to star in Brazilian drama Copacabana
Peter Paige from the Showtime series Queer As Folk has joined the cast of Roberto Jabor's Brazilian drama Copacabana, Of Love And Shadows.The $5m English-language production will commence principal photography in Rio De Janeiro in March 2008 and weaves together the stories of a treacherous drag queen, a nightclub diva ...
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Weinstein Company launches $285m Asian film fund
Harvey and Bob Weinstein have announced their long-planned $285m Asian film fund to finance the development, production, acquisition, marketing and distribution of Asian-themed films over the next six years.The Weinstein Company (TWC) will handle worldwide distribution for all films under the deal and domestic DVD distribution will go through Genius ...
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Russell Schwartz leaves New Line after six years
Russell Schwartz is leaving his position as New Line's president of domestic theatrical marketing after more than six years in the role.Schwartz will remain in place until the end of August, by which time studio's leadership will expect to have found a replacement. Beyond that he will be available as ...
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Simpsons continue to burn up international box office
International audiences kept The Simpsons Movie at the top of the overseas market for the second consecutive weekend as Fox International's comedy added an estimated $47.3m from 6,600 screens to raise the tally to $187m.Weekend business was driven by a robust $6.9m number one debut in Mexico on 850 screens ...
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Cannes titles to play at Hawaii International Film Festival
More than 150 features from global film-makers will screen at the 27th Annual Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival, which runs from Oct 18-28.The 11-day Oahu event includes screenings of Bela Tarr's The Man From London and Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Ploy from this year's Cannes Film Festival.Justin Lin's US mock documentary ...
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Dan Brown's Pierre wins top honours at SWSXclick
Dan Brown's Pierre won the 4th annual SXSWclick Festival's Grand Jury Prize and Will Elliott's Peterson's Savings And Loan took top honours in the audience award.Pierre won the Animate-It section, Peterson's Savings And Loan won the Old School Shorts, and Ubuntu by David Serota won the Really Real Shorts programme.Always ...
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Fox extends theatrical slate financing deal with Dune
Fox Filmed Entertainment and Dune Entertainment, riding high on the recent successes of Live Free Or Die Hard and Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer, have extended their multi-year theatrical slate financing arrangement.Dune Entertainment affiliate Dune Entertainment III has committed to invest more than $500m in Fox films over ...
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Bourne sets $70.2m August opening record in North America
Universal's spy thriller The Bourne Ultimatum roared to the top of the North American charts on the back of wildly enthusiastic reviews and set a record estimated $70.2m August launch in the process.The third and supposedly final episode in the saga of the amnesiac covert operative scored the biggest opening ...
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Disney serves Ratatouille to France, Spain, Benelux
Fox International's The Simpsons Movie is expected to soar past $150m in its second weekend following the record-breaking launch that has seen it race to $131m.The comedy opens in four territories this time round and should do something special in Mexico when it opens on Aug 2, given the film's ...
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Coplan hired as vp of production at The Film Department
Former Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) executive Amanda Coplan (pictured) has been hired as vice president of production at Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's The Film Department.Coplan will be based in the company's West Hollywood offices and will report to president of production Robert Katz.Andrew Klausmeyer, John Meckler, Natalie Borlaug, Christine ...
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Comic-Con: geek power
The desire to tap into Comic-Con's powerful nerd demographic is luring Hollywood to the San Diego event - at the expense of ShoWest. Jeremy Kay reports. The flurry of key studio casting announcements on 2008 tentpoles that emanated from Comic-Con last week will have been closely monitored by industry watchers. ...
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Liberty Kid wins top prize at NY International Latino festival
Ilya Chaiken's inner city drama Liberty Kid won the 8th New York International Latino Film Festival's (NYILFF) Best Picture Award and a $2,500 prize as the event drew to a close at the weekend [Jul 29].Alexandre Fuchs' debut feature Hijos De La Guerra (Children Of The War) won best documentary ...
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Sony takes multiple territories on Frank Miller's The Spirit
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has picked up comic book adaptation The Spirit for France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, and Latin America excluding Brazil and Mexico.The deal was brokered through Odd Lot International. Gigi Pritzker and Deborah Del Prete's Odd Lot Entertainment is producing the film with Lionsgate, which holds ...