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Participant doc to capture Live Earth spirit
Participant Productions will present a feature documentary directed by Brian Hill to be inspired by the Live Earth concerts. The film will aim to capture the spirit of the concerts, a series of eight events set to take place around the world on July 8 put together by Live ...
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LAFF honours for Gauger and Whiteley
Stephane Gauger's Owl And The Sparrow won the Los Angeles Film Festival's Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and Greg Whiteley's Resolved took corresponding documentary honours at the weekend. Stephen Walker's Young @ Heart won the Audience Award for Best International Feature, and The Audience Award for Best Short ...
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Disney cooks up number one domestic opening for Ratatouille
Disney's Ratatouille bit a hefty chunk out of the domestic box office pie at the weekend and beat off the five-day debut of Live Free Or Die Hard thanks to a three-day $47.2m estimated launch.This was actually a subdued performance by Pixar's lofty standards that many attributed to the conceptually ...
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Shrek, Transformers, Die Hard deliver gigantic international numbers
Shrek The Third stayed atop the overseas charts following its biggest weekend so far and combined with the international launch of Transformers to generate a $100m-plus weekend for Paramount/PPI.The green ogre hoisted his international running total to $259m on the back of an estimated $69.6m haul from 6,489 sites in ...
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Chapa to play Latin spy in thriller Fuego
Amadeus Pictures is set to start production this month in Europe on Fuego, an international spy thriller starring Amadeus founder/president Damian Chapa together with David Carradine (Kill Bill Vol 2) and Nickolai Stoilov (Lara's Rain).Chapa, who started his career as an actor in films including Blood In, Blood Out and ...
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95 countries receive entry forms for 2007 foreign language film Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has posted foreign language film award entry forms to 95 countries in advance of next February's 80th Academy Awards.Academy rules stipulate that to qualify, a film must be released in the submitting country between Oct 1, 2006 and Sept 30, 2007, and ...
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Alvarado-Brown joins Overture as svp, business and legal affairs
Justin Alvarado-Brown has joined Overture Films as senior vice president of business and legal affairs.Alvarado-Brown will oversee deal-making for Overture's productions and acquisitions and run day-to-day business affairs. He will report directly to Overture chief operating officer Danny Rosett.Alvarado-Brown most recently served as senior counsel for HBO, and began his ...
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Munich's Collina to make dramatic remake of The Champagne Spy
Munich-based Collina Films has hired Israeli writer-director Nadav Schirman to make an English-language adaptation of his documentary The Champagne Spy.The real-life story centres on Jewish Mossad agent Wolfgang Lotz who became addicted to his covert identity as an ex-Nazi playboy and millionaire horse breeder in Cairo in the 1960s.Collina's general ...
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PPI's Shrek The Third hits Germany, Spain
Paramount/PPI's Shrek The Third is riding a wave and should stay on top of the international arena this weekend.The animated feature has grossed $123.1m to date and will add considerably to its haul through expected strong holds and launches in Germany on Jun 21 and Spain on Jun 22.The distributor ...
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Byrne named to head GE/NBC Universal equity fund
Thomas M Byrne has been hired as managing director to lead GE Commercial Finance - Media, Communications & Entertainment business and NBC Universal's $250m joint venture Peacock Equity Fund.Megumi Ikeda has also been named executive director, will be based in London and reports to Byrne.Byrne will lead an international team ...
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IFC First Take to release Last Winter in North America
IFC Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Larry Fessenden's supernatural thriller The Last Winter and will release through its multi-platform IFC First Take label.The film premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and screens this week at the Los Angeles Film Festival.Larry Fessenden wrote and directed the ...
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Parvez Sharma: love & faith
Parvez Sharma'sIslam, My Love could be the most controversial documentary of the year. Jeremy Kay finds out why.A film arrives this autumn with the potential to blow through institutionalised thinking in a manner that will make Michael Moore's polemics seem breezy by comparison.Responses will inevitably be polarised, but 33-year-old film-maker ...
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Jim Broadbent joins cast of Indiana Jones 4
Jim Broadbent has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones 4, which has begun principal photography and will be released by Paramount on May 22, 2008.It is understood Broadbent will play a mentor figure to Harrison Ford's titular character, along the lines of Dr Marcus Brody played by the ...
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Brillstein-Grey rebrands as Brillstein Entertainment Partners
Brillstein-Grey Entertainment has rebranded itself Brillstein Entertainment Partners, chief executive officer Jon Liebman and partner Cynthia Pett-Dante, who together acquired the company from Brad Grey in July 2005, announced today [June 20].Grey's co-founding partners Bernie Brillstein, Marc Gurvitz and Sandy Wernick will continue to help Liebman and Pett-Dante lead the ...
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Kate Hudson joins Dane Cook in Lionsgate comedy Bachelor No 2
Kate Hudson will star opposite Dane Cook in Lionsgate's comedy Bachelor No. 2, which is set to begin filming in Boston in August.Cook plays a man who specialises in reuniting women with their ex-boyfriends and ends up falling for his best friend's girlfriend, played by Hudson. Lionsgate has earmarked a ...
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Garelik named senior vp, theatrical distribution, at Overture
Former Nielsen EDI vice president of client services Matt Garelik has joined Overture Films as senior vice president of theatrical distribution.Based in Overture's Beverly Hills offices, Garelik will handle Overture's western distribution, and will work alongside senior vice president of theatrical distribution Greg Forston who handles eastern distribution. Garelik reports ...
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Paramount's Fragen moves to head domestic TV distribution at Summit
Alex Fragen has been hired as Summit Entertainment's president of domestic television distribution and will oversee the company's free and pay television, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, and hotel and airline sales.Fragen will also be involved in developing the new media distribution strategy for Summit's Home Entertainment division.He arrives from Paramount, where he ...
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Mitulescu's Romanian Way finds US home in Film Movement
Film Movement has picked up domestic rights to Catalin Mitulescu's Romanian drama The Way I Spent The End Of The World, on which Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders served as executive producers.The film takes place in 1989 in the last year of Ceausesu's regime as a seven-year-old boy who vows ...
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National Lampoon acquires worldwide on Rifkin's Homo Erectus
National Lampoon has acquired worldwide rights to Homo Erectus by Adam Rifkin, whose feature Look just won the Grand Jury Prize at the CineVegas Film Festival.The National Lampoon, Burnt Orange Productions and University Of Texas Film Institute co-production premiered at Slamdance this year and will be released in September as ...
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Akamas wins best feature prize at LA Greek Film Festival
Panikos Chrysanthou's Akamas won the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival's Orpheus Award for best narrative feature and Valerie Kontakos's Who's On First won corresponding documentary honours as the festival closed on Jun 17.A Special Jury Award went to Dimitris Koutsiabasakos for The Guardian's Son. Alexander Voulgaris was named best director ...