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Sharkwater wins Gen Art Film Festival in New York
Rob Stewart's Sharkwater won the 12th Annual Gen Art Film Festival's Acura Grand Jury Feature Film Award and a $10,000 prize, while Phillip Van's High Maintenance took home $5,000 and the Acura Grand Jury Short Film Award.Both film-makers also claimed the audience Gen Art Film Festival Audience Awards as the ...
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Wild Hogs bikes into 22 territories for BVI
Mr Bean's Holiday, 300, Perfect Stranger, Wild Hogs and Shooter are all in wide release in what should be a tight weekend at the overseas box office.Universal/UPI's reigning champion Mr Bean's Holiday has no major releases on the schedule in the immediate days ahead, but the $128.6m perch should bring ...
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MGM unveils straight-to-DVD slate
MGM will further leverage its extensive library by developing a slate of home entertainment product that will focus primarily on youth markets.The new division, MGM Home Entertainment Productions, plans to release 12 or more projects a year and has earmarked a new instalment in the 2002 police thriller Dark Blue ...
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GreeneStreet ties up MIP deals with LAPTV, Star TV
GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) has tied up a slew of deals at MIPTV with Latin American Pay Television (LAPTV) for Pan Latin America, Star TV for Pan Asia and Entertainment In Motion for airline rights.LAPTV picked up rights to the crime thriller Slow Burn starring Ray Liotta and L L ...
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Cotter teams with Citi for new production, finance, sales outfit
Initial Entertainment Group partner Colin Cotter and financial conglomerate Citi have formed the full-service film production and finance company Continental Entertainment Group (CEG).Cotter will remain a partner in IEG and will serve as president and chief executive officer of CEG and its subsidiary Continental Pictures, a global sales company backed ...
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Valderrama, Fishburne head cast of Days Of Wrath
Production started in Los Angeles this week on the crime drama Days Of Wrath starring Wilmer Valderrama, Amber Valletta, and Laurence Fishburne.Celia Fox is directing the Foxy Films production from a screenplay she co-wrote with Michael Markee and Mitchell Kapner based on a true story.Valderrama plays a Latino mobster who ...
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Mandate seals Helm, Garavente for first-look deal
Mandate Pictures has signed a first-look deal with Zach Helm and producing partner Jim Garavente following the parties' collaboration on Stranger Than Fiction and the upcoming Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium.Mandate will fully finance the new venture - called gang of two - and will look to produce films written by ...
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Villa Muse studio concept announced in Austin, Texas
Texas state and industry leaders have unveiled the $1.5bn Villa Muse mixed-use development that will break ground in East Austin, at the heart of which will be a $125m, 200-acre studio.The Villa Muse Studios will serve the film, television and video game industries, and will be surrounded by architecturally diverse ...
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O'Brien, McDowell, Singh get honoured at Palm Beach
Margaret O'Brien, Malcolm McDowell, South African producer Anant Singh and actress Q'Orianka Kilcher will receive honorary awards at the 12th Annual Palm Beach International Film Festival (PBIFF), which runs from Apr 19-26.Former child star O'Brien will collect the Legend In Film Award and will appear at a screening of Meet ...
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Johnny Slade leads winners at 10th Sonoma Valley Festival
Larry Blamire's crime caper Johnny Slade's Greatest Hits took top honours for best feature at the 10th Annual Sonoma Valley Film Festival, which came to a close at the weekend after five days of film, wine, panels and galas.Cristina Khuly's Shoot Down, which chronicles a little known political firestorm surrounding ...
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Berger & Yerxa sign two-year first-look deal with WIP
Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) has signed a two-year first look deal with Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa's Bona Fide Productions.Berger and Yerxa are preparing an adaptation of The Abstinence Teacher for the studio, with Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris set to direct in their follow-up to Little Miss Sunshine.Tom Perrotta, ...
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Doc on Israeli-Palestinian conflict wins Beverly Hills festival
Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish's Occupation 101 won the Golden Palm Award for best film in all categories at the 7th Annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival (BHFF), which wrapped at the weekend.The documentary charts the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the US Administration's role and also won the ...
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Intermedia plans new international sales company with Ford at helm
Intermedia Films unveiled a new international sales and distribution venture yesterday with former First Look International (FLI) president Stuart Ford installed as president and managing director. Ford arrives at the unnamed Los Angeles- and London-based company with the bulk of the core team he assembled over the past year at ...
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Disturbia is domestic number one for Paramount with $23m
Paramount Pictures scored a double whammy at the top of the charts as DreamWorks' psychological thriller Disturbia opened top on an estimated $23m and the Will Ferrell comedy Blades Of Glory fell one place to number two on $14.1m for $90.2m after three weekends.Disturbia which echoes Rear Window with its ...
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Sony Classics to finance, distribute Mamet's Redbelt
Sony Pictures Classics will fully finance and handle worldwide distribution on longtime collaborator David Mamet's American Samurai tale Redbelt.Chiwetel Ejiofor will star in the story of a martial arts master who enters prize fights for the first time in his life to pay off debts and regain his honour after ...
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Strand picks up US rights to Techine's The Witnesses
Strand Releasing has picked up all US rights to Andre Techine's AIDS drama The Witnesses (Les Temoins) from UGC International and has set a late autumn nationwide release.Strand co-president Jon Gerrans and UGC's Eva Diederix negotiated the deal on the film, which centres on a group of friends and lovers ...
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Australians In Film to honour Fisher, McLean, De Ravin
Australians In Film, the LA expat group, will hold its third annual Breakthrough Awards on May 3 in Beverly Hills honouring Isla Fisher, Greg McLean and Emilie De Ravin.Fisher stars opposite Jason Biggs in the upcoming romantic comedy Wedding Daze that MGM plans to release on Aug 17, and she ...
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SPRI's Perfect Stranger hopes to seduce 37 markets
Warner Bros' Veteran campaigner 300 will step into the ring against Universal's Mr Bean's Holiday this weekend as the films slug it out in their latest bout for international supremacy.The two releases have played musical chairs over the last two weekends, swapping the number one and two spots while the ...
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Julie Sultan joins Peace Arch from Lakeshore
Julie Sultan has joined Peach Arch Entertainment Group as executive vice president of international theatrical film sales.Sultan arrives from Lakeshore Entertainment where she served as vice president of international sales. She will be based at Peace Arch's expanded California offices in Marina Del Rey and reports to Peace Arch Entertainment ...
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Freestyle picks up domestic rights to Civic Duty
Freestyle Releasing has scheduled a May 4 North American release for Jeff Renfroe's pyschological thriller Civic Duty after picking up domestic rights.Peter Krause stars as a happily married accountant who becomes obsessed with America's war on terrorism after he loses his job. Richard Schiff, Kari Matchett, Ian Tracey and Egyptian ...