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United States - Found in transition
Newly ensconced as head of worldwide marketing and distribution at Los Angeles-based Lakeshore Entertainment, former Paramount Classics co-head David Dinerstein is quietly ushering in a revolution.The quality of projects produced and sold by Lakeshore will stay the same of course, but Dinerstein is plotting an expanded production slate typically falling ...
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New Yorker Films gorges on Still Life for US
New Yorker Films has picked up Jia Zhang-Ke's Venice 2006 Golden Lion winner Still Life and has scheduled an autumn platform release in New York City followed by a nationwide roll-out.Still Life chronicles the changes that sweep through an ancient town when a hydro-dam project forces families to uproot and ...
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Dorian Gray adaptation opens NewFest
Duncan Roy's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's cautionary tale The Picture Of Dorian Gray, starring David Gallagher, will open NewFest: The 19th Annual New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival.Robert Cary's drama Save Me will close the festival. Chad Allen, Robert Gant, and Judith Light star in the tale ...
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Filipino Oscar-contender finds US home
TLA Releasing has acquired North American non-theatrical, video, and select TV rights from Unitel Pictures International to Filipino director Aureaus Solito's The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros.The distributor plans a DVD release on Aug 28 on the story of a gay pre-teen growing up with petty thieves in the slums of ...
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Paramount Vantage sales team takes shape with Walton hire
Alex Walton has left HanWay Films to join Paramount Vantage as vice president of international sales and will relocate from London to Los Angeles.The specialty division will launch its foreign sales operation in Cannes, a move that has been widely predicted since Nick Meyer joined the studio as co-president following ...
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Mehta to serve as visiting artist at Loyola Marymount
Deepa Mehta will serve as the inaugural Cosgrove Family Endowment Distinguished Visiting Artist at the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television (SFTV).Mehta's appointment is for the 2007 and 2008 academic years, during which time she will mentor students and participate in workshops, seminars and lectures with an emphasis ...
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GreeneStreet Films options The Contortionist's Handbook
GreeneStreet Films (GSF) has optioned Craig Clevenger's psychological thriller The Contortionist's Handbook through its development finance deal with private financier Sriram Das.Das will produce with GSF the story of a master forger who creates a string of new identities for himself as he runs from a traumatic past. When he ...
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Intermedia-backed sales-distribution company will be called IM Global
The recently launched Los Angeles and London-based international sales and distribution company backed by Intermedia will be called IM Global, it was announced last night.IM Global, headed by president Stuart Ford and Intermedia chairman Martin Schuermann, will bring a number of Intermedia titles, as well as the slate assembled by ...
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Spider-Man 3 makes record-breaking opening
Spider-Man 3 grossed a sensational estimated $29.15m in its first day in 16 international territories on May 1, eclipsing the opening day results of the first two episodes in the same territories. Ten of the territories (eight Asian, seven European and Egypt) generated record opening or single day marks, ...
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Media 8 picks up four including Eichmann, hires Anisi
Media 8 Entertainment will arrive in Cannes with four new titles for sale, including the historical drama Eichmann starring Thomas Kretschmann, Franka Potente, Troy Garity, and Stephen Fry.The company also announced that Tannaz Anisi has joined as vice president of international distribution and will jointly handle Media 8 sales alongside ...
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Picturehouse launches open casting calls for American Girl movie
Picturehouse will stage a series of open casting calls at American Girl Place shops in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York in the first two weeks of May for eight-12-year-old roles in its upcoming American Girl adaptation Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery.Abigail Breslin will play Kit Kettredge, a resourceful ...
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Warner Bros takes worldwide rights to 11th Hour
The Warner Bros fold has picked up worldwide rights to the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced eco-doc 11th Hour in a pre-emptive move ahead of the film's world premiere at Cannes.Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) will handle the domestic release while Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) will release around the world.Leila Conners-Petersen and Nadia ...
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MPAA changes Hip Hop rating from R to PG-13
The Motion Picture Association of America's ratings review board has revised the rating for THINKFilm's The Hip Hop Project from an R to a PG-13.The eight-member panel voted six to two in favour of the change, citing the upcoming release's 'positive images and inspiring message'.'This motion picture is a call ...
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Lakeshore reorganises, hires Deckter, promotes Burke. Longmuir
Lakeshore Entertainment chairman and chief executive officer Tom Rosenberg and president of worldwide marketing and distribution David Dinerstein have announced wide-ranging changes at the Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company.Former Arclight Films president of international sales and Morgan Creek International vice president Jonathan Deckter arrives as senior vice president ...
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Former Blockbuster executive Wilson joins First Look as COO
Dean Wilson has been named chief operating officer First Look Studios (FLS) and will report to FLS chief executive officer Trevor Short and Avi Lerner, co-chairman of FLS controlling company First Look Holdings.Wilson most recently served as head of new business development for Blockbuster Inc and was responsible for the ...
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Disturbia heads soft pre-Spider weekend at domestic box office
Faced with the modest threat of three new releases, Paramount's thriller Disturbia held on to the number one spot for the third weekend in a row as an estimated $9.1m elevated its running total to $52.2m.This was an extremely slow weekend - how often does the top film gross less ...
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Hogs, Bean lead lacklustre international weekend
Buena Vista International's (BVI) biker romp Wild Hogs held on to the international box office by the skin of its teeth as it added an estimated $7.2m from 3,200 screens in 37 markets to raise the tally to $55m.Nearly one-quarter of this amount has come from Australia, where after two ...
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Summit back at Cannes with Walden, Polanski, Step Up 2
Patrick Wachsberger's Summit International, now embedded in the worldwide production and distribution company Summit Entertainment, has unveiled its Cannes sales slate.The roster includes two Summit productions - a second instalment in the nascent dance franchise Step Up and the teen fight club drama Get Some - as well as third ...
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Tribeca domestic deal closed on Maccarone's Vivere
here! Films has picked up North American rights to Angelina Maccarone's German drama Vivere at Tribeca and will release in theatres through sister company Regent Releasing.The story centres on three women on the run, each trying to save each other, and in the process, save themselves. Hannelore Elsner, Esther Zimmering, ...
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Koch Lorber picks up Tribeca competition entry 9 Star Hotel
Koch Lorber Films has picked up Israeli film-maker Ido Haar's documentary 9 Star Hotel from Israeli-based Eden Productions and plans an immediate US release.The Arabic and Hebrew-language film in English subtitles is receiving its North American Premiere in competition at Tribeca and will launch at New York's Film Forum on ...