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Withoutabox partners with Cannes Market on Short Film Corner
Independent film online resource Withoutabox will serve as the exclusive partner on Cannes Film Festival's Fourth Annual Short Film Corner.Withoutabox will manage the event's film registration process, including solicitation, management and promotion of films. Film-makers registering films with the Short Film Corner will either use their existing Withoutabox control panel, ...
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Blades continues to dominate North American box office
Easter crowds favoured comedy and family fare as Paramount's Blades Of Glory and Buena Vista's Meet The Robinsons beat off R-rated Grindhouse and three other new releases to hold on to the top two spots.Blades Of Glory added an estimated $23m to raise the running total to $68.4m after two ...
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Seattle Festival to launch Northwest ProductionMarket
The 33rd Annual Seattle International Film Festival, running from May 24-Jun 17, has announced that it will launch the Northwest Production Market programme.The market will provide a forum for film-makers to discuss their projects with production companies and financiers. A companion programme, the Northwest Production Forum, will offer advice to ...
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300, Bean 2 lead spectacular international weekend
300 returned to winning ways as Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) action hit beat Mr Bean's Holiday by a whisker to the number one spot overseas.The film added an estimated $32m from 6,500 prints in 61 markets to raise the tally to $173m. It shot to the top in Germany ...
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Mr Bean goes into 23 new markets including Brazil, Italy, Mexico
Universal/UPI's Mr Bean's Holiday has swept past $50m within the first seven days of release and will be the one to beat overseas as it heads into the second weekend.The comedy sequel opens in another 23 territories including French-speaking Switzerland on Apr 4, Hong Kong on Apr 5, and Brazil, ...
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United States - Bridge To Smaller movies
Of the films he produced in the decade after leaving his job as president of production at Universal Pictures in 1996, Hal Lieberman is most closely associated with two super-expensive, independently financed megapictures - Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines and Around The World In 80 Days. These days, however, ...
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United States - Bridge To Smaller movies
Of the films he produced in the decade after leaving his job as president of production at Universal Pictures in 1996, Hal Lieberman is most closely associated with two super-expensive, independently financed megapictures - Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines and Around The World In 80 Days. These days, however, ...
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Film Movement: pick of the bunch
Since it was launched in 2002 by Larry Meistrich, New York-based Film Movement has released more than 100 foreign-language and independent features and shorts from 27 countries through its website, where members and non-members can buy a DVD of the month and peruse the ever-expanding catalogue.'We choose good titles that ...
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United States - Moving movies
Since it was launched in 2002 by Larry Meistrich, New York-based Film Movement has released more than 100 foreign-language and independent features and shorts from 27 countries through its website, where members and non-members can buy a DVD of the month and peruse the ever-expanding catalogue."We choose good titles that ...
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US music feature made available for download on Indie911
Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen's music industry documentary Before The Music Dies will become the first feature available for download through the online social network and music store Indie911.Viewers will be able to buy the film free of copyright protection for $9.99 on Apr 6, and can also download a ...
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Lucky You, The Gates set for Tribeca world premieres
Tribeca Film Festival top brass have booked the world premieres of Curtis Hanson's romance Lucky You starring Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore and festival closer The Gates, an art installation documentary from Antonio Ferrera and Albert Maysles.Lucky You, which stars Bana as a poker player wrestling with personal issues while ...
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Rice leaves Disney for top marketing job at UA
Dennis Rice has left The Walt Disney Studios to join United Artists as president of worldwide marketing and publicity.Rice, who oversaw campaigns for The Incredibles, National Treasure and Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 and Wild Hogs, among others, will report to UA chief executive officer Paula Wagner.Rice will oversee all ...
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Roadside buys the world on Wong's musical Colma
Roadside Attractions has picked up worldwide rights to Richard Wong's Colma: The Musical and plans a summer release in North America.The musical comedy centres on three high school graduates who rebel against their mundane existence in the Northern California cemetery town of Colma.Wong co-wrote the screenplay with HP Mendoza, who ...
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Pinkerton gets senior finance, capital management role at Paramount
Mark Pinkerton has been named senior vice president, finance, capital management at Paramount Pictures.In this newly created position, Pinkerton will take charge of strategic capital financing activities, including securing film financing and driving return on capital measurement for all Paramount business units. He will report to Paramount's chief financial officer ...
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NBC Universal plans 20 local channel launches in 2007/8
NBC Universal will launch 20 additional local television channels in 23 new countries across Europe, Asia and Latin America during 2007 and 2008 in a drive to boost revenues from its Global Networks Division.Existing NBC Universal channels, including Sci-Fi, 13th Street and Universal Channel, will launch for the first time ...
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Overture hires Davies as evp, theatrical distribution
Kyle Davies has joined fledgling Los Angeles-based studio Overture Films in the new position of executive vice president of theatrical distribution.The 20-year distribution veteran arrives from Paramount, where he most recently served as vice president, Western division and before that as vice president, central division, at DreamWorks.At Overture, Davies will ...
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Lakeshore sets cast for horror movie Pathology
Lakeshore Entertainment has announced casting on the upcoming horror film Pathology, which will star Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren Lee Smith, Alyssa Milano, and Johnny Whitworth.Filming is set to begin in April on the story of medical students who devise a sinister game to see who among them can commit the perfect ...
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Gruffudd joins voice cast of animated Agent Crush
Ioan Gruffudd has joined the voice cast of Agent Crush, a $20m animated adventure from LA-based Fantastic Films International and UK-based Crush Productions.Gruffudd, who won acclaim for portraying the abolitionist William Wilberforce in Amazing Grace and reprises his role as Reed Richards this summer in Fantastic Four: Rise Of The ...
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Spendlove named president of music at Paramount
Randy Spendlove has been promoted to president of music at Paramount and will manage all music-related matters for the studio including film scoring, music supervision, and soundtrack production.Spendlove, who joined Paramount in 2006 as executive vice president of music and creative affairs, replaces Burt Berman, who stepped down to head ...
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Paris Je T'Aime to open RiverRun festival in North Carolina
The portmanteau feature Paris Je T'Aime and a Technicolor print of 1938's The Adventures Of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn bookend the 9th RiverRun International Film Festival.Mark Evan's drama Snow Cake is the centerpiece premiere at the festival, set to run from Apr 18-23 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.Overall 34 features ...