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Nu Image acquires control of First Look Studios
Nu Image has acquired effective control of First Look Studios in the wake of Henry Winterstern's recent departure as the latter company's co-chairman and chief executive officer.The companies had been linked for some time and it was originally rumoured that First Look would acquire Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort and Trevor ...
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Nancy Collet leaves AFI FEST after ten years
Nancy Collet has resigned as AFI FEST's director of programming after seven years in the position. No replacement has been announced yet.Collet, who often personally viewed as many as 1,000 films each year, joined AFI as festival coordinator in 1997. Shortly after that she was promoted to programme manager and ...
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Elijah Wood to lead voice cast for Focus Features' 9
Elijah Wood will lead an all-star ensemble on Focus Features' upcominganimated epic 9 from Shane Acker, which is currently in production.Joining Wood on the voice cast are Jennifer Connelly, John C Reilly,Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, and Crispin Glover.Tim Burton is producing with Timur Bekmambetov, the Russian creator ofthe Night Watch ...
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Shamrock to invest $50m in digital 3-D company Real D
Shamrock Capital Growth Fund, part of Roy Disney's investment vehicleShamrock Holdings, is investing $50m in Beverly Hills-based digital3-D system manufacturer Real D.The deal gives Shamrock Holdings a minority stake in Real D, which hasequipped more than 700 screens in 14 countries and is expected to bein more than 1,000 screens ...
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Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival to screen 12 world premieres
Tribeca Film Festival parent company Tribeca Enterprises and ESPN yesterday announced the screenings for the inaugural Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, which will take place during the 12 days of the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival from Apr 25-May 6.The Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival will screen 14 feature-length films including 12 world ...
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IFC First Take to release Resnais, Honore films in US
IFC Entertainment has acquired US rights to the French dramas Private Fears In Public Places and Dans Paris.Both titles will go out through IFC's day-and-date distribution venture IFC First Take, with Private Fears set for Apr 13 and Dans Paris scheduled to open in late summer.'French cinema maintains a large ...
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Emily Blunt to play the queen in The Young Victoria
Emily Blunt, who earned rave reviews for her role as Meryl Streep's uptight assistant in The Devil Wears Prada, has been cast in the lead of Initial Entertainment Group's (IEG) upcoming drama The Young Victoria.Blunt will play the young Victoria who became the Queen of England aged 18. The film, ...
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Tribeca shorts line-up includes films from Plympton, Stiles
Entries featuring Bob Geldof, Mariel Hemingway and Zooey Deschanel are among 62 short films set to play during the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.Returning directors include Marie Losier, Bill Morrison, Bill Plympton and Jay Rosenblatt, with actor Julia Stiles also trying her hand.Among the progrmammes is the non-competitive section 'We Are ...
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Spike Lee signs on as advisor to Ckrush Entertainment
Spike Lee will serve as an advisor to entertainment group Ckrush Entertainment and will select projects and serve as executive producer on certain releases.The arrangement is for an initial period of two years. Ckrush had previously announced Lee 's involvement in the LiveMansion: The Movie director competition, in which he ...
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SPC takes on Ruzowitzky's Lola-nominated The Counterfeiter
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American rights from Beta Cinema to Stefan Ruzowitzky's Nazi drama The Counterfeiter, which is nominated for seven Lola awards including best film, actor and screenplay. The film recently received its world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival and tells the ...
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Spartans hold off domestic challengers
Like the formidable band of Spartan warriors that holds off a massive invading army in the film, Warner Bros' 300 resisted the advances of a wave of new releases to stay top and cross $125m. The effects-heavy action epic added an estimated $31.2m following last weekend's record March launch ...
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300 powers into the top spot at international box office
Warner Bros Pictures International's violent epic 300 continues to indicate that it will be a worldwide phenomenon with a sensational $15.6m weekend in just 13 territories on 1,300 screens.It opened in Korea with a $6.3m five-day gross on 353 screens, it took $1.5m on 115 screens in Turkey, making it ...
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Gordon, Podeswa named as Film Independent teaching fellows
Film Independent has announced the fellows for its seventh-annual Directors Lab, which runs in Los Angeles until April 16.Keith Gordon, who directed the feature film version of The Singing Detective and also Waking The Dead, will teach the Lab along with The Five Senses director Jeremy Podeswa.Guests speakers include Bill ...
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Junior NASCAR doc revs up for Good
Production has begun in New York on the NASCAR documentary Racing Dreams from US media company Good.Marshall Curry is directing the film, which follows three young drivers aged 11-13 who race extreme karts in the World Karting Association's National Pavement Series, regarded as a feeding pool for future NASCAR talent.'The ...
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Hot-zone Louisiana unveils its largest studio complex yet
Construction work will begin later this year on the $500m River Studios and FilmPort film and television studio on the Mississippi River in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana.The 925,000 sq ft complex is the largest studio project in the state and will offer one-stop studio services, product development, and distribution and ...
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Tribeca announces final films for key sections
2007 Tribeca Film Festival organisers have announced the third and final group of feature selections for the Discovery, Showcase and Family Film Festival sections. Discovery includes 39 narrative and documentary features from up-and-coming directors from 12 countries. The line-up encompasses Matthew Barbato's sex reassignment documentary Alexis Arquette: She's My ...
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Magnolia picks up Great World Of Sound
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Craig Zobel'sGreat World Of Sound at the South By Southwest Film Festival.Patrick Healy and Kene Holliday star as two ordinary men who getcaught up in a record industry talent search and learn the finer - andnot so fine - points of being ...
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Vitale to step down as First Look president
Ruth Vitale will step down as president of First Look Pictures on April 30 following the board's decision to scale down its theatrical operations in the wake of Henry Winterstern's departure two weeks ago as CEO and co-chairman. Vitale will continue to oversee First Look Pictures' first wide release on ...
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Aja to put Piranha back into the water
Alexandre Aja will write and direct Dimension Film's upcoming Piranha remake, almost 30 years after the original opened in 1978. Atmosphere Entertainment founder Mark Canton, currently enjoying success with 300, is producing along with Marc Toberoff from IPW, Aja himself, and Gregory Levasseur. Alix Taylor, J Todd Harris ...
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SPC takes US rights to Buscemi's Van Gogh remake Interview
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has picked up US rights to Interview, Steve Buscemi's drama based on the late Theo Van Gogh's 2003 Dutch film of the same name which played at Sundance and Berlin this year.Buscemi directed from his own screenplay and stars opposite Sienna Miller as a jaded political ...