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Vicki Cherkas joins Picturehouse as evp of operations
Vicki Cherkas has left GreeneStreet Films after six years and joined Picturehouse as senior executive vice president of operations.Cherkas will report directly to Picturehouse president Bob Berney and assumes responsibility for company operations, which encompasses overseeing productions and acquisitions deals, running daily business operations, and liaising with New Line and ...
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Wild Hogs is a smash for Disney with $38m opening
The Walt Disney Company scored its biggest March opening as the ensemble comedy Wild Hogs stormed to the top on an estimated $38m.John Travolta - enjoying a career best first weekend - stars with William H Macy, Martin Lawrence and Tim Allen as suburban bikers who go in search of ...
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Ghost Rider stays top in international markets with $16.3m take
Ghost Rider continued to blaze a trail across the international arena as it dominated the market for the third consecutive weekend.The comic book adventure grossed an estimated $16.3m through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) from approximately 4,000 prints in 56 territories and now stands at $60.7m with $100m well within ...
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Baron Cohen gets Israel Film Festival achievement award
Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen has been chosen to be the inaugural recipient of the outstanding achievement award at the 22nd Annual Israel Film Festival.The British comedian will join fellow nominees Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal and Israeli actress Gila Almagor at the opening night gala award dinner on ...
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SPRI's Ghost Rider blazes into UK, Japan, Brazil
Ghost Rider is expected to dominate the international arena for a third consecutive weekend as it prepares to launch in three major markets.Sony Pictures Releasing International's (SPRI) comic book adaptation has amassed $41.3m so far and this weekend rides into the UK and Brazil on Mar 2 on 350 and ...
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Dukakis, MacLaine reteam for Ash's Poor Things
Olympia Dukakis is in talks to join Shirley MacLaine on the dark comedy Poor Things, in what would be their first on-screen reunion in nearly 20 years.The pair last starred together in 1989's box office smash Steel Magnolias. This time around the tone is very different: Poor Things is inspired ...
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Blindsight continues to see sales for Little Film Company
Little Film Company has concluded major territory sales at the European Film Market to Robson Entertainment's documentary Blindsight.The film, which won the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, sold to TAO Cinemathek (Germany), Phantom Films (Japan), Conquest Films (Brazil), and Quality Films (Mexico).Rights also went to Svensk ...
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Paramount veteran Ciccone to head 42West's west coast division
Susan Ciccone has joined 42West to head its West Coast film marketing division. Ciccone will leave her current position as vice president of publicity at Paramount Pictures, where she has served for nearly eight years, and assumes her new role in mid-April.She will work out of the company's Century City ...
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Tarantino to present Grindhouse festival at LA cinema
Heralding the Apr 6 release of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's double feature Grindhouse, a Los Angeles repertory cinema will host Quentin Tarantino Presents the Los Angeles Grindhouse Festival 2007 from Mar 4-Apr 30.The event at the New Beverly Cinema will screen more than 50 exploitation films from the 1970s ...
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Lives Of Others gets English-language remake from Mirage, TWC
Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack will produce an English-language remake of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's foreign-language Oscar winner The Lives Of Others for The Weinstein Company (TWC).The film-makers will serve as producers under their Mirage Productions label, which has renewed its exclusive first-look deal with TWC. It remained unclear last ...
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Departed players reteam for Confession remake
It looks like Warner Bros is keen to replicate the success of Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning The Departed. The remake of Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs picked up four Oscars, including best picture, director and adapted screenplay, on Sunday night and has grossed more than $250m. ...
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JJ Abrams Star Trek movie set for Dec 25 2008 release
Paramount Pictures has confirmed that JJ Abrams' upcoming 11th Star Trek instalment will begin shooting this autumn in time for a Dec 25 2008 release.Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, Abram's co-writers on Mission Impossible III, wrote the screenplay and will serve as executive producers alongside Bryan Burk. Abrams and his ...
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Toho-Towa to handle Universal films in Japan
Universal Pictures will dissolve its distribution venture UIP Japan and will launch a partnership with Toho-Towa this summer.The first films to open through the new partnership will bePaul Greengrass' The Bourne Ultimatum starring Matt Damon.'We are extremely pleased to be in business with Toho-Towa, who will be invested in the ...
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Music Within, Away From Her bookend first AFI Dallas festival
Steven Sawalich's Vietnam veteran saga Music Within and Sarah Polley's Alzheimer's tale Away From Her bookend the inaugural AFI Dallas International Film Festival, scheduled to run from Mar 22-Apr 1.Overall 191 features and shorts will screen, with sponsor Target lining up two $25,000 prizes to the winners of the narrative ...
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GreeneStreet, Katz reteam for third time on Strange But True
New York and Los Angeles-based GreeneStreet Films (GSF) has purchased the screenplay and the rights to John Searles' novel Strange But True.Ross Katz brought the project to GSF and will produce with the company, which will finance and produce. Katz and GSF previously collaborated on In The Bedroom and are ...
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'Could you double-check the envelope please'' Scorsese jokes as crime thriller proves biggest winner of the night
The Departed stole the show at the 79th Academy Awards in Hollywood last night, taking top prize for best picture and propelling Martin Scorsese to his long-awaited first directing Oscar.Warner Bros and Initial Entertainment Group's crime thriller remake took four awards overall and had been regarded as a solid contender ...
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Ghost Rider takes international lead with $16.1m from 40 territories
Ghost Rider's fiery lass tightened its grip on the international arena in the film's second weekend, adding an estimated $16.1m from 3,000 screens in 40 markets for a $39.4m international running total.The action film opened at number one in Germany through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) on $2.2m from 363 ...
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Rider rules in North America with $19.7m second weekend
Sony's action title Ghost Rider held on to top spot at the North American box office in its second weekend, fending off New Line's new psycho-thriller The Number 23, which had to make do with the number two.The Marvel Comics adaptation added an estimated $19.7m to raise the tally to ...
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Oscar nominees open far and wide across the globe
Ghost Rider ruled the roost last weekend and Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) will be looking to reap more rewards in the all-important second weekend.The comic book adaptation stands at $16.6m and takes off in Germany and Switzerland today (Feb 22), followed by India a day later.Fox International opens Notes ...
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Adriene Bowles gets promotion at Focus Features
Adriene Bowles has been promoted to president of worldwide publicity and executive vice president of marketing at Focus Features.The appointment expands Bowles' remit - she previously worked in the company's domestic division as executive vice president of publicity and marketing - and gives her a more proactive role in establishing ...