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Gartenstein named president of US distributor Film Movement
Adley Gartenstein has been promoted to president at distributor Film Movement and will oversee all day-to-day activities as well as his ongoing duties as head of acquisitions and business affairs.The company has split the roles of president and chief executive officer as it enters its fifth yea and looks to ...
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Echeverria promoted to evp, Latin America, at Fox
Eduardo Echeverria has been promoted to executive vice president of Latin America for Fox International.Echeverria will continue to oversee the theatrical distribution, sales and marketing operations for all Fox Filmed Entertainment product in the region. His promotion takes effect immediately.'Having worked closely with Eduardo for the last six years, it ...
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Southern Baptist Sissies heads to screen through Funny Boy
Del Shores' Del Shores Productions has partnered with Funny Boy Films to transform his GLAAD Award-winning stage production of Southern Baptist Sissies to the big screen.Kirkland Tibbels of Funny Boy Films and Del Shores and Jason Dottley of Del Shores Productions will produce the feature. Pre-production is expected to begin ...
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A&E Indie Films buys US TV rights to hotly tipped Sundance doc
A&E IndieFilms announced has made a preemptive acquisition of North American television rights to Amir Bar-Lev's documentary My Kid Could Paint That.The film gets its world premiere at Sundance this weekend and focuses on an internationally renowned four-year-old painter who sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of art before ...
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Reeker 2 to kick off sales for CMG at Berlin next month
Dave Payne is preparing No Man's Land: Reeker 2, the sequel to his 2005 horror film about an unfathomable entity that starts to kill a group of friends in the desert.Ed Noeltner's Los Angeles-based Cinema Management Group (CMG) will commence sales at the European Film Market in Berlin next month. ...
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Volver, Lives, Labyrinth make Oscar shortlist of nine
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has named the nine films that have made it to the shortlist for the best foreign language Oscar.The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:Days Of Glory Algeria (dir Rachid Bouchareb)Water Canada (dir Deepa Mehta)After The Wedding Denmark (dir, Susanne Bier)Avenue ...
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New LA outfit to produce socally relevant film and TV
Santa Monica-based The Johnson-Roessler Company will produce and finance its debut feature Harrison For America, a satirical look at political fundraising.The company's David Johnson, Craig Roessler and Jesse Singer are serving as producers. Dennie Gordon (What A Girl Wants) is set to direct and production is scheduled to begin this ...
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Schreiber joins Participant overseeing social action and advocacy
Participant Productions further demonstrated its credentials as one of Hollywood's most overtly political company by hiring event producer John Schreiber in the newly created position of executive vice president of social action and advocacy.Schreiber 's prolific output includes organising White House gala events, Chinese cultural shows in New York and ...
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Cinemavault gets international rights to Canvas
Cinemavault Releasing International has acquired international rights to the drama Canvas starring Marcia Gay Harden, Joe Pantoliano, and newcomer Devon Gearhart.The Los Angeles-based company will screen the film for buyers at next month's European Film Market in Berlin.Joseph Greco wrote and directed the story of a family's struggle to cope ...
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WGA unveils nominees for documentary screenplay award
Deliver Us From Evil (Amy Berg), The Heart Of The Game (Ward Serrill), Once In A Lifetime (Mark Monroe), Who Killed The Electric Car' (Chris Paine), and Why We Fight (Eugene Jarecki) have been nominated for the Writers Guild of America's documentary screenplay award.The inaugural award was handed out in ...
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Optimum among buyers of Zinc's Botched from Darclight
Darclight Films has closed a raft of sales on the comedy-horror caper Botched from Joel Silver's Zinc Entertainment.Rights have gone to Optimum in the UK, Legend Media in Germany, Dutch Film Works in Benelux, Ukrainian DVD in CIS and Eastern Europe, Imagem in Brazil, PT Amero in Indonesia, and Gulf ...
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Sony staffs up worldwide acquisitions department
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has named Adrian Alperovich (pictured left) senior executive vice president and general manager and hired Lara Thompson (pictured centre) as senior vice president of acquisitions.Alperovich will oversee daily operations of the acquisitions team, which has hitherto operated under the auspices of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment ...
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Dreamgirls and Babel top Globes while Mirren and Whitaker lead acting prizes
Babel and Dreamgirls positioned themselves as Oscar frontrunners aftertaking top honours at the 64th Annual Golden Globes last night.Helen Mirren was crowned best actress in a drama for her portrayal ofthe reigning UK monarch in The Queen, while Forest Whitaker won bestactor for playing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The ...
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World power: the Golden Globes
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded in 1943 under the name The Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association by one William Mooring, a correspondent in Los Angeles for The Daily Mail in the UK.The group gave out awards from that year on, although the Golden Globe itself was inaugurated in ...
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Museum remains top international destination with $19.1m weekend
Ruling the waves is becoming a habit for Fox International's Night At The Museum, which held firm at the top of the charts as it crossed $150m in its fourth weekend.In fact the overseas arena minted two $150m releases for Fox International as Eragon swept past the milestone and finished ...
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Stomp The Yard takes domestic box office crown
Screen Gems' dance drama Stomp The Yard dance musical did a number on Fox's Night At The Museum as it toppled the former champion with an estimated $22m opening.The film followed in the footsteps of Glory Road and Coach Carter as the latest release with in-built appeal to black audiences ...
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Departed, Sunshine lead BFCA winners
The Broadcast Film Critics Association named The Departed best picture of 2006, crowned Martin Scorsese best director, and declared Letters From Iwo Jima the best foreign language film.Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker consolidated their status as Oscar frontrunners with further recognition in the best actor and actress categories for The ...
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Fox, On Demand seal German PPV deal with Kabel Deutschland
Twentieth Century Fox and On Demand Group have signed a multi-year pay-per-view deal to provide content to Germany's largest cable operator Kabel Deutschland. Titles include X-Men: The Last Stand, Walk The Line, and Ice Age: The Meltdown.The agreement was announced jointly by Jamie McCabe, executive vice president, PPV, VOD, and ...
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Sundance signs shorts deal with iTunes
The Sundance Institute and the Sundance Channel have signed a content deal with iTunes whereby a broad selection of narrative, documentary and animation shorts from the upcoming 2007 Sundance Film Festival will be available for download.The shorts will become available from Jan 22 and downloads will be priced at $1.99 ...
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Pathfinder, Smokin' Aces hit international markets ahead of US
Fox International launches action adventure Pathfinder in four international territories this weekend in advance of its domestic opening on April 27; meanwhile Universal/UPI opens crime caper Smokin' Aces in the UK ahead of its US opening on Jan 26.The overseas-first opening policy is becoming more prevalent and was used last ...