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Penny Wolf quits Peace Arch Films
Penny Wolf is leaving her post as managing director of Peace Arch Films in London, effective Mar 16.Wolf will attend the European Film Market in Berlin to meet buyers as a company employee, before going on to pursue new opportunities.Further details including an announcement of Wolf's replacement will follow in ...
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McLaurin hired to lead MPAA's education outreach
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has named Stewart McLaurin as executive vice president of education affairs.In this newly created position McLaurin will lead the association's education and outreach programmes. Specifically he will target university and K-12 administrators, educators and students and lawmakers and other government officials to promote ...
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Wheldon to administer NewFest
Kerry Weldon has been hired as administrative director at NewFest, where she will serve as co-director of the organisation, and oversee finances, development, and administration in partnership with artistic director Basil Tsiokos.Weldon begins in her new post on Feb 1, working on fundraising and corporate relations leading up to NewFest ...
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Hoblit's Untraceable rounds out cyber thriller cast
Colin Hanks, Billy Burke, Joseph Cross and Mary Beth Hurt have joined Diane Lane in the cast of Lakeshore Entertainment's upcoming cyber thriller Untraceable.Screen Gems will release the film in North America and Sony Pictures Releasing International is distributing in Latin America.Untraceable is set to begin production in February and ...
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Universal unveils regional film-buying network across its labels
Universal Pictures and Focus Features are consolidating their worldwide acquisitions operations to support NBC Universal's global theatrical distribution network.Universal Pictures chairman Marc Shmuger, co-chairman David Linde, and Focus Features and Rogue Pictures chairman James Schamus will oversee the restructured division along with Universal executive vice president Michael Joe and Focus ...
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Relativity strikes massive studio co-financing pact with Citigroup
Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is teaming up with Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking to co-finance approximately 45 films from an as-yet-unnamed Hollywood studio over the next five years. Exact details of the this massive deal were not disclosed at time of writing. However, if it follows the parameters of recent ...
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SilverDocs pays tribute to Jonathan Demme
SilverDocs will honour Jonathan Demme at the Charles Guggenheim Symposium, the six-day documentary festival's centerpiece event set to take place in June just outside Washington DC.Demme's documentary work includes: last year's Neil Young: Heart Of Gold; The Agronomist (2003), an account of the life of Haitian journalist and human rights ...
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Cinemavault adds three European premieres to Berlin slate
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International has boarded a number of new projects for the European Film Market in Berlin, among them the schizophrenia drama Canvas starring Marcia Gay Harden.Joe Pantoliano and newcomer Devon Gearhart also star in Joseph Greco's film, which will receive its European premiere in Berlin and centres on ...
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IFC pounces on Wild Tigers for North America
IFC Entertainment has acquired North American rights from Genius Products to Cam Archer's coming-of-age drama Wild Tigers I Have Known.IFC will release the film on Feb 28 through its theatrical and On Demand cable day-and-date distribution division IFC First Take.The deal is the latest example of IFC's strong alignment with ...
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Barab named international chief at American World Pictures
Martin Barab has joined Los Angeles-based distributor American World Pictures as president of international production and distribution.Barab, who recently exited his post as president of beleaguered Bauer Martinez Studio's production division Lucky 50 Productions, will work closely with American World Pictures chairman Mark Lester and production president Dana Dubovsky.Aside from ...
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Grohne to spearhead new London office for First Look
First Look International (FLI) is opening a London office and has hired sales executive Tim Grohne from Celsius Entertainment to front the UK operation as vice president, international sales.FLi is also relocating LA-based international sales manager John Vista Neis to London. Joining them will be vice president, European TV/DVD sales ...
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Bell hired as Paramount's technology chief
Paramount Pictures has hired former Warner Bros executive vice president of advanced technology Alan Bell as executive vice president and chief technology officer.In the newly created position, Bell will oversee worldwide technology strategy and advise on all related technical, business, legal and regulatory matters.In addition he will explore, evaluate and ...
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P.O.V. to broadcast Israeli Sundance doc Hot House
P.O.V., the long-running strand for non-fiction films on US public television (PBS), has picked up broadcast rights to Shimon Dotan's Israeli documentary Hot House following its recent world premiere at Sundance.The film played in the World Cinema Competition: Documentary programme and examines the lives of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.P.O.V. ...
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Hand Picked duo tune into Vivaldi life-story
Hand Picked Films' Michel Shane and Anthony Romano and financier Carlos Melcer have boarded the musical biopic Vivaldi, which is set to star Joseph Fiennes.Shane and Romano, whose executive producer credits include I, Robot and Catch Me If You Can, will produce alongside Boris Damast and Andrea Kikot of Mechaniks, ...
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Hoskins joins Mitra in Doomsday cast
Bob Hoskins has joined Rhona Mitra on the cast of Rogue Pictures' action thriller Doomsday, Neil Marshall's follow-up to his horror hit The Descent.Production is set to begin on Feb 9 in South Africa. Crystal Sky Pictures' Steven Paul and Benedict Carver are producing and Intrepid Pictures principals Trevor Macy ...
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Mirren, Whitaker win SAG awards in final stages of Oscar race
Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren confirmed their status as favourites to claim the Oscar after they won top honours at the 13 Annual Screen Actors Guild in Los Angeles last night.Confirming that it is a best picture Oscar frontrunner, Little Miss Sunshine won the ensemble cast award, beating heavyweight films ...
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Tijuana, Unsettled are top Slamdance winners
The 13th Slamdance Film Festival announced its 16 film and screenplay prize-winners as the event wound down at the weekend.The festival received a record 3,600-plus submissions from 20 countries for less than 100 slots, and registered approximately 20,000 attendees.There was one high-profile sale, as Picturehouse bought domestic rights to Seth ...
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Padre Nuestro, Manda Bala take top Sundance prizes, as dealmaking slows
The Sundance deals avalanche slowed down as the festival ended over the weekend, with THINKFilm picking up North American rights to David Wain's comedy The Ten in association with City Lights Pictures' joint venture with Warner Music Group division WEA.THINKFilm plans a summer release for the film, which deploys 10 ...
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Producing nominees named for Best Picture Oscar
The producers branch executive committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the final roster of producers nominated in the best picture category for the 79th Annual Academy Awards.Graham King was named sole producing nominee on The Departed, while Brad Grey, Brad Pitt and Martin Scorsese, ...
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Museum remains top for Fox, followed by Happyness, Diamond
Fox International's Night At The Museum remained the overseas champion yet again as it added an estimated $14.6m from 2,500 screens in 48 markets for $193.7m.The family film opened top in Spain on $5.6m from 483 and top in the Philippines on $800,000 from 96. It ranked fourth in its ...