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Night At The Museum dominates holiday box office
Fox'sfamily film Night At The Museum stamped its mark on the box office in the penultimate releaseslot of the year with an estimated $43m four-day holiday season haul including $2.3m from 72 IMAX theatres thatproved far too strong for the competition.The weekend didn't only belong to Ben Stiller and his ...
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Babel, Dreamgirls and The Departed lead Globes nominations
Paramount Vantage’s maiden release Babel leads the field heading into January’s 64th Golden Globe Awards with seven nominations, while Helen Mirren earned three acting nods, Leonardo DiCaprio picked up two, and Forest Whitaker kept his robust prospects alive with a nomination for The Last King Of Scotland.
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Pirates DVD sells 10.5m units in first week for Buena Vista
Pirates OfThe Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest sold 10.5 million units in its first week of release in NorthAmerica, putting it on course to become the biggest live-action DVD seller ofall time and the biggest DVD of the year.Results overseashave been similarly impressive. Pirates has sold nearly 1.5 million copies inits ...
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Sundance names 12 screenplays in Jan 2007 Screenwriters Lab
12 projects covering themes ranging from the Haitian immigrationexperience to the legacy of violence in Argentina make the cut for the SundanceInstitute's annual Screenwriters Lab, which takes place from Jan 12-17 2007 atthe Sundance Resort in Utah.The five-day writer's workshop gives independent screenwriters theopportunity to work intensively on their feature ...
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Full List Of Golden Globe nominations 2006
Best Motion Picture - Drama:BabelBobbyThe DepartedLittle ChildrenThe QueenBest Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - Drama: Penelope Cruz VolverJudi Dench Notes On A ScandalMaggie Gyllenhaal SherrybabyHelen Mirren The QueenKate Winslet Little ChildrenBest Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - Drama:Leonardo DiCaprio Blood DiamondLeonardo DiCaprio The DepartedPeter ...
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Sherry Lansing to receive Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at 2007 Oscars
Former Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing will receive the Jean HersholtHumanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' boardof governors.Lansing will collect the honour during the 79th Academy Awards onFeb 25, 2007. The Hersholt Award is given to an individual whose humanitarianefforts have brought credit to the industry.'Sherry ...
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Factory Girl to open Santa Barbara Film Festival on Jan 25
George Hickenlooper's Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl will open the 22nd Santa BarbaraInternational Film Festival, which runs from Jan 25-Feb 4 2007.Sienna Miller stars as Andy Warhol's muse and 1960s 'It Girl',with support from Guy Pearce as Warhol, and Hayden Christensen as "Billy Quinn".The Holly Wiersma production of a Weinstein ...
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Fox's fantasy Eragon flies into 76 territories
Fox International unleashes the fantasy adventure Eragon in 76 territories this weekend day-and-datewith the North American release.The film went out in Germany, Russia and Australia on Dec 14, theUK, Spain and Mexico on Dec 15, and Japan on Dec 16. It opens in France, Italyand Brazil next week and South ...
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Biel to get Rising Star award at Palm Springs
The 18th AnnualPalm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will honour Jessica Biel withthe Rising Star Award.Biel, who starsin The Illusionistand upcoming release Home Of The Brave, will collect her honour at the festival's annual AwardsGala on Jan 6, 2007.'This isone of our most star-studded award galas to date and we're ...
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PGA Vanguard award goes to TV awards producer Ken Ehrlich
Televisionawards producer Ken Ehrlich will receive the Producers Guild of America's (PGA)2007 Visionary Award at the Annual PGA Awards on Jan 20 in Los Angeles.The VisionaryAward honors producers and/or a television or film production that demonstratesa 'unique or uplifting quality.'Ehrlich has beenthe creative force behind televised shows for the Grammys, ...
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Babel, Departed, Dreamgirls lead Globe nominations
Paramount Vantage's maidenrelease Babel leads the fieldheading into January's 64th Golden Globe Awards with seven nominations, whileHelen Mirren earned three acting nods, Leonardo DiCaprio picked up two, andForest Whitaker kept his robust prospects alive with a nomination for TheLast King Of Scotland.Hollywood Foreign PressAssociation (HFPA) voters spread their goodwill far ...
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Euro equity firms buy majority stake in Germany's ProSieben
Lavena Holding 4 GmbH has signed a share purchase agreement forthe acquisition of German Media Partners' majority stake in TV broadcasterProSiebenSat.1 Media AG for 3.1bn Euros ($4.1bn).Upon completion of the share purchase agreement, Lavena Holding 4GmbH, which is controlled by funds advised by KKR and Permira, will acquireapproximately 88% of ...
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Gitai, Springali films to screen at New York Jewish Film Festival
The 16th annualNew York Jewish Film Festival will run from Jan 10-25 2007 featuring 31 filmsand two world, nine US and nine New York premieres.Highlightsinclude Amos Gitai's documentary News From Home/News From House, Christian Delage's documentary Nuremberg:The Nazis Facing Their Crimes, and the US premiere of Alejandro Springall's comedy MyMexican ...
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Cinemavault acquires Chatham with Reynolds, Hopper
Cinemavault Releasing International has picked up internationalrights to the $8m romantic comedy Chatham starring Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper and Martin Landau.Anne Archer and Peter Boyle also star in the story, which takesplace in Cape Cod in 1905 and follows three retired sea captains as they try toseduce an attractive middle-aged ...
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Roberts to produce, may star in Happiness Sold Separately
Julia Roberts will produce and may star in Scott Coffey'sbittersweet drama Happiness Sold Separately.Fox Searchlight is in talks to distribute the film and Roberts will produce throughher company Red Om alongside Team Todd's Suzanne and Jennifer Todd, as well asJoe Roth and Valeska Ramet.Based on Lolly Winston's bestseller, Happiness Sold ...
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Benton to receive Screen Laurel Award from Writers Guild Of America
Robert Benton will receive the Writers Guild of America, West's(WGAW) Screen Laurel Award at the 2007 Writers Guild Awards ceremony on Feb 11,2007.'What an impressive and varied screenwriting career RobertBenton has had,' WGAW president Patric M Verrone said. 'Yet whathasn't varied is the quality of his work and audiences' appreciation ...
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Sunshine to receive Vanguard award at Palm Springs
Little Miss Sunshine will receive the Chairman's Vanguard Award at the 18th Annual PalmSprings International Film Festival (PSIFF) awards gala on Jan 6, 2007.Cast members will attend along with screenwriter MichaelArndt and directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris to collect the honour.Previously announced honorees at Palm Springs this year includethe ...
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Clickstar signs distribution deals with Sony, Universal, Warner
ClickStar, the US broadband entertainment company founded byMorgan Freeman and Lori McCreary's Revelations Entertainment along with IntelCorporation, has announced digital distribution agreements with several leadingstudios.Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios HomeEntertainment and Warner Bros Home Entertainment have agredd to provide contentahead of ClickStar's launch this week as a purveyor of ...
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Dimension picks up multiple rights to Storm Warning
Dimension Films has pickedup all North American, Australian and New Zealand rights from Darclight Filmsto the horror-thriller Storm Warning.Jamie Blanks directed from ascreenplay by Everett De Roche. Darclight general manager Gary Hamilton andPeter Ford produced and Martin Fabinyi, Michael Gudinski, Greg Sitch and MarkPennell served as executive producers.Nadia Feres, Robert ...
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Micosoft's Broes hired at Paramount Digital Entertainment
Derek Broes has been hired as senior vice president of worldwidebusiness development at Paramount Digital Entertainment. In the newly created position Broes will be responsible foridentifying new business opportunities across broadband and mobile platforms.He reports directly to Paramount Digital Entertainment presidentThomas Lesinski.Broes arrives from Microsoft Corporation where he served as ...