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Casino wins the weekend again for SPRI with $36.2m
Nothing could prise James Bond's kung-fu grip off the number oneberth for a fourth consecutive weekend as Casino Royale swept towards $250m.Sony Pictures Releasing International's (SPRI) 007 adventure addedan estimated $36.2m from 7,730 prints in 63 territories to stand at $247.2m. Itshould overtake Die Another Day's $271.1mnext weekend to become ...
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AFI names its ten best of 2006 including Borat, Prada
The top 10 films of 2006 as voted by the American Film Institute(AFI) are: Babel, Borat, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Half Nelson,Happy Feet, Inside Man, Letters From Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, and United 93.AFI will honour the creative ensembles behind each film at a lunchin Los Angeles on ...
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New York critics opt for United 93 as year's best
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) has named United 93 the best film of 2006, while Martin Scorsese’s best director award for The Departed kept his long-running Oscar quest on track.Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren won respective acting honours for The Last King of Scotland and The Queen, the ...
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Apocalypto beats out Holiday in North America
Hollywood's love for a second act and filmgoers' capacity for forgivenessrendered Mel Gibson's arrest for drunk driving and subsequent anti-semitictirade four months ago a distant memory as Apocalypto opened top at the North American box office this weekend.Gibson's R-rated Mayan epic, released in North America throughBuena Vista, launched on a ...
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TWC, Genius Products enter alliance with RHI Entertainment
The Weinstein Company (TWC) and home entertainment distributorGenius Products have entered into a strategic alliance with RHI Entertainment(formerly Hallmark Entertainment).Under the terms of the deal the parties will co-produce andco-finance a slate of television productions, including series, miniseries andmovies-of-the-week.Worldwide home video distribution of co-productions will gothrough Genius Products and worldwide ...
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Cinemavault takes international rights to Puffy Chair
Cinemavault Releasing International has acquired all internationalrights to Jay Duplass' 2005 Sundance Audience Award winning romantic comedy ThePuffy Chair.The film tells of a man who embarks on a road trip todeliver an outsized birthday gift to his father. Roadside Attractions and RedEnvelope Entertainment handled the US release.Mark Duplass wrote and ...
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CMG seals French, Scandinavia deals on Darryl Hunt
Ed Noeltner's Cinema Management Group has closed deals onthe Oscar shortlisted wrongful imprisonment documentary The Trials Of DarrylHunt.Rights have gone to France (Free Dolphin), Scandinavia (NobleFilms), Portugal (Filmes Unimundos) and Iceland (Sena Films).Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern's film is attracting stronginterest from buyers in Spain, Australia and Japan; it will ...
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NBR honours Letters From Iwo Jima, Whitaker and Mirren
Naming the first winners of the 2006/07 awards season, The National Board of Review has voted Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima the best film of 2006, while Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren earned respective acting honours for The Last King Of Scotland and The Queen.Martin Scorsese got his awards ...
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Casino to open in Australia, Mexico, strides past $200m
Casino Royale will sweep past $200m this weekend with four releases plannedthrough Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).007 ventures out into Australia and Argentina on Dec 7followed in Mexico a day later. It currently stands at $195.6m.SPRI executives adjusted the cumulative gross from the higher one reportedat the weekend following exchange ...
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Sony passes $3bn in worldwide grosses for the first time ever
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) will cross $3bn in worldwideticket sales on Friday Dec 8, marking the first time the company will haveachieved the feat.Thiswill be only the fourth time in motion picture history that any studio hasreached the $3bn mark in a single year.Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) is enjoying ...
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Horror thriller Amusement starts shooting in Budapest
Production began this week in Budapest, Hungary, onMacari/Edelstein Productions' horror-thriller Amusement, which Picturehouse will release inNorth America.Keir O'Donnell, Katheryn Winnick, Laura Breckenridge, JessicaLucas, and Tad Hilgenbrinck have joined the project about three women stalked bya killer who harbours a childhood grudge.John Simpson is directing from a script by Jake Wade ...
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Rickman joins Depp, Bonham Carter in Sweeney Todd
Alan Rickman has been cast as the nefarious Judge Turpin in Dreamworks/WarnerBros' film of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical Sweeney Todd.Judge Turpin is a sinister creature who frames Todd andsteals his wife before meeting his untimely demise in Todd's barber's chair. TimBurton is directing the film which stars Johnny Depp as ...
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Klein promoted in domestic distribution department at TWC
Spencer Klein has been promoted to senior vice president andgeneral sales manager of domestic distribution at The Weinstein Company (TWC).Klein will continue reporting to TWC's chairman of domestic distributionSteve Bunnell and immediately gets to work on a slate that includes QuentinTarantino and Robert Rodriguez' double feature Grindhouse, set for release ...
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Overnight's Montana to tackle Israel youth movement in next doc
Tony Montana will begin filming the Israel-set documentary The Epicenter in January 2007.Montana, whose credits include Overnight, seeks to portray the 'unsung faces of theIsraeli youth movement' in his upcoming project, and has set up a productionhub in Tel-Aviv.'This is a generation which is only seen by the West to ...
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Tribeca to launch sports film festival in conjunction with ESPN
Tribeca Enterprises and ESPN Inc will launch The Tribeca/ESPNSports Film Festival during the 2007 Tribeca Film festival, which is set to runfrom Apr 25-May 5.In a multi-year arrangement, The Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festivalwill be programmed and operated by the Tribeca Film Festival with on-airsupport from ESPN.Targeted at both the film ...
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Lucas to receive one-time honour from San Francisco Film Festival
George Lucas will receive the San Francisco Film Society's Irving'Bud' Levin Award, a one-time only honour that will be presented during the50th San Francisco International Film Festival on May 3 2007.Named after San Francisco International Film Festival founder BudLevin, the award recognises Bay Area resident Lucas' 'deep appreciationfor movies as ...
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Slamdance unveils lineups for 13th festival in Jan
The Slamdance Film Festival hasexpanded the 2007 documentary programme and for the first time is presenting anequal number of narrative and documentaries in competition with ten apiece.The festival, whose 13thedition runs from Jan 18-27, received more than 3,600 submissions andwill open with Allan Moyle's screwball comedy Weirdsville starring Scott Speedman ...
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PLATFORM to launch as North American animation hub
The PLATFORM International Animation Festival will launch in June2007 seeking to make its mark as the first major North American festivaldedicated to the genre.Set to run from in Portland, Oregon, from Jun 25-30 2007, theevent will feature competition screenings, installations, workshops, networkingopportunities, and exhibitions. Cartoon Network is the sole sponsor.The ...
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Stickmen Pictures to self-distribute ice hockey documentary In The Crease
Matt Gannon and Michael Sarner's Los Angeles-based StickmenPictures will release the ice hockey documentary In The Crease in the US and Canada on Dec 7.The company will primarily handle the release of its debut filmthrough its website www.inthecreasemovie.com as well as through sports stores.In The Crease takes an inside look ...
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Marblestone joins Picturehouse as sevp marketing and distribution
Arthur Marblestonehas joined Picturehouse as senior executive vice president of marketing anddistribution.Marblestone will be based in New York and reports directly to Picturehousepresident Bob Berney.He arrives with more than 25 years of experience in both the distribution andmarketing arenas. He began his career managing a theatre in Long Islandand moved ...