All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1296
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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 ...
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Ten nominees announced for WGA Awards
The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced their nominees for top honours for 2006.The Original Screenplay nominees are:Babel (Guillermo Arriaga)Little Miss Sunshine (Michael Arndt)The Queen (Peter Morgan)Stranger Than Fiction (Zach Helm)United 93 (Paul Greengrass).Adapted screenplay nominees are:Borat (screenplay by Sacha ...
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North America - Natural selection
National Geographic Films (NGF) burst into the spotlight in 2005 when it partnered Warner Independent Pictures on March Of The Penguins, which grossed more than $77m in North America and won last year's best documentary feature Oscar. But NGF, under the guidance of former Disney senior vice-president of production Adam ...
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BAFTA/LA announces new board of directors for 2007
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts/LA has announced its board of directors for the new year.
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Paramount creates new creative structure as Berman steps down
Paramount Pictures threw out the book on Hollywood corporate structure yesterday [Jan 10], choosing not to replace departing president Gail Berman and creating instead a creative triumvirate that will report directly to Brad Grey.Apart from the chairman, the three people now charged with setting the slate are Scott Aversano, the ...
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Black Book to open Miami Film Festival in March
Paul Verhoeven's second world war thriller Black Book will open the Miami International Film Festival, which runs from Mar 2-11.Robert Cary's romantic comedy Ira & Abby has been chosen as the Awards Night film, while the world premiere of Antonio Cuadri's romance The Heart Of The Earth will close the ...
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New US independent Outsider buys Apples, Klimt
Los Angeles-based distributor Outsider Pictures has picked up North American rights to Anders Thomas Jensen's Danish black comedy Adam's Apples and Raul Ruiz's biopic Klimt.Adam's Apples charts the relationship between a neo-Nazi and a priest and stars Danish cinema stalwarts Mads Mikkelsen and Ulrich Thomsen.Adam's Apples was Denmark's foreign language ...
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Lebowitz named CFO at LA office of Liberation Entertainment
Mark Lebowitz has joined sales and distribution company Liberation Entertainment as chief financial officer.Lebowitz will handle all financial operations and act as human resources executive for the Los Angeles office.He previously held senior executive posts at the television groups of Sony and Paramount, and also served at Stone Canyon Entertainment ...
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Novelist Connelly to co-write Equalizer script with Lankford
Bestselling author Michael Connelly and Terrill Lee Lankford have signed on to co-write the screenplay for The Equalizer for The Weinstein Company (TWC).Paul McGuigan will direct the story based on the hit television series of the same name about Robert McCall, a highly trained former covert operative who becomes a ...
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Nickens to receive posthumous award from WGA
The late screen and television writer Daryl G Nickens will posthumouslyreceive the Morgan Cox Honorary Service Award at the 2007 Writers GuildAwards ceremony on Feb 11.Nickens co-wrote the 1991 number onerelease House Party 2 with Rusty Cundieff. His television creditsinclude The Parkers, Viper, Benson and The Fabulous Jeff Jackson.'Thisaward is ...
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Chaiken, Dungan team for LA-based production outfit
Producers Jennifer Chaiken (My Flesh And Blood) and Sebastian Dungan (Transamerica) have launched Los Angeles-based 72 Productions.Backed by a private equity fund dedicated to the acquisition and development of feature film projects, 72 Productions arrives with four projects in the pipeline.The Perfect Hour is a period drama being produced with ...
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Summit's Mr & Mrs Smith pilot gets greenlight from ABC
US TV network ABC has greenlit production on Mr & Mrs Smith, based on Summit Entertainment's hit thriller starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie that grossed more than $470m worldwide.Regency TV will produce the pilot in association with Dave Bartis and Doug Liman's Dutch Oven Prods. Summit Entertainment's Patrick Wachsberger ...
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Oster named evp of communications at MPAA
Seth Oster has been hired as executive vice president for communications at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).Commencing Jan 15, Oster will oversee operations in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. He will serve as a member of the MPAA's senior management group, reporting directly to MPAA chairman ...
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Apple seals deal with Paramount for movies on iTunes
Paramount has become the first Hollywood studio aside from Disney to sign a content deal with Apple. The new deal sees the studio and sister outfits Paramount Classics, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies supplying more than 100 titles to the iTunes Store including School Of Rock, Zoolander and Chinatown.The move ...