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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 ...
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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 ...