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Hounsou to star in urban drama The Trunk
Djimon Hounsou will star in urban drama The Trunk for the trio of Los Angeles-basedcompanies Melee Entertainment, White, and Bluvoma Inc.Brian White, Boris Kodjoe, and Thomas Krestchmann are alsoattached to the story of an inner city musical prodigy on the cusp of successwho discovers some of his closest friends will ...
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Chris Davis International bringing Ten Inch Hero to AFM
Brave New Films has completed principal photography on DavidMackay's ensemble drama Ten Inch Hero, which Chris Davis International is representing forinternational sales.Elisabeth Harnois, Clea DuVall, and Sean Patrick Flanery are amongthe cast in the story of a young woman searching for her daughter who winds upworking in a quirky sandwich ...
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Odyssey pacts with Starz on CG comedy Sheepish
UK-based Odyssey Entertainment will handle international sales anddistribution on Starz Animation's $45m CG family animated comedy Sheepish.Starz Animation is a division of Starz Media, the newly configuredmedia company run by John Malone's Liberty Media Corporation and based aroundits Starz US pay-TV network. Starz recently bought IDT Entertainment and indoing so ...
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Diane Keaton to get gala tribute from Film Society Of Lincoln Center in 2007
Diane Keaton will be the subject of the Film Society Of LincolnCenter's 34th annual gala tribute on the closing night on Apr 9,2007."Keaton's career-defining roles in films, directed by WoodyAllen, Francis Ford Coppola, Warren Beatty and Nancy Myers, among others, havemade her one of the most popular and beloved screen ...
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Daviau to get lifetime achievement award from ASC
AllenDaviau will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) LifetimeAchievement Award at the 21st Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in LosAngeles on Feb 18 2007.Daviauhas earned five Oscar nominations in his career for ET - The Extra-Terrestrial,Bugsy, The Color Purple, Empire Of The Sun,and Avalon.'AllenDaviau is still in the prime ...
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Screenwriting software outfit Final Draft acquires Forum Publishing
Final Draft Inc has acquired the assets of Forum Publishing, whichincludes Script magazine, the Scriptwriters Showcase, Take A Meeting andScriptXpert, as well as all related web sites and domains.Terms of the acquisition were undisclosed, however the acquisitionpositions Final Draft as a one-stop shop for screenwriters offering education,software, and support.'We couldn't ...
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Grudge 2 tops strong weekend at North America box office
Sony registered its 12th number one release of the year as horrorsequel The Grudge 2 launchedon an estimated $22m.The supernatural tale of a rage-inducing curse stars AmberTamblyn and features a cameo by the original's leading lady Sarah MichelleGellar. Overall box office annihilated the same weekend last year,rising 41% as the ...
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Prada continues to lead international pack with $22.7m
Once again Fox International's The Devil Wears Prada dominated the overseas arena as thecomedy grossed an estimated $22.7m from 4,250 screens to raise its tally to$75.5m.Four muscular launches drove the result, led by a $3.7mnumber one Italian haul on 437 screens, and $4.4m from 575 German screens forsecond place.Prada opened ...
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IFC, TWC jointly acquire North American rights to Penelope
IFC Films and The WeinsteinCompany (TWC) have jointly acquired North American rights to Mark Palansky'sfantasy drama Penelope, which receivedits world premiere at Toronto last month.IFC Films will take the leadon the US theatrical distribution and TWC will handle home video andtelevision. Hyde Park is handling international sales.Leslie Caveny wrote thescreenplay ...
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Iglesias wins composer and soundtrack of the year at World Soundtrack Awards
Alberto Iglesias won Soundtrack Composer of the Year and BestOriginal Soundtrack of the year awards for The Constant Gardener at the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent,Europe.Inother awards presented during the 33rd Flanders International Film FestivalGhent on Oct 14, Gustavo Santaolalla won the Public Choice Award for thesoundtrack to Brokeback Mountain,while ...
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Diane Lane takes the lead in Lakeshore's Untraceable
Lakeshore Entertainment hascast Diane Lane in the lead in its thriller Untraceable and will introduce the project to buyers at AFM nextmonth.Gregory Hoblit is attachedto direct the story of an FBI cybercop played by Lane who tracks down aruthless online predator. Allison Burnett wrote the final script from anoriginal screenplay ...
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Global Film Initiative names titles in fourth annual US touring series
The Global Film Initiative (GFI) has unveiled its fourthannual Global Lens touring film series featuring nine features and seven shortsfrom developing countries.The series will screen in cities across the US beginning inJanuary through partnerships with major cultural institutions including theMuseum of Modern Art in New York.The Global Lens 2007 are: ...
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IDA names six student documentaries nominated for Wolper Award
The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced sixnominees for the David L Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award.The nominees are: Vadim Antonevich (The Sam Spiegel Film & TVSchool, Jerusalem) for In the Company Of Dead Cat; Isaac Brown and Erik Flagg (Universityof Florida, Gainesville) for Gimme Green; Jasmin Gordon (Stanford University) ...
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Voltage takes on Brandes' horror picture Penny Dreadful
Voltage Pictures has picked up international rights from BrandesFilms International to the completed horror-thriller Penny Dreadful.Sales chief Nicolas Chartier will present the title to buyers atnext month's AFM in Santa Monica, ahead of a limited domestic theatricalrelease on Nov 17 through a partnership between the After Dark Horrorfest andLionsgate.Richard Brandes ...
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Debney, Shakur to be honoured at the first Turks & Caicos film festival
Composer John Debney and the late actor and rapper Tupac Shakurwill be honoured at the inaugural music-themed Turks & Caicos InternationalFilm Festival, which runs in the Caribbean from Oct 17-21.Debney earned an Oscar nomination for his score to The PassionOf The Christ, and hismore recent credits include Dreamer and Idlewild.Before ...
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Massis prepares Jabor's Copacabana as UK/Brazil co-production
Alex Massis' Florida-based Film Source is preparing the $5m drama Copacabana,Of Love And Shadows.Filming is set to start in Rio De Janeiro in early 2007 onthe English-language story of an English artist and Brazilian street childwhose relationship is bedevilled by a drag queen.Brazilian film-maker Roberto Jabor will direct and Film ...
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Susie Q, Mill Ridge team to option Wilson's novel Hiding Room
Susie Q Productions and Mill Ridge Films have optioned JonathanWilson's novel The Hiding Room, which chronicles a European Jew's escape from the Nazis duringthe Second World War.The story centres on Esta, who flees from Austria to Cairo, whereshe embarks upon an affair with a British intelligence officer who suspects shemay ...
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Rising Star to open two more KinoStar multiplexes in Nov 2007
Russian exhibitor Rising Star Media, a joint venture betweenNational Amusements and Paul B Heth's Moscow-based Soquel Ventures, hasfinalised leases with leading Russian shopping centre operator Ikea Mega toopen KinoStar multiplexes at Mega Belaya Dacha in Moscow and Mega Dybenko in StPetersburg.Both locations are scheduled to open in November 2007. TheMega ...
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Media 8 takes international rights to Air Guitar Nation
Los Angeles-based Media 8 Entertainment has acquired allinternational rights to Alexandra Lipsitz' documentary Air Guitar Nation. Media 8 will introduce the project tobuyers at next month's AFM.Docurama Films will release it domestically in spring 2007in association with Shadow Distribution and with marketing support from VH1.Air Guitar Nation charts the fortunes ...
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Fox's Devil steps out in Germany, Italy, Taiwan
Fox International's comedy The Devil Wears Prada took the overseas arena by storm lastweekend and executives will be looking for more of the same this time around.The picture opens in Germany on Oct 12, followed by Italy on Oct13 and Taiwan on Oct 14, and currently stands at $48.5m.The History ...