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Perfume sees off Pirates to lead international weekend
Perfume:The Story Of A Murderer was the topinternational picture of the weekend as box office results released on Monday[Sept 25] revealed a comprehensive picture of overseas business. It had been reported that Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was the weekend winner with a $7.6m take.TheConstantin Film adaptation of ...
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Online resource Fylmz launches Nashville festival with $100,000 in prize money
Online filmmaker resource Fylmz.com is launching the inauguralFylmz Festival Competition and will offer $100,000 and a guaranteed distributiondeal for the best feature in competition.The event is open to film school students, independent filmmakers,or amateurs, and winners will be determined by the audience.'We at fylmz believe that the best way to ...
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11th week at the top for Pirates powered by Italy hold
Buena Vista International's (BVI) old warhorse Pirates Of TheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest registered its 11th weekend at the top of the international chartsfollowing an estimated $7.6m weekend haul.The result from 4,387 screens in 42 territories raises the tallyto $625.6m, consolidating the picture's status as the fourth biggestinternational release in history. ...
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THINKFilm buys French Oscar submission Orchestra Seats
THINKFilm has picked up all US rights to Daniele Thompson's OrchestraSeats (FauteuilsD'Orchestre), which willrepresent France in this season's foreign language Oscar race.The picture, which will open in the US in February 2007 under thenew title of Avenue Montaigne, registered more than one million admissions in France in itsfirst two weeks ...
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Fernando Szew takes over CEO reins at MarVista Entertainment
Joseph Szew, founder of LA-based production and distributionoutfit MarVista Entertainment, has reshuffled his executive suite, handing overthe chief executive officer reins to his son Fernando Szew.Joseph Szew becomes chief operating officer and chief financialofficer, and production president Michael D Jacobs is promoted to the role ofpresident.In other appointments, company consultant ...
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Second Jackass tops domestic box office for Paramount
Paramount's Jackass sequel smashed its way to the top of the charts onan estimated $28.1m, leaving the more choreographed mayhem of Rogue Pictures' JetLi's Fearless far behind in secondplace on $10.6m.The world war one aerialcombat tale Flyboys opened infourth place through MGM on a disappointing $6m, while Sony's poorly receivedpolitical ...
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Myriad closes Italy, Spain, Mexico and Brazil on 10 Items
Myriad Pictures has closed major territory sales on BradSilberling's comedy 10 Items Or Less following the North American deal with THINKFilm concludedjust before Toronto.President of distribution Ann Dubinet announced that rights havegone to Italy (DNC), Spain (Manga), Mexico (Azteca), and Brazil (Imagem).Sales also concluded in Portugal (LNK), Greece (Prooptiki),Iceland (Myndform), ...
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Wexler to receive career achievement award from IDA
Haskell Wexler will receive the 2006 International DocumentaryAssociation's (IDA) Career Achievement Award at the IDA DistinguishedDocumentary Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on Dec 8.Wexler won cinematography Oscars for Who's Afraid of VirginiaWoolf' in 1967 and BoundFor Glory in 1977, andhas been nominated on three other occasions for One Flew Over ...
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MGM takes North America on Pleasure Of Your Company
MGMhas bought North American rights to Michael Ian Black's romantic comedy ThePleasure of Your Company, whichreceived its world premiere in Toronto recently.This is MGM's second acquisition in two weeks as it seeks toexpand its own slate. The company moved in on Werner Herzog's Vietnam POW dramaRescue Dawn shortlybefore Toronto kicked ...
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Leondis signs to direct animated Igor for Exodus, TWC
Animation veteran Tony Leondis is attached to direct Exodus Film Group'sCG-animated feature comedy Igor, which is set to go into production in the first quarter of 2007.The Weinstein Company (TWC) will handle the North American releaseand sold most international rights at Cannes earlier this year.Igorfollows the escapades of a mad ...
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IFP announces prizes as Independent Film Week ends
Scott Teems' I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down and Sean Patrick McCarthy's Pansy tied for the IFP Market EmergingNarrative Screenplay Award as the IFP Market and Independent Film Week ended inNew York today.In other prizes, the Fledgling Fund Award for Emerging Latino Filmmakerswent to Vivien Lesnick Weisman's ...
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Studios roll out big guns for autumn as summer titles fade
Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest will be hoping for an 11thweekend at the top as Buena Vista International (BVI) looks for strong holds inthe picture's second weekend in Italy.Dead Man's Chest now ranks as the fourth biggest international release in historyafter it overtook Harry Potter And The Chamber ...
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Damon, Horwitz, Bleiberg join IFTA executive committee
Several new members have bolstered the Independent Film &Television Alliance (IFTA) executive ranks following the body's annual generalmeeting in Los Angeles [Thursday].Joining the seven-person executive committee are: Mark Damon ofForesight Unlimited as vice chairman; Lewis Horwitz of Horwitz EntertainmentFinancial Services as vice chairman, finance; Ehud Bleiberg of BleibergEntertainment as chairman, ...
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Schreiber joins Love In The Time Of Cholera cast
LievSchreiber has joined the cast of Stone Village Pictures' upcoming GabrielGarcia Marquez adaptation Love In The Time Of Cholera.Schreiberwill play Lotario Thugut, a telegram operator who befriends the lead character Florentinoand teaches him the ways of women.AngieCepeda, Ana Claudia Talancon, Laura Harring and Rubria Negrao also join theexisting cast of ...
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AFM, AFI FEST tout record attendance figures for Nov events
Organisers at the upcoming AFM and AFI Fest are predicting recordattendances ahead of the partner events set to take place in November.AFM and AFI Fest established a strategic alliance in 2004, and topbrass from both camps are calling it the largest annual gathering of industryprofessionals in North America.AFM chiefs said ...
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Digital Watermarking Alliance formed to promote content protection
Twelve companies including Cinea and Philips Electronics haveformed the Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) to promote content protectionwithin the industry.'Digital watermarking is enjoying a steady resurgence ofinterest now that the media industry is finding more and more applications forit throughout the content lifecycle - from creation through toproduction, packaging, distribution, and ...
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Black Book to be opened by Sony Classics
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American, Australian,New Zealand and Indian rights to Paul Verhoeven's WWII thriller Black Book.Black Bookis based on true events involving the Dutch Underground and in particular thestory of a Jewish girl who falls for a Gestapo officer while seeking revengefor her family's murders. Carice ...
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New soundstage complex breaks ground in New Mexico
Albuquerque Studios has moved ahead with plans to build NewMexico's first major soundstage complex.Pacifica Ventures, which will own and operate the new complex andalso operates Culver Studios in Los Angeles, reported that construction hasbegun on the $74m, 28-acre film and television production facility at Mesa DelSol.Phase One, which is scheduled ...
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Fox launches faith-based US home entertainment label
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has launched the labelFoxFaith, which plans to take at least six pictures specifically targeted atChristian film-goers into limited theatrical release each year.The roster kicks off on Oct 6 with Love's Abiding Joy, the fourth instalment in the LoveComes Softly seriesbased on Janette Oke's bestselling books ...
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New international film festival launched in Dallas with AFI
The inaugural AFI Dallas International Film Festival will run inTexas from Mar 22-Apr 1 2007.Approximately 150 features and shorts will screen at the event andco-sponsor Target has endowed $25,000 cash grants for the best narrative anddocumentary entries."The AFI Dallas International Film Festival is a result ofDallas's love of film and ...