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New Line takes worldwide on Hood's thriller Rendition
New Line has picked up worldwide rights to the political thriller Rendition, Gavin Hood's Tsotsi follow-up that will star Jake Gyllenhaaland Reese Witherspoon.Gyllenhaal will play a CIA analyst who oversees the interrogationof a terrorist suspect in the Middle East and questions his ethics as the processspirals out of control.Witherspoon is ...
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AFI launches international cultural exchange programme
The AmericanFilm Institute (AFI) has launched the international cultural exchange andcollaboration programme AFI Project 20/20.Up to20 American and international filmmakers who have films screening at thisyear's AFI Fest will be announced as participants during the festival, whichruns in Los Angeles from Nov 1-12.AFIProject 20/20 will invite select filmmakers to tour ...
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Monaco's Zimand opens office in Los Angeles to develop feature slate
HenriZimand's Monaco-based international production company Zimand Entertainment hasopened a second office in Los Angeles top focus on a slate of feature films.Developmentand production executive Kate McArdle will head the office and is charged withsourcing screenplays and seeing them through development and production.McArdle most recently produced Robert Greenwald's Outfoxed and Uncovered.Zimandrecently ...
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First symposium on animation and FX to take place in New Zealand
Theinaugural international symposium on animation and visual effects AnimfxNZ isset to take place In Wellington, New Zealand, from Nov 4-5.Presidentof Warner Bros' feature animation division Sander Schwartz and Over TheHedge director Tim Johnson will give thekeynote addresses at the event, which includes panel events and networking sessions.'Wewere thrilled to be ...
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Myriad closes sales on Beethoven with Hopscotch, Nexo
Myriad Pictures has closed further sales on Agnieszka Holland'sdrama Copying Beethoven starring Ed Harris following its world premiere at Toronto.The Los Angeles-based company has sold rights to Hopscotch inAustralia and Nexo in Italy. The picture has virtually sold out worldwide, andonly the UK, France and Scandinavia remain available.Myriad previously concluded ...
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Bertram named president of business operations for PHEW
SteveBertram has been appointed president of business operations for Paramount HomeEntertainment Worldwide.Bertramwill report directly to Kelley Avery, president of worldwide home entertainmentfor the Paramount Motion Picture Group, and will take charge of businessaffairs, finance, operations, acquisitions and business development.Hewill also work with the heads of domestic and international to expand ...
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Lionsgate gets worldwide to Fox's Beyond The Sky
Lionsgatehas picked up worldwide rights excluding Mexico to Javier Patron Fox'sdirectorial debut Beyond The Sky (FueraDel Cielo).Thisis the company's second worldwide acquisition following the Spanish-languagedrama La Mujer De Mi Hermano under itsdeal with Panamax Films to develop and produce pictures targeting Latino audiences.Mexicanfilmmaker Fox's crime drama is set in Mexico ...
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Smith hired at NBC Universal for international on-demand licensing
Warren Smith has been named director of sales, internationalon-demand licensing for NBC Universal Television International Distribution.Based in London, Smith will report to and support senior vicepresident, international on-demand licensing Beth Minehart in all aspects ofon-demand licensing for the company's product outside North America. His primaryfocus will be Europe.Smith recently returned ...
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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 ...