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Hair joins Disney as chief technology officer and senior vp
Arthur Hair has been named chief technology officer and seniorvice president at The Walt Disney Studios.Hair will report to president Alan Bergman and assumesresponsibility for the studio's technology strategies, working closely with thebusiness units to identify opportunities in emerging markets.He previously served since 1995 as chief technology officer forbroadband entertainment ...
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Warner signs multi-year free-TV deal in Ukraine
Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) hassigned a multi-year free television volume deal with Inter TV, ICTV and New Channelin the Ukraine.Titles include Superman Returns, Batman Begins, Charlie And TheChocolate Factory, andupcoming releases such as Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, and Happy Feet.WBITD's vice president of Scandinavia ...
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New Line's Shaye gets honour from US literary group
New Line co-chairman and co-chief executive officer Bob Shaye willreceive the Award of Honor at PEN USA's 2006 Literary Awards on Dec 12 in LosAngeles.The award is handed out to a person or institution whose effortshave significantly affected culture. PEN USA is the West Coast centre for writers'organisation International PEN.George ...
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Hollywood Film Festival unveils lineup for Oct 18 to 23 event
The Hollywood Film Festival has unveiled this year's line-up ofmore than 80 pictures, as well as the Movie of the Year nominees for the publicMovie Of The Year award to be presented on Hollywood Awards night on Oct 23.Gala screenings at the festival are Michael Mayer's family drama Flicka starring ...
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Weisz to star in Johnson's Brothers Bloom for Endgame
Rachel Weisz will star in the con artist adventure story The BrothersBloom, Rian Johnson'sfollow-up to his high school noir Brick.Jim Stern's Endgame Entertainment is financing the story of siblingconfidence tricksters who attempt to fool a mysterious millionairess (Weisz) and get indeeper trouble than they planned.CAA is representing domestic rights and ...
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Denver Film Festival to host Canadian focus, King tribute
Canadian documentarian Allan King will receive a three-picturetribute at the 29th Starz Denver Film Festival, which runs from Nov 9-19.The screenings are the US premiere of King's most recent picture, EMPz4 LIFE, as well as his1969 release A Married Couple, and 2005's Memory For Max, Claire, Ida And Company.The festival ...
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Valdez joins Esparza as co-chairman of new US Latin outfit Maya Entertainment
Jeff Valdez has been named co-chairman at Moctesuma Esparza'sUS-based production, distribution and exhibition company Maya Entertainment.Valdez previously served as chief executive officer and chairmanof Si TV and arrives as the company announces its first theatrical release, thedocumentary Screamersby Carla Garapedian that the company recently acquired. The film traces thehistory of ...
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Haneke's Funny Games remake starts shooting
Production has got underway on Funny Games, Michael Haneke's first English-languagepicture and a remake of his 1997 Austrian thriller of the same name.As previously reported, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt andBrady Corbet star in the Hamptons-set tale of a wealthy family that isterrorised by two psychotic young men.Halcyon Pictures' ...
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Speedman joins Tyler in Rogue's thriller Strangers
Scott Speedman has signed to play the make lead opposite Liv Tylerin Rogue Pictures' thriller Strangers.Filming on the Mandate Pictures and Vertigo Entertainmentco-production is set to begin this week [Oct 10] in South Carolina in time foran October 2007 release. Focus Features International is handling internationaldistribution.Speedman and Tyler will play ...
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Google buys video sharing website YouTube for $1.7bn
Google has bought the video sharing website YouTube in a dealbelieved to be worth $1.7bn in stock.The companies will continue to operate independently. YouTubelaunched in February 2005 and swiftly became one of the most popular sites onthe web with an estimated 70million individual visitors each month.The acquisition gives Google an ...
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Prada has devilish $15.3m weekend for Fox International
Fox International's The Devil Wears Prada wore its style on its sleeve at theweekend as it dominated the overseas arena on an estimated $15.3m from 2,900screens.The weekend result was driven by a superb $6.1m number one UKdebut on 446 screens, which swelled the comedy's total gross to $41.5m overall. The ...
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Fox revises Prada international weekend to $19.4m
The DevilWears Prada was a biggeroverseas hit at the weekend than originally thought and grossed $19.4maccording to revised figures from Fox International.Thecomedy debuted in three major territories and took $2.7m in France, $2.3m inRussia, and $6.1m in the UK as previously reported. The international runningtotal currently stands at $42.2m.SummitEntertainment/Constantin's murder ...
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The Departed opens on career-best $27m for Scorsese
Martin Scorsese's acclaimed crime epic The Departed opened top over the Columbus Day Weekend on anestimated $27m to produce the biggest debut by far of the veteran filmmaker'scareer.The Departed is an adaptation of the 2002 Hong Kong crime story InfernalAffairs about a policemole and undercover cop who race to uncover ...
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Cage to receive Chopard career award at 3rd Bahamas film festival
Nicolas Cage will receive the 3rd Annual Bahamas InternationalFilm Festival (BIFF)'s Chopard Award in recognition of his career.The four-day event runs from Dec 7-10 and will screen a selectionof Cage pictures including Wild At Heart, Adaptation, and Face/Off. The actor and Bahamanian resident willalso take part in an on-stage interview.BIFF ...
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Michel promoted to head of east coast talent at William Morris Agency
WilliamMorris Agency (WMA) has promoted Randi Michel to head of talent, East Coast.Michel willoversee the growth of the agency's talent operations in New York. BeverlyHills-based Gaby Morgerman heads WMA's worldwide talent operations.'It givesus great pleasure to promote one of WMA's home grown agents,' WMA chiefexecutive officer Jim Wiatt said. 'Randi ...
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Off-Broadway hit Jewtopia to get big screen treatment
Producer Tucker Tooley has optioned the screenplay ChrisO'Connell And Adam Lipschitz Lose Their Religion from actor-writers Bryan Fogel and SamWolfson.The screenplay is loosely based on Fogel and Wolfson's longtimestage comedy Jewtopia,and they will reprise their stage roles in the feature.The story centres on childhood friends who reunite in their early ...
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Virgin Comics, Kahani World to make feature of Seven Sounds
Richard Branson's Virgin Comics has teamed up with Toronto-basedanimation company Kahani World on the full-length animated adaptation of SecretOf The Seven Sounds.Full production is set to begin in late November and the animatedfeature will be brought to market in the summer of 2007.Based on the epic Indian poem Ramayana, Secret ...
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Inferno spearheads US remake of Germany's Das Experiment
Los Angeles-based Inferno Entertainment is partnering withAdelstein/Parouse on The Experiment, a remake of Oliver Hirschbiegel's German thriller DasExperiment.Inferno is fully financing and will handle worldwide saleson the project, which is set to begin principal photography in spring 2007.Paul Scheuring, who created Fox's primetime series Prison Break, wrote the screenplay and ...
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NBC Universal signs multi-year Japanese VOD deal with Jupiter
Jupiter VOD and NBC Universal International TelevisionDistribution have agreed a multi-year licensing agreement for video-on-demand rightsin Japan covering current, library and upcoming Universal features.The roster includes such releases as King Kong, Nanny McPhee, BrokebackMountain, The Ice Harvest, Two for the Money, Serenity and Doom. Library titles include The BourneIdentity, Apollo ...
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MGM to handle domestic TV syndication of New Line product for two years
MGM and New Line Television have formed a strategic relationship wherebyMGM will handle domestic distribution for TV syndication of New Line featuresand series programming for the next two years.MGM will also handle future barter sales. David Spiegelman, NewLine Television's senior executive vice president of domestic television distributionand marketing, will continue ...