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Cinemavault hires Rondina, MacPhee on sales team
Cinemavault Releasing International has bulked up its sales team,naming Ruby Rondina festivals and publicity manager and Alisha MacPhee marketsmanager.Rondina joined Cinemavault last year as distribution coordinatorand reports to both the acquisitions department and sales department. MacPheepreviously served as office manager.Laura Jengle becomes the new distribution coordinator andPatterson Skuce is named ...
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Grey Rembert leaves DreamWorks for Initial
Former DreamWorks production executive Grey Rembert has joinedInitial Entertainment Group as vice president of development.Rembert will work alongside senior vice president of creativeaffairs Jennifer Wachtell and will report directly to company head Graham King.Rembert joined DreeamWorks at its inception 12 years ago and mostrecently headed up the literary department at ...
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Saints kicks off IFP's Independent Film Week in Sept
The 28th Annual IFP Market and 1st Annual Filmmaker Conferencewill be among highlights of IFP's annual Independent Film Week in September.The New York event is scheduled to run from Sept 18-21 and kicksoff with the New York premiere of Dito Montiel's drama A Guide To RecognizingYour Saints.Other features include reduced ...
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Werber's Earthmen Friends to open Montreal
BernardWerber's Our Earthmen Friends will openthe 30th Montreal World Film Festival on Aug 24.Werber,the French sci-fi author of the Antstrilogy and most recently Le Souffle Des Dieux (The Breath Of The Gods), directed and Les Films 13 produced the project.OurEarthmen Friends is styled as adocumentary about Earth and humans made ...
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Spanish films get pole positions at New York Film Festival
GuillermoDel Toro's gothic fairy tale Pan's Labyrinth will close the 44th New York Film Festival, while PedroAlmodovar's drama Volver has been namedthe centerpiece presentation.Bothfilms played in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival.Festivalorganisers also announced that they would screen a restored print of WarrenBeatty's 1981 historical saga Reds asthe festival ...
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TIFF introduces $10,000 cash prize for Canadian producers
Theupcoming 31st Toronto International Film Festival has inaugurated a producers'award supporting the Canadian industry in partnership with Canadian Film andTelevision Production Association (CFTPA) and the finalists of Telefilm CanadaPITCH THIS!The CFTPAProducers' Award will honour entrepreneurial independent producers of aCanadian feature screening at the festival and carries a $10,000 prize. Thewinner ...
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Peace Arch close to $20m credit facility with JPMorgan
Toronto-based film andtelevision production and distribution company Peace Arch Entertainment Groupis finalising a four-year $20m senior secured revolving credit facility withJPMorgan.The funds will be used byPeace Arch to finance its recently announced acquisition of the film librariesof Castle Hill Productions and Dream, as well as other company operations.Closing of the ...
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Ricky Bobby still reigns at North American box office
Sony's Tallladega Nights:The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby stayed inpole position in its second weekend at the North American box office ahead ofBuena Vista's dance drama Step Up andParamount's 9/11 drama World Trade Center.Talladega Nights will cross $100m later this week after adding anestimated $23m for $91.2m.Step Up, which stars Channing ...
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National Geographic lines up third annual film festival in LA and Washington DC
Minority filmmakers fromVietnam and gay and lesbian communities in Israel and Palestine will be amongthe line-up at National Geographic's third annual All Roads Film Festival. The event, which runs at theEgyptian Theatre in Los Angeles from Sept 28-Oct 1 and at the NationalGeographic Society in Washington DC from Oct 5-8, ...
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Bobby to get Hollywood Film Award for ensemble
The10th Annual Hollywood Film Awards will honour the ensemble cast from Bobby, Emilio Estevez's upcoming account of events surrounding theassassination of Bobby Kennedy.PiratesOf The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest willreceive the Hollywood Visual Effects of the Year Award, Cars will get the Hollywood Animation of the Year Award and X-Men:The Last ...
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TLA takes multiple territory rights on Boy Culture
TLA Releasing has acquiredall North American, UK, Australian and New Zealand theatrical and homeentertainment rights to Q AllanBrocka's gay drama Boy Culture.The picture received its USpremiere at Tribeca and tells of a male escort who must learn to open up to hisfeelings before he can have sex with an elderly ...
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Pirates continues to roll with record Spanish opening
Buena Vista International(BVI)'s Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest remained the top international picture for the sixthconsecutive weekend after posting a record breaking Spanish debut.The adventure romp grossedan estimated $44m from all its territories to raise the cumulative total to$463m. The result was powered by an industry high Spanish ...
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San Francisco Film Festival gets $150,000 grant from AMPAS
The San Francisco FilmSociety has received a $150,000 three-year 'secure foundation' grantfrom the Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(AMPAS).The rare award will bepresented to the San Francisco International Film Festival in the form of$50,000 in its 50th anniversary year next year, and $50,000 for each ...
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Mandate's buys supernatural thriller script 27 Times
Mandate Pictures has bought the screenplay to Thomas Thonson'ssupernatural thriller 27 Times.The story centres on a paranoid man named Arthur, who cares forhis teenage brother who himself is tortured by precognitive visions of violentdeaths.The project will be overseen by Mandate's Mary Lee and produced byMandate Pictures' president of motion pictures ...
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Spanish actress Fernandez gets lead role in JSA remake
Spanish actress Dafne Fernandez has been cast in the lead in Gladiator producer David Franzoni's remake ofKorean political thriller Joint Security Area.Franzoni is directing the story of a Spanish army officer (Fernandez) sent by the Hague toinvestigate a violent confrontation between US Marines and Mexican SpecialForces. Shooting on the low ...
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Balcony to release Tony Kushner documentary in North America
Balcony Releasing has picked up North American rights to FreidaLee Mock's documentary Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner.The American Film Foundation production, which premiered atSundance, profiles the award-winning writer of the acclaimed Angels InAmerica.Mock wrote and produced the documentary, and Terry Sanders servedas executive producer. It will open in New ...
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Fernandes gets promotion and vp stripes at Warner Bros India
Blaise Fernandes has been promoted to the newly created positionof vice president and managing director of Warner Bros Pictures India PrivateLimited.Fernandes will oversee all of the company's businesses in the sub-continentwith particular focus on film, and will liaise with Warner Bros divisional andregional chiefs on corporate strategy.He will report to ...
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Stone's World Trade Center has strong first day
World Trade Center grossed $4.4m from 2,803 theatres at the North American box officeon its opening day yesterday (Wednesday)."It's a very strong opening," Paramount's executive vicepresident, general sales manager Don Harris said. "The movie has producedan emotional and powerful response and the exit polls that we did yesterdaywere sensational."Oliver Stone's ...
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Chest set to be filled with Spanish gold
Buena Vista International (BVI) will looking to plunder anotherbig weekend as Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest sets course for $500m.The picture has reigned supreme for five consecutive weekends andwill surely hold on to its crown on the back of a wide Spanish debut on Aug 11.The picture crossed ...
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Distant Horizon's Prey gobbled up by TWC
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has picked up North American rightsfrom Distant Horizon to Darrell James Roodt's safari thriller Prey.Bridget Moynahan, Peter Weller, Jamie Bartlett and Carly Schroederstar in the story of American tourists who get lost in an African game reserveand find themselves at the mercy of lions.Roodt, who previously ...