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Maguire named president of international at PHE
Dennis Maguire has been appointed president of international forParamount Home Entertainment.Maguire will take charge of sales, marketing and distribution ofhome entertainment content for the Paramount Motion Picture Group (PMPG) andwill also oversee product from MTV Network Properties, CBS, PBS and Hasbro, aswell as fulfilment services for DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment.He ...
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Sony Animation's Season tops North America with $23m
Sony scored its 11thdomestic number one release of the year as the animated feature Open Season stormed to the top on an estimated $23m. Thepicture, which features the vocal talents of Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher, opened tomixed-to-favourable reviews.It was a great weekend forKutcher, who also stars alongside Kevin Costner ...
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World Trade Center takes international lead for Paramount
Paramount's World TradeCenter ruled the international roostas it grossed an estimated $12.3m from 2,690 screens across 20 territoriesthrough UIP and raised the overseas total to $22m.The carefully plannedrelease benefited from Oliver Stone's extensive publicity tour that took inLondon, Berlin, Venice, Moscow, Tokyo and Seoul.The 9/11 drama opened insecond place in ...
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TWC signs output deal with ARD Degeto in Germany
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has signed a multi-year output dealwith leading German broadcaster ARD Degeto for free TV rights to current andupcoming TWC and Dimension Films pictures.Pictures in the pipeline include John Madden's thriller Killshot starring Thomas Jane, Diane Lane andMickey Rourke; satirical comedy The Nanny Diaries starring Scarlett Johansson, ...
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De Niro to be feted at Rome Film Festival, screen 20 mins of Shepherd
Robert De Niro will screen 20 minutes from his upcoming CIAthriller The Good Shepherd at the Rome Festival, where he will receive the festival'sinaugural Steps And Stars Award.The honour recognises individuals and cultural entities that havemade significant contributions to the film industry.Last month the Tribeca and Rome festivals announced their ...
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Death Of A President to hit US theatres on Oct 27
Newmarket Films will release its Toronto acquisition Death Of APresident in the US onOct 27 and will launch the trailer in theatres on Sept 29.Gabriel Range's hypothetical drama about the hypothetical assassinationof George W Bush in Oct 2007 and the event's aftermath was snapped up at thefestival following its world ...
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Cruz gets tribute at AFI FEST before Volver gala
Penelope Cruz will receive AFI Fest's annual Tribute in Hollywoodon Nov 2 immediately prior to the centerpiece gala screening of PedroAlmodovar's Spanish foreign language Oscar entry Volver.Festival organisers also announced several Special Presentationscreenings including the world premiere of Karen Moncrieff's ensemble murdermystery The Dead Girl,and the North American premiere of ...
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Center, Prada launch in key territories
Summit Entertainment/Constantin's murder drama Perfume will look to continue its international leadthis weekend through strong holds.The picture took $11.3m last weekend and currently stands at morethan $39.7m on the back of impressive early runs in German-speaking Europe, CISand Italy.Buena Vista International's (BVI) Pirates of The Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest hastaken $626.4m ...
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Dimension signs two-year deal with Stoopid Monkey
Dimension Films has signed a two-picture deal with Seth Green andMatthew Senreich's Stoopid Monkey Productions.The agreement includes the stop-motion animated holiday feature NaughtyOr Nice and alive-action untitled comedy.Green and Senreich will produce both projects as they make theirfirst forays into theatrical features. The pair created, write, direct andserve as executive ...
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Emerging to stage 14-city US tour of nine Latin films on digital network
Emerging Pictures, the New York-based digital cinema network, hascurated a 14-city US tour of nine pictures from the Film Society of LincolnCenter's LatinBeat 2006 film festival.All pictures will screen in their original language alongsideEnglish subtitles, and the tour will commence in early October following theFilm Society screenings in New York.Titles ...
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AFI launches first DC French Film Festival in Silver Spring
The American Film Institute (AFI), The French-American CulturalFoundation, La Maison Francaise and the National Gallery of Art have launchedthe First Annual DC French Film Festival C'est Chic: New Films From France.Running from Oct 12-28 at AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Centerin Silver Spring, Maryland, the event will feature latest work ...
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Soros/Sundance Documentary Fund launches tenth anniversary film series in NYC
The Open Society Institute and Sundance Institute have curated a seriesof 19 international documentaries that will screen at New York's Film Forumfrom Oct 26-29.The Soros/Sundance Documentary Fund: A 10th Anniversary FilmSeries, showcases social justice and human rights documentaries made with supportfrom the fund, and opens with Mandy Jacobsen and Karmen ...
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Astronaut Farmer to close Hamptons Film Festival
Michael Polish's drama The Astronaut Farmer starring Billy Bob Thornton will closethe 14th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival, which runs from Oct18-22. As previously announced,Philip Haas' The Situation will open the festival.15 world and eight North American premieres will be featured atthe festival. Among the world premieres are Brad ...
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Jackson & Walsh team up with Microsoft for games
Peter Jackson and screenwriting partner Fran Walsh have partneredup with Microsoft Game Studios to create two interactive entertainment seriesexclusively for Xbox 360 and the online games series Xbox Live.The studio will also work with Jackson and Walsh to set up WingnutInteractive, an entertainment studio aimed at creating interactive titles.The first ...
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LA post facility to give $125,000 in grants to new film-makers
Los Angeles-based post production facility Filmworks/FX hasannounced a programme offering $125,000 in post-production grants to aspiringfilmmakers in 2007.Grants supporting lab and telecine work will range from $1,000 to$25,000 and will be awarded to select winners of popular film festivals as wellas to several film schools around the country.'Too often, new ...
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Indo-American Film Festival in New York to screen 60 films
Sixty features,documentaries and shorts including the New York premiere of Mira Nair's TheNamesake will screen during theIndo-American Arts Council's Sixth IAAC (Indo-American Arts Festival) FilmFestival in New York from Nov 1- 5.Screenings include AdityaBhattacharya's adaptation of King Lear called Dubai Return,Suman Gosh's Podokkhep Footstepswith Nandita Das, Rehana Mirza's Hiding Divya ...
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Whitaker, Luke, Lohan join honours roll at Hollywood Film Awards
Forest Whitaker, Derek Lukeand Lindsay Lohan have been added to the roster of Hollywood Film Awardsrecipients at this year's upcoming ceremony on Oct 23.Whitaker receives theHollywood Actor of the Year Award for his role as former Ugandan dictator IdiAmin in Fox Searchlight's The Last King Of Scotland.His other upcoming releasesare ...
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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 ...