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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 ...
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Sony crosses $1bn at domestic box office
Powered by the successesof The Da Vinci Code, Click, and the current number one picture TalladegaNights, Sony Pictures Entertainmenthas crossed $1bn at the domestic box office for the fifth consecutive year.The result gives thestudio unique distinction of being the only one in Hollywood to gross more than$6bn since 2002.Sony is ...
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Craft winners announced for 2006 Hollywood Film Awards
Organisers at the 10th Annual Hollywood Film Festival haveannounced the line-up of crafts winners set to receive awards at the Hollywood AwardsGala on Oct 23.Vilmos Zsigmond will receive the Hollywood Cinematographer of theYear Award, Joel Cox will collect the Hollywood Editor of the Year Award, andGustavo Santaolalla will get the ...
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IFTA top brass renew contracts until 2009
Jean Prewitt will continueas president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles-based IndependentFilm and Television Alliance (IFTA) and Jonathan Wolf will continue asexecutive vice president of IFTA and managing director of the AFM.Both executives have signed new three-year contracts that will run through 2009following a unanimous decision by the ...
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Dimension feasts on 3rd Project Greenlight film
Dimension Films will release the third Project Greenlight feature Feast in theatres on Sept 22 following theworld premiere at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas on Sept 12.The Live Planet Production in association with Maloof MotionPictures and Neo Art & Logic is directed by first time filmmaker JohnGulager and ...
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Poitier to receive lifetime award from BAFTA/LA
Sidney Poitier will receive BAFTA/LA's Cunard Britannia Award forlifetime contributions to international film at the 15th annual BAFTA/LA CunardBritannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 2.Anthony Minghella will collect the John Schlesinger BritanniaAward for artistic excellence in directing, and Rachel Weisz will receive theBritannia Award for artist of the year.Poitier ...
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Walden, Fox give birth to family film label
Walden Media has set up a joint venture with Fox FilmedEntertainment (FFE) to release family pictures that encompasses all of Walden'sfuture slate and current and new work from Fox.A dedicated marketing, publicity and promotions team at the as-yet-unnamedcompany will work on the titles, which initially include Mr Magorium'sWonder Emporium, TheDark ...
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Shyama Friedenson promoted to SVP at Lionsgate Int'l
Shyama Friedenson has been promoted to senior vice president of internationalmarketing at Lionsgate.Friedenson joined the company in 2000 and is responsible for overseeingmarketing and publicity for Lionsgate's international film division includingfestivals, and also serves as the strategic corporate liaison for publicity andmarketing with Lionsgate UK."Shyama has been instrumental in the ...
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Focus, AOL partner up for The Ground Truth
Focus Features hasentered into a strategic online marketing partnership with AOL for PatriciaFoulkrod's Iraq War documentary The Ground Truth.As part of the initiative AOL willcreate a customised profile of the film on its new AIM social networking service.Featured soldiers in the documentary will write blogs and war testimonies, andusers will ...
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Giamatti eyes lead role in Philip K Dick biopic
Paul Giamatti is lining up a possible lead role as Philip K Dick in a biopic of the influential sci-fi writer whose novels havespawned such adaptations as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and thecurrent release A Scanner Darkly.Giamatti will produce through his newly formed Touchy Feely Films incollaboration with Anonymous Content's ...
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Pirates plunders its biggest overseas weekend yet
Buena Vista International's(BVI) Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest took more in its fifth weekend than any other as theadventure romp stormed towards $400m.Fired up by a huge French debut, the picture added an estimated $57m from 8,500screens in 47 countries for a $392m international tally and now ranks ...
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Talladega Nights roars past the finish line
Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of RickyBobby took the chequered flag at theweekend with a superb $47m estimated haul that kept box office ahead of thesame period last year by 17%.Sony executives were surprised by the power of the debut, despite very strongreviews, another star role for the popular Will Ferrell, ...
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Pirates sets course for $350m
Pirates Of The Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest launches in fourterritories this weekend, headed by France on Aug 2.Buena Vista International (BVI) top brass were expecting strong results giventhat The Curse Of The Black Pearltook $7.1m from 646 screens in its first week there in August 2003. The film is off to ...