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Liu, Murphy star in Detectives for Plum, Peace Arch
Lucy Liu andCillian Murphy will star in Peace Arch Entertainment and Plum Picture'sromantic comedy Watching The Detectives, which is set to begin shooting in New York this week.New York-basedPlum is producing, with Peace Arch serving as co-financier and worldwidedistributor.Paul Soter wroteand makes his feature directorial debut on the story of ...
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Eastwood to get BAFTA/LA's Britannia Award for excellence in film
Clint Eastwoodwill get a new addition to his trophy cabinet in November when he receivesBAFTA/LA's Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film.Eastwood, whowon best director and best picture Oscars for both Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven, will collect the accolade at the 15thAnnual Britannia Awards on Nov 2 in ...
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Magnolia buys multiple territorial rights to Cocaine Cowboys
MagnoliaPictures has acquired rights in North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealandto Billy Corben's Tribeca Film Festival premiere Cocaine Cowboys.The picturedocuments the explosion of the drug trade in 1980s Miami and featuresinterviews with some of the era's leading law enforcement officers,traffickers, suppliers, dealers and killers.Jan Hammer, whowrote the score ...
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Pirates generates mighty $46.6m in seven international territories
Buena Vista International(BVI) films amassed more than $60m over the weekend in which Pirates Of TheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chestdominated the world stage.The adventure sequel'soverseas performance complemented the record breaking North American debut bygrossing an estimated $46.6m, an astonishing tally that produced runaway numberone debuts in all seven of its markets.Pirates ...
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Pirates loots the domestic box office, smashes records
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest smashed Spider-Man's four-year domestic three-day opening record as theBuena Vista sequel opened on an estimated $132m.The three-day tally averaged $31,944 on 4,133 screens anddominated the global stage with the help of a $46.6m number one internationaltally.The result produced a seismic shift at the ...
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TWC reorganises publicity department as Burnett leaves
Ten months after joining TheWeinstein Company as executive vice president of publicity, Liza Burnett isleaving her post to pursue other opportunities in the industry.She will consult with thecompany until the end of the month to assist with the transition. In theinterim, senior vice president Liz Biber will oversee the Dimension ...
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Kluft leaves Universal to take senior vp publicity job at SKE
Stephanie Kluft is joiningSidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE) in the newly created position of executivevice president of publicity.Kluft arrives fromUnviersal, where she served as senior vice president of publicity. She willreport to SKI marketing and distribution president Mark Kristol.Kluft began her career atthe boutique PR agency Clein + Feldman, and moved ...
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North American rights to 10th And Wolf sold to THINKFilm
THINKFilm haspicked up all North American rights to Oscar-winning writer Bobby Moresco's 10th& Wolf.Moresco, whoco-wrote Crash, directed 10th And Wolf as well as co-writing it with ChazzPalminteri. The film stars James Marsden as a Marine who struggles to steerclear of his criminal past after he returns home to Philadelphia.Giovanni Ribisi,Brad ...
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Liman, Di Novi to produce Venice-set thriller Vaporetto 13
Mr And MrsSmith director DougLiman and veteran producer Denise Di Novi are teaming up to produce the $8.5mVenice-set thriller called Vaporetto 13 directed by Liman's longtime friend Gregor Von Bismarck.Based on RobertGirardi's novel of the same name, Vaporetto 13 follows an industrial diver whosepremonitions about a mysterious underwater church and ...
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Pirates lands in three major markets including UK
Buena VistaInternational (BVI) has a big weekend lined up with six scheduled internationallaunches for Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.The adventuresequel sets sail in three major markets - Australia on Jul 6, the UK on Jul 7,and South Korea on Jul 8 - as well as New Zealand and ...
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Freedman joins Mandate in business and legal affairs dept
Dan Freedman has joinedMandate Pictures as vice president of business and legal affairs.Freedman assumesresponsibility for negotiating rights and talent agreements in the developmentand production of features, overseeing production counsel, negotiating dealsfor Mandate's mobile content ventures, and handling key corporate matters.He will report to RobMcEntegart, executive vice president of business affairs, ...
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Bouso promoted at Warner Bros distribution services
Annette Bouso has beenpromoted to executive vice president of worldwide distribution services atWarner Bros Technical Operations.Bouso will continue to beresponsible for the physical delivery of more than 43,000 hours of programmingfrom the company's library to clients in the broadcast, cable, pay TV, and VODsectors, as well as new and emerging ...
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Fox International teams with Croft & Co in New Zealand
Fox International hasappointed Croft & Co as its theatrical distributor for New Zealandfollowing the retirement of the studio's longtime partner Royce Moodabe.The Moodabe family'sconnection with the studio began in 1936 when Fox first acquired a 50% share inits exhibition business in New Zealand, then owned by Royce's father MJMoodabe.Royce became ...
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...and takes powerful $20m international gross in just 11 markets
Warner Bros PicturesInternational (WBPI)'s Superman Returns burst on to the international scene with an outstanding $20m weekend haul from just 1,750 prints in 11 markets that generated 5.06million admissions.Opening number one in allits markets, the epic took $5.2m and 795,741 admissions from 303 prints in SouthKorea, and $3.8m and 525,843 ...
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Ira & Abby, Mario are LAFF audience favourites
Robert Cary's Ira & Abby won the audience award for best narrative feature, JeffWerner and Susan Koch's Mario's Storytook corresponding documentary honours, and Tomer Heymann's Paper Dolls won the audience award for best international feature atthe Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) which finished last night (Sunday).The award for outstandingperformance in ...
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No records broken but Superman still flies high in US
The Man of Steel soared overthe box office but not the record books as Warner Bros' Superman Returns added an estimated $52.2m over three days to raisethe five-day tally to $84.2m.While the result was nowherenear the five-day mark of $152.4m set by Sony's Spider-Man 2 exactly two years ago, it ...
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Superman Returns soars to $21m domestic opening day
Superman Returns took approximately $21m from 3,915 North American locations onits opening day on Wednesday, according to Warner Bros.The studio rolled Tuesday night previews into the result,which includes unspecified figures from 76 IMAX screens to produce a $5,373average overall.This is the eighth biggest Wednesday launch in history with Spider-Man2 and ...
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Blockbusters edge out of the gate, as World Cup fever heats up
The international box office is expected to take another heavyknock this weekend as the World Cup enters the crucial quarter-final stages withEngland, Germany, Italy, France and Brazil all in action.However there will be plenty of action inside theatres as well ason the German turf as Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) ...
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Weinsteins hatch unusual MySpace campaign for Clerks II
Harvey and Bob Weinstein have unveiled their latest marketing gem,offering the first 10,000 MySpace members who add the Mooby's Presents: ClerksII page to their friendslist a permanent credit on Kevin Smith's upcoming sequel.According to sources the names of the winning Smith fans will bepresented at the end of the theatrical ...
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World Cup fans get documentary treatment from Visser
Rosenbloom Entertainment andFlashpoint Entertainment are in production on Fan-Demanium, a timely feature-length documentary chronicling the2006 World Cup as seen through the eyes of ten sets of national fans.Matthias Visser is directingthe project, which among others focuses on an Australian fan following his teamin their first finals, and Uzbek uncles who ...