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Palfrey, Wittering among titles at Jackson Hole
Dan Ireland's Mrs PalfreyAt The Claremont, David Scheinmann'scomedy The West Wittering Affairand Jackie Oudney's VagaBond Shoesare among the line-up in the upcoming Jackson Hole Film Festival in Yellowstone,US.Also screening are severalSundance entries, among them UK filmmakers Nick and Marc Francis' coffeedocumentary Black Gold, Hilary Brougher'sdrama Stephanie Daley, and HamTran's Vietnamese ...
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Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces starts for Serendipity Point in Canada, Greece
Production has begun inToronto and the Greek islands of Lesbos and Hydra on Serendipity Point Films'long-gestating drama Fugitive Pieces.The film marks a return tomovies for Jeremy Podeswa, a now experienced TV director who hasn't made a feature since The Five Senses in1999. Toronto-based SerendipityPoint founder Robert Lantos is producing the ...
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Epstein rejoins Littles at Little Film Company
Los Angeles-based productionand worldwide sales company Little Film Company has hired Clay Epstein as vicepresident of sales and acquisitions.Epstein will report directlyto company chiefs Robbie and Ellen Little and will oversee sales, distributionand marketing of the slate, as well as identifying potential acquisitions.Prior to joining The LittleFilm Company, Epstein served ...
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Universal takes domestic on 2929's We Own The Night
Universal Pictures has picked up domestic rights from 2929Productions to crime drama We Own The Night starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg,Robert Duvall and Eva Mendes.James Gray, who directed Phoenix and Wahlberg in 2000's TheYards, wrote and isdirecting the project, which is currently shooting in New York.Universal previously acquiredrights for the ...
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International Film Circuit buys US on Words
Boutique distributor International Film Circuit has acquired allUS rights to Lesley Ann Patten's documentary Words Of My Perfect Teacher and plans a summer domestic release.The ZIJI Film and Television and National Film Board of Canada co-productionfollows three students on a quest for wisdom, all the while watched closely byKhyentse Norbu, ...
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TIFFG establishes children's international film collection
The Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) hasestablished a children's international film collection following a $500,000 donationfrom the Toronto-based Harbinger Foundation.The unprecedented collection lays the groundwork for thedevelopment of TIFFG youth education programmes and will be named the John VanDuzerChildren's Film Collection in honour of Harbinger Foundation president JoanVanDuzer's late ...
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Universal hires Duncan Clark as international distribution evp
Universal Pictures has made a key appointment ahead of next year'smove towards complete autonomy in overseas operations, hiring Duncan Clark asexecutive vice president of international distribution.Clark, who spent 13 years at Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI) and the last four as president, will be based in London and reportdirectly to ...
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Horizon picks up international on Thai/US co-production Journey
Vancouver-based Horizon Entertainment has picked up allinternational rights to Vietnamese-American director Ham Tran's Thai-US co-productionJourney From The Fall.The story follows a family'sescape from Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War and charts the contrastinglives of those who make it to America and those who remain in the re-educationcamps. Kieu ...
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Kingsley to play assassin in mob comedy You Kill Me
Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoniand Luke Wilson are set to star in the mobcomedy You Kill Me for Code Entertainment, Kingsley's BiPolarProductions, Carol BaumInc, and Mike Marcus' Echo Lake Productions.John Dahl will direct the project and shooting is expected to beginbefore the end of themonth in Winnipeg, Canada.Kingsley plays an alcoholic ...
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Kingsley to headline Dahl mob comedy You Kill Me
Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoniand Luke Wilson are set to star in the mob comedy You Kill Me for Code Entertainment, Kingsley's BiPolar Productions, Carol BaumInc, and Mike Marcus' Echo Lake Productions.John Dahl will direct the project and shooting is expected to start before the end of themonth in Winnipeg, Canada.Kingsley, ...
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14 projects line up for Sundance Director and Screenwriters Labs
14 projects have beenselected for the Sundance Institute's annual June Directors and ScreenwritersLabs, set to take place in Utah from May 29-Jun 29.The Labs give emergingfilmmakers the chance to work under the guidance of experienced mentors, whothis year include Atom Egoyan, Harold Ramis, Robert Redford, Antonia Bird,Caleb Deschanel, Keith Gordon, ...
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Dehmel, Cordova get vp stripes at Fox International
Craig Dehmel has beenpromoted to vice president of sales and strategic planning and Peter Cordovahas been promoted to vice president of finance at Fox International.Dehmel will report tocompany co-presidents Tomas Jegeus and Paul Hanneman and will manage releaseplanning and execution for all Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Atomic, FoxAnimation, ...
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Holloway moves from Lionsgate to Fox Searchlight in national publicity
Melissa Holloway (pictured) hasleft Lionsgate to become vice president of national publicity at FoxSearchlight.She started work on Apr 24and reports to chief operating officer Nancy Utley.Holloway joined Lionsgate inJanuary 2001 and served as vice president of publicity since 2004, overseeingcampaigns for this year's best picture Oscar winner Crash, Monster's Ball,Amores ...
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Mackiewicz leaves First Look to join Media 8
LizMackiewicz is leaving First Look Studios and will start work at Media 8Entertainment on May 1 as senior vice president of worldwide distribution.Mackiewicz(pictured), who previously served at First Look Studios as senior vicepresident of worldwide sales and distribution, will represents the company'sslate of titles at Cannes next month.Thatslate includes the ...
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Mezzogiorno bags lead role in Newell's Cholera
Italy'sGiovanna Mezzogiorno (pictured) has joined Javier Bardem on the cast of Stone VillagePictures' Love In The Time Of Cholera,adapted from the bestselling novel by Gabriel Marcia Marquez.StoneVillage Pictures will fully finance and assume all international rights to the$35-40m project, which is set to begin in Brazil on August 15.SummitEntertainment is ...
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Arclight grabs worldwide rights to India-set Rajapur
Arclight Films has picked up worldwide rights to Nanda Anand's romanticepic Return To Rajapur andwill commence sales at Cannes.The US-India co-production, a story of love and destinywhich takes place in a Northern India desert city, makes its world premiere atTribeca on Apr 26.Lynn Collins, Kelli Garner, Justin Theroux, Manoj Bajpai, ...
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Zucker named president of distribution at SPRI
MarkZucker has been promoted to president of distribution at Sony PicturesReleasing International (SPRI).Zucker,who previously served as senior executive vice president, will continue tomanage the international distribution of all titles in the Sony fold, includingColumbia Pictures, Revolution Studios, TriStar, Screen Gems, and Sony PicturesClassics.Basedin Los Angeles, he reports directly to Columbia ...
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Dombivli-Fast wins top jury prize at LA Indian fest
NishikantKamat's Dombivli-Fast won the grandjury prize for best feature and Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal's BombayCalling took corresponding documentaryhonours as the 4th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles closed at the weekend.PrakashKovelamudi's Belly Full Of Dreams wonthe audience award for best feature and Ali Kazimi's Runaway Grooms won the award ...
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Ice Age 2 cracks $300m at international box office
Fox International's Ice Age 2: The Meltdown remained the runaway number one title in theinternational marketplace as it swept past $300m.The hit animated sequel added $40.3m on 8,964screens to raise the international cumulative tally to $333.1m.It opened number one in Italy on a superb $6.2m on 644 screens,and scored a ...
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Estate of late Disney animator endows $5m to LA film school
Theestate of Disney animation artist John C Hench has made a $5m endowment gift tocreate the John C Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts at theUniversity of Southern California's (USC) School of Cinema-Television.Theendowment will support several key initiatives including funding faculty andstudent assistant positions, updating technology, underwritingartists-in-residence, hosting symposia, ...