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THINKFilm boards Shortbus for North America
THINKFilm has acquired allNorth American rights to John Cameron Mitchell's sexual odyssey Shortbus following its out-of-competition screening atCannes, and plans an autumn release.Shortbus, which overcame its sexually explicit nature tobecome one of the most hotly pursued titles at the festival, follows the livesof several characters in New York as they ...
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Universal's Tokyo Drift speeds into UK, Australia
Fox International's horror remake The Omen has taken $37m since last week's subduedday-and-date launch and the studio will be hoping for solid holds heading intothe second weekend.Fox won't get any respite from the World Cup, which is alreadygripping world audiences.Meanwhile the studio opens X-Men: The Last Stand in its final ...
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Ginsberg promoted to vice president at LA-based Block-Korenbrot PR
Lee Ginsberg has beenpromoted to vice president of motion picture publicity at Los Angeles-based Block-KorenbrotPublic Relations, effective immediately.Ginsberg, who has served atthe company since September 2003, will continue to report to co-presidents MelodyKorenbrot and Ziggy Kozlowski.In addition Rebecca Fisherand Lisa Danna have joined the company as senior publicists.Fisher previously served ...
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Hoffman signs on to star in Capitol's Lumet-directed thriller
Philip Seymour Hoffman will star in Capitol Films' Before TheDevil Knows You're Dead,which is set to begin shooting in July in New York City.Sidney Lumet is directing the story about two brotherswhose plan to rob their parents' jewellery store leads to a devastating climax.Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney and Marisa Tomei ...
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Washington Square lines up productions including Curtis biopic
Washington Square Films-based producers Amy Hobby and RussStratton are lining up an eclectic slate of titles headed up by the Ian Curtisbiopic All The Timeand the Hector Lavoe salsa documentary Calle Luna, Calle Sol.Music video director Jamie Thraves will direct All The Time based on Mick Middles and LindsayReade's book ...
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Kristol to head marketing and distribution at SKE
Former Universal Pictures senior executive Mark Kristol (pictured) has beenappointed to the newly created post of president of marketing and distributionat Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE).Kristol will report directly to SKE president Jim Tauber and willoversee all theatrical and home entertainment marketing, including supervisionof print, electronic and alternative marketing and media ...
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Guantanamo takes top prize at Newport International Film Festival
Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' The Road To Guantanamo won the jury prize for best narrativefeature at the 9th Annual Newport International Film Festival.Kelly Reichardt won the narrative jury prize for best director forOld Joy, Emily Riostook actress honours for Quinceanera, and the ensemble acting award went to the cast ...
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Kimmel International reports 85 sales deals at first Cannes
Kimmel International topbrass said the company closed more than 85 sales at Cannes on a diverse slatethat included Billy Ray's FBI thriller Breach, Ed Stone's romantic comedy Griffin And Phoenix, and John Poll's coming-of-age tale CharlieBartlett.Deals on Breach closed in Germany (Prosieben), Latin America (TVAzteca), Brazil (Paris Films), Russia (Lizard ...
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Uwe Boll issues boxing challenge to his harshest film critics
BloodRayne and Alone In The Dark director Uwe Boll is reportedly so incensed bysavage reviews that he has decided to get in the ring. The German filmmaker haschallenged his five harshest critics to a series of boxing matches that he plansto insert into his upcoming video game adaptation Postal. Boll ...
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Roadside & Goldwyn buy Boynton Beach Club
Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films have jointlyacquired North American rights to Susan Seidelman's romantic comedy BoyntonBeach Club.Based on a story by Seidelman's 74-year-old mother Florence, BoyntonBeach Club follows agroup of grieving senior citizens who re-enter the dating game.Dyan Cannon, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Bologna, Renee Taylor, SallyKellerman, Len Cariou, Michael ...
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Camp Out, Gymnast top honour roll at Newfest
Larry Grimaldi and Kirk Marcolina's Camp Out has won the 18th Newfest Vanguard Awardcelebrating breakthrough or visionary achievement.The New York-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festivalalso awarded the picture best documentary honours, while the best US narrativeprize went to Ned Farr's The Gymnast.Best foreign narrative feature went to Ahmed ...
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THINKFilm reports bumper sales on Cannes slate
THINKFilmInternational has reported brisk business on its Cannes slate, with multipleterritory deals concluded on such titles as The Farce Of The Penguins, Half-Nelson, and OffThe Black.BobSaget's R-rated spoof nature documentary The Farce Of The Penguins closed in Japan (Movie-Eye), Germany (Constantin), France (Metropolitan),Brazil (ESR Films), Portugal (Prisvideo), Singapore (Shaw Renters), ...
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TWC signs McGuigan to direct Four Knights
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has confirmed that ithas hired Paul McGuigan to direct Four Knights, a Western-style take on the assassinationof the 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.Production is set to start in the UK this autumn based on PaulWebb's play Four Knights In Knaresboro. It is understood the ...
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Fox International races past $1bn gross in record time
Comingoff a modest worldwide opening for The Omen, Fox International nevertheless announced today that ithas crossed $1bn in overseas ticket sales in what it believes to be recordtime.Thismarks the second consecutive year that Fox International has reached themilestone before any of its rivals -- six months is astonishingly fast intoday's ...
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Lionsgate picks up CG-animated comedy for North America
Lionsgate has picked up North American rights to the CG-animated familycomedy Happily N'Ever After.Paul J Bolger directed from a screenplay by RobertMoreland that retells the story of Cinderella and styles her as the leader of aresistance group that takes on a posse of villains led by her stepmother.John H Williams ...
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Believe In Me, Thin share top honours at Jackson Hole
RobertCollector's Believe In Me and LaurenGreenfield's Thin won top narrative anddocumentary honours respectively at the Jackson Hole Film Festival, which ranin Wyoming from Jun 7 to 11.HilaryBrougher was named best director for Stephanie Daley, while the Audience Choice Award went to AuroraBorealis by James Burke.Inother Cowboy Awards, Believe In Me ...
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Eschenasy's role at Focus broadens into strategic planning
FocusFeatures executive vice president of business affairs Avy Eschenasy has beengiven an expanded role of executive vice president of strategic planning,business affairs and acquisitions.Basedin the company's West Coast offices, Eschenasy has served as executive vicepresident at Focus since its inception in spring 2002.Thecompany's business affairs departments in Focus' Manhattan and ...
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Cars roars out of the gates for Disney and Pixar
Pixar's latest creation Cars destroyed the competition at the weekend as it roared tothe top on an estimated $62.8m through Buena Vista. Box office for the top 12pictures combined for $148.8m, up 8% against the same weekend last year.The result, while slightly below expectations, maintained Pixar'sperfect record of number one ...
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French & Saunders join Coraline voice cast
British comedy duo DawnFrench and Jennifer Saunders will join Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher in LaikaEntertainment's stop-motion animated feature Coraline (pictured).Focus Features has worldwiderights to the story of a young girl who enters a parallel universe and fightsto return to reality before she is taken captive by her counterfeit parents.French ...
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Fox's The Omen hit by World Cup, scorching weather
Fox International's The Omen ruled the weekend but it packed less of a punch thanexpected due to the World Cup and scorching weather in Europe.The satanic tale grossed an estimated $31.1m on 4,783 screens forthe Tuesday to Sunday period, approximately $13m of that coming frompre-weekend figures.The launch in more than ...