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TriStar tops North American box office with Silent Hill
TriStar's horror tale Silent Hill emerged as the North American weekendchampion on an estimated $20.2m while Fox's thriller The Sentinel opened third on $14.7m and Universal's AmericanDreamz flopped in eighthplace on $3.7m.Meanwhile last weekend's top title Scary Movie 4 from Dimension Films fell to second placeon $17m for a $67.7m ...
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DeVito stars in Kindred Media Group's One Part Sugar
Jeffrey D Erb's US-based Kindred Media Group has startedproduction on Hart Bochner's comedic fable One Part Sugar starring Danny DeVito and Dylan Walsh.This is the second project to secure financing at the productionstage from Kindred following the thriller Southern Gothic, which went into production in January.Hart Sharp has come aboard ...
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Mertes named head of documentaries at Sundance
AmericanDocumentary Inc executive director and PBSexecutive producer Cara Mertes has been named director of the SundanceInstitute's Documentary Film Program.Merteswill oversee all of the Documentary Film Program's projects, including theSundance Documentary Fund, the annual Documentary Edit and Story Laboratory,the annual Documentary Composers Laboratory, the House of Docs programming, andyear-round support for ...
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Driver races to worldwide deal with Rogue/Focus
Rogue Pictures has acquired worldwide distribution rightsexcluding Germany, Austria, and German-speaking Switzerland to Constantin Filmand Impact Pictures' video game adaptation Driver.Roger Avary is writing the screenplay and will direct, with ImpactPictures' Jeremy Bolt and Paul W S Anderson and Constantin's Bernd Eichingerand Robert Kulzer producing.Focus Features International will handle international ...
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IMAX to add fifth giant screen in CJ CGV Pusan multiplex
IMAX has signed a deal with leading Korean exhibitor CJ CGV Coto add a fifth giant screen theatre to its original four-theatre commitment inPusan's Seomyun 12 multiplex.The new theatre is scheduled to open in time for the release of SupermanReturns: The IMAX Experience on Jun 30.The decision to add a ...
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Ice Age sequel set to soar with major openings
Fox International's Ice Age 2: The Meltdown should soar past $300m this weekend,powered by expected strong holds and several major launches.The animated sequel currently stands at $291,5m and goes out inSouth Korea on Apr 20, followed by Italy and India on Apr 21 and Japan on Apr22.Big debuts would appear ...
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Focus Features gets Woody Allen's Scoop
Focus Featureshas picked up North American, Australian and New Zealand rights to WoodyAllen's second UK project Scoop, which is currently in post-production.Scoop was shot in London last summer and starsScarlett Johansson as a journalism student who investigates a string of murdersand falls in love with a handsome Englishman. Hugh Jackman, ...
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Yari backs Jamie Kennedy vehicle Kickin It
Jamie Kennedy is heading the cast on the comedy Kickin It OldSkool for Bob YariProductions and Kennedy's Jizzy Entertainment and Hi-Def Entertainment.Shooting is underway in Vancouver on Harvey Glazer's directorialdebut about a 32-year-old former breakdancer who awakens from a 20-year comaand attempts to revive his dance team.Maria Menounos, Christopher McDonald, ...
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Hamilton to head festival centre programming at TIFFG
Jim Hamilton has been appointed to the new post of director offestival centre programming for the Toronto International Film Festival Group(TIFFG).Effective immediately, Hamilton (pictured) will take charge of allprogramming at the yet-to-be-built festival centre and oversee the five screens, educationalspaces and gallery.In the meantime, he will also oversee the direction ...
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Noeltner's CMG takes on rap & hip-hop collection
Ed Noeltner's CinemaManagement Group (CMG) will commence pre-sales in Cannes on its 12-title rapand hip hop DVD premiere set The Streets Are Talkin'.Each DVD in the collectionwill feature cutting edge music, interviews and footage and will be accompaniedby a specially created bonus CD mix.The first title set fordomestic release in ...
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Bogandovich will crack The Broken Code
Peter Bogdanovich has signedon to direct the competitive science drama The Broken Code, which is being backed by The UK Film Council andCapitol Films though Capitol Films Production's Super Slate developmentcompany, along with Signature Films.The story puts under themicroscope the life of Rosalind Franklin, an unsung research scientist whosepioneering X-ray ...
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Jonathan King takes on evp production role at Focus
Jonathan King, the formerhead of production at Sony-based Laurence Mark Productions, is joining FocusFeatures as executive vice president of production.King begins work this weekbased in the company's West Coast offices. He will report to Focus' productionpresident John Lyons.At Laurence Mark ProductionsKing's credits included Bill Condon's upcoming musical Dreamgirls, and Scott ...
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Frank Oz signs to direct Kimmel's Death At A Funeral
Frank Oz has signed on to direct the ensemble comedy Death At AFuneral for US bi-coastal outfit Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE).Sales arm Kimmel International will commence sales at Cannes onthe story of a riotous funeral that ensues when a dysfunctional British familyturns out to pay its respects to a patriarch.Matthew ...
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National Video Resources unveils 20 recipients of media fellowships
US non-profit group NationalVideo Resources (NVR) has unveiled the 20 recipients of its Media ArtsFellowships and two additional awards to artists of exceptional promise.Recipientsinclude Down To The Bone director DebraGranik, whose Church Ave is thestory of a streetwise Brooklyn man, Nanobah Becker whose feature Full is about a gay Navajo ...
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Panavision secures $345m credit facility
Camera manufacturer Panavisionhas refinanced its debt and signed a $345m senior secured credit facility as itembarks upon a new phase of corporate expansion.The company'spresident and chief executive officer Bob Beitcher said the move allowedPanavision to develop new products following the success of the Genesis digitalcamera, and expand its worldwide television ...
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Warner promotes Albery to anti-piracy vp in Europe, Middle East and Africa
Trevor Alberyhas been promoted to vice president of anti-piracy operations in Europe, theMiddle East and Africa for Warner Bros.Albery will bebased in London and will report to Warner Bros' senior vice president ofworldwide corporate anti-piracy Darcy Antonellis.He joined thestudio as anti-piracy counsel for European anti-piracy operations in March2004.Prior to joiningWarner ...
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Sony's Mexican production unit starts Charm School
Sony'sMexican local production unit Columbia Films Producciones Mexico has startedprincipal photography in Mexico City on its first feature, Fernando Sarinana'scomedy Charm School.Thestory follows the rebellious 18-year-old daughter of a political candidate whois sent to a finishing school and locks horns with the doughty principal.Martha Higareda, Camila Sodi and Blanca Guerra ...
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Academy Awards set for Feb 25, 2007
The79th Annual Academy Awards will take place on Feb 25 2007 at Hollywood's KodakTheatre.TheAcademy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) issued the timetable forthe upcoming awards season yesterday. Nominations ballots will be mailed on Dec26 2006 and nominations polls close on Jan 13 2007.Nominationswill be announced on Jan 23, ...
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Danish films under the spotlight at Seattle Film Festival
Fourteenfeatures from Denmark including five North American premieres have beenselected to spotlight the Scandinavian country in the upcoming 32nd SeattleInternational Film Festival (SIFF).The titlesinclude Annette Olesen's 1:1, PernilleFischer's A Soap, Niels Arden Oplev's WeShall Overcome, Anders Thomas Jensen's Adam'sApples, Christoffer Boe's Allegro, and Dagur Kari's Dark Horse.'AlthoughDanish cinema has always ...
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Dimension takes Easter in North America with Scary Movie 4
Dimension's Scary Movie 4 stormed to the top of the North American box office andrecorded the biggest Easter weekend in history as it took an estimated $41mover three days. It is the first specactular opening for the independentcompany since it separated from Disney and resumed business under The WeinsteinCompany's stand-alone ...