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Ice Age continues to sink competition with $54m weekend
Fox International's Ice Age 2: The Meltdown remained the runaway number one title inthe international marketplace as it crossed $250m in its third weekend.The hit animated sequel added an estimated $54m on 7,298 screensin 57 territories over the Easter weekend for a total of $250.5m.Strong holdovers and low drop-offs powered ...
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Camden 28, Off Screen are jury winners at Philadelphia
Anthony Giacchino's anti-Vietnam War saga The Camden 28 achieved the unprecedented feat ofwinning both the 2006 Philadelphia Film Festival's documentary jury prize andaudience award at the closing ceremony on Apr 11.Headingup the other jury prize winners was Pieter Kuijpers' Off Screen for best feature, while James Marsh's The King won ...
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Journey opens LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
Ham Tran's Journey From The Fall and Eric Byler's AMERICANese bookend the 22nd VC FILMFEST: The LosAngeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, set to run from May 4-11.Julia Kwan's Eve & The Fire Horse is the centerpiece screening and theline-up includes more than 140 features, shorts and videos including 16features from ...
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G-Jones joins New Films as co-production finance specialist
Film Financier and producers representative Luke G-Jones, hasjoined New Films International (NFI) as director of co-production finance.The appointment comes as the Beverly Hills-based internationalproduction and distribution group continues to expand its production slate,having recently announcing a co-production deal with John Woo and TerenceChang's Lion Rock Productions.Luke G-Jones, who previously served ...
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BVI takes out The Wild, Scary Movie 4 day-and-date
Ice Age: The Meltdown will soar past $200m in its third weekend as it opens in sevensmaller markets including Hong Kong on Apr 13.Fox International executives remain in jubilant mood following astring of number one debuts and last weekend's astonishing $90m-plus haul.The animated sequel has amassed more than $192.3m and ...
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Frazier takes over from Richardson at MPAA
Greg Frazier has been appointed senior vice president for internationaltrade policy at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).Frazier has served as special advisor to MPAA chairman DanGlickman since August 2004 and succeeds Bonnie Richardson, who is leaving afternearly 14 years.In his new post Frazier will lobby the US and ...
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Pflug, Zukerman team up for Principal
Corporate communications executives Paul Pflug and MelissaZukerman are teaming up to launch the Principal Communications Group (PCG).Based in Los Angeles, PCG will focus on strategic positioning,corporate brand development, transaction representation and crisis counsel inthe fields of entertainment, business and philanthropy.The firm will officially launch on May 1, 2006 and both ...
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Lucas named guest director at Los Angeles Film Festival
George Lucas has been named guest director at the 2006 Los AngelesFilm Festival, which runs in from Jun 22 to Jul 2.In this capacity Lucas will create a sidebar programme of filmsthat have inspired his work and will play host to the festival retreat at hisSkywalker Ranch in Marin County, ...
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Fugard leaves Pathe to join Paramount specialty arm
Berenice Fugard has joined Paramount's specialty division as vicepresident of acquisitions and co-productions. She comes to the studio afterseven years as head of acquisitions at Pathe Distribution in the UK. Prior tothat, she was acquisitions executive from 1997 to 1999. Fugard (pictured) will continue to be based in London and ...
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Rogue boards Hot Fuzz as domestic distributor
Rogue Pictures will handle the domestic release on Working Title'saction comedy Hot Fuzz,which began production in the UK last month and comes from the creative teambehind Shaun Of The Dead.The Working Title production in association with Big TalkProductions is being directed by Edgar Wright from a screenplay he co-wrotewith Simon ...
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Goldcrest pitches in finishing funds to Freeman's Tribeca drama
GoldcrestFilms International has provided finishing funds for the road trip drama JustLike The Son from director Morgan JFreeman.MarkWebber, Antonio Ortiz, Rosie Perez and Brendan Sexton III star in the story ofthe friendship that develops between a young man and an orphaned boy as theyjourney to Dallas to find the child's ...
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MI:III will have US premiere at Tribeca
Mission: Impossible III will receive its US premiere on May 3 at the 2006 TribecaFilm Festival, following the world premiere in Rome on Apr 24.Tom Cruise will attend a high profile day of events in Manhattanknown as Mission: NYC.Cruise will kick off with a live appearance on MTV's TRL studiosin ...
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Devlin's Electric signs distribution alliance with MGM
MGM will handle the domestic release of Electric Entertainment'sfirst world war adventure Flyboys, kicking off a non-exclusive distribution alliance unveiled bythe parties today [Tuesday].Flyboysstars James Franco as a young American who volunteers to become a fighter pilotduring hostilities in Europe. Tony Bill directed and Jean Reno and MartinHenderson also star.Electric ...
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Goldcrest takes on Elvis And Anabelle
Production began this week in Austin, Texas, on UK-based GoldcrestFilms International and Austin-based Orange Productions' dark romantic comedy ElvisAnd Anabelle.Will Geiger is directing the story about an unlikely romance that blossomsbetween a deceased local beauty queen and the town mortician's son. Goldcrestis handling worldwide sales.Max Mingella will play the mortician's ...
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Madsen, Hannah start production on Arcview's Vice
Production began this week in Vancouver on psychological thriller Vicefrom Nevadan productionand financing company Arcview Entertainment.Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Mykelti Williamson, Mark BooneJunior and rapper Kurupt star in the story of a group of troubled policeofficers who fall under suspicion when a drugs haul goes missing.Raul Sanchez Inglis directs and ...
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Independent CG-animated Chimps starts for Vanguard, IDT
Vanguard Animation and IDT Entertainment have started productionon their CG-animated feature Space Chimps.The comedy follows the galactic misadventures of a haplessdescendant of the first chimpanzees in space and will be distributeddomestically through IDT's multi-picture deal with Twentieth Century Fox.Character design and storyboarding are currently underwayin Vancouver at IDT Entertainment and ...
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Universal signs multi-year distribution deal with Mattel
Universal Studios and Mattel have signed a multi-picture,multi-year feature-length DVD worldwide marketing and distribution deal.Universal will handle global marketing and distribution onupcoming instalments of the Barbie Entertainment franchise and will handle theworldwide release this autumn on PollyWorld, the first feature to be based onMattel's miniature Polly Pocket doll.'An agreement of ...
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Sundance Institute names three fellowship recipients for producing, screenwriting.
The Sundance Institute has announced recipients of three keyawards supporting filmmakers and their passion projects.Producing partners T Todd Flinchum and Alicia Kratzer will receivethe 2006 Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers, and collect a $5,000 cashgrant for pre-production expenses for their project Dreamland.The project is a speculative exploration of the ...
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David Dobkin to direct RIPD for Universal
DavidDobkin will direct Universal's long-in-the-works comic book adaptation RIPD based on the Dark Horse comic book Rest In Peace Department.PhilHay and Matt Manfredi will adapt the screenplay about a murdered police officerwho is recruited to a supernatural agency charged with removing troublesomespirits from Earth.NealH Moritz and Mike Richardson will produce, ...
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O'Shea hired to run Odd Lot's new international sales arm
LosAngeles-based production and finance outfit Odd Lot Entertainment is launchinga foreign sales division and has appointed former Media 8 senior vice presidentof worldwide distribution Brian O'Shea (pictured) to oversee it.OddLot International (OLI) will be based at Odd Lot's new Culver City site andwill handle films from Odd Lot Entertainment and ...