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Old Joy, Clear Cut get top honours at Sarasota festival
KellyReichardt's Old Joy and PeterRichardson's Clear Cut: The Story Of Philomath, Or, were the big winners at the 2006 Sarasota Film Festivalas they were named the best narrative and documentary features in competitionSpecialjury prizes in both categories went to Cristi Puiu's The Death Of MrLazarescu and Gary Tarn's Black Sun.The2006 ...
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Weinstein Company picks up Dragon Tiger Gate
TheWeinstein Company (TWC) has picked up all English-speaking territories toWilson Yip's martial arts action thriller Dragon Tiger Gate.Basedon a well known Hong Kong comic book The Gate Of Dragon And Tiger, the picture follows three young martial arts masters fromthe back streets of Hong Kong who team up to fight ...
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Focus takes on worldwide rights to Iraq documentary
FocusFeatures has acquired worldwide rights to Patricia Foulkrod's documentary TheGround Truth: After The Killing Ends,which premiered at Sundance. The company plans to release it later this year.Thepicture recounts the experiences of six American men and women who served inIraq and chronicles their recruitment, training, combat and traumatichomecoming.TheGround Truth was produced ...
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Meltdown drops 50% in US but still holds top position
Ice Age: The Meltdown held on to top spot and became the first release of2006 to cross $100m after an estimated $34.5m haul raised the domestic tally to$116.4m after ten days.The animated family sequelremained the dominant picture across the globe following a staggering $93mperformance in the international marketplace that raised ...
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Joffe leaves Media 8 for vp job at QED International
BeverlyHills-based international sales, financing and production company QEDInternational has appointed Tatyana Joffe as vice president of internationaldistribution.Joffemost recently served as vice president of international distribution at Media 8Entertainment where she oversaw the international department as well aslicensing and sales for half the world including most of Asia, Eastern Europeand the ...
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Ice Age sets industry and animated records around the world
Fox International's IceAge 2: The Meltdown generated one ofthe biggest international weekends of all time with an astonishing estimated$93m haul on 8,216 screens that raised the international running total to$156m.The animated romp scored anumber of new industry and distributor records as it sailed to the top in allits territories, led ...
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Assyriska wins top prize at Beverly Hills Film Festival
NuriKino and Erik Sandberg's human rights documentary Assyriska: A National TeamWithout A Nation won the 6th AnnualBeverly Hills International Film Festival's (BHFF) Golden Palm Award.EugenioCappuccio's Verso La Luna Con Fellini (TowardsThe Moon With Fellini) won best foreignfilm, while Patrick Warburton won the best actor prize for The CivilisationOf Maxwell Bright ...
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Cast finalised for Spyglass/Rogue comedy Balls Of Fury
George Lopez and Maggie Qhave joined Dan Fogler and Christopher Walken in Spyglass Entertainment'scomedy Balls Of Fury.Production is scheduled tobegin next month on the story of an underground table tennis player recruitedby the FBI for a secret mission.Ben Garant is directing froma screenplay he co-wrote with Thomas Lennon. Rogue Pictures ...
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Iacono crosses from Sony TV to local language movies
Seekingto bolster its local language activities, particularly in growth areas likeRussia and India, Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group (CTMPG) has named PeterIacono senior executive vice president of local language productions.Iacono (pictured) will report directly to and work alongside CTMPG vice chairman Gareth Wigan onthe local language slate, which to date ...
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Focus, Korea's LJ team to develop Julia Mullock story
FocusFeatures has teamed up with Korea's LJ Film to develop the epic drama The JuliaProject (working title), about an Americanwoman who became the wife of the last crown prince of Korea.Focusand LJ's new US arm will co-produce and co-finance the project, which is set tobegin production late this year and ...
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Deighton, Becker join Kimmel in key production roles
Joshua Deighton and Holly Becker are joining Sidney Kimmel Entertainment(SKE) as senior vice presidents of production.Deighton previously served as vice president of production at Fox Searchlight,where he acquired such titles as Napoleon Dynamite and Broken Lizard's Super Troopers.He was a production executive on Sideways, Sexy Beast, One HourPhoto, I (Heart) ...
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Ice Age 2 set to dominate international in weekend #2
Fox International's Ice Age 2: The Meltdown is closing in on $100m as it prepares toopen in 20 territories heading into its second weekend.The animated sequel has amassed more than $64.2m by Thursday andis now opening in France on Apr 5, Australia and Germany on Apr 6, and the UKon ...
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Markham Street to make doc on PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
The rise and fall of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment is thesubject of a Canadian documentary called 100 Films And A Funeral, which has started principal photography.Produced by Toronto-based Markham Street Films, the $1.5mhigh-def documentary will take an in-depth look at the upstart studio run byMichael Kuhn which distributed more than 100 ...
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Working Title teams with John Hamburg on Troubleshooter
Universal Pictures and Working Title have acquired John Hamburg'scomedy thriller screenplay The Troubleshooter.The screenplay is based on a story by Hamburg and MarkShanahan, and Hamburg will direct and produce along with Working Title's TimBevan and Eric Fellner. Plot details were being kept under wraps yesterday.The filmmaker has had a longstanding ...
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Poseidon to have May 6 world premiere at Tribeca
Tribeca Film Festivalorganisers have scored another coup by booking the world premiere of WolfgangPetersen's disaster movie Poseidon.Warner Bros and VirtualStudios' adventure story is the latest high-profile world premiere destined forthe New York event, which will open with Working Title/Universal's United 93and also screens DreamWorksAnimation's Over The Hedge.Poseidon tells of a ...
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Nashville-based Amity picks up Little Hippo for North America
Nashville-based production, distribution and licensing companyAmity Entertainment has picked up North American rights to the Little Hippoanimation feature and series.The acquisition includes a 90-minute feature and 52 15-minutetelevision episodes.Belgium-based Neuroplanet produced the 2001 feature, which wasdirected by Bernard Deyries and has been released theatrically in France andGermany.The television series has ...
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Carr promoted to vp of exhibitor marketing at Focus Features
Eric Carr has been promoted from Focus Features' director ofexhibitor marketing to the unit's vice president.Effective immediately, Carr will oversee planning and deployingin-theatre marketing materials for Focus and Rogue Pictures releases.He will remain in the company's West Coast offices and continuesto report to Focus Features executive vice president of theatrical ...
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MGM Channel pacts with Liberty for eastern Europe launch
MGM Networks has signed a deal with broadband cable operatorLiberty Global's European division chellomedia to launch the MGM Channel andDTH (direct-to-home satellite) systems in local languages throughout centraland Eastern Europe.The 50-50 joint venture aims to launch the MGM Channel in theCzech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary by the fourth quarter of ...
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Mixed Doubles to close LA Indian Film Festival
Rajat Kapoor's comedy MixedDoubles will close the 4th IndianFilm Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) on Apr 23.Mixed Doubles premiered recently at the Rotterdam InternationalFilm Festival and follows a man's desperate efforts to spice up his 10-year-oldmarriage.Festival Director ChristinaMarouda announced that the audience choice and the jury awards for bestfeature, best ...
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Palm teams with Rockstar Games on Sunday Driver
Palm Pictures and video game publisher Rockstar Games have teamedup to co-market and co-distribute the low-rider documentary Sunday Driver in the US.The first documentary production from Grand Theft Auto creator Rockstar follows The Majestics,a group of California-based African-American former gang members who inspireeach other through their love of customised cars.Sunday ...