All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1339
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American Pavilion goes green with Paramount, Participant in Cannes
The American Pavilion in Cannes and Paramount's specialty divisionare teaming up to raise awareness over global warming.The initiative ties in neatly with the out of competitionscreening of Davis Guggenheim's global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which Paramount's specialty divisionwill release in the US on May 26.The partners will use biodegradable ...
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Sony's RV tops domestic box office with $16.4m
Sony's comedy RVpulled up to the number one spot on an estimated $16.4m as the top 12 picturesgrossed $90.7m to surpass the same weekend of 2005 by 12%.Universal's9/11 docudrama United 93 openedto a wave of exceptional reviews in provisional second place on $11.6m, justahead of Buena Vista's gymnastics comedy Stick ...
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Ice Age 2 still leads international with $25.3m weekend
Fox International's Ice Age 2: The Meltdown is bearing down on $400m followinganother dominant weekend that generated an estimated $25.3m.Playing on 8,396 screens, the smash animated sequel has nowamassed $373.6m in international ticket sales.The highlight was a superb $4.7m second weekend haul in Italy on647 screens for number one and ...
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De Bont to direct Intermedia/QED actioner Stopping Power
Jan De Bont will direct the action thriller Stopping Power for Intermedia, fledgling LA-basedproduction, finance and sales house QED International, and German production andphysical effects house action concept.Intermedia, QED International and action concept are producing andco-financing and expect to begin production in September in Germany. QEDInternational will begin worldwide pre-sales ...
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Ralph Alexander promoted to executive vp at SPRI
RalphAlexander has been named executive vice president of distribution at SonyPictures Releasing International (SPRI).Alexander,who has been with Columbia TriStar for almost two decades, takes on expandedduties in Europe and continues to report to SPRI distribution president MarkZucker."Ralph'sextensive distribution experience in all parts of the world makes him one ofSPRI's most ...
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Fabrication holds Hoole's Court for Cannes
Los Angeles-based distributor Fabrication Films has picked upworldwide rights to Rohan Michael Hoole's Australian thriller Court Of LonelyRoyals.Fabrication has arranged private screenings for distributors inMelbourne and Sydney prior to its market screenings at the Cannes Film Market.Hoole also wrote and produced the story of four intertwined livesin a dystopian future ...
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Stahman gets top domestic marketing job at re-energised MGM
Perry Stahman has been appointed to the new position of presidentof domestic theatrical marketing at MGM, reporting directly to chief operatingofficer Rick Sands.Stahman (pictured) arrives from 20th Century Fox where he served assenior vice president of creative advertising since 2004. "Having overseen the marketing for a number of high profilefilms, ...
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Meltdown to soar past $350m for Fox International
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown was due to cross $350m by the end of the week andFox International executives expect it to remain the dominant tile heading intothe three-day weekend.Strong holdovers in allmarkets will add considerably to the $349m international running total reportedby the close of Apr 27. China will ...
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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, ...