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Banderas to play Cortes in Conquistador
Antonio Banderas will portray Hernan Cortes in Hollywood Gang's upcoming$40m Spanish-language epic Conquistador to be directed by Andrucha Waddington.Based on a screenplay by Nick Kazan, the project charts the 16thcentury Spanish expedition that brings Cortes and his men into bloody contactwith the Aztec empire led by Moctezuma.Gianni Nunnari of Los ...
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Gooder gets new position between LA and Sydney at Icon
Mark Gooder is moving to Los Angeles in the newly createdposition of president of film acquisitions and development at Icon Productions.Gooder will continue to serve as chief executive officer of IconFilm Distribution Australia and will divide his time between California and Sydney.He will report directly to Icon Productions president Bruce ...
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Focus, Random House acquire Koontz's new novel
FocusFeatures and Random House Films have acquired film rights to best sellingauthor Dean Koontz's upcoming thriller The Husband.Developmentwill begin straight away on The Husband,which will be published on May 30 in North America through Random House'sBantam Books imprint.Koontz'sstory centres on a harrowing 60-hour period in a man's life that begins ...
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Icon acquires Hammer library for worldwide sales
IconEntertainment International has boosted its library to more than 300 titleswith the acquisition of the Hammer film library for worldwide sales.Titlesinclude such genre classics as Dracula Prince Of Darkness starring Christopher Lee, Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell both starring Peter Cushing, and Quatermass & ThePit, which stars Andrew Keir."Hammeris ...
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Goldcrest picks up worldwide rights to Arctic Son
Goldcrest Films International has picked up world sales rights toAndrew Walton's documentary Arctic Son, which explores the themes of family and self-reliance inthe Canadian Yukon region.The production from New York-based media company Arts Engine Incand Big Mouth Films will receive its world premiere at the Full FrameDocumentary Film Festival in ...
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IDT closes broadcast, theatrical deals on second Horror series
IDT Entertainment Sales has secured a raft of pre-sales on thesecond Masters Of Horror series that begins production in Vancouver this week.IDT Entertainment, Industry Entertainment and Nice Guy Productionsare partnering up on the series that, like the first, will air on ShowtimeNetworks in the US.Theatrical, television and home entertainment rights ...
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WBITD signs output deal with Bulgaria's Nova-TV
WarnerBros International Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-yearoutput deal with Bulgarian broadcaster Nova TV.Theagreement gives Nova TV exclusive free television rights to such librarytitles as The Matrix Reloaded, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, and The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, among others.NovaTV is owned by ...
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Keri Moore gets senior vp stripes in Universal marketing dept
Keri Moore has been promoted to senior vice president of creativeadvertising for Universal Pictures.Moore, who most recently was vice president of creativeadvertising, is based on the studio's Universal City lot and will continue toreport to marketing president Adam Fogelson.After joining the studio in November 1999 as manager Moore rosethrough the ...
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LA home entertainment distributor Liberation opens in Europe
LosAngeles-based distributor of home entertainment content LiberationEntertainment has established a London office and appointed Spencer Pollardmanaging director.Thewholly owned company will be called Liberation Entertainment Ltd and will acquirefeature and television content out of the UK and Europe as well as selling andmarketing the existing library.Pollardis assembling staff to handle finance, ...
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Box office meltdown as Ice Age opens top in 29 markets
Ice Age: The Meltdown burned through the international marketplace this weekend,grossing an estimated $43.4m through Fox International on 4,571 screens in 29territories.Records toppled around the world as the animated sequel stormed tonumber one in every territory, mirroring its dominance in North America whereit took an estimated $70.5m.The weekend result does ...
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Goldcrest picks up international rights to 39 Pounds
Goldcrest Films International has acquired all rights to DaniMenkin's documentary 39 Pounds Of Love excluding the US and Israel and will introduce to buyers atMIPTV.39 Pounds tells the story of Ami Ankilewitz, an American-bornIsraeli who at the age of one was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophythat renders ...
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Ice Age sequel breaks March opening record with $70.5m
Ice Age: The Meltdown produced the first sensational box office weekend of the year asit opened to a spectacular estimated $70.5m, while another sequel Sony/MGM's BasicInstinct 2 flopped intenth place on $3.2m.The animated sequel beat the $46.3m March 2002 launch of IceAge and eclipsed theall-time April opening record of $42.2m ...
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New movie fund FarFalla Films launches with The Good Life
Production has begun in Winnipeg on Steve Berra's directorialdebut The Good Lifestarring Mark Webber, Chris Klein, Zooey Deschanel and Bill Paxton.The picture is the first to be produced by FarFalla Films, a fundcreated by the company's partners Lance Sloane, a producer at Warner Bros, andhis brother and company chief Devin ...
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Superman to be converted to IMAX-3D
Warner Bros' upcoming Superman Returns will become the first live-actionpicture to be converted into IMAX 3D as the corporate partners plan asimultaneous release on Jun 30.Approximately 20 minutes of the film will be converted to 3D, anddirector Bryan Singer, who described the test scenes as "absolutelyamazing", will insert visual cues ...
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Ice Age, Instinct sequels blanket the world
Fox International top brass are unleashing Ice Age 2: TheMeltdown in 27territories day-and-date with North America, and they expect the animatedsequel to be a worthy commercial successor to the original.Ice Age launched in2002 and ended up taking more than $206m internationally and more than $380mworldwide.Meanwhile another sequel C2 Pictures' Basic ...
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Moonstone to handle films from Allumination FilmWorks
Etchie Stroh's Moonstone Entertainment has signed a deal to act asinternational distributor on select features from LA-based AlluminationFilmWorks including Checking Out starring Peter Falk, and Push starring Chazz Palminteri and MichaelRapaport.The moves broadens the existing relationship between the partiesestablished in April 2005 under which Moonstone distributes Allumination's homeentertainment catalogue in ...
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Sundance Institute teams up with BAM in New York for entertainment programme
Sundance Institute and BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) arelaunching the entertainment series Sundance Institute At BAM.The series comprises film, theatre, musical performances, paneldiscussions, and filmmaker Q&A sessions among other events and is set torun from May 11 to 21 in various New York venues.The series features artists that have been ...
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Doug Lee to run MGM's new media division
MGM has launched a new media division and named Douglas A Lee tooversee the unit as executive vice president.In the new role Lee will oversee MGM's digital distributionstrategy, spearhead the studio's broadband and wireless initiatives and overseenew digital media growth."MGM will be making significant moves in terms of newplatforms, ranging ...
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New Line takes on remake rights to Torrente
New Line has acquired English-language remake rights to SantiagoSegura's Spanish hit comedy film series Torrente.Mike Bender and Doug Chernack will adapt the screenplay to Torrente, fusing story elements from Segura's Torrente:The Dumb Arm Of The Law,Torrente 2: Mission Marbella and Torrente 3: The Protector.The franchise follows the exploits of a ...
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ACI to handle 120-film Amity library in key international markets
Nashville-based Amity Entertainment has hired American CinemaInternational (ACI) to distribute its library of more than 120 feature films inEurope, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.LA-based ACI will launch the library at this year's MIP-TV, whichruns from Apr 3 to 7 in Cannes.The catalogue comprises a wide range of genres including ...