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Holloway moves from Lionsgate to Fox Searchlight in national publicity
Melissa Holloway (pictured) hasleft Lionsgate to become vice president of national publicity at FoxSearchlight.She started work on Apr 24and reports to chief operating officer Nancy Utley.Holloway joined Lionsgate inJanuary 2001 and served as vice president of publicity since 2004, overseeingcampaigns for this year's best picture Oscar winner Crash, Monster's Ball,Amores ...
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Mackiewicz leaves First Look to join Media 8
LizMackiewicz is leaving First Look Studios and will start work at Media 8Entertainment on May 1 as senior vice president of worldwide distribution.Mackiewicz(pictured), who previously served at First Look Studios as senior vicepresident of worldwide sales and distribution, will represents the company'sslate of titles at Cannes next month.Thatslate includes the ...
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Mezzogiorno bags lead role in Newell's Cholera
Italy'sGiovanna Mezzogiorno (pictured) has joined Javier Bardem on the cast of Stone VillagePictures' Love In The Time Of Cholera,adapted from the bestselling novel by Gabriel Marcia Marquez.StoneVillage Pictures will fully finance and assume all international rights to the$35-40m project, which is set to begin in Brazil on August 15.SummitEntertainment is ...
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Arclight grabs worldwide rights to India-set Rajapur
Arclight Films has picked up worldwide rights to Nanda Anand's romanticepic Return To Rajapur andwill commence sales at Cannes.The US-India co-production, a story of love and destinywhich takes place in a Northern India desert city, makes its world premiere atTribeca on Apr 26.Lynn Collins, Kelli Garner, Justin Theroux, Manoj Bajpai, ...
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Zucker named president of distribution at SPRI
MarkZucker has been promoted to president of distribution at Sony PicturesReleasing International (SPRI).Zucker,who previously served as senior executive vice president, will continue tomanage the international distribution of all titles in the Sony fold, includingColumbia Pictures, Revolution Studios, TriStar, Screen Gems, and Sony PicturesClassics.Basedin Los Angeles, he reports directly to Columbia ...
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Dombivli-Fast wins top jury prize at LA Indian fest
NishikantKamat's Dombivli-Fast won the grandjury prize for best feature and Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal's BombayCalling took corresponding documentaryhonours as the 4th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles closed at the weekend.PrakashKovelamudi's Belly Full Of Dreams wonthe audience award for best feature and Ali Kazimi's Runaway Grooms won the award ...
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Ice Age 2 cracks $300m at international box office
Fox International's Ice Age 2: The Meltdown remained the runaway number one title in theinternational marketplace as it swept past $300m.The hit animated sequel added $40.3m on 8,964screens to raise the international cumulative tally to $333.1m.It opened number one in Italy on a superb $6.2m on 644 screens,and scored a ...
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Estate of late Disney animator endows $5m to LA film school
Theestate of Disney animation artist John C Hench has made a $5m endowment gift tocreate the John C Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts at theUniversity of Southern California's (USC) School of Cinema-Television.Theendowment will support several key initiatives including funding faculty andstudent assistant positions, updating technology, underwritingartists-in-residence, hosting symposia, ...
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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 ...