All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1341
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Danielak's Arsenal strikes alliance with Mindfire
Yarek Danielak's fledgling film and television sales houseArsenal Pictures has struck a strategic alliance with Mark Gottwald'sproduction company and magazine publisher Mindfire Entertainment ahead ofMIP-TV and Cannes.Arsenal will represent the majority of Mindfire's upcoming featureand television slate for international sales and pre-sales, while exploitingthe synergy with its film magazines Cinefantastique/CFQ ...
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Universal's Inside Man steals top spot in North America
Universal's heist thriller Inside Man cracked the box office code as launchedat number one on a powerful estimated $28.9m weekend gross.Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster star in Spike Lee's$45m picture, in which Owen's bank robber engages in a battle of wits withWashington's hostage negotiator.The debut scored career highs ...
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Sony BMG buys US rights to Slamdance hit Sasquatch
Sony BMG Music Entertainment has acquired US rights in all mediato by Tim Skousen's 2006 Slamdance Film Festival winner, The SasquatchDumpling Gang.The acquisition was made by Sony BMG Film, which was set up inAugust 2005 to develop, finance and produce music-related theatrical releases,together with Sony BMG Music Entertainment.The Sasquatch Dumpling ...
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Universal's The Inside Man pips Panther to the post
Final figures reveal that Universal's The Inside Man was the international champion over the weekend as it grossed $9.9m through UIP in 1,400 sites in 18 territories.UIP executives expect lengthy holds for the adult picture before the major summerreleases launch.Spike Lee's latest directorial offering opened number one in starClive Owen's ...
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Sapadin named business affairs vp at KOCH
Lawrence Sapadin has been named vice president of business affairsfor KOCH Vision, KOCH Lorber Films, and KOCH Entertainment Distribution.Sapadin will primarily be responsible for overseeing all legalmatters and negotiations involving acquisitions, licensing and digital distributionfor each of the companies.Based at KOCH's distribution headquarters in Port Washington, New York,Sapadin will report ...
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NYC's Lincoln Centre launches Kieslowski retrospective a decade after his death
New York's Film Society of Lincoln Centre will present acelebration of Krzysztof Kieslowski on the 10th anniversary of his death.A Road Map Of The Soul: The Complete Kieslowski will feature a near-completeretrospective from Apr 5-23 and will include a roundtable discussion on workingwith Kieslowski on Apr 9.The retrospective will include ...
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Elephant Tales, Lassie, RV among family titles at Tribeca.
The world premiere of Mario Andreacchio's Elephant Tales, as well as Charles Sturridge's Lassie, DreamWorks Animation comedy Over TheHedge, and BarrySonnenfeld's RV areamong the Tribeca Family Festival screenings next month.The line-up of 15 features and four shorts programmes includes anew section, T4Teens geared towards young adults. The Family Festival will ...
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Universal's Inside Man arrives in Germany, UK, Brazil
Fox International will be looking to keep The Pink Panther in the number one international slotthis weekend with a major launch in Italy.The comedy remake is set to open on Mar 24 on 367 prints and todate the picture has amassed more than $50m.Date Movie,currently on $17.8m, goes out in ...
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Sundance buys eight-screen theatre in San Francisco
Sundance Cinemas has signed a purchase agreement with AMC Theatresto acquire the Kabuki 8 Theatre in San Francisco.Sundance Cinemas anticipates a late April takeover of theproperty, which will undergo a significant facelift following the San FranciscoInternational Film Festival, with plans to re-open in early autumn 06 as theSundance Kabuki.The announcement ...
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Malkovich joins Jane in Mutant Chronicles
John Malkovichwill join Thomas Jane in Ed Pressman's sci-fi adaptation of hit board game TheMutant Chronicles.Simon Hunter isdirecting from a screenplay by Philip Eisner set in the 23rd century in whichcorporations have ravaged the planet's resources, leaving humans and mutants tofight it out for the scraps.Malkovich willplay the omnipotent head ...
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Smoking team signs first look deal with Searchlight
Hot on the heels of the storming opening of Thank You ForSmoking, director JasonReitman and producing partner Daniel Dubiecki of Hard C have signed a two-yearfirst-look deal with Fox Searchlight Pictures.Reitman and Dubiecki want Hard C to become a "subversive"home base for their projects in development as well as a ...
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Icon, Infinity sign three-picture deal
Vancouver and LA-based Infinity Features and Mel Gibson and BruceDavey's Icon Productions have signed a non-exclusive three-picture developmentand production deal.First up is the sci-fi thriller Push based on David Bourla's screenplay aboutAmerican ex-pats with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities on the run from theUS government in Beijing.Push iscurrently in a packaging ...
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THINKFilm takes worldwide rights to Fuck
THINKFilm has picked up worldwide rights to Fuck, Steve Anderson's documentary about theworld's most common expletive.Fuckrecently premiered at the South By Southwest film festival and featuresinterviews with such luminaries as Ice-T, Kevin Smith and the late Hunter SThompson and features original animation by Bill Plympton.THINKFilm plans a 2006 theatrical release ...
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Naseerruddin Shah to be honoured at Indian Film Festival of LA
Indian star Naseerruddin Shah will be honoured at the 4th IndianFilm festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA), which runs from Apr 19-23.The festival will showcase two of Shah's pictures - MonsoonWedding and TheChurning (Manthan) - and Shah will take part in a30-minute on-stage discussion on Apr 21 after The Churning.His western ...
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Mashariki named production vp at Fox Searchlight
Zola Mashariki has been promoted to vice president of productionat Fox Searchlight and will report to production chief Claudia Lewis.Mashariki joined the company as a production intern in May 2000and rose to creative executive by January 2001 and director by November 2003.Her credits include Kinsey, In America, Le Divorce and ...
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Showcase, Midnight, Restored sections unveiled at Tribeca 06
Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton'smockumentary Brothers Of The Head,Ward Serrill's female basketball documentary The Heart Of The Game, and Richard E Grant's directorial debut Wah-Wah were named today in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival'sShowcase line-up.Several world premieres areincluded in the Midnight section, among them Todd Stephens' gay teen spoof AnotherGay ...
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Noonan lands promotions and communications role at WBHEG
Jim Noonan has been promoted to the newly created post of seniorvice president of worldwide strategic promotions and communications at WarnerBros Home Entertainment Group (WBHEG).In the new post he will create strategic cross-platform, cross-divisionalpromotions for content distributed through the ambitious WBHEG's units, whichinclude home video, digital distribution, and interactive.He was ...
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Croatian Wonderful Night In Split wins at RiverRun festival
Arsen Anton Ostojic's Croatian drama A Wonderful Night In Split dominated the closing night ceremony atthe 8th RiverRun International Film Festival, winning four jury awardsincluding best narrative feature.The tapestry of interwoven stories also claimed the best directorand screenplay honours for Ostojic and the best cinematography award for MirkoPivcevic.James Burke's US ...
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Tribeca shorts lineup includes new work from Kiarostami, Sylvia Kristel
Short films from musician Laurie Anderson, Dutch actress SylviaKristel and young US actors Adrian Grenier and Melissa Joan Hart are amonginternational narrative shorts from 15 countries in Tribeca's short filmline-upDocumentary shorts cover subjects ranging from Don Cheadle'sfamily trip to Africa to Roseanne Cash's recollections of family and music to newwork ...
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Ossana, Moresco, Olson line up for Scriptwriters Showcase in LA
Oscar winners Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain) and Bobby Moresco (Crash) along with Academy Award nominee Josh Olson, who wrote A History OfViolence, are keynotespeakers at the upcoming Scriptwriters Showcase that runs in Los Angeles fromApr 7-9.The event comprises four separate panels on feature writing, TV writing,development, and writing for video ...