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Zeta Jones nears deal to star in Death Defying Acts
Catherine Zeta Jones in final talks to join Guy Pearce in theAustralia-UK co-production Death Defying Acts, a drama about Harry Houdini.Filming is scheduled to begin later this summer in the UK withGillian Armstrong set to direct from a screenplay by Tony Grisoni and BrianWard.The Australian Film Finance Corporation, BBC Films ...
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Posey, Poupaud take leads in Cassavates drama
Production is set to begin in New York on May 5 on HD Net Films'romance Broken Englishstarring Parker Posey and Melvil Poupaud.Japan's Phantom Films and France-based Back Up Films areco-producing the story based on a screenplay by John Cassavetes' daughter ZoeCassavetes, who makes her feature directorial debut.Posey plays a high-flying ...
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Strangers to open New York's NewFest on June 1
Paul Dinello's Strangers With Candy will open the 18th Annual NewFest, NewYork's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival that runs from Jun1 to 11.Strangers With Candy stars Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert and Dinello and was written byDinello and Colbert as a prequel to the Comedy Central series of the ...
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Alliance Atlantis, Arclight team for US distribution joint venture
Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution (MPD) and ArclightFilms are launching the US-based distribution joint venture Union Station Media.Former Lionsgate acquisitions executive Paul Gardner will run theLos Angeles-based company, which will initially release 12-18 titles a year onthe DVD, television, cable, internet, VOD, PPV and electronic sell-thruplatforms.The first three pictures are ...
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Danielak's Arsenal picks up Rosario Dawson thriller
Yarek Danielak's fledgling international sales house ArsenalPictures has picked up international rights to the psycho-thriller Descent starring Rosario Dawson.City Lights Pictures' Danny Fisher, MEGA Films' Morris SLevy and Dawson's Trybe Films are producing the story of a rape victim whoreinvents herself as a seductress in order to gain revenge.'Descent is ...
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Barbakow takes over as president of board at Santa Barbara festival
The 22nd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF)will take place in 2007 from Jan 25 to Feb 4.Festival organisers have also announced new officers for the SBIFFboard of directors, headed up by president Jeff Barbakow, the former chairmanand chief executive officer of MGM/UA, who takes over from Arnold Kassoy.The ...
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TWC takes international rights to crossword doc Wordplay
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has acquired all international rightsto Patrick Creadon's crossword documentary and Sundance hit Wordplay and will commence sales at Cannes.Christine O'Malley produced the feature, which profiles NY Times crosswordeditor Will Shortz and charts the fortunes of contestants in the AmericanCrossword Puzzle Tournament founded by Shortz.Crossword aficionados Bill ...
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Kent Jusick installed as executive director and curator of MIX NYC festival
MIX NYC, the media arts organisation behind the New York Lesbian& Gay Experimental Film Festival, has installed a new team of directors.The four-person committee is led by executive director andfilmmaker and curator Stephen Kent Jusick.Co-directors are Canadian-born artist, photographer anddocumentarian Szu Burgess, animator, artist and diversity activist Kate Huh,and filmmaker ...
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Molter promoted to senior vp of distribution at WBPI
Thomas Molter has been promoted to senior vice president of distributionat Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).Among his duties Molter will oversee digital theatrical releases strategyand evaluate new theatrical growth opportunities involving IMAX and other 3Dformats.He is also responsible for distribution strategy in developingmarkets such as China, Vietnam and Russia, and ...
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Voltage takes back sales rights on Flyboys
Dean Devlin and Nicolas Chartier's sales agency Voltage Pictureshas taken back from Lionsgate International the first world war epic Flyboys produced by Devlin's ElectricEntertainment.Under the amicable agreement Voltage will handle all internationalrights at Cannes.Directed by Tony Bill, Flyboys stars James Franco as a young fighterpilot volunteer in Europe. Martin Henderson ...
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BVI partners with MegaStar for Vietnam distribution
Buena Vista International (BVI) has formed a partnership withMegaStar Joint Venture Company to distribute pictures in Vietnam.MegaStar is a joint venture between Envoy Media Partners headed byTed Shugrue and Phuong Nam Corporation, and has offices in Hanoi and Ho ChiMinh City.The joint venture will be run in Vietnam by Lim ...
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Arclight already closing deals for Un Certain Regard's 2:37
ArclightFilms will handle worldwide sales at the Cannes market for first-time Australian director Murali K Thalluri's drama 2:37, which was recently added to the Un Certain Regard line-up at Cannes.Arclighthas already closeddeals with Village Roadshow in Australia, SND in France, Manga in Spain, andCinequanon in Japan.2:37 is the interwoven story ...
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Weinstein Co buys rights on Shephard's Bosnia
TheWeinstein Company (TWC) has picked up North American, Australian and NewZealand rights to Richard Shepard's Spring Break In Bosnia, the director's second film after The Matador.Productionon the comic thriller is set to begin this summer in Europe. The film is backedby Intermedia and QED International, and QED will handle worldwide ...
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Weinstein Co buys rights on Shephard's Bosnia
TheWeinstein Company (TWC) has picked up North American, Australian and NewZealand rights to Richard Shepard's Spring Break In Bosnia, the director's second film after The Matador.Productionon the comic thriller is set to begin this summer in Europe. The film is backedby Intermedia and QED International, and QED will handle worldwide ...
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Focus takes international rights on Gondry's Rewind
FocusFeatures has acquired international rights to Michel Gondry's upcoming picture BeKind Rewind starring Jack Black.FocusFeatures International will begin sales at Cannes on Focus' third collaborationwith Gondry following Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Dave Chappelle's Block Party, which is on release in North America.Gondrywill direct from his own screenplay ...
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Hollywood Film Festival sets '06 dates as Oct 17-23
The 10th annual Hollywood Film Festival will take place in LosAngeles from Oct 17-23, culminating in the Hollywood Awards on the final night.Festival organisers said they plan to expand the roster of eventsthis year and will announce more details on symposiums, premieres and specialscreenings later in the year.'We are very ...
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Cotter joins Legendary Pictures as vp, creative affairs
Alysia Cotter has joined Burbank-based Legendary Pictures in thenewly created role of vice president of creative affairs.Cotter (pictured) will report to Legendary's chief creativeofficer Jon Jashni and assist in managing Legendary's development andproduction slate.Legendary Pictures formed a partnership with Warner Bros in 2005to co-produce and co-finance at least 25 pictures ...
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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 ...