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Madea continues to top North American box office
Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion consolidated its number one ranking aheadof four top 10 openers in a typically quiet Oscar weekend at the box office.The Lionsgate release - which is written, directed,produced by and stars Perry in a big screen version of his hit stage play -added an estimated $13m ...
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Massis, Film Source to executive produce Brazilian gay love story Copacabana
Roberto Jabor will make his feature directorial debut on theBrazilian gay romance Copacabana, Of Love And Shadows from his own screenplay.Alex Massis of Florida-based production and sales companyThe Film Source will serve as executive producer on the $5m English-languageproject, which is set to begin shooting in the autumn in Rio ...
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Chan's Perhaps Love to open San Francisco Film Festival
Peter Chan's China-set musical Perhaps Love and Robert Altman's A Prairie HomeCompanion bookend the49th San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from Apr 20 to May4.Ed Harris will receive the Peter J Owens Award in honour of a bodyof work that "exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity".Werner Herzog will collect the ...
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Film Independent names lineup of fellows, advisors for Directors Lab
Film Independent has chosen seven fellows for its annual DirectorsLab, which will begin its seven-week run on Mar 7.The fellows and their projects are: Jennifer Arnold (Speedway), Thomas Dean Donnelly (Bridge AndTunnel), Tamar Halpern (EzzyFish), Michael Lew (JunkyardOf Dreams), FabianMarquez (Coyote Sleeps),Minh Nguyen-Vo (Point Of Reference), Scott Prendergast (Kabluey), and ...
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Shoreline picks up worldwide rights to kung fu comedy Babes
Shoreline Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to HighCotton Films' kung-fu comedy All Babes Want to Kill Me from first-time filmmakers Colin Millerand Alex Cain.The story centres on a martial artist afflicted with a raredisease that makes beautiful women want to kill him.Shoreline chief executive officer Morris Ruskin negotiatedthe deal ...
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California's Method Fest opens with Matzner's Dreamland
Jason Matzner's directorial debut Dreamland starring Agnes Bruckner and Gina Gershonwill open the 8th annual Method Fest festival on Mar 31 in Calabasas,California.The line-up of 22 features and 40 shorts runs until Apr 7 andincludes the world premieres of Dave Rodriguez' youth drama Push starring Chad Lindberg, Michael Rapaportand Chaz ...
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Sony Classics wins PG-13 rating for Oscar nominated Noel
Sony Pictures Classics has won its appeal to overrule the R ratingon Christian Carion's Oscar nominated Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) and will release the picture in the USwith a PG-13 rating in March.The MPAA appeals board agreed by a two-thirds majority to overturnthe earlier ruling, which had been based on ...
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Endore-Kaiser joins Paramount specialty arm as senior vp, creative advertising
Paramount's new-look specialty division has hired GuyEndore-Kaiser as senior vice president of creative advertising.Endore-Kaiser (pictured) arrives after serving three years atadvertising agency The Ant Farm, where he worked on campaigns for such titlesas Sin City and Matchpoint.'Guy's original thinking and strategic approach to creativefilm advertising are exceptional,' division president John ...
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Endore-Kaiser joins Paramount specialty arm as senior vp, creative advertising
Paramount's new-look specialty division has hired GuyEndore-Kaiser as senior vice president of creative advertising.Endore-Kaiser (pictured) arrives after serving three years atadvertising agency The Ant Farm, where he worked on campaigns for such titlesas Sin City and Matchpoint.'Guy's original thinking and strategic approach to creativefilm advertising are exceptional,' division president John ...
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TWC picks up Bessons's Arthur And The Minimoys
The Weinstein Company has picked up North America and all English-speakingterritories on Luc Besson's CGI-live-action adaptation of his 2003 children'sbook Arthur And The Minimoys.Freddie Highmore and Mia Farrow star in the live-action parts ofthe project, with Madonna, Snoop Dogg and David Bowie providing voices for theanimated sections.Currently shooting, the EuropaCorp ...
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BVI's Narnia lands in its final major market of Japan
Buena Vista International (BVI) executives expect to dominate theweekend as they launch The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And TheWardrobe in its finalmajor market of Japan on Mar 4.The children's fantasy hit already ranks as the 20th biggestinternational release of all time on $380m and along with Universal's ...
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Lionsgate, Twisted set Saw III for Oct 27, 2006
Lionsgate and TwistedPictures are reuniting the original creative team behind Saw and fast-tracking the third episode in time forHalloween this year.An Oct 27 US release datehas been set for the project, which will be directed by Saw II director Darren Lynn Bousman based on a story from Saw creators Leigh ...
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Wolfe picks up US rights to Fitzgerald's version of 3 Needles
WolfeReleasing has picked up US rights to the director's cut of Thom Fitzgerald'sglobal Aids drama 3 Needles starringLucy Liu, Chloe Sevigny and Stockard Channing.Wolfeplans an autumn theatrical release followed by a home entertainment roll-out insummer 2007.Thedirector's differs from the version of the picture that premiered at Torontolast autumn and is ...
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Infinity Media to back Hailwood story Mike The Bike
Capoteproducer Infinity Media is preparing Mike The Bike, a biography based on the life oflegendary British motorcycle world champion Mike Hailwood.Hailwood, voted the greatestmotorcyclist of all time in a recent worldwide poll, won the world championship10 times in the 1960s and 1970s before a near-fatal crash left him crippled."Mike The ...
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Bob Yari in lawsuit mayhem over Crash
With just four days to go before the Academy Awards, Crash financier Bob Yari was last nightengaging in a legal snowstorm over his official role on the picture andbusiness dealings with former associates Cathy Schulman and Tom Nunan.Yesterday evening Yari filed a suit with the Los Angeles SuperiorCourt against the ...
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Cinema Libre picks up worldwide rights to Giuliani Time
Politically-drivenUS distributor Cinema Libre Studio has acquired worldwide rights to KevinKeating's documentary Giuliani Time about former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's personal background and hiscontentious Zero Tolerance policy.Thecompany plans a limited launch in New York in May followed by a DVD release inSeptember.GiulianiTime played at the Rotterdam andVancouver international film ...
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Cuesta to direct true life horror Shiver for Dimension
Dimension Films has acquired newcomer Mikey Wigart's thriller screenplayShiver, which is setto be directed and produced by Twelve And Holding director Michael Cuesta.Inspired by true events, the story follows a group of New Year'sEve party-goers stranded in a snowstorm who stumble upon the home of a torture-obsesseddoctor."Shiver is a perfect ...
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Snider leaves Universal for DreamWorks
Stacey Snider has joinedDreamWorks as co-chairman and chief executive officer following a nine-yeartenure at Universal Pictures where she served as chairman for the last six.Snider joins the film and television studio recently acquired by Paramount and willassume responsibility for four to six release a year.Reporting to Paramount chairman and chief ...
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Wild Brain buys into toy dealer Kidrobot, plans animated features
San Francisco-based Wild Brain Animation Studios has expanded its stablefollowing a majority stake acquisition of New York-based limited edition toydealer Kidrobot.The two companies will jointly develop feature and televisiontitles based on Kidrobot's collectible characters, which include the Munny, Dunnyand Ice-Bot figures.Kidrobot owner and founder Budnitz will continue as president of ...
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Universal appoints Neil as senior vice president of new media
Doug Neil has been appointed senior vice president of new media atUniversal Pictures.Neil, who most recently served as director of entertainmentstrategy and sales development for America Online, become the studio's chiefstrategist for the development and implementation of new media marketingcampaigns for theatrical releases.He will also supervise the company's ongoing efforts ...