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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 ...
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Sommers promoted in German anti-piracy operations at Warner Bros
Christian Sommer has been promoted to Warner Bros' director ofanti-piracy operations for German-speaking territories.Based in Hamburg, Sommer reports to senior vice president ofEuropean anti-piracy operations Jodi Benaim. He will continue to work closelywith colleagues across Warner Bros' units providing anti-piracy relatedstrategies in support of new business models.These include online releasing ...
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Roadside Attractions to bring Guantanamo to US
Roadside Attractions has picked up domestic rights to MichaelWinterbottom and Mat Whitecross' docudrama The Road To Guantanamo, which recently won the Silver Bear atBerlin.The picture will receive its US premiere at Tribeca next month andRoadside is preparing to release in North America the summer.The Road To Guantanamo chronicles the detention ...
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Lin named senior vice president of production at Warner Bros
Five years after he joinedWarner Bros as creative executive Dan Lin (pictured) has been appointed senior vicepresident of production at the studio.Lin is currently inpost-production on Martin Scorsese's crime drama The Departed starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and JackNicholson, and Oliver Hirschbiegel's The Visiting, which stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel ...
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Animus acquires international rights to Celestine
Miami-based Animus Entertainment Group has picked up worldwiderights excluding the US, Canada and Puerto Rico to the upcoming adaptation ofJames Redfield's international new age bestseller The Celestine Prophecy.The rights, distributed by Animus on behalf of KingstonProperties, include television, theatrical, DVD, and licensing andmerchandising.The spiritual adventure centres on a troubled teacher ...
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V For Vendetta is the box office victor in North America
Warner Bros' dystopian thriller V For Vendetta vanquished the opposition at the weekenddebuting at the top of the charts on an estimated $26.1m.Directed by James McTeigue from a an adapted screenplay by theWachowski Brothers of Alan Moore's cult graphic novel, the picture stars HugoWeaving as a masked freedom fighter battling ...
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Miss Potter scores North American deal with TWC
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has picked up North American rights toMiss Potter fromPhoenix Pictures and David Kirschner Productions.Chris Noonan's Beatrix Potter biopic is currently inproduction in the UK and stars Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson,Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson and Lloyd Owen.Kirschner Productions' David Kirschner and Corey Sienega areproducing alongside ...
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Panther beats Vendetta in international markets
Fox International's The Pink Panther ruled the international marketplace overthe weekend with an estimated $12.3m weekend haul from 3,900 screens thatraised the film's cumulative total to $47.3m.The comedy remake stormed to the top of the UK charts with a solid$3.5m debut on 400 screens. It opened in second place in ...
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Scanbox buys video distributor DVS from Nordisk
Denmark's Scanbox Entertainment, which was recently acquired byIcelandic-born producer Joni Sighvatsson, has signed a deal to buy leading homeentertainment distributor DVS Entertainment from Nordisk Film and SE 2001."DVS has delivered very satisfactory results throughout thelast few years," Nordisk film distribution chief Michael Junker said."The further development of the company is, ...
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LA's Fortitude creates new studio in Croatia with Jadran Film
Burbank-based Fortitude Entertainment Group and Croatia's JadranFilm (Croatia) have teamed up to create a new studio in Croatia.Fortitude-Jadran occupies 30 acres of land in Zagreb, Croatia,comprising sound stages, offices, and workshops. Fortitude has a project slatethat will be produced at the Croatian studio commencing this year, with budgetsvarying from $5m-$30m.Fortitude ...
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BVI hires production and acquisitions head in India
Shyam PS has been named head of film production and acquisitionsat Buena Vista International (India) as The Walt Disney Company moves toexplore synergies with Bollywood.Based in Mumbai, Shyam will take the lead on creating original andacquiring original Indian-language films that combine Disney storytelling withIndian sensibilities.He will report directly to Rajat ...
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Bobby goes to North America through Weinsteins
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has acquired domestic rights from LosAngeles-based Bold Films to Emilio Estevez' keenly anticipated Bobby Kennedyassassination drama Bobby.Bobbyrevisits the night Kennedy was shot dead at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in1968 and presents a tapestry of interwoven stories about the people at thehotel that night.The star-studded ensemble piece ...
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Tribeca Spotlight, Discovery sections announced
High profile independenttitles including Mini's First Timestarring Alec Baldwin and Nikki Reed, Five Fingers with Ryan Phillippe and Laurence Fishburne, ComebackSeason with Ray Liotta and EdwardBurns' latest film The Groomsmenstarring Burns and Britanny Murphy will all have their world premieres in theSpotlight or Discovery sections of this year's Tribeca Film ...