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Ang Lee wins DGA honours for Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee took a giant stride towards the Academy Award at theweekend after collecting top honours from the Directors Guild of America (DGA)on Saturday night for Brokeback Mountain.Lee beat out George Clooney for Good Night, And Good Luck, Paul Haggis for Crash, Bennett Miller for Capote, and Steven Spielberg for ...
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Hoffman, Witherspoon, Crash cast take top SAG awards
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon and the ensemble cast ofCrash were among thechief winners at the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards in LosAngeles yesterday evening.Hoffman won outstanding performance by a male actor in a leadingrole for his role as Truman Capote in Capote, while Witherspoon won correspondinghonours for ...
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We Go Way Back takes top honours at Slamdance Film Festival
Lynn Shelton's We Go Way Back has won the 2006 Grand Jury Award for best narrativefeature at the Slamdance Film Festival, while Philippe Diaz' Empire In Africa has taken corresponding documentaryhonours.The Grand Jury Prize for best narrative short went to Peter Templeman'sThe Saviour, and theaward for best documentary short was ...
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Dowling to write, O'Connor to direct Paramount/MTV Films project Born To Rock
Paramount Pictures and MTV Films have hired Tim Dowling to adapt GordonKorman's novel Born To Rock, a coming-of-age story about a Republican student who enlists thesupport of his rock star father to get him into school.Gavin O'Connor will direct the project and Solaris' Greg O'Connorand Josh Fagin will co-produce.MTV Films' ...
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Rick Sands joins MGM as chief operating officer
Former DreamWorks president and chief operating officer Rick Sandshas switched studios and joined MGM as chief operating officer.Sands, who also previously served as the Weinsteins' right handman as Miramax chief operating officer, will set about leveraging the company'sacclaimed film and television library across multiple platforms both here andabroad.He will work ...
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Sundance closes with domestic and international deals
TheSundance Film Festival 2006 ended with a flurry as deals were closed on Half Nelson, Stay, TV Junkie, The Darwin Awards and Man Push Cart.Meanwhile buyers were closing in on Neil Burger's The Illusionist, Joey Lauren Adams' ComeEarly Morning, WashWestmoreland and Richard Glatzer's double Sundance winner Quinceanera, Hilary Brougher's Stephanie ...
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Weinstein Company reaches $1.2bn in financing
The Weinstein Company (TWC) yesterday announced it had completedits financing jigsaw with a $500m film securitisation facility.Since the company's official launch date on Oct 1, 2005, Bob andHarvey Weinstein say they have raised approximately $1.2bn. The amount includes $490m in equity, $500m from the filmsecuritisation, and more than $200m through ...
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2006 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards announced
The Sundance Institute andJapan Broadcasting Corporation NHK have announced the winners of the 2006Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards.Now in its 10th year, the awards honour the best in this year'sindependent voices from around the world and supports the work of emerging filmdirectors from four global regions.The winners will each receive a ...
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UIP's Munich arrives in 27 countries this weekend
Universal's thriller Munich is the main attraction this weekend as it launches in theinternational marketplace in 27 countries through UIP.The picture goes out in France on Jan 25 on 450 prints, followed aday later in Australia and Germany on 230 and 400 respectively.Steven Spielberg's tale of the Israeli response to ...
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Ask The Dust, Man About Town to have world premieres at Santa Barbara
The world premiere of Robert Towne's romance Ask The Dust starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayekwill open the 21st Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), whichruns from Feb 2-12.The festival will close with Jason Reitman's tobacco industrysatire Thank You For Smoking starring Aaron Eckhart and Maria Bello, and the centerpiece ...
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Battle In Heaven to open Film Comment series in NYC
Carlos Reygadas' Mexican drama Battle In Heaven will launch the 6th Annual "FilmComment Selects" series at New York's Walter Reade Theatre in the LincolnCentre, which runs from Feb 15-28.The series of pictures chosen by editorial staff from Film Commentmagazine includes photographer William Eggleston's 1974 soul music documentary StrandedIn Canton, a ...
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Sass named vp, publicity and promotion, theatrical catalogue, at Warner Home Video
Ronnee Sass has been promoted to the newly-created position ofvice president of publicity and promotion, theatrical catalogue, at Warner HomeVideo (WHV).Formerly executive director of publicity and communications, Sasswillcontinue to create and direct all publicity campaigns for thetheatrical catalogue division's 6,500-plus titles, including new-to-format,made-for-video and catalogue titles.She will also assume responsibility ...
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WBITD signs output deal with Orbit for Middle East, North Africa
Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) andOrbit Communications have signed a multi-year output deal giving Orbit the exclusivepay television rights for Warner product in the Middle East and North Africa.The deal includes such titles as Batman Begins, Harry PotterAnd The Goblet Of Fireand Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, as well ...
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UIP signs exclusive licensing agreement in Pakistan
UIP has become the first major theatrical distributor to sign anexclusive license agreement in Pakistan following the December launch of KingKong.UIP's new agent, BoxOffice Limited, is the distribution affiliate of Cinepax, the country's firstcineplex company that plans to develop 120 screens in Pakistan's larger cities.King Kongopened through Box Office Limited ...
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Sundance: Revolver buys UK rights to explicit portmanteau film Destricted
London-based Revolver Entertainment has bought UK rights to theexplicit shorts compilation Destricted, featuring contributions from Matthew Barney, Larry Clark,Gaspar Noe, and Sam Taylor-Wood, among others.Neville Wakefield, MelAgace and Andrew Hale produced the compilation, which first screened here overthe weekend.Revolver's Nick Taussig and Justin Marciano negotiated the dealwith Katapult Film Sales ...
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Lionsgate enters Sundance fray with global deal on Door
As Sundance started to wind down, Lionsgate took worldwide rightsto Chris Gorak's dirty bomb thriller Right At Your Door, which gathered rapid momentum this weekfollowing its Monday world premiere.In another deal - the first for a documentary at this Sundance -IFC acquired North American rights to Patrick Creadon's crossword documentary ...
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Disney buys Pixar in deal worth $7.4bn
Following months of speculation The Walt Disney Company hasacquired Pixar in an all-stock transaction that is expected to be finalised by thesummer.Under the terms of the deal 2.3 Disney shares will be issued foreach Pixar share. Based on Pixar's fully diluted shares outstanding, this putsthe transaction value at $7.4bn.Ed Catmull ...
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Peace Arch buys Canadian home entertainment outfit KaBOOM!
Toronto-based Peace ArchEntertainment Group has acquired Canadian home entertainment outfit kaBOOM!Entertainment.The deal gives Peace Arch a DVDplatform for its burgeoning feature slate, which is being handledinternationally by executive vice president of international sales andmarketing Penny Wolf.Under a long-term employmentagreement, kaBOOM! president Berry Meyerowitz will continue to run the companyon a ...
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Arrival picks up US rights to La Tragedia De Macario
Arrival Pictures hasacquired domestic rights to Pablo Veliz' immigration drama La Tragedia De Macario, which premiered in the Spectrum programme atSundance last week.Negotiations between ArrivalPictures president Charles Acosta and Strategic Film Partners principals AlexBarder and Lawrence Silverstein closed early Monday morning.Veliz' directorial debutfollows a Mexican's bid to cross the US ...
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Jet Li, Statham to star in martial arts thriller for Lionsgate
Lionsgate has bought Lee Anthony Smith and Gregory J Bradley's screenplayRogue and will beginproduction on the thriller in spring with Jet Li and Jason Statham in theleads.Philip G Atwell is directing and Cory Yuen serves as the martialarts action designer on the tale of an FBI agent played by Statham ...