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Bleiberg Entertainment acquires rights to Danny Lerner's Frozen Days.
Los Angeles-based Bleiberg Entertainment has acquiredinternational rights to Danny Lerner's psycho-thriller Frozen Days.The picture won best film at the Haifa 2005 InternationalFilm Festival and centres on a woman who assumes the identity of her blind dateafter he falls into a coma following a bomb blast. AnatKlausner, Uli Sternberg andSandra Sade ...
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High hopes for Walk The Line as it begins its international run this weekend
Buoyed by five Academy Award nominations, 20th Century Fox'sWalk The Line begins itsinternational run this weekend.The acclaimed Johnny Cash biopic launches in 23 territoriesincluding Germanyon February 2, followed a day later in the UK,Mexico and Spain.Fox International chiefs will be relying on the picture'sstrong reputation to ensure solid debuts in ...
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Katapult Film Sales heads to Berlin with impressive slate
Katapult Film Sales will arrive atnext week's European Film Market in Berlin with its most prestigious slate ever.Heading up the roster are Sundance acquisitions TV Junkie and Destricted,as well as the Brazilian smash hit TwoSons Of Franciscoand BalthasarKormakur's LittleTrip To Heaven.Katapult holds internationalrights to TV Junkie, Michael Cain and Matt ...
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Jeff Pryor appointed MGM's executive vice president of corporate communications
Jeff Pryor has been appointed to the new post of MGM'sexecutive vice president of corporate communications.Pryor reports directly to MGMChairman Harry E Sloan and will direct communication and public relationsstrategies for all MGM's operating divisionsincluding United Artists and MGM TelevisionEntertainment.He will also be involved in the communication and publicitystrategies and ...
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Rothman and Gianopulos sign new deals with Fox Filmed Entertainment
Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE)chairmen Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos have signed new five-year deals withthe company and been named joint chief executive officers.The pair assumed their posts in2000, in which time 20 of the studio's pictures have grossed more than $100m atthe domestic box office and 26 have reached the ...
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Lightning picks up Conversations With God adaptation
Lightning Entertainment haspicked up international sales rights to Stephen Simon's adaptation of thebestselling book series ConversationsWith God and will commence sales in Berlin next week.Lightning enjoyed strongbusiness with the spiritually themed WhatThe Bleep Do We Know, which grossed more than $11m from selectinternational markets in 2005, and will be looking ...
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Rogue to release Fearless in North America
Rogue Pictures will handlethe North American release of Fearless,which Jet Li has said will be his final martial arts picture, following itsmighty international launch in Asia last weekend.Ronny Yu directed theaccount of martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia's rise to fame and power inturn-of-the-century China. Veteran filmmaker Bill Kong produced.Li's credits ...
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Turney appointed European sales director Fox TV
Steve Turney has beenappointed director of sales for Twentieth Century Fox Television Distributionin Europe, effective immediately.Turney will oversee sales offeatures and scripted television programming to free and basic broadcasterswithin European territories. Based in the company's London office, he will report to vice president of salesYoni Cohen."We are delighted to haveSteve ...
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Intrepid appoints Fischer, Brown to key roles
Fledgling production andfinancing company Intrepid Pictures has named the two senior executives whowill take charge of finance and development of projects in the recent dealsigned with Universal and Rogue Pictures.Jonathan Fischer will serveas chief financial officer and Katherine Brown as vice president ofdevelopment, Intrepid founders Trevor Macy and Marc Evans ...
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Warner Bros promotes Rowe to svp of corp comms
Twelve-year Warner Brosveteran Scott Rowe has been promoted to senior vice president of corporatecommunications.Rowe will assume greaterresponsibility for the company's internal and external positioning in thebusiness, trade and consumer press.Working with executive vicepresident of corporate communications Sue Fleishman, to whom he will continueto report, Rowe will also share responsibility for ...
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Disney, Walden Media set to shoot Prince Caspian
Confirming what has been anopen secret for several weeks, Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures issued ajoint statement announcing they have begun pre-production on the sequel totheir global smash The Chronicles OfNarnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe.Andrew Adamson reprises hisdirector's role on The Chronicles OfNarnia: Prince Caspian, which ...
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Moore, McAvoy to star in Foresight's Twist Of Fate
Mandy Moore and James McAvoyare in final talks to star in the thriller TwistOf Fate for Mark Damon's Foresight Unlimited. Jennifer Elster will directfrom a screenplay by Wendy Riss about a love triangle that develops between aworking class girl and an intense young man haunted by a car wreck they ...
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MPAA names two key appointees
Lisa M Pierozzi has joined the MPAA as chief financial officer andexecutive vice president of finance and administration and will begin work inthe Los Angeles office on Feb 6.In addition, Michael Robinson becomes the new director of US anti-piracy operationsand assumed his position early last week.He will report to executive ...
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Oscar race heralds new breed of daring financier
As befits the provocative subject-matter that characterises thisyear's Academy Awards race, the major Oscar categories are dominated by storiespartly bankrolled by a dynamic new breed of wealthy financier willing to takethe kind of production risks being increasingly outsourced by studioconglomerates.Of the five best picture nominees, Brokeback Mountain was made for ...
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Village Roadshow expands co-production war-chest
The Village Roadshow Pictures Group (VRPG) has increased its film facilityfrom $900m to $1.4bn and extended the term of the deal until January 2011.Those close to the move said it would enable VRPG, the recentlyformed strategic alliance between Village Roadshow and Crescent Entertainment,to substantially expand its co-production capabilities.The company has ...
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Weinstein Co acquire comedy pitch starring stand-up Cook
The Weinstein Company hasacquired the rights to develop an untitled comedic pitch with comedian DaneCook.Cook will star in theproject and produce through his production company SUperFInger Entertainment.New Wave Entertainment’s Barry Katz will also produce and his colleagueBrian Volk-Weiss serves as executive producer.“I am thrilled to be collaborating with Dane Cook ...
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Voltage picks up international on Arquette's Tripper
Los Angeles-based Voltage Pictures has picked up internationalrights to David Arquette's directorial debut, the slasher project TheTripper starring ThomasJane.Production is set to begin innorthern California in mid-February on the story of a group of weekendconcert-goers who fall prey to a maniacal killer hell-bent on finishing what hestarted years ago.Arquette co-wrote ...
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Atmosphere, Platinum team up on Killing Demons
Atmosphere Entertainment's Mark Canton and Platinum Studios chiefScott Mitchell Rosenberg are teaming up to develop a film of Platinum's graphicnovel Killing Demons.Ascreenwriter will be announced shortly to adapt the story of a man whodedicates his life to tracking down the supernatural creatures that slaughteredhis family when he was a child.Canton ...
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LA marketing firm BD Fox & Friends to launch film sales division at Berlin
Hollywood-based entertainment advertising and marketing firm BDFox & Friends will launch a sales division at the European Film Market inBerlin next week.The inaugural slate will feature six titles comprising fourcompleted projects: Michael Parness’ dysfunctional family comedy MySuicidal Sweetheartstarring Tim Blake Nelson and Rosanna Arquette; Tony Elwood’s thriller ColdStorage; JetEller’s alien ...
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Lucy Liu thriller goes international via Lionsgate
Hot on the heels of itsSundance acquisition of dirty bomb thriller Right At Your Door, Lionsgate has bought international rights to theheist thriller Devil To Paystarring Lucy Liu.Lionsgate Internationalpresident Nick Meyer will commence sales at Berlin next week on the Echo LakeProductions and Intellectual Properties Worldwide (IPW) project.Echo Lake's Doug ...