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Payne, Vinterberg, Rudolph among jurors at this year's Sundance
The six Sundance 2006 competition juries have been announced,comprising 24 jurors including Alexander Payne, Terrence Howard, ThomasVinterberg and Alan Rudolph.The jurors are:Dramatic Competition: Miguel Arteta, Terrence Howard, AlanRudolph, Nancy Schreiber and Audrey Wells.Documentary Competition: Joe Bini, Zana Briski, Andrew Jarecki,Alexander Payne and Heather RaeWorld Cinema Dramatic Competition: Irene Bignardi, Lu ...
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Narnia continues to rule international box office
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe remained the international champion forthe fourth consecutive weekend as an estimated $20m haul raised the cumulativetotal to $319m.The children's adaptation is now Buena Vista International (BVI)'sixth biggest release of all time and became the first international title togross $100m ...
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Buffalo Boy and Love + Hate share Palm Springs jury prizes
Minh Nguyen-Vo's Vietnamese coming-of-age story Buffalo Boy won the FIPRESCI Award and DominicSavage's hard-hitting UK tale of love across racial divides Love + Hate won the New Voices/New Visions Award atthe 17th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival.Both titles were directorial debuts and were joined on the winner'spodium by another ...
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Weinsteins win Martin Luther King Day weekend with Hoodwinked
The Weinstein Company's animated release Hoodwinked opened at the top over the four-dayMartin Luther King holiday weekend on an estimated $16.6m, which will be thecompany's first number one launch if results are confirmed this week.The computer-generated picture, a reworking of the Little RedRiding Hood children's story directed by Cory and ...
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Dubinet joins Myriad as president of distribution
Myriad Pictures hasappointed sales veteran Ann Dubinet to the post of president of distribution.Dubinet (pictured) willoversee all theatrical distribution departments including contracts,collections, servicing and marketing as the company plans a period of growth onthe production and distribution fronts in 2006.Reporting to Myriadpresident and CEO Kirk D'Amico, she will oversee day-to-day ...
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Little Fish swims to US via First Look
First Look Studios haspicked up North American rights to Rowan Woods' Australian drama Little Fish from Myriad Pictures and plans a release in thefirst quarter of the year.The acclaimed film starringCate Blanchett, Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving won four Australian Film Institute(AFI) Awards late last year. It charts the escapades ...
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Kearey to lead Searchlight international marketing and sales
Rebecca Kearey (pictured) has been named senior vice president ofinternational marketing and sales at Fox Searchlight Pictures.Based in the Los Angeles office, Kearey will develop the marketingand sales strategies for all Searchlight overseas product for both theatricaland home entertainment.Her appointment takes effect immediately and she will report toFox International heads ...
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Metallica director Sinofsky to make a documentary about Tommy Lee
Documentary maker BruceSinofsky is following up Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster, which he made with Joe Berliner, with a film aboutthe infamous heavy metal musician Tommy Lee.The as-yet-untitled projectis scheduled to begin shooting this spring. Lee's manager and Sanctuary MusicArtists Management chief executive officer Carl Stubner is serving as executiveproducer ...
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Boberg buys Liberty, launches Liberation Entertainment
Mediaentrepreneur Jay Boberg, with the financial backing of media and communicationsprivate-equity firm Clarity Partners, has acquired Liberty InternationalEntertainment and is relaunching it as Liberation Entertainment.The acquisitionincludes a sizeable library of more than 250 features, as well as episodictelevision and music concert programming.Boberg willserve as chairman and chief executive officer of ...
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Cripps to head Paramount's international distribution arm
UIP president and chiefoperating officer Andrew Cripps is to head up Paramount's internationaltheatrical distribution operation.The first major appointmentto the division is a coup for Paramount chairman Brad Grey and his team in thewake of the studio's agreement with Universal in splitting off from their jointinternational distribution venture UIP.Sources confirmed the ...
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Noeltner's CMG signs on to represent Moriah Films
Cinema Management Group (CMG) has signed up as the exclusiveinternational sales agent for the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's documentary filmproduction unit Moriah Films.CMG will bring two new Moriah productions to Berlin as well asMoriah's previous Oscar winning documentaries, 1997's The Long Way Home and 1981's Genocide.Ever Again, which explores the resurgence ...
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Dimension snaps up remake of Piranha
Dimension Films has snapped up US and all English-speaking rightsto Intellectual Properties Worldwide (IPW), Atmosphere EntertainmentMM/Relativity Media and Wild Bunch's horror project Piranha.Negotiations are underway for Chuck Russell to direct from ascreenplay he adapted from Joe Dante's 1978 cult classic.In Russell's version a series of earth tremors unleashes a schoolof ...
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Robert Altman to receive honorary Oscar
Robert Altman will receive an honorary Oscar at the 78th AcademyAwards on Mar 5.Altman, currently in post production on his ensemble GarrisonKeillor adaptation A Prairie Home Companion, has never won an Academy Award.However the 80 year-old has earned five best director nominations for M*A*S*H,Nashville, The Player, Short Cuts and Gosford ...
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Peter Morris voted in as new chairman of BAFTA/LA
Peter Morris has been voted in as BAFTA/LA's new chairman alongwith a new officer and five new members to the board of directors.The newly elected Board will make its first public appearance atthe 12th Annual BAFTA/LA Tea Party on Jan 15 at the Park Hyatt Los Angeles.Morris replaces outgoing chairman ...
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Louisiana movie studio to be established in Baton Rouge
In a move that will bringNew Year cheer to Louisiana officials in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, realestate developer The Celtic Group is planning to revive an abandoned BatonRouge facility and turn it into a film studio.The new Celtic Media Centreis being developed by Celtic, Baton Rouge and Los Angeles-based ...
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TLA buys domestic rights to Paige's gay comedy Say Uncle
TLA Releasing has acquired North American theatrical and homeentertainment rights to Peter Paige's feature directorial debut Say Uncle and plans a June release followed by DVDroll-out in the autumn.Say Unclestars Paige as a naive gay painter pining for his recently relocated godson whois targeted by a neurotic woman as a ...
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Green named vp of distribution at NYC-based Emerging Pictures
Josh Green has been namedvice president of distribution for New York-based Emerging Pictures, where hewill act as a sales agent and producer's representative.On pictures where EmergingPictures acts as a distributor-for-hire for theatrical release, he will planand manage the distribution campaigns.Green previously served asEmerging's director of marketing and business development after ...
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Esclavissat, Gornell get executive vp promotions at WBPI
In two key promotions forWarner Bros Pictures International (WBPI), Monique Esclavissat has been namedexecutive vice president of European distribution and Con Gornell has beennamed executive vice president of European marketing.Both senior executives moveup from their previous posts as senior vice presidents in their respectivedivisions.Esclavissat is responsible for regional supervision of ...
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Hegeman leaves Lionsgate to join Rice at Fox
Former Lionsgate worldwidemarketing president John Hegeman has been named chief operating officer of FoxFilmed Entertainment's new teen and young adult-focused creative contentdivision headed up by Peter Rice.Effective immediately,Hegeman will work alongside Rice managing all aspects of the company includingproduction, acquisitions, marketing and distribution.The as-yet-unnamed division- announced by Fox chiefs three ...
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Lionsgate strikes nationwide US hookup with Starbucks
Starbucks Entertainment hasstruck deal with Lionsgate under which the coffee giant will participate in themarketing and distribution of Lionsgate and 2929 Entertainment's upcoming dramaAkeelah And The Bee.Leveraging its retail baseacross North America, Starbucks will screen the picture to Starbucks servers(aka "baristas") to create word of mouth and run a series ...