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Pressman revives Mutant Chronicles with Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane will star in thelong-in-development sci-fi environmental thriller The Mutant Chronicles for Pressman & Company based on ParadoxEntertainment's board game of the same name. The UK's Simon Hunter willdirect the project after Ed Pressman financed a $70,000 seven-minute trailedshowcasing the young filmmaker's talents and screened it for Jane, other ...
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GreeneStreet reteams with Polson on Tenderness
GreeneStreet Films isreuniting with Swimfan directorJohn Polson on the upcoming thriller Tenderness. Principal photography isscheduled to begin in early 2006 on the adaptation of Robert Cormier's novelabout a teenage serial killer and the 16-year-old runaway seduced by his charm.GreeneStreet will financeand is serving as producer along with Howard Meltzer of ...
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IFC offers ten minutes of Manderlay on iPod
IFC Films has launched anovel long-lead marketing strategy for Lars von Trier's Manderlay by offering the first 10 minutes of the filmexclusively for iPod users. The clip will becomeavailable on Nov 18 as the distributor aims to generate world of mouth on thesecond instalment in the Danish enfant terrible's USA ...
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BVI hits $1bn gross for 11th consecutive year
Buena VistaInternational (BVI) passed $1bn in annual tickets sales yesterday [Tuesday],marking the 11th consecutive year the distributor has achieved the distinction."We're thrilledto be able to keep this going," BVI president Mark Zoradi said. "Theinteresting thing about the theatrical business is that the shelf is emptyevery year. Through good product years ...
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Hopkins to receive HFPA DeMille Award
Anthony Hopkinswill collect the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Cecil B DeMille Awardfor lifetime achievement at the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan 16,2006.Hopkins hasreceived six Golden Globe nominations including four as best actor for Nixon,The Remains Of The Day, The Silence Of The Lambs and Magic.He won the bestactor ...
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US Producers Guild to honour Eastwood, Corman
Clint Eastwood and RogerCorman will be honoured at the Producers Guild of America's (PGA) annual awardsceremony on Jan 22 2006 in Los Angeles.Eastwood, whose producingcredits include the Oscar winning Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven, will receive the Milestone Award and Corman, whose prolific career hasspawned The Wild Angels and Deathrace3000 ...
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Peace Arch announces AFM deals on new slate
Toronto-based Peace Arch Entertainment has reported strong pre-sales during AFM on the nine new titles on its slate.Momentum in the UK, itssister company Aurum in Spain and Odeon in Canada have each taken rights to theromance Delirious starring SteveBuscemi, Michael Pitt and Alison Lohman, as well all five titles from ...
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Lehmann attached to direct Gold Circle's romcom
Michael Lehmannwill direct Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore in Gold Circle Films' comedy BecauseI Said So, which will bereleased domestically through Universal and is being sold internationally byMandate Pictures.Lehmann'scredits include Heathers, 40 Days And 40 Nights and The Truth About Cats And Dogs; he replaces Gillian Armstrong who waspreviously attached.Gold ...
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15 titles named on Oscar documentary shortlist
The Academy OfMotion Picture Arts & Sciences unveiled a fiercely competitive shortlist of15 documentaries today [Tuesday] that will vie for the five nominee slots inthe 78th annual Academy Awards.The rosterfeatures Luc Jacquet's record breaking March Of The Penguins, Jessica Sander's miscarriage of justiceexpose After Innocence,Marilyn Agrelo's Slamdance hit Mad Hot ...
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First Run acquires domestic rights to Mengele doc
First RunFeatures has acquired domestic rights to Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh's ForgivingDr Mengele and plans a2006 theatrical and DVD release.The documentary charts the extraordinary spirit ofreconciliation adopted by Auschwitz survivor Eva Mozes Kor, who was one of thevictims of the Nazi doctor's brutal medical experiments."Forgiving Dr. Mengeleis an entirely ...
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Cronenberg, Gyllenhaal, London added to Palm Springs honours roster
David Cronenberg willreceive the Visionary Award, Jake Gyllenhaal will receive the Desert PalmAchievement Award and Michael London will collect the Producer of the YearAward at the 17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) inJanuary.Cronenberg's latest picture AHistory Of Violence has grossed morethan $30.5m since opening through New Line. His ...
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Gilbert Taylor gets international award from ASC
Gilbert Taylorwill receive the 2006 American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) InternationalAchievement Award at the 20th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in LosAngeles on Feb 26.During thecourse of a career spanning eight decades, Taylor's credits have included DrStrangelove, A Hard Day's Night, The Omen and Star Wars. He received a Lifetime ...
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THINKFilm picks up Boys Of Baraka
THINKFilm has acquired NorthAmerican theatrical and home video rights to Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's TheBoys Of Baraka and will roll it outin New York on Nov 30.The story follows fourchildren as they are transplanted from the mean streets of Baltimore to aprivate boarding school in Kenya and recently won ...
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Global Film Initiative names eight features in US touring series
The Global Film Initiativehas unveiled its third annual Global Lens touring film series featuring eightfeatures and five shorts from developing-world countries.The series will screen incities across the US beginning in January through partnerships with major culturalinstitutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of FineArts in ...
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Flightplan lands at number one in 15 territories
Fired up by a string of number one launches in major territories,Buena Vista International's (BVI) Flightplan ruled the roost at the weekend with anestimated $15.2m haul.Ranking number one in 15 territories and boasting an internationalrunning total of more than $60m, the thriller looks to have its global anchorsin place ahead ...
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Norway's Vinterkyss wins top jury prize at AFI FEST
Sara Johnsen's Kissed By Winter (Vinterkyss), the Norwegian entry for the foreignlanguage Oscar this year, was awarded the International Feature Competition'sGrand Jury Prize at last night's AFI FEST 2005 awards ceremony.Zach Niles and Banker White's The Refugee All Stars won the Aquafina Pure Vision AwardInternational Documentary Grand Jury Prize, while ...
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Clooney to recieve Modern Master award at Santa Barbara
George Clooney will receive the 2006 Santa Barbara InternationalFilm Festival's Modern Master Award.The actor-director, whose historical drama Good Night, And GoodLuck has firmlyestablished itself as one of this season's awards contenders, will collect thehonour during next year's event."This is Clooney's year," festival director Roger Durlingsaid. "He's shown great versatility and ...
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Gothams award Ballroom, Jarmusch and five unreleased films
Mad Hot Ballroom filmmakers Marilyn Agrelo and Amy Sewell will receive theCelebrate New York Award at the 15th Annual Gotham Awards in New York on Nov30.Meanwhile organizers have unveiled the full roster of nominees inthe Best Film Not Playing At A Theatre Near You category.The prize will be contested by ...
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Chicken Little continues to tower over US box office
Family titles dominated the top 10 as Buena Vista's CG picture ChickenLittle stayed top forthe second weekend in a row ahead of Sony's new release Zathura.Chicken Little added an estimated $32m for an excellent $80.8m running totalafter two weekends. The picture will certainly pass $100m although it will comeunder heavy ...
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Sitney named director of programming at Silverdocs
Sky Sitney has been nameddirector of programming at the fourth Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery ChannelDocumentary Festival, which is set to run from Jun 13-18 2006 in SilverSprings, Maryland.The third annual SilverdocsInternational Documentary Conference is scheduled to run concurrently from Jun15-17.Sitney formerly served asprogramming director at The Newport International Film Festival. Before thatshe ...