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Xingu wraps Guide starring Downey Jr
Rosario Dawson,Dianne Wiest, Chazz Palminteri and Eric Roberts joined Robert Downey Jr in thecast of A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, which has completed principal photography for TrudieStyler's Xingu Films. Orlando (Dito)Montiel's directorial debut is a product of the Sundance Institute's Directorsand Screenwriters Labs and centres on Montiel's youth growing ...
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DreamWorks exits merger talks with NBC Universal
DreamWorks has pulled out of$1bn merger talks with NBC Universal as two months of exclusive negotiationsended without a deal this week. Both parties were optimisticin July when talks got underway for Universal to acquire the studio founded bySteven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg. However any eventual dealbetween the parties ...
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Gerolami named md, Europe, of NBC Universal Global Networks
Olivier Gerolamihas been named managing director, Europe, for NBC Universal Global Networks.Beginning Nov 1in London, Gerolami will oversee NBC Universal Global Networks' television assetsin Europe, where the company's established channels include 13th Street and SCIFI in France, Das Vierte, 13th Street, SCI FI and GIGA in Germany, StudioUniversal in Italy, ...
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Hardwicke joins Gang at Columbia
Columbia Pictures hasacquired film rights to Edward Abbey's comic bestseller The Monkey WrenchGang which Catherine Hardwicke willdevelop and direct. The film has long been indevelopment with Ed Pressman's Edward R Pressman Film Corp and Pressman will serveas one of the producers on the project alongside Gary Burden and LloydPhillips. Alessandro ...
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Charlie rules international weekend, passes $200m
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory held on to its international crown and passed $200m as a $13.8m weekend haul from 52 markets raised the running total to $201.1m.The Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) release was powered by a $2.7m number one Italian debut on 400 screens.The family picture openedtop in ...
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Rosenberg voted in as president of US actors union SAG
Alan Rosenberg has becomethe 24th president of the largest US actors' union Screen Actors Guild (SAG)following a ballot last week.Rosenberg succeeds MelissaGilbert, who served as president since 2001 and chose not to run for a thirdtwo-year term following her combative tenure.Rosenberg received 39.9%(10,748 total votes) of the nationwide vote of ...
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Disney's Flightplan soars over North American box office
Touchstone's airbornethriller Flightplan opened top onan estimated $24.6m as a strong autumn revival saw box office climb for thethird consecutive weekend.The thriller stars JodieFoster a woman who becomes convinced that she has lost her daughter on atransatlantic flight. Peter Sarsgaard also stars in Robert Schwentke's picture,which drew mediocre reviews but ...
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Violence, Line, Bride among Flanders selections
12 Beneluxpremieres will take place during the 32nd Annual Flanders Film Festival, whichruns from Oct 11-22 in Ghent, Belgium.US titles set toscreen among more than 200 entries include A History of Violence, Walk TheLine, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Elizabethtown and The Weather Man.As previouslyannounced, Mike Leigh and Alan Ladd Jr ...
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Palm Springs ShortFest closes with awards announcements
Benjamin Ross' TorteBluma won the best offestival Award and John Mitchell's Goodnight Bill won the audience award for live actionshort at the 2005 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, whichended at the weekend.Dawn Khoo wonthe documentary prize for her Singaporean entry Search For Her, Josh Staub won the top ...
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Theron, Phoenix lead Hollywood Awards rollcall
Charlize Theronand Joaquin Phoenix, who are expected to figure prominently in the upcomingawards season, will receive the actress and actor of the year honours for theirrespective roles in North Country and Walk The Line at the Hollywood Awards gala on Oct 24.MatthewBroderick and Susan Sarandon will collect supporting actor awards ...
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Ryan elected to second term as IFTA chairman
IAC Filmdirector Michael Ryan has been re-elected as chairman of the Independent Film& Television Alliance (IFTA).Ryan, who is thefirst IFTA chairman from outside the US, ran unopposed and now commences hissecond consecutive two-year term.IFTA's sevenperson executive committee, headed by Ryan, includes newly-elected vicechairman John Kochman of StudioCanal, and vice chairman, ...
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Chicago unveils competition lineups for Oct festival
Cristi Puiu's critically adored Romanian dramaThe Death Of Mr Lazarescu, Patrice Chereau's French chamber piece Gabrielle and Sarah Watt's Australian drama Look Both Ways feature in next month's international competitionline-up at the 41st Chicago International Film Festival.International competitioninclude features a slew of 2005 festival mainstays such as Heo Jin-ho's April ...
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Focus has Dream for North America
Focus Featureshas picked up North American rights to Peter Cattaneo's Opal Dream and plans a 2006 release for the familypicture, which was previously known as Pobby And Dingan. It will have itsworld premiere in the Dinard Festival Of British Film from Oct 6-9.Sapphire Boycestars in the film as a young ...
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Spirit Awards raise budget ceiling to $20m
Nominations forthe 2006 Independent Spirit Awards will be unveiled on Nov 29 ahead of theawards show on Mar 4 2006.Film Independentexecutive director Dawn Hudson announced that nomination guidelines have beenmodified this year to raise the budget ceiling to $20m for all eligible titles,following controversy last year over the eligibility of ...
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Warner's Factory opens in Italy, closes in on $200m
With no realistic contender in sight Charlie And The ChocolateFactory looks set tocontinue ruling international waters as it bears down on $200m.The family picture launches inItaly on Sept 23 through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI); it currentlystands at more than $180.3m including Roadshow territories.Warner stablemate Dukes Of Hazard opens in ...
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Gregorian gets evp stripes at Warner Bros TV Group
Lisa Gregorian (pictured), a Warner Bros veteran of 19years, has been appointed to the new role of executive vice president ofworldwide marketing at Warner Bros Television Group.Gregorian willwork with the studio's internal television marketing teams and televisionnetworks and stations worldwide to maximise promotional opportunities forstudio properties.Her marketingteam will support and ...
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Glickman names Pisano COO and president of MPAA
Former SAG chief executiveofficer and top studio executive Robert Pisano has been named chief operatingofficer and president of the MPAA.From Oct 1 Pisano willassume daily operating responsibility for all domestic and international MPAAoperations other than Washington DC-based external and governmental affairs.Based in the MPAA's LosAngeles offices, he will report to ...
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Sarandon, Howard to receive career awards at Chicago in Oct
Susan Sarandon will collect the Gold Hugo Award at the 41stChicago International Film Festival's opening night screening of Cameron Crowe'sElizabethtown on Oct6.Sarandon won the best actressAcademy Award in 1996 for Dead Man Walking,and earned nominations for Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo's Oil, TheClient, and Atlantic City.Elizabethtown opens through Paramount in North ...
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Ballroom, Enron, Murderball named on IDA shortlist
Thirteen features will compete for the 21st Annual InternationalDocumentary Association Awards, including box office hit Mad Hot Ballroom, and hot theatrical titles Murderball, Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room and Why We Fight.Two features from the shortlistwill be chosen for top honours when the winners are unveiled at the ...
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Vertigo gets Cock & Bull Story for Spain
Vertigo Films has picked up Spanish rights from The Works toMichael Winterbottom's comedy A Cock & Bull Story starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon andGillian Anderson.The film-about-a-film recently screened at Toronto and SanSebastian. It marks the fourth collaboration between Vertigo and Winterbottom followingButterfly Kiss, 24 Hour Party People and In This ...