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Warner Bros signs German broadband VOD deal
Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-year deal toprovide content to T-Online for its broadband VOD service in Germany.Beginning inSeptember, Warner Bros pictures from the Harry Potter and Matrix franchises, as well as Ocean's Twelve and The Polar Express, will be available on T-Online'sbroadband VOD service. The deal ...
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Virgin goes against Red Eye in hot UK weekend for UIP
Warner BrosPictures International (WBPI) executives are bidding to hold on to theirinternational crown of the past few weeks when they unleash The Dukes OfHazzard in Italy on Sept2 and Taiwan on Sept 3.The comedy hasgrossed $5.5m from six territories so far and executives will be looking tocapitalise on its familiarity ...
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Two Bollywood movies set to shoot in New York
Two Indian projectsfeaturing Bollywood superstars are gearing up for autumn shoots with thefinancial support of New York Mayor Bloomberg's Made In NY tax creditinitiative. Shirish Kunder's romanticcomedy Jaaneman stars megastarSalman Khan with Preity Zinta and Akshay Kumar and is being produced byNadiawala Grandson Entertainment, which plans to launch a US ...
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Telluride lineup includes Pluto, Brokeback
Announcing aheavily US-centric line-up on its opening day, organisers of the 32nd TellurideFilm Festival have snagged world premiere bragging rights to films includingJames Mangold's Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line starring Joaquin Phoenix and ReeseWitherspoon, and Scott McGehee and David Siegel's drama Bee Season starring Richard Gere and JulietteBinoche.Also scheduledto ...
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Terence Stamp joins cast of western love story Dawn
Terence Stamphas joined the cast of September Dawn, Christopher Cain's Western love story set against thebackdrop of religious fanaticism.Jon Voight,Lolita Davidovitch, Trent Ford, Tamara Hope and John Gries were previouslyconfirmed in the cast.Cain wrote the screenplaywith Carol Whang Schutter, and is producing with Scott Duthie and KevinMatossian. Production is currently ...
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Lions Gate greenlights Lennon doc with Ono approval
Lions Gate Filmsand LSL Productions have begun pre-production on David Leaf and JohnScheinfeld's documentary The US Vs John Lennon, the third project from Lions Gate'sdocumentary unit following Grizzly Man and Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man, which receives its world premiere atToronto.Endorsed by YokoOno, The US Vs John Lennon covers the ...
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Fox Searchlight lands US rights to Mehta's Water
Fox Searchlighthas picked up US rights to Water, the final instalment in Deepa Mehta's elemental trilogy thatwill open the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept 8.Set in 1930sIndia against the backdrop of Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, Water charts the fallout on a temple communitywhen a group of widows arrives. ...
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Palm Springs ShortFest accepts 324 submissions
Films starringStephen Rea, Rosario Dawson, Sandra Oh, Selma Blair and Steve Buscemi arefeatured in the line-up of the upcoming 2005 Palm Springs InternationalFestival of Short Films (ShortFest), which runs Sept 20-26.Organisers haveunveiled a roster of 324 titles chosen from a record 2,400 worldwide entries,which they say has led to a ...
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Winkler to teach three-day masterclass at Deauville
Irwin Winkler (pictured) will teach athree-day directing masterclass at the 31st Deauville American Film Festival in France.Winkler, a four-time AcademyAward producing nominee who shared best picture honours for Rocky in 1977, has directing credits including De-Lovely, The Net, Guilty By Suspicion, Life As A House and Night And The City.Winkler ...
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Searchlight clicks onto Imagine Me & You
Fox Searchlighthas acquired North American, Latin American, French, Italian and Japaneserights to Ol Parker's directorial debut romantic comedy Imagine Me & You (working title, formerly Click).The picture willreceive its world premiere in the Special Presentations section of Toronto on Sept 9 and opens across North America on Feb 10 2006. ...
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The Island swims past $100m in international
The Island crossed $100m through Warner Bros PicturesInternational (WBPI) following an estimated $9.7m weekend haul on more than4,500 screens in 48 markets that raised the running total to $101.6m. The picture was expected torank number one in Italy on $1.7m including previews and 216,700 admissionsfrom 332 screens.It also opened top ...
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Film Source hires Jordon as director of acquisitions
Alex Massis' Florida-basedsales outfit The Film Source has hired independent filmmaker Edward Jordon asdirector of acquisitions."My role at the Film Sourceis to provide the company with topnotch product that will first demand and thencommand the attention of our international buyers," Jordon said."I am searching for allthose undiscovered gems that haven't ...
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Grimm opens well, but Virgin rules domestic box office
Universal's comedy The40-Year-Old Virgin held on to topspot over the weekend as it stayed marginally ahead of a solid debut byDimension's The Brothers Grimm,the latest picture to issue from Miramax's end-of-term conveyor belt. The only other opener in thetop 10 was Screen Gems' The Cavein sixth place, as overall box ...
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Lambert signs on for vampire western Midnight
Mary Lambert has signed onto direct the vampire-western High Midnight for Beverly Hills-based production company TreasureEntertainment.Denis Faye's screenplaycentres on a down-at-heel sheriff who is forced to team up with a vampirehunter to stop an undead force from consuming a frontier town in 1892 NewMexico.Treasure co-chairman andchief operating officer Mark Heidelberger, ...
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Burnett gets top domestic publicity job at Weinstein Co
Liza Burnett (pictured) hasjoined The Weinstein Company as head of the domestic publicity department. Burnett arrives from asix-year stint at New York-based PR outfit Dan Klores Communications where shemost recently served as senior vice president.Reporting to Harvey and BobWeinstein, she begins work on Sept 12 and assumes oversight of all ...
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New US outfit Kindred teams up with HispanoFilms
Fledgling NewYork and Pennsylvania-based boutique distributor Kindred Media Group ispartnering up with HispanoFilms Distribution on the US distribution of EnriqueRenteria's Mexican comedy Dame Tu Cuerpo (Gimme Your Body).The partnerswill seek to broaden the reach of the picture, which has grossed more than $4min Mexico, as part of a strategy by ...
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Leigh, Ladd Jr win special awards at Flanders in Oct
Mike Leigh andUS producer Alan Ladd Jr will each receive the Joseph Plateau Award for theiroutstanding achievements in filmmaking at the upcoming Flanders InternationalFilm Festival.Leigh willreceive his award from Imelda Staunton, the Oscar nominated star of his 2004drama Vera Drake.Leigh's other credits include Naked, High Hopes, Secrets And Lies, and ...
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New Line hails Crashers as year's top comedy
New Line' s WeddingCrashers has overtaken Hitch to become the biggest grossing comedy ofthe year in North America, racing to a $180m domestic running total since itsJul 15 launch.WeddingCrashers now ranks asthe second biggest R-rated comedy of all time behind Beverly Hills Cop, which finished on $234.8m. It is alsothe ...
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Warner revs up Dukes in UK, France, Spain, Mexico
The Warner Bros PicturesInternational (WBPI) duo of The Island and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory are expected to lead the international pack onceagain this weekend.Sci-fi actioner TheIsland, which has been the highestgrossing international release of the last two weekends, opens in Italy on Aug26. It has amassed $85.3m to date.Meanwhile ...
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Cooper, Phillippe team up for Universal FBI thriller
Chris Cooper andRyan Phillippe have signed to star in Universal Pictures' true-life spythriller Breach,Billy Ray's follow-up to Shattered Glass.The studio plansto begin production towards the end of this year on the story of a trainee FBIagent who is assigned to a top secret division and begins to suspect hisarrogant employer ...