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Blitz makes fictional debut with Rocket Science
Los Angeles-basedproduction company Duly Noted has begun filming in Baltimore on the romanticcomedy Rocket Science,Jeff Blitz's fictional follow-up to his Oscar-nominated documentary Spellbound.Rocket Science chronicles an awkward teenager's efforts to courtthe apple of his eye by joining the high school debating team.The cast ofmostly newcomers includes Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, ...
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Weather Man world premiere to close Chicago
The 41st ChicagoInternational Festival will open on Oct 6 with Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy Elizabethtown starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunstand closes on Oct 20 with the world premiere of Gore Verbinski's family drama TheWeather Man.The WeatherMan stars Nicolas Cageas an ambitious broadcaster who gets a shot at the big ...
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AFI to announce annual top ten on Dec 11
The top 10 AFImotion pictures, television programmes and moments of significance of the yearwill be unveiled when the American Film Institute announces its AFI Awards 2005on Dec 11.AFI members willhonour the creative ensembles for each chosen project, person or event at anawards lunch on Jan 13, 2006.AFI AWARDShonorees are selected ...
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Boyle's Sunshine pic starts rolling in London
Principal photography beganin London yesterday [Monday] on DNA Films and Fox Searchlight's sci-fico-production The Untitled Sunshine Project, which reunites the companies with Danny Boyle andAlex Garland, the director-writer team behind the worldwide zombie hit 28Days Later and The Beach.Set 50 years in the futurewhen a rapidly dying sun is ...
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Christenson confirmed as new Initial sales chief
Eric Christenson (pictured)has come aboard Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group as president of salesand distribution.Based in LosAngeles, Christenson started work at the company in Los Angeles on Aug 1 andreports directly to King. He replaces Stephanie Denton, who was recently nameddistribution chief at Lions Gate International.Christensonformerly established Tentpole Pictures where ...
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Albert Pyun to be feted at Estepona festival in Spain
Albert Pyun, the director behind such cult hits as TheSword And The Sorcerer, Nemesis and Cyborg, will receive the Golden Unicorn Award at theupcoming sixth Estepona Film Festival in Andalusia, Spain.Mayor ofEstepona Antonio Barrientos will preside over the tribute, which will also beattended by festival director Julio Peces.The festival,which runs ...
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National Lampoon begins latest comedy Cattle Call
National Lampoonand Los Angeles-based production company ProActive Media Group have begunproduction in Los Angeles on Martin Guigui's comedy National Lampoon'sCattle Call.The story follows a group oftestosterone-fuelled friends who set up a fake casting office to meet girls andare forced into making a film after they receive a torrent of interest.Thomas ...
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California report tallies revenues, jobs lost to runaway production
Runaway productions are costing the state of California $10.6m inlost tax revenues and the equivalent of 928 full-time annual jobs for a $70mproject shooting for 75 days, according to a study released by the CaliforniaFilm Commission.The report conducted by the Los Angeles Economic DevelopmentCorporation (LAEDC) analysed a number of theatrical ...
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Molina, Daniels sign up to voice Filmax's CG Donkey
Alfred Molinaand Jeff Daniels have signed on to voice the two lead characters in DonkeyXote, the first 3Danimated feature from Spain's Filmax.Production isalready underway at Filmax's Bren Studios in Galicia, Spain, on the $25mEnglish language adaptation of Miguel De Cervantes' classic 17th century taleabout a self-styled knight errant who roams ...
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40 Year-Old Virgin comes top at box office
Comedies continued to drawin the crowds over the weekend as Universal's R-rated The 40-Year-Old Virgin opened at number one on an estimated $20.6m.Launching in second placewas DreamWorks' thriller Red Eyeon $16.5m, while the British CG-animated family adventure Valiant opened through Disney in seventh place on adisappointing $6.1m. Fox's action romp ...
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Universal's 40 Year-Old Virgin comes top at box office
Comedies continued to drawin the crowds over the weekend as Universal's R-rated The 40-Year-Old Virgin opened at number one on an estimated $20.6m.Launching in second placewas DreamWorks' thriller Red Eyeon $16.5m, while the British CG-animated family adventure Valiant opened through Disney in seventh place on adisappointing $6.1m. Fox's action romp ...
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Universal's Virgin is dominant at US box office
Comedies continued to drawin the crowds over the weekend as Universal's R-rated The 40-Year-Old Virgin opened at number one on an estimated $20.6m.Launching in second placewas DreamWorks' thriller Red Eyeon $16.5m, while the British CG-animated family adventure Valiant opened through Disney in seventh place on adisappointing $6.1m. Fox's action romp ...
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The Island continues buoyant international run
Warner BrosPictures International's The Island maintained its status as the dominant overseas picture as itadded an estimated $12.4m over the weekend on more than 4,800 screens in 44markets for an $84.8m international running total.Leading thecharge was France, where the sci-fi adventure opened top on $3.4m from 640prints and drew approximately ...
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Charlie set to pass $100m in golden ticket sales
Warner Bros PicturesInternational's slice of family confection, Charlie And The ChocolateFactory, is poised to pass $100mthis weekend.The picture has no majoropenings but should continue to prove irresistible to filmgoers in theterritories where it has opened, and stood at $91.5m as of Aug 15.Meanwhile action sci-fi TheIsland was set to launch ...
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California ponders $50m annual incentive scheme
California legislators are preparing to debate a billdesigned to stem the tide of runaway productions and help restore the notional"Hollywood" to its rightful home.The move follows years of vocal agitation by Californian industryworkers troubled by the exodus of productions to more cost-effective shootinglocations such as those in Canada, Eastern Europe ...
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First Run, Asia Society bring Chinese films to US
Seeking to build greater international understandingthrough film, US-based organisations First Run Features and Asia Society haveteamed up to bring Chinese features to North American theatres, DVD andtelevision markets.The two bodies will create joint marketing and promotionalcampaigns for all titles across the various stages of release.The collaboration will kick off with ...
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New York Film Festival unveils full line-up
The prestigious New York Film Festival (NYFF) has unveileda typically diverse and high-wattage line-up for its 43rd edition, with numerous potential US and North American premieres.The exact status of the premieres remains uncertain until both theToronto International Film Festival announces its complete line-up and thesecretive Telluride programme becomes known when ...
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Weinsteins press Panic button
Harvey and Bob Weinstein have added another title to their bulgingWeinstein Company slate, optioning film rights to Jeff Abbott's paranoiathriller novel Panic,which goes out in US bookshops today [18].Abbott's story centres on Evan Casher, a documentaryfilmmaker who returns home to discover his mother's murdered body and quicklylearns that everything he ...
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CMG plans Toronto 'market' screening for Reeker
Cinema Management Group has picked up international rights to DavePayne's Reeker andplans to screen the horror picture in Toronto on Sept 10 outside the festival asa de facto "international market premiere." Reekerhas been a festival staple of late, earning strong reviews followingappearances at South by Southwest, Tribeca Film Festival and ...
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The Smiths cross $200m overseas benchmark
New Regency/Summit Entertainment/Weed Road Pictures' Mr And MrsSmith has passed $200min international ticket sales.The action picture stayed top in France through SND for the third weekend in a row and stands at more than $13.9m.In other market highlights, Mr And Mrs Smith has taken more than $21m in Germanythrough Kinowelt, ...