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Former Screen colleague Krueger dies, aged 75
Ronald L Krueger, a former Screen International contributor and member of the HollywoodForeign Press Association (HFPA), has died of a heart attack in Los Angeles. Hewas 75.Born in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, Krueger worked in television production and sales, and served asa programming consultant for the television sales company Harrington Righter& Parsons in ...
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Muren, Miyazaki named among Hollywood Film Awards winners
The Hollywood Film Festival's board of advisors hasunveiled a roster of film recipients for the upcoming 9th annual Hollywood FilmAwards, which is set to take place in Beverly Hills in October.Warner Bros' Batman Begins will receive the Hollywood Sound of the Year Award, Disney'sHowl's Moving Castle earnsthe Hollywood Animation of ...
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Muren, Miyazaki score at Hollywood Film Awards
The Hollywood Film Festival's board of advisors hasunveiled a roster of film recipients for the upcoming 9th annual Hollywood FilmAwards, which is set to take place in Beverly Hills in October.Warner Bros' Batman Begins will receive the Hollywood Sound of the Year Award, Disney'sHowl's Moving Castle earnsthe Hollywood Animation of ...
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Butler spearheads sword-and-sandal war epic for Warner
Gerard Butler (pictured) will star in Warner Bros'adaptation of 300, a graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) that recounts one ofancient Greece's best-known military battles. Warner, returning to the sword-and-sandal action-adventure genre thatyielded blockbuster results at the global box office with Troy but more mixed fortunes with Alexander, plans ...
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Warner duo claim $13m apiece at overseas theatres
The Warner Bros Pictures International duo of The Island and Charlie And The Chocolate Factoryruled the roost over theweekend, grossing an estimated $13.9m and $13.6m for $63m and $90.9m respectiveinternational running totals.Launching at number one in Mexico, The Island grossed $1.9m in that territoryincluding previews. Released on 500 prints, it ...
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Four Brothers opens top in North America with $20.7m
Another successful result for the newly-installed Brad Grey regimeat Paramount saw its revenge drama Four Brothers open top in North America on anestimated $20.7m as overall domestic tickets sales plunged again.Opening in second place on $15.8m was Universal's Gothic thriller SkeletonKey directed by the UK'sIain Softley, while the comedy sequel ...
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Four Brothers opens top in North America with $20.7m
Another successful result for the newly-installed Brad Grey regimeat Paramount saw its revenge drama Four Brothers open top in North America on anestimated $20.7m as overall domestic tickets sales plunged again.Opening in second place on $15.8m was Universal's Gothic thriller SkeletonKey directed by the UK'sIain Softley, while the comedy sequel ...
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Kindred picks up techno-thriller Phreaker
Musicproducer Joe Nicolo's fledgling boutique distributor Kindred Media Group haspicked up universal rights from Tasty Pixels to Mark Young's techno-thriller Phreaker.The Los Angeles and Pennsylvania-based Kindred plans a limited 2006 release on the story of a digital-age entrepreneur who falls foul of the police and a vicious thug.Eric Wippo stars ...
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NatGeo festival includes South African world premiere
The work of indigenous and under-representedminority-culture filmmakers will be celebrated at National Geographic's secondannual All Roads Film Festival commencing in Los Angeles next month.The four-day multimedia event includes the world premiere of EmmaKaye and Eric Oldrin's South African title Beyond Freedom, as well as the US premiere of the Maoridocumentary ...
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Bleiberg leaves Dream to pursue new vision
DreamEntertainment principals Ehud Bleiberg and Yitzhak Ginsberg are parting ways,with Ginsberg staying on to run the Los Angeles-based production and salesoutfit and former chairman Bleiberg leaving to set up his own venture.Both parties will share rights and jointly sell a number of projects in variousstages of readiness including the upcoming ...
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Island floats to UK, Mexico in foreign rescue mission
Warner Bros Pictures International stable-mates The Island and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory will be the ones to beat this weekendwith a slew of major market debuts.Michael Bay's sci-fi action famously flopped when it launched inNorth America through DreamWorks, but its international prospects look adifferent story.Currently standing at more than ...
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THINKFilm picks up Emmett Louis Till civil rights doc
THINKFilm has picked up North American rights to KeithBeauchamp's civil rights documentary The Untold Story Of Emmett Louis Till.The picture will launch on Aug 17 in New York at a private UNscreening and at Film Forum, followed by a nationwide rollout coinciding withthe 50th anniversary of Till's murder.Beauchamp's picture investigates ...
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Newsday's Seymour to chair NY Critics Circle
New York Newsday critic Gene Seymour will take over as chairman ofthe New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) this year as the group prepares tounveil its award winners on Dec 12.Over the years the group has demonstrated a hit-and-missrecord as an Oscar bellweather, and members' sensibilities are less commercialand more ...
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Universal lures Scott for Book Of Leo
Seann William Scott, currently riding high following lastweekend's number one launch of The Dukes Of Hazzard, is being lined up to star in the comedy BookOf Leo for Universal Pictures.The project is being put together by Marc PlattProductions and Scott and Graham Larson's Identity Films, which both have termdeals with ...
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TLA acquires Beverly Kills for North America, UK
TLAReleasing has acquired theatrical, home entertainment and broadcast rights inNorth America and the UK to Damion Dietz' comedy Beverly Kills.Alimited theatrical run is planned for mid-2006 on the project, in which anembittered and ageing drag queen swears vengeance on the entire city of LosAngeles after he is rejected for a ...
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here! plots multi-platform release for Assassin
Thesimultaneous multi-platform releasing bug is catching on with news that gay andlesbian premium television network here! will launch Margaret Cho's liveconcert film Assassinday-and-date in US theatres, on satellite television and video-on-demand.The pattern echoes that announced back in April by 2929 Entertainmentprincipals Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner, who plan successive launches ...
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Laemmle/Zeller bulks up with Down To The Bone, Cautiva
GregLaemmle and Steven Zeller's "virtual" distributor Laemmle/ZellerFilms has picked up Debra Granik's Down To The Bone and Gaston Biraben's Argentinean thriller Cautiva.The company, which launched earlier this year with the aim ofchampioning titles that might typically fall through the distribution net, willopen Down To The Bonein early October and Cautiva ...
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Music producer Nicolo launches distribution venture
Grammy Award-winningmusic producer Joe Nicolo has teamed up with a group of entrepreneurs to launch Kindred Media Group.Backed by private equity, the new distribution venturewill handle domestic and international rights on projects and will be headed upby new media entrepreneur Jeffrey D Erb, who founded the business-to-businesstechnology company precision Media, ...
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IndieWIRE, Emerging Pictures team up on Undiscovered Gems
New York-based indieWIRE and distributorEmerging Pictures have partnered up to take undistributed filmsto cities across the United States.The Undiscovered Gems venture will bring six to 10 titles from indieWIRE'sannual list of the best undistributed films to at least 12 cities nationwide.The official selection of films chosen for syndication will be ...
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London hosts shoot of Pfeiffer/Heckerling project
Principal photography isunderway in London on Amy Heckerling's $27m romantic comedy I Could Never BeYour Woman starring MichellePfeiffer.Paul Rudd and Tracey Ullmanalso star in the story of a successful businesswoman who encounters nothing butstress in her love life.Fred Willard and Mel Smithalso feature in the cast and there are cameos ...