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Rona to spearhead production at ramped up Rogue
Rogue Pictures has hired former Dimension Filmsco-president Andrew Rona (pictured) as president of production as part of an aggressivebid to increase the filmmaking slate at Universal's genre offshoot.Rona will report directly to Rogue Pictures president David Lindeand will oversee production, acquisitions, marketing and distribution on thegenre division's burgeoning slate, which ...
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Madagascar retakes international lead with $12.5m weekend
A sensational launch in Italypowered DreamWorks International's Madagascar towards $300m over the weekend as the picture added an estimated$12.5m from 47 territories through UIP for $291.5m.The animated hit opened top in Italy on $7.1m including $1.4m frompreviews for 64% market share. This is the biggest CGI animated opening ever inItaly, ...
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Fox, Europa Corp drive US box office with Transporter 2
The action sequel The Transporter 2 roared to the top of the charts overthe Labor Day holiday weekend on an estimated $20.3m over four days.Opening in third place on $10.8m was Focus Features' acclaimedJohn LeCarre adaptation The Constant Gardener, while two movies from the shelf - Underclassmanfrom Miramax and ASound ...
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CMG seals deals for Reeker with Bac, Pathe
Los Angeles-based sales company Cinema Management Group (CMG) hassecured a trio of major deals on Dave Payne's horror picture Reeker.Reeker,which receives its international market premiere on Sept 10 when it screens atToronto outside the festival, has sold to Bac Films in France, PatheDistribution in the UK, and Blanco & Travieso ...
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Dillon to get Gotham Award tribute for body of work on Nov 30
Matt Dillon will receive aGotham Award tribute at IFP New York's upcoming 15th Annual Gotham Awards on Nov 30. Dillon will be the onlyperson to be honoured for his body of work during the show, although the awardwill be presented alongside six competitive honours recognising the year's mostinnovative films and ...
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New LA short festival launches with series of quarterly competitions
LA-based Very Short Movies(VSM) has launched with the aim of presenting a world class shorts festival inHollywood for films under 10 minutes called the Golden Star Shorts Fest. In addition to providingshort filmmakers with festival exposure, VSM will help to secure appropriatedistribution opportunities for select entries VSM launches with a ...
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Tribeca, Sloan Foundation team to stage Oct science conference
The Tribeca Film Institutewill host a summit aiming to bring together the film and scientific communitiesfrom Oct 5-8 in New York City.The Summit is designed toassemble emerging screenwriters and directors from leading film schools andorganisations across the US who have been supported by grants from the Alfred PSloan Foundation. The ...
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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 ...