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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 ...
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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 ...