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Mr & Mrs Smith land in UK, Australia, Mexico, Brazil
Star Wars: Episode III has dominated the international landscape for thepast month but does it have the clout to see off a concerted challenge from Mr& Mrs Smith'Either way Fox Internationalexecutives won't mind - the company handles Episode III and handles some international rights for Mr& Mrs Smith for New ...
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Basner confirmed as Weinsteins' international president
One day after his abruptdeparture from Focus Features [Screendaily, June 7], Glen Basner has been namedpresident of international at The Weinstein Company.Basner, who worked for DavidLinde for a decade at Good Machine International and Focus Features, startswork immediately for the Weinsteins at Miramax and The Weinstein Company. Hewill begin working ...
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Koch Vision picks up Margaret Cho's Assassin
Koch Vision has picked upNorth American home entertainment rights to Margaret Cho's one-woman show Assassin...aka...StateOf EmergencyKoch plans a Novemberrelease on the title, which will coincide with the publication of her novel "IHave Chosen To Stay And Fight" and follows the September broadcast of Assassin on the gay television network Here!Cho's ...
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Cruise to receive BAFTA/LA's Britannia Award
The seemingly ubiquitous TomCruise is to be honoured with BAFTA/LA's Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award inNovember.Cruise will receive theorganisation's highest honour at the 14th Annual Britannia Awards on Nov 10 atThe Beverly Hilton Hotel.He joins an illustrious listof recipients that includes Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Scorsese, MichaelCaine and the late ...
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Magnolia buys multiple territories from Miramax to Pulse
Magnolia Pictures has pickedup all English-speaking territories as well as Mexico, Germany, Italy, Poland,and Spain on Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Japanese horror Pulse.The picture was acquiredfrom Dimension and Miramax, which still maintain an interest in the property asHarvey and Bob Weinstein recently began production on the remake based on ascreenplay by Wes ...
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Rodgers named director of RiverRun festival
Andrew Rodgershas been named director of the RiverRun International Film Festival and willoversee all aspects of the event including programming, strategy, budgets,fundraising, and marketing and publicity.Rodgers, afestival veteran who began his career as a staff writer on the Chicago Tribune,will relocate to North Carolina in August in preparation for the ...
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Third Man Out to open Philadelphia gay & lesbian fest
The worldpremiere of Ron Oliver's murder mystery Third Man Out will open the 2005 PhiladelphiaInternational Gay And Lesbian Film Festival, which closes with Craig Lucas'noir thriller The Dying Gaul.Festivalorganisers will present three awards this year. Activist and actor Kathy Najimywill receive the Artistic Achievement Award, actor Peter Paige will receive ...
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Hustle, Flowers join LAFF slate
Los Angeles FilmFestival organisers have added Craig Brewer's rap drama and Sundance hit Hustle& Flow to theline-up and will screen the picture on Jun 17.Other additionsinclude two Cannes-flavoured events. Jim Jarmusch's Grand Prix winner BrokenFlowers will screen onJun 25, and Shane Black will discuss his noir romp and Croisette favourite ...
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Artistic License takes US rights to Bamford's Cape
Artistic LicenseFilms has picked up US rights to Mark Bamford's festival favourite Cape Of GoodHope and plans astaggered roll-out beginning in September in New York and Los Angeles. The US-SouthAfrican co-production, which premiered at Tribeca 2004, intertwines threestories of love centering on a South African animal shelter. Debbie Brown,Eriq Ebouaney, ...
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Madagascar rules the roost at North American box office
DreamWorks' animated zoofest Madagascar was the star of the domestic scene atthe weekend, passing $100m in its second weekend as it climbed two places to number one.MeanwhileThe Longest Yard, which isdistributed through Paramount in NorthAmerica, is fast approaching the mark after the same amount of time. It stayedsecond on $26.1m ...
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IFC Films takes Manderlay, Bier's next film for US
IFC Films has picked up USrights to Lars von Trier's Cannes competition entry Manderlay and Susanne Bier's After The Wedding, which is currently shooting in India and Denmark.Negotiations for both titlesfrom the Danish duo were concluded with Trust Film Sales at Cannes and IFC hasscheduled 2005 releases.Manderlay, which had a ...
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Madagascar dethrones Sith as box office champion
DreamWorks' animated zoofest Madagascar was the star of the domestic scene atthe weekend, passing $100m in its second weekend as it climbed two places to number one.MeanwhileThe Longest Yard, which isdistributed through Paramount in NorthAmerica, is fast approaching the mark after the same amount of time. It stayedsecond on $26.1m ...
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Sith continues to lord it over international box office
Star Wars: Episode III -Revenge Of The Sith remained thedominating international force as it swept past $300m at the weekend.The picture added anestimated $36.5m for a $308.4m international cumulative total through Fox International.Combined with North America, where it reached $300m, the sci-fi saga has soldmore than $600m in tickets worldwide.Third ...
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Mandate reports hot sales activity on Grudge 2
LosAngeles-based production and distribution company Mandate Pictures hasannounced a raft of Cannes sales on Gold Circle's romantic comedy Because ISaid So and Ghost HousePictures' horror sequel The Grudge 2.Announcing the sales yesterday [2], Mandate's senior vicepresident, head of international sales and distribution Mali Kinberg said eachsold to more than 25 ...
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Chiller Films to remake horror hit Piranha
Atmosphere Entertainment and Relativity Media have announced thatthe first picture to go into production for their joint venture genre labelChiller Films will be a remake of Joe Dante's 1978 horror hit Piranha.Chilleris financing and co-producing with Relativity Media, IPW (IntellectualProperties Worldwide) and Wild Bunch following a deal with Chako Film. ...
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Berk voted new Hollywood Foreign Press Assoc president
Philip Berk has been electedpresident of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for the 2005-06 cycle,following the group's annual election meeting.Berk, who writes for FilmInkin Australia and Galaxie in Malaysia, has belonged to the HFPA for 28 years andwill serve his fifth term as president.Mahfouz Doss was electedvice president, with ...
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BVI hopes Sin will beat Sith in UK, Italy
This weekend'sinternational schedule offers a mixed bag of product, with Star Wars:Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith expected to dominate through strong holdovers as it bears down on$300m.Released throughFox International, the sci-fi saga currently stands at $268.7m and shouldperform strongly in its third weekend. A robust domestic haul may ...
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Gillies takes lead role opposite Cuthbert in Joffe's Captivity
Daniel Gillies has been cast asthe male lead opposite Elisha Cuthbert in Roland Joffe's kidnap thriller Captivity, which began filming yesterday [Jun 1] in Moscow'sMosfilm Studios.Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael Harney, Laz Alonso and newcomerChrysta Olsen round out the key cast in the story of two strangers who fall inlove after ...
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IFC Centre in New York to open on June 17 with Me You...
New York's IFCCentre opens its doors on Jun 17 with Miranda July's award winning Me AndYou And Everyone We Know,which recently picked up a string of Cannes honours including the Critics WeekGrand Prize and the Camera d'Or.The IFC Centre is based on the former Waverly Theatre siteand features three theatres ...
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Doeren to deliver keynote at IFTA Production Conference
Kodak Digital Cinema general manager William Doeren will deliverthe keynote address at the upcoming Independent Film & Television Alliance's(IFTA) annual Production Conference on Jun 16.This year's panels at the Beverly Hills event are titled Are Producing& Exploiting Successful Movies Easier Challenges for Independents', andUsing Production Incentives for Maximum Impact.Scheduled panelists ...