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Saint Ralph takes top honours at Paris Film Festival
MichaelMcGowan's Saint Ralphwon the L'Arc D'or (The Grand Arc Award) at the Festival ParisIsland-of-France, formerly the Paris Film Festival, at the weekend.The special jury prize wentto Fernando Eimbcke's Mexican comedy Temporada Of Patos, while Gol Gothai won the best female acting prizefor Marzieh Meshkini's post-Taliban drama Stray Dogs, and Alexandre ...
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Zimbron to oversee local production at Warner Mexico
Warner Bros Pictures Mexicohas appointed Leonardo Zimbron director of local production to spearhead thecompany's expanding operations in the Latin American territory.Zimbron, the former generalmanager of Traziende Producciones, has extensive experience in Mexicanproduction, having collaborated with the likes of Argos and Buena Vista, aswell as government agencies such as Fedicine, Imicine ...
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Miami Film Festival sets 2006 dates as March 3 to 12
The 2006 MiamiInternational Film Festival will run from Mar 3-12 throughout the greater Miamiarea.15 worldpremieres and 118 features distinguished the 2005 event, which opened on Feb 4with Mick Davis' Modigliani and closed on Feb 13 with Joaquin Oristrell's Spanish farce Unconscious (Inconscientes). Organisers claimed attendance figuresof approximately 60,000.For moreinformation visit ...
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LA-based FilmMates adds 39 titles to library after three company buys
LosAngeles-based finance, production and distribution company FilmMatesEntertainment has bolstered its library with 39 new titles after completing itsacquisition of the Cayman Islands-based company Camden Equities, World WideMulti-Media, and the Beverly Hills-based Hollywood International Finance.Among the newtitles are James Toback's thriller Harvard Man starring Sarah Michelle Gellar andAdrien Grenier, and Matthew ...
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Myriad Pictures to be acquired by TAG Entertainment
BeverlyHills-based production and distribution house TAG Entertainment Corp has signeda letter of intent to acquire Myriad Pictures, the parties announced yesterday[4].Subject toapproval, the proposed merger would combine the financing capability of TAGEntertainment with Santa Monica-based Myriad's distribution infrastructure andproduction drive for bigger theatrical features.The new companywill focus on greenlighting independent ...
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Trijbits, Bregman among new members of IFP/New York board
In a busy weekfor IFP/New York the organisation has elected Ira Deutchman as new boardchairman, added four new board members, and announced the first formal meetingof a new producers coalition formed under the aegis of IFP/New York.Deutchman, afounding father of Cinecom and Fine Line Features and currently president andchief executive ...
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Barrymore and Juvonen move Flower Films to Warner
Warner Bros hassigned a two-year first-look deal with Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen'sFlower Films. Flower has spent the last four years in two first-look deals at Sony Pictures and before that were based at 20th Century Fox.The partners'producing credits include Fever Pitch, which is set to open in North America ...
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Comic book hero The Spirit gets movie treatment through Odd Lot, Batfilms
Odd LotEntertainment and Batfilm Productions are gearing up on their live-actionadaptation of 1940s superhero property The Spirit, and have signed the renowned comic bookwriter Jeph Loeb to adapt the series.Based on thelate Will Eisner's series, The Spirit centres on a masked detective who fights crime in CentralCity and is believed ...
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LA's New Wave Films buys management/production co E-Squared
LosAngeles-based entertainment marketing and production house New WaveEntertainment has acquired management/production company E-Squared and hiredE-Squared's literary manager and producer Chris Emerson.The deal allowsNew Wave to expand its roster of filmmakers, writers and actors and work withEmerson and E-Squared on its existing production commitments.Emerson bringsto New Wave's talent division a client ...
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Carver leaves Sony to head up Steven Paul's Crystal Sky
Former SonyScreen Gems senior vice president of acquisitions and co-productions BenedictCarver has been named president of Steven Paul's Crystal Sky Productions.Reporting to Paul, Carver will oversee Crystal Sky's slatethat includes the Marvel Comic adaptation Ghost Rider at Columbia Pictures starring Nicolas Cage and EvaMendes, which Paul is producing with Avi ...
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Denzel and Spike reteam for Universal's Inside Man
DenzelWashington has singed on to star in Imagine Entertainment's robbery thriller InsideMan for Universal, whichSpike Lee will direct and Brian Grazer will produce.The film marksWashington's fourth collaboration with Lee after Mo Better Blues (1990), MalcolmX (1992) and He GotGame (1998).British Golden Globe winner Clive Owen is in talks to jointhe ...
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MPAA, JIMCA win Japanese online piracy suit
A 23-year-old Japanese manhas been ordered to stop selling pirate tapes on the Yahoo! Auctions site andagreed to pay $6,400 in damages following a civil action by the MPAA and theJapan International Motion Picture Copyright Association (JIMCA).Toshihiko Hiura from Fukuokawill also provide the MPAA and JIMCA with all materials infringing ...
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Brogliatti to leave Warner Bros after 18 years
Warner Bros executive vicepresident and chief corporate communications officer Barbara Brogliatti isretiring from the company after 18 years to focus on teaching, philanthropy andwine-making in the Napa Valley.Brogliatti's full-timeduties as official spokesperson and chief press officer and strategist for thestudio will end on May 31, however she will continue as ...
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Reno, Franco star in Electric's World War I actioner Flyboys
Jean Reno andJames Franco will star in the epic wartime adventure Flyboys, which is being directed by Tony Billand will be produced by Electric Entertainment principal Dean Devlin and MarcFrydman.Lions Gate Films International will handle worldwiderights excluding the US and Canada, which are being represented by ICM.Principalphotography is due to ...
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Apted signs on for Walden's Wilberforce pic Amazing Grace
Michael Aptedhas signed on to direct the political thriller Amazing Grace, a Walden Media, Sunflower Productionsand FourBoys Films co-production about 18th century British politician WilliamWilberforce's campaign to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire. Dirty PrettyThings screenwriterSteven Knight will write the script, while Terrence Malick and Ed Pressman willproduce ...
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New York's Steiner Studios to host Arbus biopic Fur
Brooklyn-basedSteiner Studios has struck a deal with River Road Productions to host the shootof Steven Shainberg's Fur, an imagined chronicle of the life of New York photographer DianeArbus starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr.Set constructionwill begin immediately on the 16,000 sq ft sound stage, one of two that will ...
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Graham King signs first-look production deal with Warner Bros
Graham King has signed afirst-look deal with Warner Bros that will bring him in as producer on twoprojects for the studio and shifts Initial Entertainment Group's deals withLeonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil to Warner Bros.Initial Entertainment willremain an international sales entity for projects that King does ...
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Field, Chaplin finish shooting drama 2 Weeks
Custom Productions haswrapped filming in Nashville, Tennessee, on Steve Stockman's featuredirectorial debut 2 Weeks,starring Sally Field, Ben Chaplin and Clea Duvall.The bittersweet comedy tellsof four estranged siblings who return to their childhood home in North Carolinato care for their ailing mother, played by Field, who won Academy Awards forbest actress ...
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Glickman to address convention in Mumbai today
MPAA chief Dan Glickman willgive the keynote address at the Frames Convention in Mumbai, India, today [Apr4], as he continues to develop his profile as an international bridge-builderstrong on anti-piracy.Since succeeding JackValenti as Hollywood's top bureaucrat last year, Glickman has been quick totake the anti-piracy agenda beyond North American borders, ...
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Plum picks up movie rights to life of mathematical genius
New York-based Plum Pictures has picked up rights to the lifestory of Andrew Wiles, the mathematical genius who solved Fermat's LastTheorem, the world's most bafflingmathematical mystery that remained unsolved for more than 300 years.Fermatwas a recluse and one of the great mathematical theorists of the 17th century who scribbled a ...