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Caviezel, Kinnear head ensemble in Unknown
Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear and Joe Pantoliano are all infinal negotiations to join the ensemble cast of psychological thriller Unknown which will mark the feature debut of music video andcommercials director Simon Brand.GreeneStreet Films International (GFI) is handlinginternational sales on the film, and GFI's Cedric Jeanson and Ariel Venezianoare executive ...
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Dream teams with Motley Crue on Disaster!
LosAngeles-based Dream Entertainment has scored a promotional tie-in deal withlegendary rock band Motley Crue on its upcoming satirical claymation picture Disaster!Each show on the recentlyreformed Crue's upcoming Red White & Crue world tour will begin with aspecially made claymation short featuring band members saving the world fromimminent destruction.Highlights fromRoy Wood's ...
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here! picks up gay horror pic HellBent
here! Films haspicked up worldwide rights from Sneak Preview Entertainment to Paul Etheredge-Ouzts'horror picture HellBent,which is scheduled to open in North America in June in association with RegentReleasing.HellBent is billed as one of the firsthorror/slasher projects to feature lead gay characters, who must fight forsurvival amid the backdrop of a ...
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Strauss named president of Skoll's Participant
Production and marketingveteran Ricky Strauss has been named president of Participant Productions, thecompany founded by eBay pioneer and philanthropist Jeff Skoll.Reporting directly to Skoll,Strauss will be responsible for overseeing production, marketing and businessdevelopment, and working closely with studio and production partners on titlesthat further Participant's mandate of making pictures that ...
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14 docs receive grants from Sundance fund
14 documentaries covering an eclectic range of subjects fromLaotian refugees to North Korean espionage are to receive the first wave of2005 grants from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund.The fund was set up to support US and international filmmakerswhose projects focus on current human rights issues, freedom of expression,social justice, and ...
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The Interpreter will open Tribeca Film Festival
Sydney Pollack's United Nations-set political thriller TheInterpreter starringNicole Kidman and Sean Penn will receive its North American premiere when itopens the fourth annual Tribeca Film Festival on Apr 19.The Working Title/Universal picture is scheduled to open in NorthAmerica on Apr 22 and goes out first in the UK on Apr ...
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Rea joins Portman, Purefoy on Berlin shoot of V For Vendetta
Stephen Rea has joinedNatalie Portman and James Purefoy in the cast of sci-fi epic V For Vendetta, which has started shooting in Berlin for WarnerBros Pictures.The film is produced byLarry and Andy Wachowski and Joel Silver, the team behind the Matrix trilogy, and is the directorial debut of JamesMcTeigue, assistant ...
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Diesel's kid comedy flattens the competition with $30.2m opening
Disney and Spyglass Entertainment's family comedy The Pacifier opened top over the weekend on anestimated $30.2m, beating MGM's caper sequel Be Cool into second place on $23.5m and defyingpredictions of a reverse-order finish.The only other new release that made it into the top 10 was WarnerIndependent Pictures' psychodrama The Jacket, ...
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Sony's Hitch explodes into 25 markets with $21m weekend
Hitchwas the number one international release of the weekend with an estimated $21mhaul on 2,955 screens in 25 markets through Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI), while DreamWorks International's Meet The Fockers passed $200m following another strongweekend.Sony's romantic comedy raised its international running total to$29.1m, powered by a superb $9m number one ...
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ShoWest Awards watch: Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore will receive the ShoWest Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film award at the closing night ceremony in Las Vegas on Mar 17."Barrymore is a successful actress who, since her feature film debut at the age of three, has been captivating movie audiences for more then two decades," Mitch ...
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Disney, Spyglass enjoy BO smash with The Pacifier
Disney and Spyglass Entertainment's family comedy The Pacifier opened top over the weekend on anestimated $30.2m, beating MGM's caper sequel Be Cool into second place on $23.5m and defyingpredictions of a reverse-order finish.The only other new release that made it into the top 10 was WarnerIndependent Pictures' psychodrama The Jacket, ...
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Hart/Lunsford finishes debut feature with Langhella
Newly formed production company Hart/Lunsford Pictures hasannounced completion of its debut feature, How You Look To Me, starring Frank Langhella and LauraAllen.The Kentucky-based storycentres on the efforts of an English professor who helps three young men asthey approach adulthood. Television director J Miller Tobin made his featuredirectorial debut based on ...
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Universal launches family home entertainment label
Universal Pictures haslaunched a family home entertainment label, which will develop, produce andacquire live-action and animated family titles directly for the homeentertainment market worldwide.Universal Studios HomeEntertainment Family Productions (USHEFP) will be headed up by UniversalStudios Home Entertainment president Craig Kornblau, while day-to-daymanagement will be in the hands of family entertainment ...
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Hitch gets hooked up around Europe
Hitch gets a major push through Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI) this weekend, with a raft of major debuts that includesAustralia, Germany and Russia on Mar 3, and the UK and Spain on Mar 4.The romantic comedy hasgrossed $6.1m and should receive a timely boost this weekend. Will Smith hasinternational appeal ...
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here! picks up worldwide rights to April's Shower
here! Films has picked upworldwide distribution rights to Trish Doolan's romantic comedy April'sShower (pictured), which is scheduled forrelease in the US in May.Written, produced anddirected by Doolan, April's Showerscentres on two best friends whose secret affair from years ago comes to thefore when Alex throws April a bridal shower.Doolan stars ...
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US comic Cho finishes her first fiction feature Bam Bam And Celeste
Salty Featuresand Cho Taussig Productions have wrapped principal photography on comedianMargaret Cho's first feature, Bam Bam And Celeste.Based on a screenplay by Cho and directed by her longtimecollaborator Lorene Machado, the picture stars Bruce Daniels, Alan Cumming,John Cho, Kathy Najimy, and Danny Hoch and follows two people on a road ...
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Twisted, Lions Gate follow Saw with Catacombs
Following onfrom the hugely successful 2004 horror hit Saw, Twisted Pictures and Lions Gate Filmsannounced yesterday (Mar 1) that the first project in their nine-picture dealwill be called Catacombs.Principal photography is set to start in Bucharest,Romania, on Mar 7 on the project, which stars Shannyn Sossamon and Alecia Moore- aka ...
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MPAA hires new corporate communications vp
Kori Bernards has been appointed vice president ofcorporate communications at the Motion Picture Association of America and willbe based in the company's Encino offices.Bernards mostrecently served as senior advisor to Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and alsoworked as communications director for the Democratic Congressional CampaignCommittee.A publicrelations veteran of more than 12 ...
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First Independent takes US rights to Edmond
Gary Rubin's FirstIndependent Pictures (FIP) has acquired all US and Canadian rights to Edmond, the all-star screen adaptation of David Mamet's picaresquetale of self-discovery.Wild Bunch has international rights on the project, which recently wrapped and is directed byStuart Gordon. In Berlin the film was sold to Tartan Films for the ...
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Shugrue's Envoy starts mission in Vietnam
Industry veteranJ Edward Shugrue has set his sights on developing the exhibition anddistribution circuit in Vietnam after announcing a new venture, Envoy MediaPartners, which aims to develop the entertainment business in underservedinternational markets.Shugrue, the former president of Loews Cineplex International and longtimepresident of Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International, is partnered ...