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Gordon leaves Stratus to focus on sole producing career
Mark Gordon is leavingStratus Film, the company he and Bob Yari co-founded in 2003, to focusexclusively on his producing career. Under the terms of theamicable split, Gordon and Yari will remain jointly involved in existingStratus projects that are in various stages of development and pre-production. These include The PaintedVeil starring ...
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DVRs were the hottest consumer electronics product in US in 04, says report
Digital video recorders experienced more national growth than anyother consumer electronics product in the US in 2004, according to new researchby home entertainment and technology tracker Centris.DVRs gained 119% in household penetration to 6.5million US households,compared to an 83% growth in the number of portable DVD players to 20.5millionhouseholds, 44% ...
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Ledoyen, Livingston head up cast of Holly shooting in Cambodia
Guy Moshe's adventure drama Holly has begun production in Cambodia,starring Virginie Ledoyen, Udo Kier, Ron Livingston, Chris Penn, Thai starKovitt Wattanakul and Vietnamese newcomer Thuy Nguyen.The story centres on a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl's desperatesearch for her family and the 35-year-old American man who helps her in herquest.Moshe co-wrote thescreenplay with ...
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Atlantic Alliance forced to put Holocaust drama on hold after Rywin imprisonment
Production on Atlantic Alliance Pictures' Holocaust drama LoveIs A Survivor was put onhold yesterday (28) after producers said there were insufficient funds tocomplete the project.Atlantic Alliance president Harris Salomon said he and Britishassociates had secured 75% of the Euros 7m budget, but added that the balanceremained "elusive".Salomon said the New ...
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Atlantic Streamline sets start date for horror movie Butterfly
The psychological horror story Butterfly, A Grimm Love Story starring Keri Russell and ThomasKretschmann is set to begin filming in Germany in March.Marco Weber's Atlantic Streamline is financing and producing theproject, about a research student who descends into depravity in order tounderstand the mind of a cannibal killer.TS Faull wrote ...
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DTS opens new subsidiary offices in Paris, Rome
Digital technology company DTS (Digital Theater Systems) hasopened subsidiary offices in Paris and Rome following its recent expansion intoHong Kong and Canada.Both new offices will offer exclusive transfer facilities and theusual DTS range of audio delivery and image restoration services."The opening of subsidiaries in Paris and Rome furtherreinforces DTS' commitment ...
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Fockers extends reign and nears $200m
DreamWorks International's MeetThe Fockers continued to dominate the international box office over theweekend, adding an estimated $20.8m on 4,185 screens in 48 territories throughUIP for a $184.7m international running total.Strong holdovers saw the picturestay top in Germany, France and Austria as it grossed $5m on 629 for $12.2m,$2.8m on 591 ...
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It's Sideways all the way at the Independent Spirits
Sideways stamped its inimitable mark on the 20th IFPIndependent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica on Saturday (26), winning five awardsincluding best feature, best director for Alexander Payne and best male leadfor Paul Giamatti. The$16m Fox Searchlight hit, whose inclusion in the budget-contingent Spirits wasa surprise to many, also took best ...
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Diary Of A Mad Black Woman opens top in US
Lions Gate Film's comedy-dramaDiary Of A Mad Black Woman ruled the roost at the weekend, opening topon an estimated $22.7m.The picture stars Kimberly Elise as a woman who learns on the eve of her 20thwedding anniversary that her husband wants to marry her best friend. DarrenGrant's picture opened to dire ...
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Diary Of A Mad Black Woman opens top in US
Lions Gate Film's comedy-dramaDiary Of A Mad Black Woman ruled the roost at the weekend, opening topon an estimated $22.7m.The picture stars Kimberly Elise as a woman who learns on the eve of her 20thwedding anniversary that her husband wants to marry her best friend. DarrenGrant's picture opened to dire ...
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New cast join Stranger Than Fiction
TomHulce, Linda Hunt and Tony Hale have joined the cast of Marc Forster's StrangerThan Fiction, which is set to begin filming in April.Aspreviously announced, Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman and EmmaThompson and Queen Latifah already star in the story of an IRS auditor namedHarold Crick who inexplicably finds himself ...
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New Latina film-maker grant created by Women In Film in LA with GM
TheLos Angeles branch of Women In Film has teamed up with General MotorsCorporation to launch the Women In Film/General Motors Latina New Filmmakergrant, designed to support upcoming Latina filmmakers by providing them withaccess to key industry personnel and female mentors. Thegrant will be awarded to five women selected from an ...
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3Geez acquires film rights to Cheese Monkeys
Los Angeles andToronto-based 3Geez Productions has acquired the rights to veteran book-coverdesigner Chip Kidd's debut novel The Cheese Monkeys.Partcoming-of-age novel, part introduction to graphic design, The Cheese Monkeys follows a group of students throughtheir first two terms majoring in art in university.The project will be producedby Amy Green and Sarah ...
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RSA, Black Dog sign Akerlund, Renck for commercials, music videos
Film andcommercials production company RSA and Blackdog Films have signed Swedish directorsJonas Akerlund and Johan Renck for representation in the US and UK.RSA will handleall commercial work and Black Dog will represent the clients for music videos."The work ofJonas and Johan and their company RAF is groundbreaking and it is ...
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Trauma scares up North American deal via DEJ
DEJ Productions has acquiredNorth America rights in all media from Myriad Pictures to Marc Evanspsychological thriller Trauma,which is scheduled for DVD release on Jun 14.The picture is the firstproject from Little Bird's specialist horror arm Ministry Of Fear and starsColin Firth and Mena Suvari in the tale of a man ...
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Haggis to win inaugural screenwriting award at San Francisco
Paul Haggis willreceive the inaugural Maurice Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting atthe 48th San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from Apr 21-May5.Haggis, who isnominated for an adapted screenplay Oscar for Million Dollar Baby, will present a masterclass onscreenwriting accompanied by a screening of the drama Crash, which he ...
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MGM fourth quarter figures hit by merger costs
Merger costs, an$8.3m non-cash charge and falling revenue led to lower year-on-year fourthquarter income at MGM, which is in the process of being taken over by aconsortium of buyers led by Sony.The studioreported $38.5m net income or $0.16 per share for the fourth quarter of 2004,compared to $60.3m or $0.25 ...
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Constantine to wreak havoc in Italy, Spain
Warner Bros PicturesInternational's supernatural thriller Constantine opens in Italy and Mexico today (Feb 25) on the backof a smattering of smaller European debuts earlier in the week.The picture has grossed$33.7m after two weekends and executives will look for solid debuts and strongholds in Asia as well as Spain, France and ...
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MPAA launches third wave of lawsuits at online pirates
The MPAA haslaunched a third wave of lawsuits targeting online pirates of such currentOscar contenders as Spider-Man 2, Sideways and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.Officers havefiled an unspecified number of 'John Doe' civil suits with federal courtsacross the US in the latest round of legal action since November. It ...
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REAL D buys StereoGraphics in a bid to set new projection standard
LosAngeles-based visual technology company REAL D has acquired stereoscopichardware and software manufacturer StereoGraphics Corporation in a bid toestablish an industry standard for next generation projection.REAL Dexecutives plan to use StereoGraphics' 25-year history of working with thelikes of NASA and Boeing to service the entertainment industry and provide analternative to in-home ...