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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 ...
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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 ...