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Hide And Seek discovers winning form
TwentiethCentury Fox's thriller Hide And Seekopened top at the weekend on an estimated $22m that was some way ahead of lastweekend's champion Are We There Yet', which was shunted into secondplace on $17m for $39.1m after two weekends.John Polson's picture went out on 3,005 screens and averaged $7,321 on the ...
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Eastwood raises his Oscar prospects
Clint Eastwood was votedbest director by the Directors Guild of America (DGA) at the weekend for MillionDollar Baby, strengthening his claim on next month's Academy Award.The DGA honour is a key indicator of Oscar success, with 50 out of 56recipients going on to win it since the inception of the ...
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On The Outs leads Slamdance winners
A highly successful Slamdance that produced record attendance and severalmajor deals closed on Saturday (29) as LoriSilverbush and Michael Skolnik's drug drama On TheOuts won the Grand Jury SparkyAward for Best Narrative Feature and the corresponding audience award,while Jenny Abel and Jeff Hockett's hoaxer study AbelRaises Cain took the Grand ...
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Sundance: Focus cements Brick purchase
Focus Features has landedits second major acquisition in four days at Sundance, sealing worldwide rights to Rian Johnson's award-winning Brick, a neo-noir set in a contemporary US high school .Buyers had been tracking the film all week but Focus's persistence finally won out hours before Brick went on to ...
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Sundance: Par Classics goes Ballroom dancing
Paramount Classics andNickelodeon have teamed up to buy worldwide rights excluding Australia and New Zealand toSlamdance opening night picture Mad Hot Ballroom, on a day that produced a raft of major deals atSundance (27).In three North American acquisitions Samuel Goldwyn Films and RoadsideAttractions picked up Pretty Persuasion, THINKFilm took The ...
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Belgrad, Tolmach named Columbia production presidents
DougBelgrad and Matt Tolmach have each been promoted to president of production atColumbia Pictures following three of the most successful years in the studio'shistory.Both senior executives have extended their contracts until 2008 and willcontinue to report to Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group chairmanAmy Pascal.In the two years since Belgrad ...
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Int'l box office preview: Ray prepares for wide release
Universal's Ray stands to benefit from its six Academy Awardsnominations earlier this week with a full-on assault through UIP in a raft ofmajor markets this weekend.The picture opened on an Australian national holiday on Jan 26 and Russia a daylater, and follows up with debuts in Spain on Jan 28 ...
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Jobson wraps A Woman In Winter
Richard Jobson is finishing theHD feature A Woman In Winter, which shot in Edinburgh and stars Jason Flemyng, Brian Cox, French actress JulieGayet and newcomer Jamie Sives.The story involves a destructive love affair between an astronomer and a mysteriousFrench photographer.Regular Jobson collaborator Chris Atkinsand Hamish McAlpine serve as producers on ...
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2005 Sundance/NHK winners announced
The Sundance Institute and Japanese broadcaster NHKhave announced the winners of the 2005 Sundance/NHK International FilmmakersAwards.The annual award supports new voices in international cinema and is presentedto emerging directors from four global regions. Recipients get a $10,000 cashaward and a guarantee from NHK to purchase the Japanese television broadcastrights upon ...
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Sundance: Focus takes North America for On A Clear Day
Focus Features has picked up North American rights to GabyDellal's feelgood drama and Sundance World Dramatic Competition premiere OnA Clear Day, starring Peter Mullan and Brenda Blethyn.The company's acquisition executives pounced after five screenings of thetitle, which centres on a down-at-heel unemployed man's attempt to claw backsome self-confidence by swimming ...
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Damon's Foresight unveils Joffe, Chouraqui pictures
Mark Damon's new production and financing company Foresightunveiled its first three projects yesterday (27): Captivity, BeyondFriendship and Marlowe.Damon also announced that his first hire is Tamara Stuparich De LaBarra as vice president of production and acquisitions.She most recently worked at Damon's former company Media 8Entertainment, where she was involved in ...
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Sundance: Lions Gate stumps up $4m for Hard Candy
Lions Gate Films has sealed itssecond major deal in two days, paying $4m for worldwide rights excluding theUK, Spain and Australia to David Slade's hot psychological thriller HardCandy.UK rights sold to Redbus for approximately $0.75m, and Icon andAurum acquired Australian and Spanish rights respectively for $0.5m each.The first Slamdance sale ...
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And the Oscar reactions are...
"BringingThe Aviator to the screen took years of effort by an extraordinary groupof individuals, and I am thrilled that so many of the people who poured theirheart into the film have been recognised by the Academy," Martin Scorsesesaid after The Aviator earned 11 Academy Award nominations this week,including a sixth ...
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Alexander soars past $100m in international markets
Following a dazzling international run that hasyielded more than three times the domestic gross, Alexander passed the $100mmilestone at the weekend with an estimated $9.5m haul from approximately 2,900screens in 54 territories.The picture's international running total now stands at $103m, powered by animpressive $2.9m (Euros2.2m) number one hold on 500 ...
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Sundance names 2005 Mark Silverman Fellow
American Gunco-producer Ted Kroeber has been named the recipient of the 2005 Mark SilvermanFellowship for New Producers at the fifth annual Producers Brunch at Sundance.Kroeber will receive a $5,000 cash grant to be used in pre-production and willbenefit from the services of an advisory committee of five workingprofessionals throughout his ...
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Macy, Elliott et al join Thank You For Smoking
William H Macy and Sam Elliott are among sevenactors that have joined the cast of Room 9/ContentFilm's satirical comedy ThankYou For Smoking,which began principal photography in Los Angeles yesterday (24).Adam Brody, Cameron Bright, David Koechner, JK Simmons, and Kim Dickens arealso among the new arrivals on set, joining the previously ...
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Lions Gate buys world on Sundance urban doc Rize
Thetaste for street culture and urban storytelling continued to drive the earlydeals at Sundance yesterday (24) as Lions Gate Films acquired all worldwiderights to Rizeby David LaChapelle.The documentary centres on a former children's entertainer who opens an academydevoted to clowning and krumping, an emerging dance form out of South CentralLos ...
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Sundance, Docurama launch DVD doc collection
Sundance Channel and documentary DVD label Docurama willlaunch the Sundance Channel Home Entertainment Documentary Collection on Apr 26with The First Amendment Project, thefirst of six titles a year culled from the channel's library.The First AmendmentProject is a series of films in thefirst-ever programming partnership between Sundance Channel and Court TVexploring ...
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Are We There Yet' defies bad weather to open top on $18.5m
Columbia/Revolution'sAre We There Yet'opened top on an estimated $18.5m at the weekend, dominating a three-day periodthat was blighted by massive blizzards across northeastern America.BrianLevant's poorly reviewed romantic comedy starring Ice Cube And Nia Longaveraged $6,829 on 2,709 screens and knocked Paramount's drama Coach Carter into second place on$11m for $43.2m ...
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Are We There Yet' defies bad weather to open top on $18.5m
Columbia/Revolution'sAre We There Yet'opened top on an estimated $18.5m at the weekend, dominating a three-day periodthat was blighted by massive blizzards across northeastern America. BrianLevant's poorly reviewed romantic comedy starring Ice Cube And Nia Longaveraged $6,829 on 2,709 screens and knocked Paramount's drama Coach Carter into second place on$11m for ...