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Chris Weitz steps away from His Dark Materials
Chris Weitz hasquit as director on New Line Cinema's upcoming Philip Pullman adaptation HisDark Materials due tothe "technical challenges of making such an epic".In a statementWeitz, whose credits include About A Boy, stressed that his departure was not tied to any creativedifferences regarding the fantasy project, and expressed satisfaction that ...
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Chris Cooper joins powerhouse cast of Universal's Jarhead
Chris Cooper hasjoined the cast of Universal's dark coming-of-age story Jarhead, which began shooting earlier this monthand is being directed by Sam Mendes.Based on Marine AnthonySwofford's memoirs of the first Gulf War, Jarhead follows a group of fightersas they sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy in acountry they ...
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Former HSN chief sets up film outfit with Sellevision
Mark Bozek, theformer chief executive officer of Barry Diller's Home Shopping Network (HSN),will kick off his new production company Halo Entertainment with the blackcomedy Sellevision.Bozek is playing to his strengths here as the projectcentres on the home shopping business and is based on the novel by AugustenBurroughs. Bozek adapted the ...
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POW! teams up with films and other products with CIA
Stan Lee andGill Champion's Los Angeles-based POW! Entertainment will co-produce andco-develop an animated series of titles and products with Celebrities In Action(CIA).The projectincludes direct-to-DVD titles, features, video games, clothing, publishing andother consumer products."After havinginvented countless fictional characters over the years, what a kick it is to betackling a project as ...
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Jones leaves UK Film Council to run New Line/Entertainment venture
Robert Jones is leaving as chief of the UK Film Council'sPremiere Fund to head up Material Entertainment, a new London-based productioncompany jointly owned by Nigel and Trevor Green's Entertainment FilmDistributors and New Line Cinema.The company willlaunch in the first quarter of 2005 and aims to produce up to four pictures ...
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Relativity, Platinum team up on Dylan Dog
Hollywood talentmanagement agency Relativity Management has teamed up with Platinum Studios,which controls one of the world's biggest libraries of comic book characters,on the computer animated thriller Dylan Dog: The Fourth Kingdom.The partners have selected computer animation productionhouse Vancouver-based The Shop Animation Studios to develop and co-produce theproject, based on Tiziano ...
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Lumet to receive honorary Oscar
Sidney Lumetwill receive an Honorary Oscar at the 77th Academy Awards on Feb 27 inrecognition of his "brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the artof the motion picture.""Lumet is one ofthe most important film directors in the history of American cinema and hiswork has left an indelible mark on both ...
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12 projects selected for Sundance Screenwriters Lab in Jan
Projects from the UK, South Africa and Brazil are among 12represented in the Sundance Institute's annual January screenwriters labs,which run from Jan 14-19 2005.The labs offer emerging writers a chance to develop new work underthe guidance of experienced screenwriters including Allison Anders, GuillermoAriaga, David Benioff, Walter Mosley, Frank Pierson, Tom ...
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Incredibles crosses $150m at international box office
Buena Vista International's (BVI) The Incredibles was the number one international picturefor the third weekend in a row as it added a mighty $32.1m to raise its runningtotal to $152.1m.The picture opened top inGermany on $5.8m and top in Brazil on an excellent $1.7m on 352 screens thatwas the biggest ...
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Another $4.7m gross for Alexander from 21 smaller territories
Intermedia/Warner Bros' Alexander grossed an estimated $4.7m from 21territories at the weekend to raise its international running total to $24.7m.The picture opened top in Hungary on $261,957 from 29 screens overfour days, grossing more than double the opening weekends of Master AndCommander and KingArthur.Alexanderweathered government change in Greece to stay ...
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DiCaprio, Winslet, Bacon to receive honours at Santa Barbara
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Bacon and Kate Winslet will be honouredfor their artistic achievements at the 20th Annual Santa Barbara InternationalFilm Festival (SBIFF), which runs from Jan 28-Feb 6.DiCaprio received a Golden Globe nomination yesterday (13) for hisrole as Howard Hughes in The Aviator and receives the Platinum Award, which was ...
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Films from Iran, France take top prizes at first Bahamas film festival
Mania Akbari's 20 Fingers (20 Angosht) from Iran was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for the Spirit ofFreedom International Film Competition at the close of the inaugural BahamasInternational Film Festival (BIFF).The Modern Maverick Award went to France's Yann Samuell for LoveMe If You Dare andindustry veteran Roger Corman was presented ...
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Slamdance will open and close with documentaries in Jan
Documentaries booked the upcoming Slamdance Film Festival, whichruns from Jan 21-28 in Park City. Opening night film is Marilyn Agrelo's childballroom dancing saga Mad Hot Ballroom and closing night film is Michael Franti's war documentary I KnowI Am Not Alone.All in all the festival will screen a record 23 world ...
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New York critics honour Sideways
Sideways won four awards and was named best picture of 2004 bythe New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) today (13), with best director goingto Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby, best actor going to Paul Giamatti for Sideways and best actress going to Imelda Staunton for VeraDrake.The 33-strong NYFCC selectedMichael ...
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Milestone to distribute 1994 Ophuls doc in North America
Milestone Film and Video hasacquired all North American rights to Marcel Ophuls' 1994 documentary TheTroubles We've Seen: A History Of Journalism In Wartime (Veillees d'Armes)Milestone co-founders DennisDoros and Amy Heller said they planned to release the film theatrically in40-50 cities with DVD to follow, and are in talks with the ...
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Ocean's Twelve steals the top spot with $40.9m opening
Warner Bros' Ocean'sTwelve swaggered to thetop of the charts at the weekend with an estimated $40.9m opening that pulledoff the fourth biggest December debut of all time.The$110m crime caper follows on from the 2001 picture Ocean's Eleven by Steven Soderbergh and reunites George Clooney,Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts, ...
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Bridget continues to prosper, with $8m French opening
Universal/WorkingTitle's Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason added an estimated $13.5m through UIP at the weekend andgrossed roughly $8m in France through Mars, raising the international runningtotal to $139.7m.The romanticcomedy sequel scored Working Title's biggest ever and Universal's fourthbiggest ever opening day in South Korea (9), opening top on $2m ...
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Immerman joins Yari Film Group to oversee business and legal affairs
Veteran entertainmentproducer, executive, and attorney Bill Immerman has joined the Yari Film Groupas senior executive vice president and chief administrative officer overseeinglegal and business affairs.Immerman will also serve onthe company's executive committee charged with setting key company policies andstrategies.Immerman began his career asdeputy district attorney for Los Angeles County, and ...
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AFI names top ten pictures of the year
The AmericanFilm Institute (AFI) announced its top pictures of the year yesterday (12) inwhat the group called the only form of national recognition that honours a project'sentire cast and crew.The 10 picturesin alphabetical order are: The Aviator, Collateral, Eternal Sunshine Of TheSpotless Mind, Friday Night Lights, The Incredibles, Kinsey, Maria ...
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Scott Neeson to leave Sony after a year
Scott Neeson will leave Sony Pictures Releasing International assenior executive vice president of marketing to pursue other opportunitiesincluding his commitment to a Cambodian charity, company chiefs said yesterday(12).The personable and well-liked Neeson worked on overseas marketingstrategies for the launch of such Sony/Revolution hits as Spider-Man 2, 50First Dates, Hellboy, Bad ...