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Glickman sounds the piracy alarm in his first public address
Dan Glickman, the new chief of the Motion Picture Association ofAmerica (MPAA), warned yesterday (8) that the US film industry faced calamityunless the studios tackled online piracy immediately."Illegal piracy of movies over the internet poses the greatestexisting threat to the motion picture industry," Glickman said in his firstpublic address since ...
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Biondo joins Infinity in business and legal affairs
John Biondo hasjoined the Los Angeles-based production and financing company Infinity Media asvice president of business and legal affairs.Biondo will beresponsible for structuring and negotiating production and distribution dealswith domestic and international parties for all Infinity productions.His other dutiesinclude negotiating contracts with talent and other general corporate and legalmatters. Biondo ...
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Amazon.com launches shorts series with Scott brothers' RSA
Amazon.com has partneredwith Ridley and Tony Scott's RSA USA production company and creativeagency Fallon Worldwide to launch the short film series Amazon Theatre.Starting today (9) andcontinuing each Tuesday for the next four weeks, Amazon will release a newtitle exclusively to Amazon.com customers, viewable either on the gateway pageor as a ...
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Spacey, Neeson, Jackson, Linney among Palm Springs honourees
Kevin Spacey, Samuel LJackson, Liam Neeson and Laura Linney will each be honoured at the upcoming16th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) awards gala on Jan8 2005.Spacey, who directed andstars in the Bobby Darin biopic Beyond The Sea, will collect the Sonny Bono Visionary Award forActing, Directing and Producing, ...
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TLA buys US DVD and video rights to Maura-starrer La Promesa
TLA Releasing has acquired US DVD/VHS rights at AFM to HectorCarre's psychological thriller La Promesa.The picture stars Carmen Maura as an abused wife who flees herhusband to start a new life as a nanny in what may be a haunted house.Maura is best known as the star of a number ...
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CTFDI's Resident Evil sequel shines in Spain, Italy openings
Horror sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse opened top in Spain at the weekend,grossing $2.5m on 349 screens through Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI).The result was 38% ahead of the 2002 original's debut. The pictureopened second in Italy on $1.7m on 250, some 73% ahead of Resident Evil. Overall the picture added ...
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Powerhouse weekend for UIP at UK, Germany box office
US horror hit The Grudge opened top in the UK on $4.1m (£2.2m) including previews of$736,000 (£396,000) at the weekend, according to estimates released bydistributor UIP.By way of comparison the Dawn Of The Dead remake opened in March on $3m ($1.6m) at339 sites, and The Ringopened in 2003 on $3m ...
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Clark gets promoted to senior vp in Universal production dept
Universal Pictures has promoted Dylan Clark to senior vicepresident of production and development at Universal Pictures.Clark will increase the number of projects under his purview andwill continue to report to vice chairmen of worldwide production Scott Stuberand Mary Parent"Dylan's taste in material and his ability to understand andproductively work within ...
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Engagement continues to engage in France in second weekend
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's wartime romance A Very Long Engagement continued a strong run in France throughWarner Bros, registering 730,000 admissions nationwide from 707 prints.The distributor said the picture added approximately $5.8m for an$18.7m running total after dropping roughly 40%.Second weekendadmissions surpassed Les Choristes by 18%, Terminator 3 by 21%, X-Men 2 ...
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Incredible opening of $70.7m for Disney and Pixar
The Pixar hit factory maintained its solid gold reputation at theweekend as The Incredibles opened top on an estimated $70.7m through Buena Vista.And in a result that will only confound the woes of Disney asPixar looks for a new partner after their contract expires next year, TheIncredibles registeredthe biggest ever ...
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Pixar hit factory delivers biggest opening ever in The Incredibles
The Pixar hit factory maintained its solid gold reputation at theweekend as The Incredibles opened top on an estimated $70.7m through Buena Vista.And in a result that will only confound the woes of Disney asPixar looks for a new partner after their contract expires next year, TheIncredibles registeredthe biggest ever ...
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IDA to honour Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin willreceive the International Documentary Association (IDA) Pioneer Award in honourof her "unique and important contributions to advancing the art of non-fictionfilmmaking".Obomsawin has written,produced, directed and composed music for more than 20 documentarieschronicling the native people of Canada including Incident At Restigouche,about a raid by the Quebec police on ...
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Kaye returns with Reaper for Media 8
Maverick filmmaker Tony Kaye (American History X) has been confirmed to direct the thriller Reaper, which Media 8 will co-produce with Circle OfConfusion and is financing and distributing.Production is set to begin in February 2005 on the project,which tells of a private eye hired to work for a beautiful woman ...
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Japan's Artport snaps up heist thriller Chaos
Mobius International has sold the heist thriller Chaos starring Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe and WesleySnipes to Artport in Japan.Written and directed by Tony Giglio, the story involves twodetectives who team up to solve a $1bn-plus bank robbery and uncover a powerfulconspiracy.The company's president of international distributionMimi Steinbauer and Artport's James ...
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Christopher Lambert set for Day Of Wrath
Christopher Lambert is set to star as a 16th century Spanishdetective in the thriller Day Of Wrath,which Mark Lester's American World Pictures has acquired for worldwidesales.'I play this sheriff whoinvestigates a series of murders that are going on around the time of theSpanish Inquisition,' Lambert told Screen duringa brief stop ...
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Tartan, TLA team on Skin flick
Tartan Films USA and TLA Releasing have jointly acquiredNorth American rights to Gregg Araki's drama Mysterious Skin.The deal for the controversial film was brokered by TartanFilms USA chief executive officer M J Peckos and John Sloss of Cinetic Media.Tartan and TLA plan a May 2005 theatrical release with DVDset to ...
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First-look deal puts Focus on Africa
Focus Features has signed a first-look deal with independentproducer Kisha Imani Cameron and her Completion Films.Focus has also announced an initiative to nurture African cinema,with Cameron, currently in post production on HBO Films' Rwandan drama SometimesIn April, serving as aproject consultant.Focus president of production John Lyons and his team will ...
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Lions Gate locks up trio for North America
Lions Gate Films has finalized its deal for North American theatrical and pay TV distribution rights to A Good Woman. In separate deals, the noticeably acquisitive indie also secured all North American rights to Uwe Boll's video game horror adaptation Alone InThe Dark as well as to Gianni Amelio's Le ...
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Comic veterans take on animation series
IDT Entertainment's New Arc Films and comic book legendStan Lee, Gill Champion and Arthur Lieberman's POW! Entertainment have signedtwo veteran comic book writers for the first two animated features in asix-title deal.Marv Wolfman will write El Lobo, the story of a physically handicappedheir to a billion-dollar fortune who is protected ...
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Paris Hilton goes Bottom's Up for Blue Collar
Paris Hilton is in talks tostar in the satire BottomC;s Up, which actor Paul Walker isproducing with his Blue Collar Films partner Brandon Birtell along with HalfMoon Bay and Cameo FJ Entertainment.The story centres on aseemingly witless Midwestern bartender whose Hollywood connections confoundeveryone he encounters.Walker will take a cameorole in ...