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Shark Tale adds $31.7m at North American box office
DreamWorks' Shark Tale raised its total to an estimated $87.7m at Columbus Day Weekendas it beat off Imagine/Universal's American football drama Friday NightLights to stay top inits second weekend.The animated movie added $31.7m, falling a restrained 33%, ensuring thatDreamWorks will have two $100m animated hits in one year, a first ...
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Machuca wins audience award, Seven Times Lucky jury prize at Vancouver
Andres Wood's Chilean drama Machuca has won the AGF People's Choice Awardfor Most Popular International Film at the Vancouver International FilmFestival.Fran'ois Prevost and Hugo Latulippe's Tibetan refugee documentary WhatRemains Of Us (Quebec)shared the Federal Express Award for Most Popular Canadian Film with LeanneAllison and Diana Wilson's Being Caribou (British Columbia).The ...
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Shark Tale continues to thrash the competition
DreamWorks' Shark Tale raised its total to an estimated $87.7m at Columbus Day Weekendas it beat off Imagine/Universal's American football drama Friday NightLights to stay top inits second weekend.The animated added $31.7m, falling a restrained 33%, ensuring thatDreamWorks will have two $100m animated hits in one year, a first for ...
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Trigger Street Independent launches TV arm
Trigger Street Independent(TSI), the low budget production outfit announced in Toronto last month byKevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti's TriggerStreet Productions, has launched itstelevision arm.The new entity kicks offwith the production of two pilots, the scripted half-hour comedy Hell OnWheels written and executiveproduced by Laura Kightlinger for IFC, and the reality ...
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Bryce Dallas Howard named Rising Star at Palm Springs
Bryce Dallas Howard willreceive the Rising Star Award at the 16th Annual Palm Springs InternationalFilm Festival (PSIFF) awards gala in Palm Springs on Jan 8 2005.Howard is the first honoureeto be named and receives her award in recognition of her standout feature debutperformance in M Night Shyamalan's mystery The Village.She ...
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Man On Fire spreads to UK, Spain & Brazil for Fox
Fox International'skidnapping drama Man On Fire getsa major push this weekend with openings in the UK, Spain and Brazil that shouldboost its $19.4m overall international running total.The picture goes out on Oct8 in all three markets, opening on 310 prints in the UK, 300 in Spain and 127in Brazil. Decent ...
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AFI FEST to screen 135 features during AFM
24 world, 11 North Americanand 28 US premieres are among the line-up of 135 features, documentaries andshorts from 42 countries announced for the upcoming AFI FEST presented by Audi,which runs in Los Angeles from Nov 4-14.International featurecompetition, international documentary competition, Asian New Classics,European Showcase and the Latin Cinema Series are ...
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Participant teams with THINKFilm on Arna's Children
Los Angeles-based productioncompany Participant Productions has acquired all US rights to Juliano Mer Khamis'sactivism documentary and Tribeca winner Arna's Children, and will partner with ThinkFilm on the New Yorkrelease on Oct 8.The film chronicles Arna MerKhamis, the Jewish-born activist who married a Palestinian Arab and spent herlife campaigning for human ...
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WBITD signs free-TV deal with TV Channel Russia
Warner Bros InternationalTelevision Distribution (WBITD) has signed an exclusive, multi-year freetelevision deal with Russia's state broadcaster TV Channel Russia (formerlyRTR).The deal means TV ChannelRussia acquires terrestrial television rights to a slate of current andupcoming features, including Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, TheMatrix Revolutions, Troy, The Last Samurai, and ...
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Moody Street, IPW snare Delpy for Lucy Keyes
Julie Delpy is in finaltalks to star in the psychological thriller The Legend Of Lucy Keyes, which writer/director John Stimpson will directwhen shooting begins in Massachusets on Nov 1.Inspired by a well-knownMassachusetts legend, the story chronicles the experiences of a damaged familythat relocates to a home in rural New England ...
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PGA to take legal action against phoney producer credits
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) said yesterday (6) that itwould immediately begin to seek court injunctions against studios anddistributors who engaged in the increasingly prevalent use of counterfeit"produced by" credits.Speaking at the Los Angeles launch of the Truth In Creditscampaign, PGA president Kathleen Kennedy said the PGA was no ...
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Loncraine steps in to Warner/VRP thriller Wrong Element
Richard Loncraine has stepped in to direct the thriller TheWrong Element starringHarrison Ford and Paul Bettany, which Warner Bros Pictures and Village Roadshow Picturesare co-financing.Mark Pellington had previously been attached to direct but pulledout after a family tragedy.Based on Joe Forte's screenplay, the story centres on a securityexpert who must ...
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Screen announces shortlist for world, European awards
Mike Leigh'sVenice Golden Lion winner Vera Drake, Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education, Zhang Yimou's House Of FlyingDaggers and WalterSalles' The Motorcycle Diaries are among the shortlisted films for the Hollywood World andEuropean Awards presented by Screen International.The winners willbe chosen by a panel of judges and announced at the Hollywood Awards ...
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Anschutz Film Group hires Levine, Brown, Jones
Anschutz FilmGroup (AFG), parent company to Walden Media and Bristol Bay Productions, isringing the changes, relocating to the former Turner Network Television officesin Century City and appointing several key hires.Jackie Levinehas been named vice president of production, Bill Brown becomes senior vicepresident of physical production and post production, and Douglas ...
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Noeltner's CMG picks up Brazilian comedy Manual...
Edward Noeltner's LosAngeles-based sales company Cinema Management Group (CMG) has picked upinternational rights to Jose Roberto Torero's Brazilian comedy Manual ForLove Stories (Como Fazer Um FilmeDe Amor).The picture recentlyreceived its world premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival; CMG willrepresent it at next month's AFM in Santa Monica.Styled as a ...
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Paramount Classics to launch Jay-Z documentary in US
Paramount Classics willrelease Pat Paulson and Michael John Warren's hip-hop documentary Fade ToBlack on Nov 5 in North America. Thefilm features rapper Jay-Z's farewell solo concert in New York's Madison SquareGarden as well as live guest appearances by Beyonce, Mary J Blige, MissyElliott, and R Kelly. It also includes footage ...
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Spider-man 2 continues to play in Italy, passes $400m
A strong third weekend inItaly was the key driver for Columbia's Spider-Man 2 at the weekend as it added $2.5m from allterritories for a $403.2m international running total.The action sequel remainedtop in Italy for its third weekend in a row with a $2.3m haul through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) ...
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Alien Vs Predator tops Australian box office for Fox
Fuelled by a $2.2m numberone opening in Australia on 224 screens at the weekend, Fox International'shorror-thriller Alien Vs Predatorraised its international running total by $3.2m from 902 screens to $21.6m.A $1.7m second place openingin Germany on 501 screens was the prime mover in Dodgeball's weekend as it added $6.1m on ...
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Basil-Jones gets top international job at DreamWorks
DreamWorks hasconfirmed that Stephen Basil-Jones has been named head of internationalmarketing and distribution, filling the interregnum created by JonathanChissick's departure earlier this year.Basil-Jones, whois currently based in Los Angeles as senior vice president of marketing atColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), will relocate toLondon where he is expected to start ...
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WBITD renews free-TV deal with SAR-AN in Turkey
Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has renewed its multi-year freetelevision deal with Turkish television distributor SAR-AN International.Under the termsof the deal SAR-AN has acquired broadcast rights to a number of films includingthe first two Harry Potter instalments, the final two Matrix episodes, Ocean's Eleven and The Last Samurai.The package includes ...