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Freeman to be honoured in PGA's 3rd Celebration of Diversity
MorganFreeman will be among recipients of honorary awards at the Producers Guild ofAmerica's (PGA) third Annual Celebration of Diversity in Los Angeles onOct 7.Freeman'sexecutive producing credits include Along Came A Spider, Levity, and the in-production drama Colours Straight Up.Previoushonorees include Salma Hayek, John Singleton, Phil Roman, Ang Lee, DannyGlover, and ...
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The Village gears up for first major launches through BVI
M NightShyamalan's latestmystery The Village launches in its first major markets in the UK and France this weekendthrough Buena Vista International (BVI).While thepicture's domestic performance has been below par by Shyamalan'sstandards, international prospects should be promising. The picture opened in Franceon Aug 18 and goes out in the UK on ...
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CMG takes international rights to Venezuelan drama Punto Y Raya
Los Angeles-based CinemaManagement Group (CMG) has picked up exclusive international distributionrights to Elia Schneider's Venezuelan drama Punto Y Raya, which recently won best picture at the Los AngelesLatino International Film Festival.CMG will seek to licensethe picture immediately and plans market screenings in Los Angeles and in SantaMonica at the upcoming ...
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Universal, Focus strike multi-year deals with Vertigo
UniversalPictures and specialty division Focus Features have signed multi-yearagreements with Roy Lee and Doug Davison's dynamic production outfitVertigo Entertainment.Specifically, Universal Pictures has entered into afirst-look agreement with Vertigo, arguably Hollywood's leading Asiangenre remake specialists, for feature development and production, with Vertigoretaining the option to co-finance certain projects.Focuswill act as Vertigo's ...
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Zhang, Yeoh, Watanabe, Gong sign up for Memoirs Of A Geisha
Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe and Gong Li and are to star in the long-gestating Memoirs Of AGeisha adaptation, which RobMarshall will direct and Columbia Pictures is co-financing with DreamWorks andSpyglass Entertainment.Productionis set to begin in Los Angeles and Japan in September. Spyglass, which has afirst-look,non-exclusive deal with ...
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Sabatini named svp physical production at MGM
Veteranproduction executive Diane Sabatini has been named senior vice president ofphysical production at MGM.Sabatinihas worked for the past decade as production supervisor orproductioncoordinator on a dozen movies and her credits include Armageddon, Batman & Robin, The Rock, 21 Grams, and Anchorman: TheLegend Of Ron Burgundy.Executivevice president of production Andy Davis ...
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Bigfoot strikes global partnership with Filmmakers Alliance
Fledgling Hong Kong-based production and distribution companyBigfoot Entertainment has signed a worldwide production and distribution dealwith Los Angeles-based collective Filmmakers Alliance.The deal, which was negotiated by Bigfoot president James Hoffmanand Filmmakers Alliance president Jacques Thelemaque and announced last night(18) in Los Angeles, paves the way for the joint creation of ...
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Palm Springs unveils rich short film talent line-up
Early work from Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and Spike Jonze andshorts directed by or featuring well-known actors are among the biggest everline-up of titles in the upcoming 10th Palm Springs InternationalFestival Of Short Films.A total of 308 short films, up 15% from last year andselected from more than 2,000 entries, ...
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Koenekamp to receive ASC lifetime achievement award
Fred Koenekampwill receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) LifetimeAchievement Award at the annual Outstanding Achievement Awards on Feb 20 2005 in LosAngeles.Koenekamp began his career in 1964 with television's The Man FromU.N.C.L.E., and seven years later earned his first of three Academy Awardnominations for Patton.He shared the Oscar with ...
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IFP/Los Angeles bid to kick-start awards season
Seeking to steal a march on its awards season rivals,IFP/Los Angeles said this week it will announce nominations for the 20thIndependent Spirit Awards on Nov 30.Theorganisation wants to manoeuvre itself into a more influential slot beforeother awards bodies unveil their contenders.The National Board of Review traditionally kicks off theseason and ...
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Creber to receive honorary Art Directors Guild award
William J Creber will receive the ArtDirectors Guild's (ADG) honorary Lifetime Achievement Award at the 9thAnnual ADG Awards on Feb 12 2005 in Los Angeles.Creber earned three Academy Award nominations for TheGreatest Story Ever Told in 1966, The Poseidon Adventure in 1973,and The Towering Inferno in 1975.His other credits include ...
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Vulcan wraps principal photography on Hard Candy
Seattle-based Vulcan Productions has completed principalphotography on video director David Slade's psychological thriller HardCandy, starring Patrick Wilson and newcomer Ellen Page.Based on a screenplay by Brian Nelson, Hard Candy centreson a calamitous date between a 32-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl who meetover the internet.David W Higgins and Jody Patton ...
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Echelon picks up domestic rights to political doc Rabbit Hash
EchelonEntertainment has acquired domestic rights to arguably the most bizarre of thecurrent crop of political documentaries, Jude Gerard Prest's Rabbit Hash:The Centre Of The Universe.Thesatirical picture focuses on an electoral race in the Kentucky town of RabbitHash that returned an actual dog named Goofy as town mayor.Thefilmmakers profile the town's ...
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Toronto rounds off programme line-ups
World premieresfeature heavily in the latest programming volley from the Toronto InternationalFilm Festival, which includes 11 additions to the Visions programme, a28-strong Discovery section and 23 pictures in the Wavelengths strand.David Gordon Green's thriller Undertow starring Jamie Bell,Dermot Mulroney and Josh Lucas, and Michael Winterbottom's sexually explicitLondon-based love story Nine ...
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I, Robot crosses $100m for Fox International
Fired up by a raft of strong holds, Fox International's I, Robotwas once again the biggest international picture around as it crossed $100m atthe weekend.The sci-fithriller grossed an estimated $18.8m from 5,350 international screens toelevate its international running total to $108m.Key markets were the UK, where I, Robot fell 39% ...
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Columbia TriStar sets Oct 5 for Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD release
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment will release Fahrenheit 9/11on DVD and video in the US on Oct 5.The home entertainment release looks likely to keep the bandwagonrolling following a spectacular US theatrical run through Lion's Gate Films,IFC Films and The Fellowship Adventure Group.Michael Moore's picture opened on Jun 23 and went ...
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Azkaban conjures up $500m at international box office
Harry Potter AndThe Prisoner Of Azkaban crossed $500m at the international box office at theweekend, becoming the 10th picture to reach the milestone and Warner Bros'third biggest picture of all time behind the two previous Potter instalments.Azkaban grossedan estimated $5.6m with 602,000 admissions on more than 2,000 screens in 47territories ...
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King Arthur raises international cume to $71m for BVI
King Arthur wasspoiling for a fight at the weekend, grossing an estimated $12.2m through BuenaVista International (BVI) to raise its international running total to $70.8m.A couple of strong number one European debuts drove weekendbusiness as the epic took $2.6m on 403 screens in Spain and $1.8m on 210 inRussia.Elsewhere BVI's ...
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Gayner comes aboard Arenas as svp marketing
LeAnne Gayner has joined the diversified Latino entertainment andmarketing outfit Arenas Entertainment as senior vice president of marketing.Gayner previously served at Artisan Entertainment and will setabout working on the company's slate of upcoming releases, which includesNicotina starring Diego Luna that is set to open in the US on Aug 20, ...
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Five filmmakers to benefit from IFP/New York doc grant
IFP/New York isto allocate seed funding worth a total of $50,000 to five documentary projectsthrough the relaunched Anthony Radziwill Documentary Fund.Oriana Zill & Marco Williams' Banished: How Whites DroveBlacks Out of Town in America, Marlo Poras' Gambian Marriage, Judith Helfand'sHeat Wave: An Unnatural Disaster, Diane Bernard's The Lord Of Light, ...