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Biondo joins Infinity from First Look Media
John Biondo has joined LosAngeles-based production and financing company Infinity Media as vice presidentof business and legal affairs.Biondo will beresponsible for structuring and negotiating production and distribution dealswith domestic and international parties for all company productions and willservice all productions by German production fund Cinerenta, to which Infinityis allied.His other ...
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A new Blair Witch': Open Water hits Europe this week
Is Open Water another Blair Witch Project'After an impressive openingweekend gross of $1m on just 47 domestic screens this weekend, Lions Gate Filmsis banking on word-of-mouth for the micro-budgeted sea-bound chiller to capture the nation'simagination and bring in some big grosses.And Lions Gate FilmsInternational isn't far behind, hoping to capitalize ...
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Vitagraph takes on US distribution of Content's Rick
US micro-distributorVitagraph Films will release veteran editor Curtiss Clayton's directorial debutRick, starring Bill Pullman andAgnes Bruckner, in New York on Oct 1 and Los Angeles on Oct 8.Based on the operaRigoletto, the satirical story centres on a middle-aged corporate careerist wholoses sight of his humanity.Aaron Stanford, Sandra Oh,Dylan Baker, Paz ...
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Republicans urged to see gay marriage doc by distributor
US distributorRoadside Attractions is urging delegates at the upcoming Republican NationalConvention in New York to attend a screening of Jim de Seve's gay marriagedocumentary Tying The Knot.The timely release - gay marriage is a major campaignissue in the Presidential Election and has sparked a flurry of legislation atfederal and state ...
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Toronto announces more high wattage world premieres
Jiminy Glick In Lalawood, Vadim Jean's big screen treatment of Martin Short'soutrageous alter ego talk show host, will close the 29th Toronto InternationalFilm Festival (TIFF) on Sept 18.The world premiere, some ofwhich was shot at TIFF two years ago, is one of several announced by festivalorganisers today (August 10) in ...
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I, Robot seizes the world with $30.9m weekend
Fox International's sci-fithriller I, Robot extended itsbox office dominance at the weekend with an estimated $30.9m haul from 6,034screens in 29 territories for a $70.8m international running total.The picture scored a stringof number one openings, led by $8.4m on 710 screens in the UK and $5.1m on 910in Germany.Other key ...
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IMAX ties up six-screen deal with National Amusements
IMAX Corporation has signeda deal to install six IMAX theatre systems in US sites owned by internationalexhibitor National Amusements Inc, with the possibility of a further 12 systemsover the next several years, predominantly in the UK.Four theatre systems arescheduled to be installed by the end of the year in National ...
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Yet another political doc gets US theatrical exposure
THINKFilm hasacquired US domestic rights to George Butler and White Mountain's Toronto worldpremiere documentary Going Upriver: The Long War Of John Kerry and plans to open it on limited releasebefore the Presidential Election on Oct 1.The latest addition to the left-leaning politicaldocumentary canon focuses on key influences in Kerry's life, ...
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Logan, Newman, Rosen named in Hollywood Film Awards honour list
Composer Thomas Newman andscreenwriter John Logan will both be honoured at the upcoming Hollywood FilmAwards ceremony on Oct 18 at the Beverly Hilton.Hollywood Composer of theYear Award recipient Newman has earned six Oscar nominations in his career todate for the recent phenomenon Finding Nemo, American Beauty and Road To Perdition, ...
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Universal & Toshiba claim number one slot in Japan with Riddick
Universal executives claimedtheir action sequel The Chronicles Of Riddick opened top in Japan through Toshiba at the weekendon an estimated $1.9m on an unconfirmed number of screens.Overall the picture grossed$2.8m on 835 screens in 18 territories and raised its international runningtotal to $10m from all distributors, $7.3m of which comes ...
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UK sports docs get US distribution through Hart Sharp
Domestic DVD distributorHart Sharp Video has partnered with Bombo Sports & Entertainment todistribute a new line of specialised sports documentaries.Upcoming releases willinclude Liverpool FC - No Heart As Big, Manchester United: Beyond The Promised Land, Roy Keane, As I See It, and the rugby picture Sweet Chariot. Each of these ...
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Echelon takes US rights to dog mayor doc
Echelon Entertainment hasacquired US domestic rights to arguably the most bizarre of the current crop ofpolitical documentaries, Jude Gerard Prest's Rabbit Hash: The Centre Of TheUniverse.The picture focuses on anelectoral race in the Kentucky town of Rabbit Hash that returned an actual dog named Goofy as townmayor.The filmmakers profile thetown's ...
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Spider-Man 2 swings past $325m for CTFDI
Sony's Spider-Man 2 grossed an estimated $12.1m on6,430 screens in 55 territories through Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI) at the weekend, raising the international cumulativetotal to $328.2m.The chief highlight was the $2.6m debut on 300 screens inChina, which included previews and set a new record for an MPAA release in ...
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Spider-Man 2 swings past $325m for CTFDI
Sony's Spider-Man 2grossed an estimated $12.1m on 6,430 screens in 55 territories through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) at the weekend, raising theinternational cumulative total to $328.2m.The chief highlight was the$2.6m debut on 300 screens in China, which included previews and set a newrecord for an MPAA release in the ...
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First Independent Pictures acquires Mail Order Wife
Gary Rubin's fledgling distribution outfit First IndependentPictures has picked up domestic rights to Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland'scomedy Mail Order Wife (formerly Mail Order Bride) and plansto release it in theatres on Feb 11 2005.The picture stars Eugenia Yuan, Adrian Martinez, and Gurland, whoco-wrote with Botko, and follows the misadventures ...
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Collateral cruises to the top with $24.4m
A $24.4m estimated openingfor DreamWorks-Paramount's thriller Collateral produced the second lowest number one debut of thesummer, as overall box office for the top 12 titles fell to $97.7m - the lowestamount since the first weekend of May.Despite a high profile starin Tom Cruise - playing a redoubtable villain, to boot ...
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Collateral tops box office as North American summer starts to fade
A $24.4m estimated openingfor DreamWorks-Paramount's thriller Collateral produced the second lowest number one debut of thesummer, as overall box office for the top 12 titles fell to $97.7m - the lowestamount since the first weekend of May.Despite a high profile starin Tom Cruise - playing a redoubtable villain, to boot ...
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Limelight buys worldwide rights to 21st Century library
Kiera Chaplin'sLos Angeles-based production, financing and distribution company Limelight Films hasacquired all worldwide distribution rights to the 21st Century library from theMotion Picture Company of Australia.The 112-titleresource boasts such titles as Roger Vadim's Don Juan 73,George Lacombe's Female And The Flesh, and Peter Sykes' To The Devil ADaughter.Featured talent includes ...
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Tartan USA to launch with Bush's Brain
Nearly threemonths after announcing US distribution plans, Hamish McAlpine's Tartan Filmsis gearing up to make Joseph Mealey and Michael Shoob's Bush's Brain its first theatrical release later thismonth.McAlpine negotiated US rights to the picture with CassianElwes of the William Morris Agency and plans a home entertainment release onOct 12. Mealey ...
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Robot invasion spreads to UK, Germany, Brazil
FoxInternational's I, Robot looks set to continue its international dominance this weekendthrough major debuts in Germany, the UK, Brazil and Russia.The sci-fi thriller, which has amassed $35.2m to date,opens in Germany and Russia on Aug 5 on 925 and 302 prints respectively, the UKon Aug 6 on 750, and Brazil ...