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Hudson & Welland together again on rugby tale
ScreenwriterColin Welland and director Hugh Hudson, the team behind 1981 Oscar winner ChariotsOf Fire, are gettingback together again to make rugby movie Harder They Fall with John Daly, former Hemdale boss andnow running another new company Typhoon Entertainment, producing.Former Welsh international rugby star Mark C Thomascreated the story and set ...
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Spurlock stands up before Congress with Super Size Me presentation
Super Size Me writer-director Morgan Spurlock isteaming up with members of the US Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine(PCRM) in a special screening and anti-obesity presentation before Congresstoday (July 23).The film-makerplans to address lawmakers on Section 1428 of the Commonsense Consumption Act,more commonly known as the Cheeseburger Bill, which if passed ...
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Lions Gate starts Diary Of A Mad Black Woman
Principalphotography began in Atlanta, Georgia, this week (July 21) on Lions Gate'scomedy Diary Of A Mad Black Woman.Adapted by Tyler Perry from his hit play of the same name,the project is set in an affluent community and centres on a devoted wife of 20years who flips out when she discovers ...
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Producers of Sexual Dependency found Periscope
David Guy Levyand Gregory Leonarczyk, who produced Rodrigo Bellott's Bolivian smash SexualDependency, have formedthe independent production company Periscope Entertainment in Los Angeles.Backed by private equity,the partners and financial investors plan to develop and produce three to fourpictures a year with budgets ranging from $2m-15m, and will also providecompletion funds.Levy will ...
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Master composer Jerry Goldsmith dies in LA at the age of 75
Jerry Goldsmith,the avant-garde Hollywood composer who earned more than a dozen Academy Awardnominations and won the Oscar in 1976 for The Omen, died in his Beverly Hills homeyesterday aged 75 after a long battle against cancer.Among hisoriginal score credits were Chinatown, Planet Of The Apes, Papillon, Patton, Basic Instinct and ...
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Douglas gets Independent by Nature award at Aspen
Michael Douglaswill receive the 26th Aspen Filmfest's Independent By Nature Award for his"significant contribution to film culture" at the opening night ceremony onSept 29."As a performerand a producer, Michael Douglas has played a significant role in definingcontemporary American film-making at its versatile, risk-taking best,"executive director Laura Thielen said in a ...
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SAG stages public foreclosure auction for seven films
The ScreenActors Guild (SAG) has taken the unprecedented step of recovering residualsowed by so-called "problem producers" to union members by selling rights toseven films at a public foreclosure auction.As part of SAG'scollective bargaining agreements, producers frequently guarantee payments toperformers and use the film rights as a form of collateral.In thisinstance, ...
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Love In The Time Of Cholera headed to the screen
ScottSteindorff's Stone Village Pictures has acquired film rights to Nobel Prizewinner Gabriel Garcia Marquez's acclaimed romance Love In The Time OfCholera.Steindorff will produce and package the project, atypically magic realist tale of unrequited love, before submitting it tostudios and financiers.The deal is saidto be worth more than $1m and, with ...
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Tartan Video USA signs distribution deal with TLA
Tartan VideoUSA, the division of Hamish McAlpine's Tartan Films USA, has signed anexclusive deal whereby Philadelphia-based TLA Releasing becomes the sole US distributorof all Tartan Video USA's DVD and video product.Tartan Video USAis set to launch this autumn and executives expect to release 35-40 titles eachyear on DVD and video, ...
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Chaplin's Limelight buys Cannon library of 27 titles
Limelight Films, theLA-based production, financing and distribution company headed up by CharlieChaplin's granddaughter Keira Chaplin, has acquired the remaining CannonLibrary.The 27-title libraryincludes No Place To Hidestarring Drew Barrymore, Rescue Mestarring Stephen Dorf, and The Hitman, which stars Chuck Norris.Limelight owns worldwiderights to the library, while Warner Home Video owns North ...
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Wornham joins Sundance as director of external affairs
Cynthia J Wornham has beennamed the Sundance Institute's new director of external affairs, and willoversee all strategic communications initiatives and media relations effortsrelated to the Institute and its artists when she starts work this autumn.Wornham, who is currently anexecutive vice president of Ruder Finn Arts & Communications Counselorsheading up its ...
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Strand takes US on Thai Cannes hit Malady
Strand Releasinghas acquired US rights to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's drama Tropical Malady, which played in competition at Cannesearlier this year where it won a special jury prize.Set in the jungles of northeastern Thailand, the pictureexplores the blossoming friendship between a soldier and a country boy who areaffected by a dark spirit."Mr ...
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Shark Tale gets matinee slot at Toronto Film Festival
Dreamworks'eagerly anticipated animated feature Shark Tale will receive its North American premiereas a matinee gala at the upcoming 29th Toronto International Film Festival(TIFF).Shark Tale is one of two matinee galas that arebeing introduced to the festival this year, raising the number of galascreenings from 18 to 20.The date of the ...
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Hong Kong pirates get six-and-a-half year jail sentences
The mastermindsbehind a criminal syndicate that pirated tens of millions of optical discs havebeen sentenced to six and a half years each in prison.In the harshestprison sentences ever awarded in a piracy case, Hong Kong's High Court jailedhusband and wife Tsoi Kei Lung and Ng Kam Fung following a global ...
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DreamWorks to spin off animation unit in IPO
DreamWorks SKG is planningto sell off its DreamWorks Animation unit in an initial public offering (IPO)of up to $650m in Class A common stock.The studio said it had filedregistration papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission, however it isunderstood details were not disclosed on the number of shares offered nor ...
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King Arthur reigns in Australia with $2.4m gross
Buena Vista's KingArthur opened in itsfirst international markets through BVI at the weekend including Australia,where it opened top on $2.4m from 245 screens.The self-styled realistic account of the mystical Britishlegend opened top in Singapore on a strong $397,000 on 33 and 35% market share,top in Malaysia on $324,000 from 41, ...
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AFM ties up with Loews Hotel Santa Monica till 2008
The American Film Market(AFM) has signed a multi-year deal with the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel tocontinue holding the annual eight-day trade event through 2008.The Loews first hosted theevent, now in its 25th anniversary year, in 1991. The next market is scheduledto take place in its new November slot from ...
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Menke, Dykstra, Wolsky among honorees at Hollywood Film Awards
Quentin Tarantino's longtimecollaborator Sally Menke will receive the Hollywood Editor of the Year Awardand Oscar winning visual effects artist John Dykstra will receive the HollywoodVisual Effects of the Year Award at the upcoming Hollywood Film Awards on Oct 18.In other special awards tobe handed out at the Beverly Hilton ...
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Amorette Jones heads up marketing at Arenas
Amorette Joneshas joined Latino entertainment and marketing outfit Arenas Entertainment asmarketing chief and will oversee all theatrical campaigns as well as advisingon the company's talent management concerns."Jones' trackrecord and sensibility proves that she can take a film project and deploy aneffective campaign across multiple platforms reaching a broad-based audience,"Arenas chief ...
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Anders unveils lineup for second rock & roll film festival in LA
The secondannual Don't Knock The Rock Film And Music Festival will kick off in Hollywoodon Aug 12 with Gandulf Hennig's Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel and closes on Aug 15 with VickiTischler-Blue's Edgeplay - A Film About The Runaways.The annualthree-day film and music extravaganza launched last year by director AllisonAnders includes ...