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Horizon sells Miike's One Missed Call to North America
Rob Straight'sVancouver-based international sales outfit Horizon Entertainment has sold allUS and English speaking Canadian rights on Japanese horror master TakashiMiike's One Missed Call to MediaBlasters.The New York-baseddistributor plans platform releases in New York and Los Angeles with a nationalroll-out to follow in major cities throughout North America.Horizon Entertainmentpresident Straight negotiated ...
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Annaud's Two Brothers kicks off Maui Film Festival
Jean-Jacques Annaud's animal adventure tale Two Brothers will kick off the fifth annual Maui FilmFestival at Wailea on Jun 16, a five-day jamboree that runs until Jun 20 andincludes a heady brew of outdoor screenings, world-class culinary events andfilm-maker panels.Two Brothers will be followed by Tod Williams' relationship drama The ...
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Azkaban, Tomorrow set to dominate world screens this weekend
Twentieth Century Fox's The Day After Tomorrow will comfortably pass the $200mmilestone this weekend, with Warner Bros' third Harry Potter instalment rapidly gaining ground closebehind.The eco-disaster picturehas amassed $199.9m since its day-and-date release two weekends ago. No majormarket bows remain through the studio's international arm Fox International,however strong continued business ...
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Sundance Institute unveils details of inaugural documentary labs
The Sundance Institute hasunveiled details and participants in its first Documentary Film Editing andStory Laboratory, which is scheduled to take place from Jun 20-25.Seven fellows have been selected to participate in the five-dayprogramme, including directors, editors and producers from four projects thathave previously received funding from the Sundance Institute Documentary ...
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Palm Springs short festival & market institutes ten film-making prizes
The Palm SpringsInternational Festival of Short Films & Film Market will hand out 10student film-making awards at its upcoming event, which runs from Aug 31-Sept6.The winner of the KodakAward for Best Student Cinematography will receive an invitation to attendCannes next year and present their work in Kodak's Emerging FilmmakerProgramme.Consideration criteriainclude ...
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Serkis reteams with Jackson for role in King Kong
Andy Serkis, who earnedplaudits and a cult following for his portrayal as Gollum in Peter Jackson's LordOf The Rings trilogy, is reunitingwith the Oscar winning director on King Kong for Universal.Serkis will play two rolesin the production, which is due to begin in New Zealand in August. He will playa ...
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Alliance Atlantis buys Canadian rights to 9/11
Bob and Harvey Weinstein'sfledgling Fellowship Adventure Group has sold all Canadian rights to MichaelMoore's Fahrenheit 9/11 toAlliance Atlantis.Alliance Atlantis willrelease the film theatrically across Canada on Jun 25, the same day the PalmeD'Or winner is due to be released in the US through Fellowship Adventure Group,Lions Gate and IFC Films."We ...
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Fox International hires new evp of creative advertising Camp
Michael Camp has been named executive vice president of creativeadvertising at Fox International.Camp will be responsible for creating and executing all creativeadvertising campaigns for the studio's domestic and international theatrical andhome entertainment divisions.Jim Darbinian, senior vice president of creative advertising, andvice president Ann Murphy will report directly to Camp, whose ...
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Animation director Selick aligns with Vinton Studios
LA-based animation house VintonStudios has signed award-winning film-maker Henry Selick as supervisingdirector.Selick will play a key role on Vinton's creative team as theanimation studio moves into feature film production.Having joined the company on May 17, Selick will set aboutdirecting the studio's CG short Moongirl and develop features.Selick'sdirecting credits include Tim ...
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Wellspring closes eight more Tarnation sales
Wellspring hassold all rights to Jonathan Caouette's Cannes hit Tarnation in eight territories, including the keymarkets of France, Italy and Japan.The documentarysold to Nippon Herald in Japan, Cinema Nouvelle Generation Distribution inFrance, Mikado Film in Italy, Seville Pictures in Canada, Lumiere in Benelux,Atalanta Filmes in Portugal, Noble Entertainment in Scandinavia ...
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Roadside plans pre-election release for same-sex marriage doc
RoadsideAttractions has picked up North American rights to Jim de Seve's timelysame-sex marriage documentary Tying The Knot and plans to release it in October priorto the 2004 Presidential election.The picture was produced by 1,049 Films and chroniclesthe last three years of the battle for legalisation waged by gays and lesbians,who ...
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Berney to give keynote address at AFMA production conference
Newmarket Filmspresident Bob Berney will give the opening keynote address at AFMA's upcomingsixth annual production conference in Los Angeles on Jun 17.The industryevent will feature two panels entitled Getting It Done: Producing Against AllOdds and What Will It Take to Bring Production Back to the US'Panellists include Lions Gate Entertainment ...
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US baseball stars launch new production outfit
New York Mets baseball starTodd Zeile and Bill Civitella are in post production on the teen comedy DirtyDeeds, the first title due to bereleased under their new Green Diamond Entertainment banner.The partners plan to producetwo to three pictures a year, backed by principal investors Dan Kaplow, who hasbeen appointed president ...
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Mean Creek kicks off Cannes showcase at LAFF
Jacob Estes' acclaimed dramaMean Creek will launch the 2004Los Angeles Film Festival's new Straight Out Of Cannes section, announcedyesterday (June 8).Director of programmingRachel Rosen said in recent years festival organisers had discussed the idea ofa new strand featuring Croisette hits, adding: "Mean Creek is a hidden treasure that we look ...
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Ambitious New York digital outfit Madstone shuts down
New York-basedentertainment company Madstone has shut down operations, according to reports.A statementissued by Madstone earlier this week said: 'The company was not able toachieve its business goals.'Goldman Sachspartner Chip Seelig and distribution veteran Tom Gruenberg founded the group in1999.Exhibition armMadstone Theaters has closed down its leased arthouse theatres in Albuquerque,Cary, ...
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Punisher takes $1.9m from openings in eight territories for CTFDI
The Punisher, the latest in a growing line of Marvel Comicsadaptations, grossed $1.9m on 600 screens in eight territories in its firstinternational outings at the weekend.Released through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), the vigilante saga took$913,000 on 350 in Spain and $601,000 on 145 in Australia.Latest cumulative totalsreleased by CTFDI ...
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Helen raises $1m in first international opening in Australia
The comedy Raising Helen enjoyed a decent first international foray at theweekend as it opened through Buena Vista International (BVI) in third place inAustralia on a very strong $1m on 205 screens.The distributor also opened HomeOn The Range in Colombia last week,where it scored the biggest ever bow for a ...
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Harry confirmed as third biggest international opener ever
Official figures released byWarner Bros put the international opening of Harry Potter And The PrisonerOf Azkaban at $113.5m from 7,885screens in 24 countries, which combines with the $93.7m domestic haul for a$207.2m worldwide opening.The international bow wasthe third biggest of all time behind The Lord Of The Rings: The Return ...
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UIP box office on Van Helsing reaches $140m
Universal's Van Helsing raised its international running total by $4m through 2,600screens in 37 UIP markets to $130m, with the total from all distributors risingto $139m.The picture added $670,000 from303 in the UK after a 56% drop to rank fourth on $26.2m, and overtook the finalgrosses of Jurassic Park and ...
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Jailbait wins top feature prize at Lake Placid Film Festival
Brett C Leonard's prison two-hander Jailbait won the best feature prize at the 2004Lake Placid Film Festival, while Gretchen Berland and Mike Majoros' Rolling won the best documentary award for itsexploration of wheelchair-bound people's fight for dignity.A special jury prize went to Brant Sersen's paintball mockumentaryBlackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story.Novelist ...