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Hubble goes from Big Bang to big screen
Fledgling Los Angeles-based finance and production company SyntaxEntertainment has licensed the movie rights to Gale E Christianson's book EdwinHubble: Mariner Of The Nebulae, based on the father of the Big Bang theory.The film version, which is being produced with Los Angelesbased production outfit Persistent Entertainment, will be called Hubble and ...
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Santa story gets bi-sexual twist
Paul Colichman's pioneering gay and lesbian cable network here! TVhas begun production in Vancouver on separate gay and straight-themed versionsof the same Christmas family story.Too Cool For Christmas stars George Hamilton as a local Santa who teaches afashion-conscious teenager about the merits of spending the holidays with hertwo fathers, rather ...
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Turtle Crossing takes out Redford's Spin
Spin,the prize-winning dramatic debut by Robert Redford's son James Redford, willembark on a limited domestic release beginning in Salt Lake City and Tucson onOct 15.The picture will be distributed through Mark Borde's SantaMonica-based Innovation Film Group, the theatrical releasing partner of SusanJackson's producers representative Turtles Crossing.The picture will receive its ...
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UK opening helps redeem King Arthur
King Arthur raised its international running total by $11.3m to $31.9mthrough Buena Vista International (BVI) at the weekend, powered by a strongnumber one opening in the UK.Boasting three British leads in Clive Owen, KeiraKnightley and Ioan Gruffudd, the Arthurian legend grossed $3.5m from 400screens in the UK.It recorded several other ...
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Deschanel named HFF's cinematographer of the year
Caleb Deschanel, the director of photography behind Mel Gibson'sbox office smash The Passion Of The Christ, will receive the Hollywood Cinematographer of the YearAward at the upcoming Hollywood Film Festival (Oct 12-18).Deschanel earned back-to-back Academy Award nominations in1984 and 1985 for The Right Stuff and TheNatural, and received further nominationsfor ...
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Azkaban enjoys biggest '04 opening in Portugal
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban added an estimated $8.7m for Warner Broson more than 3,900 screens at the weekend to raise its international cumulativetotal to $477.2m.Key drivers included the biggest debut of the year so farin Portugal, where $932,300 on 115 screens surpassed Shrek 2 by 20% and ...
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I, Robot takes $21m; Day After Tomorrow crosses $350m
Fox International's I, Robot stamped its authority over the overseas box office at theweekend, grossing $20.8m from 3,489 screens in 18 markets to become the topinternational picture of the weekend.The sci-fi thriller's distinction of opening number one inall its markets so far suffered setbacks in Argentina and the German-speakingpart of ...
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Cleary promoted to general counsel at IFTA
Susan Cleary has been promoted from vice president of legalaffairs to vice president and general counsel at the Independent Film &Television Alliance (formerly AFMA).Cleary will continue to oversee legal matters andarbitration activities for IFTA, and will now supervise IFTA Collections(formerly AFMA Collections), which manages worldwide claims for and collectionof audio-visual ...
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Murdoch-baiting documentary hits theatres this weekend
Robert Greenwald's Fox-baiting documentary Outfoxed: RupertMurdoch's War On Journalism, will go on limited theatrical release this weekend through LosAngeles-based Cinema Libre Distribution - just two weeks after becoming aunderground DVD sensation.The picture, which is essentially a sustained broadside againstalleged political bias at Fox News Channel and its notorious "fair and ...
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Roven taps Gartner as producing partner
FormerMGM production chief Alex Gartner has joined Mosaic Media Group as a producingpartner with the LA production and distribution group's Atlas Entertainmentfilm division.Gartner,who produced Barbershop 2 and servedas executive producer on Out Of Time, will develop and produce with Mosaic partner and Atlas Entertainmentfounder Charles Roven."This is the first step ...
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Riddick opens second in Australia on $1.8m
Universal's action sequelThe Chronicles Of Riddick grossed an estimated $1.8m on 700 screens in 13territories through UIP at the weekend, powered by a third place $1.1mAustralian bow on 226 screens.The picture opened top inNew Zealand on $225,000 from 46 and raised its UIP running total to $5.5m.Industry-wide it has taken ...
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Spider-Man 2 swings past $300m international gross
Sony's Spider-Man 2 remaineda dominant international force at the weekend, swinging past $300m with a$17.5m estimated haul on 7,915 screens that raised the picture's running totalto $302m.The highlights were $3.6m on858 prints in its third weekend in France despite a decent 37% drop to ranksecond on $27m, and $3.1m for ...
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Shyamalan is king as The Village opens top on $50.8m
M Night Shyamalan's safehands delivered the promise of a late summer rally for beleaguered Disney atthe weekend, as the young director's latest mystery The Village opened top onan estimated $50.8m.This was Disney's best everJuly opening weekend, surpassing $46.6m by Pirates Of The Caribbean last year,and presents studio executives with their ...
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Shyamalan is king as The Village opens top on $50.8m
M Night Shyamalan's safehands delivered the promise of a late summer rally for beleaguered Disney atthe weekend, as the young director's latest mystery The Village opened top onan estimated $50.8m.This was Disney's best everJuly opening weekend, surpassing $46.6m by Pirates Of The Caribbean last year,and presents studio executives with their ...
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Deauville to honour Zanuck with career producing award
Veteran producer Richard D Zanuck will receive theLifetime Achievement Award for producing at the 30th Annual Deauville FilmFestival on Sept 7.Zanuck hasproduced more than 50 films in his career, earning three Academy Awardnominations and winning best picture in 1990 for Driving Miss Daisy, which heshared with his wife Lili Fini ...
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Northern Arts acquires Avati's Cannes hit Incantato
Northern Arts Entertainment in association with Artistic LicenseFilms and marketing experts Palisades Pictures Entertainment has picked up PupiAvati's romantic comedy Incantato (Il Cuore Altrove).The Italian-language picture was a hit at Cannes 2003 and earnedAvati a best director di Donatello award the same year. It will open in NewYork on Sept ...
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Sutherland, Harden, Reed shoot for IFC's American Gun
Donald Sutherland, Marcia Gay Harden and Nikki Reed have joinedthe cast of Aric Avelino's ensemble drama American Gun, which began shooting in Los Angelesearlier this month and will open in the US through IFC Films.Sutherland plays the owner of a Virginian gun store whoselife becomes entangled with those of a ...
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I, Robot embarks on biggest international weekend yet
Columbia's Spider-Man 2 should swing past $300m at the international box officethis weekend, while Fox International's I, Robot embarks on its biggest weekend yet,buoyed by an estimated $1.2m opening day on 770 prints in France this week.The sci-fi thriller, which headlines Will Smith, is expected to boost its $10.3minternational running ...
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Regas joins Premier Public Relations in Los Angeles
Beve Regas hasjoined the Los Angeles offices of Premier Public Relations (PPR), where shewill oversee international theatrical marketing and publicity campaigns for thecompany's roster of clients.Regas willreport to PPR president Pamela Godwin-Austen, who said the new arrival'sexpertise in film and television across the independent and mainstream marketsmade her a "valuable ...
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Simonds signs first-look deal with Panther studio MGM
The PinkPanther producer RobertSimonds, who began his career as a production trainee at MGM, has returned tothe studio with a first-look deal.First up will be a remake of the 1968 family comedy Yours,Mine & Ours, which originally starredLucille Ball and Henry Fonda.Simonds has justwrapped production on The Pink Panther, which ...