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Unknown Soldier, Tarnation win top prizes at LAFF
Ferenc Toth's Unknown Soldier won the Target Filmmaker Award for bestnarrative feature and Jonathan Caouette's Cannes hit Tarnation won the Target Documentary Award at theweekend as the tenth Los Angeles Film Festival came to a close.JoshuaMarston's Maria Full Of Grace wonthe audience award for narrative feature and Mike Wranovic's Up ...
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Shrek 2 set for massive French weekend
Two wide releases have ashot at passing $300m this weekend as Warner Bros' Harry Potter And ThePrisoner Of Azkaban and FoxInternational's The Day After Tomorrow both approach the milestone.Studio executives will behoping that Prisoner Of Azkabancan boost its $282.2m international running total with a strong Japanese bow onSaturday (26).The signs ...
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Greenpoint Media steps in to finance African American family saga Cherrys
Greenpoint Media is to produceand finance the family drama Cherrys,which is being directed by Harry Knapp and will star Eartha Kitt, LynnWhitfield and Jurnee Smollett.The multi-generational story is based on a screenplay by DeborahGoodwin about the coming of age of an African-American teenager and the familysecrets she uncovers in the ...
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Databases merge: Hollywood Media Corp buys Studio Systems
Entertainment news outlet Hollywood Media Corp has agreed to buyLos Angeles-based database and information services Studio Systems.The new company will be called Baseline StudioSystems, integratingHollywood Media Corp's Baseline/Filmtracker subsidiary with the new acquisitionto create a database of worldwide film and televisiondata.Subject to regulatory approval, the acquisition includes HollywoodMedia Corp's aggregate ...
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Levinsohn is now president of digital media and worldwide pay TV at Fox
Peter Levinsohn has beenpromoted to president of digital media and worldwide pay television at FoxFilmed Entertainment.Levinsohn will lead effortsto set up robust content protection measures and assumes responsibility foridentifying distribution opportunities, pursuing partnerships with technologymanufacturers and maximising opportunities in emerging digital platforms.He will work closely withthe company's strategic planning unit ...
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Hollywood Film Festival launches horror, fantasy and sci-fi side-fest
Hollywood FilmFestival organisers have teamed up with underground website Film Threat to setup the Hollywood Horror, Sci-fi and Fantasy Festival, which will run alongsidethe main event.The festivalwithin a festival will screen work from emerging and established film-makersand present a range of special attractions."We are honouredto have Chris Gore and Film ...
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Lidschin named marketing manager at image.net
Cory Lidschin has been named marketing manager for North Americaat image.net, effective immediately.Based in the company's Santa Monica offices, Lidschin willimplement promotion, advertising, and public relations programmes aimedspecifically at the entertainment industry and will report to executive vicepresident for North America, Bruce Feldman.With two million annual downloads and more than ...
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MPAA upholds 'R' rating for 9/11
The MPAA upheld its R ratingfor Fahrenheit 9/11 yesterday(22), despite an eleventh hour appeal led by Lions Gate Films president TomOrtenberg.Classification and ratingappeals board members stuck to their guns after watching a screening of MichaelMoore's Palme D'Or winner in Los Angeles and hearing argument from Ortenberg.The reason for the ratingcited ...
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9/11 gets support from Cuomo, pledges from MoveOn
MoveOn PAC, the politicalaction arm of online democracy advocates MoveOn.org, is trumpeting an earlysuccess in its campaign to drum up support for Fahrenheit 9/11 ahead of this weekend's opening.The group claims it hassecured more than 107,000 pledges from the public saying they will see MichaelMoore's stirring Palme D'Or winner in ...
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MPAA, NATO team up for anti-camcording rewards scheme
The MPAA and US theatreowners group NATO have launched the Anti-Camcording Rewards Programme, a cashincentive scheme designed to thwart illegal recording activity.US theatre staff who catchindividuals recording pictures, notify the police and stop the recording willbe eligible for cash rewards of up to $500.According to the MPAA,pirates typically capture a ...
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Mattison to star with Maguire, Assante in The Third Wish
Jenna Mattison is to star inand produce the romantic comedy The Third Wish, which is being directed by Shelley Jensen and hasbegun production in Los Angeles and San Francisco.Mattison wrote thescreenplay about a bookstore clerk whose life is transformed when she finds afirst edition copy of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.Sean ...
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Garden State tops Maui Film Festival honours
The fifth Maui Film Festivalcame to a close at the weekend (20) as Zach Braff's Garden State was awarded the best feature film prize and BobSmeaton's rock'n'roll documentary Festival Express claimed non-narrative honours.The award for best shortfilm went to David Brown's Of Wind And Waves: The Life Of Woody Brown, ...
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Day After Tomorrow grosses swell after $19.7m weekend
FoxInternationalC;s The Day After Tomorrow elevated its international running total to an estimated$274.7m weekend, after adding $19.7m from 7,731 screens.Third weekendhighlights were $3.7m from 590 in Japan, where the picture stayed top in itsthird consecutive week and fell 28% for a $27.3m running total. In Korea itadded $1.4m from 245 ...
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Greenwald's Uncovered acquired by Sundance Channel in US
Robert Greenwald'sdocumentary, Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War has been acquired for US TV broadcast on TheSundance Channel on Sept 6.The picture examines theBush Administration's conduct in convincing the American public that SaddamHussein posed a threat to national security and is supported by the liberalgroups Centre for American ...
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Dodgeball wins the box office match with The Terminal
Audiencespreferred the crazy antics of Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn to the subtlerhumour of Tom Hanks at the weekend as Fox's comedy Dodgeball: A TrueUnderdog Story opened top on an estimated $30m.Hanks anddirector Steven Spielberg had to settle for second place for The Terminal as it bowed on $18.7m, while ...
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The Talent Given Us wins top jury prize at CineVegas
Andrew Wagner's The Talent Given Us won the jury award at the CineVegas FilmFestival 2004 at the weekend, while Larry Golin's Cross Bronx took the audience award and JohnHarkrider's Mitchellville received an honourable mention from the jury.The jury award is presentedannually to a feature length narrative feature without US distribution ...
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Harry has third magical international weekend for Warner
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban continued as top of the internationalclass at the weekend as Warner Bros' family hit added an estimated $39m from 48territories to raise its total to $263.6m.It opened well on top in Spain despite a crucial Euro 2004football game on Sunday with arch-rivals Portugal, ...
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Riddick has so-so openings in Singapore, Malaysia for UIP
In its first international bows through UIP, Universal's TheChronicles Of Riddickopened fourth in Singapore on $210,000 from 26 screens and second in Malaysiaon $160,000 from 36 screens.Results for the Philippines, where Pioneer is the distributor, willbe reported on Monday (21).The Universal/UIP cumulative total to date is $370,000; Riddick is set ...
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Dodgeball wins the box office match against The Terminal
Audiencespreferred the crazy antics of Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn to the subtlerhumour of Tom Hanks at the weekend as Fox's comedy Dodgeball: A TrueUnderdog Story opened top on an estimated $30m.Hanks anddirector Steven Spielberg had to settle for second place for The Terminal as it bowed on $18.7m, while ...
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Fahrenheit gets NYC opening early on June 23
Fahrenheit9/11 will open in twoNew York City theatres on Jun 23, two days before Michael Moore's eagerlyanticipated Palme D'Or winner opens nationwide.Lincoln PlazaCinemas in the Upper West Side and Loews Cineplex Village in the East Villagewill screen the picture, which is being released in the US by Lions Gate, IFCFilms ...