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Gatineau climbs Miramax acquisitions ladder
Miramax veteranMaeva Gatineau has been promoted to senior vice president of acquisitions.Gatineau willcontinue to oversee European acquisitions from the company's UK offices, whereshe has been based for the past seven years, reporting to executive vicepresident of acquisitions and co-productions Agnes Mentre.UK-based directorof European acquisitions Emil Elmer and director of acquisitions ...
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Rosett named president of United Artists
Danny Rosett hasbeen named president of United Artists in a move that had been widely expectedfollowing the departure in January of Bingham Ray.Rosett most recently served as executive vice president ofmarketing and distribution for MGM Studios, which included overseeing worldwidebusiness operations for the specialty unit UA, and will report to ...
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The Haunted Mansion passes $100m for BVI
Buena Vista's family hit TheHaunted Mansion passed $100m at the international box office this weekendthanks to a $2.3m weekend gross through Buena Vista InternationalOnce again the key driverwas Japan, where the picture remained number for its third weekend in a row and raised itscumulative score to $24.5m.Currently on a whisker ...
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Scooby-Doo 2 nears $100m at international box office
Scooby-Doo2 added anestimated $2.8m with 543,000 admissions from 3,411 screens in 52 territories atthe weekend, raising its international running total to $87.3m.Keyhighlights from Warner Bros Pictures International's campaign so far include animpressive $28.5m UK haul and $9.1m in Mexico.Theserial killer thriller Taking Lives grossed $2.4m with 424,000 admissionsfrom 1,534 screens ...
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Perspectives 2004 kicks off in LA on Jun 4
Given A Chance... ALittle Girl's Journey is expected tobe among the highlights of the upcoming Perspectives2004 international festival and forum, which runs in Los Angeles from Jun 4-6.Kim Marriner's picturechronicles the development of Kassie Marriner, who was born a drug addict and diagnosed with cerebral palsy.Sponsored by the AmericanFilm Institute ...
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Trudeau, Altman ready Tanner 88 sequel for Sundance Channel
The Sundance Channel hasteamed up with satirist Garry Trudeau and director Robert Altman on a sequel totheir political mini-series Tanner 88.Production is due to beginnext month on the as yet unnamed three-parter, which stars original castmembers Cynthia Nixon, Michael Murphy, Pamela Reed and Matt Malloy and is scheduledto screen in ...
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Phil Gersh, agent of the Golden Age, is dead
Phil Gersh, thelegendary Hollywood agent who founded The Phil Gersh Agency, later becoming TheGersh Agency with sons Robert and David, has died aged 92.Gersh representeda broad roster of stars spanning the Golden Age including Humphrey Bogart,Richard Burton, David Niven, Harrison Ford and Robert Wise and worked with suchdirectors as Mark ...
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Official figures up Van Helsing's international bow
Universal released officialfigures yesterday (10) confirming that Van Helsing's internationalopening weekend grossed $55.2m, a larger sum than executives originallyestimated.Combined with the $51.8mdomestic take - which was several million dollars less than originally thoughtalthough still number one by a country mile - this creates a worldwide openingweekend of $106.9m.The picture opened ...
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Molter earns vp international distribution stripes at Warner Bros
ThomasMolter has been appointed to the newly created position of vice president of distributionat Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).Molterwill report to WBPI senior vice president of sales and distribution Nancy Carsonand will work with thestudio's new anti-piracy team, monitor print movement and security and liaisewith the international operations group to ...
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Cinema Italian Style comes to Hollywood
Marco Tullio Giordana'ssprawling six-hour drama Best Of Youth will open an inaugural annualprogramme of contemporary Italian films in Los Angeles on Jun 4.Twelve pictures will screenunder the Cinema Italian Style banner at the Egyptian Theatre with the AmericanCinematheque in Hollywood, including Giovanni Veronesi's coming-of-age comedy CheNe Sara Di Noi' and ...
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Lane, Endeavor settle with Intermedia over Me Again suit
Actress Diane Lane hasreached an agreement with Intermedia to settle the lawsuit that she broughtagainst the company last year over a pay-or-play deal to star in the film MeAgain.Nodetails were revealed in the settlement, but Lane's agency Endeavor, which hadrefused to work with Intermedia until the deal was settled, has ...
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Shoreline snaps up Dunsmore and Now And Forever
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired Peter Spirer's mystery Dunsmoreand Bob Clark's interracial love story Now And Forever and will bringthe titles to Cannes under its expanding Watermark banner.Dunsmore centres on a small Florida town where the residents aretormented by a deeply repellent individual. However an investigation revealswide pools of guilt that ...
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Van Helsing opens the summer on $54.2m weekend
After months of hype thesummer season got underway in fine style over the weekend as Universal's VanHelsing opened top on an estimated $54.2m, brushing aside the Olsen twinstheatrical lead debut New York Minute, which flopped in fourth on$6.2m.Despite a slew of scathingreviews the $160m monster mash averaged a magnificent $15,165 ...
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The Notebook, Intimate Strangers bookend Seattle
Nick Cassavetes' romance The Notebook starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams will openthe 30th SeattleInternational Film Festival and Patrice Leconte'sromantic thriller Intimate Strangers starring Sandrine Bonnaire andFabrice Luchini closes the event, which runs from May 20-Jun 13 and boasts 10 world premieres.All in all 224 features and 84 shorts from ...
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Van Helsing opens summer with record weekend for Universal, UIP
The summer has begun. Universal's Van Helsingscored a record-breaking $53m on 5,000 screens in 41 countries at the weekend,dominating the market and ushering in what is shaping up to be a monsterinternational season for the studios.It was Universal and UIP's biggest opening weekend ofall time, beating director Stephen Sommers' The ...
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Bird flies to Yakin-scripted satanic ritual
Raw Nerve, the production horror house affiliated with New York's GreeneStreet Films, has signed AntoniaBird to direct Abraham's Daughter, which is out to casting and scheduled to begin filming thissummer.Written by Raw Nerve principal Boaz Yakin and Edward Ricourt, Abraham'sDaughter centres on a recently widowedwoman whose recurring visions of murdered ...
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Lightning Entertainment picks up blues biopic Lightning In A Bottle
Lightning Entertainment haspicked up international rights to Antoine Fuqua's blues documentary LightningIn A Bottle, which was executive produced by Martin Scorsese and will bereleased in the US through Sony Pictures Classics in October.The picture spotlights abenefit tribute concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall in February 2003featuring such luminaries ...
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BV horror quartet shoots for Hollywood Wizard
Horror titles Preggers, Serpent's Kiss, Spider People and Doom Town are scheduled to begin production this summer in a joint venturebetween Kenneth Hall's Los Angeles-based production house B V Entertainment andTony Kandah's sales outfit Hollywood Wizard.Kandah will handle foreign sales on all four titles at Cannes,along with B Vús first ...
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Here come the global juggernauts
This weekend, Universal's monsterfest Van Helsing will open day-and-date with the US in 40territories around the world, raising the curtain on what could become the mostlucrative summer season ever for the studios' international divisions.The sheer volume of heavy hitters lining up on the runways ismind-boggling with Van Helsing just one ...
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Publicity veteran Pflug lands at Universal Pictures
Fresh from his one-yearstint at Miramax, industry veteran Paul Pflug has landed at Universal Pictureswhere he will serve as senior vice president of media relations and play a keyrole in boosting the company's corporate profile.In his new post Pflug willserve as the primary strategist for the company's external corporate andexecutive ...