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Freston, Moonves step up at Viacom
Tom Freston and LeslieMoonves have been appointed co-presidents and co-chief operating officers ofViacom, effective immediately, following yesterday's (Jun 1) resignation of MelKarmazin.Both Freston and Moonveswill continue with their current roles within the company and will jointlyoversee all Viacom operations as directed by Sumner Redstone, who remainschairman and chief executive officer ...
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Weinsteins secure rights to Moore doc through Fellowship Adventure Group
Harvey and Bob Weinstein have concluded the buy-back of MichaelMoore's Palme D'Or winner Fahrenheit 9/11 from The Walt Disney Co and are free tohire a domestic distributor or distribute the picture personally in the US.The brothers began negotiations several weeks ago after it emergedthat Disney had told both the Weinsteins ...
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Shrek 2 stays top over record Memorial Day weekend
Shrek 2 won a record Memorial Day weekend clash ofthe titans, beating Fox's The Day After Tomorrow into second place as itadded the biggest second weekend of all time to comfortably pass $250m.The Dreamworks animatedsequel added $92.2m for $257m over the four-day holiday weekend here, thebiggest ever Memorial Day weekend ...
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...but Shrek 2 holds North American lead
Shrek 2 won the Memorial Day weekend battle over Fox's TheDay After Tomorrow, staying top of the US charts in its second weekend asit added a record $92.2m over four days for a $257m running total.Roland Emmerich'seco-disaster picture opened strongly on $86m and took around $70m in its firstthree days, ...
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Van Helsing raises international total to $131m
Universal's VanHelsing added an estimated $6.5m on 4,300 screens in 42 territories at theweekend, raising its industry-wide international running total to $131m.It grossed$6.2m on 4,100 in 39 UIP territories for a $122.2m UIP total.VanHelsing fell 48% in the UK on $1.5m on 434 for $24.7m and ranked thirdbehind The Day ...
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Troy passes $200m at international box office
Troy passed $200m at the international box office at theweekend with an estimated $39m haul on 9,764 screens in 58 countries thatraised the Warner Bros picture's running total to $216mKey drivers were $4.1m on506 screens in its second weekend in the UK for $18.9m and second place behindFox's The Day ...
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Troy passes $200m at international box office
Troy passed $200m at the international box office at theweekend with an estimated $39m haul on 9,764 screens in 58 countries thatraised the Warner Bros picture's running total to $216mKey drivers were $4.1m on 506 screens in its second weekendin the UK for $18.9m and second place behind Fox's The ...
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The Day After Tomorrow thunders across the world
Fox International's TheDay After Tomorrow grossed an estimated $82.7m at the weekend internationalbox office, thundering across the globe with the kind of elemental ferocitythat defines Roland Emmerich's effects-laden story.Executives at the distributorsaid the amount was the biggest international opening of all time for anon-sequel, adding that the figure included some ...
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Taiwan authorities bust underground piracy lab
Taiwanese authorities have uncovered a massive illegal optical disc lab andmore than a quarter of a million pirate discs in the biggest raids yet to bestaged in the country.Officers from Taiwan's Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB)swooped on three sites in Changhua City and the Taichung area on May 25 ...
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High def DV trio kicks off HDNet film slate
HDNet Films, the high-definition production division ofTodd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Entertainment, has given the greenlight tothree low-budget movies to be shot this year on high definition digital video.* Quid Pro Quo is a dark comedy written and to be directed by Carlos Brooks andproduced by Midge Sanford and ...
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Touch Of Pink, D.E.B.S. bookend Frameline 28 festival
Frameline28, the 28th San Francisco International Lesbian &Gay Film Festival, will open on Jun 17 with Ian Iqbal Rashid's romantic comedy TouchOf Pink and close on Jun 27 with Angela Robinson's action comedy D.E.B.S.Overall the festival will screen more than 80 features including10 world premieres and more than 180 shorts ...
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IDP, MTV at odds over Super Size Me ad spot
Weeks after Morgan Spurlock's documentary Super Size Me wonan MTV documentary prize at the Full Frame Film festival the network has reportedlyrefused to carry an advertising spot, claiming it would be disparaging to fastfood restaurants.The picture's distributors Roadside Attractions and Samuel GoldwynFilms were preparing to place television ads before the ...
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Global markets braced for The Day After Tomorrow
Thespectacle of climatic mayhem will be writ large in the world's theatresthis weekend as Fox International launches The Day AfterTomorrow in 100countries alongside a saturation Memorial Weekend bow in the US.Roland Emmerich's environmental disaster picturehas inspired the biggest ever day-and-date release (and the only true one ofthe season) and plays ...
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Stepford Wives scoops two Golden Trailer awards
Adam Agard's trailer for Paramount's upcoming release of TheStepford Wives won the most original and summer 2004 blockbuster awards atthe fifth annual Golden Trailer Awards in Los Angeles (25).Dave Parker work on New Line's Elf won the best comedyprize while Jennifer A Horvath's trailer for New Line's The Lord Of ...
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Picture This! readies Same Sex Parents DVD bow
Picture This! will release Laurence Katrian's French teen drama SameSex Parents on DVD on Jul 27.The story centres on a young girl's convoluted personal life witha gay father, lesbian mother and confused boyfriend. When she returns home oneday to find her mother in bed with her girlfriend, all hell breaks ...
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Bynes signs on for Lovewrecked
Amanda Byneshas signed to star in Media 8 Entertainment's Lovewrecked, a familycomedy in the vein of Freaky Friday that Randal Kleiser will direct.The picture isdue to begin shooting in the Caribbean in June and centres on two teenagers whovie for the affections of a rock star at a vacation resort.Nancy ...
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TLA picks up three more for video from Cannes
TLA Releasing has picked up three more pictures for domestic videodistribution from Cannes, bringing its tally of festival acquisitions to seven.The titles are Alain Guiraudie's surreal Austrian-French roadmovie No Rest For The Brave, Gael Morel's French sibling drama ThreeDancing Slaves and Lasse Nielsen and Ernst Johansen's landmark 1978 Danishfilm about ...
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MGM Channel prepares for Spanish launch
MGM Networks andMedia Park will re-launch and re-brand Media Park's existing canalstar channelin Spain as the MGM Channel this summer.The channel willbe dubbed into Castilian Spanish and augments Media Park's current offering ofseven channels to Spanish multi-channel subscribers.The MGM Channelin Spain will transmit from Media Park's facilities in Barcelona, presentinground-the-clock ...
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Searchlight, Paramount, MTV team up on Napoleon Dynamite
Fox Searchlight has teamed up with Paramount Pictures and MTVFilms on the release of Jared Hess' comedy Napoleon Dynamite.The picture will open domestically through Fox Searchlight inselect cities on Jun 11, while Paramount and MTV Films will handle internationaldistribution.Fox Searchlight picked up worldwide rights to the picture atSundance, where the ...
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Mattison signs to The Third Wish
Jenna Mattison is set to star in the romantic comedy The ThirdWish, which will be directed by Shelley Jensen and is due to beginproduction in Los Angeles and San Francisco on Jun 8.Cinema Libre Studio has picked up domestic distribution rights andwill release the picture theatrically in October.Based on a ...