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Dream acquires sex comedy ManFast
Dream Entertainment hasacquired all international rights to Kali Films' comedy ManFast, which recently won the audience award anddirectorial debut honours for Tara Judelle at the New York InternationalIndependent Film and Video Festival.The story follows fourhedonistic women who must give up men for 100 days in order to receive a cashinjection ...
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Lightning acquires Russian thriller Moscow Heat
RichardGuardian's Lightning Entertainment has picked up international rights to JeffCelentano's Russian-themed thriller Moscow Heat, purportedly the largest budgetedindependent picture ever made in Russia.Moscow Heat stars rising Russian star Alexander Nevsky,whose credits include Time Of Change and Red Serpent, and centres on the efforts of a retired diplomat, LA detectiveand Russian ...
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White, Hewitt join sales team at First Look International
First LookInternational has ramped up its sales team ahead of Cannes with the hiring of MoniqueWhite as vice president of international sales and Susan Hewitt as Europeantelevision sales consultant.Both will reportdirectly to First Look International co-heads Liz Mackiewicz, the senior vicepresident of worldwide sales and distribution, and Dina Vangelisti, thecompany's ...
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Lindsay, Seldin get senior vp stripes at Miramax
Miramax Filmshas made two key promotions, with Mark Lindsay elevated to senior vicepresident of distribution and head of sales for Miramax International andColleen Seldin moving up to senior vice president of worldwide operations atMiramax Films.Lindsay will beresponsible for overseeing the company's international sales activities andwill continue to work out of ...
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Warner launches dedicated worldwide anti-piracy unit
Warner Bros,which has arguably taken the fight to piracy with more zeal than any otherstudio, has stepped up operations with the launch of the industry's firstdedicated worldwide anti-piracy unit.Darcy Antonelliswill head up the unit following her recent appointment to the new position ofsenior vice president of worldwide anti-piracy operations at ...
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State and Clearing bookend LA Film Festival
Zach Braff's hotSundance comedy Garden State will open the 10th Annual Los Angeles Film Festival on Jun 17,while Richard Linklater's romance Before Sunset is the Centrepiece Premiere and PieterJan Brugge's kidnapping drama The Clearing will close the event on Jun 26.Overall nineworld premieres, three North American premieres and two US ...
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Ford leaves Miramax after six years
Stuart Ford has resigned hisposition as executive vice president of Miramax International and will leavethe company at the end of May to pursue other opportunities.During his six-year tenureat Miramax the 34-year-old executive played an active role in internationalsales and distribution operations and acquisitions.He previously served asco-head of acquisitions, where his ...
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Nelson named to brand management position at Warner.
Diane Nelson has beenpromoted to the newly created position of executive vice president of globalbrand management at Warner Bros Entertainment, where she will work with thecompany's divisions to promote existing franchises and develop new brands.Nelson and her team willcollaborate with all the business units to develop non-theatrical propertiesalongside the major ...
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Offhollywood Digital signs deal with Cinecitta as studio's NY representative
Cinecitta Studios has signeda deal with New York's Offhollywood Digital effectively turning the productionhouse into Cinecitta's East Coast representative.The agreement will enableNew York producers to meet with Offhollywood Digital staff to discuss theirfilming needs, which will then be relayed to Cinecitta executives with a viewto filming in Rome and using ...
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Scooby takes $4.1m to pass $80m for Warner
Scooby-Doo 2 passed $80m at the international boxoffice at the weekend following an estimated $4.1m haul with 876,500 admissionsfrom 3,998 screens in 58 territories for Warner Bros.Opening fifth in Russia on $139,000 from 108 screens andopening on $118,400 in Korea, the Warner Bros Pictures International releaseraised its international running total ...
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Bill 2 adds $10m in week two in 27 territories
Miramax's Kill Bill Vol 2 reigned supreme in the UK, Taiwan and a host of smaller territories atthe weekend as it added an estimated $10m on 2,562 screens in 27 territoriesthrough Buena Vista International for a $36.1m total.In its secondweekend in the UK the Quentin Tarantino sequel took $2.5m on ...
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Horizon picks up international rights to Cosmic Africa
Rob Straight's Canadianproduction and international sales company Horizon Entertainment has picked upinternational rights to Craig and Damon Foster's South African documentary CosmicAfrica.The 72-minute Americanco-production with US-based Cosmos Studios will get its European premierescreening in Cannes as part of a retrospective celebrating the tenthanniversary of the end of Apartheid.Cosmic Africa purports ...
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Dates opens top in Brazil, Turkey, still rules Germany
Powered bynumber one bows in Brazil and Turkey, the romantic comedy 50 First Dates grossed $7.1m on 2,560 screens to raiseits international running total to $46.1m.The picture,released through Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI),opened in Brazil on $705,000 on 169 screens and grossed $216,000 on 75 inTurkey.Dates stayed top in ...
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Silver City goes to Cannes through Myriad
Myriad Pictures will bringJohn Sayles' political satire Silver City to Cannes after acquiring international rights to the all-star ensemblecomedy from production company Anarchists' Convention.Newmarket Films acquired USrights in spring and plans a September 17 release ahead of the Presidentialelection in November.Written and directed bySayles, Silver City takes placeduring an imagined ...
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Sunshine has sunny opening in UK for Momentum
Strong weekend performancesraised the early international running total of Focus Features' offbeat romanceEternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind to $3.8m.The picture opened in secondplace in the UK through Momentum, grossing a mighty $1.8m on 343 screens by theend of Sunday (2).Fuller figures for thefour-day weekend featuring Bank Holiday Monday will ...
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New sales company Hybrid to debut at Cannes with Argentinian thriller
Los Angeles-based HybridPictures principals P J Pettiette and Claudie Viguerie have launchedinternational sales and distribution arm Hybrid Pictures International (HPI).The new unit, which willoperate out of Los Angeles, is preparing to bring the psychological thriller Jennifer'sShadow starring Faye Dunaway toCannes, where it will receive its world premiere.Going forward, Pettiettewill handle ...
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MPAA Asian piracy strategist Ellis gets senior vp stripes
Mike Ellis, the MPAA's topanti-piracy strategist for the Asia-Pacific region whose hands-on approachresulted in the seizure of roughly 44m illegal optical discs from 13 countrieslast year, has been promoted to senior vice president and regional director,Asia-Pacific.Ellis will continue todirect strategic control of regional operations - as he has done since ...
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IFC picks up Toback film
IFC Films has acquired NorthAmerican rights in all media to James Toback's thriller When Will I Be Loved starring Neve Campbell and plans to release thepicture in August.Campbell (Scream, TheCompany) plays a strong-willed womanwho exacts revenge on a couple of men whose conniving and sexist ways havebelittled her for too ...
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Mean Girls opens top of the class for Paramount on $25m
With one week to go beforeUniversal's Van Helsing kicks off the summer season, Paramount's high schoolsatire Mean Girls strutted its stuff in fine style, opening top on anunexpectedly high estimated $25m.The strong bow shunted 20thCentury Fox/New Regency's Man On Fire into second place and eclipseddisappointing debuts by New Line's Line's ...
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Along Came Polly reaches $80m for UIP
The romantic comedy Along Came Polly has passed $80m at the international boxoffice according to latest information from UIP executives and still has fivecountries to go.Meanwhile StrikeEntertainment's horror remake Dawn Of TheDead added $2.4m through UIP at the weekend to raise itsinternational running total to $11.9m, excluding $10.1m in the ...