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My Bollywood Bride set for May shoot in Mumbai, Los Angeles
Jason Lewis ofSex And The City fame is set to star in My Bollywood Bride, a cross-culturalromantic comedy and co-production between Indian production house Dream TeamPictures and former investment banker Brad Listermann's Nevada-based HisKarmaProductions.My Bollywood Bride centres on a former windsurfer turned adventurenovelist who meets a holidaying Bollywood star in ...
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Nicholson heads list of CineVegas honourees
Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, Holly Hunter,David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Julian Schnabel, Dean Stockwell and Bruce Conner willbe honoured at the upcoming CineVegas Film Festival 2004, which runs from Jun11-19.Nicholson will receive the Marquee Award recognising "the artisticexcellence, professional accomplishment and dedication to cinema by an actor ordirector ...
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Filming underway on Shoreline's ensemble production Marilyn Hotchkiss
Filming has begun in Los Angeles on RandallMiller's comedy drama Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing And Charm School,which stars Robert Carlyle and an ensemble cast including Marisa Tomei, JohnGoodman, Mary Steenburgen, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny DeVito.Carlyle plays a man who embarks upon anadventure when he tries to help another fulfil his ...
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Sundance names 13 projects for summer labs
Projects from Thailand andSouth Africa are among 13 represented in the Sundance Institute's annual Junefilm-makers and screenwriters labs, which run from May 25-Jun 24 under theauspices of the Feature Film Programme's year-round series of workshops and events.The labs offer emergingdirectors and screenwriters a chance to develop new work under the ...
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Valenti urges Congress to adopt piracy strategy
Outgoing MPAApresident Jack Valenti presented a five-point anti-piracy plan to Congressyesterday (29), urging legislators to foster stronger links between government,intelligence agencies and America's international partners.Testifyingbefore the senate appropriations committee's sub-committee on commerce,justice, state and the judiciary, Valenti called for greater FBI funding andtraining and a higher awareness of enforcement issues ...
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Doughty, Carver complete cast of Aryan Couple
Casting onAtlantic Film and Mairis Film's second world war drama The Aryan Couple has been completed with the arrival ofKenny Doughty and Caroline in the title roles.Directed by John Daly, the picture centres on a Jewishindustrialist who is forced to turn over his vast empire to the Nazis to payfor ...
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Calm before next weekend's monster storm
With Van Helsing set to open in 40 territories or so next weekend, it looks like being a quiet weekend for major openings in key territories across the world.Scooby-Doo 2 is scampering towards $100m at the international boxoffice and Warner Bros Pictures International executives will be looking toKorea and Russia ...
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Global takes on White Countess, Therese Raquin
Peter Elson's foreign salesand distribution outfit Global Cinema Group has picked up two new titles forCannes in the form of Merchant Ivory's Chinese romantic drama The WhiteCountess and an adaptation of EmilZola's classic revenge tale Therese Raquin.The acquisitions follow theannouncement earlier this week (Screendaily Apr 27) of Global's jointfinancing, production ...
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Warner Bros opens first majority-owned cinema in China today
Warner Bros InternationalCinemas (WBIC) becomes the first ever Western majority owner of a joint ventureChinese theatre today (April 29) with the official opening of the 2,200-seatShangying Warner Cinemas multiplex in Nanjing.The site features eightauditoriums, stadium seating and traditional and digital projection and openedfor business at the weekend with a soft ...
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Walden to produce Jim Thorpe story with Sayles writing the script
WaldenMedia has committed to produce Carlisle School, a feature about the early life and times of the championNative American Olympian Jim Thorpe with John Sayles attached to write thescreenplay.The picture will be produced by Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray, theduo behind Miracleand The Rookie, aswell as John Fusco (Young Guns, ...
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Barnett rejoins Canton as senior vp, production, at Atmosphere
Steve Barnett has been named executive vice president offilm production at Atmosphere Entertainment and has brought on board creativeexecutives Ray Kimsey and Silenn Thomas.Barnett arrivesfrom Artists Production Group, where he served as senior vice president ofproduction, and his appointment is seen as a key step in the company's effortsto ramp ...
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Focus takes Creek to international waters
Focus Features Internationalhas finally closed its deal to buy international rights excluding NorthAmerica, the UK and Australia to Whitewater Films' debut feature Mean Creek, which will play in the Directors' Fortnight sectionat Cannes.Focus Features executivevice president of international sales and distribution Glen Basner and vicepresident of acquisitions Jason Resnick negotiated ...
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Rapkowski named director at THINKFilm
Richard Rapkowski has beenhired as director of business and legal affairs at THINKFilm, where he isexpected to play an integral role in the New York-based distributor's expansionplans.Rapkowski will reportdirectly to senior vice president of acquisitions and business affairs RandyManis and prior to his appointment held a similar position at the ...
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Lives adds another $3m for Warner Bros
Taking Lives grossed an estimated $3m and 547,000 admissions from1,967 screens in 39 territories through Warner Bros Pictures International atthe weekend, raising its international cumulative total to $18.2m.The thriller opened in theUK on $575,000 on 258 screens, which by comparison was roughly 52% better thanthe opening of High Crimes inlate ...
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Dates rakes in further $7.8m for CTFDI
Love was in the air thisweekend as Sony's romantic comedy 50 First Dates enjoyed a string of number one bows through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), grossing $7.8m on 2,444screens to raise its international running total to $36.3m.The picture was number onein its first four days in Germany but eventually ...
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Return Of The King crosses $90m in Japan
New Line's The Lord OfThe Rings: The Return Of The Kingpassed $90m in Japan at the weekend (24) as it added $602,770 on 330 screensover two days for a superb $90.4m running total in its 11th week.Released through NipponHerald, The Return Of The King performedfar better than trilogy predecessor The ...
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Survivor will shoot despite Polish producer's jail-term
The president of AtlanticAlliance Pictures said yesterday (26) that filming on the upcoming Holocaust drama LoveIs A Survivor will go ahead despitethe corruption conviction of co-production and funding partnerHeritage Films' Lew Rywin.Rywin, who served asexecutive producer on The Pianist, co-produceron Schindler's List and producer(Poland unit) on Proof Of Life,was sentenced ...
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Former J&M executive Roberts joins Dream as senior vp
Industry veteran Karen Roberts has joined LosAngeles-based production and international sales company Dream Entertainment assenior vice president of acquisitions and development.Roberts will beresponsible for identifying finished features as well as new projects forDream's development slate. She will report directly to company presidentYitzhak Ginsberg.Roberts mostrecently served as senior vice president of ...
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Passion gets its final Fox opening at second in Thailand
The Passion Of The Christ opened in its final Fox International market at theweekend, ranking second in Thailand on $225,000 on 70 screens.Overall the picture added$2.2m overall on 1,318 screens in 14 markets for a $73m international runningtotal in Fox territories.Elsewhere the thriller ManOn Fire began its international runwith a ...
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Haunted Mansion takes top spot in Japan with $4.7m for BVI
The Haunted Mansion scored an impressive bow in Japan through BuenaVista International (BVI) at the weekend, opening top on $4.7m and breaking astring of records in the process.It was the Walt DisneyCompany's second biggest live action branded bow ever behind Pirates Of TheCaribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl in ...