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Lassally launches LA management and production outfit Kustom
Tom Lassally launched hisfilm and television management and production company Kustom Entertainmentyesterday (April 21), naming Marc Forster's recently wrapped Stay as its first feature and announcing a host of talentunder its wing.Lassally, who shepherdedmore than 25 features including Heat and The Hudsucker Proxyduring his eight-year tenure as executive vice president ...
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Sunshine gets first foreign bows in Australia, Taiwan
Focus Features' EternalSunshine Of The Spotless Mind kickedoff its international run in Australia at the weekend with a record bow for aCharlie Kaufman picture that produced $416,000 from 60 screens and eighthplace.The romance claimed thebiggest per-screen average of the top 10 on $6,937. Released through VillageRoadshow, it grossed $518,600 overall ...
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WBITD renews multi-year deal with Nine Network
Australia's NineNetwork has renewed its multi-year free television output deal with Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD).The dealcontinues a long-standing programming distribution relationship and involvesfree television rights to the studio's current and upcoming television series,features, animation and library titles."Our programmes, such as Friends, ER, Without A Trace and Two And A ...
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Anschutz reorganises film companies under Weil, Granat
Philip Anschutz hasreorganised his film interests with the creation of Anschutz Film Group (AFG),a Los Angeles-based holding company that will serve as parent to subsidiariesWalden Media and Bristol Bay Productions, formerly known as CrusaderEntertainment.Attorney David Weil, who forthe past year has served as Anschutz's chief advisor on film investments, joinsfrom ...
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Donnie Darko gets director's cut world premiere at Seattle fest
Newmarket Films willpremiere the director's cut of Richard Kelly's surreal love story and cult hit DonnieDarko at the upcoming Seattle FilmFestival on May 29.The acclaimed picture starsJake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone and Drew Barrymore and was originally released in2001, gaining popularity through video and cable platforms and eventuallybecoming a midnight special ...
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$6.7m comes in through the Window for CTFDI
The thriller SecretWindow grossed $6.7m on1,589 screens at the weekend from its first foray in the major internationalmarkets, elevating its early international running total to $9.5m.Released through Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI) the picture opened second in Italy on $1.6m on 252screens, fourth in France on $1.6m on 399 and ...
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Miramax's Starsky & Hutch takes $7m through BVI
Miramax's Starsky & Hutch grossed an estimated $7m through Buena Vista International(BVI) at the weekend to raise its international running total to $42m.The picture opened fourth in Spain on $1.3m and scored a trio ofstrong bows in Scandinavia, where the highlight was top billing in Finland on$100,000 and a huge ...
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BVI's Brother Bear stays top in Germany for fifth week
Buena Vista's animated hit BrotherBear grossed $3m through Buena VistaInternational (BVI) at the weekend, raising its international running total toa superb $156.7m.The picture remained top in Germany for the fifth consecutive weekand is the first picture to do so since local hit Goodbye, Lenin! last year. Final figures were unconfirmedat ...
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Whore goes to US through Screen Media
Screen Media Films haspicked up North American rights from Dolores Pictures to Maria Lidon's Whore, starring Daryl Hannah, Denise Richards and Joaquimde Almeida.Whore will get its USpremiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in May, where it plays in thefeature competition. The company is planning a theatrical release ...
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Scooby has $11.2m weekend, holds at top in UK for third weekend
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed lapped up an estimated $11.2m at theweekend, raising its international running total to $65m.The highlight was a first place $2.8m hold from 490 screens in itsthird weekend in the UK for a $23.5m running total there and an unconfirmedthird place in Italy on $1.2m from 300 ...
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Dawn takes $2m over the weekend in Universal territories
Universal's horror remake Dawn Of The Dead grossed an estimated $2m through UIP atthe weekend, where the highlight was second place in Germany behind BrotherBear on $1.1m from 347screens.The promising start grossed 92% more than the Texas ChainsawMassacre and 18% morethan House On Haunted Hill.The picture opened top in Austria ...
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Hungary presents benefits of new film law to LA studios, producers
The extent to which US and international producers can benefitfrom Hungary's new film laws was outlined at a special presentation hosted bythe Hungarian Consul General in Los Angeles late last week.As of Apr 1 productions shooting in Hungary will be eligible for a20% tax rebate on the Hungarian spend. Alternatively, ...
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Loggia, Harmon, Feore join cast of The Deal
Robert Loggia, Angie Harmon, Colm Feore and John Heardhave joined the cast of Front Street Films, Milestone Entertainment and MyriadPictures' Wall Street thriller The Deal,which has started shooting in Vancouver.Christian Slater and Selma Blair star in a story of covertgovernment business, illegal oil trading, blackmail and the Russian mafia.Harvey Kahn ...
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Desi Del Valle leaves Frameline Distribution
FramelineDistribution director Desi del Valle has announced she is leaving the SanFrancisco-based non-profit distributor of gay and lesbian cinema to pursue otherinterests including her acting career.Del Valle joinedFrameline, which also presents the San Francisco International Lesbian &Gay Film Festival, in 1992 as a distribution assistant, taking overdistribution two years later.Maura ...
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Bill kills competition at the box office
Vengeance was the ticket atthe weekend as Miramax's Kill Bill Vol 2 opened on a company record estimated at $25.6m while Lions Gate'sMarvel Comics adaptation The Punisher came in second on $14m.The concluding part ofQuentin Tarantino's revenge saga opened to superb reviews and averaged $8,604from 2,971 theatres.Uma Thurman continues whereshe ...
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MK2 snares rights to restore, release Keaton collection
Sherlock Jr,The Navigator and GoWest are among a rosterof Buster Keaton pictures to be restored for digital theatrical releasefollowing an agreement between The Douris Corporation and MK2.Under the terms of the deal Douris, whose 700+ Rohauerlibrary includes rights to the silent star's films, has agreed that Paris-basedMK2, the worldwide distributor ...
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Massis picks up Spook for The Film Source
Alex Massis' NewYork-based marketing and licensing company The Film Source has picked up rightsfor worldwide representation in all media to Barry Levy's supernatural thiller Spook.Based on the memoirs of an unidentified former CIAoperative, the film follows a Vietnam veteran's bid to expose Canada's covertrole in the South-East Asian war.Levy, who ...
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Secret Window looks to prise open Euro markets
The thriller Secret Window goes on its first international rampage this weekend with openings inFrance on 400 (Apr 14) and Spain, Italy and Brazil two days later on 254, 250and 61 prints respectively.Executives at Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI) will be hoping for some strong bows to propel the picture ...
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Millennium extends deal with Emmett/Furla for ten new films
Avi Lerner's MillenniumFilms has extended its non-exclusive international distribution deal to handlea further ten pictures for Emmett/Furla Films.The partners' most recentundertaking is David Burke's $25m journalism thriller Edison starring Justin Timberlake, Morgan Freeman, KevinSpacey and L L Cool J that began shooting in Vancouver last month.Emmett/Furla is in postproduction with ...
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Theron, Ricci among Outfest gay and lesbian Screen Idols 2003
Monster and Angels In America dominated LA Outfest's fourth annual Screen Idolawards in honour of the best four performances in a gay, lesbian, bisexual ortransgendered role in a feature film or movie for television.Charlize Theron won the leadactress award for her Oscar winning performance as the serial killer AileenWuornos in ...