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Marshall to get career tribute at Tribeca Festival
The world premiere of GarryMarshall's comedy Raising Helenstarring Kate Hudson at the Tribeca Film Festival will kick off a tribute tothe veteran director on May 2.The screening will befollowed by an on-stage interview and Q&A session with Marshall, whosecredits include Pretty Woman, The Princess Diaries and Runaway Bride."We are honoured ...
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Kal Ho Naa Ho leads IIFA nominees
Nikhil Advani's romance KalHo Naa Ho leads the pack of fifthInternational Indian Film Academy (IIFA) nominees with 12 nods including bestpicture, best actor, best actress and best direction.The nominations wereannounced at the Hyatt Regency in New Delhi, India, on Mar 31. All winners willbe chosen by the public and handed ...
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Sundance Channel acquires two features, 10 shorts from Plympton
US pay cable network TheSundance Channel has picked up two features and 10 shorts by the animator BillPlympton for broadcast in a May spotlight on the film-maker's work."Get to Know: Bill Plympton"will present the US television premiere of his animated sci-fi feature MutantAliens as well as his first feature TheTune, ...
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WBITD signs multi-year deal with SBS in Holland
Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed an exclusivemulti-year deal with SBS Broadcasting (Holland) for current and upcomingtheatrical pictures and television programming.Titles includethe upcoming Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban and Ocean's Twelve, The Matrix Reloaded, The Last Samurai and Mystic River.The deal also gives SBSBroadcasting, which comprises the ...
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First Look gets domestic to family drama Touching Wild Horses
First Look Media has pickedup all domestic rights to Eleanore Lindo's family drama Touching Wild Horses, which stars Jane Seymour, Charles Martin Smith andMark Rendall.First Look's Bill Bromileynegotiated the deal with David M Perlmutter of the privately owned Canadianproduction company Chesler/Perlmutter.First Look Media will openthe picture theatrically on Apr 30 ...
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Scooby unleashed by Warner Bros in 26 territories
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is being let loose on 26 internationalmarkets this upcoming weekend in Warner Bros' first major push outside the US.The family sequel goes out inGermany on Apr 1 and Mexico, Spain and the UK on Apr 2, when executives areanticipating high scores to boost the picture's $4.3m ...
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Lolafilms to get retrospective at US Museum Of Moving Image
The US premiere of Fernando Trueba's comedy-drama Girl Of YourDreams (La Nina DeTus Ojos) starringPenelope Cruz will kick off a two-week retrospective of Spanish productioncompany Lolafilms in New York on Apr 30.Overall nine pictures will screen at the American Museum of theMoving Image including Goya In Bordeaux, LA Comunidad, Second ...
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Warner Bros signs first volume TV deal in China
Marking its first-evervolume programming distribution deal with a Chinese broadcaster, Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-yeartelevision deal with China Movie Channel (CCTV-6).The deal calls allows CCTV-6to broadcast selected current and library feature films as well asmade-for-television movies and was negotiated by WBITD's director of strategicdevelopment and sales ...
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Oscar names its 2005 dates: Feb 27 is the big night
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has setits key dates for next season with the 77th Academy Awards scheduled to takeplace on Feb 27 2005 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.Nominationballots will be mailed on Dec 27 2004, the polls will close at 5pm PST on Jan15 2005 ...
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Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed scampered to the top of the US charts with $29.4m at the weekend, averaging a healthy $8,888 from 3,312 sites. Family specialist Raja Gosnell's follow-up to his 2002 original didn't come close to that picture's $54.1m opening weekend, although it didn't open in a lucrative summer ...
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Scooby Doo 2 races out of the gate with $4.1m
The family sequel Scooby-Doo2 grossed an estimated $4.1m in ninemarkets through Warner Bros Pictures International at the weekend.Highlights of the limitedday-and-date release with the US, where the picture opened top on an estimated$30.7m, included a superb $369,016 from 35 screens in Singapore (includingpreviews) and $267,285 from 105 in Sweden. Both ...
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King continues to rule, takes $5m over weekend
New Line International's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King added $5m from 2,225 screens in 57 markets at the weekend to raise itsinternational running total to $717.9m.Combined with its $374.6mdomestic gross, The Return Of The King has racked up $1.1bn in worldwide ticketsales.The picture added $1m in ...
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50 First Dates scores big in Australian debut for CTFDI
A$2.2m number one Australian opening for Fifty First Dates was the highlight of Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International's (CTFDI) weekend.Theromantic comedy recorded the biggest ever opening in the market for AdamSandler and overall grossed $2.6m in its markets, raising its early internationalrunning total to $4.7m.PeterPan grossed $2.2m for a $50.3mindustry-wide cumulative ...
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BVI's Bear hugs on to top spot in Spain, Germany
Buena Vista International's(BVI) Brother Bear added $10.2mat the weekend to raise its international running total to $129.8m.Key drivers in the picture'sbountiful haul were a number one $2.6m bow in Spain on 401 screens for theindustry's biggest ever spring release and the third biggest animated bow everbehind Finding Nemo and Tarzan.It ...
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Gaiss promoted to director of publicity at Fox International
Martin Gaiss has beenpromoted to director of publicity at Fox International, where he will continueto devise and implement strategy and events and develop his responsibilities innew media and creative online publicity.Gaiss, whose campaigncredits include Titanic, The Full Monty, the X-Men franchise andthe upcoming The Day After Tomorrow,is based in Los ...
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Nina's Tragedies to open US Israel Film Festival
Savi Gabizon's Nina'sTragedies will open the 20th annualIsrael Film Festival, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the US that runsin Los Angeles from Apr 29-May 13 and this year focuses on coming-of-agestories and the decay of the kibbutz system.All in all 37 Israelinarrative features, documentaries and shorts will screen ...
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Beloved, Oscar-winning Ustinov dies in Switzerland aged 82
Sir Peter Ustinov, the double Oscar-winning British actor, writer,raconteur and humanitarian, has died aged 82.According to reports, Ustinov passed away on Sunday aftersuffering a heart attack at his Swiss home.Over the course of an acting career spanning seven decades heimbued a variety of roles with his trademark wit and irascible ...
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Independent producers and MPAA settle over screeners
The Coalition of IndependentFilmmakers, IFP/Los Angeles and IFP/New York have dropped their antitrustlawsuit against the MPAA following the Hollywood lobby group's de factorevocation of the screener ban.All parties have agreed todismiss the pending Antidote Int'l Films Inc et al v MPAA litigation in aconfidential settlement.The case was originallyfiled last November ...
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Wellspring acquires US rights to Fontaine's Nathalie
USindependent distributor Wellspring, which was recently acquired by AmericanVantage Media Corporation, has picked up all US rights to Anne Fontaine'serotic drama Nathalie, starringGerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and Emanuelle Beart.Thepicture will receive its West Coast premiere at the City of Lights, City ofAngels Film Festival in Los Angeles on Mar 30 ...
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Tunnell promoted, Franklin & Siegel retained at Deutsch/Open City
JasonKliot and Joana Vicente's New York production outfit Deutsch/Open City haspromoted Tory Tunnell to vice president and retained the New York literaryagency Franklin & Siegel Associates to scout books for the company.Themoves come as Deutsch/Open City grows to fulfill its mandate to develop andproduce quality, mid-to-higher budget range pictures."We'rethrilled with ...