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Parent & Stuber promoted to production vice chairmen at Universal
Mary Parent and Scott Stuber have each been appointed to the newpositions of vice chairman of worldwide production for Universal Pictures.In their new jobs they will continue to oversee worldwideacquisition, creative development and production of all Universal's films, aswell as overseeing the studio's original made-for-video productions and creativedevelopment and production ...
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Cold Mountain partners Mirage, Miramax warm up to new deal
Miramax Films has signed a three-year-first-look dealwith Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella's Mirage Enterprises, kickingoff with the adaptation of Allison Pearson's comic bestseller IDon't Know How She Does It, the first part of Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy fantasy, The Amulet Of Samarkand, and the family drama The MarryingGame.The deal, announced ...
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Two Wellspring executives move over to Koch
FormerWellspring Media executives Janet Baker and Kathy Gilbert have joined US musicand video distributor Koch Entertainment Distribution, with Baker coming onboard as director of sales - video and Gilbert as regional video sales manager.Effectiveimmediately, Baker will be based in Chicago where she will oversee thecompany's expanding video sales efforts, supervise ...
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Something's Gotta Give gives Sony ninth number one of the year
Romance ruled the box office at the weekend as Sony's wellreceived Something's Gotta Give opened number one on an estimated $17m.To add to the studio's pre-Christmas cheer, it set a new industryrecord of opening nine number one films in a year, beating Warner Bros' oldmark of eight.Two other new releases ...
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Redford picture added to Sundance lineup
Dutch producer Pieter JanBrugge's debut The Clearing,starring festival founder Robert Redford, Helen Mirren and Willem Dafoe, hasbeen added to the list of Sundance Film Festival premieres and is among adocumentary-heavy slate of 16 additional titles that will screen from Jan15-25, 2004.Brugge's producingcredits include The Insider and ThePelican Brief and his ...
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Honorary Oscar to go to Blake Edwards on Feb 29
Blake Edwards will receive an honorary Oscar at the 76th AcademyAwards on Feb 29, 2004.The veteran film-maker will collect the honour in recognition ofhis "extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement"."For more than 50 yearsEdwards has had an extraordinary career writing, directing and producing mainlyhis own material," Academy president Frank Pierson said ...
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Nemo eyes $300m international haul
Buena Vista International's (BVI) worldwide hit Finding Nemo is expected to pass $300m any day now and should use the upcoming weekend to consolidate its ballooning box office gross.By Dec 10 it had grossed $291.2m at the international box office and executives believe it will finish on more than $400m.BVI ...
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Columbia bears The Grudge from Senator International
Columbia Pictures has picked updomestic distribution rights from Senator International to The Grudge, Ghost House Pictures' English-language remake ofthe Japanese horror thriller Ju-On.The Grudgecentres on a lethal curse that passes like a virus among its victims and killsthem in the grip of a powerful rage.The project is scheduled to start ...
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Bon Voyage, Dogville bookend Miami Film Festival
The 21st Annual Miami International Film Festival will open on Jan30 with the East Coast premiere of Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Nazi-era comedy ofmanners Bon Voyageand closes on Feb 8 with Lars von Trier's Colorado-set thriller Dogville.Programmed for the second year by festival director NicoleGuillemet, the festival features 63 films from 34 ...
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Sheridan, Elfman join honorees at Palm Springs Film Festival
Jim Sheridan will receive the International Film-maker Award forProducing and Directing and Danny Elfman will collect the Frederick Loewe Awardfor Career Achievement in Film Composing at the 15th Annual Palm SpringsInternational Film Festival, which runs from Jan 8-19 2004.Both will collect their awards on Jan 11 at a ceremony that ...
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Slamdance unveils 18-film lineup for tenth festival
Twelve world andtwo US premieres are among the biggest ever line-up of 18 features at theupcoming 10th annual Slamdance Film Festival, which runs in Park City, Utahfrom Jan 17-24 2004.The rosterincludes 11 narrative features and seven documentaries, which for the firsttime will be judged by two separate sections of the ...
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Canton unveils new production/finance outfit Atmosphere
Former studio chief MarkCanton and investment manager Mark J Kimsey have launched AtmosphereEntertainment, a fully funded production and finance company that already hasseveral theatrical projects in development.The partners plan to producethree to five features a year as well as a television slate and say they haveacquired "substantial" film assets from ...
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Lynton steps in for Calley at SPE
Michael Lyntonhas been named chairman and chief executive officer of Sony PicturesEntertainment (SPE), stepping into the void left by John Calley's retirement inOctober.SPE vicechairman Amy Pascal is promoted to chairman of the motion picture group andwill assume responsibility for all films produced and distributed by SPE. Bothappointments become effective in ...
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Deschanel, Gyllenhaal to present at Sundance Awards
Zooey Deschanel and JakeGyllenhaal will co-host the 2004 Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony on Jan24 2004, which will be broadcast live in the US by Sundance Channel.Both actors are festivalalumni. Deschanel and Gyllenhaal appeared together in The Good Girl (Sundance 2002), Gyllenhaal starred in DonnieDarko (2001) and Deschanel starredin All ...
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Pirates sells 11 million DVD and VHS units in first seven days in US
Pirates Of The Caribbean has scored the biggest home entertainmentlive-action opening week in history after selling 11million DVD and VHS unitsin its first seven days of sales."We couldn't bemore thrilled with the success our home entertainment titles have had thisyear," Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE) president Bob Chapek said ina ...
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New shorts by Jarecki, actor Azaria in Sundance shorts programme
Sundance Film Festivalorganisers have announced a line-up of 86 short films for January's event andwill also introduce a jury prize for international short film-makers.Titles include Just AClown by Capturing The Friedmans director Andrew Jarecki, Nobody's Perfect by the actor Hank Azaria, and Destino, Dominique Monfery's completed animated short thatwas begun ...
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CTFDI crossed the $1bn mark in 2003
Powered by the internationalsuccess of T3, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Bad Boys II, Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) has passed$1bn in ticket sales for 2003.This marks the second timeboth of Sony Pictures Entertainment's international and domestic distributiondivisions have passed the mark after domestic declared $1bn in sales lastmonth.It ...
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Fox adds $11.2m on second weekend for Master And Commander
Master AndCommander pulled inanother $11.2m from international forays at the weekend, raising its internationalcumulative total to $32.8m.Fox International's naval adventure opened top inAustralia on $2.3m from 324 screens.There wereseveral good second weekend holds, with Spain adding $2m and dropping 24% for$5.1m and the UK adding $1.9m in its second wide ...
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Rialto plans 2004 re-release of original Godzilla
New York-based RialtoPictures will re-release Ishiro Honda's original 1954 Japanese version of Godzilla in the US in spring 2004 in all its uncut glory tocoincide with the 50th anniversary of the film and character.The release will feature 40minutes of unseen footage - a far cry from the pared-down 1956 US ...
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Revolutions worldwide total passes $400m
The Matrix Revolutions' worldwide total inched past $400m at the weekend asthe film added just over $6m with 996,503 admissions from 4,682 screens in 59territories.According to Warner BrosInternational, the film has now grossed an estimated $265.1m after five weeksin the international arena and $400.1m worldwide.Looney Tunes: Back InAction took $3.5m ...