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Eliasoph named new head of Warner China
Ellen R Eliasophhas been appointed to the new post of managing director of China at Warner BrosPictures International.Eliasoph willset up and run a company office in Shanghai, from where she will oversee thesubsidiary's Beijing office as well as its Hong Kong-based productionsand acquisitions staff.Herresponsibilities will include supervising the studio's theatricaldistribution ...
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Sony revamps worldwide financial services dept
As part of itsongoing drive to consolidate marketing and distribution, Sony PicturesReleasing's (SPR) financial services department is expanding to handleservices including accounts receivable and worldwide collection.Eileen Lomis,senior vice president of worldwide theatrical financial administration for theColumbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, will oversee the division'sexpansion.Lomis, a 25-yearveteran of Columbia, TriStar and ...
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Scott Caan's Dallas 362 wins top prize at CineVegas
Scott Caan's Dallas 362 took the Critics Award and Juliette Marquis, the star of ThisGirl's Life won aspecial Newcomer Actor Award at the fifth annual CineVegas International FilmFestival, which closed on Saturday (Jun 21).Dallas 362is a semi-autobiographical account exploring the dynamics of the modernAmerican family and the search for belonging. ...
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Crude, Magdalene Sisters win honours in LA
Paxton Winters' sardonic road movie Crude won the Target Filmmaker Award for BestNarrative Feature at the ninth IFP Los Angeles Film Festival, which ran fromJun 11-21.The festival jury gave the Target Documentary Award for BestDocumentary Feature to Tracy Droz Tragos' Be Good, Smile Pretty, a personal tribute to the film-maker'sfather ...
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Mosaic to produce six urban movies for HBO Films
LA entertainment groupMosaic Media Group has pre-sold a series of six urban films to HBO that will bewritten and directed by new film-makers.One of the first ideas underdiscussion is an untitled surreal love triangle and musical inspired by hip-hopduo Outkast's upcoming album SpeakerBox/The Love Below.The project will mark thefeature directorial ...
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The Hulk rampages to $62.6m for Universal
Universal's The Hulk turned its studio rivals green with envy over the weekend as thenumber one comic book adaptation clobbered the June opening record with anestimated $62.6m.Ang Lee's film sees Eric Bana as the troubled research scientistprone to unseemly temper tantrums. Jennifer Connelly and Nick Nolte co-star,while the Hulk himself ...
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It's Initial from now on, IEG is out, says Los Angeles company
Following its recent adoption of a new company logo,Graham King's independent finance, production and distribution companyInitial Entertainment Group has announced that it will no longer be known asIEG.Hereafter, the company has said, it will be known by itsfull name or as Initial but no longer by the acronym IEG.Recent creditsfor ...
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William Fraker to receive special honour at Lodz
Pioneering cinematographerWilliam A Fraker is to receive the Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award at the11th Annual International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, whichruns in Lodz, Poland, from Nov 29-Dec 6.Born in Los Angeles in Sep1923, Fraker graduated from the University of Southern California with a degreein film-making and eventually ...
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2 Fast 2 Furious revs up in international second week
Going into itssecond week Universal's 2 Fast 2 Furious added $5.2m from 840 theatres in sixterritories over the weekend to raise its international running total to $9.9m.In a slew ofstrong bows the street-racing sequel opened number one in Mexico on $1.8m from363 sites, registering 39% market share for Universal's seventh ...
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LA Cinema Libre unveil ambitious plans for film-making collective
In a bid to nurture artisticfreedom among "politically charged and socially conscious" film-makers a groupof independent LA-based directors, producers and investors has formed a newmovement called Cinema Libre.Cinema Libre's ambitious plans include a production slate,international distribution network, the non-profit Cinema Libre Foundation -due to open later this year - and ...
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Vitagraph, American Cinematheque take on US rights to Bubba
American CinemathequePresents and Vitagraph Films have acquired US distribution rights to DonCoscarelli's comedy-horror film Bubba Ho-Tep which they will release in New York on Sept 26 andLos Angeles on Oct 2.Bruce Campbell, who starredin Sam Raimi's seminal horror film The Evil Dead, stars as an elderly Elvis who drives out ...
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Picture This takes US rights on Girod's Gender Bias
Picture This!Entertainment has acquired all US rights and Canadian video/DVD rights toFrancis Girod's transsexual thriller Gender Bias, with theatrical release set for summer2004.Based onBrigitte Aubert's novel Transfixions, the film was released through Pyramide SA in France as MauvaisGenre and this weekreceived its US premiere at San Francisco's (Frameline) InternationalLesbian and ...
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Yari teams with Ovation for Duchovny's directorial debut
Ovation Entertainment and Bob Yari Productions haveteamed up to finance and produce David Duchovny's writing and directorialdebut House of D, a magical fable set ina New York that no longer exists.The storycentres on a man's attempts to make peace with his past and present andstars Duchovny, Robin Williams, Tyler Hoechlin ...
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IFSI sells horror House to Metropolitan, Redbus, others
Interactive Film Sales International (IFSI) closed a raft offoreign sales at Cannes on House Of The Dead, the horror feature from Germanproduction and finance fund Boll KG and Mindfire Entertainment. IFSI, the exclusive sales agent for Boll KG, sold the zombie storyto Metropolitan in France, Manga in Spain, Redbus (formerly ...
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Whale Rider wins another audience prize - at Maui
Niki Caro's coming-of-age story Whale Rider won the Audience Award in the dramaticfeature category at the fourth Maui Film Festival at Wailea, which ended onSunday (Jun 15).Dana Brown's paean to surfing Step Into Liquid won the Audience Award for bestdocumentary.Most,Bobby Garabedian's story of a railroad bridge-tender who learns he is ...
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Humantias shortlist includes Pianist and Antwone Fisher
Jim Sheridan (In America) and Niki Caro (Whale Rider) are among 41 writers vying for $105,000in prize money in this year's 29th Humanitas Prize.Overall there are 41 entrants in seven categories encompassingfilm and television, from which seven theatrical screenwriters will contest thefeature film and Sundance feature film categories.Nominations in the ...
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Reloaded grabs another $22m for $347m total
Warner Bros International's The Matrix Reloaded grossed an estimated $22m over the weekend, raising its projected cumulative score to $347m.In its second weekend in Japan the sci-fi sequel took around $9m (Yen 1bn), representing a 20% drop-off from the record opening weekend.It was the third or fourth biggest second weekend ...
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Cage gets lifetime award at Chicago Film Festival
Nicolas Cage is to receive the Career Achievement Award at the 39th Chicago International Film Festival's Summer Gala on Jul 19.Cage won the best actor Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas in 1996 for which he also won the Golden Globe, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film ...
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Back to the top for Pixar megahit Nemo
Buena Vista/Pixar's underwater adventure Finding Nemo resurfaced at the top of the chart over the weekend, grossing an estimated $29.2m going into its third week on release.The animated yarn has amassed $192.3m and is expected to finish in the $275m-$300m range, which would surpass the Pixar record set in 2001 ...
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Hopkins misses Maui festival tribute
A last minute family emergency forced Sir Anthony Hopkins to cancel his trip to the fourth Maui Film Festival this weekend, where he was due to collect the Silversword Award Tribute. "We wish Sir Anthony well and would love to present the award to him next year," Barry Rivers, executive ...