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Ridley reopens Black Dahlia murder case for Lions Gate
John Ridley, whose writing credits include Undercover Brother and U-Turn, is to direct the thriller Let MeTake You Down for LionsGate Films, the company announced Based on an original screenplay by Ridley, the projectcentres on a Hollywood coroner's office worker who attempts to reopen thelegendary 1947 Black Dahlia murder case.Ridley ...
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Ex-Miramax buyer Dreyer joins Sperry's Paris office
Elizabeth Dreyer, who most recently served as Miramax'sLondon-based film buyer, has joined Stephane Sperry's Liaisons Films as vicepresident of development and acquisitions.Dreyer will work out of Liaisons' Paris office and her duties willinvolve coordinating with the company's Los Angeles office, Canal Plus,StudioCanal and parent company Universal Pictures. Liaisons has a ...
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Spyglass hires Sortito to tap corporate sponsors
Marketing veteran Karen Sortito has joined Spyglass Entertainmentin the new position of executive vice president of worldwide marketing,Most recently she served as an entertainment consultant forHollywood studios and production companies, where her clients included SonyPictures Entertainment, Revolution Studios and IMAX.Prior to that her previous appointments have included, amongothers, executive vice ...
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Johnny English holds up strongly against X2
Universal's smash spy spoof Johnny English has hoisted its international runningtotal to $90.5m after 25 days on release, adding $8.2m from 3,000 theatres in37 countries over the weekend, according to estimates.The comedy placed second in the international market behind Fox's X2:X-Men United and managedseveral decent holds despite the global mutant ...
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X2 global rampage keeps pirates at bay
20th Century Fox's X2: X-Men United grossed an emphatic $69,270,300 outside North America this past weekend in what was the most ambitious - and most lucrative - day-and-date global release ever staged by a studio.Adding in the simultaneous $85,558,731 taken in domestically, the global total of $154,829,031 for X2 represents ...
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Euro cinema classics set for US re-issue
New York-based Rialto Pictures has acquired US theatrical, videoand DVD rights to seven classic titles from the StudioCanal library vaultsincluding works by Jean-Luc Godard, Vittorio De Sica, Alain Resnais andJean-Pierre Melville.A theatrical run of the restored films will kick off withGodard's romantic comedy A Woman Is A Womanat New York's ...
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Streetsweeper cleans up at LA Italian festival
The Streetsweeper, a low budget American drama by James Hill that took five yearsto make, was named best picture at the 5th annual Los Angeles Italian FilmAwards at the weekend (May 4).Broadway veteran Paul Michael stars as a man who honourshis wife's dying wish by cleaning streets in order to ...
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Prewitt, Wolf sign new contracts at AFMA till 2006
Jean Prewitt will continueas president and chief executive officer of AFMA and Jonathan Wolf will retainhis position as AFMA executive vice president and managing director of the AFMfollowing a unanimous vote by the board of directors. "Our board moved early andenthusiastically to ensure Jean and Jonathan's continued presence," MichaelRyan, chairman ...
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Veneziano is back at Alliance Atlantis, moves from LA to London
ArielVeneziano has been appointed director of motion picture sales and internationalhome video distribution at Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group, president ofdistribution Ted Riley announced today (May 2).Effective immediately,Veneziano will be based in the company's London office where he willoversee European film sales and worldwide home video distribution (excludingNorth America).He will report ...
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Sheridan to receive BAFTA/LA award of excellence in Nov
Jim Sheridan is to behonoured with BAFTA/LA's John Schlesinger Britannia Award for ArtisticExcellence at the 2004 Britannia Awards in Beverly Hills on Nov 4. In a statement BAFTA/LAchairman Gary Dartnall paid tribute to the film-maker for creating "some of themost affecting cinema in history". Sheridan's work has garneredtwo Academy Awards ...
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Plummer joins Farrell in Malick's New World cast for New Line
Christopher Plummer, whosemyriad credits include A Beautiful Mind, The Sound Of Music and The Insider, will join Colin Farrell in Terrence Malick's upcoming epic The NewWorld for New Line. Plummer will play CaptainChristopher Newport, an English officer who is among the first settlers in theNew World and who becomes president ...
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Hopkins receives tribute at Maui Film Festival
Anthony Hopkinswill receive the Silversword Award Tribute at the 4th Annual Maui Film Festivalat Wailea, Hawaii, which runs from Jun 11-15.The honour,named after a rare indigenous plant, goes to actors or film-makers whosecontributions to cinema and their personal commitment affect positive change inthe world. Clint Eastwood collected the accolade last ...
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X2 marks the spot with $155.2m worldwide opening
X marked the spot for 20th Century Fox over the weekend as the hugely anticipated comic book sequel X2: X-Men United raised the curtain on the summer season in spectacular style, storming to number one on an estimated $85.9m.Bryan Singer's follow-up to his 2000 worldwide smash X-Men also grossed an ...
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X2 marks the spot with $155m worldwide opening
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Marketing vet Kalish in filmmaking foray
Ambergate Associates, the outfit spearheaded by veteran marketing consultant Eddie Kalish, is expanding its activities to include film and television development and production, music management and live event presentation.In co-production with writer-producer Elliot Geisinger's (Amityville Horror, The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia, Child's Play) Gem Films, Ambergate is ...
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Hollywood prays for summer salvation
When 20th Century Fox's X2: X-Men United opens in the US (and 92 other territories) this weekend, it will trigger the start of a nervously anticipated domestic summer season.Box office in the first quarter of this year has been sluggish, casting doubts over whether 2002's all-time record of $3.16bn in ...
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US puts Taiwan and Russia on its Priority anti-piracy list
In anendorsement of the Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA)inchoate anti-piracy strategy, the United States Trade Representative hasplaced Taiwan and Russia on its global Priority Watch List.AmbassadorRobert Zoellick's Special 301 annual review, named after the section ofthe 1988 Trade Act that empowers the US to act against countries that block ...
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Whale Rider and The Cuckoo tie for San Francisco Festival audience award
NikiCaro's drama Whale Rider and Alexander Roqozhkin's Russian anti-war comedy The Cuckoo tied for first place in lastnight's (May 1) Virginmega Audience Awards at the 46th San FranciscoInternational Film Festival.Runner-up wentto Chen Kaige's rites-of-passage Chinese drama Together. Best documentary feature went to HeartOf The Sea: Kapolioka'Ehukai, a profile of the ...
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GreeneStreet, Kimmel team for Slow Burn
GreeneStreet Films and Sidney Kimmel Entertainmentannounced today (May 1) that they will co-finance writer-director WayneBeach's thriller Slow Burn in aco-production deal with Bonnie Timmermann Productions.The actioncentres on an ambitious district attorney who has a 24-hour showdown with apowerful gang leader.Ray Liotta andLL Cool J will star in the project. Liotta ...
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Julie Spielberg joins MGM theatrical business affairs
Julie Spielberghas been appointed senior vice president of legal affairs for MGM'stheatrical business affairs division, the studio's executive vicepresident of theatrical business affairs Jonathan Bader announced today (Apr30).In her new postSpielberg will be involved in all aspects of theatrical business and legalaffairs related to MGM's film production activities, talent andfilm-maker ...