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Santa Barbara Film Fest unveils 2003 lineup under Fitzgerald
Ten world premieres areamong the line-up of more than 100 pictures for the 18th Santa BarbaraInternational Film Festival (SBIFF), which also features three new competitivesections - American Independent, Documentary and International. Announcing theprogramme today (Jan 29), SBIFF's new executive director Jon Fitzgerald saidthe event would also screen 11 US premieres ...
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Promark debuts three new Clubhouse Detectives films at AFM
Promark Entertainment Group,Jon Kramer's 15-year-old US and UK-based production and sales outfit, today(Jan 29) announced plans for three further instalments in its ClubhouseDetectives franchise that will beavailable for pre-sales at next month's AFM. Following on from the success of themost recent Clubhouse Detectivespictures, the company plans to begin production on ...
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AFMA hires Michael Kananack to spearhead recruitment drive
Veteran filmsales agent Michael Kananack has been brought in as manager of membershipdevelopment at AFMA to spearhead a recruitment drive for the LA-based tradeassociation, which currently represents 160 independent film and televisionproducers and distributors worldwide. He will report directly to director ofmember services Natasha Berechko.Kananack's arrival comes at an important ...
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Russian Ark breaks Los Angeles theatre foreign language record
US specialist distributorWellspring has reported that Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark has broken a house record at one of thecountry's most prestigious arthouse cinemas. The film has become thebiggest grossing foreign picture ever to screen at Landmark's NuartTheatre in Los Angeles with a $53,967 haul from one week (Jan 3-9).After opening ...
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Palisades pledges $1m to release of Pauly Shore directorial debut
Palisades PicturesEntertainment Group has pledged a $1m print and advertising commitment to PaulyShore's directorial debut, Pauly Shore Is Dead: You'll NeverWiez In This Town Again. Thepicture, which opened the Slamdunk Film Festival in Park City last week, is asemi-autobiographical account of the ups and downs of comedian Shore'scareer and features ...
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Walken gets supporting actor prize at ShoWest 2003
Christopher Walken has beennamed ShoWest 2003's Supporting Actor of the Year. Walken will collecthis honour at the 29th ShoWest's annual gala awards banquet at Bally'sand Paris Hotel in Las Vegas on Mar 6Walken began acting at theage of 10. After training as a dancer and winning several awards for his ...
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Andrew Bovell signs on to adapt Edge Of Darkness for C23 and BBC Films
Australianscreenwriter Andrew Bovell (Lantana, Head On) has signed on to write Catch 23 Entertainmentand BBC Films' feature adaptation of the award-winning BBC drama series, EdgeOf Darkness. Catch 23and BBC Films will co-develop, co-finance and co-produce the project. It will bedirected by the thriller series' original director Martin Campbell, whosefeature credits ...
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Showtime gets US rights to Arquette's Debra Winger doc
ShowtimeNetworks has picked up US rights to Searching For Debra Winger, Rosanna Arquette's documentaryabout the competing demands of motherhood and being a professional actress. Thepicture had a special screening at Cannes last year and was inspired by thestory of Winger, the acclaimed star of Terms Of Endearment and An Officer ...
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Chicago leads the pack in SAG Award nominations
Miramax's Chicago led the pack with five SAG Awardsnominations today (Jan 28), including lead actor and actress nods for GoldenGlobe winners Richard Gere and Renee Zellweger and an ensemble cast nomination.Gere's first SAG Awards nomination pits him against fellow Golden Globewinner Jack Nicholson for About Schmidt, Adrien Brody for The ...
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Radley leaves Lucasfilm, Lucas reorganises
In a bid to promotethe long-term growth of his business interests, George Lucas announced today(Jan 28) that he will consolidate Lucasfilm, Lucas Digital, LucasArtsEntertainment and Lucas Licensing into one company. 'We have a uniquearray of talent in the areas of special effects, sound design, interactivegames, licensing, distribution and marketing. This ...
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Harry Potter 2 is number three of all time
With anestimated international gross of $568.2m, Harry Potter And The Chamber OfSecrets has overtaken JurassicPark as the thirdhighest grossing international release of all time. The family sequel took$7.1m over the weekend and just over one million admissions from 4,000 screensin 53 territories, according to studio estimates. The new total puts ...
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255 market premieres scheduled for AFM next month
The 23rd annualAmerican Film Market (Feb 19 to 26) will screen 402 pictures next month, whentitles such as Portman Films' comedy The Actors, starring Michael Caine and MirandaRichardson, and Overseas Film Group's fantasy Blizzard, starring Brenda Blethyn, ChristopherPlummer and Whoopi Goldberg, will be among the 255 scheduled market premieres.This year ...
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Ammer takes control of international marketing at Sony
Geoffrey Ammer has beennamed president of worldwide marketing for the Columbia TriStar Motion PictureGroup with responsibility for the studio's marketing, publicity andpromotional divisions. He will continue to report to Sony Pictures Entertainment(SPE) vice chairman Jeff Blake, who made the announcement today (Jan 27). Aveteran marketing executive, Ammer joined the company ...
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US Editors Award nominations include Hours, Chicago
This season's awardsfavourites Chicago, The Hours and Gangs Of New York have all been nominated in the 2003 American CinemaEditors (ACE) Eddie Awards, the third oldest Hollywood awards after the Oscarsand the Golden Globes. The winners will beannounced at ACE's 53rd annual gala in Beverly Hills on Feb 23. ...
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Italy's Piero Tosi gets inaugural Costume Designers award
The veteran costume designerPiero Tosi, who has been nominated five times for an Oscar, will receive theinaugural President's Award at the fifth annual Costume Designers Guild(CDG) Awards in Los Angeles on Mar 16. Tosi started out at the age of 22 onLuchino Visconti's Bellissimaand his creations have graced such classic ...
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BAFTA/LA moves tea party to Golden Globe weekend
BAFTA/LA, which hosted its9th Annual Tea Party on Jan 18, has positioned the influential event as ayearly fixture to take place on the Saturday before the Golden Globes.Executives at the UK film and television body's LA affiliate were buoyedby the turn-out at the recent party in Los Angeles, which attracted ...
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Miele, Dudley-Smith promoted at Warner Bros Int'l TV
In a raft ofpromotions at Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD), RonaldW Miele has become executive vice president of business affairs, operations andgeneral counsel and Malcolm Dudley-Smith moves up to executive vice presidentof sales and business development. In addition, Renee I Wolf becomes seniorvice president of business affairs and deputy ...
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Fox opens Hero at top spot in Thailand, Malaysia
Zhang Yimou'sChinese epic Herocontinued its powerful run in the Asian markets over the weekend, openingnumber one for Fox International in Thailand and Malaysia. In Thailand thepicture grossed $479,000 from 107 screens, while Malaysia yielded $192,000 from48. The 10-day cumulative score for the two markets plus Taiwan and Singaporenow stands at ...
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Peter O'Toole gets honorary Oscar
Peter O'Toole will receive an honorary Oscar at the75th Academy Awards on Mar 23. The veteran actor, who has been nominated seventimes for a statuette, was chosen by the board of governors of the Academy OfMotion Picture Arts And Sciences in recognition of his 'exceptionaldistinction in the making of motion ...
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Nine Matrix short films kick off with Osiris
The Final Flight Of The Osiris, Warner Bros and Village RoadshowPictures' first in a series of nine short films envisioned by The Matrix directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, willaccompany the worldwide theatrical release of Warner Bros' supernatural thrillerDreamcatcher on Mar21. Like its counterparts in the nine-film set dubbed The Animatrix, ...