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Everest crosses $120m after five years
MacGillivray Freeman Films (MFF) has declared that Everest is now the highest grossing documentary of all time, amassing more than $120.6m in worldwide box office since it went on continual release on Mar 6 1998. Throughout its run Everest, a harrowing account of an ascent by three climbers in 1996, ...
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Skyy Vodka launches short film competition
Skyy Vodka has inaugurated a short film competition in which finalists have three days to make a five-minute film based on the same script. Entrants to the Skyy Vodka Short Film Project need to submit a videotaped pitch outlining why they want to direct and citing their favourite director. Three ...
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Palm pacts with Lions Gate for US home video release
Palm Pictures and Lions Gate Home Entertainment have struck a new distribution deal under which all Palm Pictures' new and select catalogue live action home video releases will be distributed and sold by Lions Gate Entertainment in the US. The announcement was made jointly by Paul DeGooyer, general manager of ...
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Darkness Falls a surprise hit for Columbia/Revolution
Columbia scored its first numberone of the year as Revolution Studios' $11m horror picture Darkness Falls opened at the top on $12.5m, according to studio estimatesreleased today (Jan 26). The story centres on a young man who is stalked by theTooth Fairy and stars Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield and Joshua ...
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New Line has record $1bn domestic home entertainment year
New Line Home Entertainment announced today (Jan 23) its highest level of annual shipments since it formed 10 years ago, with more than $1bn in gross sales in North America, 74% of which was attributable to DVD. The achievement was driven chiefly by The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship ...
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IFM picks up The Turner Affair for AFM
Anthony I Ginnane and Ann Lyons' film and TV sales outfit IFM has picked up worldwide rights to the mystery thriller The Turner Affair, which is set to receive its world premiere at AFM next month. Filmed in Queensland, Australia, the picture centres on the aftermath of a scheming couple's ...
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Conrad Hall among ASC nominees for Road To Perdition
The late Conrad Hall is among five nominations announced today (Jan 23) by the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) for its Outstanding Achievement Award. Hall is posthumously nominated for his work on Road To Perdition, while the rest of the line-up is Michael Ballhaus for Gangs of New York, Pawel ...
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Chris Aronson joins MGM Distribution as evp and general sales manager
MGM Distribution has appointed industry veteran Chris Aronson as executive vice president and general sales manager, it was announced today (Jan 23) by Erik Lomis, president of MGM Distribution. Aronson will be responsible for the sales and distribution of both MGM Pictures and United Artists theatrical releases within the US ...
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Kirk Douglas signs to The Illusion for Entitled
Kirk Douglas has joined the cast of The Illusion for production house Entitled Entertainment, it was announced today (Jan 22) by partners James Burke and Scott Disharoon. Burke and Disharoon, along with Kevin Weisman and Anahid Nazarian, will serve as producers on the film, which marks actor Michael Goorjian's directorial ...
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Scorsese, Polanski make shortlist for the DGA Award
Golden Globe winner Martin Scorsese received the second boost in two days to his Oscar campaign when he was today (Jan 21) named among five nominees for the top Directors Guild of America (DGA) award, a near iron-clad barometer of Academy Award success. Fresh from winning his first Golden Globe ...
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Two Towers breaks Italian opening record
New Line International's The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers scored the biggest bow of all time in Italy over the weekend as it opened on a staggering $9.4m. The second instalment of Peter Jackson's J R R Tolkien adaptation averaged $11,773 from 800 screens after opening on Jan ...
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Kaurismaki wins Palm Springs FIPRESCI prize
The 14th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival ended yesterday (Jan 20) with Finland's The Man With A Past by Aki Kaurismaki winning the FIPRESCI prize for Best Official Foreign Language Film of the Year. In other awards, Nir Bergman won the new John Schlesinger Award for debut feature film ...
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Kangaroo Jack hops to the top for Disney and Bruckheimer
With so many class acts in contention for the Golden Globes today(Jan 19) it was little surprise that audiences craved some throatier laughsover the weekend, propelling Warner Bros' Kangaroo Jack and Columbia's National Security into first and second places on$17.7m and $15.7m respectively. The two openers shunted last week's topper, ...
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Kangaroo Jack hops to the top for Warner, Bruckheimer
With so many class acts in contention for the Golden Globes today(Jan 19) it was little surprise that audiences craved some throatier laughsover the weekend, propelling Warner Bros' Kangaroo Jack and Columbia's National Security into first and second places on $17.7mand $15.7m respectively. The two openers shunted last week's topper, ...
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8 Mile has record-breaking Australian opening day
Universal continued its impressive international roll-out of 8 Mile with a record bow in Australia today (Jan 16), where the rap drama's $975,000 (A$1.7m) one-day haul marked the biggest January opening in Australian box office history. It was also distributor UIP's biggest ever opening in the territory - beating Meet ...
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Scorsese gets US DGA Lifetime Achievement Award
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) will bestow its highest honour on Martin Scorsese when it presents the veteran film-maker with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 55th Annual DGA Awards on Mar 1. Announcing the decision today (Jan 16), DGA president Martha Coolidge said this would be only the ...
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Amy Israel named production chief of The Orphanage
LA post-production house The Orphanage has appointed independent producer Amy Israel as head of production. Israel, the former senior vice president of acquisitions and co-productions at Miramax, will oversee a broad range of film-maker-driven projects as the company seeks to develop its production slate. While budgets will vary, all productions ...
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PGA omits Hours, Pianist, Schmidt
Adaptation, Chicago, Gangs Of New York, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Road To Perdition and The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers will chase the main theatrical honour at the 14th Producers Guild of America Annual Awards on Mar 2. The six pictures were nominated today (Jan 16) for ...
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Alan Cumming to adapt his own novel for Bar Code Productions
Film rights to Alan Cumming's semi-autobiographical novel Tommy's Tale have been acquired by the newly-launched New York production company Bar Code Productions. The Scottish actor will produce the picture with Bar Code co-founders Aimee Shieh and Lisa Raden. Published by ReganBooks in the US in August, Tommy's Tale centres on ...
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Production designer Mel Bourne dies aged 79
Mel Bourne, theproduction designer and longtime Woody Allen collaborator who received threeOscar nominations during his career, has died in New York. He was 79. He was born inChicago on Nov 22, 1923, and after serving in the Second World War became anassistant to the legendary theatrical designer Robert Edmond Jones ...