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Alliance Atlantis takes international rights to hot Sundance pic
AllianceAtlantis has acquired international rights, excluding the English-speakingworld and Latin America, to David Gordon Green's All the Real Girls, his second feature following hisaward-winning debut George Washington. The picture, which will receive its world premiere indramatic competition at Sundance and is to screen in the International Forum ofNew Cinema at ...
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Val Kilmer joins the cast of Anselmo's Stateside
Val Kilmer has joined the cast of writer-director RevergeAnselmo's romantic drama Stateside,a joint venture between Anselmo's Seven Hills Pictures and First LookMedia. Already on board are Joe Mantegna, Rachel Leigh Cook, who starred in JosieAnd The Pussycats, Jonathan Tucker, whowill be seen in the upcoming remake of The Texas Chainsaw ...
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Cavu buys worldwide rights to second film The Holy Land
Cavu Pictures,the New York-based independent production and distribution outfit founded byfilm-makers Michael Sergio and Isil Bagdadi, has acquired worldwide rights toits second feature, Eitan Gorlin's award-winning debut The Holy Land. The picture won the Grand Jury Prize forbest Feature Film at the 2002 Slamdance Film Festival and is a coming-of-agetale ...
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Hill promoted to head all Icon UK operations, Mayson joins as COO
Mel Gibson andBruce Davey's Icon Entertainment is reorganizing its UK operation, namingNick Hill, former CEO of Icon Film Distribution Ltd (IFDL), as CEO of the UKIcon Group which includes both IFDL and the company's international salesand distribution arm Icon Entertainment International.UK distributionveteran Hill joined Icon in 1999 from his position ...
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Gold Circle launches domestic distribution arm
Paul Brooks, theLondon-born producer and president of financing, production and internationalsales outfit Gold Circle Films, which co-funded 2001's smash hit MyBig Fat Greek Wedding,announced today (Jan 14) the launch of domestic theatrical distributor GoldCircle Releasing. While independent distribution is a notoriously treacherousbusiness, Brooks, who founded UK distributor Metrodome in the ...
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Verdone comedy hits gold for Warner Bros in Italy
Warner Bros' driveinto international production and acquisitions got a seal of approval at thebox office over the weekend when the studio's first Italian-languageco-production, Ma Che Colpa Abbiamo Noi (It Can't Be All Our Fault), opened number one in Italy on $1.7m (Euros 1.6m). The comedy-dramadrew 277,744 admissions from 245 screens ...
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Schlessel named Columbia president in SPE restructure
In a raft ofpromotions rewarding key players in last year's record-breakingperformance by Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Peter Schlessel has beennamed president of Columbia Pictures and Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach havebeen named co-presidents of production at the studio. SPE earned more than$1.57bn at the domestic box office last year, an ...
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Five gay features win completion funding from Frameline/Horizons
Frameline, which each year presents the San FranciscoInternational Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, and philanthropic body Horizonshave named five feature projects as recipients of the 2002 Horizons/FramelineCompletion Fund. The fund was set up 10 years ago to help gay, lesbian,bisexual and transgender media artists with the final stages of production. ...
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Pauly Shore's directorial debut opens Slamdunk Film Festival
Actor-comedian Pauly Shore's feature directorial debut, You'llNever Wiez In This Town Again, leads an eclectic line-up of seven features and 27 shorts forthe 2003 Slamdunk Film Festival. Billed as a semi-autobiographical slapstickstory, Shore plays a man who loses everything he knows and has to work his wayback into the entertainment ...
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007 glides past $200m for Fox and MGM
Die AnotherDay passed $200m ininternational ticket sales today (Jan 13) after another storming weekend thatyielded $8.62m and another batch of records for distributor Fox International.Opening in Holland, the picture shunted The Lord Of The Rings: The TwoTowers off top spot witha tremendous $1.45m bow that included previews ($110,000). It was ...
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Doc-maker Alexandra Pelosi signs output deal with HBO
HBO has signed JourneysWith George directorAlexandra Pelosi and her company Purple Monkey Productions to an exclusivetwo-year output deal, it was announced today (Jan 13). Pelosi will produce anddirect documentary specials for HBO that will focus on the American politicalprocess following her acclaimed production Journeys with George, which debuted on the ...
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Richard Crudo named president of ASC
Richard Crudo,whose credits include American Pie and Down To Earth, has been elected president of the American Society ofCinematographers (ASC). Crudo is among the vanguard of a younger generation ofcinematographers and said his election was 'humbling', adding thathe was committed to the ASC's mission to 'inspire and recogniseinnovation and artistic ...
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Sundance NHK Filmmakers Award winners named
Yesim Ustaoglu,Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, Michael Kang and Mai Tominaga have beennamed as the winners of the 2003 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards,the annual honour launched in 1996 to recognise emerging internationaldirectors. The four, who were each chosen from a separate global region, willreceive a $10,000 cash award to ...
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Gangs opens big in UK, France, continues big in Japan
Gangs Of New York opened in five international markets over theweekend, including a strong three-day $4.2m bow on 385 screens in the UKthrough Entertainment Film Distributors (£2.6m in local currency), rankingsecond nationwide and first in London's West End and in Ireland. MartinScorsese's three-hour epic opened at number one in France ...
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MAC Releasing gets P&A financing from Nazarian's Samy Boy Films
Samy Boy Filmsis to provide prints and advertising co-financing for independent USdistributor MAC Releasing's next 10 theatrical releases, under a newfinancing deal announced by the fledgling companies today (Jan 13).'I amhappy to be partnered with MAC. My strategy for Samy Boy Films is to team withstrong niche players, and MAC's ...
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Starz renews US pay TV output deal with Warren Miller
US pay TV channeloperator Starz Encore Group has extended its exclusive output deal with WarrenMiller Entertainment, the film and TV production company that specialises inskiing and snowboarding documentaries, to include two recently releasedtheatrical pictures and two projects still in production. The released titlesare: Cold Fusion (2001)which came out last year ...
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John McMahon promoted to senior evp at Sony TV Europe
John McMahon has beenpromoted to senior executive vice president, managing director for SonyPictures Television International's (SPTI) European operations, it wasannounced today (Jan 13). McMahon will be chiefly responsible for developingand overseeing a growing confluence between SPTI and other Sony'sinternational divisions like Sony Electronics and Sony Playstation. Prior tohis promotion, McMahon, ...
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Yoji Ikushima is ShoWest International Exhibitor of the Year.
Yoji Ikushima,managing director of leading Japanese exhibitor Warner Mycal Corporation, hasbeen named ShoWest 2003's International Exhibitor of the Year, it wasannounced today (Jan 14) by Robert Sunshine, chairman of ShoWest operatorSunshine Group Worldwide. Ikushima will receive his award at the InternationalDay Luncheon on Mar 3, the opening day of ShoWest ...
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Fox's Just Married kickstarts the new year
Fox's slapstick comedy Just Married opened number one over the weekendon $18m, according to studio estimates released today (Jan 12). The lowbrowpicture's debut means the studio has already recouped its low budget productioncosts - which were in the region of $18m - and cocked a snoot at the criticsthat lambasted ...
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Sarasota Film Festival kicks off Jan 24 with Kiss The Bride
The fifthSarasota Film Festival (SFF), which runs from Jan 24-Feb 2 with a programme ofinternational and US independent features, shorts, documentaries, student filmsand educational events, will open with Vanessa Parise's romance-drama KissThe Bride, starringAmanda Detmer, Sean Patrick Flanery and Talia Shire. Announcing the line-uptoday (Jan 9), event organisers said they ...