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Ted Turner steps down as AOL Time Warner posts $100bn loss
AOL Time Warnertoday (Jan 29) posted a net loss of nearly $100bn for 2002 - the biggest annualloss in corporate history - after announcing a fourth quarter writedown of$45.5bn that followed a $54bn writedown in the first quarter to cover thecompany's plummeting value. In a separate announcement that adds to ...
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August to attend Scandinavian Festival in Los Angeles
Renowned Danishdirector Bille August, who won the best foreign language Oscar in 1989 for PelleThe Conqueror, willattend the Scandinavian Film Festival LA's gala reception as a guest onJan 31. August is currently in Los Angeles shooting Without Apparent Motive (working title) with Julianne Moore andRichard Gere. The reception will take ...
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Stuparich De La Barra promoted at MDP Worldwide
Tamara Stuparich De La Barra has been promoted to directorof acquisitions at MDP Worldwide Entertainment, the company's chairmanand CEO Mark Damon announced today (Jan 30). Stuparich De La Barra's newresponsibilities will include the evaluation and coordination of all featurefilm submissions as well as overseeing the acquisition of completed films. Shewill ...
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Columbia, McG to make movie based on Mattel toy cars Hot Wheels
Columbia Pictures hasoptioned exclusive rights to develop and produce Hot Wheels, an action-romance based on Mattel's populartoy cars range with McG of Charlie's Angels fame lined up to direct. While story details aresketchy McG gave some clues in a statement released today (Jan 30). 'Wewant to create a timeless story ...
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New Christopher Guest 'mockumentary' to play South By Southwest
ChristopherGuest's folk music 'mockumentary' A Mighty Wind and the Adrien Brody comedy-drama TheDummy are among theline-up for the upcoming 10th Annual South By Southwest Film Conference AndFestival in Austin, Texas. Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, whofamously played clueless rockers in 1984's This Is Spinal Tap, play 1960s folk stars ...
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Samuel Goldwyn, Fireworks to release Dan Ireland's Passionada
Samuel Goldwyn Films andFireworks Pictures announced today (Jan 30) they will distribute DanIreland's Passionada, aMassachusetts-based romance centred on a Portugese-American family, in NorthAmerica. The picture stars Sofia Milos, who has starred in numerous film andtelevision productions including The Sopranos, Jason Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy in HarryPotter And The Chamber ...
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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. ...