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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, ...
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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, ...