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Susan Wrubel leaves Madstone for Emerging Pictures
Emerging Pictures, the New York-based production, representation and exhibition outfit run by Ira Deutchman, has hired former Madstone Films vice president of acquisitions Susan Wrubel in a scouting drive before the Sundance Film Festival. Wrubel will act as consultant to seek out one or two pictures for representation at the ...
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Lucas, Valenti, Evans among PGA award honorees
George Lucas, Jack Valenti, Rita Wilson and Robert Evans will receive special honours at the 14th Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards on Jan 16, 2003. Lucas will receive the second annual Vanguard Award in recognition of outstanding achievement in new media and technology. The film-maker said in a statement ...
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Six LA managers team for new management outfit
Influential LA managers Suzan Bymel, Guymon Casady, Eric Kranzler, Evelyn O'Neill, Daniel Rappaport and David Seltzer have joined forces to create an as yet unnamed powerhouse management outfit. A brief group statement issued today read: "The six of us were drawn together by our shared philosophy, values and sensibilities." Before ...
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Eastwood to get SAG lifetime achievement award
The veteran actor-director-producer Clint Eastwood is to receive the 39th Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Life Achievement Award in recognition of his career and humanitarian accomplishments. The accolade goes each year to an actor who is deemed to foster the highest ideals of the profession and will be presented at the ...
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Universal, Network Ten extend free TV deal in Australia
Universal and Australia's free-to-air Network Ten television broadcaster have extended their agreement for exclusive free terrestrial television rights to the studio's content in Australia. Pictures such as American Pie 2, The Bourne Identity, new releases like 8 Mile and select series from Universal's television slate will go out to Australia's ...
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12 finalists named for Sundance/NHK Award
The Sundance Institute and public Japanese broadcaster NHK today announced the 12 finalists for the 2003 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards. The annual award goes to an emerging international film-maker and is designed to help them with their next project. Each finalist is eligible to win a cash award of $10,000 ...
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Double Vision nears $2m after three weeks in Taiwan
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI)'s Double Vision followed its chart-topping $1m record opening for a thriller in Taiwan with an impressive third weekend $67,968 haul that brings its cumulative score to $1.91m nationwide including previews. The picture, which is billed as Seven with a Taoist twist, took $1m including ...
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Talk To Her prospers for Fox in Latin America
Fox's Ice Age is expected to pass $200m by the end of November after a $142,800 weekend haul raised its international cumulative total to $198.8m. The animated picture will get a boost once it resumes its run in China following a nationwide blackout on foreign pictures declared by the government ...
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BVI scores with exclusive Treasure Planet run in France
Buena Vista International (BVI) opened Treasure Planet in an exclusive presentation in France, grossing a worthy $280,000. The animated feature is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel Treasure Island and is scheduled to open in the US on Nov 29. Signs took $3.6m over the weekend for a $166m ...
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XXX crosses $100m barrier for CTFDI
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International's XXX passed $100m toward the end of last week and now has an international running total of $110m after a $7.1m haul on 3,100 screens over the weekend. The action thriller opened number one in Argentina where enduring economic instability meant that $110,000 from 61 ...
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Film Momentum takes US rights to Last Party 2000
Film Momentum, Larry Meistrich's subscription-based distribution company, has acquired all US rights to Last Party 2000, the election campaign documentary narrated by Philip Seymour Hoffman. In the full-length picture Hoffman takes a behind-the-scenes look at electioneering and the American political process as he interviews politicians, activists and celebrities at Democratic ...
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Warner Bros sails past billion dollar mark overseas
Driven by the global success of Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone and Ocean's Eleven, Warner Bros Pictures announced that it has passed the $1bn mark in international markets.In the year to date, the division has taken $1.006bn at the international box office. It is the fifth time it ...
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Till confirmed as head of UIP
In a move that ends weeks of speculation and will have confirmed the suspicions of many in the industry, Stewart Till has been appointed chairman and chief executive officer of United International Pictures (UIP). The announcement was made today by Rob Friedman, chief operating officer at Paramount Pictures and vice ...
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Female lead cast for Dirty Dancing 2
Romola Garai has signed as the female lead in Artisan Entertainment and Miramax Films' Havana Nights: Dirty Dancing 2. Garai, whose credits include Nicholas Nickleby and the BBC's I Capture The Castle, will star opposite Diego Luna. Directed by Guy Ferland and produced by Lawrence Bender, the story is set ...
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Star Wars: Episode II gets IMAX boost
Fox's Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones reaped the rewards of a limited IMAX roll-out in North America over the weekend, grossing $1.4m from 58 screens for a $24,746 per-screen average. Fox president of domestic distribution Bruce Snyder said in a statement that he was thrilled with ...
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Buena Vista Int'l enjoys the weekend
Signs grossed $6.3m over the weekend for Buena Vista International (BVI) to bring its international running total to $162m. The supernatural thriller produced BVI's biggest ever opening in Greece, where it scored $650,000 from 53 screens and was roughly 60% higher than the opening for director M Night Shyamalan's previous ...
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Fox sees international releases reap rewards
In addition to Fox Searchlight's apocalyptic thriller 28 Days Later taking the UK box office by storm, the company enjoyed a number of other successes over the weekendFox scored the highest ever debut for a Pedro Almodovar picture in Brazil, opening Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) on 65 screens ...
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XXX thrills Italy, battles 28 Days Later in UK
XXX is expected to pass the international $100m mark by the end of the week after a $12.4m weekend haul that gives the Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) action thriller a $96m running total. The picture opened in Italy with $2m from 330 screens, comparing favourably to previous openings ...
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Christmas comes early as Santa Clause 2 flies atop the box office
Disney's The Santa Clause 2 brought some advance Yuletide magic to the North American box office over the weekend with a number one $29m opening, according to studio estimates released today (Nov 3). The debut was more than double that grossed by Columbia's action-comedy opener I Spy, which disappointed with ...
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Christmas comes early as Santa Clause 2 flies atop the box office
Disney's The Santa Clause 2 brought some advance Yuletide magic to the North American box office over the weekend with a number one $29m opening, according to studio estimates released today (Nov 3). The debut was more than double that grossed by Columbia's action-comedy opener I Spy, which disappointed with ...