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Ganis acquires feature film rights to Bush docu
Sid Ganis' Out of the Blue... Entertainment has optioned the feature film remake rights to Journeys With George, Alexandra Pelosi's acclaimed video diary of George W Bush's 2000 presidential campaign that will air on HBO on US Election Night, Nov 5. Ganis and Nancy Hult Ganis will produce the feature ...
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Ichino promoted to VP business affairs at Universal
Masako Ichino has been promoted to vice president of business affairs at Universal Pictures. Ichino will continue to negotiate deals for books, screenplays and other source material as well as above-the-line talent agreements for writers, producers, directors and actors. She will also continue to report to Jimmy Horowitz, Universal's executive ...
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MGM takes over own Canadian video distribution
MGM Home Entertainment Group is to assume all Canadian self-distribution responsibilities for video and DVD, taking over from Warner Home Video, president and chief operating officer David Bishop announced yesterday. The extension of operations will begin in April 2003 and will be headed up in Toronto by Martin Wragg, the ...
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Poland's Sobocinski to receive top cinematography prize
The veteran cinematographer Witold Sobocinski is to receive the American Society Of Cinematographer's (ASC) International Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution to international cinema. Sobocinski, who was born in Poland in 1929 and has made more than 30 features mostly seen in Poland and Eastern Europe, is the first recipient ...
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Sundance unveils new grant for science themed films
The Sundance Institute has announced a new grant and a $20,000 prize from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation to develop and reward films that explore science and technology. Each year a selected project from the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program will receive support from development to pre-production with year-round resources. ...
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Box office bells ring for Greek Wedding in Australia
Australia has become the latest territory to be conquered by indie-sensation My Big Fat Greek Wedding, according to co-producer Gold Circle Films.The romantic comedy, directed by Joel Zwick and distributed in Australia by Roadshow, launched straight into number one at the Australian box office over the weekend, grossing $1.9m (A$3.4m) ...
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Ice Age inches closer to $200m after Baltic openings
Ice Age inched closer to $200m in international ticket salesover the weekend as it expanded into the Baltic States, where Fox registeredits best ever bow in Estonia, opening number one on $45,836 from four screens.This was also the industry's second highest opening of all time in Estonia. Theanimated feature also ...
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Austin opens in France, Germany, Austria
New Line International's AustinPowers In Goldmember opened insecond place in Germany over the weekend with $1.6m from 695 screens for a$2,297 per-screen average. The third instalment of the Austin Powers franchise rolled out in Austria on Thursday with$298,392 from 74 screens and a per-screen average of $4,031. In France aWednesday ...
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Cooper promoted at Sundance
John Cooper has beenappointed director of film festival programming at the Sundance Film Fesitval,Sundance Institute executive director Ken Brecher and Sundance Film Festivaldirector Geoffrey Gilmore announced today. Cooper will run the film festivalprogramming team, which includes senior programmer Trevor Groth and programmersShari Frilot and Caroline Libresco, who in addition to ...
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James Harvey named director of distribution at Myriad
James Harvey has beenappointed director of distribution at LA-based production and distributioncompany Myriad Pictures.Harvey will haveresponsibility for supporting all domestic and international sales made byMyriad and will oversee the administration of content and rights management,handle distributor loyalty reporting and manage the corporate database. He willbe based at the corporate headquarters ...
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Modern Entertainment expands into international sales
Modern Entertainment hasannounced it is expanding into worldwide sales and will be offering two newindependent pictures at MIFED, the Australian action thriller The Pact and the US erotic action thriller Fear Of Speed. 'We have been exploringthe market for some time now and we believe that these films offer enormousopportunities. ...
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Modern Entertainment expands into international sales
Modern Entertainment hasannounced it is expanding into worldwide sales and will be offering two newindependent pictures at MIFED, the Australian action thriller The Pact and the US erotic action thriller Fear Of Speed. 'We have been exploringthe market for some time now and we believe that these films offer enormousopportunities. ...
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XXX opens at number one in Japan
Columbia/Revolution's actionthriller XXX opened top of thecharts in Japan over the weekend, grossing $2.45m from 407 screens for aper-theatre average of $6,007. Studio executives expect the picture to play foreight weeks and will be aiming for a final cumulative score above $17m. Thepicture also opened at number one in Sweden ...
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Teenage boys turn out in droves for MTV's Jackass: The Movie
Paramount's high jinks showcase Jackass: The Movie opened top of the charts over the weekend on $22.7m, according to studio estimates released today (Oct 27). The unexpectedly high bow for the big screen adaptation of the MTV stunt series was the third highest October opening of all time and shunted ...
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US producers Kaplan, Daniel, Katz team to form Rainstorm
US producers Steven G Kaplanand Gregg L Daniel have joined forces with entrepreneur Richard Katz to formRainstorm Entertainment, an LA-based independent film production company thataims to make cost-effective movies by original writers and directors. Rainstormis already in post-production on the black comedy, The Big Empty, which it produced with Echo ...
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Jennifer Lopez signs on with Endeavor after ICM split
Jennifer Lopez has signedwith Endeavor for all areas of representation following her recent departurefrom ICM. A statement released today by the Endeavor partners said: 'Weare thrilled to be working with Jennifer Lopez. Jennifer is recognised as oneof today's leading talents of film and music.' She will continue to bemanaged by ...
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Sundance Documentary Fund gives grants to 23 projects
Documentaries exploring themurder of Iranian prostitutes, the rebirth of culture in post-Khmer RougeCambodia and the plight of illegal Mexican workers in the US are among 23recipients of grant funding announced today by the Sundance Documentary Fund (SDF).Formerly known as the Soros Documentary Fund and launched under the auspices ofthe Sundance ...
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Kino picks up US rights to Amen from Pathe
New York-based distributorKino International has picked up US rights to Costa-Gavras' historical thrillerAmen for release in late Jan2003. The picture, sold to Kino by Pathe International (France), received its premiere at the 2002 Berlin FilmFestival and was the opening night film of the 2002 Human Rights Watch FilmFestival.The story is ...
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Myriad takes international rights to Home Room
MyriadPictures has acquired all international rights excluding the US and Canada inall media to the drama-thriller Home Room, starring Erika Christensen, the hot young actress whose creditsinclude Swimfan, The BangerSisters and Traffic, Busy Philipps and Victor Garber. Thepicture was bought from producer's representative Andrew Herwitz, president ofthe recently announced Film ...
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Cohen's Manhattan picks up US rights to 12 Hours
Manhattan PicturesInternational has picked up US rights to Puerto Rican festival favourite 12Hours with an eye on an early March2003 release. Raul Marchand-Sanchez's 93-minute picture was showcased at theTribeca Film Festival and won the Audience Choice Award at the Chicago LatinoFilm Festival. A socially relevant drama, 12 Hours was produced ...