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Sahar Elhabashi named evp COO at Conde Nast Entertainment Group
Elhabashi will oversee administrative, financial and strategic planning across all sectors of the division, including feature films, television, digital and distribution. The appointment is effective immediately.
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Tribeca 2012 draws more than 380,000 people
Festival organisers announced the attendance on Monday (Apr 30) for the 11th annual festival in New York City.
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NewsMan stays top in US, Hunger Games crosses $600m global
Screen Gems’ rom-com Think Like A Man grossed an estimated $18m for an excellent $61m. Overall box office fell around 30% against the same weekend last year, although things should pick up when The Avengers opens.
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NewsThe Avengers races to $178.4m international opening weekend
Marvel Studios’ superhero soup scored record-breaking debuts from its launch in 39 territories in the first five days through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International ahead of the May 4 arrival in North America.
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NewsAny Day Now, Burn earn Tribeca audience awards
Travis Fine’s narrative (pictured) and Tom Putnam’s documentary claimed the prizes on Saturday night, earning $25,000 apiece in the first time audience awards were handed out for both disciplines.
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NewsThe Avengers races to $73m int'l tally before weekend
SATURDAY UPDATE: The superhero mash-up has grossed an estimated $73.1m through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International from Wednesday through Friday and is active in 41 territories.
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NewsWorld premiere of Grassroots to close Seattle Int’l Film Festival
Stephen Gyllenhaal’s comedy stars Jason Biggs and will bookend the festival with the previously announced opening night screening of Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister (pictured). The festival is set to run from May 17-Jun 10.
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Working Title extends Universal deal through 2015
The new deal becomes a first-look arrangement rather than the exclusive deal shared by the parties since 1999.
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Hammer options Winchester haunted house story
The Exclusive Media subsidiary will develop and produce with Imagination Design Works (IDW) and Nine/8 Entertainment.
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NewsWar Witch, Una Noche triumph at 11th Tribeca Film Festival
The $25,000 Founders Award for Best narrative feature went to War Witch by Kim Nguyen.
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NewsAndy Garcia, Vera Farmiga to star in Admissions
Garcia will also produce the rom-com through his CineSon Productions. Paradigm Motion Picture Finance Group arranged financing and represents domestic rights while Film Bridge International handles sales on the rest of the world.
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NewsStruck By Lightning among five new titles on Lightning Entertainment slate
The Santa Monica-based company will introduce the Tribeca coming-of-age comedy written by and starring Glee’s Chris Colfer to buyers on the Croisette. Lightning negotiated the deal with ICM and Traction Media.
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Dimension Films acquires US rights to Dark Skies
Scott Stewart wrote and will direct the supernatural thriller, his follow-up to Priest that is being produced by Jason Blum and Alliance Films, which is fully financing. IM Global will commence pre-sales in Cannes through its Octane division.
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NewsAnnapurna enters sales game with Panorama venture
Megan Ellison has invested in the new LA-based production, financing and international sales entity which will arrive in Cannes with a slate that includes Kathryn Bigelow’s (pictured) Bin Laden project Zero Dark Thirty currently shooting, a new film from Spike Jones and Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher.
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NewsWillem Dafoe joins Out Of The Furnace
The two-time Oscar nominee will play the role of John Petty in the crime drama, which started shooting in Braddock, Pennsylvania, on Apr 13.
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Christopher Nolan, Peter Berg in Produced By line-up
The PGA conference in Los Angeles is set to run from Jun 8-10 and will feature on-stage conversations with the filmmakers behind The Dark Knight and Battleship.
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Christopher Nolan, Peter Berg in Produced By line-up
The PGA’s annual conference in Los Angeles is set to run from Jun 8-10 and will feature on-stage conversations with the filmmakers behind The Dark Knight and Battleship.
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NewsCinemaCon: Scorsese, Lee offer gung-ho appraisal of 3D
At a special lunch event on the third day of CinemaCon (25), master directors Martin Scorsese and Ang Lee gave an endorsement of the format that was as good as it gets.
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NewsThe Avengers generates $17.1m in first international forays
UPDATE: The Marvel Studios superhero saga grossed $17.1m on its opening day through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International.
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CinemaCon: panel elicits fresh exchange over texting in theatres
Regal Entertainment Group CEO Amy Miles told attendees at a lively panel on Wednesday (25) that the exhibitor was considering allowing youngster to use their mobile phones during certain films as a way of enticing them to visit theatres more often.