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All articles by John Hazelton – Page 102
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NewsPGA Lear award for Hanks and Goetzman
Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are to receive the Producers Guild of America’s 2011 Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television, to be presented at Producers Guild Awards ceremony on January 22 in Los Angeles.
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Ifans to play Spider-Man villain
Rhys Ifans is to play the villain in Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios’ new installment of Spider-Man, though the filmmakers have not revealed which character that will be.
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NewsKing's Speech takes Hamptons award
Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech has won the narrative audience award at the Hampton’s International Film Festival.
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NewsIFC takes Myth for North America-plus
IFC Films has acquired North American and select international rights - including East-Central Europe and the Middle East - to David Robert Mitchell’s drama The Myth of the American Sleepover.
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NewsEat Pray, Despicable lead international pack
Eat Pray Love and Despicable Me were the big earners at the international box office this weekend, while TheSocial Network started its international run with a second-place opening in Germany.
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NewsSocial Network shows legs at US box office
The Social Network dropped only 30.9% at the North American box office this weekend, taking a chart-topping $15.5m and holding off competition from three new releases.
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Hansen joins CBS Films
CBS Films has appointed Suzanne Hansen as vice president of exhibitor relations and promoted David Hawkins to manager of exhibitor relations.
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Kristofferson joins Dolphin Tale
Kris Kristofferson is joining the cast of Dolphin Tale, Alcon Entertainment’s 3D family film for Warner Bros, currently filming in Florida.
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No 3D for Deathly Hallows Part 1
Warner Bros Pictures has dropped its plan to do a 3D conversion of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 in time for the film’s scheduled November 19 release.
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O'Hair to head production at Parallel
Parallel Media has hired Tim O’Hair as head of production. O’Hair was previously a senior agent in the motion picture finance group at Paradigm.
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NewsSocial Network debuts on close-fought international weekend
Buzz-producing awards contender The Social Network has its first international opening this weekend, though it is not likely to be among the handful of US studio films dividing up most of the spoils at the international box office.
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NewsMGM details reorganisation plan
MGM has unveiled details of the bankruptcy plan which, if approved, will leave the long-beleaguered studio mostly owned by its lenders and headed, as expected, by Spyglass Entertainment chiefs Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum.
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NewsKino nabs The Robber for US
Kino International has acquired all US rights to Benjamin Heisenberg’s Austrian thriller The Robber (der Rauber), which screened last week at the New York Film Festival.
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Vaughan to direct GreeneStreet/Das' Boomsday
Tom Vaughan (What Happens in Vegas) is to direct GreeneStreet Films and Das Films’ Boomsday, adapted from the Christopher Buckley comic novel.
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ThinkFilm, Capitol declared bankrupt by US judge
ThinkFilm and Capitol Films Development, two of the companies in financier David Bergstein’s troubled film empire, have been effectively pushed into bankruptcy by a US Federal judge.
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Drake keynote speaker at Filmmaker Forum
Lionsgate motion picture group president Joe Drake will be the keynote speaker at Film Independent’s sixth annual Filmmaker Forum, to be held October 29-31 at the Directors Guild of America headquarters in Los Angeles.
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NewsParticipant, Imagenation join Madden's Marigold
Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi have come aboard to co-finance Fox Searchlight’s comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which director John Madden (pictured) will start shooting this week in India with a cast led by Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy and Dev Patel.
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NewsGK takes Jersey Boys film rights
Graham King’s GK Films has acquired feature film rights to the hit musical stage play Jersey Boys: The Story ofFrankie Valli & The Four Seasons.
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Wolfe among new Lippin recruits
Looking to expand in the film and digital content fields, PR agency the Lippin Group has recruited three new vice presidents, among them former Nu Image publicity head Elizabeth Wolfe.
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Paladin to launch Shadyac's I Am
I Am, director Tom Shadyac’s documentary about his post-accident journey of self-discovery, is to be released theatrically in the US by Paladin.