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Fleishman gets top communications job at Warner Bros
WarnerBros Entertainment has named Susan Fleishman to its top communicationsposition. She will become Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications,effective from September 26.Fleishmanreplaces executive vice president and chief corporate communications officerBarbara Brogliatti, who retired from Warners after 18 years in May.Fleishman,an experienced communications veteran, will oversee all of Warner'scommunications strategies worldwide, including ...
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Cronenberg Maps future with Wagner, Fields
David Cronenberg is plottinga film of Bruce Wagner's original screenplay Maps To TheStars, to be produced by Robert Lantos and his Serendipity Point Films.But whether he will get to Mapsas his next film is uncertain, since there has been movement on hislong-gestating film of Martin Amis' London Fields. Cronenberg told ...
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Freundlich's Trust The Man flies to Fox
Fox Searchlight Picturescontinued its eventful Torontoyesterday with the acquisition of North American and a raft of internationalrights to Bart Freundlich's Trust The Man.At time of writing advancednegotiations were underway on Michael Gondry's Block Party, and domesticdeals were close on Larry Clark's Wassup Rockers, Josh Gilbert's AKATommy Chong, Lee Daniel's Shadowboxer, ...
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Van Gogh gets US remakes treatment
Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucciand Bob Balaban have signed on to remake three features by the late Dutchfilmmaker Theo van Gogh, who is honoured in Toronto with a selection of screenings and a paneldiscussion.An early 2006 start-date isexpected on the projects, which will shoot back-to-back on digital video in New York ...
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Arclight grabs Bana-starrer Romulus
Arclight Films has picked upinternational rights to the Romulus, My Father,an adaptation of Raimond Gaita's award-winning memoir that will star Eric Bana.Australian theatre directorand actor Richard Roxburgh will direct the story of a young family's bid tostart a new life in a hostile country. The story focuses on the relationshipbetween ...
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CrossDay strikes raft of sales on Shooting Dogs
Demonstrating that anappetite still exists for cinematic insight into the 1994 Rwandan genocide,producer CrossDay Productions has sold Michael Caton-Jones's drama ShootingDogs to a raft of international territories, including Japan and the UK.Starring John Hurt and HughDancy, the film tells the harrowing tale of 2,500 Tutsis who took refuge in atechnical ...
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Leonard's Jailbait finds Kindred spirit
Kindred Media Group haspicked up worldwide distribution rights to Brett C. Leonard's directorial debutJailbait, starring Michael Pitt.The New York andPennsylvania-based boutique distributor plans a North American release in April2006, with home video set to follow shortly afterwards.Pitt plays a young mansentenced to a California maximum-security prison under the three-strikeslaw, who ...
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FIFM to dole out bounty of prizes
The Festival Internationalde Film de Montreal is preparing to hand out an embarrassment oftrophies when its inaugural edition closes on September 25.The FIFM, topped by Moritzde Hadeln, announced it will present seven audience awards, including four forshort films, and three extra prizes on top of its already announced Iris Awardsfor ...
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Soda takes C.R.A.Z.Y. for UK
UK distributor Soda has picked up on Jean-Marc Vallee's Canadian smash C.R.A.Z.Y.Soda co-president EveGabereau signed the all-rights deal on Tuesday in negotiation with Francois Yonof Paris-based Films Distribution on behalf of producer Pierre Even of Montreal's Cirrus Productions. It's the latest majorEuropean territory to fall for the Quebecois coming-of-age tale, ...
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Spence takes the reins at Seattle
Carl Spence has been namedartistic director of the Seattle International Film Festival Group (SIFF) aspart of an organisational restructure that replaces the role of executivedirector with the equal roles of artistic director and managing director.The restructure follows thedeparture of Helen Loveridge who resigned from her post as executive directorin July ...
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NWR, Nordisk team up for Rampage, Kuppet
Fledgling Danish production outfit NWR ApS, which teams long-time collaborators Nicolas Winding Refn and Henrik Danstrup, has signed a two-picture output deal with Scandinavian major Nordisk Film for distribution and international sales. The two new features are Martin Schmidt's Rampage, a youth thriller with a twist written by Dennis Jurgensen, ...
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Wrenn lights up Firesign but keeps Celluloid gig
Michael Wrenn, who heads Celluloid Dreams' Pacific office, has launcheda production outfit, Firesign, and won New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)development money for the feature Electric.Wrenn is working with debut director Brendan Donovan and writer ChadTaylor, who is adapting the script from his own novel. The story, set in thechaos of ...
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Sklan moves from AFC to SBS Independent
The Australian Film Commission (AFC) has lost its head of development CaroleSklan to SBS Independent.Sklan will be the new commissioning editor of drama for the productionarm of the multicultural broadcaster, replacing Miranda Dear, who recentlymoved to fellow public broadcaster ABC. Sklan, who remains based in Melbourne, will commissionAustralian drama series ...
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Walk The Line
Dir: James Mangold. US. 2005. 135mins.More the story of the romance between Johnny Cash and JuneCarter than a straight biopic of Cash, the eagerly awaited Walk The Line isa winning Hollywood entertainment dominated by two bright star performancesfrom Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.Wide audiences will lap up the drama, especially ...
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Just Like Heaven
Dir: Mark Waters. US.2005. 95mins.Despite another winningstar turn from Reese Witherspoon in the lead role, Just Like Heaven feelslike a convoluted blend of other movies from Ghost to While You WereSleeping to Sleepless In Seattle to What Dreams May Come.Set to be released byDreamWorks in North America on Sept 16 ...
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London Film Festival unveils full line-up
The Times bfi London Film Festival (Oct 19-Nov 3) unveiled its fullline-up today and pledged to follow on last year's long-term strategy to expandindustry services. The festival announced a programme of 180 feature films, opening withFerndando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener and closing withGeorge Clooney's Venice hit Good Night, and Good ...
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Don't Tell
Dir:Cristina Comencini. It-UK-Sp-Fr. 2005. 120mins.Thestrongest of the three Italian films in competition at Venice this year, Don'tTell will nevertheless struggle to extend worthy local director CristinaComenicini's limited international appeal.GiovannaMezzogiorno's gritty performance as a soon-to-be-mother forced to deal for thefirst time with the ghosts of child abuse in her childhood netted ...
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Sony Classics buys Waddington's House
Sony Pictures Classics has acquiredNorth American rights to Andrucha Waddington's House Of Sand fromBrazil's Conspiracao Filmes after its premiere at the Toronto film festival.House Of Sand stars leading Brazilian actressesFernanda Montenegro (Central Station) and Palme D'Or winner andMontenegro's daughter, Fernanda Torres (Parle-Moi D'Amour). It tells thestory of three generations of ...
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Capote
Dir. Bennett Miller. US. 2005. 110mins.Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers agalvanising and awards-worthy performance in Capote, the superbdramatisation of US novelist Truman Capote at the zenith of his career: the sixyears from 1959 to 1965 that he devoted to his ground-breaking 'non-fiction'novel In Cold Blood.But the real star of the show ...
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Warners takes US rights to heavy metal documentary
Seville International has sold all U.S. rights to thedocumentary film Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, directed by Sam Dunn,Scot McFadyen and Jessica Joy Wise to Warner.Thedocumentary, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International FilmFestival on September 14, follows Sam Dunn, a professional anthropologist andlong-time heavy metal fan, as he ...