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Screen Actors Guild appoints new director of communications
Damon Romine has been appointed as director of communications at the beleaguered Screen Actors Guild. He will start work on April 1.He arrives at a difficult time for the Guild, which is locked in a stalemate with the studios over contract talks. The talks have focus on a number of ...
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Knowing takes international crownwith $9.8m from 10 markets
Summit International's sci-fi thriller Knowing finished the weekend as the biggest overseas Hollywood release in play as it launched in nine markets and grossed an estimated $9.8m including previews from 1,711 sites in ten markets. The film opened at number one in the UK on $3.6m from 390 sites including ...
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Monsters Vs Aliens scares up year's biggest domestic opener at $58.2m
DreamWorks Animation's 3D family release Monsters Vs Aliens stormed to the top of the North American charts through Paramount in a $58.2m three-day debut that marked the biggest launch of the year to date and delivered a ringing endorsement for the nascent digital 3D movement. The opening was in line ...
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Canadian Telefilm to set new standards for film investment
Canadian film and TV financing agency Telefilm Canada has advised producers it is implementing new standards for its selective investments in the English market starting with 2009-2010. The new measures will incorporate 'Best Practices' into its Canada Feature Film Fund (CFFF) decisions that concentrate on identifying target audiences and developing ...
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ShoWest Triumph Award for directing to go to Kathryn Bigelow
Hollywood's top female action director Kathryn Bigelow will receive the ShoWest Triumph Award For Outstanding Direction in Las Vegas on April 2.Bigelow's latest film The Hurt Locker, an Iraq-set thriller about abomb disposal unit that stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and BrianGeraghty, will open through Summit Entertainment on June 26.Her ...
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Opinion: the troubled star system in the tabloid era
If movie stars are what sells movies, movies might be in trouble. The coverage of celebrities not just in the tabloids but in the mainstream media and the unregulated online universe has now become so relentless that any actor who steps out of line in public runs the risk of ...
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Joe Dante on the set of The Hole
The Hole isn't Joe Dante's first 3D film but it might as well be. In 2002, the director was hired by Florida-based amusement park Busch Gardens to shoot a 25-minute ride film entitled Haunted Lighthouse. 'They called it 4D,' says Dante. 'The film was 3D and then they threw stuff ...
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What willcinema-going look like in 10 years'
For an industry that finds itself in such flux, it is difficult to predict what Hollywood will be like in a year's time, let alone a decade. Yet it seems reasonable to ask what form the landscape may take in a decade. In fact, given the pace of change and ...
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Gran Torino races ahead in international box office
It may have been overlooked during the awards season, but Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino is outperforming all five best-picture contenders in North America. Since a wide release on January 9, Gran Torino has grossed $145.2m domestically and passed $65m internationally. This brings its worldwide tally for Warner Bros Pictures within ...
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Paramount and Abrams' Bad Robot extend deal til 2013
Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams' Bad Robot Productions have extended their first-look deal through 2013 ahead of the summer release of Abrams' Star Trek.The partners first collaborated on Cloverfield, which scored thebiggest January opening weekend in history when it took $40.1m overthree days. They are scheduled to begin production in ...
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Gran Torino poised to cross $70m internationally with Mexico launch
Gran Torino should march on towards the $70m mark this weekend through strong holdover business and a debut in Mexico on March 27 through Warner Bros Pictures International.Clint Eastwood's drama has reached $63.9m to date and crossed $210mworldwide and its prospects are looking formidable with roughlytwo-thirds of international markets yet ...
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IFC takes US rights to Unmade Beds from Protagonist
IFC Films has taken US rights from Protagonist Pictures to the romance Unmade Beds from Argentinean director Alexis Dos Santos and plans to release later this year via IFC In Theaters or IFC Festival Direct.Dos Santos wrote the screenplay about two ex-pats living in EastLondon who embark on journeys of ...
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Tribeca Sloan fund to offer $170,000 for science/tech projects
Promising film-makers whose projects relate to science and technology stand to receive $170,000 in funding from the Tribeca Film Institute through the return this year of the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund.Announcing a further grant initiative, Institute staff said four youngfilm-makers would each be eligible for a $1,500 scholarship throughthe Youth ...
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Summit takes on Tommy O'Haver'sthriller Golden Gate
Summit Entertainment has acquired rights to the thriller Golden Gate that Tommy O'Haver will direct from a screenplay by Charles Bohl.The film centres on an athletics star on the verge of success who ishelped by a dangerous new friend when a secret from her past threatensto unravel her dream.Craig Zadan ...
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Patricia Clarkson to get ShoWest Independent Award for Acting
Patricia Clarkson will receive the ShoWest Independent Award For Excellence In Acting at the Las Vegas event on April 2.Clarkson is honoured for what ShoWest co-managing director MitchNeuhauser called 'a diverse resume that includes work on stage,television and the big screen' that had earned her 'great accoladesand success around the ...
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Babelgum takes online/mobile rights to Workbook's Radar
Online content platform Babelgum has acquired the worldwide exclusive Internet and mobile rights to weekly video series Radar.The three-minute episodes, which examine innovative projects across creative disciplines, are produced by WBP Labs, the experimental lab division of the Workbook Project.The deal was negotiated by Babelgum's GM and publisher - film ...
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NewsOscars move one week later in 2010 to avoid Olympics clash
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards will take place on Mar 7th 2010, a week later than usual to avoidthe closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver on February 28.
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Lionsgate takes film rights to Shange's 1975 play For Colored Girls
Lionsgate has acquired worldwide film rights to Ntozake Shange's 1975 stage play and Nzingha Stewart's adapted screenplay of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf.The play was first performed in California at the Bacchanal women'sbar near Berkeley and first produced in 1975 at New York's ...
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Mugabe doc to premiere at Canada's 2009 Hot Docs
Mugabe And The White African a British made theatrical documentary from Arturi Films, will premiere at the 2009 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival which runs from April 30 to May 10, 2009. It will be presented in the International Spectrum programme, the official competition for International productions and is ...
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Rachel McAdams named Female Star of the Year at ShoWest
Rachel McAdams has been named the 2009 ShoWest Female Star Of The Year and will be honoured at a ceremony in Las Vegas on April 2.McAdams broke through with star turns in The Notebook and Mean Girls and will next be seen in Universal's thriller and BBC series adaptation State ...