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Relativity Media expands Rogue brand into lifestyle company
Following the solid opening weekend for Rogue Pictures' horror remake The Last House On The Left, the company's new owner Relativity Media has announced that Rogue will be expanded into a lifestyle company.Relativity chief Ryan Kavanaugh said today [March 16] that Rogue will encompass a clothing line and social networking ...
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Sony Classics takes on US rights to Warner's Coco Before Chanel
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US rights to Anne Fontaine's biopic Coco Before Chanel starring Audrey Tautou.Warner Bros, whose Warner Bros France division produced the picture with Haut Et Court, Cine@, Warner Bros France and Films Distribution, will release in France on April 22 and retains rights for Latin America, ...
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BD Fox Independent launches self-distribution service
Industry marketing executive Brian Fox' BD Fox Independent has launched a self-distribution division to provide a one-stop shop for film-makers.The company most recently handled distribution, marketing and publicity responsibilities on the theatrical release of Hope And Redemption: The Lena Baker Story, which opened last weekend in Atlanta and grossed $18,850 ...
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Weinsteins take US, Latin America, Germany on Nowhere Boy
The Weinstein Company has acquired all US, Latin American and German rights from HanWay Films to Sam Taylor-Wood's John Lennon coming-of-age picture Nowhere Boy, which began filming on March 8 in Liverpool and at Ealing Studios.This is the first acquisition since the arrival of former Lionsgate executive Tom Ortenberg as ...
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Senator picks up North America on Shana Feste's The Greatest
Senator Distribution has picked up North American rights from Endeavor and CAA to Shana Feste's feature directorial debut The Greatest starring breakout British actress Carey Mulligan.The picture premiered at Sundance and stars Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon as parents whose grief over the accidental death of their son is made ...
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Jeff Framer takes over from David Borshell at Image Entertainment
Jeff M Framer has been named president of home entertainment licensee, producer and distributor Image Entertainment following the departure of David Borshell after nearly 25 years at the company.Framer has been with Image Entertainment since 1990 and has served as the company's CFO for the past 15 years. He assumes ...
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Balsmeyer's Lightbulb switches on 33rd Cleveland Film Festival this week
Jeff Balsmeyer's Lightbulb, the rags-to-riches story of two brothers who come up with a revolutionary gizmo, will open the 33rd annual Cleveland International Film Festival on March 19th.The film, which stars Dallas Roberts, Jeremy Renner and Ayelet Zurer (soon to be seen in Angels And Demons), is based on the ...
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Witch Mountain scales domestic box office for Disney with $25m
Disney's decision to plunder the live-action back catalogue and revisit its Witch Mountain franchise from the 1970s exceeded expectations with an estimated $25m launch that still wasn't enough to prevent the first year-on-year drop in six weeks as box office slid 16% against the same weekend in 2008.Dwayne Johnson (formerly ...
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Fox leads international weekend with Marley, Dragonball
Fox International's comedy Marley & Me produced the biggest result of any Hollywood release overseas over a subdued weekend as an estimated $13.9m haul from 2,708 screens in 34 territories raised the running total to $51m.Driving this were nine new launches led by a superb $6.5m number one start in ...
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Unmistaken Child, Paranoids get domestic pickups from Oscilloscope
New York’s Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Nati Baratz’s documentary Unmistaken Child and from Visit Films to Gabriel Medina’s Argentinean debut featureThe Paranoids (Los Paranoicos).Unmistaken Child follows a shy and devoted Tibetan disciple in search of the reincarnated form of his beloved Buddhist teacher, ...
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Fox opens Dragonball Evolution across Asia before North America
Fox International launches Dragonball Evolution in nine territories in Asia this weekend ahead of the April 8 North American opening. The film, directed by James Wong and produced by Stephen Chow, features Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum and Chow Yun-Fat and is based on the classic manga series.Its openings include South ...
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The Answer Man to open Sonoma International Film Festival
John Hindman's romantic comedy The Answer Man (formerly Arlen Faber) starring Jeff Daniels and Benoit Pilon's Canadian drama The Necessities Of Life bookend the 12th annual Sonoma International Film Festival, set to run from April 1-5.All in all more than 75 pictures will screen at the Northern California event featuring ...
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Opinion: taking superheroes seriously
The global opening of Watchmen last weekend - $55.7m in North America through Warner Bros and $27.5m in 45 territories through PPI - was strong, but considered by many commentators to be disappointing.This, after all, was the most-hyped superhero movie since Iron Man and The Dark Knight last summer and ...
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Tony Gilroy on Duplicity's important complications
Tony Gilroy has been working in Hollywood since 1986 when he sold his first script as a vehicle for Chuck Norris. Although that film was never made, he fast became one of the biggest names in screenwriting, clocking up credits such as Dolores Claiborne, Armageddon and the three Bourne movies.He ...
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SXSW's Janet Pierson talks about being part of 'a film's life'
Janet Pierson did not set out to become the head of a film festival, but aged 51 she finds herself with the unexpected task of running the South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference & Festival.'It was a great surprise,' Pierson says of the chance to lead the Austin, Texas-based festival ...
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Critical Condition: How media downsizing impacts indie film
Mark Lipsky knows first hand how important critics can be for an independent film's success. Lipsky, now head of Gigantic Digital, was working for New Yorker Films in 1981 when Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert championed a little film called My Dinner With Andre on their syndicated TV show. When ...
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RiP! gets multi-platform distribution deal with B-Side, Disinformation
Rights holders to EyeSteelFilm and the National Film Board Of Canada's RiP! A Remix Manifesto have signed a multi-platform distribution deal ahead of the picture's US premiere on March 15 at the South By SouthWest Film Festival.B-Side Entertainment will handle the US theatrical release while Disinformation will release on DVD. ...
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Peter Rice leaves Searchlight to head Fox Broadcasting
News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has instigated a huge shake-up at the Los Angeles-based Fox businesses in the wake of COO Peter Chernin's departure.Effective immediately, the Los Angeles-based creative production divisions will be combined under a single unit reporting to Fox Filmed Entertainment co-chairmen Jim Gianopulos and Tom ...
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New US distributor Trela Media makes debut acquisition
Fledgling New York distributor Trela Media has made its first acquisition, taking North American rights from Filmlike Films to Paul H-O and Tom Donahue's documentary Guest Of Cindy Sherman.Trela Media president Christopher Trela, a former media consultant and producer who co-founded the production label Pioneer Pictures, said the company planned ...
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Papandrea leaves Groundswell to set up Make Movies
Bruna Papandrea has left her job as president of Michael London's Groundswell Productions and branched out to launch her own outfit Make Movies.Papandrea opens the company's Beverly Hills office this week with several properties ready to go out to actors and directors. The emphasis will be on 'smart movies with ...