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Sundance Institute selects 12 projects for annual Screenwriters Lab
Sundance Institute has selected 12 projects for the annual January Screenwriters Lab to be held from January 9-14.The five-day writer's workshop is designed to give independent screenwriters the chance to work intensively on their feature scripts with the support of established writers.The projects selected for the 2009 January Screenwriters Lab ...
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Gumpert promoted to president of department at Columbia Pictures
Andrew Gumpert has been promoted to president of business affairs and administration for Columbia Pictures.Gumpert will work closely with Columbia presidents Matt Tolmach and Doug Belgrad and will not only oversee deal negotiations and administration for the studio but will be integrally involved in the budgeting and financing aspects of ...
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Tengri - Blue Heavens wins best film, director at The WIFTS
Marie-Jaoui de Poncheville's Kyrgyzstan-set drama Tengri - Blue Heavens was named best film and Poncheville was named best director at the inaugural Women's International Film & Television Showcase (The WIFTS) in Los Angeles.The event was created to bring together woman from all walks of life through the art of film. ...
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Canadian producer Stephen J Roth dies at the age of 67
Stephen J. Roth, a Toronto-based film and television producer, died on Friday, December 12. He was 67.Roth, a lawyer by training, was a founder along with Robert Lantos and Victor Loewy of RSL Productions, the company that launched Lantos’ career in the Canadian film industry. Roth’s name was behind a ...
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Graham King's GK Films acquires rights to life story of John Martorano
Graham King's GK Films has acquired feature rights to the true-life story of former mobster John Martorano, who was released from prison in 2007 after serving 14 years for murder.King, who recently completed shooting the thriller Edge Of Darkness starring Mel Gibson on location in Massachusetts, will produce the feature. ...
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Day The Earth Stood Still also reigns in North America with $31m
Twentieth Century Fox's sci-fi remake The Day The Earth Stood Still stormed to the top of the charts on an estimated $31m at the weekend to give Keanu Reeves his first number one launch since The Matrix Revolutions five years ago.Reeves stars as an alien who comes to Earth to ...
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Chris Weitz takes on directing reins for Twilight sequel New Moon
Summit Entertainment has confirmed rumours that Chris Weitz will direct Twilight sequel New Moon after the smash vampire romance's original director Catherine Hardwicke pulled out.Weitz previously directed the drama About A Boy and the fantasy adventure The Golden Compass, a project he initially departed in 2005 because he felt the ...
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Bob Yari's US distribution division files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Bob Yari has announced that Yari Film Group's releasing division has been compelled by court order to go into involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy, effective immediately.It is understood the move followed legal action by four creditors. Yari called the events a 'perfect storm' of tightening credit markets and the Axium bankruptcy, ...
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AFI's annual top ten includes Button, Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced its top ten films of the year at the weekend, ahead of the awards ceremony in Los Angeles on January 9.The AFI movie of the year in alphabetical order are: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gran Torino, ...
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Fox rules planet with $39m launch for Day The Earth Stood Still
Keanu Reeves returned with his first number one hit in five years as Fox International's The Day The Earth Stood Still dominated the overseas box office with a $39m estimated haul.Playing in approximately 7,700 screens in 90 day-and-date date markets, the sci-fi remake opened top in 53 markets including the ...
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Hugh Jackman named as host for Academy Awards show
Hugh Jackman will host the 81st Academy Awards on February 22 in what will be the Australian entertainer's first time in the role.'Hugh Jackman is a consummate entertainer and an internationally renowned movie star,' Oscar telecast producer Laurence Mark and executive producer Bill Condon in a joint statement. 'He also ...
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Academy names 15 films in running for visual effects Oscar
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has announced the 15 films selected as semi-finalists for the visual effects Oscar that will be handed out at the 81st Academy Awards on February 22.The films in alphabetical order are: Australia, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Cloverfield, The Curious Case ...
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Paramount to release JJ Abrams' Star Trek on IMAX
Paramount Pictures will release its Star Trek prequel day and date worldwide in conventional cinemas and IMAX on May 9, 2009. The latest in a long and successful run of television and film series, the new film in the franchise chronicles the early days of Starship Enterprise Captain James T. ...
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Summit moves US release of Brothers Bloom from Dec to May 2009
Summit Entertainment has pushed back the North American release of Rian Johnson's adventure romance The Brothers Bloom to 2009. The film was originally scheduled for an Oscar-qualifying run in Dec and an expansion on January 16 but has now been moved to a limited opening on May 15 that will ...
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Fox's Day The Earth Stood Still set for world takeover
Aliens will rule the world this weekend when Fox International unleashes The Day The Earth Stood Still day-and-date with North America in approximately 90 countries.The sci-fi remake stars Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly and touches down in France, Belgium and Switzerland on December 10 and arrives a day later in ...
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Golden Globe nominees respond around the globe
Honourees greeted news of their Golden Globe nominations from locations both exotic and prosaic onThursday in the hours following the dawn nominations announcement in Los Angeles by theHollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).
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In Focus: Cinetic's new world
When Wayne Wang's feature The Princess Of Nebraska streamed for free on YouTube in mid-October, it was not a leak, it was the official digital release - and world premiere - of the film.The YouTube experiment, which attracted 220,000 views in the US (access from elsewhere was blocked), was one ...
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Roadside Attractions takes US theatrical on Alien Trespass
Roadside Attractions has acquired US theatrical rights to RW Goodwin's homage to 1950s sci-fi alien invasion films, Alien Trespass.The film stars Will & Grace's Eric McCormack in his first leading film role since leaving the series and will receive its world premiere at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival ...
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Entertainment One backtracks on DHX acquisition
Canadian entertainment company Entertainment One (E1) has reversed its planned reverse takeover of Halifax production company DHX Media.Announced in September, the move would have given E1 a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange; E1, financed by the UK-based hedge fund Marwyn, currently has a listing on the LSE's AIM.In a ...
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Jerry Lewis to receive Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Jerry Lewis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 81st Academy Awards on February 22.The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is given to an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry.'Jerry is a legendary comedian who has not only brought laughter ...