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Johnny Depp to star in The Lone Ranger, Pirates 4 for Disney
Johnny Depp will play Tonto in Disney's previously announced The LoneRanger project and has signed on to reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in a fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean instalment, attendees heard at today's [September 24] Walt Disney Studios Showcase in Hollywood.Depp, who will also star as The ...
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AFI FEST will open on Oct 30 with Joe Wright's The Soloist
Theworld premiere of DreamWorks and Universal's drama The Soloist starring Robert Downey Jr and Jamie Foxx will open AFI FEST in Los Angeles on October 30.Joe Wright directed the story of a journalist who comes across a former musical prodigy living rough on the streets of Los Angeles.The Working Title-produced ...
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Magnet acquires North American rights to Thai Chocolate
Magnolia Pictures' Magnet has acquired North American rights to Prachya Pinkaew's martial arts action film Chocolate following its recent world premiere in Toronto's Midnight Madness genre sidebarThe film played in Austin's Fantastic Fest last weekend and took runner-up prize in the Audience Award.Magnet closed the deal on Monday night for ...
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Jack Green to receive ASC Lifetime Achievement Award
Jack Green will receive the American Society Of Cinematographers' (ASC) 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on February 15, 2009.Green earned an Oscar nomination for Unforgiven in 1993, and an ASC Outstanding Achievement Award nomination for The Bridges Of Madison County ...
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Filmaka teams with Ford, JWT for Mustang short film contest
Online film destination Filmka has teamed up with Ford Motor Company and advertising agency JWT Team Detroit on a short film competition to mark the launch of Mustang's 2010 model.Nearly 400 Filmaka community members have already submitted scripts reflectingpersonal stories chosen by Mustang enthusiasts or based on thefilm-makers' original ideas.Twenty-two ...
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Relativity Media, Universal extend, expand co-financing partnership
In the third major financing deal to be announced this week against a backdrop of tumultuous financial upheaval in the US markets, Relativity Media and Universal Pictures have extended and expanded their co-financing partnership.Under the terms of the arrangement Relativity Capital Holdings, the financing entity Relativity set up with New ...
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Dark Knight producers, Shanley among Hollywood Awards honourees
The 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards has addedThe Dark Knight film-makers Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven and EmmaThomas to its lineup of honourees.All three will receive the Hollywood Producers Of The Year Award whileJohn Patrick Shanley will receive the Hollywood Screenwriter Of TheYear Award for his adaptation of ...
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Film Movement takes domestic rights to The Country Teacher
Film Movement has picked up North American rights to Bohdan Slama's Czech drama The Country Teacher and will release in 2009.The film follows a gay teacher whose jealous ex-boyfriend causes trouble when he arrives in town. Pavel Liksa and Zuzana Bydzovska star.Film Movement president Adley Gartenstein negotiated the deal with ...
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Regent Releasing picks up Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata
Regent Releasing has acquired North American rights to Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner Tokyo Sonata, which received its North American premiere at Toronto recently.Tokyo Sonata will get its New York premiere at the 46th New York Film Festival along with Regent's other Toronto pick-up from Fortissimo, Serbis.Teruyuki ...
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Sean Penn to receive BAFTA/LA's Stanley Kubrick Award
Sean Penn will receive BAFTA/LA's most prestigious honour when he collects the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award For Excellence In Film at the 2008 BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards on November 6 in Los Angeles.Penn won the lead actor Oscar for Mystic River and is expected to figure in this season's awards race ...
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US independent Liberation signs video deal with RYKO
LA-based independent Liberation Entertainment has signed a deal with RYKO Distribution for exclusive rights to all Liberation video releases in the US beginning October 1.The agreement covers all catalogue titles as well as new releases. Upcoming titles include Eden, TOKYO! and Just Buried.'We view this new partnership as a perfect ...
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Slamdance to offer features two hours after festival premieres
Organisers at the 15th Slamdance Film Festival have signed a deal with online distributor Indieroad.net to stream features two hours after their theatrical premiere at the festival.Viewers will be charged $9 per stream with one-third of profits going back to the film-maker. Each selection will be available in two bandwidths ...
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Elliott Associates increases minority stake in Relativity Media
New York based private investment firm Elliott Associates has increased its minority stake in Relativity Media in the second major financing story of the day following Media Rights Capital's deal for a $350m revolving credit facility.Elliott decided to increase its investment on the heels of a profitable summer for the ...
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Hamptons teams with EFP to present three Shooting Stars
The Hamptons International Film Festival has partnered with European Film Promotion to showcase talent from the European Shooting Stars programme, marking the first time the talent campus will come to the US.The festival runs from October 15-19 and will present three stars from the Shooting Stars programme, now in its ...
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Summit sets Oct 23, 2009, as Astro Boy release date
Summit Entertainment will release Imagi Studios' animated feature Astro Boy in North America on October 23, 2009, on more than 3,000 screens.Summit and Imagi are putting together the final details on a marketing plan targeting family and adult audiences. The marketing strategy includes a commitment from a major fast food ...
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Media Rights Capital scores $350m revolving credit facility
Media Rights Capital (MRC) co-CEOs Asif Satchu and Modi Wiczyk announced today [September 22] a three-year $350m revolving credit facility for the company's feature, television and digital content business.The arrangement, which comes in the midst of one of the most severe systemic collapses in US financial history, was provided by ...
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HBO's Sheila Nevins will receive Gotham Award Tribute
HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins will be the subject of a Gotham Award Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York.'Sheila has unquestionably been one of the most influential forces in documentary film-making,' IFP executive director Michelle Byrd said. 'She is almost single-handedly responsible ...
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UK effects studio Framestore looks to outside investment
Framestore, the Oscar-winning provider of visual effects, animation and computer generated imagery announced that it plans to consider interest in the company from potential new investors.The company hopes to aid the growth of its business and has instructed Hawkpoint Partners to investigate options, including the introduction of an external investor.William ...
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UPI leads international weekend with Mamma Mia!, Wanted
Mamma Mia! extended its international supremacy courtesy of another solid weekend as Universal's stage musical adaptation reaped a further $14m from 4,359 sites in 48 territories to raise the running total to $334m.The latest estimate combines with the $141m North American tally for a $475m worldwide running total. The film's ...
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Lakeview Terrace tops North American box office with $15.6m
Focus Features' Burn After Reading remained in contention in its second weekend despite slipping to second place behind Sony's thriller Lakeview Terrace, which stars Samuel Jackson as a menacing police officer and launched on an estimated $15.6m.However it is Burn After Reading that will capture the lion's share of attention ...