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Sundance names six musicians selected for Composers Lab
The Sundance Institute has unveiled the six musicians selected for its Composers Lab that runs from July 22-August 7 in Sundance, Utah.This year's Composers Lab Fellows are Matt Cartsonis, T Griffin, iZLER, JJ Lee, Vivek Maddala and Nicholas Pavkovic.During the two-week Lab, Fellows take part in workshops and creative exercises ...
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Lara Thompson leaves Sony for top acquisitions job at E1
Lara Thompson has left her role as senior vice president of worldwide acquisitions at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) to join Canadian film and TV company Entertainment One (E1) in the same capacity.Thompson started work on July 14 and will assess and acquire properties in all the company's territories ...
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Film Movement acquires US rights to Lanner's Eldorado
Film Movement has acquired US rights to Bouli Lanners' bittersweet Belgian-French road movie Eldorado.The story centers on a vintage car dealer who befriends a potential burglar and takes him on a trip to visit his parents. Eldorado won the FIPRESCI Quinzaine award at Cannes this year.Film Movement president Adley Gartenstein ...
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Kate Hudson joins all-star ensemble of musical Nine
Kate Hudson has joined Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Marianne Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench and Sophia Loren on the cast of The Weinstein Company's Broadway musical adaptation Nine.Rob Marshall is directing the story, loosely based on Federico Fellini's 1963 classic 8 1/2, as a harried film director who balances the ...
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Hancock rules international, but Mamma has sensational launch
Sony's Hancock continued to rule the roost despite another excellent weekend for Paramount's Kung Fu Panda that pushed it well over $200m and a sensational launch for Universal Mamma Mia!Sony Pictures Releasing International's (SPRI) superhero saga Hancock starring Will Smith stayed on song following last weekend's July The Fourth weekend ...
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Universal's Hellboy II soars above Hancock at domestic box office
Universal's gamble to acquire the Hellboy franchise after Revolution Studios released the 2004 original got off to a good start as Hellboy II: The Golden Army launched at number one on an estimated $35.9m.Sony's Hancock slipped to second place while New Line's classic adventure tale Journey To The Centre Of ...
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Sundance Documentary Program announces 16 grant recipients
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program has announced the 16 film projects that will receive a total of $512,500 in grants as well as creative support from the Sundance Documentary Fund.Grants are announced twice a year and submissions are judged on their approach to storytelling, artistic treatment and innovation, subject ...
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MovieMobz pioneers 'cinema on demand'
Brazilian digitalservice MovieMobz launched this week in Sao Paulo with what it says is the first step towards 'cinema on demand.'Customers will be able to select films from a list of 200 titles currently availablefor screening in participating theatres -although this will expand as the operation takes off.Social networking and ...
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Hancock set for second weekend at the top in international
Hancock should cross $100m overseas by Friday and Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) top brass expect the picture to begin the serious business of consolidating its early gains this weekend.The superhero saga starring Will Smith stood at $98.7m on Thursday and launches in more than a dozen key markets including ...
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IMAX prepares for its biggest ever launch of The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight will open in 94 North American and 15 international IMAX theatres on July 18, day-and-date with Warner Bros' conventional launch.A further 23 international IMAX sites will accommodate the release in the weeks following the worldwide premiere, which is set to take place on July 14 at the ...
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Tommy Gargotta takes top creative advertising job at SPE
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has promoted Tommy Gargotta to president of worldwide creative advertising.Gargotta will report to the studios' co-presidents of worldwide theatrical marketing Valerie Van Galder and Marc Weinstock and will guide the creative marketing team in the creation of posters, commercials, trailers and in-theatre materials.He joined Columbia in ...
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Focus: Countdown To Toronto
Last week Cameron Bailey was in London. This week he is in Paris. Or maybe it is Brussels. Two months out from his September debut, the new co-director of the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) is in screening mode.'It's slightly more impossible than I expected,' he writes from wherever he ...
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Shaye, Lynne form Unique with three-year Warner Bros deal
Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne haven't completely left the Warner Bros fold. Months after New Line Cinema was absorbed into the parent company, the entrepreneurs have resurfaced with Unique Features and have secured a three-year first-look deal at the studio.The Los Angeles and New York-based company aims to produce two ...
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IMAX pacts with Australia's Hoyts for four new digital systems
IMAX Corporation has secured a deal to install four IMAX theatres in theatres in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney operated by Australian exhibitor Hoyts Cinemas.The agreement marks IMAX Corporation's first international joint venture featuring the new IMAX Digital Theatre System and will double IMAX's footprint in Australia.The partners will share in ...
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The Duchess, Secret Life Of Bees get TIFF gala screenings
Programmers at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have added two gala presentations and seven special presentations to the line-up, as well as 13 additions to the Masters and Contemporary World Cinema strands.The gala screenings are the world premiere of Gina Prince-Bythewood's Southern States family drama Secret Life Of Bees ...
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Jean Charles de Menezes drama gearing up for August shoot
Jean Charles, the drama about Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian electrician killed by British police three years ago, will be filmed in London and Paulinia, a city of Sao Paulo State.With Stephen Frears as executive producer, the co-production between Luke Schiller's UK-based Mango Films and Brazil's TV Zero is ...
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Film Department, Downtown Music Publishing form TFD Music
The Film Department (TFD) and music publisher Downtown Music Publishing have formed the film music company and partnership TFD Music.Through the partnership, Downtown Publishing will serve as the exclusive worldwide administrator for TFD Music copyrights and master recordings and offer music supervision and soundtrack consulting services on features.The first TFD ...
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Participant hires Title, Penner to write eco-horror The Colony
Participant Media has hired Stacy Title and Jonathan Penner to write eco-horror tale The Colony.Steven Schneider of ROOM 101 and Vertigo Entertainment's Doug Davison and Roy Lee are producing and Gabriel Mason will serve as executive producer.Participant's executive vice president of production Jonathan King brought in the project and will ...
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Wild Bunchto handle sales and French distribution on Chanel film
Wild Bunch will handle international sales and French distribution on Chanel And Stravinsky. The film is to be directed by Jan Kounen and produced by Claudie Ossard and Chris Bolzli of Eurowide Film Production.Anna Mouglalis starring as the legendary designer.While other Chanel films are currently in the works, Wild Bunch ...
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SPWAG lands domestic rights to animated Planet 51
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has acquired all US rights to the $60m CGI animated family picture Planet 51.Sony Pictures Releasing will give the picture a wide North American release under the TriStar Pictures label on November 20 2009.Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman ...