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LA property owners now responsible for piracy on their premises
Hollywood's ongoing war on piracy took another step forward in the wake of a ruling that will hold property owners in Los Angeles liable for the manufacture and sale of counterfeit music and videos on their premises.The Los Angeles County Board Of Supervisors approved the new ordinance on May 5, ...
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Cinema Libre doc The End Of Poverty' added to Critics Week
Cinema Libre Studio's documentary The End Of Poverty has been added to the Critics Week line-up in Cannes.Cinema Libre founder Philippe Diaz' film will premiere on May 19 and explores the theory that poverty is a deliberate ploy by wealthy nations to exploit and subjugate the poor. Martin Sheen has ...
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Peter Cattaneo's The Rocker will open tenth annual CineVegas
The world premiere of Peter Cattaneo's comedy The Rocker starring Rainn Wilson and Christina Applegate will open the 10th annual CineVegas Film Festival and Sean McGinly's The Great Buck Howard with John Malkovich will close the event, set to run in Las Vegas from June 12-21.World premieres in competition include ...
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IFC owner Rainbow buys Sundance Channel
Rainbow Media Holdings, the Cablevision subsidiary which owns The Independent Film Channel (IFC), has reached an agreement to acquire The Sundance Channel for $496m, bringing together the two channels under the same umbrella in a move which could have major implications for film sellers worldwide.Sundance and IFC have long been ...
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David Maisel, Kevin Feige boosted at Marvel Entertainment
Marvel Entertainment has extended the contract of Marvel Studios chairman David Maisel until 2010 and promoted Kevin Feige to president of the film studio.The move follows the successful global launch last weekend of Iron Man, Marvel Studios' first project as an autonomous financing, development and production entity.Paramount distributed the film ...
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Menemsha crosses $1m mark with art doc The Rape Of Europa
Menemsha Films has passed the $1m gross mark with The Rape Of Europa after a year on release in cities across the country.Based on the book by Lynn H Nicholas and narrated by Joan Allen, the film takes a look at the fanaticism, greed and warfare that threatened to wipe ...
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Locarno to honour US indie icon Christine Vachon
US producer and Killer Films co-founder Christine Vachon (Boys Don't Cry, I'm Not There) will be this year's recipient of Locarno's Raimondo Rezzonico Prize to highlight the work of major independent film producers.Commenting on the decision to select Vachon for this honour at the festival's 61st edition, artistic director Frederic ...
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The Spirit takes Dec 25, 2008 slot for Lionsgate
Lionsgate has moved Frank Miller's The Spirit into a 2008 slot and will release the classic comic strip adaptation on December 25.The film was originally set to open on January 16, 2009 and stars Garbiel Macht as a former police officer who returns as an avenging angel to protect the ...
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Fortissimo takes on Madonna-produced I Am Because We Are
Fortissimo Films has acquired the documentary I Am Because We Are, which is produced, written and narrated by Madonna.The deal, for all rights outside of North America, was brokered between Fortissimo's Senior Vice President, Sales & Acquisitions Winnie Lau and Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which represents the film.I Am Because ...
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Matrix signs with Wong Fu to produce Sleepwalker in China
Matrix Capital Entertainment has signed a deal with Wong Fu Productions to produce the tentatively titled Sleepwalker in China.Philip Wang, Ted Fu and Wesley Chan will direct the project, the first feature to emerge from the recently launched Matrix.Sleepwalker follows a young man who tapes his sleepwalking and learns his ...
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Savanna Films to produce documentary Madame Presidents
Konda Mason and Eva Georgia's US-based Savanna Films, a production company set up to create socially conscious films and television, will produce the documentary Madame President about the world's female heads of state.Los Angeles-base FilmBankers International (FBI) will assist in seeking financing and distribution for the project, which is planned ...
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Hamptons Festival screenwriters lab sets participants for 2008 event
The Hamptons International Film Festival will host its 8th Annual Screenwriters' Lab co-sponsored by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation from May 9 to 11 in East Hampton.Over the course of one weekend emerging screenwriters will benefit from the expert tutelage of mentors who will advise them on how best to ...
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Wanted to open Los Angeles Film Festival, Hellboy II to close it
A Universal Pictures double bill of Timur Bekmambetov's graphic novel adaptation Wanted starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy and Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army bookend the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs from June 19-29.Sacha Gervasi's Sundance hit Anvil! The Story Of Anvil is the centrepiece ...
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Lightning launches US distribution outfit Lightning Media
Santa Monica-based international sales agency Lightning Entertainment has launched US distribution company Lightning Media and hired Paul Gardner to head it up.The long-in-the-works move will see the new unit selectively target and acquire rights to commercial titles across multiple platforms in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.Gardner will serve as ...
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Visit Films takes international on Quinzaine closer Pleasure
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's boutique New York-based sales company Visit Films has acquired international rights to Josh Safdie's Director's Fortnight closing night film The Pleasure Of Being Robbed.The film stars Eleonore Hendricks as a young woman who often brings joy to strangers' lives while robbing them of their possessions.Kampe ...
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US channel Eurocinema to launch film festival in Miami
Eurocinema, the US VOD and cable film channel dedicated to foreign films, is preparing to launch its first festival to run next year in Miami.The First Annual Eurocinema European Film Festival will play at indoor and outdoor venues throughout the greater Miami area from February 6 to February 15 2009.'Not ...
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Disney to make 3D film revolving around The Jonas Brothers
Disney has augmented its recently announced 3D line-up with a film about the Jonas Brothers, the Disney Channel boy band and tween idols who are one of the corporation's key revenue drivers.The untitled film is expected out in 2009 and will feature footage from the recording artists' upcoming Burning Up ...
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Eva Mendes to play Queen Of The South for Essential
Jere Hausfater's worldwide sales, development and production company Essential Entertainment will introduce Cannes buyers to the drug drama Queen Of The South starring Eva Mendes, Ben Kingsley and Josh Hartnett.Essential is handling international sales on the film which is based on the novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte and will be directed ...
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Horizon picks up worldwide sales on Taking The Face
Vancouver-based Horizon Motion Pictures has added Portuguese bullfighting documentary Taking The Face to its Cannes slate.Horizon will represent worldwide sales excluding Portugal on Juliusz Kossakowski and Matthew Bishop's investigation into Portugal's love-hate relationship with the sport.Shot in HD over the 2007 season, the film includes action footage and interviews with ...
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Aubry promoted to vp, theatrical marketing, at Regent Releasing
Jonathon Aubry has been promoted to vice president, theatrical marketing, at Regent Releasing, the US independent distributor which is owned by Paul Colichman and Stephen P Jarchow's Regent Entertainment.Aubry, who was formerly director, marketing and corporate communications, at Regent Entertainment, will report to Mark Reinhart, general manager, west coast operations ...