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Mark Reinhart heads sales at Regent gay arm HERE!
Mark Reinhart, the veteransales executive who has worked at companies including The Samuel Goldwyn Co,Artisan/LIVE Entertainment and GRB Entertainment, has been hired by RegentEntertainment to oversee sales for HERE! Films, the specialty marketing anddistribution arm of Regent focusing exclusively on gay-themed films. His titleis vice president, international, and he reports ...
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Splendid Pictures lures de Bont to The Courier
Jan de Bont is in finalnegotiations to make his next film as a director for newly formed SplendidPictures, the joint venture between Splendid Medien and Cutting EdgeEntertainment. The film, The Courier, is being produced by Newman/Tooley Films and is set to go intoproduction in late spring.The film is the firstproduct ...
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Brian Benson wins Sundance producers fellowship
Brian Benson has beenselected as the recipient of the 2002 Mark Silverman Fellowship, a programmefor producers run by the Sundance Institute.The award was established asa tribute to independent producer Silverman whose credits include BloodSimple and Raising Arizona and supports "visionary independent producerswho have committed to a film project and still ...
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Mechanic's Pandemonium sets two with Southpaw
Southpaw Media Group, the LAproduction outfit set up by former Trilogy Entertainment Group partner Richard BLewis, is partnering with Bill Mechanic's Pandemonium on two pictures- The Whole Wide World, anaction love story set against the backdrop of NASA's early lunarmissions, and Across The Universe,an inter-galactic adventure set in the far ...
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Phoenix buys legal thriller Misconception
Mike Medavoy and ArnieMesser's Phoenix Pictures has acquired film rights to the novel Misconception, a legal thriller by Robert Shapiro and Walt Becker.The book, which waspublished in Jan in the US by Harper Collins, is the story of a Louisianadoctor whose life is shattered when an extramarital affair and pregnancy ...
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Festival in Cannes opens festival in Santa Barbara
The 17th annualSanta Barbara International Film Festival, which takes place Feb 27 to March 3,will open with Henry Jaglom's Festival In Cannes and close with George Hickenlooper's The ManFrom Elysian Fields.Among the world premieresare Tony Silber's documentary Arisman: Facing The Audience, Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay's LA-set comedy Bugstarring Brian ...
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Aldo Lemme heads marketing at Col TriStar Italia
Aldo Lemme has been namedsenior marketing director at Columbia TriStar Films Italia, the Italian officeof Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI).Reporting jointly toCTFDI's executive vice president of marketing Nigel Clark and FabrizioFerrucci, general manager of the Italian office, Lemme will be responsible forthe strategic positioning of the studio's film ...
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Ron Howard named ShoWest director of year
Ron Howard will receive thedirector of the year award at the global exhibitors convention ShoWest beingheld in Las Vegas in March. He will be presented with the award by his partnerin Imagine Entertainment Brian Grazer, who produced Howard's current hit ABeautiful Mind, on March 7 at theShoWest 2002 Gala Awards ...
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MGM hits back at New Line over Goldmember
A battle betweenMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and New Line Cinema continued on Friday over the useof the word Goldmember in the title of the next Austin Powers movie which isscheduled to open on July 26. On Jan 30, the MotionPicture Association Of America (MPAA) upheld its ruling to prohibit New Linefrom using ...
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Black Hawk Down leads slow Superbowl weekend
Superbowl weekend is never ahealthy one for the theatrical box office, and this weekend was no different,with two new openers faring poorly and the box office the lowest in about threemonths.Columbia Pictures' BlackHawk Down produced by Revolution Studioscontinued at the top with an estimated $11.5m over the three days, andSunday's ...
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Two films tie for prize at Seattle Women's Fest
Lone Scherfig's Danishhit Italian For Beginners andRakhshan Bani-Etemad's Under The Skin Of The City tied for the top prize at the 2002 Women In CinemaFilm Festival in Seattle on Thursday night. Determined by audience vote,the best film runner-up was Rose Troche's The Safety Of Objects. Best documentary was Maia Wechsler's ...
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Wellspring, Criterion team for US DVD releases
Wellspring Media, the newlyreconfigured US specialized distributor formerly called Winstar TV & Video,has partnered with US arthouse video label Criterion to release titles on DVD from itslibrary by the likes of Fassbinder, Truffaut and Rohmer as part of theCriterion Collection.The new editions willfeature state-of-the-art upgrades of the films as well ...
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Paramount shifts international video back to LA
Paramount Home EntertainmentInternational (PHEI) is to move its headquarters from London to Los Angeles,where the company's president Phil Jackson will relocate. Jackson willcontinue to head up the division, reporting to Eric Doctorow, president ofParamount Home Entertainment Worldwide.The move, effective July2002, brings together the domestic and international home entertainmentoperations in one ...
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Microsoft technology to be used in film release
Horror thriller Wendigo which was shot on digital video will be the firstfilm to be released using Microsoft Windows Media. Distributed by ContentFilmand Magnolia Pictures, the film will be released using a preview of theupcoming version of Microsoft Media Audio and Video technology codenamed"Corona". The experiment, which willbegin in Seattle ...
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RJ Millard joins IDP as vp, publicity & marketing
RJ Millard, previously thepress officer and digital media development consultant for the Sundance FilmFestival, has joined IDP Distribution as vice president, publicity andmarketing. He will direct all publicityand marketing campaigns for IDP, which is the US distribution joint venturebetween Fireworks Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Films and StratosphereEntertainment. He will report to ...
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BAFTA/LA axes Oscar tea party, launches brunch
TheBritish Academy Of Film And Television Arts/Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) is to axe its annualOscar tea party usually held the day before the Oscar ceremony and replace itwith a brunch and live satellite viewing of the Orange British Academy FilmAwards on Feb 24. BAFTA/LA plans to make theawards brunch an annual ...
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Paramount Classics takes Human Voices
Paramount Classics hasconcluded a multiple territory deal on Michael Petroni's supernaturalromance Till Human Voices Wake Usstarring Guy Pearce and Helena Bonham Carter. The company acquired rights inNorth and Latin America, the UK, South Africa and the Middle East to the filmfrom Key Entertainment and Tomorrow Film Corp.Written and directed byPetroni, ...
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I Am Sam producers win Stanley Kramer PGA prize
The Producers Guild OfAmerica (PGA) is to give its inaugural Stanley Kramer Award to the producers ofNew Line Cinema's I Am Sam -Jessie Nelson, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and Richard Solomon - atthe annual PGA Awards on March 2 in Los Angeles.The award was established tohonour a producer whose work ...
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Bader to run business affairs at MGM Pictures
Jonathan Bader has beenpromoted to executive vice president, business affairs, at MGM Pictures. In hisnew position, he will oversee theatrical business affairs and legal affairs forthe film unit and supervise all aspects of negotiations including talent,production and rights issues. He will also overseefinancing, split rights and other acquisition agreements. He ...
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Bay, Radar, GMI set for Chainsaw Massacre redo
Michael Bay's lowerbudget label Platinum Dunes is to "reconceptualise" cult horrorclassic The Texas Chainsaw Massacreas its first production to be financed by Ted Field and Scott Kroopf'sRadar Pictures and sold internationally by Good Machine International (GMI).The film will startproduction in the spring with Bay and Michael Fleis of Next Entertainmentproducing, ...