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Animated Oscar to go ahead; nine films eligible
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) will go ahead with its inaugural Best Animated Feature category this year after the board of governers voted in its favour at a meeting on Monday night.Nine films were declared eligible to compete by the executive committee of the short films ...
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Country stars Collie & McCabe team for rom com
Country music stars Mark Collie and Coley McCabe have teamed to star in independently financed romantic comedy Roper & Goodie which has started principal photography in Alabama, US.Directed by commercial and documentary director Terry Moloney, the film is the story of a rodeo cowboy (Collie) who kidnaps a wealthy socialite ...
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AI wins Golden award from Japanese exhibitors
The Motion Picture Exhibitor Association Of Japan (MPEAJ) has given its Golden Box Office Gross Award to AI Artificial Intelligence, Steven Spielberg's film which was distributed by Warner Bros Pictures. The award recognises the highest grossing foreign film to be released in the territory.AI has grossed over $78m in Japan. ...
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Warner Bros gets T3 for summer 2003
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired domestic distribution rights to Terminator 3: The Rise Of The Machines after a bidding war over the last week that saw every Hollywood studio chasing the film which stars Arnold Schwarzenegger.The deal was concluded between Warner and producers C-2 Pictures and Intermedia, which is financing ...
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Mechanic returns to Disney with five-year deal
After months of speculation about where he would land, Bill Mechanic's independent production company Pandemonium has signed an exclusive five-year co-financing, production and distribution deal with The Walt Disney Studios. Under the terms of the deal, Disney has domestic distribution rights (excluding free TV) to Pandemonium films as well as ...
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Alan Bates to get lifetime award at Palm Springs
Alan Bates will receive a career achievement award and a nine-film retrospective at the Nortel Networks Palm Springs International Film Festival next January (Jan 10-20, 2002).Entitled King Of Parts: The Film Characters of Alan Bates, the retrospective will be kicked off by a Technicolor Dye Transfer restored print of Women ...
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Effects expert Pilgrim joins LA-based CFX
Jamie Pilgrim, who recently served as creature technical director on The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, has been named research and development technical director at LA-based visual effects facility CFX.Pilgrim's work as creature technical director on The Lord Of The Rings included writing proprietary software for muscle systems, tree and ...
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Sylvia Rothblum joins WBITD from EM-TV
Sylvia Rothblum has been named managing director, German-speaking territories, for Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD). Based in Munich. she will be responsible for the licensing of WBITD TV and film product to broadcast, pay, video-on-demand, satellite and cable TV clients in German-speaking territories.She will report to Joshua A Berger, ...
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Ocean's Eleven pays off, steals $39.3m opening
As expected, Warner Bros dominated the box office over the weekend with the release of star-packed Ocean's Eleven and the continued run of Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone. Ocean's Eleven opened in the top spot with a massive estimated $39.26m on 3,075 screens, while Harry Potter took $14.8m to ...
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MGM production & distribution depts reorganised
In a week of reorganisation at the studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has hired two new senior production executives, Elizabeth Cantillon and Eric Paquette, and announced the exit of Robert E Relyea from his position as president, production, for MGM Pictures and United Artists Pictures.In addition, MGM Distribution Co has seen two senior ...
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PGA gives Gordon lifetime achievement award
Veteran Hollywood producer Lawrence Gordon has been named recipient of the David O Selznick Lifetime Achievement Awrad in theatrical motion pictures at the Producers Guild Of America (PGA) Awards on Sunday March 3 in Los Angeles.Gordon, who now runs the Gordon Company, formerly spearheaded Largo Entertainment and before that was ...
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Amelie DP Bruno Delbonnel wins Palm Springs prize
Bruno Delbonnel, the cinematographer of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie, will receive the Da Vinci Award for exceptional cinematography at the 2002 Nortel Networks Palm Springs International Film Festival. The presentation will take place during the Cinematographer's Day programme Jan 12-13, 2002.Delbonnel, who was selected for the prize by eight other cinematographers, ...
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Douglas Slocombe gets ASC international honour
Veteran British cinematographer Douglas Slocombe will receive the International Achievement Award from the American Society Of Cinematographers (ASC) at the 16th annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards on Feb 17, 2002, in Los Angeles.Slocombe has 75 feature credits including a slew of the great Ealing comedies (The Lavendar Hill Mob (1951), ...
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Walden to make CS Lewis children's classic
Just two weeks before the world is assaulted with the first in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, New York-based Walden Media has announced its acquisition of the best-selling fantasy classic The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe by CS Lewis. Walden has optioned the seven-part Narnia Chronicles of which ...
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Sundance Film Festival sets 79 short films
The Sundance Institute has unveiled the 79 short films that will play in the Sundance Film Festival next year (Jan 10-20, 2002). American short film under 30 minutes compete for the jury prize which is sponsored by American Express.International short films include:About A Girl (UK) Brian PercivalAfro Deutsch (Germany) AyassiBintou ...
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Tim Palen joins Lions Gate as marketing chief
Tim Palen has joined Lions Gate Films as vice president, theatrical marketing, spearheading the marketing of all Lions Gate feature film marketing operations. He will report to Tom Ortenberg, president of Lions Gate Film Releasing.Palen comes to Lions Gate from the now defunct Destination Films where he was vice president, ...
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Columbia TriStar snags Chan-starrer Highbinders
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group (CTMPG) has acquired worldwide distribution rights excluding Asia and France to Highbinders, the latest Asian-financed action adventure to star Jackie Chan. The film, which is backed by Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG), recently wrapped a portion of its shooting schedule in Ireland and is now moving ...
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Overseas records fall as Harry conjures up $60.9m
It was another magical weekend for Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone in the international market, as the Warner Bros film grossed $60.9m in 31 territories on 6,574 prints to bring its total take to $152.75m after just three weekends. Over the weekend, the film opened in 14 more countries ...
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ContentFilm buys Wendigo, Magnolia to release it
ContentFilm, the New York independent recently formed by Edward R Pressman and John Schmidt, has acquired worldwide rights to Wendigo, a supernatural thriller starring Patricia Clarkson, and has enlisted Eamonn Bowles' brand new distribution outfit Magnolia Pictures to distribute it in the US.Written, directed and edited by Larry Fessenden, a ...
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Benicio Del Toro to receive Sundance Indie tribute
Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro will receive the Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision at next year's Sundance Film Festival. The tribute, which will be presented to Del Toro on Jan 13, 2002, during the festival, was created to honour a film artist "who has made a significant and unique ...