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Silver takes senior international role at Focus Feature
Allison Silver has been promoted to senior vice president ofinternational physical production at Focus Feature, effectiveimmediately.Silver previously served as vice president of international physicalproduction and joined the company as a production executive in autumn2002.Reporting to president of international sales and distribution AlisonThompson, she will remain in the company's Manhattan offices ...
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Om Puri signs for role opposite Hanks in Nichols' War
Veteran Indian actor Om Puri has signed for a lead role in MikeNichols' Charlie Wilson's War opposite Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Puri previously worked with Nichols in Wolf opposite Jack Nicholson and MichellePfeiffer in 1994.Based on the book by George Crile, Charlie Wilson's War is a ...
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Maguire named president of international at PHE
Dennis Maguire has been appointed president of international forParamount Home Entertainment.Maguire will take charge of sales, marketing and distribution ofhome entertainment content for the Paramount Motion Picture Group (PMPG) andwill also oversee product from MTV Network Properties, CBS, PBS and Hasbro, aswell as fulfilment services for DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment.He ...
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Copenhagen gives top award to 12.08 East Of Bucharest
As the CopenhagenInternational Film Festival wrapped, Romanian feature 12.08 East Of Bucharest won the Golden Swans for best film and bestscript. Corneliu Porumbiou's darkly comic project about Romania just before thefall of the Ceausescu dictatorship previously won the Camera d'Or and theEuropa Cinemas Label in Cannes. The Copenhagen jury,which judged ...
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Sony Animation's Season tops North America with $23m
Sony scored its 11thdomestic number one release of the year as the animated feature Open Season stormed to the top on an estimated $23m. Thepicture, which features the vocal talents of Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher, opened tomixed-to-favourable reviews.It was a great weekend forKutcher, who also stars alongside Kevin Costner ...
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World Trade Center takes international lead for Paramount
Paramount's World TradeCenter ruled the international roostas it grossed an estimated $12.3m from 2,690 screens across 20 territoriesthrough UIP and raised the overseas total to $22m.The carefully plannedrelease benefited from Oliver Stone's extensive publicity tour that took inLondon, Berlin, Venice, Moscow, Tokyo and Seoul.The 9/11 drama opened insecond place in ...
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France rules over San Sebastian
French film My Son (Mon Fils A Moi) has won top honours at the San Sebastian International Film Festival sharing the Golden Shell for Best Film with Half Moon and taking the Best Actress award for Nathalie Baye.My Son is the first feature film from director Martial Fougeron about a ...
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Peace Arch Films finalising US rights for Delirious
Peach Arch Films is in final talks with US buyers for the rights to distribute Tom DiCillo's film Delirious in North America after its successful world premiere at San Sebastian. A final deal is expected to be made early next week. "Several US buyers attended the first screening of the ...
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Cork Film Festival gets Death Of A President
The 51st Cork Film Festivalwill open on Oct 8 with Toronto Fipresci Critics Award winner Death Of A President, the Channel 4-financed drama which imaginesthe assasination of George W Bush."We are delighted to havesecured the European premiere of Death Of A President,' said Cork Film Festival DirectorMick Hannigan. 'This is ...
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Ray Winstone and Tilda Swinton back the BIFAs
Actors Ray Winstone andTilda Swinton have become patrons of The British Independent Film Awards.The other patrons already onboard for the Awards include Mike Figgis, Adrian Lester, Ken Loach, SamanthaMorton, Michael Winterbottom and Meera Syal.The BIFAs are now in theirninth year, honouring independent films that are majority financed by UK companies. ...
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Bavaria takes on rights to Miguel & William
BavariaFilm International has picked up world sales rights outside ofSpain for Spanish director Ines Paris' Miguel & William, about a fictitiousencounter between Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare and their rivalryin love of a beautiful woman.Featuring Spain's European Shooting Star 2004 ElenaAnaya, the UK's Will Kemp, double Goya-winner JuanLuis Galiardo ...
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Oliver Stone continues political talk in San Sebastian
Speaking at the San Sebastian film festival, Oliver Stone revealed he wants tomake a film about the current war on terror, and is searching for the rightkind of story.He was at pains to stress,however, that he didn't want to go down the journalistic route, favoured bydirectors like Michael Moore. "Film-makers ...
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Norway backs Reprise in Oscar race
Norway has submitted Joachim Trier's feature debut, Reprise, for consideration in the foreign-language Oscar race. "We have great confidence inthis year's candidate - it is unusual, poetic and exciting, and gets to theaudience from the very first moment" said chairman of the selection committee, JanErik Holst of the Norwegian Film ...
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TWC signs output deal with ARD Degeto in Germany
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has signed a multi-year output dealwith leading German broadcaster ARD Degeto for free TV rights to current andupcoming TWC and Dimension Films pictures.Pictures in the pipeline include John Madden's thriller Killshot starring Thomas Jane, Diane Lane andMickey Rourke; satirical comedy The Nanny Diaries starring Scarlett Johansson, ...
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Digital future depends on single standard, says Fox d-cinema chief
If the international film business doesn't adopt the single digital DCI standard agreed by the studios, it risks derailing the whole d-cinema revolution.That was the stark warning offered by Julian Levin, Twentieth Century Fox executive vice president in charge of digital exhibition, in his keynote address at the Screen International's ...
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Reykjavik festival tries to grow industry presence
The third ReykjavikInternational Film Festival, which opened last night (Sept 28) with a totalblack-out in the Icelandic capital, is mainly devoted to audiences, but it isgradually extending its industry side."The festival is still verynew, so for a start we have organised a seminar for producers and filmmakers,in collaboration with the ...
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De Niro to be feted at Rome Film Festival, screen 20 mins of Shepherd
Robert De Niro will screen 20 minutes from his upcoming CIAthriller The Good Shepherd at the Rome Festival, where he will receive the festival'sinaugural Steps And Stars Award.The honour recognises individuals and cultural entities that havemade significant contributions to the film industry.Last month the Tribeca and Rome festivals announced their ...
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Death Of A President to hit US theatres on Oct 27
Newmarket Films will release its Toronto acquisition Death Of APresident in the US onOct 27 and will launch the trailer in theatres on Sept 29.Gabriel Range's hypothetical drama about the hypothetical assassinationof George W Bush in Oct 2007 and the event's aftermath was snapped up at thefestival following its world ...
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Cruz gets tribute at AFI FEST before Volver gala
Penelope Cruz will receive AFI Fest's annual Tribute in Hollywoodon Nov 2 immediately prior to the centerpiece gala screening of PedroAlmodovar's Spanish foreign language Oscar entry Volver.Festival organisers also announced several Special Presentationscreenings including the world premiere of Karen Moncrieff's ensemble murdermystery The Dead Girl,and the North American premiere of ...
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Cornwall recruits agency for film and TV push
South West Screen andCornwall Film have appoined Cornish company Location Solutions South West tomarket the region to film and TV production companies. Location Solutions willmarket the UK's western-most county overthe next six months to national and international film and TV productioncompanies. The region has previouslyhosted TV series including Nighty Night ...