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Europa Cinemas names jury for Venice Days prize
Europa Cinemas has announced the jury for its Europa Cinemas Label award in Venice (Aug 30-Sept 9). The jury of four exhibitors willjudge the best European film in the Venice Days programme.The jurors will be MariannePiquet from Le Rex in Chatenay-Malabry, France; Ted Chiaradia from Luxin Nijmegen, Netherlands; Kalle Somnitzwho ...
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The Secret to open Tahoe-Reno Film Festival
The Tahoe-Reno International Film Festival, which stagedits first event last year with a specific mandate to showcase sociallyresponsible films, has set The Secret asits opening night film on Aug 23.The film is a historic account of an age-old secret saidto be 4,000 years in the making and known only to ...
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Viacom upgrades MTV Films, Nick Movies to Paramount labels
Viacom has elevated thestatus of its subsidiary production companies MTV Films and Nick Movies fromon-the-lot producers to "full labels" under the Paramount Motion Picture Group(PMPG) umbrella alongside Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Vantageand Paramount Classics.The company has hiredproducer Scott Aversano (pictured), who is an independent producer on the lotand previously ...
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Match Factory takes on Venice competitor Euphoria
Cologne-basedThe Match Factory has picked up world sales rights for the Venice competitiontitle Euphoria by Russian writer-directorIvan Vyrypaev. Theromantic drama produced by Russia's First Movie Partnership is Vvrypaev'sfeature debut and won a special diploma at the Kinotavr Open Russian FilmFestival in Sochi at the beginning of June, where it had ...
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TWC acquires worldwide rights to Dixie Chicks doc
The Weinstein Company has picked up worldwide rights toBarbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck's documentary Dixie Chicks: Shut Up And Sing which will have its world premiere at the TorontoInternational Film Festival next month. It is the first documentary in 14 yearsto be screened in Toronto as a gala presentation.Produced by ...
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Nelson named to run Warner Bros new direct-to-DVD arm
Diane Nelson (pictured) has been namedpresident of Warner Premiere, a newly created direct-to-DVD production divisionof Warner Bros Entertainment. She will report to both Kevin Tsujihara,president of Warner Bros Home Entertainment Group, and Jeff Robinov, presidentpf production at Warner Bros Pictures.Warner Premiere was founded to develop, produce and market15 features a ...
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Wide notches up sales on Locarno doc Carla's List
France's Wide Management has announced sales on its Locarno presentation Carla's List. The film, by Marcel Schuepbach, is the first documentary ever shot inside the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.Rights were sold in France's Pierre Grise Distribution, Italy's Ripley's Film and Croatia's HRT with discussions ongoing in Germany ...
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Sano, Gamst named SPRI managers in Japan, Spain
Sony Pictures Releasing International has named two newterritorial general managers in Japan and Spain.Noriaki Sano has been appointed senior vice president andgeneral manager, Japan, and Ivan Losada Gamst has been appointed generalmanager, Spain.Sano will be based in Tokyo and Gamst in Madrid and bothwill be charged with overseeing sales, marketing ...
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India's UTV signs production pacts with Hollywood
Indian entertainment giant UTV has signed a co-productiondeal with Will Smith and his production company Overbrook Entertainment andSony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) for two films to be created and distributedworldwide. The $30 million agreement will include a live-action filmbudgeted at $10 million and a CG animated motion picture at $20 million. ...
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Billi Productions plans to expand CGI short into feature
BilliProductions and Glasgow Animation are seeking to turn their animated short filmSir Billi into a full-lengthfeature.Theproducers expect they need to raise $5.6m (£3m) to get the CGI feature made in12 months. BilliProductions is a company owned by husband and wife team Sascha and TessaHartmann and Sean Connery, who has signed ...
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Snakes falls short of hype with $15.25m domestic opening
Despite the hype, New Line's Snakes On A Plane had a disappointing opening weekend inNorth America, taking $13.85m on 3,555 screens in three days and $15.25mincluding 10pm shows on Thursday night.Over the three days, without previews, the film was actuallybeaten by Sony's Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby in ...
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Pirates week seven: BVI blockbuster takes $25.5m
In its seventh consecutiveweekend on release, Buena Vista International (BVI)'s Pirates Of TheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest led theinternational box office with a $25.5m take from 51 territories on 6,222screens.The blockbuster has nowtaken $522.7m, the 12th biggest gross in history. Globally the filmhas reached $923.8m, marking it out as Disney's biggest ...
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Really Terrible Orchestra takes EIFF short doc prize
TheEdinburgh International Film Festival has given its short Scottish documentaryaward to Edward Brooke-Hitching for The Really Terrible Orchestra.Brooke-Hitchingalso gets $1880 (£1000) with the honours. Thejury members for this year's prize were film-maker Laura Poitras, AllisonGardner from the Glasgow Film Theatre and Glasgow Film Festival, and MoragAnderson and James Anderson of ...
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Brokeback, Kong among World Soundtrack Award nominees
The World Soundtrack Academy has named its nominees for thethree key categories in the annual World Soundtrack Awards, an initiative ofthe Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent, which will this year bepresented in Ghent on Oct 14.The Academy, which was founded in 2001 and now includes 250composers, presents awards in ...
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Diaz, Cinema Libre complete sexually explicit Now And Later
Cinema Libre Studio has completed production on the HDfictional feature Now & Later in LosAngeles. The company best known for its documentary output fully financed thefilm which marks the US debut of Philippe Diaz (The Empire In Africa) who founded Cinema Libre.The film explores the subject matter of America's awkwardrelationship ...
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Pirates set to sail past $500m at international box office
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest will cross $500m this weekend as itattempts to rule the international waves for the seventh consecutive weekend.The adventure sequel has grossed more than $492.1m through BuenaVista International so far and should hold well despite no new openings.Meanwhile the animated feature Cars still has ...
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Ousted MPD execs fight back through lawyer's statement
Ousted MPD executives Patrice Theroux and Paul Labergelashed back at their former employer, responding through their lawyer to anannouncement earlier today from MPD that the duo were "terminated with cause". Toronto law firm Lenczner Slaight said their clients "werewrongfully dismissed" by MPD and did not breach their fiduciary or contractualduties."I ...
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MPD battle heats up, as statement slams Theroux, Laberge
The two senior executives who left Canadian distributioncompany Motion Picture Distribution (MPD) in July were "terminated for cause",according to a company release issued today. In the statement, MPD said it had "determined" after "athorough investigation" that Patrice Theroux, former president and CEO, andPaul Laberge, former executive vice president, corporate development ...
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Craig joins Kidman in New Line's Golden Compass
Daniel Craig is the latest big name to join the cast of TheGolden Compass, NewLine's first installment in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials children's fantasy trilogy.Craig, who will star as James Bond in the upcoming CasinoRoyale, will play Lord Asriel, a ruthlessadventurer with a mysterious past.He joins Nicole Kidman, his ...
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London shoot to start for horror film Credo
Alto Films starts principal photography next week on itsfirst feature, Credo.The supernatural horror film is shooting in London's WestEnd. Toni Harman is directing, with a cast including Myanna Buring (TheDescent), ClaytonWatson (The Matrixtrilogy), and singer Stephen Gately from Boyzone.The plot follows a group of theology students in London whosummon a ...