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Fox's The Omen hit by World Cup, scorching weather
Fox International's The Omen ruled the weekend but it packed less of a punch thanexpected due to the World Cup and scorching weather in Europe.The satanic tale grossed an estimated $31.1m on 4,783 screens forthe Tuesday to Sunday period, approximately $13m of that coming frompre-weekend figures.The launch in more than ...
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Herskovitz voted president of US Producers Guild
MarshallHerskovitz has been voted in as president of The Producers Guild of America(PGA) and succeeds Kathleen Kennedy following her two-year tenure.Forthe past four years Herskovitz, whose film credits include The Last Samurai,Legends Of The Fall, and I Am Sam, has served as vice president of television.He iscurrently producing Blood Diamond,which ...
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Production wraps on Aussie thriller The Tumbler
Shooting has just wrapped onAustralian thriller The Tumbler whichgives Stacey Testro, executive producer on the Saw horror franchise, her first credit as a producer.Testro and Marc Gracie, whoalso directed the Chris Thompson script, are producing the low-budget pictureunder the Stacey Testro International and Mondayitis banners."It harks back to the US ...
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Tong developing rival Mulan project
Hong Kong-born director StanleyTong has announced that he plans to start shooting $25m period drama, The Legend Of Mulan, in October withbacking from Beijing-based Starlight Media. The news follows theannouncement that Harvey and Bob Weinstein are in negotiations with Zhang Ziyito star in a Mulan project that is being developed ...
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Rampling takes charge of Paris festival
Actress Charlotte Rampling will take over fromdirector Costa-Gavras as president of the next Paris Cinema festival which runsfrom June 27 - July 11 in the capital city.Inaugurated four years ago, the event issponsored by the city and includes a feature competition, retrospectives,tributes and has added a new short film competition ...
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Bertolucci readies adaptation of Bel Canto
BernardoBertolucci is lining up a new drama inspired by thereal events surrounding the hostage crisis at the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru in 1996.Bertolucci's first film since 2003's The Dreamers is an adaptation of Ann Patchett'snovel, Bel Canto. It is set in an unnamed SouthAmerican country where an elaborate birthday ...
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Christmas comes early for mdc
mdc Internationalhas taken on the international distribution for the Bulgarian-Germanco-production Christmas Tree Upside Down,which will have its world premiere in official competition at the forthcoming Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.Directed by Ivan Cherkelov and Vassil Zhivkov, thefilm consisting of seven episodes aboutthe elementary things of life and their relation to ...
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Kapakas starts shooting Uranya in Crete
Writer-director CostasKapakas has started shooting his second feature Uranya in Crete.Kapakas is shooting in the village of Fres.The comedy is set in a small mountaintown in 1969, when US Vice President Spiro Agnew visits, the town gets itsfirst TV, the village eccentric searches for treasure, and teenage boys flockto an ...
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Raindance Festival to go ahead with new investors
UK indieshowcase The Raindance Film Festival has been saved, it has emerged thisweek. The festival was previously organised through writer and producer ElliotGrove's Raindance Film Festival outfit. When the Raindance organisation went into receivership earlier thissummer, it looked as if the festival might have been dragged down too.However,financiers Dean Goldberg ...
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Artport takes Japanese rights to Mutant Chronicles
With filming recently underway in London and the Isle of Man on EdPressman's sci-fi adventure The Mutant Chronicles, Voltage Pictures has pre-sold Japaneserights to Art Port.Devon Aoki recently joined Thomas Jane and John Malkovichon the story of a band of humans 300 years in the future who battle an army ...
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Knobloch named to newly created PDG post at Warner Bros France
Iris Knobloch has been appointed to the newly created position ofpresident-directeur general of Warner Bros France.Knobloch, who has spent more than 10 years at Warner Bros and TimeWarner, rejoins Warner Bros to assume general oversight of the studio'sbusiness in France. The broad remit encompasses theatrical production anddistribution, television distribution, home ...
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Herek signs on to Children for Gold Circle, Thunder Road
Gold Circle and Thunder Road Films have hired Stephen Herek towrite and direct the true-life drama Einstein's Children.Based on Mike Kersjes' memoir A Smile As Big As The Moon, Einstein's Children tells of a sports coach and special needsteacher who fights to take his students to NASA Space Camp."We're all ...
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Fox's Omen has global significance in 66 territory-launch
Fox International will beseeking to translate The Omen'sexcellent early domestic form into a monster overseas result this weekend asthe satanic horror remake launches in - wait for it - 66 territories.John Moore's demonic taletook an estimated $12.6m from North American theatres on Tuesday (06/06/06) andopened around the world on the ...
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Bean, Knighton, Bush head cast in Rogue remake of The Hitcher
Production will begin this month on Rogue Pictures' horror remakeThe Hitcher afterZachary Knighton became the last main cast member to sign on.Knighton joins Sean Bean and Sophia Bush in Michael Bay'sPlatinum Dunes' remake of the 1986 horror classic. Dave Meyers is directing.Bay and Platinum Dunes' Brad Fuller and Andrew Form ...
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Universal buys rights to BOOM! comic book Talent
Universal has picked up the rights to BOOM! Studios' comic book Talent written by Christopher Golden and TomSniegoski.Nicole Brown of Marc Platt Productions brought the property to thestudio. Talentfollows a young professor who survives a plane crash and inherits the memoriesand skills of a boxer who perished in the disaster.Marc ...
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Celestial's Shaw Bros titles set for release in Iran
Hong Kong's Celestial Pictures has sealed exclusive deals withIran's Century 21 VMC, Portugal's Lusomundo and the Netherlands' Dutch Film Works, which extend the distribution ofits Shaw Brothers library to 56 countries. Century 21 VMC will presentmore than 100 Shaw Brothers titles on home video and television, in a dealwhich marks ...
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Emperor crowns Chan as production chief
In a move that was widely anticipated,Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures has appointed filmindustry veteran Philip Chan as head of production. Chan, a former actor who haswritten, directed and produced more than 20 features during his 30-year career,will oversee all production activities for the company. "Philip already has a numberof ...
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Geller promoted to sales, development manager at Submarine
Sales coordinator Harry Geller has been promoted to manager ofsales and development at New York-based sales and production company agencySubmarine Entertainment.'Harry Geller joined Submarine a little over a year ago andhas excelled in all areas he's been focused on,' Submarine co-head JoshBraun said.'In addition to his invaluable work on the ...
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Sundance names fellows for Documentary Film Editing and Story lab
The Sundance Institute has announcedthe eight filmmakers and their projects for its annual Documentary Film Editingand Story Laboratory, which runs from Jun 23-30.The 2006 Documentary FilmEditing and Story Laboratory Fellows are Maria Teresa Larrain (director) andRicardo Acosta (editor) with The Trial Of Pascual Pichun (Chile); Senain Kheshgi and Geeta Patel ...
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Kaminow promoted to executive vp of marketing at Sony
David Kaminow has been named executive vice president of marketingfor the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, and will work with marketingchief Valerie Van Galder on all Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studiosproductions and oversee worldwide market research for the studio.During his tenure with the studio, Kaminow has overseen worldwidemarket research on ...