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Avex buys Japan on Screaming Masterpiece from Katapult
LA-basedKatapult Film Sales closed a major Japanese deal at Berlin recently for itsmusic documentary Screaming Masterpiece with Avex in Japan.Open Sesame helped to brokerthe deal which saw Avex take Ari Alexander Ergis' film about the contemporaryIcelandic music scene. The film, which was completed in Jan, and screened inBerlin, features such ...
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Diary Of A Mad Black Woman opens top in US
Lions Gate Film's comedy-dramaDiary Of A Mad Black Woman ruled the roost at the weekend, opening topon an estimated $22.7m.The picture stars Kimberly Elise as a woman who learns on the eve of her 20thwedding anniversary that her husband wants to marry her best friend. DarrenGrant's picture opened to dire ...
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New cast join Stranger Than Fiction
TomHulce, Linda Hunt and Tony Hale have joined the cast of Marc Forster's StrangerThan Fiction, which is set to begin filming in April.Aspreviously announced, Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman and EmmaThompson and Queen Latifah already star in the story of an IRS auditor namedHarold Crick who inexplicably finds himself ...
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FULL LIST OF ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS 2004
Best Picture MillionDollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, AlbertS Ruddy & Tom Rosenberg, producers)BestDirector Clint Eastwood Million Dollar BabyBest Actor Jamie Foxx RayBest Actress Hilary Swank MillionDollar BabyBest Supporting Actor MorganFreeman Million Dollar BabyBest Supporting Actress CateBlanchett The AviatorBest Original ScreenplayCharlie Kaufman (screenplay), Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry & PierreBismuth (story) Eternal Sunshine ...
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Million Dollar night at the Oscars for Eastwood's Baby
Million Dollar Baby delivered a knockout blow to its chiefcompetitor The Aviator attonight's 77th Annual Academy Award ceremony, winning four Oscarsfor best picture, best director (Clint Eastwood), best actress (Hilary Swank)and best supporting actor (Morgan Freeman).MartinScorsese once again came away empty-handed in the best director category for TheAviator, although the ...
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Be Cool
Dir: F Gary Gray. US.2005. 115 mins.Imperturbablemobster-turned-movie-producer Chili Palmer tries his hand at the music biz in BeCool, the long-awaited sequel to Barry Sonnefeld's deftly funny 1995 ElmoreLeonard adaptation Get Shorty. In musical terms, the sequel doesn'tswing like the original did and neither does it ever quite find a more ...
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Cursed
Dir: Wes Craven. US.2005. 95minsThe release date of 2005tells one side - perhaps the official one - to Cursed, the new werewolfpicture from Dimension, the in-house genre arm of Miramax that revitalised themodern horror landscape with the self-aware yet scary Scream picturesfrom what now seems like eons ago. Almost every ...
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Veer Zara, Hum Tum top India's Oscars
Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee bagged the best actor andbest actress award for their role in Swades and Hum Tumrespectively at the 50th Filmfare awards (Indian Oscars) in Mumbai on Saturday.Rani also bagged the best actress in a supporting role for the film VeerZara. Yashraj Film's Veer Zara, was awarded ...
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Wilde, Lewis, Carradine join cast of Bobby Z
Olivia Wilde, Jason Lewis,Keith Carradine, M C Gainey and Margo Martindale have joined the cast ofthriller The Death And Life Of Bobby Z from Paul Walker's Blue Collar Films and Heidi Jo Markel's EclecticPictures. Production is currentlyunderway in Mexico on a small-time loser who gets a shot at redemption when ...
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Sony Classics picks up EV Confidential
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC)has picked-up North American and English speaking rights to ElectricEntertainment and Plinyminor's politically charged documentary, EVConfidential. SPC plans a 2006 release onthe picture, which explores the development and demise of the electric car andpresents the story in the style of a murder-mystery. Dean Devlin's ElectricEntertainment financed the ...
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Trapero's Family scores US berth with Palm
Palm Pictures has acquiredNorth American and Caribbean rights to Pablo Trapero's road movie RollingFamily. The New York-baseddistributor plans an early 2006 release on the picture, which centres on an Argentinean matriarch who takes her family on a tripto a wedding. The picture won bestdirector and best actress honours for Gracina ...
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Lot 47 acquires Fast Food, Fast Women
Lot 47 has acquired North American rights (excluding Quebec) to Amos Kollek's Cannes competition title Fast Food, Fast Women, from French sales outfit Celluloid Dreams.Celluloid, which produced the romantic comedy, along with three European distributors - France's Ocean Films, Italy's Bim and Germany's Pandora - said the title has been ...
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Howard, Olin, Robards join cast of thriller Awake
Terrence Howard, Lena Olinand Sam Robards have joined the cast on GreeneStreet Films, The WeinsteinCompany and Deutsch/Open City's psychological thriller Awake. Filming in New Yorkcommenced last week in the tale of a man undergoing surgery who learns of acriminal plot. Hayden Christenson and Jessica Alba play the lead roles.Joby Harold ...
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B Pix sells El Cortez to France, Germany
Santa Monica-based B Pix hascompleted two key sales at AFM on the noir thriller El Cortez starring Lou Diamond Phillips. Rights have gone to JanRoeloffs and Jupiter Communications in France and Koch Media in Germany. Bruce Weitz, Glenn Plummer,Tracy Middendorf, James McDaniel, and Peter Onorati star in the film. Prior ...
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Shani buys film package for Israel from Herwitz
Andrew Herwitz'sThe Film Sales Company has completed a package deal at AFM with Israel's ShaniFilms.Titles includeAlan Hruska's romantic comedy Nola starring Emily Rossum, and the drama Loggerheads starring Kip Pardue and Bonnie Hunt.Other titlesinclude Joseph Pierson's 2002 police drama Evenhand, and Elliot Greenebaum's comedy AssistedLiving, which won the2003 Sundance Grand ...
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AFM hails all-time record attendance numbers
Overall attendance at theAFM reached an all-time high of 8,014, market organisers said this week. Attendance is up 13% againstlast year's comparable figure of 7,064. The final tally of buyers is 1,583 from62 countries, with France, Brazil, Italy, South Korea and Hong Kong reportingsignificant rises in the number of buyers ...
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MonteCristo seals pre-sales on Apartment 1303
Michael Taverna'sMonteCristo Entertainment has completed a raft of pre-sales on horror title Apartment1303, which centres on theterrifying circumstances surrounding a rental apartment. Rights have gone to UniKoreain South Korea, DNC Entertainment in Italy, Flins y Pinniculas in Spain, NewWorld in Thailand, Ram Indo in Singapore/Malaysia, and Noble Entertainment inScandinavia. Amuse ...
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Shoreline acquires rights to Sudden Storm
Shoreline Entertainment hasacquired worldwide rights to Sudden Storm Productions' erotic thriller BarstoolWords. Jeff Glickman's directorialdebut centres on two high school friends who become ensnared in a web ofintrigue when they encounter a femme fatale from their past. Vincent Kartheiser, SarahCarter, Geoffrey Arend, Colm Feore and newcomer Krystin Pellerin star in ...
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Wolper acquires rights to story of Palestinian would-be suicide bomber
Wolper Organization hasacquired feature rights to Love And Terror, based on David France's true story about a teenage Palestinian girl'sarrest and conviction for conspiring to carry out a suicide bombing. Wolper is ramping up forproduction in association with Pterodactyl Productions and Plain Brown WrapperProductions. Mark Wolper and KevinNicklaus are producing ...
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Russian indie reveals ambitious plans after takeover
Russia's biggestindependent film company Central Partnership is promising an ambitious production programme and new studio facilities after itstakeover by Prof-Media, a subsidiary of industrial giant Interros."Most of the newfunds secured from the undisclosed deal will be invested in film production and newprojects," Central Partnership's generaldirector Ruben Dishdishian told Screen, He ...