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Morden Kichaven promoted to Hollywood executive director at SAG
Ilyanne Morden Kichaven has been promoted to Hollywood executivedirector at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).Kichaven, a five-year SAG veteran, will commence her role in theNew Year and play a key part in representing the interests of the HollywoodDivision board.She will oversee strategic planning on behalf of SAG's nearly70,000 Hollywood members, ...
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C.R.A.Z.Y., Cronenberg among Canada's Top Ten
Jean-Marc Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y.and David Cronenberg's A HistoryOf Violence were among the titleslisted in the Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG)'s annualCanada's Top Ten.The yearly roll-call,published in alphabetical order as opposed to merit, honours achievement inCanadian film. Other titles include Deepa Mehta's Water, which has earned more than C$1m at the ...
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Kong kicks off global reign today in over 10,000 theatres
Universal's much-anticipated King Kong opens in North America today [Wednesday]on more than 7,500 screens in 3,568 theatres.The scope of the holiday tentpole opening matches the scale ofPeter Jackson's picture, which clocks in at just over three hours.This is Universal's second biggest domestic release of all timebehind Hulk, whichlaunched in more ...
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Disney unveils first China co-production
Disneyhas unveiled its first Chinese co-production - family-themed feature The Secret Of The Magic Gourd - which iscurrently shooting in Hangzhouin southern China. The film, which wasannounced at the CineAsia conference today in Beijing, is a co-production between Disney's internationaltheatrical arm Buena Vista International, Hong Kong-based visual effects houseCentro Digital ...
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Hella Joof to direct a slew of films
Popular Danishdirector Hella Joof hassigned to direct two Nordic features in 2006. First up is the Swedish drama Lina's Diary, (Under Ombygning) its preliminaryinternational title with a budget of $1.2-$2.1m (1-1.8m Euros). SF will beproducing. It is based onthe true story of a teenager's struggles with alcohol, from ...
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EM.TV completes Formula 1 offering
German TV and rights group EM.TV & Merchandising has completed the secondary share offering it launched in connection with the acqusition of a 50% interest in Formula 1 (F1).EM.TV completed the move by finalising a private placement of 2.5m shares. Florian Haffa, EM.TV's deputy chief execuive officer, said in a ...
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Changing of the Lars von Trier guard
Meta Louise Foldager hasbeen named as Lars von Trier's new producer after Vibeke Windeløv departed after adecade to pursue other projects. The 31year-old produced King's Gamedirected by Nikolaj Arceland Angels in Fast Motion directed byOle Christian Madsen. "In thecontext of Vibeke choosing something else thanproducing my films I would like ...
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Changing of the guard at Lars von Trier
Meta Louise Foldager hasbeen named as Lars von Trier's new producer after Vibeke Windeløv departed after adecade to pursue other projects. The 31year-old produced King's Gamedirected by Nikolaj Arceland Angels in Fast Motion directed byOle Christian Madsen. "In thecontext of Vibeke choosing something else thanproducing my films I would like ...
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Ireland nets Dragnet and Becoming Jane
Feature films due to go intoproduction in early 2006 include Dragnet,written and directed by Steve Hudson, and BecomingJane directed by Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots). Dragnet is set to star Scottish actors Robert Carlyle and Gary Lewisand will shoot for five weeks on location in Ireland on a trawler off the ...
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AOL chief Miller to receive PGA award for Live 8 broadcasts
America Online chairman andchief executive officer Jon Miller will receive the Producers Guild of America's(PGA) 2006 Vanguard Award.The honour follows AOL'swebcast of this summer's Live 8 concert events and recognises outstandingachievement in new media and technology.Miller will collect theaward at the 2006 PGA Awards on Jan 22 in Los Angeles."The ...
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Wellspring picks up US rights to Chereau's Gabrielle
Wellspring, which wasrecently acquired by entertainment company Genius Products, has picked up allUS rights from StudioCanal to Patrice Chereau's Gabrielle.The company bought the filmat The New York Film Festival earlier this year and plans a spring 2006.Based on Joseph Conrad'sshort story The Return, theturn-of-the-century story takes place in France and ...
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National Lampoon teams with Half-Shell to develop film properties
National Lampoon is teamingup with fledgling Santa Monica entertainment company Half Shell EntertainmentFilms (HSE) to develop features based on material from National Lampoonmagazine and NationalLampoon.com.'Partnering with HSEFilms makes perfect sense," National Lampoon's executive vice president BarryLayne said. "They are young, aggressive and have the sensibility that both goeswith our history ...
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Waddington to direct $40m Cortes epic Conquistador
Gianni Nunnari's LosAngeles-based Hollywood Gang Productions is ramping up on the 16th centurySpanish-language epic Conquistador,set to begin shooting in Brazil and other parts of South America in September2006.Brazil's Andrucha Waddington(Me You Them, House Of Sand) willdirect the project from a screenplay by Nicholas Kazan translated by historianand writer Carlos Bardem.Relativity ...
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The New World to open Palm Springs on Jan 5
The 17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival will openon Jan 5 with a screening of Terrence Malick's The New World. The closing night gala will beannounced shortly.Festival director Darryl Macdonald and his team unveiled a line-upof 232 titles chosen from 70 countries yesterday [Wednesday], including fourworld, 51 US and ...
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Bergman promoted to president of Walt Disney Studios
Alan Bergman has been promoted to president of The Walt DisneyStudios.Bergman will continue to report to studio chairman Dick Cook andoversees strategy and operations for all the company's business units,including Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, Buena Vista Pictures Distributionand Buena Vista Pictures Marketing."Alan is the quintessential strategist whether he's exploringnew ...
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Canada's Nelvana, Keystone hit IPO hurdles
Two Canadian entertainment companies have cut back or withdrawn public offerings as market volatility continues to unbalance North American stock exchanges. Toronto-based animation house Nelvana Ltd has trimmed back the number of shares in a US public offering from a proposed 3.75 million shares to 2.5 million. The shares, priced ...
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Rangel joins Warner Bros as Latin American anti-piracy executive
Lucia Rangel has joined Warner Bros as vice president ofanti-piracy operations for Latin America.The Brazilian-born executive will oversee all of the studio'santi-piracy operations in the region, working closely with Warner BrosEntertainment's anti-piracy regional teams and business units.Rangel joins Warner Bros from the Motion Picture Association,where she served as vice president ...
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LSL Productions embarks on Harry Nilsson doc
Los Angeles-based LSL Productions has commenced production on thedocumentary Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him') about the late singer-songwriter.LSL is independently financing the project, which will get itsworld premiere at the 2006 Santa Barbara Film Festival.Nilsson, a multi-Grammy winner who The Beatles famously describedas their ...
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Damon teams with Ramco, Mosfilm for War And Peace miniseries
Mark Damon'sForesight Unlimited has teamed up with Russia's Ramco Films and Mosfilm Studioson War And Peace, aneight-hour mini-series budgeted in the $60m-$70m range. Ron Hutchinsonwill write the epic and discussions are underway with directors. Damon, SergeKonov, Leonid Minkovski and Alexander Shishkin will produce and Foresight willhandle worldwide sales. Production isset ...
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Exhibitors call for clarification on Chinese cinema ownership
Exhibitors speaking at aCineAsia panel on Wednesday said they're urgently seeking clarification on China's regulations concerning foreign investment in thecinema industry. In a session entitled "ChinaExhibition: Applying the Global Experience to the China Market", Warner BrosInternational Cinemas (WBIC) and South Korea's CJ CGV spoke of the challengesthey face in the ...