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Lionsgate strikes nationwide US hookup with Starbucks
Starbucks Entertainment hasstruck deal with Lionsgate under which the coffee giant will participate in themarketing and distribution of Lionsgate and 2929 Entertainment's upcoming dramaAkeelah And The Bee.Leveraging its retail baseacross North America, Starbucks will screen the picture to Starbucks servers(aka "baristas") to create word of mouth and run a series ...
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Boberg buys Liberty, launches Liberation Entertainment
Mediaentrepreneur Jay Boberg, with the financial backing of media and communicationsprivate-equity firm Clarity Partners, has acquired Liberty InternationalEntertainment and is relaunching it as Liberation Entertainment.The acquisitionincludes a sizeable library of more than 250 features, as well as episodictelevision and music concert programming.Boberg willserve as chairman and chief executive officer of ...
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Metallica director Sinofsky to make a documentary about Tommy Lee
Documentary maker BruceSinofsky is following up Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster, which he made with Joe Berliner, with a film aboutthe infamous heavy metal musician Tommy Lee.The as-yet-untitled projectis scheduled to begin shooting this spring. Lee's manager and Sanctuary MusicArtists Management chief executive officer Carl Stubner is serving as executiveproducer ...
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Little Fish swims to US via First Look
First Look Studios haspicked up North American rights to Rowan Woods' Australian drama Little Fish from Myriad Pictures and plans a release in thefirst quarter of the year.The acclaimed film starringCate Blanchett, Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving won four Australian Film Institute(AFI) Awards late last year. It charts the escapades ...
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Dubinet joins Myriad as president of distribution
Myriad Pictures hasappointed sales veteran Ann Dubinet to the post of president of distribution.Dubinet (pictured) willoversee all theatrical distribution departments including contracts,collections, servicing and marketing as the company plans a period of growth onthe production and distribution fronts in 2006.Reporting to Myriadpresident and CEO Kirk D'Amico, she will oversee day-to-day ...
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Hamilton joins Paramount specialised label as vp, production
John Lesher's new hires atParamount's reconfigured specialized arm continued yesterday with theannouncement that Chad Hamilton had been named vice president, production.Hamilton (pictured) will be involved inthe acquisition and development of material, reporting to Amy Israel, executivevice president of production and acquisitions.He was formerly vicepresident, production, at Anonymous Content, the LA-based ...
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The Yards
Dir: James Gray. US. 2000. 108 mins.Prod cos: Paul Webster, Industry Entertainment. Co-prods: Matt Reeves, Christopher Goode. Int'l Sales: Miramax International (+1 212 219 4100). Exec prods: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Jonathan Gordon. Prods: Nick Wechsler, Paul Webster, Kerry Orent. Scr: Gray, Reeves. DoP: Harris Savides. Prod des: Kevin Thompson. ...
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Tristan & Isolde
Dir: Kevin Reynolds. UK-Ger-CzRep. 2005. 125mins.It's not the Wagner opera but the original Tristan& Isolde legend that gets the Hollywood treatmentin this period romance from 20th Century Fox and Scott Free Entertainment. Inthe hands of Kevin Reynolds (director of RobinHood: Prince Of Thieves) the Dark Ages legendbecomes a tragic love ...
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Shochiku adds four dramas to busy Berlin slate
In addition to its upcomingsamurai films, Japan's Shochiku has added four new dramas to its international sales slate,which it will be launching at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.Heading the slate is thelatest film from prolific cult director Takashi Miike, Big Bang Love, Juvenile A, which will receive its ...
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Venice Film Festival to get new Palazzo
After years of debate,Venice's engine finally started churning as the city's mayor Massimo Cacciarisigned a deal to build a new festivalstructure in the Lido's former hospital.Cacciari sealed a deal onThursday allowing Venice to sell off the Ospedaledel Mare hospital to real estate developers, provided that at least $120m(100m Euros) are ...
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Harry Potter tops flat 2005 Singapore box office
Amid double-digit declineacross most key international markets, Singapore witnessed a marginal rise in 2005 box office takingsby 0.88% to $74.7m (S$121.4m) despite a drop of 6.9% in cinema admissions to14.8 million.Prior to 2005, thecity-state had been enjoying an average of 7.7% per annum growth in box officetakings and a 4.3% ...
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Director Joe Wright collaborating on Hangover Square
Sought-after young Britishdirector Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice)and writer David Nicholls (Starter forTen) are collaborating on a new version of Patrick Hamilton's classic 1941novel, Hangover Square, for Fox/DNA. Dixie Linder is to producethe feature, currently in development at DNA.Fox own the rights to Hamilton's novel. It has been filmedfor the ...
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Moonstone names directors for filmmakers' lab
Moonstone International has announced the participants forits ninth Filmmakers' Lab, to be held in Wexford, Ireland, from January26-February 10. The participatingdirectors are selected from applicants across Europe who areworking on feature films for an international audience. This year's directorsand films are: Terry McMahon's DancehallBitch (Ireland), Ian Power's Who's Next (Ireland), ...
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Debut director is feted at the Bavarian Film Awards
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's feature debut Das Leben Der Anderen was the big winner at the weekend's BavarianFilm Awards taking home prizes in four categories.Thethriller, set in East Germany of the mid-1980s picked up the prizes forBest Screenplay and Newcomer Director as well as for Best Actor (toUlrich Muehe for ...
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DVD sales in Italy jumped by 33% in 2005
DVD sales in Italy jumped a massive 33% in2005, according to national home entertainment body Univideo.Univideo estimates that 40million DVDs were sold last year. The average price of DVDs dropped 21% to$17-18 (14-15 Euros). Meanwhile, video sales slumped 47%.Official figures for 2005will only be available in March or April. Univideopresident ...
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Studs to kick off Dublin festival
In a preliminaryannouncement the 4th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival has confirmedit will open on February 17 with the World Premiere of Paul Mercier's Studs.A debut feature written anddirected by Mercier and produced by Cúán and Fiach Mac Conghail (alsoproducers of Mercier's three short films) Studsis a feel-good action comedy ...
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Alliance Atlantis' MPD restructures senior management and board
AllianceAtlantis' releasing arm Motion Picture Distribution has restructured the seniormanagement and board, with Victor Loewy, current CEO assuming the title ofchairman and Patrice Theroux moving from president and COO to president andCEO. The position of COO has been phased out. The changes are effective Feb 1,2006.In a statement,Loewy said the ...
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Placido's gang drama tops Nastri d'Argento nominations
MichelePlacido's Romanzo Criminalehas scooped 10 nominations at Italy's second highest film awards, the Nastrid'Argento.Veteranactor Placido'sseventh feature as a director is a fact- based epic about a Rome gang whichtried to control the Italian capital's underworld from the mid- 1970s to the1990s.The filmstars Kim Rossi Stuart, Pierfrancesco Favino andClaudio Santamaria, ...
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Placido's gang drama tops Nastri d'Argento nominations
MichelePlacido's Romanzo Criminalehas scooped 10 nominations at Italy's second highest film awards, the Nastrid'Argento.Veteranactor Placido'sseventh feature as a director is a fact- based epic about a Rome gang whichtried to control the Italian capital's underworld from the mid- 1970s to the1990s.The filmstars Kim Rossi Stuart, Pierfrancesco Favino andClaudio Santamaria, ...
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Placido's gang drama tops Nastri d'Argento nominations
MichelePlacido's Romanzo Criminalehas scooped 10 nominations at Italy's second highest film awards, the Nastrid'Argento.Veteranactor Placido'sseventh feature as a director is a fact- based epic about a Rome gang whichtried to control the Italian capital's underworld from the mid- 1970s to the1990s.The filmstars Kim Rossi Stuart, Pierfrancesco Favino andClaudio Santamaria, who ...