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Voltage takes on international to Call Of The Wild 3D
Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures has acquired international rights toCall Of The Wild 3D,based on the classic Jack London adventure novel.Richard Gabai directed the film, which premiered in Singapore at 3DX and will open in North America later this year once an imminent domestic deal is finalized.Call Of The Wild will ...
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Gran Torino leads international box office with $8.8m take
Gran Torinoruled the roost of Hollywood releases overseas over a modest weekend as the drama grossed a further estimated $8.8m from more than 2,500 screens in 38 markets through Warner Bros Pictures International, raising the tally to $60m.The film launched in second place behind Slumdog Millionaire in Brazil on $409,000 ...
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NewsSummit has number one $24.8m domestic hit with Knowing
Summit Entertainment proved there is more to the ambitious company than the Twilight franchise with a strong $24.8m number one launch of its sci-fi adventure Knowing, which stars Nicolas Cage as an astrophysicist who tries to avert global catastrophe.The debut comfortably beat off challenges from DreamWorks-Paramount’s gross-out comedy I Love ...
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SnagFilms adds deal with International Documentary Association
Days after SnagFilms announced a documentary partnership with Hulu, the online cinema venture has struck another alliance with the International Documentary Association.The partnership will include the creation of an IDA Channel onSnagfilms.com and the embedding of SnagFilms widgets on the IDA'swebsite.Branded content from IDA's Documentary Magazine and its website willalso ...
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Producer Paul Mezey looks outward from NYC
Paul Mezey does not have the insular New York mind-set of some independent producers based in the Big Apple. One of his next two productions, Joshua Marston's Blood Feud (working title), will shoot in Northern Albania while David Riker's The Girl will shoot in Texas and Mexico.He has also gone ...
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Cherien Dabis on Amreeka
Cherien Dabis' feature debut Amreeka, a richly observed story of Arab-American immigrants in middle America, hits very close to home. 'I grew up in Ohio, going back to Jordan every summer,' Dabis says. 'I had a sort of identity crisis - I wasn't American enough for the Americans nor Arab ...
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Opinion: the changing face of acquisitions
International sellers and producers going into Cannes will encounter a severely depleted troupe of acquisitions executives from the US studios and their specialised divisions.
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Catherine Hardwicke returns to Summit for If I Stay
Catherine Hardwicke may not be returning to direct the Twilight follow-up New Moon for Summit but director and studio will work together again on the drama If I Stay.Based on Gayle Forman's book of the same name that will be published this spring by Penguin Young Readers Group imprint Dutton ...
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UPI's Duplicity goes out day and date in UK, Australia, Spain
Warner Bros Pictures International’sGran Torinoand PPI’sWatchmenwill continue to battle it out this weekend but they’ll face challenges from a trio of new arrivals. UPI launches the crime caperDuplicityin 11 territories, Sony rolls out its hit US comedyPaul Blart: Mall Copin several markets, and PPI unleashesMonsters Vs Aliensin two territories.Clint Eastwood’s ...
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Egoyan's Chloe will continue to shoot around Neeson's schedule
Production on Atom Egoyan's Chloe will continue in the wake of the death of actress Natasha Richardson, the wife of the film's star, Liam Neeson.Richardson died Wednesday in New York following a ski accident in the Quebec resort of Mt. Tremblant. The New York City medical examiner's office said the ...
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US PR outfit Falco Ink launches division specialised in Hispanic media
Falco Ink partners Janice Roland and Shannon Treusch announced they have launched a film and television division specialising in Hispanic media.Soldanela Rivera has been hired to oversee the division; she has worked extensively in production and marketing in film and the performing arts, with more than 15 years of experience ...
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Tyson, The Cove to close AFI Dallas festival on April 2
James Toback's Tyson and Louie Psihoyos' The Cove will share the AFI Dallas International Film Festival's closing night gala presentation spotlight on April 2.The following day Peter Bogdanovich will receive the AFI Dallas Star Award in recognition of his career achievements in cinema.Sony Pictures Classics holds North American rights to ...
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SnagFilms strikes content deal with Hulu documentary channel
Online distributor SnagFilms has announced it will provide portions of its video library to the new documentary channel on Hulu, the online video service that offers features, TV shows and clips for free.In addition to featuring documentaries from SnagFilms' library of 600 titles, the Hulu documentary channel will provide viewers ...
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Sorority Row cast named Showest Female Stars Of Tomorrow
The female ensemble cast of Summit Entertainment's upcoming horror remake Sorority Row will jointly receive the ShoWest 2009 Female Star Of Tomorrow Award.Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung, Audrina Partridge, and Margo Harshman will be presented with the award at ShoWest's final night banquet and award ceremony on ...
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Natasha Richardson dies after skiing accident at age of 45
Natasha Richardson, the Tony Award winning stage and screen star and scion of British performing arts royalty, has died following a skiing accident. She was 45.The daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and the late director Tony Richardson was flown to hospital close to her home in New York on Tuesday evening ...
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DDA launches US domestic publicity division under Dana Archer
DDA Public Relations is expanding its Los Angeles offices by launching a domestic publicity division to be led by Dana Archer, recently arrived from Weber Shandwick.Archer is named as vice-president of corporate publicity and will pursue film, television, home entertainment and corporate clients and serve as a conduit for DDA's ...
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Lionsgate takes North America on Paris With Love
Lionsgate has taken North American rights to Luc Besson's EuropaCorp thriller From Paris With Love, starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers and directed by Pierre Morel. The deal reunites Lionsgate and Europa after Lionsgate released Olivier Megaton's Transporter 3 last year and Alexandre Aja's horror film High Tension in ...
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Made In China, 35365 win top juried prizes at SXSW
Judi Krant's drama Made In China won the South By Southwest Film's narrative feature juried prize while Bill Ross' portrait of MidWest life 45365 took corresponding documentary honours.In the audience awards, Scott Teems' Tennessee-set grudge story That Evening Sun won narrative feature, Geralyn Pezanoski's post-Katrina tale Mine won the documentary ...
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Lionsgate acquires young adult franchise The Hunger Games
Lionsgate has acquired worldwide rights to the film version of Suzanne Collins' bestselling futuristic young adult novel The Hunger Games.Collins will adapt the screenplay from her novel, which is conceived as the first in a trilogy, and Nina Jacobson is producing through her Color Force company.Lionsgate president of motion picture ...
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Roger Ebert to receive career achievement award at ShoWest
Pulitzer Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert will receive a special ShoWest Career Achievement In Film Journalism Award in Las Vegas on April 2.Ebert began his career as a film critic in 1967, writing for The Chicago Sun-Times. In 1976 he teamed with Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune to ...