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Button adds $19.6m for Warner Bros to sweep past $150m
While 13 Oscar nominations for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button may not translate into such a dominant reality once the awards are handed out at tonight's 81st Annual Academy Awards, what is in no doubt is the incontrovertible evidence of the picture's commercial clout. Staying on top of the ...
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Tyler Perry's latest Madea film tops domestic box office with $41.1m
As fruitful relationships between studio and film-maker go, they don't get much better than the collaboration between Lionsgate and Tyler Perry. Both parties scored the highest launch of their careers at the weekend as Madea Goes To Jail stormed to the top with an estimated $41.1m number one debut that ...
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The Wrestler named best feature, actor at Independent Spirit Awards
The Wrestler was named best feature and won the best actor award for Mickey Rourke and the best cinematography award for Maryse Alberti at the 2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards which took place today (Saturday) in Santa Monica.The annual event, which honours films embodying independence and 'who dare to challenge ...
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Warner's Button should continue international lead this weekend
Warner Bros Pictures International's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button has ruled the roost for the past two weekends and has reached an impressive $130m and crossed $250m worldwide.With no wide release of any Hollywood picture planned this weekend, the Oscar nominated drama starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett looks ...
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Marston, Bahrani projects to get grant support from Cinereach
New work from Maria Full Of Grace director Joshua Marston and Man Push Cart director Ramin Bahrani are among a selection of ten works-in-progress to receive grants totaling $250,000 from non-profit film support body Cinereach.Cinereach was founded in 2006 by a group of young film-makers, philanthropists and entrepreneurs to champion ...
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NewsAdam Yauch's indie music approach to film
Adam Yauch, co-founder of groundbreaking hip-hop group The Beastie Boys, is building on his experience and knowledge of the music world to create a new breed of film distribution company. In January 2008, he launched Oscilloscope Pictures, a full-service New York-based distributor.‘It’s an idea I’ve had for a ...
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Werc Werk Works to produce, finance Epstein & Freidman's Howl
Elizabeth Redleaf and Christine Walker's Werc Werk Works will produce and fully finance Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl starring James Franco.Howl is set to go into production on March 16 in New York City and centres on the obscenity trial into Allen Ginsberg's groundbreaking Beat Generation poem of the ...
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Kloiber's TMG extends US deal with Augsberger for three years
Herbert Kloiber's Tele Muenchen Group (TMG) has extended its exclusive US representation deal with Thomas Augsberger's LA-based Eden Rock Media for the next three years.The extension follows a busy Berlin for TMG during which Augsberger acquired German rights to Robert Redford's The Company You Keep and Terry Gilliam's Zero Theorem ...
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Miami Film Festival to open with Valentino: The Last Emperor
Matt Tyrnauer's documentary Valentino: The Last Emperor and Daniel Burman's comedy Empty Nest (El Nido Vacio) bookend the 26th Annual Miami International Film Festival, set to run from March 6-15.All in all the 137 selections represent more than 40 countries offering four world premieres, 22 North American premieres and 18 ...
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Paramount extends deal with Montecito, Cold Spring to 2012
Paramount Pictures has extended its agreement with The Montecito Picture Company and Cold Spring Pictures to run through February 2012.The arrangement gives the studio an exclusive first look at Montecito's diverse productions, as well as the non-exclusive opportunity to co-finance films through Montecito's financing facility, Cold Spring Pictures.The Montecito Picture ...
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Warner Bros steps in for domestic on Edge Of Darkness
Warner Bros has taken North American rights to GK Films' upcoming Mel Gibson thriller Edge Of Darkness, which is currently in post-production.GK had financed the film without a US distributor attached.Martin Campbell directed the story based on the BBC mini-series of the same name. Gibson plays a Boston homicide detective ...
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International premiere of Ong Bak 2 toopen midnight strand at SXSW
The International premiere of Tony Jaa's martial arts action romp Ong Bak 2 will kick off the South By Southwest festival's inaugural midnight section next month, SXSW Presents Fantastic Fest At Midnight.The line-up of six pictures includes the world premieres of Pierre Laffargue's blaxploitation homage Black starring MC Jean Gab'1, ...
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IFC Films takes US rights to Canadian zombie movie Pontypool
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Bruce McDonald's Canadian zombie horror Pontypool starring Stephen McHattie.Meanwhile the picture's international sales agents Forward Motion Entertainment have sold rights to the UK (Kaleidoscope), South Korea (Mirovision), the Middle East (Eagle/Phonenicia Pictures), Hungary (Cinetel) and Malaysia (VSG).Tony Burgess adapted the screenplay from his ...
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Berlin Bear winners sell well for Match Factory, Bavaria
Sales have been strong for Berlin Bear winners handled by German-based sales agents The Match Factory and Bavaria Film International.
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Mexico and Canada are film piracy hotspots, says IIPA
The copyright industries that make up the International Intellectual Property Alliance have recommended that Mexico and Canada be among a list of 13 countries that be placed on a priority watch list.In a submission to the Office of the US Trade Representative filed today [February 17] in the annual Special ...
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Kampe and Tron's Visit Films closes key territories on EFM titles
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's New York-based sales company Visit Films has closed key territories on its EFM slate, led by the noir mystery The Missing Person starring Michael Shannon and David Russo's comedy The Immaculate Conception Of Little Dizzle.Rights to The Missing Person sold to Australia (Palace Films), Turkey ...
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Fabian's Skin takes audience, jury prizes at Pan African Festival in LA
Sean Baker's drama Prince Of Broadway won the 17th Annual Pan African Film And Arts Festival's narrative feature competition but the audience award went to Anthony Fabian's drama Skin starring Sophie Okonedo and Skin was also named Jury Favourite.Jihan El-Tahri's French production Cuba, An African Odyssey was named best documentary ...
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Robert Towne to receive AFI Dallas Star Award at late March festival
Robert Towne will receive the AFI Dallas Star Award in recognition of his career as a film-maker and screenwriter on the 35th anniversary of Chinatown.The festival also announced ten new additions to the line-up, among them Scott Hamilton's documentary Oscar nominee The Garden, Kazuya Tsurumaki's Japanese anime adaptation Evangelion 1.0 ...
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Dod Mantle takes ASC feature film prize for Slumdog Millionaire
Anthony Dod Mantle won top feature film honours for his work on Slumdog Millionaire at the 23rd Annual American Society Of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards on Sunday [February 15].Mantle's victory served as the latest reminder - not that any were needed - that the Mumbai-set rags-to-riches tale approaches Oscar weekend ...
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BritWeek to kick off on April 21 with a gala dinner for Blair
BritWeek 2009 will kick off on April 21 with a gala dinner honouring former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in support of the charity Malaria No More.The programme for the third annual networking and fundraising event includes a film-makers forum for Los Angeles and London-based creatives.'We Brits love Los Angeles ...