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Benjamin Button scores another stunning weekend for WBPI
If there were any doubts that The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button lacked the momentum to replicate its impressive North American success overseas those were dispelled at the weekend as David Fincher's Oscar-nominated drama stayed ahead of the Hollywood pack and soared past $100m with another dominant display.An estimated $31m ...
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Marcos De Oliveira named head of MPAA's Brazil operations
Marcos De Oliveira has been named managing director of the Motion Picture Association's Brazil operations, a role that will place him front and centre of the body's government relations and anti-piracy initiatives in the territory.De Oliviera will assume his new position on February 16 and will report to Motion Picture ...
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Keri Russell joins Fraser, Ford in CBS Films' first feature
Keri Russell has signed to star opposite Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford in The Untitled Crowley Project, CBS Films' first feature that is set to go before the cameras on April 6.In the drama Russell and Fraser will play parents of children with a rare genetic disorder who hook up ...
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Friday The 13th remake sets horror opening record with $42.2m
Horror has a new champion as remake specialist Marcus Nispel's Friday The 13th (2009) scored the biggest launch weekend in the history of the genre thanks to an estimated $42.2m three-day haul, breezing past the previous mark set by The Grudge on $39.1m in October 2004.That the number one launch ...
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ShoWest to honour Sienna Miller as supporting actress of year
Sienna Miller will be anointed as ShoWest 2009's supporting actress ofthe year when the annual convention runs from March 30-April 2 in LasVegas.Miller, who will star this summer in Paramount/Spyglass' spy actionpicture G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, will accept the accolade at thefinal night banquet and awards ceremony on ...
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Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhind-Tutt are Meant To Be for Corsan
Belgian production, finance and international sales company Corsanannounced that production began this week in Puerto Rico on theromantic comedy Meant To Be.Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhindt-Tutt, Mia Maestro, Santiago Cabrera andKris Marshall star in the tale of a guardian angel who risks becominga fallen angel when he comes to earth in ...
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Paramount scares up 30+ territory opening for Friday The 13th
Paramount and New Line's horror remake Friday The 13th will be the oneto beat when it opens day-and-date with North America in more than 30territories through PPI this weekend.Highlights are expected to come from France on February 11, Germanyand Russia on February 12 and the UK, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Spain,Brazil ...
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Dimension networks with Sara Rue, Robert Green
Dimension Films is developing an untitled thriller based on anoriginal idea about a social networking website from actress Sara Rueand producing partner Robert Green.Rue and Green will produce and T S Faull will write the script, whichis being kept under wraps and centres on high school students and issaid to ...
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Shoreline cleans up with The Maid deals at EFM
Shoreline has closed several key territories at EFM on SebastianSilva's Chilean drama The Maid (La Nana) on the back of its grand jury prize win in Sundance's world cinema dramatic section.Rights have gone to Golem Distribucion in Spain, Bolero Films inItaly, Ost For Paradis for Denmark, Action Film for Norway, ...
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A dog's path to glory: The ups and downs of financing and producing Slumdog Millionaire
The UK's Film4 rarely buys a book without a production company involved, but chief Tessa Ross did just that when she first read Q&A by Vikas Swarup, the source novel for Slumdog Millionaire. 'It had a fantastic landscape, a clever plot and a way of telling the story of a ...
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Waisbren: Don't hesitate - consolidate!
In times of trouble, the big beasts always herd together. 'Consolidate or die' has been the frequent mantra when the independent film business is under threat. It was very much the message given by Ben Waisbren, president and chief executive of Continental Entertainment Capital, during his keynote speech at the ...
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Lance Weiler's multi-screen ambitions
Many independent film-makers try to self-distribute their films or use new platforms; Lance Weiler has actually succeeded in grossing $5m from the self-distribution and digital dissemination of his past work.The Pennsylvania-based writer-director pioneered digital distribution with 1998's The Last Broadcast and 2006's Head Trauma and is now planning his most ...
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TIFFG names Karen Black director, Canadian initiatives
The Toronto International Film Festival Group has named Karen Black as director, Canadian initiatives, for the organisation. Black has served as acting director for the past year, following Cam Haynes' departure in 2008.Her remit includes TIFFG's Film Circuit, Canada's Top Ten and the Student Film Showcase. She will also be ...
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New Directors/New Films to open with Amreeka, close with Push
Cherien Dabis' Amreeka will open the New Directors/New Films 2009 programme presented by New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Amreeka is about a single mother and her teenage son who move from Ramallah to middle America.The series will have its first ever closing ...
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Arthouse takes on Shulman doc Visual Acoustics
Arthouse Films has acquired North American and worldwide rights to feature documentary Visual Acoustics: The Modernism Of Julius Shulman.Eric Bricker directed the film, which explores the career of 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman, who works with human models and striking landscapes to explore how nature mixes with urban design. Dustin ...
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Wild Bunch swims in Oceans of Berlin deals
Wild Bunch was striking an upbeat note as the company announced its EFMdeals yesterday. Despite the credit crunch, it emerged that the French powerhouses has closed multiple territories on its packed Berlin slate. 'I think the worst is still to come. We were all afraid that Berlin would be a ...
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Necessities Of Life leads Genie Awards nominations
Benoit Pilon's The Necessities Of Life received eight nominations and Yves-Christian Fornier's Everything Is Fine received seven as the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the contenders for the 29th-annual Genie Awards. Necessities Of Life was Canada's submission for the foreign-language Oscar. The two Quebecois titles were followed closely ...
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