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AFI Dallas hosts three documentary world premieres
Fifteen features will screen at the AFI DALLAS 2009 set to run from March 26-April 2, including three documentary world premieres of Justin Wilson’sOne Nationabout human rights, Libby Spears’ sex trafficking talePlaygroundand and John Chester’sRock Propheciesabout an obsessive concert photographer.The US premieres are Robert Keener’s documentary Food Inc, Matt Aselton’s ...
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Sundance Channel buys packages of docs from Arthouse Films
The Sundance Channel has acquired a package of arts documentaries for broadcast from Arthouse Films' current and upcoming slate.David Koh, Lilly Bright, and Stanley Buchthal negotiated the deal on behalf of Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment with Sundance Channel's senior vice president of acquisitions and programming Christian Vesper and ...
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Larry Levy to head theatrical distribution at Vivendi Entertainment
Vivendi Entertainment has hired Larry Levy as vice president and head of theatrical distribution at Vivendi Entertainment ahead of its maiden release of New York, I Love You.Levy will oversee all aspects of theatrical distribution for Vivendi Entertainment and joins from New Line, where he served as for 15 years ...
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Roadside Attractions takes North American rights to The September Issue
Roadside Attractions has picked up North American theatrical and home video rights to R J Cutler's Anna Wintour documentary The September Issue, a popular title at Sundance following its world premiere last month. The A&E IndieFilms production offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Vogue's iconic editor-in-chief in the run-up to the ...
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TV veteran Poul to direct CBS Films' romantic comedy Plan B
Alan Poul is in final negotiations to direct the romantic comedy Plan B, the first planned release from CBS Films that will star Jennifer Lopez.Shooting is set to begin in May with a theatrical release set for January 2010. The story follows a woman who goes through the process of ...
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Chris Pine named ShoWest Male Star Of Tomorrow
Chris Pine, who plays the young Captain Kirk in JJ Abrams' summer release Star Trek, will be the ShoWest Male Star Of Tomorrow when the Las Vegas event runs from March 30-April 2.Pine has also lined up a starring role in the viral outbreak thriller Carriers. His credits include Smokin' ...
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Melissa Anderson joins New York Film Festival selection committee
Film critic Melissa Anderson has joined The Film Society Of Lincoln Center's Richard Pena and Kent Jones and critics Scott Foundas and J Hoberman on the selection committee to choose the New York Film Festival's 2009 slate.Anderson has been a film critic in New York since 2000, when she began ...
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John Carpenter to direct The Ward for Echo Lake, A Bigger Boat
John Carpenter will direct the psychological thriller The Ward starring Amber Heard that Glen Basner's Film Nation will introduce to buyers at EFM this week.Echo Lake Productions and Peter Block's A Bigger Boat are collaborating on the story of a young woman in a mental institution who is plagued by ...
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Wuthrich promoted to lead international home video, digital at Warner
Jim Wuthrich has been promoted to president of international home video and digital distribution at Warner Bros.In his newly created post Wuthrich will report to Warner Home Video president Ron Sanders and Warner Bros Digital Distribution president Thomas Gewecke and work closely with the international territories to grow the home ...
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IFC Films acquires US rights to Rupert Wyatt's The Escapist
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Rupert Wyatt's The Escapist which had its world premiere at Sundance 2008.The film, which stars Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper and Damian Lewis, had previously been picked up by the beleagured THINKFilm but was freshly available when that company hit financial troubles.It ...
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Sundance winner Push lands at Lionsgate
Lionsgate has won the battle for North American distribution rights to Lee Daniels' Sundance winner Push: Based On The Novel By Sapphire and has tied up with Tyler Perry's 34th Street Films and Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Films for the release.The company acquired the rights from Smokewood Entertainment Group in a ...
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Sony Pictures Classics acquires US rights to Whatever Works
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US rights from Wild Bunch to Woody Allen's Whatever Works, the director's first feature shot in New York since 2004's Melinda And Melinda. Ed Begley Jr stars in the romantic comedy alongside Patricia Clarkson, Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood. Sony ...
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Film Movement picks up Shane Meadows' Somers Town for US
Film Movement has taken US rights from The Works to Shane Meadows' comedy Somers Town and will release in theatres in July.Thomas Turgoose, the breakout star of Meadow's 2006 drama This Is England, and Piotr Jagiello play a pair of teenager newcomers in London who become firm friends one hot ...
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A Woman In Berlin, Skin win top prizes at Santa Barbara
Max Farberbock's second world war survival tale A Woman In Berlin was named best international film at the 24th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which came to a close at the weekend [February 1].The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema went to Poppy Shakespeare, Benjamin Ross' account of friendship ...
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Hurt Locker, Adventureland, Passing Strange join lineup at SXSW
Kathryn Bigelow's bomb disposal thriller The Hurt Locker, Greg Mottola's comedy Adventureland and Spike Lee's Broadway musical adaptation Passing Strange have joined the line-up at the South By Southwest Film Conference And Festival, set to run in Austin, Texas, from March 13-21.The full roster of 108 features and 54 world ...
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Boyle is DGA's top film winner as Slumdog races towards Oscar victory
Danny Boyle won the Directors Guild Of America's top prize for Slumdog Millionaire at the weekend [Jan 31], further bolstering the film's prospects for top Oscars come February 22.Boyle in particular looks a strong bet to claim the best director Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards - in the ...
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EuropaCorp's Taken tops domestic box office through Fox
Liam Neeson as a vengeful former CIA agent who goes after his daughter's kidnappers in Taken was the top film of the weekend after Fox launched the EuropaCorp thriller on $24.6m.Meanwhile Sony's highly successful Kevin James comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop slipped to second place in its third weekend on ...