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TWC close to sealing interim agreement with WGA
Harvey Weinstein was expected to announce that The Weinstein Company interim deal with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) last night [Jan 10] that is said to be similar to the agreement the writers have reached with United Artists and David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants.Weinstein flew into Los Angeles ...
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National Lampoon seals multi-territory deal with Front Row
National Lampoon has slotted the latest piece into its jigsaw of international partnerships following a multi-territory distribution deal with Dubai-based Front Row Film Entertainment.Front Row Film Entertainment will handle Middle Eastern theatrical, home video and broadcast rights to nine National Lampoon features, which include the company's first self-produced titles National ...
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Chaiken and Dungan pact to remake Devil Came On Horseback
Jen Chaiken and Sebastian Dungan of Los Angeles-based 72 Productions will produce a feature-length version of the Darfur genocide documentary The Devil Came On Horseback.Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg's documentary premiered at Sundance 2007 and is based on the memoir of former US Marine Captain Brian Steidle who secretly photographed ...
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Lionsgate's Marni Wieshofer joins Media Rights Capital
Marni Wieshofer has joined Media Rights Capital as senior vice president, corporate development and mergers and acquisitions.Since 2002 Wieshofer has served as executive vice president of corporate development at Lionsgate and orchestrated acquisitions and facilitated the integration of Mandate Pictures, Redbus Films Distribution UK, Trimark Pictures and Artisan Entertainment, among ...
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Peter Morris re-elected as chairman of BAFTA/LA
BAFTA/LA has re-elected Peter Morris as chairman and announced its board of directors for the new year.
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WGA announces annual awards nominees
The embattled Writers Guild Of America has announced its nominations for the 2008 Writers Guild Awards that will take place in Los Angeles and New York on February 9.In the original screenplay category Diablo Cody is named for Juno, as are Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton, Tamara Jenkins for The ...
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Taubin leaves Warner Bros after almost 20 years at studio
Dawn Taubin has stepped down as president of domestic marketing at Warner Bros Pictures in the wake of restructuring following the formation of the Warner Bros Pictures Group.'My professional relationship with Dawn has been one of the most satisfying in my 35 years in the entertainment industry, the studio's president ...
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Media speculation mounts that Canal Plus will buy Kinowelt
France's Canal Plus is reportedly closer to sealing a deal to buy German distributor Kinowelt. According to Agence France Presse, a report set to be published in German daily Leipziger Volkszeitung on Thursday claims the long-rumored acquisition is near completion.'There only remain a few points to settle and the deal ...
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Arts Alliance America rocks with Heavy Metal In Baghdad
Arts Alliance America has picked up domestic rights to VBS.TV's documentary Heavy Metal In Baghdad by Eddy Morretti and Suroosh Alvi.The film follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to present day and will be released theatrically in spring.Arts Alliance America president ...
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Laemmle/Zeller carries The First Basket to US audiences
Los Angeles-based Laemmle/Zeller Films has acquired all North American rights to David Vyorst's documentary The First Basket.The film explores the influence of basketball on modern Jewish History as well as the impact of Jewish sports pioneers on the evolution of the sport.'The First Basket reveals the rich history and amazing ...
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Zeitgeist takes domestic rights to Chris & Don. A Love Story
Zeitgeist Films has acquired all North American Rights from The Film Sales Company to Chris & Don. A Love Story from first-time directors Guido Santi and Tina Mascara.Produced by Mascara and Santi with Julia Scott and James White, the film charts the 30-year love affair between the iconic literary figure ...
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Picturehouse to split from HBO, align fully with New Line
Picturehouse will split from parent company HBO and move over to the New Line stable within months, sources close to the move said today [Jan 9].Spokespeople from all three companies declined to comment, however it is understood the move stems from the poor theatrical box office performance of HBO Films ...
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International box office drops 22% week on week with few openers
An absence of heavy-hitting new releases could be attributable to the 22.2% week-on-week drop in the international top 40 this weekend, with the only four new entrants all failing to enter the top 30. The top 40 international films generated $208.8m from 49,452 screens for the period of January 4-6. ...
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Canada's Entertainment One to acquire RCV in Benelux
Toronto-based Entertainment One (E1) has agreed to acquire venerable Netherlands-based distributor RCV Entertainment. Having amassed a library of around 1,900 titles since its foundation in 1979, the Benelux stalwart is the latest target of a fast-paced acquisition spree launched by fledgling E1, which only started trading in March of last ...
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Definitely, Maybe to open Santa Barbara Film Festival
The world premiere of Adam Brooks' romantic comedy Definitely, Maybe starring Ryan Reynolds and Isla Fisher and the US premiere of Giuseppe Tornatore's The Unknown Woman (La Sconosciuta) bookend the 23rd Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF).The line-up culls 215 films from 49 countries including 20 world premieres and festival ...
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Marketing executive Grace Cianciotta dies in Toronto at 43
Much-loved film marketing expert Grace Cianciotta died in Toronto at the age of 43 on Jan 7 after a battle with breast cancer.Since last August, Cianciotta had worked in marketing for the new Canadian sales company Maximum Films International and local distributor Maximum Films Distribution.She was well-known for her zest ...
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McCormick promoted to president of production at Warner Bros
Kevin McCormick has been promoted to president of production at Warner Bros Pictures and will assume daily oversight of the studio's creative team and film development and production.McCormick will continue to supervise the company's New York and London offices and reports to Warner Bros Pictures Group president Jeff Robinov. Warner ...
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Penn, Gilroy join favourites in DGA Awards race
Paul Thomas Anderson, Joel & Ethan Coen, Tony Gilroy, Sean Penn and Julian Schnabel have all been nominated for the Directors Guild of America's (DGA) 2007 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film award.Anderson has been nominated for There Will Be Blood, the Coens for No Country For Old Men, Gilroy ...
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Delphis picks up international on X Filme's Max Minsky And Me
Montreal-based Delphis Films has picked up international rights to Anna Justice's feature debut Max Minsky And Me, a production of X Films Creative Pool. Delphis plans to screen the film at EFM in Berlin in February. The child-oriented comedy opened in Germany in September 2007 and won the Lion Prize ...
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One Missed Call
Dir: Eric Valette. US. 2008. 87mins.Generic and thematically uninspired, One Missed Call, the US remake of Takashi Miike's 2003 J-horror tale, flounders withitsliteral and ill-advised approach to its supernatural material. This Warner Bros. January castoff will lure fright fans uninterested in the season's award contenders and holiday leftovers, but even ...