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Nayar, Grushow team up for digital studio Filmaka
LA-based producer Deepak Nayar and former Fox TV chief Sandy Grushow have officially launched Filmaka, an ambitious 'digital studio' and online creative community which plans to create a new model for identifying talent and developing entertainment properties.Nayar founded the company, which is based at www.Filmaka.com, in late 2006 as a ...
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Icarus buys North American rights to Bitomsky's Dust
Boutique North American distributor Icarus Films has acquired German film-makerHartmut Bitomsky's documentary Dust.Bitomsky's film explores the omniscient particles in a manner that attempts to offer new insight into our bodies, the environment and the cosmos.The film premiered in Venice and screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Philadelphia ...
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Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate team for premium TV, VOD service
Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate will jointly launch a premium TV channel and Video On Demand (VOD) service in autumn 2009 featuring new and library film titles and original programming from the studios.The new venture will have access to Paramount and Paramount Vantage titles released theatrically on or after January 1 ...
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Toronto's Stardust Pictures preps $10m comedy Wing Man
Toronto-based Stardust Pictures has completed financing on its first feature, the $10m comedy Wing Man that will shoot in Toronto in the late summer.Harland Williams will direct and Stardust's Justin L Levine and Howard Kerbel will produceStardust recently acquired Canadian rights to Jamie Kennedy's documentary Heckler and will release on ...
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Jackie, Jet Li and Sarah Marshall storm domestic box office
The long awaited on-screen union of Jackie Chan and Jet Li reaped rewards for Liosgate and The Weinsten Company as The Forbidden Kingdom leapt to number one thanks to an estimated $20.9m three-day gross.The martial arts adventure takes place in modern-day America and a mythical past in China where a ...
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Horton leads international box office by a whisper over 21
Horton Hears A Who is making hay while the sun shines. Two weeks before Iron Man launches across the globe the Fox International children's tale continued to dominate overseas as an estimated $9.7m from approximately 5,300 screens in 52 markets raised the tally to $117.7m.The film is easily the biggest ...
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Mexico's Olaizola wins best film at BAFICI for Intimacies
Mexican Yulene Olaizola's first feature Intimacies of Shakespeare And Victor Hugo won the prize for best film in the international competition at the tenth Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI).China's Night Train, directed by Diao Yinan, took the Special Jury Prize and the one for Best Actress (Liu ...
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Lifesize picks up LARPing documentary Monster Camp
New Jersey-based distributor and worldwide sales agent Lifesize Entertainment has picked up Cullen Hoback's documentary Monster Camp.The film offers a glimpse into the world of live-action role playing - known as LARPing - in which players immerse themselves in the video game phenomenon World Of Warcraft. Aaron Kirk Douglas produced.'Monster ...
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Odd Lot signs two-film deal with Freestyle led by Bottle Shock
Odd Lot International has signed a two-picture deal with US distributor Freestyle Releasing after the parties acquired the California wine industry drama Bottle Shock.Freestyle will release in North America and Odd Lot International will commence foreign sales at Cannes next month. The parties will collaborate on another, yet to be ...
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Street Kings hope to rule with 27 openings for Fox
Fox International gives the police thriller Street Kings a big push this weekend with 27 scheduled releases.The film launched in second place in North America last weekend and lands in Australia, Germany, Russia and South Korea on April 17 followed by the UK, Brail and Mexico on April 18.Meanwhile Horton ...
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IM Global takes on Bunraku with Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore
IM Global will commence worldwide pre-sales in Cannes on the martial arts action film Bunraku starring Josh Hartnett and Demi Moore.Production got underway on April 17 in Bucharest, Romania, on the Snoot Entertainment feature. The cast includes Japanese stars Gackt Camui and Shun Sugata as well as Woody Harrelson, Kevin ...
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The Fairytale of New York: Big Apple wins back movie productions
Frank Sinatra sung that he wanted to be a part of it, and it is certainly true for the footloose producers who stream into the city that never sleeps.Since New York's tax incentives were first introduced back in 2004, the city has played host to Sony's Spider-Man 3, Warner Bros' ...
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Bernards, Robbins among senior promotions at MPAA
Kori Bernards has been promoted to senior vice president of communications at the Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA).Dan Robbins has been named senior vice president and associate general counsel, Mike Robinson becomes senior vice president and director of North American anti-piracy operations.Ted Shapiro has become senior vice president, general ...
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Bortone's Rosso Come Il Cielo wins top prizes at Palm Beach
Cristiano Bortone won best director and best feature for Rosso Come Il Cielo (Red Like The Sky) at the 13th Palm Beach International Film Festival.Lauzanne Xavier's D'Une Seule Voix (With One Voice) took the documentary prize while the panel awarded a special jury prize to dancer-choreographer Lachen Zinoun for his ...
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Miramax ends Alliance alliance in Canada
Miramax Films has ended its 14-year Canadian distribution relationship with Toronto-based Alliance Films. On April 11, the US distributor released Smart People in Canada through its status as a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios. It marks the end of a second long-term relationship for Alliance, following the February decision by ...
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AWP picks up The Lena Baker Story for Cannes
LA-based American World Pictures (AWP) has acquired worldwide rights to The Lena Baker Story, about the first woman in the state of Georgia to die in the electric chair.AWP will screen the film to buyers in Cannes. Tichina Arnold stars as the victim of racial injustice who was executed in ...
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DreamWorks options comic book Atlantis Rising from Platinum Studios
DreamWorks has optioned the rights to Platinum Studios' comic book Atlantis Rising created by Platinum chairman and CEO Scott Michael Rosenberg.Atlantis Rising concerns an underground civilisation that reveals itself after a wave of heavy seismic activity and emerges as an enemy of man.The property is a five-part miniseries that Platinum ...
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The Collective acquires I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
LA-based agency The Collective has acquired worldwide rights to Tucker Max's bestseller I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell.Max's book evolved from his cult blog and online diary and centres on a young man who is so badly behaved at the time of his friend's bachelor party that he gets ...
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CAVU buys Sean Baker's Take Out for US distribution
New York-based producer and distributor CAVU Pictures has acquired the drama Take Out and will stage a platform release in New York on June 6 before rolling out to other arthouse markets.Take Out was directed by Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou and written and produced by Baker. It premiered at ...
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Shane Abbess to direct Source Code for Universal
Universal Pictures has hired Shane Abbess to direct Source Code, a sci-fi thriller centered on the notion of the time continuum.Mark Gordon will produce and Ben Ripley wrote the screenplay. Plot details are being kept under wraps.Abbess' previously directed the horror title Gabriel, which Sony picked up for international distribution; ...