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Len Wiseman reunites with Lakeshore, Sony on Shell Game
Len Wiseman is reuniting with Lakeshore and Sony on his follow-up to the Underworld franchise with the sci-fi action thriller Shell Game.Wiseman is also producing the story of a detective faced with a devastating moral dilemma while investigating the black market trade in immortality. Wiseman and Chris Morgan wrote the ...
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Horak named president of Warner Home Video North America
Mark Horak has been promoted to president of Warner Home Video North America from his previous role as executive vice president and general manager of worldwide operations and new packaged media at Warner Home Video.Horak will continue to oversee the worldwide global sales process and category management and now takes ...
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Film Movement buys Silvio Soldinis Days And Clouds
North American distributor Film Movement has acquired domestic rights to Silvio Soldini's Italian drama Days And Clouds (Giorni E Nuvole).The story charts a couple's near breakdown as they try to provide for their daughter. Following a job loss the couple split up and suddenly realize that what matters most is ...
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New markets, 3-D, local films to spur growth, say international distribs
Senior executives of the six American majors' international divisions provided a surprisingly candid and freewheeling discussion in the rather amorphously titled panel 'The Industry Speaks Out' as part of opening day activities at the ShoWest exhibition convention.'We have to stop dividing the world in two,' said Paramount Pictures International President ...
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Hollywood Film Festival launches trailer awards for film previews
Carlos de Abreu's Hollywood Film Festival is launching the Hollywood Trailer Festival and Hollywood Trailer Awards to honour feature film previews. The awards and festival will recognize film previews in 12 categories - action, animation, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, independent, romance, thriller, most original, blockbuster and trailer of the decade.A ...
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Rupert Evans joins cast of Amenabar's Agora
Hot English actor Rupert Evans has joined Rachel Weisz and Homayoun Ershadi in the cast of Alejandro Amenabar's English-language project Agora which goes into production this month in Malta.The film, being produced by Maxmedia, is the story of the efforts by a small group to free the slaves in Egypt. ...
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Diminished Capacity to open Gen Art Film Festival in NYC
The 13th annual Gen Art Film Festival will open on April 2 in New York City with Terry Kinney's Diminished Capacity starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda and Virginia Madsen. The comedy had its world premiere at Sundance in January.The festival - which has a programme of seven features and seven ...
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Prague to host Paramount's $170m GI Joe
Barrandov Studios has signed a contract to host Paramount's $170m GI Joe.The $170m action film would be one of the most expensive ever in the Czech studio's history, between the estimated $150m Casino Royale and the $180m Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And the Wardrobe.Set construction for for ...
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Barbarian Princess starts UK, Hawaii shoot
UK-based Matador Pictures and Hawaii-based Island Film Group have started production today on Barbarian Princess, which director Marc Forby is shooting in Honolulu and in Norfolk, UK.As previously reporter, Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper, Will Patton and Shaun Evans star.The film becomes the first feature to shoot inside Honolulu's Iolani Palace.The ...
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Eros strikes DVD deal with Wal-Mart for Canada stores
Indian film powerhouse Eros International and retail giant Wal-Mart have announced a collaboration to sell Bollywood content through the latter's distribution network in Canada.Eros DVDs will be available in 27 Wal-Mart stores in Canada and the distribution deal will subsequently be extended to the entire Canadian Wal-Mart network.One of the ...
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Vancouver shoot for Parnassus resumes with Depp, Farrell, Law
Producers have announced that filming has begun again on Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which had been on hold after actor Heath Ledger's death on January 22.The $30m modern-day fantasy had finished the first third of the film's shoot in the UK and was gearing up for a ...
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Seville and Maximum to join forces in Canada
Montreal-based Seville Pictures and Toronto-based Maximum Films Distribution are launching a joint venture to distribute their films theatrically in Canada. The move comes seven months after the launch of both the new-look Seville, acquired by fast-rising multinational entertainment company Entertainment One (E1) in August, and Maximum, launched the same month ...
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Tricks, Santiago among winners at Miami Film Festival
The 25th annual Miami International Film Festival closed on Saturday night (March 8) with the presentation of $77,500 in grand jury prizes to five films.The prizegiving, held at the Gusman Center For The Performing Arts, saw the Knight Grand Jury Prize in World Cinema Competition go to Andrzej Jakimowksi's Tricks ...
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IFC takes worldwide rights to Nights And Weekends
IFC Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig's SXSW entry Nights And Weekends.The follow-up to IFC's 2007 release Hannah Takes The Stairs received its world premiere at the Austin, Texas, festival on Mar 9.Nights And Weekends follows a remote couple as their disparate lives in New ...
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Film Source picks up Stuart Urban's doc Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead
Alex Massis' Florida-based The Film Source Company has picked up worldwide rights in all media to Stuart Urban's documentary Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead.Urban's film is a personal journey to solve the mystery surrounding his late father, Garri Urban, a survivor of the Holocaust and the Gulag who may have ...
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Warner scores number one US opening for 10,000 BC with $35.7m
10,000 BC clubbed the competition as it soared to the top of the North American charts on a $35.7m estimated launch through Warner Bros.Roland Emmerich's prehistoric saga didn't fare as well as his previous releases The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, although those titles launched during the summer.Opening in ...
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10,000 BC has epic $25.3m opening in 20 territories
Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) prehistoric epic 10,000 BC turned up trumps at the weekend and led the overseas charts thanks to a $25.3m estimated launch from 3,600 prints that delivered 19 number one debuts in 20 territories.Combined with the film's $35.7m domestic opening the worldwide tally already stands at ...
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Vincent Gallo takes lead role in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro
Francis Ford Coppola has cast Vincent Gallo as the title character in Tetro, which is set to begin principal photography in Buenos Aires on Mar 31.Newly anointed Oscar winner Javier Bardem, Maribel Verdu and newcomer Alden Ehrenreich also star in the story of a young Argentinean man searching for his ...
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Larry Angrisani promoted to senior vice president at Miramax
Larry Angrisani has been promoted to senior vice president of international publicity and awards for Miramax Films.Angrisani has served as head of the international publicity department at Miramax for the past four years and will continue to report to Miramax chief Daniel Battsek and senior vice president of international distribution ...
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Sakoda to head sales, business affairs at Pony Canyon
Shinji Sakoda has been appointed general manager for international sales at Pony Canyon and will also take charge of business affairs.Sakoda replaces Shuji Sato and will step out in his new role in the acquisitions team at Hong Kong's Filmart followed by Cannes.Ryutaro Ueda will take over Sakoda's former role ...