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Ottinger named EVP at MGM's worldwide TV group
Christopher Ottinger has been named executive vice president of international television distribution at MGM Worldwide Television Group, effective immediately.The 14-year veteran of the global television industry will be based at MGM's headquarters in Los Angeles and reports to MGM Worldwide TV co-president Gary Marenzi.Ottinger will assume direct oversight of MGM's ...
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Producers Guild honour Marshall & Kennedy
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has chosen to honour longtime producing partners Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy with its 2008 David O. Selznick Achievement Award.Marshall and Kennedy's current assignments include David Fincher's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones ...
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Lust, Caution boasts highest screen average internationally
French film 99 Francs was the highest new entry in this weekend's international chart as it generated $3.7m from 431 sites in three territories, putting it just within the top 10 in its opening weekend. (See Screen International's full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, here.) The French comedy, directed ...
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IMAX, Regal sign digital projection deal for five new IMAX systems
IMAX Corp. and US exhibitor Regal Cinemas have signed the first North American order for the giant screen company's new digital projection technology. The joint-venture agreement will see five IMAX systems added to the Regal chain in the US, boosting Regal's IMAX circuit to 21 screens by the spring of ...
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AFM to feature 106 industry world premieres
Organisers at the upcoming 28th AFM in Santa Monica have announcedthat 522 features will screen at the event, among them 106 industryworld premieres and 364 market premieres.Industry world premieres include: Mad Money starring Katie Holmes,Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah, which Nu Image is selling; SmartPeople with Thomas Hayden Church, Sarah ...
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Williams promoted to chief technology officer at MPAA
Jim C Williams has been appointed senior vice president and chief technology officer for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Williams has served as a senior technology executive at the MPAA since he joined in 2002 as vice president of television and video systems standards. In his new role ...
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Kevin Sullivan moves to First Look in marketing post
Former Blockbuster Online director of product Kevin Sullivan has been appointed First Look Studios' vice president of home entertainment marketing. Sullivan will report directly to First Look's executive vice president worldwide marketing Brooke Ford and is expected to start work on the first quarter 2008 releases of King Of California ...
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Cinetic strikes Canadian distribution pact with Maximum Films
Robert Lantos' fledgling Toronto-based sales and distribution company Maximum Films has struck a three-year deal with New York's Cinetic Media to release Cinetic films in CanadaThe agreement further boosts the prestige factor associated with Maximum's pipeline following recent deals with Fortissimo Films, Magnolia Pictures, and IFC.It also realises Cinetic's stated ...
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Prolific NYC-based Plum sets up fourth picture this year
New York-based Plum Pictures has lined up its fourth production this year, the comedy Bart Got A Room with William H Macy and Cheryl Hines.Alia Shawkat and Steven Kaplan also star in the coming-of-age story about a nerdy high school student who tries to find a prom date while his ...
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Battle for Haditha
Dir. Nick Broomfield . United Kingdom, 2007. 94 minsBattle for Haditha dramatises one of the most notorious atrocities of the Iraq War, the alleged massacre of 24 Iraqis by American marines in the city of Haditha on November 19, 2005 , for which five marines stand trial at Camp Pendleton ...
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ContentFilm does a run with skiing documentary Steep
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights (excluding North America) for Steep. Mark Obenhaus directed the documentary about big mountain skiing, and it was filmed in locations including Alaska, Wyoming, Canada, France and Iceland.The featured skiiers include Ingrid Backstrom, Chris Davenport, Doug Coombs, Shane McConkey, Andrew McLean, Seth Morrison, Eric ...
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HBO expands international sales team and promotes Bowen
HBO has expanded its international sales team, appointing four new vice presidents of international distribution. They are Carol Eymery, Roes Marie Vega, Roberta Ibb-Hartog and Dan Selig. Also, Jennifer Bowen has been promoted to senior vice president of international distribution. She has been with HBO since 1995. Eymery, Vega, Ibba-Hartog ...
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Fox Latin America takes on Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation
Fox Latin America has acquired all Latin American rights to Stone Village Pictures' Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation Love In The Time Of Cholera, which will receive its world premiere at the closing night of the Rio Film Festival on Oct 4. Fox plans a December holiday release in Central and ...
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Game Plan beats The Kingdom to take US domestic crown
Disney's family sports comedy The Game Plan beat out Universal's new terrorism drama The Kingdom to open at the top of the charts on an estimated $22.7m at the weekend. The Game Plan stars The Rock as a quarterback who discovers he has a seven-year-old daughter. Kyra Sedgwick and ...
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XXY is Argentinian foreign-language Oscar nomination
Lucia Puenzo'sfirst feature XXYhas been selected as the Argentinian submission for the foreign-language film category at next year's Academy Awards. The $1.2m Argentinian-French-Spanish co-production, which won the Critics Week main prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, is thestory of the brutal transforming moment when an intersexual teenager comes to ...
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Morelia Film Festival to open with The Orphanage
The 5th edition of the Morelia Film Festival opens onOctober 5 with The Orphanage (El Orfanato), directed by Spanish Juan Antonio Bayona and produced by Guillermo del Toro. The festivalthis year includesa new competition for first or second-time Mexican film-makers.The selection is: La Zona, by Rodrigo Pla, which won the ...
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Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Dir. Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi. Canada/US. 2007. 84 min.Its title promises little but this big-hearted documentary delivers much. Beginning as a misguided if not utterly foolhardy travelogue - risking one's life in the world's most dangerous city to track down an amateur music group - it segues into a potent ...
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Walden and Kerner team up for basketball feature
Walden Media and Jordan Kerner's Kerner Entertainment Company are teaming up on the feature adaptation of sports columnist Adrian Wojnarowski's 2005 book The Miracle Of St Anthony. The book explores a year of the life of Bob Hurley Sr, one of America's most successful and prolific high-school basketball coaches ...
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San Sebastian's Films In Progress champions Gasolina
In San Sebastian 's Films In Progress section, Guatemalan youth drama Gasolina by Julio Hernandez Cordon has won three of the five awards, including the top industry prize. Films in Progress provides completion funding for projects from rising Latin American talents hoping to make a name for themselves on the ...
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Scorsese signs on for George Harrison documentary
Martin Scorsese is set to direct a documentary feature film about the life and work of late musician George Harrison. Scorsese will also produce through Sikelia Productions with Olivia Harrison through Grove Street Productions and Nigel Sinclair through Spitfire Pictures. Olivia Harrison, the widow of the ex-Beatle, said that work ...