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All United States articles – Page 1442
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Dir: Wayne Wang. US. 2007. 83mins.After a series of Hollywood assignments, the eclectic and unpredictable Wayne Wang has fashioned an old fashioned classical piece in A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, written by the highly regarded Chinese writer Yiyun Li, who adapted her own short story. The minor key and ...
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Kerner signs multi-year production deal with Walden Media
Producer Jordan Kerner has signed a multi-year first look deal with Walden Media, with whom he collaborated on the 2006 family film Charlotte's Web.Kerner, recently appointed dean of the North Carolina School of the Arts' School Of Filmmaking, will divide his time between Los Angeles and Winston-Salem.His credits include Snow ...
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Rubin leaves Universal for evp job at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Robert W Rubin has joined Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) as executive vice president.Rubin reports to SPHE president David Bishop and will work on global strategy and business development and spearhead SPHE's faith-based and family entertainment initiatives.Prior to SPHE, Rubin held several senior executive positions at Universal Pictures including stints ...
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Lewis, Doby-Flewellyn set up Filmbankers International
Former Union Bank of California entertainment loan executives Harold Lewis and Brenda Doby-Flewellyn have set up the financing, sales and distribution company FilmBankers International.The Beverly Hills-based company is lining up co-financing for the $30m Bob Marley reggae biopic No Woman, No Cry, one of 30 projects the principals say they ...
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Suzuki to head Paramount's home entertainment arm in Japan
Former NPD Japan president and representative director Junichiro Suzuki has been named president of Home Entertainment Paramount KK, Japan.Suzuki will be responsible for overseeing sales, marketing and distribution in Japan, and will report directly to Paramount Home Entertainment International president Dennis Maguire.Prior to NPD, Suzuki served as president and representative ...
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Alan Horn to get Producers Guild Milestone Award in 2008
Warner Bros president and chief operating officer Alan Horn will receive the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) 2008 Milestone Award.The PGA will present its most prestigious honour at the 19th Annual PGA Awards in Beverly Hills on Feb 2.PGA Awards chair Mark Gordon said that under Horn's leadership the studio ...
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Ricardo Darin's directorial debut hits big at Argentina's box office
Ricardo Darin's directorial debut The Signal (La Senal), topped the Argentinian box office over the weekend with 105,000 admissions in its first four days of release on 62 screens. The $2.5m Argentina-Spain co-production accounted for 27.4% of audiences at the weekend and beat openings for Hollywood fare like The Simpsons ...
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Rio Festival to host world premiere of Newell's Cholera
Mike Newell's film of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's classic novel Love In The Time Of Cholera will have its world premiere as the closing night film of the ninth annual Rio International Film Festival on Oct 4.The first major international film in years to shoot in the walled city of Cartagena, ...
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New York City Serenade
Dir. Frank Whaley. US 2007. 103 mins.The title of New York City Serenade and an opening aerial skyline shot would lead you to believe that the film is an ode to New York . It's really an ode to friendship with a friend who gets you to the wrong places ...
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Cleaner
Dir: Renny Harlin US . 2007. 92 minsTen years have passed since the combination of Samuel L Jackson and director Renny Harlin was a guarantee of lively box-office action. Think The Long Kiss Good Night (1996) and Deep Blue Sea (1999). Harlin has steadily surrendered his A-list status and Jackson ...
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The Last Lear
Dir. Rituparno Ghosh. India 2007. 130 min.An overly complicated film-within-a-film story, told through multiple narrators, causes confusion in Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear. The film was conceived as a vehicle for the greatest living idol of Indian cinema, Amitabh Bachchan, in his first full length English-language film. The role of ...
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Dr. Plonk
Dir. Rolf de Heer. Australia 2007. 84 min.Deprived of the frantic mania and destructively anarchic passion that drove the best silent comedies, Rolf de Heer's attempt to revive the genre turns out into another capricious whimsy for a director whose erratic career has never followed a conventional path. Shot on ...
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Just Like Home (Hjemve)
Dir Lone Scherfig Denmark . 2007. 97 minsFive years after her admired English-language debut Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, writer-director Lone Scherfig makes an eagerly awaited return to her native Denmark for Just Like Home, an idiosyncratic ensemble comedy depicting a community in crisis. A slight, slow-burning tale, it lacks ...
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Reservation Road
Dir: Terry George USA. 2007. 102 minsA respectable, well-intentioned exploration of grief, guilt and the instinct for revenge, Reservation Road boasts some fine performances but tries too hard to pass itself off as a weighty, tear-stained Oscar contender. A plot heavily reliant on coincidence may have worked on the page ...
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First Look spends $3m on US rights to comedy Bill
As Toronto headed into the closing weekend, First Look Studios paid just over $3m to US rights for Melisa Wallack and Bernie Goldmann's comedy Bill starring Aaron Eckhart. Maple Films paid mid-six figures for Canadian rights.First Look Holdings co-chairmen Avi Lerner and Henry Winterstern and executive vice president of acquisitions ...
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Arthouse signs Canadian distribution deal with Mongrel Media
Arthouse Films has signed an exclusive output and distribution deal with Mongrel Media in Canada.David Koh and Lilly Bright negotiated the deal for Arthouse Films with Stanley Buchthal of LM Media along with Mongrel Media president Hussain Amarshi.The multi-year deal covers more than 10 titles a year, kicking of with ...
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The Brave One opens number one in the US
Jodie Foster drew in a largely female crowd as Warner Bros' revenge thriller The Brave One opened top on an estimated $14m.Foster, in her first lead role since Flightplan in 2005, stars as a radio host who turns vigilante after she is nearly beaten to death. Neil Jordan directed and ...
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Maddin's Winnipeg sells to IFC, Soda, Maximum
Fresh from its victory for Best Canadian Feature at TIFF, Guy Maddin's idiosyncratic documentary My Winnipeg has been sold to IFC Entertainment in US, Soda Pictures in the UK and Maximum Films Distribution in Canada. The deals were announced by My Winnipeg producer (and DoP) Jody Shapiro from the podium ...
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Eastern Promises, My Winnipeg win top prizes as TIFF winds down
Guy Maddin's personal documentary My Winnipeg won the C$30,000 Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature and David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises won the C$15,000 Cadillac People's Choice Award as the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival wrapped on Saturday. Runners up for the audience prize, first and second respectively, were Jason Reitman's ...