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Ocean's Thirteen takes lead at North American box office
Ocean's Thirteen knocked Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End off the number one perch as it opened on an estimated $37.1m.The ongoing capers of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon et al trailed behind the $39.1m franchise record launch of Ocean's Twelve in 2004, but this was a respectable ...
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Pirates faces international challenge from Shrek
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End should stay at the top of the international box office in its third weekend, although Shrek The Third will pose a challenge.Buena Vista International's high seas adventure stands at a staggering $438m following its $216m launch weekend two weeks ago last weekend's biggest ...
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Scarlet, Schafer promoted at Tribeca, Freccero joins full-time
Peter Scarlet has been promoted to artistic director and Nancy Schafer has been promoted to co-executive director of the Tribeca Film Festival.Jennifer Maguire Isham, who served six years as festival president, becomes executive vice president of Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff's Tribeca Enterprises and will seek out ...
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Participant boards environmental comedy Taildraggers.
Participant Productions is partnering with producers Jay Chandrasekhar and Julia Dray of Broken Lizard to develop the comedy Taildraggers.Participant's director of production Nate Moore will oversee the project about five slackers in Alaska who stumble upon a plot to syphon oil while working as pilots for a low-budget airline. Will ...
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Sundance Institute Documentary Fund gives grants to 25 projects
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film programme has announced the 25 feature projects to receive what the Institute says is a record number of grants from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund.The recipient projects were chosen from more than 300 applications from 20 countries. The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund was established in ...
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Holland to direct National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son
National Lampoon has signed Savage Steve Holland to direct the fish-out-of-water story Ratko, the company's second in-house production after Bagboy.National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son follows the adventures of a despot's son who heads to the US to attend college. Robert Mittenthal and Michael Rubiner wrote the screenplay.The National Lampoon, ...
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Foresight sells key territories on Machine, Ledge, Alive
Mark Damon's production, financing and sales company Foresight Unlimited has reported a strong Cannes on a diverse slate, headed by sales on the $15m Jean-Claude Van Damme mixed martial arts film Smashing Machine.Sony picked up the UK, Australia, France, Japan, and Italy to Smashing Machine, which also sold to Germany ...
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Wildlife documentaries: nature calls
Following the global success of March Of The Penguins, animal films are the hot new genre. But is there a market for theatrical wildlife documentaries' Melanie Rodier reports. From meerkats to elephants, turtles to polar bears: in the post March Of The Penguins marketplace, a host of animal-based nature documentaries ...
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Jon Kilik: for whom the Bell tolls
The US producer of The Diving Bell And The Butterfly tells Peter Bowen how he got the film made when both Johnny Depp and Universal dropped out. The French-language memoir The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon) marks the third collaboration between US producer Jon Kilik ...
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James Gray: good cop, bard cop
Shakespeare and Italian melodrama provided the creative inspirations for James Gray's We Own The Night, set in New York in the 1980s. Peter Bowen reports. The inspiration for James Gray's We Own The Night, a character-driven drama about a man who has hidden his past only to confront an inevitable ...
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Chiara Arroyo: asilent witness
The Mexican director of the Cannes prize-winner Silent Light tells Chiara Arroyo why he chose to make a film about an isolated German-speaking sect. Just a decade ago, Mexico's Carlos Reygadas was a high-profile human-rights lawyer for the European Commission, specialising in armed conflicts. Now he is one of the ...
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Abel Ferrara: go go dancer
The new film from energetic film-maker Abel Ferrara is a sexy, glossy comedy - or so he promises, says Sheri JenningsWhat does a director like Abel Ferrara, who has already had four films invited to Cannes, do for his next act' Something completely different, it seems.Ferrara's Go Go Tales screened ...
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Lorber targets niche interest groups with digital distribution outfit
Specialist distribution veteran Richard Lorber is spearheading a new company that will acquire and market programming for targeted interest groups via digital delivery, DVD's direct-to-consumer, and traditional retail video distribution.The new venture, Lorber HT Digital, merges the operations of his Lorber Media and that of Hidden Treasures Productions, an outfit ...
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Stan Lee and POW! sets up home at Disney
Walt Disney Studios has signed an exclusive multi-year first-look deal with Spider-Man creator Stan Lee and his POW! Entertainment.Lee and his production company will develop and produce entertainment acoss various platforms for the studio.'As the father of such renowned comic book heroes as Spider-Man, The Hulk, X-Men among others, Stan ...
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Quiet Man a big seller for Bleiberg at Cannes
Bleiberg Entertainment, riding high following the sale in Cannes of North American rights on Un Certain Regard entry The Band's Visit to Sony Pictures Classics, has closed major territories on He Was A Quiet Man starring Christian Slater and Elisha Cuthbert.Deals closed with Spain (Manga), the UK (High Fliers), Germany ...
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Camara voted in as president of Hollywood Foreign Press
Jorge Camara was voted in as president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for the 2007-2008 session as members met for the annual election meeting on Tuesday (June 5).Camara, an HFPA member for 42 years, is serving his fifth term as HFPA president and covers entertainment (print and television) ...
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Radio-Canada to pump $11m into features
Radio-Canada, the French-language arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has announced it will invest $11.3m (C$12m) in French-language feature film production through 2010. It will mark the third multi-year cycle of production financing via Radio-Canada's 'cinema d'ici' initiative begun in 1999. Said Allaire, ''We get involved at the script stage ...
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Pathe picks up buzz titles from Cannes
Pathe has acquired rights to a quartet of buzz features from Cannes. Deals have been sealed for UK and French rights to Focus Features International's Blindness; UK rights to 2929 International's What Just Happened' and Fortissimo's Mama's Boy; and UK and French rights to Edko Films' Blood: The Last Vampire, ...
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Radio Canada invests $11m in French-language features
Radio-Canada, the French-language arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has announced it will invest $11.3m (C$12m) in French-language feature film production through 2010. It will mark the third multi-year cycle of production financing via Radio-Canada's 'cinema d'ici' initiative begun in 1999.Francine Allaire, director of dramatic programming for the public broadcaster, ...
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Hoffman, Thompson set for Overture's Last Chance Harvey
Overture Films is lining up a September shoot in London on the romance Last Chance Harvey starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.Joel Hopkins, who directed the 2001 UK film Jump Tomorrow, wrote the screenplay and will direct the story of a down-at-heel man who finds a new companion while attending ...