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H20 picks up two in advance of Cannes
H2O Motion Pictures has picked up international rights to Ashley Baron Cohen's black comedy Poor Things starring Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis.The Los Angeles-based company has further bolstered its Cannes slate with the drama Feel, which is being directed by music video director Matt Mahurin.Poor Things, which is currently shooting ...
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Disturbia wards off two other thrillers opening in North America
Paramount's thriller Disturbia held on to the top spot for the second weekend in a row in a weekend that saw four new releases breaking into the top 10.The film added an estimated $13.5m for $40.7m, one place ahead of New Line's thriller Fracture with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling, ...
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Silverdocs conference to explore 'filmanthropy' docs
AOL vice chairman Ted Leonisis will give the keynote address at the Silverdocs International Documentary Conference that runs in Maryland from Jun 13-16.The conference will explore the 'filmanthropy' wave of documentaries that attempt to effect social change and raise awareness of important issues. Examples include Participant Productions' eco-warning An Inconvenient ...
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Gaumont backs Natali's genetic horror Splice
Vincenzo Natali has begun casting on horror movie Splice, a Canada-France co-production set in the mutable world of genetic engineering. A production of Toronto-based Copperheart Entertainment and France's Gaumont, the film is wrtten by Natali, produced by Copperheart's Steven Hoban and executive produced by Gaumont's Franck Chorot. Guillermo del Toro, ...
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amFar sets Cannes event for May 23 with Stone, Weinstein
Sharon Stone, Harvey Weinstein, and M·A·C AIDS Fund chairman John Demsey are among chairs of amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS event that will run during the Cannes International Film festival on May 23.Elizabeth Taylor, AIDS research and advocacy organisation amfAR's founding international chairman, and founding chairman Dr Mathilde Krim will serve ...
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Sharkwater wins Gen Art Film Festival in New York
Rob Stewart's Sharkwater won the 12th Annual Gen Art Film Festival's Acura Grand Jury Feature Film Award and a $10,000 prize, while Phillip Van's High Maintenance took home $5,000 and the Acura Grand Jury Short Film Award.Both film-makers also claimed the audience Gen Art Film Festival Audience Awards as the ...
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IMAX version of Order Of The Phoenix will have 3D finale
The IMAX version of Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix will feature a 3D finale, according to the giant-screen company. The two most recent installments of the franchise - Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban and Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire - were ...
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Gold in the vaults
With the growth of digital delivery, film archives are a potential goldmine for US studios and other rights-holders. Denis Seguin looks at the promise of digital, while Screen correspondents (see links, right) explore the distribution opportunities for major public rights-holders...In 1955, RKO Pictures licensed the television rights to its 740-film ...
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Tribeca Film Festival: growing gains
Five years ago, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff launched the first Tribeca Film Festival to contribute to the revival of Lower Manhattan after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The five-day festival attracted 150,000 visitors to the downtown neighbourhood.By 2006, Tribeca had grown into an almost two-week ...
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New Summit studio launches with over $1bn in funding
Rob Friedman, the former vice chairman and COO of Paramount Pictures, and Patrick Wachsberger, the head of Summit Entertainment LP, have unveiled their long-in-the-works production and distribution company which has immediate access to $1bn in funds from a financing deal led by Merrill Lynch and a consortium of investors.The company, ...
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Speed Dating wins best feature at Malibu
Tony Herbert's Speed Dating was named best feature film at the 2007 Malibu International Film Festival which finished at the weekend.Gideon Raff's The Killing Floor won the prize for best thriller, Reynier Molenaar's Replay was named best action film, while Mick Rossi and Sean Stanek won the best screenplay prize ...
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'A rich year' for Cannes 60th anniversary. promise organisers
The Cannes Film Festival announced this year's line-up at a press conference in Par with, as expected, Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights set to open the 60th edition. The film will screen in competition alongside 21 other films from confirmed talents, as well as some new faces and one debut ...
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Cannes: Un Certain Regard programme
Films selected for Un Certain Regard:Calle Santa Fe by Carmen CastilloMunyurangabo by Lee Isaac Chung Night Train by Diao Yinan El Bano Del Papa by Enrique Fernandez and Cesar CharloneBikur Hatizmoret by Eran KolirinMister Lonely by Harmony Korine Magnus by Kadri Kousaar Mang Shan by Li YangMio Fratello E Figlio ...
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Cannes to open with Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights
The 60th Cannes Film Festival will open May 16 with Wong Kar-wai's first English-language project, My Blueberry Nights, which will play in competition. Singer Norah Jones makes her big-screen debut as a lovelorn woman on a soul-searching journey across America.The other films selected for competition areCatherine Breillat's An Old Mistress ...
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Wild Hogs bikes into 22 territories for BVI
Mr Bean's Holiday, 300, Perfect Stranger, Wild Hogs and Shooter are all in wide release in what should be a tight weekend at the overseas box office.Universal/UPI's reigning champion Mr Bean's Holiday has no major releases on the schedule in the immediate days ahead, but the $128.6m perch should bring ...
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MGM unveils straight-to-DVD slate
MGM will further leverage its extensive library by developing a slate of home entertainment product that will focus primarily on youth markets.The new division, MGM Home Entertainment Productions, plans to release 12 or more projects a year and has earmarked a new instalment in the 2002 police thriller Dark Blue ...
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GreeneStreet ties up MIP deals with LAPTV, Star TV
GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) has tied up a slew of deals at MIPTV with Latin American Pay Television (LAPTV) for Pan Latin America, Star TV for Pan Asia and Entertainment In Motion for airline rights.LAPTV picked up rights to the crime thriller Slow Burn starring Ray Liotta and L L ...
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Cotter teams with Citi for new production, finance, sales outfit
Initial Entertainment Group partner Colin Cotter and financial conglomerate Citi have formed the full-service film production and finance company Continental Entertainment Group (CEG).Cotter will remain a partner in IEG and will serve as president and chief executive officer of CEG and its subsidiary Continental Pictures, a global sales company backed ...
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Valderrama, Fishburne head cast of Days Of Wrath
Production started in Los Angeles this week on the crime drama Days Of Wrath starring Wilmer Valderrama, Amber Valletta, and Laurence Fishburne.Celia Fox is directing the Foxy Films production from a screenplay she co-wrote with Michael Markee and Mitchell Kapner based on a true story.Valderrama plays a Latino mobster who ...
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Canadian film-maker plans June shoot for Welsh's Ecstasy
Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy will be brought to the big screen by Toronto-based director Rob Heydon, making his feature directorial debut after work in commercials and music videos. The budget will be $8.4m (£4.2m). The cast assembled includes Erica Durance, Billy Boyd and Richard E Grant. Heydon adapted the script with ...