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Credit crunch may squeeze slate funders, says Fazio
The rising cost of credit in the US sparked by the recent collapse of the mortgage sector has made film financing a more precarious business, according to Deutsche Bank's new global head of media and entertainment structured finance Laura Fazio.'People are concerned that the debt costs around these transactions have ...
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Peter Paige to star in Brazilian drama Copacabana
Peter Paige from the Showtime series Queer As Folk has joined the cast of Roberto Jabor's Brazilian drama Copacabana, Of Love And Shadows.The $5m English-language production will commence principal photography in Rio De Janeiro in March 2008 and weaves together the stories of a treacherous drag queen, a nightclub diva ...
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Weinstein Company launches $285m Asian film fund
Harvey and Bob Weinstein have announced their long-planned $285m Asian film fund to finance the development, production, acquisition, marketing and distribution of Asian-themed films over the next six years.The Weinstein Company (TWC) will handle worldwide distribution for all films under the deal and domestic DVD distribution will go through Genius ...
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Russell Schwartz leaves New Line after six years
Russell Schwartz is leaving his position as New Line's president of domestic theatrical marketing after more than six years in the role.Schwartz will remain in place until the end of August, by which time studio's leadership will expect to have found a replacement. Beyond that he will be available as ...
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Josh Hartnett to star in George Ratliff's End Zone
George Ratliff, writer-director of psychological thriller Joshua (which debuted at Sundance and is in Locarno's competition this week) has recruited Josh Hartnett to appear in his next feature, End Zone. Hartnett will play a star player at a West Texas College who becomes increasingly obsessed with the threat of nuclear ...
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Simpsons continue to burn up international box office
International audiences kept The Simpsons Movie at the top of the overseas market for the second consecutive weekend as Fox International's comedy added an estimated $47.3m from 6,600 screens to raise the tally to $187m.Weekend business was driven by a robust $6.9m number one debut in Mexico on 850 screens ...
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Cannes titles to play at Hawaii International Film Festival
More than 150 features from global film-makers will screen at the 27th Annual Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival, which runs from Oct 18-28.The 11-day Oahu event includes screenings of Bela Tarr's The Man From London and Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Ploy from this year's Cannes Film Festival.Justin Lin's US mock documentary ...
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Dan Brown's Pierre wins top honours at SWSXclick
Dan Brown's Pierre won the 4th annual SXSWclick Festival's Grand Jury Prize and Will Elliott's Peterson's Savings And Loan took top honours in the audience award.Pierre won the Animate-It section, Peterson's Savings And Loan won the Old School Shorts, and Ubuntu by David Serota won the Really Real Shorts programme.Always ...
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Fox extends theatrical slate financing deal with Dune
Fox Filmed Entertainment and Dune Entertainment, riding high on the recent successes of Live Free Or Die Hard and Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer, have extended their multi-year theatrical slate financing arrangement.Dune Entertainment affiliate Dune Entertainment III has committed to invest more than $500m in Fox films over ...
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Bourne sets $70.2m August opening record in North America
Universal's spy thriller The Bourne Ultimatum roared to the top of the North American charts on the back of wildly enthusiastic reviews and set a record estimated $70.2m August launch in the process.The third and supposedly final episode in the saga of the amnesiac covert operative scored the biggest opening ...
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HanWay and Celluloid Dreams brands revived as Dreamachine concentrates on library
Just three months after the splashy merger of HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams, their joint venture company Dreamachine has now announced that the Celluloid and HanWay brands will be run as separate first-run sales and acquisition businesses in London and Paris, as they traditionally had been. The companies had sold ...
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Disney serves Ratatouille to France, Spain, Benelux
Fox International's The Simpsons Movie is expected to soar past $150m in its second weekend following the record-breaking launch that has seen it race to $131m.The comedy opens in four territories this time round and should do something special in Mexico when it opens on Aug 2, given the film's ...
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Montreal to fete Andres Vicente Gomez, Sophie Marceau
Spanish producer Andres Vicente Gomez and French actress and filmmaker Sophie Marceau will both be the subject of tributes at 31st Montreal World Film Festival. The festival also announced today the ten titles of its Midnight Slam! cult film programme, including world premieres of Jeb Weintrob's Scar, Laurent Courau's Predators ...
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Coplan hired as vp of production at The Film Department
Former Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) executive Amanda Coplan (pictured) has been hired as vice president of production at Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's The Film Department.Coplan will be based in the company's West Hollywood offices and will report to president of production Robert Katz.Andrew Klausmeyer, John Meckler, Natalie Borlaug, Christine ...
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Liberty Kid wins top prize at NY International Latino festival
Ilya Chaiken's inner city drama Liberty Kid won the 8th New York International Latino Film Festival's (NYILFF) Best Picture Award and a $2,500 prize as the event drew to a close at the weekend [Jul 29].Alexandre Fuchs' debut feature Hijos De La Guerra (Children Of The War) won best documentary ...
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Sony takes multiple territories on Frank Miller's The Spirit
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has picked up comic book adaptation The Spirit for France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, and Latin America excluding Brazil and Mexico.The deal was brokered through Odd Lot International. Gigi Pritzker and Deborah Del Prete's Odd Lot Entertainment is producing the film with Lionsgate, which holds ...
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Toronto to host world premiere of Taymor's Universe
Julie Taymor's pop music odyssey Across The Universe will have its world premiere as a gala presentation at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, it was announced today. Also announced as a gala is Woody Allen's Venice world premiere title Cassandra's Dream.The musical pays homage to 30 'generation-defining' pop songs ...
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Kings to get US showcase through Directors Guild
The Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (SDGI) in association with the Directors Guild of America (DGA), has announced that the winner of this year's Directors Finders Series Award is Kings, directed by Tom Collins. Kings will be showcased on Sept 28 in the DGA Theatre on Sunset Boulevard in Los ...
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Theroux heads new multi-territory distribution outfit in Toronto
Patrice Theroux, former president of Motion Picture Distribution (MPD), is launching a new Toronto-based distribution outfit, it was announced today. Theroux will lead the filmed entertainment division of Entertainment One, Canada's largest home entertainment wholesaler. Theroux's mandate is to expand Entertainment One's already aggressive move into distribution across several media. ...
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LA Critics set annual awards ceremony for Jan 12, 2008
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) will hold its 33rd annual film achievement awards ceremony on Jan 12, 2008.The group, headed by president Lael Loewenstein, will meet to vote on the winners on Dec 9, 2007.The awards ceremony will take place at the InterContinental Los Angeles in Century City.