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NBC Universal plans 20 local channel launches in 2007/8
NBC Universal will launch 20 additional local television channels in 23 new countries across Europe, Asia and Latin America during 2007 and 2008 in a drive to boost revenues from its Global Networks Division.Existing NBC Universal channels, including Sci-Fi, 13th Street and Universal Channel, will launch for the first time ...
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Overture hires Davies as evp, theatrical distribution
Kyle Davies has joined fledgling Los Angeles-based studio Overture Films in the new position of executive vice president of theatrical distribution.The 20-year distribution veteran arrives from Paramount, where he most recently served as vice president, Western division and before that as vice president, central division, at DreamWorks.At Overture, Davies will ...
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Martin Scorsese to give May 24 masterclass at Cannes
Martin Scorsese, who just took home his first Oscar for The Departed, will be continuing his banner year as a guest of honor at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Festival organizers announced the news today saying that on May 24th, Scorsese will give a masterclass and will use the ...
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Industry has mixed reactions to HanWay-Celluloid merger
The announcement yesterday of the merger between HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams to create a new combined company, dreamachine, has provoked a mixed response from the European film industry. Some have welcomed the consolidation of the two companies. For example, Tartan Films founder Hamish McAlpine applauded the move. 'Hanway and ...
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Lakeshore sets cast for horror movie Pathology
Lakeshore Entertainment has announced casting on the upcoming horror film Pathology, which will star Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren Lee Smith, Alyssa Milano, and Johnny Whitworth.Filming is set to begin in April on the story of medical students who devise a sinister game to see who among them can commit the perfect ...
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Gruffudd joins voice cast of animated Agent Crush
Ioan Gruffudd has joined the voice cast of Agent Crush, a $20m animated adventure from LA-based Fantastic Films International and UK-based Crush Productions.Gruffudd, who won acclaim for portraying the abolitionist William Wilberforce in Amazing Grace and reprises his role as Reed Richards this summer in Fantastic Four: Rise Of The ...
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HanWay and Celluloid Dreams merge to create dreamachine
In a move that will shake up the international sales world, Jeremy Thomas' UK-based HanWay Films and Hengameh Panahi's Paris-based Celluloid Dreams are planning to merge. The new sales, production and financing venture, dreamachine, will be based in London, Paris and Toronto. Financial terms have yet to be disclosed, but ...
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Guadalajara gives Ibero-American prize to Contrera's Blue Eyelids
Mexican and Brazilian productions, most from first-time directors, swept the floor at the the 22nd Guadalajara International Film Festival during the awards ceremony on March 30. The ten different juries handed out a record-setting $1m in awards. Ernesto Contrera's debut Blue Eyelids (Parpados Azules) from Mexico was named best film ...
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Spendlove named president of music at Paramount
Randy Spendlove has been promoted to president of music at Paramount and will manage all music-related matters for the studio including film scoring, music supervision, and soundtrack production.Spendlove, who joined Paramount in 2006 as executive vice president of music and creative affairs, replaces Burt Berman, who stepped down to head ...
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Paris Je T'Aime to open RiverRun festival in North Carolina
The portmanteau feature Paris Je T'Aime and a Technicolor print of 1938's The Adventures Of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn bookend the 9th RiverRun International Film Festival.Mark Evan's drama Snow Cake is the centerpiece premiere at the festival, set to run from Apr 18-23 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.Overall 34 features ...
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Golden Door, La Vie En Rose set for San Francisco
Emanuele Crialese's Italian immigrant drama The Golden Door will open and Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose will close the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival, set to run from April 26-May 10.Festival organisers have culled 108 features and 92 shorts for the event, and the centerpiece ...
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Stonelock, Cheyenne team up to produce, acquire, sell
Stonelock Pictures president Beni Atoori and Cheyenne Studios president Al Jayez have formed the joint venture Tripod Pictures to produce, acquire and sell films.The Los Angeles-based company claims that it has secured a $200m credit line from a European bank to fund productions, although it refused to name which bank. ...
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3-D screens account for 30% of Robinsons opening US gross
Meet The Robinsons became the largest digital 3-D opening in domestic box office history at the weekend as the platform accounted for nearly 30% of the film's $25.1m overall three-day gross.The 581 screens - each of which was formatted by Los Angeles-based Real D - generated $7.1m for the weekend.Furthermore ...
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Buenos Aires to welcome 150 international guests to first Inter-Cine
The 9th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) will kick off tomorrow with plans to show 470 features and shorts in 13 days. The Event will open with two films running out of competition: Mauritian Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and Argentinian Ariel Rotter's Berlinale double award-winning El Otro. The ...
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Aardman signs exclusive three-year, first-look deal with Sony Pictures
UK-based Aardman Features will enter a three-year, exclusive first-look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) for all of Aardman's features in development. Aardman, known for Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and Flushed Away, ended its increasingly tense partnership with DreamWorks in late January 2007. The new pact was struck with ...
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Overture teams with Echo Lake on 105 Degrees And Rising
Fledgling studio Overture Films is partnering with Echo Lake Productions on its first in-house title 105 Degrees And Rising, a drama about the fall of Saigon drama.Jon Amiel will direct the project, named after the code used by Armed Forces Radio in 1975 to alert citizens to evacuate the former ...
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Ken Kwapis to direct He's Just Not That Into You
New Line Cinema and Flower Films have hired Ken Kwapis to direct the comedy He's Just Not That Into You.Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's bestselling novel of the same name serves as the inspiration for the project about cross-gender misunderstandings in love.Flower Films principals Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore are ...
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Shut Up And Shoot Me, New Year Baby win AFI Dallas
Steen Agro's Shut Up And Shoot Me won the AFI Dallas International Film Festival's Target narrative feature award while Socheata Poeuv's New Year Baby took corresponding documentary honours.The HDNet Award for the best feature shot in HD went to Rob Stewart's documentary Sharkwater.Additional Awards went to Eric Chaikin's A Lawyer ...
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Mr Bean's Holiday basks in $33.3m international weekend
Rowan Atkinson's bumbling Brit overthrew Warner Bros' Spartan army as Universal/UPI's Mr Bean's Holiday reaped the benefits of a wide launch and grossed an estimated $33.3m from 3,061 sites in 26 territories.Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) won't be unduly bothered however, as 300 crossed $100m overseas and has amassed more ...
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Blades gets top marks at top North American box office
Will Ferrell enjoyed the second best opening of his career as Paramount's ice skating comedy Blades Of Glory launched at number one on an estimated $33m.Ferrell and co-star Jon Heder play banned rival skaters who learn the only way to get back into the sport is to compete as a ...