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Paramount and Abrams' Bad Robot extend deal til 2013
Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams' Bad Robot Productions have extended their first-look deal through 2013 ahead of the summer release of Abrams' Star Trek.The partners first collaborated on Cloverfield, which scored thebiggest January opening weekend in history when it took $40.1m overthree days. They are scheduled to begin production in ...
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Gran Torino poised to cross $70m internationally with Mexico launch
Gran Torino should march on towards the $70m mark this weekend through strong holdover business and a debut in Mexico on March 27 through Warner Bros Pictures International.Clint Eastwood's drama has reached $63.9m to date and crossed $210mworldwide and its prospects are looking formidable with roughlytwo-thirds of international markets yet ...
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IFC takes US rights to Unmade Beds from Protagonist
IFC Films has taken US rights from Protagonist Pictures to the romance Unmade Beds from Argentinean director Alexis Dos Santos and plans to release later this year via IFC In Theaters or IFC Festival Direct.Dos Santos wrote the screenplay about two ex-pats living in EastLondon who embark on journeys of ...
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Tribeca Sloan fund to offer $170,000 for science/tech projects
Promising film-makers whose projects relate to science and technology stand to receive $170,000 in funding from the Tribeca Film Institute through the return this year of the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund.Announcing a further grant initiative, Institute staff said four youngfilm-makers would each be eligible for a $1,500 scholarship throughthe Youth ...
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Summit takes on Tommy O'Haver'sthriller Golden Gate
Summit Entertainment has acquired rights to the thriller Golden Gate that Tommy O'Haver will direct from a screenplay by Charles Bohl.The film centres on an athletics star on the verge of success who ishelped by a dangerous new friend when a secret from her past threatensto unravel her dream.Craig Zadan ...
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Patricia Clarkson to get ShoWest Independent Award for Acting
Patricia Clarkson will receive the ShoWest Independent Award For Excellence In Acting at the Las Vegas event on April 2.Clarkson is honoured for what ShoWest co-managing director MitchNeuhauser called 'a diverse resume that includes work on stage,television and the big screen' that had earned her 'great accoladesand success around the ...
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Babelgum takes online/mobile rights to Workbook's Radar
Online content platform Babelgum has acquired the worldwide exclusive Internet and mobile rights to weekly video series Radar.The three-minute episodes, which examine innovative projects across creative disciplines, are produced by WBP Labs, the experimental lab division of the Workbook Project.The deal was negotiated by Babelgum's GM and publisher - film ...
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NewsOscars move one week later in 2010 to avoid Olympics clash
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards will take place on Mar 7th 2010, a week later than usual to avoidthe closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver on February 28.
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Lionsgate takes film rights to Shange's 1975 play For Colored Girls
Lionsgate has acquired worldwide film rights to Ntozake Shange's 1975 stage play and Nzingha Stewart's adapted screenplay of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf.The play was first performed in California at the Bacchanal women'sbar near Berkeley and first produced in 1975 at New York's ...
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Mugabe doc to premiere at Canada's 2009 Hot Docs
Mugabe And The White African a British made theatrical documentary from Arturi Films, will premiere at the 2009 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival which runs from April 30 to May 10, 2009. It will be presented in the International Spectrum programme, the official competition for International productions and is ...
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Rachel McAdams named Female Star of the Year at ShoWest
Rachel McAdams has been named the 2009 ShoWest Female Star Of The Year and will be honoured at a ceremony in Las Vegas on April 2.McAdams broke through with star turns in The Notebook and Mean Girls and will next be seen in Universal's thriller and BBC series adaptation State ...
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Breitman's Someone I Loved will open COL-COA in Los Angeles
The world premiere of Zabou Breitman's Someone I Loved (Je L'Aimais) starring Daniel Auteuil and Marie-Josee Croze will open the 13th Annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COL-COA) film festival to run from April 20-26.Backed by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, the festival will present 50 films, including 30 features ...
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Jose Martinez Jr promoted to executive VP at Maya Entertainment
Jose Martinez Jr has been promoted to executive vice president of Maya Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based vertically integrated company targeting the growing US Latino market.Since joining Maya Entertainment a year ago as general counsel andhead of acquisitions, Martinez has led company efforts to acquire suchnotable films as How The Garcia ...
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Cast lines up for wolf pack in Summit's New Moon
Native American/First Nation actors Chaske Spencer, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Tyson Houseman have signed on to star as the members of the wolf pack in Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: New Moon.Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner reprise theirroles from Twilight. The sequel finds Bella, played ...
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E1 Entertainment ships 1m DVD units of Twilight
E1 Entertainment has shipped 1m DVD units of the vampire love story Twilight for its March 21 release. According to the company, the film is setting records for fastest sell-through at most major retailers. Twilight fans have taken part in late-night parties at locations across Canada, queuing to be among ...
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Jon Hamm joins Howl cast for Werc Werk Works
Golden Globe winner and star of TV's Mad Men Jon Hamm has signed on to Werc Werk Works' Allen Ginsberg project Howl currently shooting in New York City.Hamm will star as the Beat Gernation poet's celebrated defenceattorney Jake Ehrlich in the story about the obscenity trial thatsurrounded Ginsberg's eponymous poem.James ...
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Saint John Of Las Vegas to open CineVegas on June 10
The world premiere of Hue Rhodes' insurance fraud comedy Saint John Of Las Vegas starring Steve Buscemi, Sarah Silverman, Peter Dinklage and Tim Blake Nelson will open the 11th annual CineVegas Film Festival on June 10.Eight other films in competition get world premiere berths at the LasVegas event that runs ...
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Locations trade show slated for April 16-18 in Santa Monica
The Association Of Film Commissioners International’s annual locations trade show will take place in Santa Monica from April 16-18.More than 3,000 industry professionals and 240 exhibitors representingmore than 30 countries are expected to attend the event.Seminars will cover Candid Conversations, in which studio executivesdiscuss their film-making experiences, as well as ...
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Relativity extends Tucker Tooley's contract through 2011
Relativity Media has extended president of production Tucker Tooley’s contract through 2011.Along with CEO Ryan Kavanaugh, Tooley has helped to grow the company and played a critical role in developing the single pictures filmsdivision into an entity that fully finances and produces eight to tentitles a year. Tooley also oversees ...
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Hot Docs unveils 36 world premieres
New films from Kevin McMahon, Larry Weinstein and John Greyson were among the 36 world premieres unveiled as the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival announced its full line-up today. The festival runs in Toronto from April 30 to May 10.McMahon’s Waterlife explores the complex ecology of and environmental damage wrought ...