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Fox International takes Buffalo for Latin America
Fox International has snapped up Latin American rights to Jorge Hernandez Aldana's drama The Night Buffalo, one of the most anticipated films set to receive its world premiere at Sundance later this month.The distributor plans an April release on the film, which Guillermo Arriaga adapted from his own novel about ...
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Academy names seven films shortlisted for makeup Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced its shortlist of contenders for the best make-up Oscar.The films in alphabetical order are: Apocalypto; Click; Pan's Labyrinth; Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest; The Prestige; The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause; and X-Men: The Last Stand.The Academy's ...
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Leonard joins Initial to oversee marketing and publicity
Former Myriad Pictures marketing and publicity executive Maxine Leonard has joined Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) as senior vice president of marketing and publicity, effective immediately.Leonard will oversee IEG's corporate communication strategy and reports directly to company president Graham King.She will also work closely with the worldwide marketing and publicity teams ...
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Soderbergh, Hackford to take part in MPAA symposium in Washington DC
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) s hosting an industry symposium entitled The Business Of Show Business on Feb 6 in Washington DC.The day-long event features three panels dealing and will cover such topics as the digital revolution, development and production, and intellectual property.Panelists include film-makers Steven Soderbergh and ...
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Morphett takes up financial role at Austar
Jonathan Morphett has been appointed chief financial officer of Austar United Communications, parent company of Australia's third largest pay-TV service, Austar.Morphett, who takes up the post on August 21, is currently managing director of corporate finance for investment bank Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. In this role he played a leading ...
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Apple seals deal with Paramount for movies on iTunes
Paramount has become the first Hollywood studio aside from Disney to sign a content deal with Apple. The new deal sees the studio and sister outfits Paramount Classics, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies supplying more than 100 titles to the iTunes Store including School Of Rock, Zoolander and Chinatown.The move ...
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Oster named evp of communications at MPAA
Seth Oster has been hired as executive vice president for communications at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).Commencing Jan 15, Oster will oversee operations in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. He will serve as a member of the MPAA's senior management group, reporting directly to MPAA chairman ...
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Chaiken, Dungan team for LA-based production outfit
Producers Jennifer Chaiken (My Flesh And Blood) and Sebastian Dungan (Transamerica) have launched Los Angeles-based 72 Productions.Backed by a private equity fund dedicated to the acquisition and development of feature film projects, 72 Productions arrives with four projects in the pipeline.The Perfect Hour is a period drama being produced with ...
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Summit's Mr & Mrs Smith pilot gets greenlight from ABC
US TV network ABC has greenlit production on Mr & Mrs Smith, based on Summit Entertainment's hit thriller starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie that grossed more than $470m worldwide.Regency TV will produce the pilot in association with Dave Bartis and Doug Liman's Dutch Oven Prods. Summit Entertainment's Patrick Wachsberger ...
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Singapore bounces back with 6% box office increase
After a flat 2005, Singapore box office regained growth momentum in 2006 with a 6% year-on-year increase in total box office takings which amounted to $85.18m (S$131.08m) from 341 releases. As with previous years, Hollywood mega blockbusters ruled the box office. The top grossing film was Fox's X-Men: The Last ...
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Beta Cinema picks up controversial Hitler comedy
Beta Cinema has picked up the international sales rights to Dani Levy's hotly debated new comedy Mein Fuehrer - The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler which X Verleih is opening with 250 prints in German cinemas on Jan 11. The Y Filme production has already aroused considerable interest internationally ...
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Australia 's 2006 box-office grosses second highest on record
Australia's gross box office was $675.5m (A$866.609m) last year, a rise of 6% over 2005 and the second-highest year on record according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (MPDAA). The best year to date for earnings was 2004 when $707.2m (A$907.2) was spent on cinema tickets. This figure ...
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Thykier to leave Freud's to produce with Matthew Vaughn
Kris Thykier will leave Freud Communications at the end of February to john Matthew Vaughn as a partner in production company MARV. Thykier, who had been Freud's vice chairman, will now be a full-time producer. He will continue to serve as a non-executive director of Freud's and will oversee the ...
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Festivals feel the city heat
The great city film festivals exist of course as important events in their own terms. Without the pressure of a major market and often of competitions, they often succeed in their core mission to public celebration of film and film-makers.'We can just invite what we think are the best films ...
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Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose to open Berlinale
The world premiere of Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose will open this year's Berlinale on Feb 8 as part of the Competition section of films vying for the Golden Bear and Silver Bears. Writer-director Olivier Dahan, whose last film was 2004's Crimson Rivers II, has assembled ...
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CanWest in 'exclusive' negotiation for Alliance Atlantis purchase
Canadian media conglomerate CanWest Global Communications and New York-based investment bank Goldman Sachs are in exclusive negotiation toward a possible purchase of Alliance Atlantis Communications ( AAC ), AAC confirmed this morning. According to a report in today's Globe and Mail newspaper, a deal, estimated at $1.8 bn (C$2.1 bn), ...
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Gaumont hires Cecile Gaget for international division
French major Gaumont has announced the arrival of Cecile Gaget who will join the International division as executive vice-president international sales. Gaget was formerly head of international sales at Rezo Films and also spent 4 years at TF1 International. 'Gaumont is speeding up its international operations and Cecile, thanks to ...
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Breakfast On Pluto leads Irish Film & TV Award nominees
The shortlist of nominees has been announced for the 2006 Irish Film & Television Awards, the first to take place under the auspices of the recently re-constituted Irish Film & Television Academy. Neil Jordan's Breakfast On Pluto leads with a total of ten nominations, followed closely by Brian Kirk's Middletown ...
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37 projects selected for Berlinale Co-Production Market
New feature film projects by Joe Dante, Reza Bagher, Wang Chao, Srdjan Koljevic, Sarah Polley and Luigi Falorni are among a total of 37 projects selected from 25 countries to be presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (Feb 11-13) which is now in its fourth year. This year's Official Projects ...
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Goya's Ghosts to get gala in Goteborg
The Goya's Ghosts team - the Oscar-winning duo of director Milos Forman and producer Saul Zaentz, scriptwriter Jean-Claude Carriere and lead actor Stellan Skarsgard - will be on hand for the gala performance of the film, one of 450 titles on show at the 30th Goteborg (Gothenburg) International Film Festival, ...