President of production�alongside Mike Paseornek
A year and a half after leaving Paramount, Alli Shearmur has landed at Lionsgate as chief Executive of motion picture production alongside longtime Lionsgate production head Mike Paseornek.
Shearmur and Paseornek, wHO will each carry the same title, will write up to co-COO and motion picture radical president Joe Drake. Shearmur's lock on the position has been in the air for some time, and she officially starts Tuesday.
"I'm selfsame excited to be part of a team once more," Shearmur aforementioned. "I'm most looking fore to being at a place that has a real sentiency of momentum and an agile, discernment approach to making movies. They appear to be very creative, out-of-the-box thinkers."
While Paseornek has helped to build the mini-major into an more and more ambitious studio, he and Shearmur will now fundamentally run two separate production divisions, with each turn out six-spot to eight films per year. The studio claims that these slates will remain passably undefined, Paseornek will focus on Lionsgate's bread-and-butter writing style projects, such as urban comedy and horror, patch Shearmur testament shepherd larger-scale, talent-driven mainstream productions.
The repose of the in-house yield team will be schism among the two wings, with production vps Jim Miller and Wolfgang Hammer reporting to Shearmur and executive vp Lisa Ellzey and senior vp John Sacchi staying in Paseornek's camp.
"As Lionsgate continues to expand, our goal on the motion picture production side is to foster an environs characterized by creativity and focus," Drake said. "Alli has superb instincts in developing properties, and she brings a substantial base of talent relationships into the Lionsgate fold. She is a terrific complement to Mike, and together they ar going to build upon the formidable infrastructure and brand identity that Mike has already established."
Shearmur exhausted several age as an executive at Walt Disney Pictures and then at Universal, where she had a hand in launching the "American Pie" and "Bourne" series. She and then moved to Paramount, where she was promoted to co-president of production under Gail Berman in early 2005. That tenure complete in disappointment when Paramount topper Brad Grey let Berman and Shearmur go in January 2007, going Shearmur's co-president, Brad Weston, in charge of Paramount's production division.
Shearmur is a producer on Doug Liman's DreamWorks ignoble moon figure being written by Dan Mazeau.
It power not take long to see whether a power-sharing arrangement will work for Paseornek and Shearmur tending Lionsgate's belligerent efforts to expand its scope, even without the executives sharing a co-president title.
"Mike Paseornek is awesome at what he does, and he has an incredible running record," Shearmur said. "As people continue to do business with us at Lionsgate, it's going to be clear where to bring the movies, and it's such a friendly, collaborative work environment that it should be a very easy process to manage. It's really enlighten what Mike has been brilliant at."
Lionsgate recently re-upped its arranging with Tyler Perry for another trey years, and it acquired a $340 million credit facility with J.P. Morgan.
On the development horizon are "Warrior," which Gavin O'Connor co-wrote and will engineer; "Conan," a fast-tracked project with multiple scripts in the workings; "Severance Package," with Brett Simon writing and guiding; "Rambo V," to be written and directed by Sylvester Stallone; "Korean Wedding" from writer Jason Filardi; and "Kane & Lynch," a picture game adaptation that will star Bruce Willis.
The studio has generated nearly a half billion dollars in boxoffice this past financial year. Its fall slate includes "Disaster Movie" (opening Friday), "Bangkok Dangerous" (Sept. 5), "Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys" (Sept. 12), "Religulous" (Oct. 3), "W" (Oct. 17), "Saw V" (Oct. 24) and "The Spirit" (Dec. 25).
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Thursday, 4 September 2008
Monday, 25 August 2008
'Harry Potter' Games Producer On Life After The Movies: 'There's More Stories That We Can Tell'
SAN FRANCISCO � Nothing lasts perpetually, not regular the magic "Harry Potter." But don't tell that to Electronic Arts, the company that produces the "Potter" video games for Warner Bros. EA hopes to make the Boy Who Lived continue to entertain game fans, even after the two-part "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" has bowed out of theaters.
"I think that's a not bad opportunity," Wiimote-clutching "Harry Potter" executive producer Jonathan Bunney told MTV News concluding week at an EA summer press event. "Certainly, we've through with it with 'Lord of the Rings.' We've prolonged beyond the movies at that place. We did it with James Bond for a while. I don't know what we'll do with 'Harry Potter.' It'd be fun to, I think. There's more stories that we can tell."
As Bunney points out, this isn't without precedent. This fall, EA will release "Lord of the Rings: Conquest," a multiplayer action game modeled after the "Star Wars: Battlefront" series. "Conquest" is an alternate-timeline take on J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy series that lets players become wickedness and control the forces of Sauron.
Right now, Bunney and his team in London are focused on finishing up the video game version of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," just that doesn't stop him from speculating on what the future might sustain for the boy wizard.
"There's an chance to go back to the original movie," he said. "The technology has moved on so much. When we were low making those games, we were making it for PlayStation 1, and today we've got, you know, the Wii. I think there's opportunities to [revisit stories].
"We make to figure out whether anyone wants to purchase those or not!" he added with a laugh.
There might be a few people who'd pay for more "Harry Potter" adventures, Mr. Bunney: The last book sold more than 11 jillion copies in just 24 hours.
One of the virtually popular rumors among "Harry Potter" aficionados is the prospect of a massively multiplayer on-line version of Hogwarts, in the vein of "World of Warcraft" and "EverQuest." Warner Bros. has aforesaid it's concerned in producing an on-line "Harry Potter," and so is EA.
"We've talked about it a lot," Bunney said. "The reality is that we're focused on the flick games. I think in that respect could be a playfulness MMO for 'Harry Potter.' "
But for now, there's work to be done. "Half-Blood Prince" is most finished, and Bunney's eyes are craning toward "Deathly Hallows" and the challenge of qualification a game (or iI) based on a picture show that's being split in half, a first for the series.
"We haven't in truth thought around what we're going to do even so, but it's going to be in truth exciting," Bunney said. "Obviously, it's a great opportunity to get two games, but I want to make certain we make two capital games. We don't roll in the hay how close those movies are going away to be, how far apart they're going to be and where they're going to cut them in half."
"Half-Blood Prince" was scheduled to release alongside the pic in November, but Warner Bros. has since pushed the cinema to the summer. EA has not confirmed a similar retard, but industry analysts anticipate it to follow in Warner Bros.' footsteps.
For practically more around interactive "Harry Potter" games, check out the Multiplayer blog.
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Friday, 15 August 2008
New Drug Development In Bladder Cancer: Understanding Biology To Develop Future Leads
�UroToday.com - Chemotherapy is effective in both topically advanced and metastatic vesica cancer. Two randomized trials have demonstrated that preoperative administration of Methotrexate, Vinblastine, Adriamycin, Cisplatin (MVAC) or Cisplatin, Methotrexte,Vinblastine (CMV) better survival in patients with muscle invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. Other advantages of neoadjuvant therapy include the in vivo monstrance of
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Amy Winehouse - Fielder-civil To Move To Countryside Jail
AMY WINEHOUSE's jailed married man BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL is to be touched to a prison outside of London amid fears for his safety.
Fielder-Civil is currently portion a 27-month sentence in the British capital's Pentonville Prison later on being convicted on charges of heartrending bodily harm (GBH) and perverting the course of justice. The charges radical from a 2006 assault on a London public house landlord.
But according to U.K. tabloid reports, the 26-year-old - world Health Organization has been seeking guidance from reenforcement group the Samaritans - will be transferred to a gaol in Suffolk in the English countryside this weekend (02-03Aug08), after begging prison house officials for the move because he felt suicidal.
This comes just days afterward Fielder-Civil reportedly broke down in crying in his cell, screaming, "Why me?", and lachrymation down photos of his famous wife.
Meanwhile, the Rehab hitmaker is said to have begun househunting in the Suffolk area to be good her disruptive spouse when he is transferred.
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Monday, 23 June 2008
Marco Beltrami
Artist: Marco Beltrami
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Easy Listening
Soundtrack
Easy Listening
Discography:
3:10 To Yuma - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Year: 2007
Tracks: 21
Live Free Or Die Hard
Year: 2006
Tracks: 21
I Robot OST (Score)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Terminator 3 - Rise Of The Machines
Year: 2003
Tracks: 21
Monday, 16 June 2008
Machinegun Kelly
Artist: Machinegun Kelly
Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
White Line Offside
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Monday, 2 June 2008
Naomi Campbell - Campbells Convict Cannes Date
Supermodel NAOMI CAMPBELL stepped out with a controversial new beau at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Wednesday (22May08) - her date was a convicted swindler.
The runway queen - who has an assault conviction to her name - arrived at the premiere of new movie Che with Christian Rocancourt, a fraudster who has spent five years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from investors.
According to the New York Post, Rocancourt, 40, has impersonated members of Manhattan's famous Rothschild and Rockefeller families and pretended to be the son of actress Sophia Loren in the past, to dupe investors out of money.
Campbell celebrated her 38th birthday after the premiere, with a party aboard Sean 'Diddy' Combs' yacht.
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