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Tribeca Fest to Open with 9/11 Film

Paul Greengrass' film about 9/11 will open the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. The event, founded to revitalize Lower Manhattan after the terrorist attacks nearly five years ago, will kick-off on Tuesday, April 25th with the world premiere of "United 93," a Universal Studios/Studio Canal film about the ...

SF Chronicle: Buscemi directs for love, not cash

The financing for Steve Buscemi's current project, "Interview," has fallen through twice. "Just another hard-luck story," he says, his self-deprecating laughter filling a dark hotel suite. "Lonesome Jim," a Buscemi-directed film that did come to fruition, arrives in theaters this week. Its making al...

AFP: Croatian director plans film on war crimes 'hero'

Croatian director Antun Vrdoljak is planning to make a film about the country's top war crimes indictee Ante Gotovina starring Goran Visnjic of the "ER" television series. The capture of Gotovina came four years after the UN war crimes tribunal charged him in 2001 with atrocities committed against e...

Pressman Corp. Takes Rights to "Infinity"

Edward R. Pressman Film Corp. announced Wednesday that the company has acquired the motion picture rights to "The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan", Robert Kanigel's 1991 biography of Srinavasa Ramanujan Iyengar. The biography chronicles the life of the self-taught mathematical prodigy, who left the slums of Madras for the courts of Cambridge during World War I. Sondervan first brought the project to Pressman in late 2003 when working at ContentFilm, but Pressman and Sondervan determined the movie could not be made at the company because its "epic" nature was beyond the company's financial scope, according to a company re...

Drutz Joins Jeremy Walker + Associates

New York publicist Jeremy Walker today announced that Judy Drutz, until recently an account supervisor at Dan Klores Communications, has joined Jeremy Walker + Associates as a senior publicist. Drutz spent six years at DKC honing her publicity skills, ultimately becoming Account Supervisor overseei...

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Premier Powerhouse: PR Firm Acquires Competitor

Premier Public Relations, a PR firm primarily based in London and Los Angeles, has acquired the twelve year old London-based firm McDonald & Rutter, the company announced this morning. Premier indicated in the announcement that the new firm will maintain a staff of about 50 in London and LA. Premier's CEO Sara Keene will run the company with Charles McDonald and Jonathan Rutter. Keene said in a statement today, "I am very much looking forward to working alongside Charles and Jonathan to develop our worldwide offering. Our combined resources and experience in UK and international publicity will be unmatched elsewhere in the industry." Premier...