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News: LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2008

Oscar® Nominee Abigail Breslin to make exciting announcement regarding her upcoming film Kit Kittredge: An American Girl on May 16th in Los Angeles

Picturehouse to join with American Express for Exclusive Theatrical Engagements in Select Markets Starting June 20th.

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News: May 8, 2008

Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures to Cease Operations

Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures will cease operations, it was announced today by Alan Horn, President & COO, Warner Bros.

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News: LOS ANGELES, February 15, 2008

Sergei Bodrov to receive Showest International Achievement Award in Filmmaking

Sergei Bodrov will receive the ShoWest International Achievement Award in Filmmaking, it was announced today by Mitch Neuhauser, co-managing director of the event that will be held March 10 -13, 2008 in Las Vegas. Bodrov will be honored for his exemplary career at ShoWest’s International Day Luncheon on Monday, March 10th at Bally's and Paris Las Vegas.

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News: NEW YORK, September 27, 2007

The Orphanage announced as official Spanish selection for 80th Academy Awards®

Picturehouse is proud to announce that Juan Antonio Bayona’s debut feature, The Orphanage, has been selected as the official Spanish entry for the 2008 Foreign Language Academy Award®.

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News: BOSTON, September 19, 2007

Bette Midler and Cloris Leachman join the cast of The Women

Bette Midler and Cloris Leachman head a new list of celebrated actresses joining the ensemble cast of Picturehouse and Inferno Entertainment's The Women now shooting in Boston.

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News: NEW YORK, September 4, 2007

Lindsay Crain Upped to Vice President of Acquisitions at Picturehouse

In time for the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, Lindsay Crain has been promoted to Vice President of Acquisitions at Picturehouse, it was announced today by Bob Berney, President of Picturehouse.

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News: BOSTON, August 21, 2007

Picturehouse, in Association With Inferno, Begins Principal Photography on The Women in Boston, MA

Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing and Jada Pinkett-Smith star for Director/Writer/Producer Diane English.

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News: TORONTO, May 31, 2007

Principal Photography Begins on HBO Films / Picturehouse Production of Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery

Academy Award©-nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) has begun filming the HBO Films / Picturehouse production of Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery, the first theatrical adaptation from the popular American Girl series, it was announced by Bob Berney, president of Picturehouse, and Colin Callender, president, HBO Films.

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News: May 11, 2007

Catch the HBO Buzz on the American Girl Auditions!

The open casting calls for Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery are underway. The crew at HBO caught up with some of the girls trying out for a role.

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News: NEW YORK, May 1, 2007

“American Girl” Search Is On

Open casting calls in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York seek girls to be cast in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery, the first theatrical adaptation of an American Girl story.

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News: NEW YORK, April 24, 2007

Picturehouse and New Line International Acquire Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland

Picturehouse and New Line International have acquired world-wide rights to Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland directed by Ari Sandel (Oscar winner for West Bank Story), it was announced today by Bob Berney, President of Picturehouse, Rolf Mittweg, President and COO of New Line Worldwide Distribution and Marketing and Camela Galano, President of New Line International.

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News: NEW YORK, April 2, 2007

Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin to star as Kit Kittredge in the first theatrical adaptation from the American Girl series

Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) will star as Kit Kittredge in the first theatrical adaptation from the American Girl series, as an HBO Films production to be released by Picturehouse, it was announced today by Bob Berney, president of Picturehouse and Colin Callender, president, HBO Films.

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News: NEW YORK, March 12, 2007

Picturehouse Acquires The Fox & The Child

Picturehouse has acquired the U.S. rights to The Fox & the Child, the first narrative film from the team that created the box-office sensation The March of the Penguins, it was announced today by Bob Berney, president of Picturehouse.

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News: NEW YORK, March 5, 2007

Vicki Cherkas joins Picturehouse as Senior Executive Vice President of Operations

Continuing to build on the successes of the past year and expanding the production and acquisitions slate, Vicki Cherkas has been named Senior Executive Vice President of Operations at Picturehouse, it was announced today by Bob Berney, President.

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News: LOS ANGELES, February 20, 2007

HBO and American Girl enter into overall deal that includes development of theatrical films, series, specials and documentaries

HBO and American Girl, one of the nation’s top direct marketers, children’s publishers and experiential retailers, have entered into an overall relationship to develop a variety of multi-platform ventures including theatrical films, series, specials and documentaries, it was announced today by HBO Films president Colin Callender and American Girl president Ellen L. Brothers.

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News: BERLIN, February 12, 2007

Picturehouse acquires The Orphanage at Berlin Film Festival

Picturehouse has acquired all U.S. rights to The Orphanage, an atmospheric thriller produced by Guillermo del Toro among others and directed by J.A. Bayona, while at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, it was announced today by Bob Berney, President of Picturehouse.

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News: NEW YORK, February 1, 2007

Picturehouse Expands Pan’s Labyrinth To Over 1,000 Screens

Picturehouse will expand Pan’s Labyrinth to over 1000 screens this weekend. Pan’s Labyrinth was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Foreign Film, Cinematography, Art Direction, Makeup, Music Written for Motion Pictures (original score) and Best Original Screenplay.

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News: PARK CITY, UTAH, January 21, 2007

New Line Cinema and Picturehouse Acquire Rights to Documentary The King of Kong

Picturehouse has acquired the crowd-pleasing documentary The King of Kong, currently in competition at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival, it was announced today by Bob Berney, President of Picturehouse. New Line Cinema Production President Toby Emmerich also announced that New Line has picked up the worldwide rights, all remake rights and the life rights of the main characters of The King of Kong, with an eye to fast track production.

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News: NEW YORK, January 11, 2007

Picturehouse acquires The Politician’s Wife

Picturehouse has acquired all North American rights to the remake of the award-winning Channel 4 mini-series The Politician’s Wife to star Golden Globe-winner and Oscar-nominee Felicity Huffman and be produced by Sara Risher, though her ChickFlicks Productions, and Jerry Leider from a script by Nicholas Meyer (Sommersby, The Human Stain), it was announced today by Bob Berney, President of Picturehouse.

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News: NEW YORK, November 21, 2006

Robert Altman, 1925 - 2006

Academy Award® winning film director Robert Altman died Monday, November 20 in Los Angeles from complications due to cancer. He was 81. He had lived and worked with the disease for the last 18 months, a period that included the making of his film A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, which was released this summer. His death was, nevertheless, a surprise: Altman was in pre-production on a film he had planned to start shooting in February.

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News: TORONTO, September 15, 2006

Picturehouse Acquires El Cantante at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival

Amongst a flurry of interest, Picturehouse has acquired all North American rights to El Cantante, directed by Leon Ichaso (Piñero), at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, it was announced today by Bob Berney, President of Picturehouse.

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News: NEW YORK, August 14, 2006

Pan’s Labyrinth Selected as Closing Night Film of the New York Film Festival

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the Closing Night, Centerpiece and Special Retrospective of this year’s 44th Annual New York Film Festival, to take place September 29-October 15 at Lincoln Center. They are, Guillermo del Toro’s folkloric Pan’s Labyrinth (Closing Night), Pedro Almodóvar’s 2006 Cannes International Film Festival award-winning Volver (Centerpiece) and a special 25th anniversary presentation of Warren Beatty’s Academy Award®-winning Bolshevik Revolution epic Reds, screening in a newly restored print.

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News: NEW YORK, May 25th, 2006

Picturehouse acquires La Vie En Rose from Tf1 International at the Cannes Film Festival

Picturehouse has acquired the U.S. rights to La Vie En Rose, the dramatic real-life story of French chanteuse Edith Piaf starring Marion Cotillard (Ridley Scott’s A Good Year, A Very Long Engagement), as Piaf, and Gerard Depardieu as Louis Leplée. It was announced today by Bob Berney, president of Picturehouse.

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News: NEW YORK, May 22, 2006

Picturehouse plays ball with Gracie

Picturehouse has acquired all North American rights to Gracie, directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) and starring Oscar Nominee-Elisabeth Shue, with Carly Schroeder (Firewall, Mean Creek) as Gracie, and Shue’s brother Andrew in a supporting role. The announcement was made today by Bob Berney, president of Picturehouse.

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News: NEW YORK, May 23, 2006

Picturehouse and New Line International acquire world-wide rights to Amusement

Picturehouse and New Line International have acquired world-wide rights to the suspense, horror film Amusement to be directed by John Simpson (Freeze Frame) from a script by Jake Wade Wall (When a Stranger Calls, The Hitcher). The deal was announced today by Bob Berney, president of Picturehouse, Rolf Mittweg, president and COO of New Line Worldwide Distribution and Marketing and Camela Galano, president of New Line International.

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News: NEW YORK, January 23, 2006

Picturehouse acquires Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth”

Bob Berney, president of Picturehouse, announced today that the company has acquired all North American rights to Guillermo del Toro’s haunting fairy tale PAN’S LABYRINTH starring Mirabel Verdú (Y tu mamá también), Sergi Lopez (Dirty Pretty Things), Ivana Baquero (Fragile) and Doug Jones (Hellboy).

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News: NEW YORK, January 20, 2006

Picturehouse and New Line International acquire Francois Girard’s Silk

Picturehouse and New Line International have acquired all rights to Francois Girard’s epic, romantic drama Silk starring Michael Pitt (Last Days), Keira Knightley (Pride & Prejudice), Koji Yakusho (Memoirs of a Geisha) and Alfred Molina (Spiderman II). It was announced today by Bob Berney, president of Picturehouse, Rolf Mittweg, president and COO of New Line Worldwide Distribution and Marketing and Camela Galano, president of New Line International.

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News: NEW YORK, January 11, 2006

Academy Award winning actress, Charlize Theron, partners with Picturehouse to produce The Ice at the Bottom of the World

Picturehouse and New Line International, in conjunction with Charlize Theron's Denver and Delilah Films, will develop THE ICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD, it was announced today by Bob Berney, president of Picturehouse, Rolf Mittweg, president and COO of New Line Distribution and Marketing and Camela Galano, president of New Line International.

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News: NEW YORK, October 30, 2005

Picturehouse picks up Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion

Picturehouse has acquired all North American rights to Academy Award-nominated director Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion, based on Garrison Keillor's legendary radio variety show and starring Keillor (as himself), with Academy Award-winners Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Tommy Lee Jones, Academy Award-nominees Lily Tomlin, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Virginia Madsen, "Saturday Night Live's" Maya Rudolph, and Lindsey Lohan it was announced today by Bob Berney, president of Picturehouse.

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News: NEW YORK, August 9, 2005

Picturehouse marketing team comes together

Further ramping up operations, Picturehouse has solidified its marketing team by combining both Newmarket Films and Fine Line Features staff, it was announced today by Picturehouse President Bob Berney.

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News: NEW YORK, June 17, 2005

Picturehouse picks-up Mongol

Picturehouse has acquired all North American rights to the historical drama Mongol from CTB and Andreyevsky Flag, it was announced today by Bob Berney, President Picturehouse.

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News: NEW YORK, June 17, 2005

Picturehouse announces distribution team

The Picturehouse distribution team composed of senior industry veterans was announced today by Picturehouse President Bob Berney.

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News: NEW YORK, May 23, 2005

Picturehouse acquires Celluloid Dreams’ Factotum starring Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens and Marisa Tomei

Bob Berney, President of Picturehouse, announced today that the company has acquired all North American rights to Bent Hamer’s Factotum starring Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens and Marisa Tomei. The film premiered at the recent Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews and Picturehouse is aiming for a 2006 release.

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News: CANNES, FRANCE, May 13, 2005

HBO/New Line Cinema name joint venture Picturehouse

Coinciding with the world premiere of the company’s first release, Gus Van Sant’s LAST DAYS in Competition at Cannes, Chris Albrecht (Chairman and CEO, HBO), Michael Lynne (Co-Chairman and CEO of New Line Cinema), Colin Callender (President, HBO Films), and Bob Berney formally unveiled Picturehouse. Founded and jointly owned by HBO and New Line Cinema, Picturehouse is the new theatrical distribution company to be run by Bob Berney, who will serve as its President. The goal for Picturehouse is to be the theatrical distribution company of choice for a wide-ranging community of independent filmmakers, and to deliver a consistently high-quality slate of pictures to audiences. Picturehouse plans to release 8-10 pictures a year. Product flow for the new company will generate from four streams: HBO Films productions, New Line productions, a new slate of productions to be jointly funded by HBO and New Line, and acquisitions.

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News: March 23, 2005

HBO and New Line Cinema partner on new independent distribution company headed by Bob Berney

Chris Albrecht, chairman and CEO, HBO, and Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne, co-chairmen and co-CEOs, New Line Cinema, announced today that the two companies will form a new, jointly-owned, theatrical distribution company to release independent films which will be run by former Newmarket Films President Bob Berney.

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