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SMILE - Lucas Huber, a Sears portrait studio worker from Kalamazoo, struggles to find true happiness with wheel-chair bound Jana Parks as he and slacker friend Johnny Raju spend their days going nowhere.
THE STUPIDEST ANGEL- Sleepy Pine Cove is abuzz with Christmas spirit, but Lena Marquez is fed up with her despicable ex-husband, Dale Pearson. On his way home from playing Santa Claus at the local lodge, Dale catches Lena trespassing on his property and stealing pine trees for the less fortunate. He threatens her with a gun and in self-defense she lashes out with \her shovel and accidently kills Santa Dale.
SHOTGUN WEDDING - PETE HILL, 30, is an avowed bachelor who is philosophically against the institution of marriage. One day, without warning, he calls his college friends to tell them he’s getting married to a younger, Southern girl that none of them have ever met or even heard of.
A GIRL and A GUN- A Girl and a Gun is a hip and edgy piece of LA pulp. Thematically, the story is a cross between Mulholland Dr. and Rebel Without a Cause.
DETROIT UNLEADED - A comedic drama about an Arab-owned gas station in a predominantly African American neighborhood on Detroit's East Side. The film explores race, economics, friendship and love through the station-a place where widely diverse customers and gas station workers come in and out of each other's lives.
CASTLE STALKER (SCARY CASTLE) - They only showed up to party at the wake, but Dougal Stalker and his mates become victims of an ancient curse on his family's castle - anyone who has the misfortune to be in love becomes possessed and slaughters the object of their affection.
Rank. Movie Title (Dist.)
Weekend Gross | Total Gross
1. Dear John
(Sony / Screen Gems)
$32.4 million million | $32.4 million
2. Avatar
(Fox)
$23.6 million million | $630 million
3. From Paris with Love (Lionsgate)
(Lionsgate)
$8.1 million | $8.1 million
4. Edge of Darkness
(Warner Bros.)
$7.0 million | $29.1 million
5. The Tooth Fairy
(Fox)
$6.5 million | $34.3 million
At Green Light Film Funding we pride ourselves on honesty and our ability to structure unique funding solutions that are not available in the traditional lending arena. The Funding Options, like those of any other industry, have changed drastically within the last 12 months. However, with our combined 34 years of experience we know how to structure these difficult deals in today’s always changing environment.
Weekend Report: ‘Avatar’ Unfazed in Seventh Outing - Not to sound like a broken record for a record-breaker, but Avatar maintained its blistering pace over the weekend.
More spent on cinema than on home video last year - Consumers' appetite for moviegoing is surpassing their spending on movies on homevideo for the first time in more than a decade, according to media analyst Adams Media Research.
'Avatar' tops $1 billion at worldwide box office - Twentieth Century Fox and James Cameron's "Avatar" rang in the New Year with an estimated worldwide cume of $1 billion through Sunday, becoming the fourth highest grosser of all time.
Mich., Detroit have so much to offer - "Instead of all the bad press that I have read and heard about, I found a fantastic, if somewhat challenged, city that is full of generous and kind people who have a great work ethic and an ingenuity to make more out of less."
New York City's film business in a cliff-hanger? -
At least seven feature films, including Sex and the City 2 and Wall Street 2, and 16 television shows are shooting in New York right now. But the city's lucrative production business could soon end up on the cutting room floor.
Michigan Moves from Cars to Stars -
Incentives turning state into Midwestern Hollywood. With its once-vaunted automobile industry on the brink, Michigan these days is less about cars and more about stars. In a move to diversify its beleaguered economy, it has embraced the entertainment biz and joined the multitude of states offering lucrative tax incentives to attract film and TV productions.
Location scouts sound off on Michigan -
A location scout for the past 20 years, Russ Fega recently helped scoutDrew Barrymore's directorial debut, "Whip It," shot in Michigan.
Lockwood locks up productions -
Michigan's status as flyover country is quickly changing. The state's year-old production incentive program has lured Hollywood types, and its film commissions have risen to the task.
First stop is the Michigan Film Office, led by Janet Lockwood, which reviews scripts and approves incentive applications. "Michigan does not have to play Michigan," advises Lockwood. "We play the world."
HBO looks to Michigan for 'Middlesex' -
HBO has optioned Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Middlesex," set in Detroit, for a one-hour drama series from a script by Donald Margulies.
Exec producer Rita Wilson, HBO and the Michigan Film Office decline to comment on the project since it's in the early stages of development.
Highest Grosing Summer on Record -
The summer movie season doesn’t officially close until Labor Day, but it’s already the highest-grossing summer on record.
Summer 2009’s total gross stands at over $4.2 billion through Sept. 3, the highest ever. It was the third summer in a row to exceed $4 billion.
Better times ahead - Major players of the independent film industry gathered here for the giant Cannes film festival say they are starting to see a bottom to their recession-weary market that foretells better times ahead.
Lights, Camera, Finance - When the car-chase flick Fast & Furious set a spate of opening-weekend records last month, it gave a turbo boost to what has already been a very good year for the movie business.
At Green Light Film Funding we pride ourselves on honesty and our ability to structure unique funding solutions that are not available in the traditional lending arena. The Funding Options, like those of any other industry, have changed drastically within the last 12 months. However, with our combined 34 years of experience we know how to structure these difficult deals in today’s always changing environment. 
