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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.
FREAKY DEAKY - He used to be on the bomb squad, but its not until he transfers out that Chris Mankowski really begins juggling with dynamite. Rape and revenge are just the tip of the iceberg in a twisty tale that brings Los Angeles denizens to life - and occasional death - in all their seedy glory, circa 1974.
UNTITLED MERENDINO/HAMMER HORROR PICTURE (THE BITCH)
THREE FOR THE ROAD - Three for the Road” is an R-rated buddy comedy in the vein of Todd Philips THE HANGOVER and ROAD TRIP, and Judd Apatow’s SUPERBAD and KNOCKED UP. When 30 year-old Jack is dumped at his “Star Wars”-themed wedding for being “too immature”, things seem as bleak as they did at the end of “Empire Strikes Back”. His best friend since forever, Ben decides the only way to cheer him up is to invite Jack on the cross-country trip that he and his own fiancé have been planning for the last few months.
Rank. Movie Title (Dist.)
Weekend Gross | Total Gross
1. Inception
(WB)
$43.5 million | $143.6 million
2. Salt
(Sony)
$36.5 million | $36.5 million
3. Despicable Me (Universal)
$24.1 million | $161.7 million
4. The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Buena Vista)
$9.6 million | $42.6 million
5. Toy Story 3 (Buena Vista)
$9 million | $379.5 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.
'Nightmare' Wakes Up in Top Spot
- Burning through one of the most front-loaded opening weekends on record, A
Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) boiled atop the box office with an estimated $32.2 million on approximately 4,700 screens at 3,332 sites. Beneath Freddy's
latest resurrection, Furry Vengeance got razed in its debut, but the
holdovers couldn't pick up enough slack for an up weekend: overall business was down around 11 percent from the late April weekend last year.
Film industry reels in new residents - They are the pioneers, the first wave of people moving to Michigan to make
movies, TV shows and video games. If the state has a shot at becoming Hollywood North, they want to play a leading role.
These actors, set builders, location managers and other creative types are filling a critical void in Michigan. Its fledgling entertainment industry needs experienced
workers.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm reports film industry movie tax credit to cost millions more in '10 - As part of the budget process, Gov. Jennifer Granholm every year submits to the state legislature a report entitled the Appendix on Tax Credits, Deductions, and Exemptions, which details all of the various tax breaks, deductions, exemptions and credits given by the state and adds up the revenue lost due to such grants.
Moviegoers fall for 'Valentine's Day' - Moviegoers took "Valentine's Day" to heart this year -- and then some.
Warner Bros.' romantic ensemble turned in a whopping four-day estimate of $66.9 million at 3,665 locations to become the all-time highest-grossing film over Presidents Day weekend, beating Sony's "Ghost Rider," which took $52 million when it bowed in 2007.
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.
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. 
