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Lionsgate announced Monday it has acquired the North American distribution rights to the Sundance Film Festival hit Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire. Directed by Lee Daniels, the movie won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, becoming only the third film in Sundance Film Festival history to do so. Cast member Mo'Nique was also honored with a Special Jury Prize for acting. Her co-stars include Gabourey Gabby Sidibe, as well as Paula Patton, Mariah...

OPRAH WINFREY AND TYLER PERRY ALIGN WITH LIONSGATE(R) IN AN UNPRECEDENTED PARTNERSHIP Studio Acquires North American Distribution Rights From Smokewood Entertainment Group And Reunites With Academy Award(R) Winning Monster's Ball Producer Daniels SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LIONSGATE(R) (NYSE: LGF), a leading next generation studio, announced today that it has acquired North American distribution rights to 2009 Sundance Film Festival sensation PUSH: BASED ON...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of the best Florida nonprofits successfully addressing health care disparities across the state, The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida, the philanthropic affiliate of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF), today announced its 2008 Sapphire Award honorees at a ceremony in Orlando. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050112/NEW019LOGO ) The Sapphire Award is the only Florida statewide award that...

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Sapphire Energy took another step closer to bringing Green Crude Production to commercial scale today by announcing it has raised substantial additional financing from existing and new investors. Sapphire Energy's Series B round of investment brings the company's total funding to substantially more than $100 million, and Sapphire is now financed to scale up its production facilities to full commercial feasibility. Sapphire anticipates relying on existing...

By Brook Stockberger, Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M. Aug. 3--LAS CRUCES --The word "algae" might cause you to wrinkle your nose as you picture a green mass floating on a pond but these organisms may one day be used to fuel your vehicle. Some types of algae are composed of about 50 percent oil. That oil can be extracted and turned into fuel -- sulfur free. And Las Cruces could be at the forefront in the development of this energy. Southern New Mexico and the El Paso area have drawn interest...

By MICK ELMORE BANGKOK, Thailand - The rich red hue of Myanmar's prized rubies is a reminder to many gem dealers of the military government's bloody crackdown on democracy advocates, and talk of a boycott is increasing. "There is a growing awareness that it is a fascist regime," said Brian Leber, a third generation American gem dealer. "Considering what this regime has done to its own people, we're troubled to see that a precious stone is offering such a great source of cash...

Technologies and Devices International, Inc., a privately held Maryland corporation (TDI), today announced a significant step in the development of advanced substrate materials for high brightness, high efficiency GaN-based light emitting diodes (LEDs) by demonstrating a new product prototype of 2-inch nonpolar a-plane GaN substrates. Novel 2-inch diameter a-plane GaN-on-sapphire substrates will be featured at the 7th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors in Las Vegas, from...

Washington, D.C., October 18, 2005 "“ Preliminary three-year data from the SAPPHIRE and final three-year data from the U.S. Carotid Feasibility Study (USFS) presented at the 2005 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting, demonstrate the long-term durability of carotid artery stenting (CAS) for the prevention of stroke versus carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in high risk surgical patients. Three hundred thirty-four patients in the SAPPHIRE trial were randomized to either CAS or CEA....