All Screen articles in 1 Nov 2012 – Page 15
-
News
Universal dates Ice Cube comedy Ride Along
Universal Pictures will release the Kevin Hart and Ice Cube comedy on Jan 17, 2014.
-
News
Exclusive Media unveils pre-AFM sales on Tombstones
Alex Walton and the team have closed a raft of major territories on the upcoming Liam Neeson thriller A Walk Among The Tombstones led by a deal with Alliance Films for the UK, Canada and Spain. Universal holds US rights and production is set for February 2013 in New York ...
-
News
Image to release The Numbers Station in the US
The RLJ Entertainment subsidiary has acquired US rights from Content Media to the thriller starring John Cusack and Malin Akerman.
-
News
XLrator picks up US rights to Under The Bed
XLrator Media has acquired all US rights to the horror-thriller in a deal negotiated with Ehud Bleiberg, whose Compound B handles international sales at the AFM.
-
News
All Six Feet heads Vesuvio AFM slate
Vesuvio Entertainment has boarded sales rights for the drama about the relationship between music promoter “Punkin Pie” Irene Laughlin and actress Lana Clarkson, who died in Phil Spector’s mansion in 2003.
-
News
Sarah Jessica Parker boards comedy Mixtape
Aldamisa International commences sales at AFM on the music-driven coming-of-age story from Jim Wedaa Productions and Maven Pictures.
-
News
Vince Vaughan to star in, produce Triple Time
The comedian will star in Triple Time as a US Marshall who must race to solve a conspiracy when the plane he travels in with a prisoner explodes.
-
News
Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer to star in Elsa & Fred remake
Michael Radford will direct Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer in the English language remake of the Spanish-Argentinean hit Elsa & Fred.
-
News
The Global Media Group boards Chez Upshaw for AFM
The comedy stars Kevin Pollak and Ileana Douglas as a married couple who turn their ailing B&B into an assisted suicide business.
-
News
Production underway in Los Angeles on Electric Slide
Jim Sturgess and Isabel Lucas star in Electric Slide, which has commenced production in Los Angeles. The film is a Myriad Pictures presentation of a Killer Films Production in association with Media House Capital. Myriad is handling international sales at the AFM and will partner with UTA on US rights.
-
News
Madagascar 3 crosses $500m at international box office
Top brass at distributor Paramount Pictures International said the family smash is on course to overtake Shrek Forever After’s $513.9m mark to become DreamWorks Animation’s biggest hit outside North America.
-
News
Rainstorm fires up Duff McKagan biopic
Rainstorm Entertainment will produce It’s So Easy And Other Lies, based on the autobiography of Guns N’ Roses bass player Duff McKagan.
-
News
Drafthouse Films acquires US rights to The Act Of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer’s Danish documentary premiered at Telluride and Toronto and enlists former members of the Indonesian death squad to reenact their atrocities in a range of cinematic genres.
-
News
EuropaCorp and Belga Films sign three-year output deal
Wide-ranging deal also covers co-production, financing via the Belgian tax shelter and diversification into next generation multiplexes.
-
News
AFI FEST announces Presentations and Conversations
The Presentations comprise a restored version of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard on Saturday (3) and a chance to see finallists in the Levi’s Show Us The Way Short Film Showcase on Nov 7.
-
News
Doha Tribeca Film Festival announce Arab Film Competition jury and lineup
Fourth edition of the festival, which runs Nov 17-24, will also hold a special showcase of Algerian cinema.
-
News
SFFS unveils Kenneth Rainin finallists
Thirteen finalists have been announced in the eighth round of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation of the San Francisco Film Society.
-
News
Lionsgate seals French output deal with Metropolitan
The development follows other similar deals with StudioCanal in Germany, Nordisk in Scandinavia, Alliance network’s Aurum in Spain and Roadshow Pictures in Australia. The self-distribution partnership with IDC in Latin America was recently extended.
-
News
Rome reveal full international jury; add two new films to programme
Timur Bekmambetov [pictured], Chris Fujiwara among jurors at the seventh edition of festival which runs Nov 9-17.
-
Features
AFM buzz: UK sellers
High-profile titles include Imagine starring Al Pacino, Roger Michell’s new rom-com, and a Nelson Mandela biopic. Andreas Wiseman reports.