All Screen articles in 7 November 2006 – Page 8
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IFTA says AFM attendance breaks records
Hailing 'the biggestAFM yet', the Independent Film and Television Alliance top brass welcomeda record 435 exhibitors from 36 countries and projected a best-ever 8,400attendees from 65 countries compared to 8,014 last year.Organisers have scheduled592 screenings rising from 534 last year, and 431 market premieres compared to382. Both are records.Numerous internationaldelegations ...
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A-Film taps Erik Engelen for Belgium office
Ambitious Dutch distributionoutfit A-Film is continuing to ramp up. Here in Santa Monica, company CEO PimHermeling has announced that former Paradiso executive Erik Engelen is to runthe company's new Belgian arm from the offices in Antwerp.Hermeling also revealed thatA-Film is looking to set up a production fund. The idea, he ...
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Magnolia seals Dynamite deal on Thai actioner
In the first domestic deal of the market, Magnolia Pictures has closed on North American rightsto Thai action adventure Dynamite Warrior (Tabunfire), starringThailand's latest action export Dan Chupong.Sahamongkolfilm producedand is selling the high-octane title, from the team behind Ong Bak - producer Prachya Pinkaew and actionchoreographer Panna Rittikrai.Directed by ChalermWongphim, ...
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Pretty Pictures acquires Crossing The Line
France's Pretty Pictures hasacquired documentary Crossing The Line, about the last American defector still living in North Korea, whichrecently received its world premiere at the Pusan International Film Festival. Directed and producedby Daniel Gordon, the film tells the story of Comrade Joe - akaVirginia-born James Joseph Dresnok - a US ...
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Media 8 picks up One Night With The King
Media 8 Entertainment has acquired international rights toGener8Xion Entertainment's Biblical drama One Night With The King.The Los Angeles-based sales agency has scheduled screenings at AFMof Michael O Sajbel's tale, which opened in the top 10 in North America lastmonth and has grossed more than $10m.One Night With The King centres ...
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3DD signs deals with Hidden Treasures and Koch
3DD Entertainment has signedexclusive distribution deals with Hidden Treasures Productions and KochEntertainment.The deal with HiddenTreasures covers worldwide DVD rights (excluding North America) to two-partdocumentary Secrets Of The Occult,about ancient and modern claims of the occult. The deal with Koch is forall rights, excluding North American DVD rights, to the 1980s ...
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New $20m equity fund deals with Regent MB
The new US equity fundMotion Picture Fund of America has raised its first $20m and signed a 12-film,three-year deal with financier, producer and distributor Regent MB of BeverlyHills and Munich.MPFA head Pete Maggi andco-manager Gino Dileo struck the deal with Regent co-presidents JeanetteBuerling and Maggie Monteith.The companies willco-finance four films ...
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McAuley joins Paramount Home Entertainment UK
Charlie McAuley has beenappointed managing director for Paramount Home Entertainment UK and Ireland.Based in London, he will oversee marketing, sales and distribution in thoseterritories and will report to Don Hunton, senior vice president of Paramount HomeEntertainment, Asia Pacific, UK and Ireland.McAuley previously worked atUniversal Pictures International where he served as ...
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Don Letts signs development deal with Fremantle
UK director Don Letts hassigned a first-look development deal with FremantleMedia Enterprises, toprimarily develop music and pop culture documentaries. Fremantle gets the rightsto develop and exploit Letts' ideas across its TV, home entertainment andancillary businesses. The deal was brokered by Pete Kalhan, the company'ssenior vice president, home entertainment & archive ...
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Torres to direct Sense & Sensibilidad for Camelot, Odd Lot
Fina Torres will direct a Latino version of Jane Austen's SenseAnd Sensibility entitledSense And Sensibilidad forCamelot Pictures and Odd Lot Entertainment.Torres co-wrote with Luis Alfaro the screenplay to the LosAngeles-set tale, which is being produced by Camelot principal Gary Gilbert andOdd Lot founders Deborah Del Prete and Gigi Priztker.'Fina and ...
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Cruise, Wagner team with MGM to revive United Artists
In a deal intended to capture the spirit of Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and D W Griffith, Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner are reviving the United Artists (UA) label with MGM. Nine weeks after Cruise Wagner parted company with Paramount Pictures, the producing partners have bounced back with ...
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Lampert and Mazgedian Anna take top roles at Village Roadshow Pictures
Village Roadshow Pictures has named Jeffrey Lampert executive vice president of worldwide feature production and Melissa Mazgedian Anna senior vice-president of worldwide distribution and marketing.Lampert will report to Village Roadshow Pictures Entertainment (VRPE)president of production Dana Goldberg.She will oversee a slate that includes the upcoming Music And Lyrics starring Hugh ...
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Ewan McGregor on board for HanWay's Franklyn
Ewan McGregor will star inGerald McMorrow's Franklyn, whichwill shoot on location in the UK in summer 2007. UK stalwart Jeremy Thomas isproducing McMorrow's feature film debut based on his original screenplay. Thestory is about four lost souls in a futuristic London society where there is noseparation between church and state. ...
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GreeneStreet's Veneziano moves to LA office
GreeneStreet FilmsInternational (GSFI) president Ariel Veneziano has moved to Los Angeles to joinGreeneStreet Films (GSF) partner Tim Williams in the new West Coast office.Veneziano will head up GSFIoperations and oversee its acquisitions activities. He will seek growthopportunities and increase the volume of GSF third-party acquisitions, whilebroadening GSFI's slate by finding ...
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QED takes on sales for The Girl In The Park
Bill Block's BeverlyHills-based sales company QED International has added psychological thriller TheGirl In The Park to its AFM slate.Keri Russell, AlessandroNivola and Elias Koteas have joined Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth onthe project, which is set to begin principal photography in New York onNov 13.Sean Furst, Bryan Furst and Chip ...
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HanWay takes on sales for Winterbottom's Genova
HanWay Films has acquired worldwide rights outsidethe UK for Michael Winterbottom's forthcoming Genova,which now has Colin Firth attached to star.Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton's London-basedproduction company Revolution Films is producing with co-financing from Film4(which holds UK rights). Winterbottom will shoot the project in spring 2007 onlocation in Italy with post-production will ...
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Scorsese's Stones doc goes to Paramount, Fortissimo
The long-gestating RollingStones documentary, which Martin Scorsese recently joined as director, hasstarted shooting in New York with Paramount Pictures on board as domesticdistributor and Fortissimo Films handling international rights.Scorsese, hot off thebiggest box office hit of his career in The Departed, is working with an award-winning camera team tocapture The ...
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High Point takes on sales for Tom Collins' Kings
High Point Films has takenon international sales for Tom Collins' Kings, the big-screen adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play TheKings Of The Kilburn High Road.The project stars ColmMeaney in the story of a group of Irish men who emigrated to London but returnto their hometown after 25 years for a friend's ...
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Lightning gets rights to Weitz's college comedy
LA-based sales agencyLightning Entertainment has picked up international rights to VulcanProductions' college comedy Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas produced by the Weitz Brothers.Bickford marks the directorial and writing debut of Scott Lewand stars Patrick Fugit as a nerd who is forced to venture into the outsideworld after his book of cool ...
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Wild Bunch boards new films from Macdonald, Roeg, Gordon Green
Ever-aggressive Frenchoutfit Wild Bunch has added new films by Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald, veteranBritish auteur Nicolas Roeg, US indie darling David Gordon Green and Frenchmaster Alain Corneau to its AFM slate.Macdonald's new featuredocumentary My Enemy's Enemy,which follows his dramatic debut The Last King Of Scotland, promises to be especially controversial. It ...