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Darwin evolving at Icon
Icon EntertainmentInternational is understood to be taking sales duties on The Darwin Awards, a romantic comedy starring Winona Ryder and JosephFiennes.Written and to bedirected by Finn Taylor, the film tells the story of a detective (Fiennes) andan insurance claims investigator (Ryder) looking into a potential winner of theDarwin Award, an ...
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Content partners with US distributor Image
US-UK operation ContentFilmand US DVD company Image Entertainment have struck a long-term co-productionand distribution deal.Under the agreement, Contentwill source and produce a series of films that Image will distribute in theNorth American video market under a new ContentFilm label.Content's sales arm, ContentInternational, will handle worldwide sales on the films, which ...
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It's all gone UK, US for Pete Tong
Rapidly building areputation for its innovative approach to commercially-oriented low-budget filmmaking,the UK's Vertigo Films has secured suitably unusual UK and US distributiondeals for its Toronto title It's All Gone Pete Tong.Vertigo has partnered withdistributor Redbus in the UK for a hefty 300-screen release next April. The twocompanies will collaborate on ...
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Stiles cast opposite Butler in Content International's Burns
Julia Stiles is to playRobert Burns' muse in Burns,ContentFilm International's story of the legendary Scottish poet.The US actress, whosecredits include The Bourne Supremacy and Mona Lisa Smile, willplay Jean Armour, the woman that the roistering 18th century bardeventually married.The cast includes GerardButler as Burns and Brian Cox, John Hannah, James ...
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Moviehouse debuts four new titles led by Blinded
Blinded, a thriller starring acclaimed UK actor PeterMullan, heads a quartet of new titles that London-based MoviehouseEntertainment is screening as market premieres at the AFM.Blinded, which played in the British Gala section of theEdinburgh International Film Festival, is billed as exploring the darker sideof jealousy, passion and sexual desire. It ...
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Artists Independent Films launches sales op with Malkovich, Cronenberg pics
John Malkovich,Nastassja Kinski and David Cronenberg are involved in projects lined up forIndependent Film Sales, the new sales division of production operation Artists Independent Films (AIF).Malkovich andKinski, clients of sister management business Artists Independent Management(AIM), are to star The Holy Beast. Erich Breuer is directing the gothic horror from his ...
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AFM: Pathe International takes on IFC's American Gun
Pathe PicturesInternational is handling sales on IFC FilmsC; American Gun, starring Donald Sutherland, Marcia GayHarden and Forest Whitaker. IFC will distribute the film in North AmericaThe deal,announced by Pathe sales chief Alison Thompson and Jonathan Sehring, presidentof IFC Entertainment and executive producer on American Gun, marks a strengthening of the ...
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AFM: Pathe International takes on IFC's American Gun
Pathe PicturesInternational is handling sales on IFC Films' American Gun, starring Donald Sutherland, Marcia GayHarden and Forest Whitaker. IFC will distribute the film in North AmericaThe deal,announced by Pathe sales chief Alison Thompson and Jonathan Sehring, presidentof IFC Entertainment and executive producer on American Gun, marks a strengthening of the ...
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HanWay adds Morgen, Pepe, Fulton titles to slate
HanWay Films has acquired Addiction,Inc, a nicotine docu-drama from TheKid Stays In The Picture's BrettMorgen, and Brothers Of The Head, by Lost In La Mancha's Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton.Addiction, Inc usesreal-life footage and re-constructions to tell the story of Victor DeNoble, whodeveloped a cigarette with far less health risks ...
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ContentFilm takes on Water Giant rights
ContentFilm haspicked up international sales rights outside the US to Jim Henson partanimation Mee-Shee The Water Giant.Jamie Carmichael,head of the UK-based sales operation, announced he would be selling the $23mproduction in time for this week's AFM. Now in post, the film is producedby Rainer Mockert's MBP Medien and Barry Films, ...
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Kidman in talks with Aardman for Flushed Away
Nicole Kidman is in talks tostar in Flushed Away, the next title to roll out of the multi-pictureanimation deal between the UK's Aardman Animations and DreamWorks SKG.Kidman is likely to play astreet-smart sewer rat named Rita, with Hugh Jackman voicing Roddy, a posh ratwho is swept out of his penthouse ...
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Irish greyhound comedy races towards record book
Redbus Film Distribution'scomedy road movie Man About Dog iswell on its way to becoming one of the most successful Irishindependently-financed films ever.A hit at the Irishbox-office, the Paddy Breathnach-directed film is on course to go up 7% compared to last week.Redbus estimates it will pass the $1.8m (£1m) mark by ...
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Best Man joins The Works for AFM
Shooting Fish director Stefan Schwartz is directing The Best Man, a romantic comedy that is part of a trio of new filmson the AFM slate of UK-based sales agency The Works.Shooting has already startedon the story of a hapless best man who falls in love with the bride. Thepicture, which ...
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IAC announces AFM line-up
UK-based sales agent IAC Film has boarded four films including Leningrad, a WW2 story starring Mira Sorvino, Gabriel Byrne and Armin Mueller-Stahl.Sasha Buravsky is to direct the story of a young British female journalist during the Nazi blockade of Leningrad in 1941. Principal photography will start in January.Also joining ...
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UK tax fund, Foresight, pulls out of two projects
UK tax fund Foresight has had to pull out of Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy and FilmFour's quirky Brothers Of The Head, citing what it says is the latest problem to hit the UK financing sector.The fund has just bankrolled Terry Gilliam's Tideland but had to abandon the other two films ...
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Artificial sales estimates under spotlight
One of the UK filmindustry's nastiest open secrets - inflated sales estimates - was highlightedin Screen International's UK Film Finance Summit yesterday.The murky area was a keydiscussion point on a panel about financing middlemen headed by IAC Film'sMichael Ryan, who said that "disreputable agents are paid fees by producers toprovide ...
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Ealing Studios names new head of development
Ealing Studios has appointedSophie Meyer as head of development, head of studio Barnaby Thompson announcedtoday.Meyer will oversee thedevelopment slate for Ealing Studios and production company Fragile Films, andgenerate new material. Working with Thompson, she will push forward projectssuch as the studio's remake of StTrinians."I am delighted that Sophiehas joined the ...
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Eaton named UK Film Council deputy chairman
Producer Andrew Eaton hasbeen appointed deputy chairman of the UK Film Council, the most senior positiona member of the independent film business has held at the Government-backedsupport body.Eaton, director MichaelWinterbottom's regular producer, last made headlines this Cannes, when hissexually-explicit film Nine Songs outraged the UK's rightwing press. Hereplaces former UK ...
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Capitol Films names Crowe as head of sales
SimonCrowe, formerly head of sales at Icon Entertainment, is joining Capitol Filmsas head of sales.Aspart of the move, Eve Schoukroun has been promoted to senior sales manager.Crowe replaces Nicole Mackey, who joined Fortissimo Film Sales to spearhead itsLondon arm.Crowesaid that UK-based Capitol has established itself "as one of, if not ...
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BBC considers increasing film production investment
BBC director general MarkThompson has said the broadcaster needs to look at raising its investment inthe UK film industry.Thompson told an all-partyselect committee on Tuesday that the BBC would be willing to screen more UKfilms and less US fare. He added that the broadcaster should also look atboosting the $18m ...