All AFM articles – Page 122
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Lightning dives into Prodigy's The Reef
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has acquired worldwiderights excluding Australia and New Zealand to Prodigy Movies' survivalthriller The Reef.Lightning co-presidents Rich Goldberg and Richard Guardian are takingtheir first executive producers on Andrew Traucki's tale of a group ofholidaymakers in Australia who are terrorised by a giant shark aftertheir boat capsizes. Principal ...
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Stormare doubles up with Gnomes and Trolls
Swedish actor Peter Stormare (Fargo, Bad Boys II) is to voice a schizophrenic hedgehog in NonStop Sales' Gnomes AndTrolls The Secret Chamber. The versatile Stormare is then to voice acompletely different role, that of Leif The Gnome King, in the sequel.'The hedgehog will be not be part of number two,' ...
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Stallone reunites with Nu Image/Millennium for Expendables
Following their successful collaboration on the global hit Rambo, Sylvester Stallone and Nu Image/Millennium Films are reuniting on action thriller The Expendables. Stallone wrote and will direct and star alongside Jason Statham with Jet Li in final negotiations to join the story of mercenaries who embark on a ...
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Miranda Richardson to narrate Turtle's Incredible Journey
Long-gestating wildlife feature documentary The Turtle's Song, on Sola Media's slate here, has been given a name change and has recruited Miranda Richardson as narrator.The film will now be known as The Turtle's Incredible Journey. It should finally be ready in time for the Berlinale in February.Just prior to the ...
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M-Line pre-sells Kitchen to Japan's Showgate
New Korean sales outfit M-Line has pre-sold romantic drama Kitchen to Showgate for Japan.The $1.2m film is due for a February 2009 release in Korea. Starring Ju Ji-hun, from the pan-Asian TV series Princess Hour, the film follows members of a suicide club who end up in a gruesome survival ...
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Mirovision, M to partner on Youth Is Reckless
Korea's Mirovision is partnering with M Production to produce Youth IsReckless, by Lee Myung-se, the director of the visual extravaganza M,martial arts mystery Duelists, and crime action film Nowhere To Hide.Youth Is Reckless is based on the Book of Five Rings, a classic samuraitreatise by Miyamoto Musashi, which Lee was ...
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CJ sells Bong Joon Ho's Mother to Bitters End for Japan
CJ Entertainment has sold The Host director Bong Joon Ho’s upcoming Mother to Bitters End for Japan.The $6m thriller is aiming for Cannes and a June 2009 release. Hot interest from Japanese buyers got the film a significant pre-sales price, according to CJ. The film stars young, popular actor Won ...
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Winther to direct Arclight's Speed Demon
Peter Winther has signed to direct Arclight's creature feature Speed Demon, set to begin principal photography next spring and dedicated to the late Oscar-winning effects guru Stan Winston.Special effects creature designer Patrick Tatopoulos, whose credits include I Am Legend and 10,000 BC, will bring to life the last designs developed ...
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Intandem signs on for $25m supernatural thriller Mortis Rex
UK-based Intandem Films has taken on world rights for and will executive produce supernatural action thriller Mortis Rex.The film will mark the directorial debut of Peter Briggs, who was one of the writers on Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy and has been a writer-for-hire for studio films.The $25m project will shoot ...
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Filmax takes on sales for Agustin Diaz Yanes' Just Walking
Filmax International has picked up the international sales rights to Agustin Diaz Yanes' Just Walking (Solo Quiero Caminar) and will commence sales at AFM.The Alatriste director's latest film about three brave women who take on a group of Mexican drug traffickers has an impressive cast list that includes Diego Luna, ...
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High Point strikes North American deal with BFS for The Race
High Point Films is kicking off AFM with a North American pre-sale for its new family feature The Race. BFS Entertainment has pre-bought all North American rights. Colm Meaney, Susan Lynch and Niamh McGirr star in the story of the young daughter of poor farmers who dreams of becoming a ...
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Fortissimo announces pre-market sales on Gigantic, Food Inc
Fortissimo Films today announced a raft of pre-market sales to major territories, including Matt Aselton's Gigantic starring Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel to BIM Distribuzione for Italy. Robert Kenner's food industry expose, Food, Inc. which saw its international premiere at Toronto, was picked up by Svensk Filmindustri for Scandinavia, United ...
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Echo Bridge boards Baltasar Kormakur-directed thriller Inhale
Echo Bridge Entertainment has picked up international rights from 26 Films to Baltasar Kormakur's new Engish-language thriller Inhale and will commence pre-sales this week at AFM.Production just wrapped on the story starring Dermot Mulroney as a rising LA District Attorney who gets involved with a Mexican criminal medical ring in ...
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Goalpost starts sales on Jean Charles de Menezes story Brazuca
Brazuca, the Jean Charles de Menezes project formerly known as Leave To Remain or Jean Charles, has finished principal photography after shooting in both the UK and Brazil.UK-based Goalpost Film is launching international sales here at the AFM, and Imagem Group will handle Latin American sales. The film will be ...
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Entertainment takes five pack for UK from The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has sold a five-picture package to the UK's Entertainment Film Distributors, marking the first time that Nigel and Trevor Green have done business with Harvey and Bob Weinstein.The move follows the closure of former Entertainment supplier New Line International. The package contains Stephen Daldry's drama The ...
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La Fabrique De Films launches NY sales outfit for low-budget films
In a bold move underlining the growing market appetite for competitively priced genre fare, French independent distributor La Fabrique De Films is setting up its own sales outfit Overlook Entertainment, devoted to lower budget horror and cult comedies in English and foreign language.The aim is for Overlook, which will be ...
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Relativity Media lines up output deals in nine key territories
Ryan Kavanaugh has slotted the latest pieces into Relativity Media's single-picture international distribution jigsaw after announcing its first tentative steps at Cannes.The company has signed multi-year output deals with nine key buyers as it attempts to fill the vacuum left by the demise of New Line International.Relativity has signed output ...
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AFM Briefs Nov 5
Diffusion Pictures has acquired all UK rights from Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's Visit Films to the drama Momma's Man following its London Film Festival screenings.The film premiered at Sundance and tells of a man who visits his parents' loft apartment in Manhattan on a business trip and decides not ...
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Wide's Ex-Drummer goes to Mongrel Media
Koen Mortier's controversial Ex-Drummer, the Flemish film about an abrasiverock band formed by disabled musicians, has been snapped up by Mongrel Media for Canada. The film is sold by Loic Magneron's Paris-based Wide Management.Wide Management arrives in Santa Monica with a bulging slate headlined byVolker Schlondörff's Gigola, starring Asia Argento. ...
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Cast lines up for Mario Van Peebles' thriller Kerosene Cowboys
Cam Gigandet, Shane West, Rachael Leigh Cook and Troy Garity havejoined the cast of Svarog-Afterburner Films' upcoming action thrillerKerosene Cowboys.Offers are out to Richard Dreyfus and Val Kilmer to round out the full cast, which includes Jason Gray-Standford, Jacob Vargas and J C Chasez.Mario Van Peebles will direct from a ...