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    Sony stumps up $2m for domestic rights to Black Dynamite

    2009-01-19T21:46:00Z

    Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquistions Group has paid what is believed to be in the region of $2m for all North American rights to Scott Sanders' blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite.The division and Black Dynamite's sales agent Endeavor Independent finally closed the festival's first all-night negotiation at about 6am today [January 19] ...

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    Seven Pounds claims international crown with $19.8m take

    2009-01-19T03:04:00Z

    Will Smith was the number one Hollywood attraction overseas at the weekend as Seven Pounds grossed an estimated $19.8m from 3,502 screens in 25 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International and has now reached $40.8m.Warner Bros Pictures International had not reported estimates on its wide launch of Bollywood title Chandni ...

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    Sony's Paul Blart a smash at powerful domestic holiday weekend

    2009-01-19T02:53:00Z

    Sony's comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop starring Kevin James in his first solo lead role shunted Warner Bros' Gran Torino into second place as it stormed to the top on an impressive $33.8m estimated launch.The PG-rated comedy is expected to reach $40m by the end of the Martin Luther King ...

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    Film Sharks takes on international sales to Tear This Heart Out

    2009-01-19T02:47:00Z

    Guido Rud's Argentina-based Film Sharks International has picked up sales rights outside Latin America to Roberto Sneider's Tear This Heart Out (Arrancame La Vida) which is on the shortlist of nine films for this year's best foreign language film Oscar.The film, which has drawn over two million admissions in Mexico ...

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    Visit Films buys worldwide rights to Kimjongilia, Little Drizzle

    2009-01-18T07:39:00Z

    New York-based sales company Visit Films has bulked up its already busy Sundance slate by acquiring worldwide rights to NC Heikin's World Cinema Documentary Competition entry Kimjongilia and David Russo's Spectrum screener The Immaculate Conception Of Little Drizzle.Kimjongilia gets its world premiere here on Sunday [January 18] and examines life ...

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    Senator takes Brooklyn's Finest in first Sundance domestic deal

    2009-01-18T07:33:00Z

    In the first North American deal of Sundance 2009 Senator Distribution swooped on Antoine Fuqua's New York crime drama Brooklyn's Finest, paying more than $3m plus a substantial P&A commitment.Senator president Mark Urman made an initial offer after the film's world premiere here on Friday night and finally sealed the ...

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    Eric Kops lands at ID as svp overseeing agency's entertainment team

    2009-01-18T07:29:00Z

    ID has hired Eric Kops as senior vice president overseeing the agency's entertainment team.Kops will expand ID's film department with additional film release and award campaigns, festival support and production companies. He will also represent a slate of film-makers.The veteran executive has previously served as executive vice president of MGM ...

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    CMG takes on martial arts action feature Blood & Bone

    2009-01-17T20:46:00Z

    Ed Noeltner's Cinema Management Group has taken on international rights to Remarkable Films' just completed martial arts feature Blood & Bone and will introduce the film to buyers at EFM next month.Martial artist Michael Jai White, starring in the Sundance premiere Black Dynamite, leads the key cast along with Julian ...

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    Marc Erlbaum launches Jewish production company Nationlight

    2009-01-17T06:34:00Z

    Film-maker and social activist Marc Erlbaum has announced the launch of Jewish production company Nationlight Productions with the mission of producing positive content for mainstream audiences.Nationlight is supported by a team of experienced Jewish entertainment professionals and the company's advisory board includes Michael Helfant, who served as executive producer on ...

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    E1 Films Canada picks up Sundance competitor Cold Souls

    2009-01-17T06:31:00Z

    Canadian distributor E1 Films has acquired writer-director Sophie Barthes' Sundance US dramatic competitor Cold Souls. Although the film is represented at Sundance by E1's head of international sales Charlotte Mickie, the Canadian rights were acquired from Cinetic Media. John Hamilton and Richard Rapkowski negotiated on behalf of E1. The film ...

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    TLA Releasing hires Derek Curl as head of production and development

    2009-01-17T06:27:00Z

    TLA Releasing has named Derek Curl as head of production and development in association with Curl's New York-based company Caveat Films.The North American and UK-based distributor will produce six original gay films for 2009 across all genres. TLA Releasing and Caveat Films will also produce two gay short film compilations ...

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    Lightning closes multiple deals on La Linea, Trailer Park Of Terror

    2009-01-17T06:21:00Z

    Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has closed key sales on a slew of titles including the crime drama La Linea and horror tale Trailer Park Of Terror.Rights to La Linea have sold to All-Interactive (Australia and New Zealand), Telepool (Germany), Film Depot (Russia), CCV (Scandinavia), Ster-Kinekor (South ...

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    Elle Driver takes international rights to Wintour doc at Sundance

    2009-01-17T06:16:00Z

    Elle Driver takes international rights to The September Issue.

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    Dion, Oakes promoted in development roles at Bold Films

    2009-01-16T12:00:00Z

    Garrick Dion has been promoted to senior vice president of development at Bold Films while Jon Oakes is promoted to vice president of development at Gary Michael Walters and David Lancaster's Los Angeles-based company.Rounding out the development team is creative executive Naia Cucukov. The promotions reflect the continued growth of ...

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    Shoreline picks up worldwide rights to Dada's Dance

    2009-01-16T03:24:00Z

    Shoreline Entertainment has swooped on another Sundance title as the festival got ready to kick off last night [January 15], taking worldwide rights to Zhang Yuan's Chinese drama Dada's Dance.Shoreline's director of acquisitions Brandon Paine and director of worldwide distribution Sam Eigen signed the deal with Yuan, adding to the ...

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    Profile:RandallMiller's Consolidated Picture Group

    2009-01-16T03:19:00Z

    Randall Miller, who directed the 2008 Sundance entry Bottle Shock, returns to Park City in a different guise as president of acquisitions and film development at the new distributor Consolidated Pictures Group.Backed by equity investors, the company was set up after Miller and his producing partner Jody Savin were approached ...

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    HBO buys US TV rights to Magic Hour's Sundance doc Burma VJ

    2009-01-15T22:49:00Z

    As Sundance 2009 prepared to roll into action tonight (January 15) Submarine Entertainment and First Hand Films announced they had closed a deal with HBO for US television rights to Magic Hour Films’ documentaryBurma VJ.Submarine’s Josh Braun and Esther van Messel of First Hand Films brokered the deal with HBO ...

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    WBPI exports Indian actioner Chandni Chowk to 35 markets

    2009-01-15T19:51:00Z

    Warner Bros Pictures International opens the Bollywood kung-fu comedy Chandni Chowk To China day-and-date with North America in more than 35 markets on January 16 as part of a 40-territory release.Chandni Chowk To China will open on more than 125 screens in the US and Canada, making it the biggest ...

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    Samuel Goldwyn Films takes US rights to Brothers At War

    2009-01-15T19:41:00Z

    Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights from to Jake Rademacher's documentary and festival winner Brothers At War.Rademacher produced the film with Norman S Powell about his two brothers who are US Army soldiers and have collectively served seven tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gary Sinise and Dave Scantling served ...

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    Vietnamese American film-makers launch new US distribution company

    2009-01-15T19:34:00Z

    Timothy Linh Bui, Stephane Gauger, Ham Tran and Wyn Tran's newly launched distributor Wave Releasing targeting Vietnamese-American and discerning independent audiences and will roll out its maiden title Owl And The Sparrow on January 16.The Vietnamese-American partners have worked in various capacities on each other's projects and were inspired to ...