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Sony Pictures Classics acquires US rights to Whatever Works
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US rights from Wild Bunch to Woody Allen's Whatever Works, the director's first feature shot in New York since 2004's Melinda And Melinda. Ed Begley Jr stars in the romantic comedy alongside Patricia Clarkson, Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood. Sony ...
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Film Movement picks up Shane Meadows' Somers Town for US
Film Movement has taken US rights from The Works to Shane Meadows' comedy Somers Town and will release in theatres in July.Thomas Turgoose, the breakout star of Meadow's 2006 drama This Is England, and Piotr Jagiello play a pair of teenager newcomers in London who become firm friends one hot ...
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A Woman In Berlin, Skin win top prizes at Santa Barbara
Max Farberbock's second world war survival tale A Woman In Berlin was named best international film at the 24th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which came to a close at the weekend [February 1].The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema went to Poppy Shakespeare, Benjamin Ross' account of friendship ...
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Hurt Locker, Adventureland, Passing Strange join lineup at SXSW
Kathryn Bigelow's bomb disposal thriller The Hurt Locker, Greg Mottola's comedy Adventureland and Spike Lee's Broadway musical adaptation Passing Strange have joined the line-up at the South By Southwest Film Conference And Festival, set to run in Austin, Texas, from March 13-21.The full roster of 108 features and 54 world ...
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Boyle is DGA's top film winner as Slumdog races towards Oscar victory
Danny Boyle won the Directors Guild Of America's top prize for Slumdog Millionaire at the weekend [Jan 31], further bolstering the film's prospects for top Oscars come February 22.Boyle in particular looks a strong bet to claim the best director Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards - in the ...
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EuropaCorp's Taken tops domestic box office through Fox
Liam Neeson as a vengeful former CIA agent who goes after his daughter's kidnappers in Taken was the top film of the weekend after Fox launched the EuropaCorp thriller on $24.6m.Meanwhile Sony's highly successful Kevin James comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop slipped to second place in its third weekend on ...
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Valkyrie tops international with $18.6m, while Button, Road are strong
MGM/UA's Valkyrie held on to the mantle of top Hollywood film overseas thanks to an estimated $18.6m haul from approximately 3,900 screens in 26 markets that boosted the running total through Fox International to $38.9m.The three-day weekend was led by a quartet of number one launches that delivered $2.8m from ...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films takes US rights to Cold Souls
Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up US rights to Cold Souls, Sophie Barthes feature debut which recently played in US dramatic competition at Sundance. The film stars Paul Giamatti alongside David Strathairn, Emily Watson and Lauren Ambrose.Goldwyn is planning a late summer release for the comedy in which Giamatti plays ...
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Anchor Bay picks up US, UK and Australia to Not Forgotten
Just days after Anchor Bay Films announced it had picked up North American rights to David Mackenzie's Sundance premiere Spread, the company has sealed another deal, this time picking up rights in the US, UK and Australia to Dror Soref's thriller Not Forgotten from Myriad Pictures.Not Forgotten, which stars Simon ...
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Maple acquires Canadian rights to Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
Toronto-based distributor Maple Pictures has acquired all Canadian rights to director Rebecca Miller's upcoming Berlin title The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee. The film's ensemble cast features Robin Wright Penn in the title role, along with Keanu Reeves, Blake Lively, Alan Arkin, Julianne Moore, Winona Ryder and Monica Bellucci.Adapted by ...
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Arthouse takes North America on Sundance doc William Kunstler
Arthouse Films has acquired all North American rights to Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler's William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe following its recent world premiere in the US Documentary Competition at Sundance.David Koh and Lilly Bright negotiated the deal on behalf of Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment with Josh Braun ...
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Valkyrie adds 13 new territories including Russia, Spain, Sweden
Valkyrie infiltrates 13 further markets through Fox International this weekend including Belgium on January 28, Russia on January 29 and Spain and Sweden a day later.The second world war thriller has started to build up momentum overseas and to date has amassed more than $18.8m through Fox International and a ...
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Summit arrives at EFM with Furry Vengeance, Next Day Air
Summit International arrives at EFM with the $50m family adventure Furry Vengeance starring Brendan Fraser and urban comedy caper Next Day Air starring Mos Def and Mike Epps.Summit Entertainment plans a 2010 North American release on Furry Vengeance, in which Fraser plays a conniving developer whose cruel intentions meet with ...
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Myriad takes on international rights to McGehee/Siegel drama
Kirk D'Amico's Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Myriad Pictures has acquired all international rights to the action drama Uncertainty starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins.Myriad will screen the film and commence sales at EFM next week after Myriad's Luiza Ricupero negotiated the deal with Christine Kim of Cinetic. ...
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins Swank in Hammer's The Resident
Watchmen star Jeffrey Dean Morgan has joined Hilary Swank in Hammer Films' thriller The Resident, which will be available at next week's EFM in Berlin.Hammer will produce for parent company Exclusive Media Group, the global company that combines Hammer and Los Angeles-based Spitfire Pictures and is backed by strategic investment ...
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Rossi, Mori hired by Paramount in acquisitions group
Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions Group (PWAG) has appointed Alexandra Rossi to vice president of the group in London and Mineko Mori to director of the group in Mexico City.The group was set up in July 2008 as Paramount's centralised acquisitions and local co-production division servicing Paramount Pictures International and its territories ...
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Amanda Seyfried takes the lead in A Woman Of No Importance
Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried has signed on for the leading role of Hester Worley in Myriad Pictures' Oscar Wilde adaptation A Woman Of No Importance.Bruce Beresford is directing and Donald Zuckerman producing, with Myriad president and CEO Kirk D'Amico serving as executive producer.Annette Bening and Sean Bean also star ...
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Suso D'Amico to receive first WGAW Jean Renoir Award for screenwriting
Italian screenwriter Suso D'Amico will receive the inaugural Writers Guild Of America West's Jean Renoir Award for screenwriting achievement.D'Amico is credited with writing more than 100 films including The Bicycle Thief, Rocco And His Brothers and Big Deal On Madonna Street.The lifetime achievement award will be given on an occasional ...
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Fortissimo to start pre-sales at EFM on Todd Solondz's Forgiveness
Fortissimo Films has confirmed that it has acquired international rights from Werc Werk Works to Todd Solondz's Forgiveness and will commence pre-sales at EFM next month on the loose sequel to the director's 1998 dark comedy Happiness.Fortissimo has always been connected to the project but the film has undergone several ...
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