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    Wall-E, Panda, Bashir among 14 films on animated feature Oscar shortlist

    2008-11-11T02:38:00Z

    Fourteen features will vie for the animated feature Oscar when the 81st Academy Awards are announced on February 22.The contenders are Bolt, Delgo, Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who!, Dragon Hunters, Fly Me To The Moon, Igor, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, $9.99, The Sky Crawlers, Sword Of ...

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    O'Shaugnessy, Bond launch production & sales outfit Mission Pictures

    2008-11-11T01:28:00Z

    American Cinema International president Chevonne O'Shaughnessy and Promenade Pictures president and COO Cindy Bond have launched the faith-based production, marketing and sales company Mission Pictures.The partners plan to release six to eight films a year and have been talking to AFM buyers about the initial slate, headed by the CGI ...

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    Maya to produce American Tragic to star America Ferrara

    2008-11-11T01:26:00Z

    Maya Entertainment has boarded the drama American Tragic starring America Ferrera, Melissa Leo and newcomer Ryan O'Nan.Ryan Piers Williams will direct from his own screenplay about a disillusioned veteran who goes on a road trip in search of happiness. June Diane Raphael also stars. Production is set to begin in ...

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    First Independent takes US rights to Aselton's Gigantic

    2008-11-11T01:23:00Z

    Gary Rubin's First Independent Pictures has acquired US rights to Killer Films and Epoch Films' offbeat comedy Gigantic.Matt Aselton directed the film starring Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel as a mattress shop worker and his foul-mouthed girlfriend who try to adopt a baby. John Goodman, Ed Asner and Jane Alexander ...

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    Richard Jenkins joins Tatum, Seyfried in Relativity's Dear John

    2008-11-11T01:20:00Z

    Richard Jenkins, attracting Oscar buzz for his performance in The Visitor, has joined Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried on the cast of Relativity Media's romance Dear John.Lasse Hallstrom has started principal photography in South Carolina on the project based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, whose work has spawned the ...

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    Pindorama wins best film prize at Brazilian Film Festival Of Toronto

    2008-11-10T20:51:00Z

    Pindorama - The True Story of the Seven Dwarves, a documentary about a family of so-called little people who run a circus, won the prize for best film at the 2nd Brazilian Film Festival of Toronto last night. Directed by Roberto Berliner, Lula Queiroga and Leo Crivellare, the film will ...

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    Media Luna closes deal with Call Girl to Only Hearts in Japan

    2008-11-10T06:00:00Z

    Cologne-based Media Luna Entertainment has closed a Japanese deal onPortuguese drama Call Girl, a drama about a high class prostitute who is hired to seduce the local mayor.Only Hearts Co. Ltd has taken all Japanese rights to the film, which is directed by Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos and stars Soraia Chaves. Media ...

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    Siritzky gets science with Bogdanov twins

    2008-11-10T06:00:00Z

    Veteran producer/sales agent Alan Siritzky, owner of the Emmanuelle erotic franchise, is to partner with the controversial French twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanov, physicists best known for their popular TV series on science, on a feature documentary based on the brothers' 1991 best-seller God And Science (Dieu Et ...

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    Image takes US rights to Jennifer Aniston-starrer Management

    2008-11-10T06:00:00Z

    Image Entertainment has acquired US rights to the Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy Management following its world premiere at Toronto.Image plans to release the Sidney Kimmel Entertainment film on approximately 200 prints. Kimmel International pre-sold overseas rights.Sidney Kimmel, Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen produced and Aniston served as executive producer with ...

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    Buyers, sellers navigate perils at quiet AFM

    2008-11-10T06:00:00Z

    Caution has been the watchword of the AFM as buyers and sellers navigated a course through a perilous landscape in the wake of the global financial collapse.As the market headed into its final stages, only the bigger US sales agents were selling out as buyers sought to fill 2010 slots ...

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    Aspect strikes AFM deals, plans LA-based production partnership

    2008-11-10T06:00:00Z

    John P Aguirre's college comedy The Utopian Society starring Malin Akerman is already out on DVD in the US via Warner Bros and now Hugh Edwards' Aspect Film has closed new deals for Scandinavia (Scanbox), Romania (Globcom), and the Middle East (Front Row).Monty Lapica's festival hit Self Medicated, about out ...

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    A-Film takes Benelux rights on four-film package from HanWay

    2008-11-10T06:00:00Z

    Re-energised Dutch distributor A-Film has snapped up a four film package from London-based HanWay Films. The films acquired are Harry Brown starring Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer, Sam Taylor-Wood's Nowhere Boy about the young John Lennon, Christine Jeff's Sunshine Cleaning starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, and Jon Amiel's Charles ...

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    AFM Briefs Nov 10

    2008-11-10T06:00:00Z

    Scandinavian sales outfit TrustNordisk has announced deals closed here. Cold Prey II has gone to Indonesia (MT Entertainment) and Brazil (Flashstar). The Candidate has been sold to Indonesia (Mt Ent) and Poland (Syrena Films). Dark Floors has gone to Indonesia (MT Ent) and Love At First Hiccup has been swallowed ...

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    Madagascar 2 has powerful $63.5m opening in North America

    2008-11-10T00:28:00Z

    DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa dominated the North American landscape after launching in a super-wide 4,056 sites and grossing an estimated $63.5m through Paramount.Approximately 6% of that amount, accounting for roughly $3.6m, came from 130 North American IMAX screens, which IMAX chairman and president Greg Foster highlighted as a ...

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    Sensational Solace soars for SPRI with $106.5m weekend

    2008-11-10T00:08:00Z

    MGM's Quantum Of Solace left the overseas market shaken and stirred as it expanded into 60 markets and grossed a stunning $106.5m estimated weekend for $160.3m after ten days through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).Playing in 9,870 screens, the James Bond action saga ranked number one everywhere and scored the ...

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    Acne, Kassim take top prizes at AFI Fest

    2008-11-09T22:26:00Z

    AFI Fest 2008 has awarded its grand jury prize for best international feature to Federico Veiroj's Acne. A special mention went to Igor Voloshin's Nirvana.Acne premiered at Cannes Directors Fortnight. Veiroj's feature directorial debut, which he also wrote, is a co-production between Uruguay, Argentina, Spain and Mexico. The story follows ...

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    Sergei Bodrov to direct Marco Polo movie for Endgame, Hollywood Gang

    2008-11-09T21:45:00Z

    After bringing the life of the Asian warrior Genghis Khan to the big screen, Mongol director Sergei Bodrov is training his sights on Marco Polo for Hollywood Gang Productions and Endgame Entertainment.Hollywood Gang's Gianni Nunnari and Endgame's James D Stern will produce The Silk Road: The Adventures Of Marco Polo ...

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    Phillip Noyce makes Bold move with Above Suspicion

    2008-11-09T21:42:00Z

    Bold Films has signed Phillip Noyce to direct the true crime thriller Above Suspicion about the only FBI agent to be convicted of murder after an affair with an informant threatens to destroy his marriage and career.The LA-based company holds worldwide rights and worldwide distribution president Stephanie Denton is talking ...

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    Myriad Pictures signs output deals with Turkey, Portugal

    2008-11-09T21:28:00Z

    Kirk D'Amico's production and sales outfit Myriad Pictures has signed output deals with D Productions in Turkey and VC Multi-Media in Portugal.The first titles include Bruno Barreto's Brazilian foreign language Oscar entry Last Stop 174, the Simon Baker and Paz Vega thriller Not Forgotten, drama The Cry Of The Owl ...

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    Media 8 makes AFM sales on Dali biopic, A Film With Me In It

    2008-11-09T21:24:00Z

    LA-based production, finance and sales company Media 8 Entertainment has completed sales on several key titles led by Simon West's upcoming Salvador Dali biopic.MGN/Paradis took rights for Russia, Horizon for Turkey and Revolutionary Releasing for Eastern Europe. Horizon also took A Film With Me in It and Everybody Wants To ...