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Affleck and Alba star in Winterbottom's Killer Inside Me for Wild Bunch
Prolific UK director Michael Winterbottom is to hit the film noir trail with The Killer Inside Me, a $13 million adaptation of a novel by Jim Thompson (The Grifters) starring Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba. Wild Bunch has worldwide sales rights on the film excluding the US which Endeavor ...
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MGM to take domestic on Purple's 2012-ish
MGM is in negotiations to buy US distribution rights to end-of-the-world comedy 2012-ish: The Day The Earth Bent Over, formerly known as Armageddagain. Odd Lot International meanwhile has closed key territories coming into AFM including DeA Planeta in Spain, Hoyts in Australia, Quality in Latin America, Nordisk in Scandinavia, Mirovision ...
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Magnolia scores with The Girl From Monaco for US
Magnolia Pictures has pounced on US rights to The Girl From Monaco, Anne Fontaine's French box office hit which played at Locarno and Toronto this year.The deal was confirmed yesterday by Yoann Ubermulhin of French sales agent Pyramide International.'We are really glad to have our first collaboration with Magnolia on ...
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Oudney's French Film wins US and UK deals
The Works International has struck a US deal with IFC Festival Direct for Jackie Oudney's French Film. Vertigo has taken UK rights. The film has also sold to Australia and New Zealand (Madman), Canada (Mongrel Media), and the CIS/Baltic States (Russian Report). The US deal was brokered by The Works ...
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Shoreline strikes five-picture deal with IFC Festival Direct
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has completed a five-picture deal with IFC Films that will go through VOD platform IFC Festival Direct.The titles include Matthew Wilder's drama Your Name Here starring Bill Pullman and Taryn Manning, Amir Mann's political thriller Fifth Patient starring Isaach De Bankole and Nick Chinlund and Ben ...
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Content takes on Japanese Oscar submission Departures
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights to Yojiro Takita's Departures, which is Japan's submission for the foreign-language Oscar race. Departures (Okuribito) is already a box-office hit in Japan, taking more than 3m admissions ($25m) and it also won Best Film at the Montreal Wrold Film Festival in August. Masahiro ...
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Capri gears up for Stefaniuk's vampire comedy Suck
Toronto production house Capri Films is set to begin principal photography on Rob Stefaniuk's vampire comedy Suck. Writer-director-star Stefaniuk made waves with his quirky 2004 feature debut Phil The Alien. Cameras roll on November 24 on location in Toronto.Joining Stefaniuk in the ensemble cast are veteran actor Malcolm McDowell, Jessica ...
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Tokyo Theatres takes Japanese rights to Cantet's The Class
Laurent Cantet's Palme D'Or winner The Classis Asia-bound. Here at the AFM, Paris-based sales agent Memento Films International hasclosed a Japanese deal with Tokyo Theatres and is reporting interestfrom Singapore and Thailand.Cantet's film, about a teacher in a high school in a tough part of theParis suburbs, was one of ...
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Blowtorch recruits Danny Leiner for Corporate Zombie Killers
Fledgling LA-based finance and production company Blowtorch has acquired the horror comedy script The Corporate Zombie Killers and attached Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle's Danny Leiner to develop and direct.The story tells of a group of temps that try to escape a corporate office park after an outbreak ...
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Arsenal on board for Rob Schneider comedy Small Apartments
Yarek Danielak's Arsenal Pictures has boarded the Rob Schneider comedySmall Apartments based on Chris Millis' darkly comic novella.Filming is scheduled to begin in Sofia, Bulgaria, in January. DirectorMichael Philip's Film Tiger is collaborating with producers DavidHillary and Timothy Peternal of Deviant Films.Small Apartments charts the comedic chain of events that ...
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Mandate offers more Night to buyers at AFM
Mandate International is bringing the vampires back and talking to buyers at AFM about a sequel to the worldwide hit 30 Days Of Night.Steve Niles, who created the graphic novel on which last year's film was based and wrote the original screenplay, will return to writing duties alongside Ben Ketai.The ...
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Altadena takes on AFI pick A Necessary Death
Los Angeles- and London-based Altadena Films has taken on sales for A Necessary Death, written and directed by Daniel Stamm and produced by Brian Udovich (The Wackness, All The Boys Love Mandy Lane) and GJ Echternkamp.The completed film is screening during AFM; it world premiered at SXSW and will also ...
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Arclight adds Australian ghost story Lake Mungo
Arclight Films has added the Australian ghost story Lake Mungo to its AFM sales slate and is exploring a US remake.Lake Mungo is screening at the market and tells of the paranormal activity that plagues a family following the drowning of a teenage girl.Joel Anderson wrote and directed the Darclight ...
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Top buyers sign on for Oren Peli's Paranormal Activity
IM Global chief Stuart Ford has closed key territories on Oren Peli's supernatural shocker Paranormal Activity following a packed market screening on Thursday night.Rights have gone to Icon for the UK, Australia and New Zealand,Metropolitan for France, Svensk for Scandinavia and RCV for Benelux.Deals closed with Korea Screen in South ...
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AFM Briefs Nov 8
Firaaq, the directorial debut by revered Indian actress Nandita Das, has been sold to the Middle East. Distributor Daxar Multimedia Limited has snapped up all rights to The Middle East to the film from sales agent Wide Management while Suraya has taken Malaysian, Indonesian, Singaporean and Vietnamese TV rights.Another Wide ...
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Ondamax lines up Latin titles for festivals in 2009
Miami-based production and sales outfit Ondamax will be targeting Sundance and Berlin early next year with a slew of new Latin American projects. The lineup includes Ana Luiza Azevedo's Brazilian drama Before The World Ends, San Sebastian prizewinner Gasolina and documentary, Oso Blanco about the most notorious prison in Puerto ...
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Cinema Libre picks up US rights to Jean-Jacques Beineix library
Cinema Libre Studio has acquired all US rights to eight films from French auteur Jean-Jacques Beineix.The deal includes the director's cut of Betty Blue, comedy Mortal Transfer, dramas IP5: The Island Of Pachyderms, Roselyne And The Lions, The Moon In The Gutter and The Dog Of Mr Michel.Cinema Libre also ...
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Wolff, Ross launch new North American distributor Rich Releasing
Rich Wolff and Richard Ross have launched the North American distributor Rich Releasing, set to begin operating in early spring.The company will handle a wide variety of genres and will offer producers a broad choice of distribution channels from theatrical, DVD and TV to VOD, mobile, internet and IPTV.Wolff was ...
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Anchor Bay starts new theatrical arm; taps Kasha for acquisitions
Home entertainment company Anchor Bay Entertainment is launching a new theatrical film arm, Anchor Bay Films, headed by Anchor Bay Entertainment President Bill Clark.Anchor Bay Entertainment CEO Chris McGurk said the new division will aim to release 8-10 films per year as platform releases. 'While many entertainment companies are now ...
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Death At A Funeral to get a makeover at Screen Gems with Chris Rock
Chris Rock will write and star in a re-imagined version of Death At A Funeral for Screen Gems and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE) barely a year after it was released through MGM.Aeysha Carr is co-writing the script with Rock inspired by Dean Craig's original story about a man who exposes ...