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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 ...
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Trellis Huahn joins Bold Films as evp of business affairs
Trellis Huahn has been appointed to the newly created post of executive vice president of business affairs at Bold Films.Huahnwill report directly to Bold Films' president or worldwide distribution Stephanie Denton and will play a key role in production, finance anddevelopment negotiations and will oversee all worldwide distributionagreements.Huahn spent the ...
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Hyde Park works with Toonz, Gang Of 7 for Santa Claus
Hyde Park Entertainment and Singapore based Toonz Entertainment andLA-based Gang Of 7 Animation are collaborating on the CGI animatedfeature The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus.Based on The Wizard Of Oz creator Frank L Baum's novel of the samename, the story charts Father Christmas' life from infancy toadulthood, focusing on ...
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American Film Market: News round-up
The latest news and reviews from Screen's team at the American Film Market in Santa Monica.UPDATED DAILY: AFM storiesUPDATED DAILY: AFM salesAFM buzz films and preview
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Omega Entertainment gets two from Hillenbrands
Omega Entertainment has signed a two-picture deal with Hill & Brand Entertainment to handle international sales for Transylmania and The Black Arrow.Both are projects produced and directed by the Hillenbrand brothers. Transylmania is a completed college comedy/vampire spoof that will open for sales here at the AFM, and it is ...
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Elle Driver goes zombie with Dead Snow pickup
Fledgling French sales outfit Elle Driver has added a Norwegian Nazi zombie movie to its AFM slate. Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow, now in post-production, is a comedy horror film about a group of eight medical students who are attacked in their cabin by a battalion of German zombie soldiers. All ...
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Cole, Headly and Hutton keep up with The Joneses
Gary Cole, Glenne Headly and Lauren Hutton have joined David Duchovny, Demi Moore and Amber Heard on the cast of Echo Lake Productions' drama The Joneses.Moore and Duchovny play a seemingly perfect couple who are the envy of their neighbours and yet harbour a dark secret. Heard and up-and-coming Canadian ...
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Hayden Christensen in talks for lead in HandMade's remake of Mona Lisa
Hayden Christensen is in formal negotiations to take the lead in HandMade's remake of Mona Lisa. He will take on a younger version of George, the character made famous by Bob Hoskins in the original.Larry Clark will direct the project, budgeted at about $8m and set to shoot in New ...
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Cathay sells classics library to i-Cable for Hong Kong pay-TV, internet
Cathay Organisation has sold its Cathay Classics Films library to i-Cable Hong Kong for Hong Kong and Macau pay-TV and internet. Separately, Cathay is issuing a DVD box set with musicals starring Grace Chan aka Ge Lan, one of the foremost actresses of her era - Wild Wild Rose, Mambo ...
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Beta Cinema clinches US deal with MPI for Il Divo
Beta Cinema has announced its first raft of sales at the AFM, including a US sale to MPI Media Group for Paolo Sorrentino's Cannes award-winner Il Divo. The drama about the controversial Italian politician Giulio Andreotti has also been sold to Germany (Delphi Film), Sweden (Folkets Bio), Denmark (Sunrise Film), ...
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Ivan Fila to direct Bella Luna for Eyeworks
Eyeworks Film and TV drama, the aggressive Dutch production outfit behind Oscar winner Antonia's Line, is to partner with Czech auteur Ivan Fila on new romantic comedy, Bella Luna. Fila has scripted and will direct the project, which follows twoelderly movie stars who had a torrid affair many years before ...
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Milla Jovovich comes back with William H Macy
Milla Jovovich has joined the cast of William H Macy's directorial debut Keep Coming Back. Macy and Steve Buscemi will also star in the coming-of-age story.ContentFilm has international rights and expects more cast to be announced soon.Jovovich plays a recovering alcoholic ex-stripper who meets a sheltered 18-year-old boy with a ...