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Metrodome acquires UK and Ireland on 50 Dead Men Walking
Metrodome Distribution has acquired an all rights deal for the UK and Ireland from HandMade Films International to Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.Metrodome's Peter Urie struck the deal with HandMade's Guy Collins following robust interest from buyers after the ...
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Ackerman named COO at LA media and research firm Interpret
Aric Ackerman has been appointed COO at Los Angeles-based media and technology research firm Interpret LLC.Ackerman will oversee business development, finance, legal and operations for the company, which helps major entertainment and video game clients devise and assesse their media strategies.Ackerman reports to CEO Michael Dowling and will also be ...
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Telefilm Canada launches production funding for French outside Quebec
Public film financier Telefilm Canada is setting up an investment program for French-language filmmakers who work outside of the province of Quebec. The agency's new Official Languages Activities Program (OLA) will have a total of $1.88m (C$2.3m) to devote to the initiative. While more than 80 per cent of French-speaking ...
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New York's South Asian Film Festival gives The Pool top honours
Chris Smith's The Pool was named best narrative feature and ChristyGarland and Susan Armstrong's Doormat took documentary honours as the2008 fifth annual South Asian Film Festival (SAIFF) came to a close onOctober 25.Dipti Gogna's Narmeen won best short film prize as nearly 200 attendees packed the gala ceremony event at ...
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Lake Tahoe finds a US distribution home with Film Movement
Film Movement has acquired domestic rights to Fernando Eimbcke's Mexican drama Lake Tahoe, winner of the FIPRESCI Award and the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 2008 Berlinale.The film follows the antics of a teenager who escapes from his miserable home life only for his car to break down, leading to ...
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Sam Mendes attached to direct Columbia's Preacher
Columbia Pictures has attached Sam Mendes to direct a feature adaptation of the graphic novel Preacher that Neal Moritz will produce through Original Films banner alongside Kickstart Productions' Jason Netter.This will be Mendes' second graphic novel project after Road To Perdition, although the property's supernatural tone marks a dramatic direction ...
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Goldcrest Independent boards Marceau-Lambert drama Percussions
Goldcrest Independent has acquired international rights to Thelma Films and Cine Nomine's upcoming French romance Percussions starring real-life couple Sophie Marceau and Christophe Lambert.Executive president of sales Pierre Weisbein will introduce the project to buyers at AFM following a seven-week shoot in the Colombia city of Cartagena.Currently in post-production in ...
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Bleiberg to self-distribute Adam for Oscar qualifying run
Bleiberg Entertainment will self-distribute the Holocaust drama Adam Resurrected in New York and Los Angeles for an Academy Awards qualifying run in December.Adam Resurrected premiered at Telluride and Toronto recently and will screen at the AFI FEST 2008 on November 8 and 9.Jeff Goldblum stars as a survivor who ends ...
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Regent Releasing picks up worldwide rights to Blue Tooth Virgin
Regent Releasing has swooped on worldwide distribution rights to US comedy The Blue Tooth Virgin written and directed by Russell Brown.Regent plans a limited release in early 2009 following the film's world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival last summer, where it won the special jury award.The story charts ...
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Berry and Skarsgard go before camera on Frankie and Alice
Principal photography has commenced on Geoffrey's Sax drama Frankie and Alice, starring Halle Berry and Stellan Skarsgard in the lead roles. Produced by Toronto-based Access Motion Pictures, the project will makes its first market appearance at the AFM through Cinesavvy, Access' partner sales company, which is handling world rights.Set against ...
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Delphis takes international rights on Dutch family hit Letter For The King
Montreal sales company Delphis Films has acquired international sales rights to Dutch filmmaker Pieter Verhoeff's chivalric adventure Letter For The King. The deal is for rights outside Benelux and German-language territories. The German release is scheduled for November.Budgeted at Euros 7.5m and shot on location in Holland, Germany, Belgium, France, ...
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Byzantium Entertainment set to debut at AFM with Aladdin
Alan Mehrez and business partner Aileen Rodriguez' new production, finance and international sales company Byzantium Entertainment will debut at AFM next week with the live-action adventure Aladdin.The company plans to produce two to three films a year in the low to mid budget range. Aladdin is funded through private equity ...
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Mudge's Worldwide boards Lonely Street, Stone's Point
Barbara Mudge's Los Angeles-based boutique sales agency Worldwide Film Entertainment has boarded international rights ahead of AFM to the comedic murder mystery Lonely Street and thriller Stone's Point.Lonely Street is based on Steve Brewer's series of novels about a private eye who unwittingly becomes embroiled in a tabloid reporter's murder. ...
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Shyamalan, MRC joint venture sets Devil as first feature
Devil will be the first project to go under M Night Shyamalan and Media Rights Capital's (MRC) previously announced financing and production partnership The Night Chronicles.The supernatural thriller is based on an original story by Shyamalan that Quarantine director John Dowdle and Andrew Dowdle will direct. Production is set for ...
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Lightning picks up Spanish ghost story The Beckoning
Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights excluding Spain to Elio Quiroga's Spanish ghost story The Beckoning.Quiroga wrote and directed the story about a traumatised young doctor who moves to the country after her child dies of cot death and is haunted by mysterious ...
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Bester, LaCour promoted to svp at Union Bank Of California
Adam Bester and Bryan LaCour have been promoted to senior vice president at Union Bank Of California.Bester and LaCour work in the bank's specialised financial services division and report to David Musicant, who heads national banking.LaCour is responsible for managing the bank's entertainment finance business, which has provided capital to ...
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Maya to produce and distribute slacker comedy Hollywood Players
US Latino outfit Maya Entertainment will develop, produce, and distribute the slacker comedy Hollywood Players written and to be directed by Joaquin Perea.Casting is underway in time for a February 2009 start date and a fourth quarter release on the story of two brothers in east LA who get themselves ...
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Tribeca Film Institute selects five for Sloan Filmmaker Fund
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) has selected five feature projects to receive financial and creative support from its inaugural TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund supported by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation.The projects were whittled down from a list of 130 submissions and will receive a total of $110,000 in funding. The ...
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Trumer named COO, Buet promoted to evp at StudioCanal
Former Paramount Pictures France chairman Camille Trumer has segued to StudioCanal just one week after announcing his departure from the US studio's French arm.Trumer has been appointed chief operating officer of StudioCanal, reporting to president Olivier Courson. Trumer will take up his functions beginning December 1 and will be in ...
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Kohlberg, Kaplan launch Essential Pictures with seven pictures
Essential Entertainment co-founder Jim Kohlberg and producer Neil Kaplan have launched sister company Essential Pictures to develop, package, finance and produce films and have unveiled a maiden slate of seven titles.Essential Pictures is backed by a separate equity pool from the source that partially funds Essential Entertainment and plans to ...