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Maximum takes on international sales for Michod's Animal Kingdom
Maximum Films International has picked up international sales rights on writer-director David Michôd's crime thriller Animal Kingdom, starring Guy Pearce. Its allied releasing arm, Maximum Films Distribution, will handle the film in Canada. The film goes starts shooting in Melbourne early next year.The Australia-produced saga explores the Melbourne underworld, where ...
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Intandem rocks with Bendelack's Sweet Baby Jesus
London-based Intandem Films has taken on worldwide rights for Steve Bendelack's new comedy Sweet Baby Jesus. The cast will include Lily Tomlin, Tom Green, Melanie Griffith, Michael McKean, Alison Pill (Milk), and Sean Brosnan (Laws Of Attraction).The ensemble comedy revisits the story of the Nativity set in 1970s Bethlehem, Maryland. ...
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Bankside strikes US Baker deal with Panorama
UK-based Bankside Films has kicked off the AFM by announcing that Panorama Entertainment has taken all US rights to Gareth Lewis' The Baker.Gareth's brother Damian Lewis stars with Kate Ashfield and Michael Gambon. The comedy is about a hitman who hides out in a remote village where locals mistake him ...
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IFC Festival Direct moves into High Point's Left Bank
High Point Films continues its AFM sales with IFC Festival Direct taking North American rights to chiller Left Bank.The deal was struck with High Point's director of sales Elisar Cabrera and IFC manager of acquisitions Jeff Deutchman.Left Bank is the feature debut of Belgian director Pieter van Hees, part of ...
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Lightning dives into Prodigy's The Reef
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has acquired worldwiderights excluding Australia and New Zealand to Prodigy Movies' survivalthriller The Reef.Lightning co-presidents Rich Goldberg and Richard Guardian are takingtheir first executive producers on Andrew Traucki's tale of a group ofholidaymakers in Australia who are terrorised by a giant shark aftertheir boat capsizes. Principal ...
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Stallone reunites with Nu Image/Millennium for Expendables
Following their successful collaboration on the global hit Rambo, Sylvester Stallone and Nu Image/Millennium Films are reuniting on action thriller The Expendables. Stallone wrote and will direct and star alongside Jason Statham with Jet Li in final negotiations to join the story of mercenaries who embark on a ...
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Winther to direct Arclight's Speed Demon
Peter Winther has signed to direct Arclight's creature feature Speed Demon, set to begin principal photography next spring and dedicated to the late Oscar-winning effects guru Stan Winston.Special effects creature designer Patrick Tatopoulos, whose credits include I Am Legend and 10,000 BC, will bring to life the last designs developed ...
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DAY ONE: American Film Market news
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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Intandem signs on for $25m supernatural thriller Mortis Rex
UK-based Intandem Films has taken on world rights for and will executive produce supernatural action thriller Mortis Rex.The film will mark the directorial debut of Peter Briggs, who was one of the writers on Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy and has been a writer-for-hire for studio films.The $25m project will shoot ...
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High Point strikes North American deal with BFS for The Race
High Point Films is kicking off AFM with a North American pre-sale for its new family feature The Race. BFS Entertainment has pre-bought all North American rights. Colm Meaney, Susan Lynch and Niamh McGirr star in the story of the young daughter of poor farmers who dreams of becoming a ...
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Echo Bridge boards Baltasar Kormakur-directed thriller Inhale
Echo Bridge Entertainment has picked up international rights from 26 Films to Baltasar Kormakur's new Engish-language thriller Inhale and will commence pre-sales this week at AFM.Production just wrapped on the story starring Dermot Mulroney as a rising LA District Attorney who gets involved with a Mexican criminal medical ring in ...
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Goalpost starts sales on Jean Charles de Menezes story Brazuca
Brazuca, the Jean Charles de Menezes project formerly known as Leave To Remain or Jean Charles, has finished principal photography after shooting in both the UK and Brazil.UK-based Goalpost Film is launching international sales here at the AFM, and Imagem Group will handle Latin American sales. The film will be ...
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Transmission shifts into Nadda's Cairo Time from Maximum
Australia's Transmission Films has acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to Ruba Nadda's romantic drama Cairo Time from E1's sales company Maximum International. Produced by Daniel Iron of Toronto's Foundry Films (Away From Her) and David Collins of Dublin's Samson Films (Once), the Canada-Ireland coproduction stars Patricia Clarkson as a ...
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Entertainment takes five pack for UK from The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has sold a five-picture package to the UK's Entertainment Film Distributors, marking the first time that Nigel and Trevor Green have done business with Harvey and Bob Weinstein.The move follows the closure of former Entertainment supplier New Line International. The package contains Stephen Daldry's drama The ...
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La Fabrique De Films launches NY sales outfit for low-budget films
In a bold move underlining the growing market appetite for competitively priced genre fare, French independent distributor La Fabrique De Films is setting up its own sales outfit Overlook Entertainment, devoted to lower budget horror and cult comedies in English and foreign language.The aim is for Overlook, which will be ...
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Relativity Media lines up output deals in nine key territories
Ryan Kavanaugh has slotted the latest pieces into Relativity Media's single-picture international distribution jigsaw after announcing its first tentative steps at Cannes.The company has signed multi-year output deals with nine key buyers as it attempts to fill the vacuum left by the demise of New Line International.Relativity has signed output ...
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Katapult's Jourdan leaves to head up T&C Pictures International
Former Katapult Films Sales chief David Jourdan has jumped ship and will be talking to buyers about three films in his new role as managing director of T&C Pictures International.The company is part of production and finance entity T&C Pictures, run by founding president Arata Matsushima, a former vice president ...
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AFM Briefs Nov 5
Diffusion Pictures has acquired all UK rights from Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's Visit Films to the drama Momma's Man following its London Film Festival screenings.The film premiered at Sundance and tells of a man who visits his parents' loft apartment in Manhattan on a business trip and decides not ...
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Serafinowicz joins cast of Universal's Couples Retreat
British actor-comedian Peter Serafinowicz has joined Jason Bateman,Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn on the cast of Universal Films' CouplesRetreat directed by Peter Billingsley.The story centres on a couple on the verge of separating who convincetheir friends to go with them on holiday at a couples resort on atropical island.Filming is ...
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UCLA's Formato takes Goldwyn Writing Awards top prize
UCLA student Austin Formato has won the first prize of $15,000 in the53rd annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards for his project Self Help.Robyn Paris took the $7,500 second prize for Odd Man Out and J JNelson and Richard Rapoza tied for the $4,000 third prize for Out OfRoad and The ...