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Warner Bros, Overbrook to remake Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired remake rights from Pathe to the French blockbuster Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis (aka Welcome To The Shticks) for Will Smith and his Overbrook Entertainment to produce. Pathe International will handle the sales rights to the film.James Lassiter, Smith and Ken Stovitz will produce for Overbrook ...
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Dutch investment group buys Spitfire and merges it with Hammer
Dutch investment group Cyrte Investments has acquired Nigel Sinclair and Guy East's LA-based Spitfire Pictures and merged it with legendary British studio Hammer to form the global entertainment company HS Media.Sinclair and East will run HS Media with Hammer co-chief Simon Oakes. HS Media is backed by $100m in equity ...
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Paul Bateman Davis-Miller named svp at Peace Arch
Paul Bateman Davis-Miller has been appointed to the newly created post of senior vice president of US distribution and development at Peace Arch Entertainment.Davis-Miller will be based at the company's Marina Del Rey offices in California and reports to Peace Arch Entertainment Group president and COO John Flock in Los ...
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Madonna's Filth And Wisdom sells to Germany, Australia, Scandinavia
LA-based Katapult has sold Madonna's Filth And Wisdom to Ascot Elite in Germany, Kojo in Australia, Pan Vision in Scandinavia, Hollywood in Greece and MCF in the former Yugoslavia.Drama The Caller, which premiered in Tribeca last month, has sold to Hollywood in Greece, which also took Death In Love.Australia's Kojo ...
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Medavoy's Phoenix to make film of Grisham's Playing For Pizza
Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures will adapt John Grisham's sports romance Playing For Pizza about a washed-up American football star who joins a team of semi-pros in Italy.Medavoy, whose credits include Zodiac, Holes and the in-production Shanghai, will produce with colleagues Arnie Messer and David Thwaites.Grisham is represented by longtime editor-agent ...
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IFC Films takes North American rights to PVC-1
IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Spiros Stathoulopoulos' one-take thriller PVC-1, which premiered at Cannes last year.Merida Urquia, Daniel Paez and Alberto Zornoza star in the story, which is inspired by the real-life terrorist incident in which a rural Colombian woman was killed by a collar bomb ...
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Grammer joins Goodman in voice cast of Bunyan & Babe
Kelsey Grammer has joined John Goodman on the voice cast of Exodus' upcoming animated feature Bunyan & Babe that Tony Bancroft will direct with Jim Rygiel.Following a successful collaboration on Igor, Exodus Film Group will commission Sparx Animation Studios to provide the CG-animation when shoot commences in July.Bunyan & Babe ...
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Shoreline takes on sales for Your Name Here
Morris Ruskin's LA sales company Shoreline Entertainment has boarded Your Name Here starring Bill Pullman, Taryn Manning, Traci Lords and M Emmet Walsh.Pullman plays a sci-fi author who has a stroke and wakes up in one of his novels. The film will premiere at CineVegas next month.Shoreline's Ruskin, Brandon Paine ...
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K5 introduces Visitor to Spain, Greece, Middle East
K5 International has confirmed further sales on Tom McCarthy's The Visitor. The film has now gone to Spain (Isaan), Greece (Art Free), and the Middle East (Prime Pictures). Several other deals are imminent in Cannes.The Visitor, his follow-up to The Station Agent, is produced by Groundswell and Participant. It has ...
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Moviehouse strikes El Cantante deals; picks up three new films
Moviehouse has now sold Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony starrer El Cantante to the UK (Revelation), France (Opening), Australia (Force), Spain (Isaan), Scandinavia (NonStop), and Benelux (Three Lines), and is in active negotiations Japan, Italy and Germany.The project was previously handled by Voltage and has been with Moviehouse since AFM.In ...
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Relativity Media looks to tie up international partners in Cannes
Relativity Media chief Ryan Kavanaugh is attempting to step into the void left by the demise of New Line International and is closing long-term partnerships in major territories here.The network will channel a high-octane slate of commercial fare that currently features new work from Lasse Hallstrom, Keanu Reeves, Jet Li ...
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Optimum kicks off Dark Castle deal with Whiteout
UK-distributor Optimum Releasing, has struck a multi-picture deal with Joel Silver's Dark Castle (which already has a relationship with Optimum parent Studio Canal).The first title in the deal will be Dominic Sena's action thriller Whiteout. Based on the graphic novel, Kate Beckinsale stars in the story of a US marshall ...
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IFC Films takes US rights to South Korean smash The Chaser
IFC Films has picked up US rights to Na Hong-Jin's South Korean box office hit The Chaser, which plays as a midnight film in official selection.The Chaser centres on a corrupt detective turned pimp who races against time to find a young woman kidnapped by a serial killer.IFC's director of ...
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Focus Features International reports big sales on Milk, Serious Man
Focus Features International sales chief Alison Thompson has reported multiple territory deals on a robust slate that includes Gus Van Sant's Milk starring Sean Penn as the assassinated gay rights campaigner Harvey Milk.Thompson has been screening a promo from Milk to great success and closed deals with Constantin in Germany, ...
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First Look picks up North American rights to Stiletto
First Look Studios has acquired North American rights from Strategic Film Partners to the thriller Stiletto starring Tom Berenger, Tom Sizemore, Kelly Hu and Amanda Brooks.Nick Vallelonga directed from Paul Sloan's screenplay and produced with Warren Ostergard.Strategic's Lawrence Silverstein and Alex Barder brokered the deal with Gary Hirsch on behalf ...
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Rubin's First Independent acquires US rights to Sixty Six
Gary Rubin's First Independent Pictures has acquired US rights from Working Title Films to the coming-of-age comedy Sixty Six.Paul Weiland's tale of a boy's bar mitzvah that coincides with the day England wins the football World Cup Final will open on August 1 in New York and stars Helena Bonham ...
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Anna J Foerster to direct Secret Hunter
Crevasse Films has attached Los Angeles-based German director Anna J Foerster to its new action thriller Secret Hunter.Screenwriter Adam Preston is adapting the script based on British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes' novel. The story is about an American ice climber and games designer who witnesses the murder of his father ...
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Paramount backs Carrera's Mexican drama Backyard
Paramount has bought the rights to Carlos Carrera's Mexican drama Backyard from the film's co-producers Indigo Films.'The studio will help finance the project and then distribute it in the US and Mexico and other territories,' a Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) spokesman told Screen. IMCINE is promoting the film at Cannes.A ...
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Brazil's Otero Group partners with Latin American Film Co
The Latin American Film Co (TLAFCo), the three year-old joint venture between Eduardo Costantini of Costa Films and Harvey Weinstein of The Weinstein Company, has established a new strategic partnership with The Otero Group in Brazil.Julia Otero of Otero Group will act as the senior partner of TLAFCo in Brazil ...