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H2O planning further international productions with Germany's MMC
Andras Hamori's LA-based H2O Motion Pictures is planning two international productions with Germany's Magic Media Company (MMC).Principal photography on thriller Running Wild, with lead actor and co-producer Samuel L. Jackson, will shoot later this year in South Africa and at the MMC studios in Cologne. Kevin Kerslake will direct Running ...
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Gellar replaces Bosworth in Veronika Decides To Die
Sarah Michelle Gellar has replaced Kate Bosworth on Das Films, Velvet Steamroller Entertainment, Muse Productions and PalmStar Entertainment's Paulo Coehlo adaptation Veronika Decides To Die.Jonathan Tucker, David Thewlis, Melissa Leo and Erika Christensen also star in the story of a bored woman in her mid-twenties who discovers a new lease ...
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Cinemavault acquires international to Sundance doc IOUSA
Toronto sales company Cinemavault has acquired international rights to Patrick Creadon's I.O.U.S.A. following its premiere at Sundance.Christine O'Malley, Sarah Gibson and Open Sky Entertainment produced the documentary about America's skyrocketing debt.Cinemavault has also picked up Fat Head starring and directed by comedian Tom Naughton. The documentary exposes the myths behind ...
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Voltage picks up Brittany Murphy thriller Across The Hall
Los Angeles sales company Voltage Pictures has picked up the upcoming Brittany Murphy thriller Across The Hall and supernatural action adventure Hybrid.Alex Merkin is directing Across The Hall from Jesse Mittelstadt's script about a love triangle involving two best friends that threatens to turn to murder. Mike Vogel from Cloverfield ...
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Berdejo to direct romance Jennifer Can in Spain, US
Fast rising Spanish director Luis Alejandro Berdejo is preparing the $3m romance Jennifer Can for Notro Films, Versus Entertainment and Videntia Frames Producciones.Berdejo will begin shooting at the end of October in San Sebastian on his story of a hospital caretaker who develops a relationship with a young patient confined ...
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Seven Arts boards $60m William Gibson thriller Neuromancer
Peter Hoffman's Seven Arts Pictures has boarded the $60m thriller Neuromancer, based on William Gibson's 1984 cyberpunk classic book.Joseph Kahn (Torque) will direct from Gibson's adapted screenplay about a computer hacker in a dystopian near-future whose brain is sabotaged after he is caught stealing from his employer.The production and sales ...
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Echo Bridge takes on Kormakur thriller, Rusell Wong actioner
Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquired two new films for worldwide sales at Cannes - Run For Her Life, an action thriller starring Dermot Mulroney and being directed by Iceland's Baltasar Kormakur, and martial arts thriller Unshakeable starring Russell Wong and Ving Rhames.Kormakur, whose thriller Jar City was the top award-winner ...
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Jan de Bont to direct Point Break sequel in Indonesia
Jan de Bont will direct Point Break: Indo for Singapore production and talent management firm RGM Entertainment and LA sales, development and production company Essential Entertainment.Essential is handling worldwide sales on the project, a closely guarded story set in Indonesia 20 years after the disappearance of Patrick Swayze's surfing bank ...
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Herzog to direct Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant remake
Werner Herzog is lining up to direct Nicolas Cage in a remake of Bad Lieutenant for Edward R Pressman and Nu Image/Millennium Films.The project is being fast-tracked for a July shoot and the producers are in talks to film in New Orleans.Nu Image/Millennium is financing and handling international sales on ...
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NewsParamount Vantage, Overture to co-finance, distribute Moore's next
Paramount Vantage and Overture Films will co-finance and distribute Michael Moore’s follow-up to his 2004 Palme d’Or winner and global smash Fahrenheit 9/11.Vantage will commence pre-sales here in what should become one of the hottest titles on the market and Overture will release in North America ...
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Arthouse picks up international on Louise Bourgeois
Arthouse Films has picked up international rights to Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress And The Tangerine by Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach.Arthouse will introduce the film to buyers at Cannes and will distribute internationally through its output deals with Madman Entertainment in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and ...
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Warner's Get Smart to receive charity screening at CineVegas
The Tenth Annual CineVegas Film Festival has added a special charity screening of Warner Bros' action comedy Get Smart starring Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway on June 15.Proceeds will go to The Rock Foundation and its school supply programme Project Knapsack founded by the film's Dwayne Johnson.Peter Segal directed the ...
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Trevor Wright to head sales, North American operations at Omega
Trevor Wright has been named president of North American operations at Omega Entertainment and will oversee international sales from Los Angeles.Wright is in Cannes to talk up the alien abduction satire Little Green Men based on Christopher Buckley's bestseller and the thriller Heartless starring Jim Sturgess and Clemence Poesy.The slate ...
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Right Angle Studios launches production arm with Sequence
Right Angle Studios has launched its production arm Right Angle Pictures, which will focus on socially relevant projects and kicks off with the thriller Sequence.Ron Vignone wrote and will direct and the project is being fast-tracked for production in 2009 and follows a genetic researcher who discovers a giant conspiracy.Right ...
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Sanford Panitch to run Fox's new international production arm
Fox Filmed Entertainment is launching Fox International Productions (FIP) to produce and acquire local language films for key territories.Sanford Panitch, a long-time executive at New Regency and Fox, has been brought in to run the company, which will corral all of Fox's existing and future indigenous productions under one banner.FIP ...
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Filth And Wisdom gets its North American premiere at Provincetown
The tenth annual Provincetown International Film Festival, which will take place June 18-22, has announced that it will present Gael Garcia Bernal with the Excellence In Acting Award and Jane Lynch with the Faith Hubley Memorial Award.Quentin Tarantino has already been announced as the recipient of the Filmmaker On The ...
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Platinum teams with Top Cow, Arclight on feature of Witchblade
Los Angeles-based Platinum Studios has partnered with Top Cow Productions and film sales company Arclight Films on the adaptation of Top Cow's fantasy thriller comic book franchise Witchblade.The producers expect begin shooting in September in Australia. Plot details are being kept under wraps although what is known that the property ...
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Madagascar sequel set for IMAX release
DreamWorks Animation SKG will release Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa on IMAX day and date with its worldwide conventional release November 7, 2008. It will be the fifth DreamWorks Animation title to be released in large-format between June 2008, when Kung Fu Panda is released, and May 2010. The film will ...
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Maximum takes Quinzaine title Boogie for the world
Maximum Films International (MFI) has picked up world sales rights on Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean's Quinzaine selection Boogie. The story of a man vacationing with his wife and child who has a crisis of lost youth when he encounters old friends at the same resort, the film stars Dragos Bucur, ...
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K5 takes on world sales for Yu's Ping Pong Playa
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has taken on world sales rights to Jessica Yu's Ping Pong Playa.The film premiered at Toronto.Oscar winner Yu wrote and directed the comedy, about an Asian-American suburbanite who unexpectedly has to take over his family's ping-pong dynasty. Jimmy Tsai, Elizabeth Sung and Rodger ...