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Overture picks up domestic to Constantin/Impact thriller Pandorum
Overture Films has picked up North American rights to Constantin Film and Impact Pictures' sci-fi thriller Pandorum starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster.Constantin is financing the project under its joint venture with subsidiary Impact. Summit Entertainment is handling international sales and will introduce to buyers at Cannes.Filming is set to ...
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Inferno signs James McTeigue to direct sci-fi thriller Revelation
Inferno partners Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel have hired James McTeigue to direct the sci-fi thriller Revelation and will commence pre-sales at Cannes.New president of international sales Pamela Pickering will introduce the project to buyers on the Croisette. Pickering's arrival, along with that of head of development and production Tracee ...
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Australia shoot for Myriad horrorproject Drive The Night
Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures will produce, finance and handleworldwide sales for the horror film Drive The Night, its latest project under the deal with comic-book publisher Studio 407.Bill Bennett wrote and will direct the tale of a couple that gets loston a haunted road in the Outback. Principal photography is ...
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Profile: IM Global
Stuart Ford has a specific mandate at Los Angeles-based sales company IM Global. 'The primary goal of the business at the moment is to establish ourselves as one of the top-tier US sales agencies,' he says.'For now we're not focused on producing our own movies or financing movies and we're ...
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Horn slashes both Picturehouse and Warner Independent
Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) will both cease operations, it was announced today by Alan Horn, president & chief operating officer of Warner Bros. Instead of merging the two operations, which came under the same Warner Bros umbrella following New Line Cinema's absorption into the company recently, it has ...
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Bavaria picks up international for Daniel Burman's Argentine hit
Bavaria Film International has taken on international distribution for Argentinean director Daniel Burman's current box-office hit Empty Nest (El Nido Vacio).All About My Mother's Cecilia Roth and Oscar Martinez star as a married couple in their prime suddenly confronted with the 'empty nest syndrome' the moment their youngest child leaves ...
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Caruso, Conte plan $60m epic feature on life of William Tell
Veteran US producers Fred Caruso (Blue Velvet) and D. Constantine Conte (48 Hours) have unveiled plans to produce the $60m medieval epic feature The Adventures Of William Tell, based on the life of the legendary national hero of Switzerland.A single-purpose company Tell Productions Ltd. has acquired the film rights to ...
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Simon West to direct Let It Ride for Intandem
Producer Mace Neufeld and director Simon West will reunite for the new heist thriller Let It Ride. The pair previously worked together on The General's Daughter for Paramount in 1999.The $22m thriller is out to cast now, with a waiver in place for any potential SAG strike.Let It Ride will ...
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Abel Ferrara finishing juvenile crime project Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Rome-based sales company and producer Minerva Pictures Group will be in Cannes with a new project from Abel Ferrara, Napoli, Napoli, Napoli.Currently in post-production, the film - which is destined for a theatrical release - interweaves documentary with narrative footage by combining interviews with three female inmates with scripted scenes ...
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Hyde Park, Platinum to co-produce film of Italian comic book Dylan Dog
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment Group and LA-based comic book company Platinum Studios have teamed up to co-produce Dead Of Night, a film of best-selling Italian comic book series Dylan Dog.Brandon Routh, who played Superman and Clark Kent in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns, will play Dylan, a private investigator drawn ...
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24 frames buys North American rights to Mexico's Partes Usadas
US-based distributor 24 frames has acquired North American rights to Aaron Fernandez' Mexican crime drama Partes Usadas (Used Parts).The film won the 2007 Mayahuel Award for first time film-makers at Guadalajara last year.Partes Usadas was released in Mexico on April 18 through Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna's Canana Films ...
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After Dark to produce two original horror films, Foresight to sell
Courtney Solomon's After Dark Films will produce and distribute the horror films Faithless and Perkins' 14, marking the first time After Dark will produce films released as part of its annual 8 Films To Die For horror series.Both films will shoot consecutively in Romania starting in May and Mark Damon's ...
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Jim Harvey joins Denton at Bold Films International
Jim Harvey has joined president of worldwide distribution Stephanie Denton at the fledgling Bold Films International in the role of executive vice president of international sales.The two executives previously worked together at Lakeshore International. Harvey arrives from Media 8 and previously served at Element Films International, where he handled sales ...
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Terrence Malick's Tree Of Life planted at Summit
Summit Entertainment has acquired international rights to Terrence Malick's modern-day drama Tree Of Life starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain.River Road is financing Tree Of Life, currently shooting in Texas from Malick's original screenplay. River Road founder Bill Pohlad is producing alongside Malick regularsSarah Green and Grant Hill ...
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Shoreline travels West Of Brooklyn and to Serbian Stars
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment acquired worldwide rights ahead of Cannes to the comedy West Of Brooklyn and action adventure Serbian Scars.West Of Brooklyn is directed by Danny Cistone and stars Ronnie Marmo, Natalia Livingston and Joe Mantegna in the fish-out-of-water story of an Italian American who moves from New York ...
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LA property owners now responsible for piracy on their premises
Hollywood's ongoing war on piracy took another step forward in the wake of a ruling that will hold property owners in Los Angeles liable for the manufacture and sale of counterfeit music and videos on their premises.The Los Angeles County Board Of Supervisors approved the new ordinance on May 5, ...
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Cinema Libre doc The End Of Poverty' added to Critics Week
Cinema Libre Studio's documentary The End Of Poverty has been added to the Critics Week line-up in Cannes.Cinema Libre founder Philippe Diaz' film will premiere on May 19 and explores the theory that poverty is a deliberate ploy by wealthy nations to exploit and subjugate the poor. Martin Sheen has ...
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Peter Cattaneo's The Rocker will open tenth annual CineVegas
The world premiere of Peter Cattaneo's comedy The Rocker starring Rainn Wilson and Christina Applegate will open the 10th annual CineVegas Film Festival and Sean McGinly's The Great Buck Howard with John Malkovich will close the event, set to run in Las Vegas from June 12-21.World premieres in competition include ...
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IFC owner Rainbow buys Sundance Channel
Rainbow Media Holdings, the Cablevision subsidiary which owns The Independent Film Channel (IFC), has reached an agreement to acquire The Sundance Channel for $496m, bringing together the two channels under the same umbrella in a move which could have major implications for film sellers worldwide.Sundance and IFC have long been ...
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David Maisel, Kevin Feige boosted at Marvel Entertainment
Marvel Entertainment has extended the contract of Marvel Studios chairman David Maisel until 2010 and promoted Kevin Feige to president of the film studio.The move follows the successful global launch last weekend of Iron Man, Marvel Studios' first project as an autonomous financing, development and production entity.Paramount distributed the film ...