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UMedia takes on sales for The Harimaya Bridge
Paris-based UMedia has picked up sales on The Harimaya Bridge starring Danny Glover, Ben Guillory and Misa Shimizu.Filming will begin on June 3 in Kochi, Japan, and San Francisco on the story of a man who travels to Japan to collect the belongings of his estranged son who has been ...
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Ghost House Underground picks up The Rise Of Reeker
Ghost House Underground has picked up Dave Payne's horror title No Man's Land: The Rise Of Reeker, which Cinema Management Group (CMG) is selling here and screens in the market today [May 18].Lionsgate's home entertainment division will release the film in autumn as part of Ghost House Underground's inaugural October ...
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Padilha signs on for untitled action thriller with Nunnari's Gang
Gianni Nunnari's Warner Bros-based Hollywood Gang Productions and Management 360 have hired Elite Squad director Jose Padilha to direct an untitled action thriller.The story revolves around a US Federal agent who goes undercover in South America's dangerous tri-border area to dismantle a terrorist funding network.360 and Hollywood Gang plan to ...
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Epic Pictures closes multiple deals on Finding Amanda
Patrick Ewald's Epic Pictures has closed multiple territory deals on Finding Amanda starring Matthew Broderick, Brittany Snow and Steve Coogan.Rights have gone to Australia (Eagle), CIS (Film Depot), Scandinavia (CCV), South Africa (Ster Kinekor), Middle East (Front Row) and Romania and the former-Yugoslavia (Programs 4 Media). Magnolia holds US rights.Epic ...
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Yari Film Group to finance and co-produce Kerosene Cowboys
The Yari Film Group will finance and co-produce the action thriller Kerosene Cowboys to be produced by Dave Riggs and Nickolai Suslov through their Svarog-Afterburner Films banner and Bob Yari.David Glasser of Yari's sales arm Syndicate Films is talking to buyers here on the Top Gun-style story about hard-living Naval ...
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Warner Home Video buys Seville's doc Globe Metal
Warner Home Video has acquired US, UK and Mexican rights from Seville International to Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn's documentary Globe Metal.The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Dunn as he trawls through the underbelly of the extreme music scene in Asia, South America and the Middle East. The film ...
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Jaman launches 100 free ad-supported movie downloads
US-based online film distribution portal Jaman.com has launched free ad-supported streamed downloads of 100 independent and international films in high definition quality. The films which include award-winners like Theo Van Gogh's Cool and Shake Hands With The Devil, classics like Charade and a slew of Bollywood titles, are free with ...
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Screen Capital International, WMA launch $100 production fund
Screen Capital International (SCI) and William Morris Agency have launched Incentive Filmed Entertainment, a $100m production and financing vehicle that will fully fund up to ten features a year budgeted up to $15m.William Morris Independent's Cassian Elwes and Rena Ronson will represent worldwide sales on the slate on behalf of ...
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Lionsgate takes worldwide rights to The Perfect Game
Lionsgate has acquired worldwide rights excluding Mexico from LA-based HighRoad Entertainment to William Dear's The Perfect Game.The true story centres on a lowly Mexican Little League team that became the first non-American team to win the league's World Series. Clifton Collins, Cheech Marin and Louis Gossett Jr star.W William Winokur ...
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Jonathan Miller takes 100% control of First Run/Icarus Films
First Run Features has sold its interest in First Run/Icarus Films back to the company with the result that First Run/Icarus Films is now wholly owned by Jonathan Miller, who will continue as president of the company.First Run/Icarus Films will change its name to Icarus Films from June 1 and ...
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MGM acquires rights to children's book The Facttracker
MGM has acquired rights to Jason Carter Eaton's children's book The Facttracker and attached Monsters, Inc co-director David Silverman to direct.Eaton and writing partner Ian Lendler will adapt the live-action film based on the story of a town that gathers all the facts in the world and comes under threat ...
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Columbia buys Goosebumps books for feature with Original
Columbia Pictures has acquired from Scholastic Media the right to adapt Scholastic's bestselling Goosebumps series of books into a feature.Deborah Forte and Neal H Moritz of Original Films will produce the children's horror novellas. The first story was published in 1992 and the series has gone on to sell more ...
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Visit closes US deals on Moshe's Holly, Barron's Choking Man
New York-based sales outfit Visit Films has sold US rights on Guy Moshe's Cambodia-set drama Holly to City Lights Pictures and North American rights on Steve Barron's psycho-drama Choking Man to Film Movement.Holly tells of an American card shark and dealer of stolen artefacts who tries to smuggle a 12-year-old ...
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ContentFilm International lights up with Kid Cannabis
ContentFilm International will handle international sales on Kid Cannabis, written and directed by John Stockwell. ICM will handle North American rights. Stockwell previously directed Into the Blue, Blue Crush and Crazy Beautiful. The film starts shooting July 2 in Vancouver.The film stars Chris Marquette and Aaron Yoo with more cast ...
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Salles in post on companion piece documentary to On The Road
Walter Salles, who is preparing a film of Jack Kerouac's seminal beat novel On The Road, has finished principal photography on a companion piece documentary in which he follows the trip taken by Kerouac's alter-ego Sal Paradise through North America.'We met the several people who are still alive that he ...
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UK's Contender says hello to Mr Nice from Independent
Increasingly active UK distributor Contender, backed by Entertainment One, has taken UK rights for Mr Nice, sold by UK-based sales company Independent.Another sister company owned by E1, Seville Pictures, has taken Canadian rights. Independent's Luc Roeg is producing the film with Independent also handling worldwide sales.Mr Nice is based on ...
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Elephant Eye takes on Thanks Maa; MTV lands on Planet B-Boy
New York-based production/sales/distribution company Elephant Eye Films has taken on Irfan Kamal's Thanks Maa for international sales. The Quantum Films production is a Hindi-language independent film about a 12-year-old boy on the run from reformatory who finds an abandoned baby in Mumbai.Separately, MTV has confirmed their acquisition of Elephant Eye's ...
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Mythic International Entertainment kicks off with Ironclad
Rick Benattar, Jonathan English and Andrew Curtis' Mythic International Entertainment has teamed with Zephyr Films and Picture Park for its first feature, the $30m medieval action film Ironclad directed by English.Set in 13th Century England, the film tells the story of a Templar Knight who defends Rochester Castle against the ...
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Weinstein Company buys North America on UK horror film Eden Lake
The Weinstein Company has picked up North American rights from Pathe to the thriller Eden Lake from first-time director James Watkins.Eden Lake stars Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Thomas Turgoose and Bronson Webb in the story of a young couple on a romantic weekend break who get terrorised by a group ...
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Sarde, Siritzky partner for $50m Emannuelle prequel
Roman Polanksi's longtime producer Alain Sarde is lining up a $50m prequel to Emmanuelle with the erotic franchise's rights holder Alain Siritzky.What Else Emmanuelle' will be the first theatrical release in the series since Emmanuelle IV came out in 1984 and is scheduled to begin shooting at various exotic locations ...