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Shin Rockenwagner takes top corporate comms role at Paramount
Patricia Shin Rockenwagner has been named executive vice president of corporate communications at Paramount Pictures.Rockenwagner will assume her new role on May 19 and fills the gap left by Janet Hill, who departed last June.The new arrival most recently served as vice president of communications of the Southern California Region ...
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King Of Fighters lands at Inferno
Inferno Entertainment has commenced pre-sales on the $12m English-language video game adaptation King Of Fighters.Gordon Chan (The Medallion) will direct the Matrix-like sci-fi action title and filming is scheduled to start in Taiwan on September 15.Taiwan's Double Edge Entertainment, LA-based Convergence Entertainment, US outfit Axis Entertainment and China's Enlight Pictures ...
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Myriad takes on international sales rights to Take
Myriad Pictures has picked up Charles Oliver's directorial debut Take and is introducing the drama to buyers on the Croisette.Minnie Driver and Jeremy Renner star in the story of two apparent strangers who discover they actually crossed paths years ago with devastating results.Former DreamWorks executive Chet Thomas produced and Tyler ...
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Lightning picks up sales rights to Pierce-Williams thriller Shuttle
Lightning Entertainment has added Pierce-Williams Entertainment's thriller Shuttle to its sales slate here.Mark Williams and Michael Pierce produced the story of two girls who board an airport shuttle bus that turns into a nightmare ride.Tony Curran, Peyton List, Cameron Goodman, James Snyder, Dave Power and Cullen Douglas star. Edward Anderson ...
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Cam Galano remains at New Line as head of international
Highly respected 20-year New Line veteran Camela Galano has been confirmed as president of New Line International Releasing after the studio's international sales operation was closed down by Warner Bros recently.Galano will continue to oversee and manage the release of New Line films in more than 120 territories for Warner ...
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Film Farm to produce new works from Egoyan and De Palma
Toronto-based production outfit The Film Farm is set to produce Atom Egoyan's untitled next picture, an original screenplay, and two films from Brian de Palma. Headed by producing partners Simone Urdl and Jennifer Weiss, Film Farm produced Egoyan's Cannes competition entry Adoration as well as de Palma's 2007 Venice title ...
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Strand asks Bankside: How About You'
UK-based sales company has struck a deal with LA-based Strand Releasing for all US rights to Anthony Byrne's comedy How About You. Strand plans a September launch.Hayley Atwell stars alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Imelda Staunton, Brenda Fricker, and Joss Ackland. The story is about a young woman who has to run ...
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Ewald's Epic to sell Matthew Broderick comedy Finding Amanda
Patrick Ewald's Epic Pictures Group has picked up international sales on the comedy Finding Amanda with Matthew Broderick, Brittany Snow and Steven Coogan.Screenwriter Peter Tolan directed the semi-autobiographical story of a drinking and gambling TV producer who tries to win back his family. Wayne Rice and Richie Heller produced and ...
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Elephant Eye takes on Frat Girl, Audience Of One
New US producer/distributor/sales company Elephant Eye Films has taken on two new projects, one for production and one for sales.Elephant Eye will produce Frat Girl, which will be written and directed by Nate Meyer, the director/producer of festival favourite Pretty In The Face. Derrick Tseng (Palindromes, Snow Angels) will co-produce.For ...
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Karl Urban joins the cast of Horse for ContentFilm Intl
Karl Urban has joined the cast of action thriller Horse, which ContentFilm International is selling worldwide.Urban previously appeared in Star Trek, The Lord Of the Rings, The Bourne Supremacy and forthcoming Black Water Transit.Laurence Malkin directs and producers are Paul Schiff, Tai Duncan and Roseanne Korenberg.Horse starts shooting in New ...
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Winstone, Curry join cast of Myriad Pictures' The Cup
Ray Winstone and Stephen Curry have joined the cast of Silver Lion Films' true-life underdog story The Cup, which Myriad Pictures is pre-selling here.Winstone, who stars alongside Harrison Ford in Sunday's out of competition world premiere screening of Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, will play renowned ...
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Madonna's Filth scores territorial deals in Japan, France, CIS
LA's Katapult Films has closed key sales heading into the market on Madonna's directorial debut Filth And Wisdom.David Jourdan concluded deals with Hexagon in Japan, Surreal Films in CIS and Front Row in the Middle East.French rights have gone to La Fabrique du Film in a deal negotiated with CAA ...
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Velvet Octopus takes on sales for Intrepid's Prodigy
UK-based sales company Velvet Octopus is on board for sales of Prodigy, the next film from Chuck Russell, the US director of The Mask and The Scorpion King. Los Angeles-based Intrepid Pictures is fully financing the $25m film as its first feature not to go through Universal or Rogue. Intrepid ...
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Intandem, WMI swim down Stream with Tommy Lee Jones
Intandem Films and William Morris Independent will be selling Tommy Lee Jones' new action drama Islands In The Stream. Intandem will handle international and WMI will represent domestic rights. The companies are in Cannes actively discussing the project, which is adapted from the Ernest Hemingway classic. Jones will star as ...
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CMG takes on sales for $16m 3D animated feature Louis La Chance
Edward Noeltner's LA-based sales company Cinema Management Group (CMG) has boarded the $16m 3D animated feature Louis La Chance.Currently in production, the adventure takes place against the backdrop of the 1934 Monaco Grand Prix as a driver and his brother strive to win the race and avenge the death of ...
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Radical Comics sells 40,000 units of first two Hercules, Caliber comics
Radical Publishing, which is partnered with film company Intandem, has had hits with its first two comic book releases through subsidiary Radical Comics: Hercules: The Thracian Wars and Caliber: First Canon Of Justice. Radical Comics sold out of 40,000 units of the two titles during its launch week starting April ...
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Fortissimo is big in France with ARP, La Fabrique de Films
Fortissimo Films has sealed a raft of sales to various distributors in France, including ARP, which has acquired out-of-competition title Ashes Of Time Redux, and La Fabrique de Films, which has snapped up Madonna documentary I Am Because We Are.In addition, Films sans Frontieres has acquired Iranian director Majid Majidi's ...
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Anchor Bay takes US rights to Surfer, Dude
Anchor Bay Entertainment has picked up US rights to Surfer, Dude starring and produced by Matthew McConaughey in a deal brokered by CAA.The company plans a late summer release followed by DVD roll-out in the tale of a pro surfer who returns home to Malibu and experiences an existential crisis.Woody ...
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Arclight's Hamilton teams with Ruddy and Grodnik in new production outfit
Arclight Films chief Gary Hamilton and producers Al Ruddy and Dan Grodnik have formed the production company Crazy Max Films and lined up its first two projects.The company plans to make five action films a year with Arclight handling all international sales on the slate starting with the thrillers Second ...
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Emmanuel Itier's The Invocation catches on with Lightning
Santa Monica sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has invested in and will handle worldwide sales on documentary The Invocation.Emmanuel Itier produced and directed the film, which explores the notion of faith and god and shot in multiple locations around the world.Jim Carrey, Deepak Chopra are among a cast of ...