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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 ...
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GreeneStreet Films International take on Long Time Gone
GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) president Amy Beecroft has picked up the drama Long Time Gone starring Christina Ricci, Anjelica Huston, Josh Lucas and Justin Bartha.Beecroft will commence sales here on the adaptation of April Steven's novel Angel, Angel about an enigmatic young woman who helps a family in crisis.ICM packaged ...
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2929 International takes on worldwide sales to Waters' Fruitcake
Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 International has acquired worldwide sales on John Waters' Fruitcake starring Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey.This Is That's Ted Hope and Anne Carey will produce along with Killer Films' Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler. Hope, Vachon and Knoxville previously worked on Waters' 2004 comedy A ...
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Lakeshore boards Nia Vardalos' directorial debut
Lakeshore Entertainment has boarded Nia Vardalos' directorial debut I Hate Valentine's Day, in which she will reunite on screen with her My Big Fat Greek Wedding co-star John Corbett.Production is set to begin on June 23 on the story of a carefree florist who charms a wary restaurateur into trying ...
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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 ...