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Big deals heat up EFM in Berlin
Universal Pictures has bought North America and select territories on Sam Raimi's upcoming low budget horror film Drag Me To Hell as a flurry of deal-making set EFM alight.Meanwhile Momentum sealed UK rights to Sundance hit Hamlet 2 from Focus Features International in a deal estimated to be worth over ...
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Lives Of Others producers board Leven's Lovers, Liars & Thieves
Munich-based Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, which produced Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar-winning The Lives Of Others, will serve as German co-producer on Jeremy Leven's $ 30m romantic comedy Lovers, Liars & Thieves which is currently being prepared by Ilann Girard's Arsam International.The true story behind the theft of the Mona ...
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ContentFilm takes on Stephen Leslie's comedy-horror Release
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights (excluding the UK and Germany) to comedy-horror Release, to be directed by 2007 Screen International Star Of Tomorrow Stephen Leslie.Cinetic will represent North American rights and has also arranged financing.Damian Jones (The History Boys) will produce and casting will be confirmed soon. The ...
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ContentFilm takes international sales on Moverman's The Messenger
Oren Moverman, writer of Jesus' Son and I'm Not There, is set to make his directorial debut with The Messenger.Mark Gordon and Lawrence Inglee will produce for the Mark Gordon Company, with Zach Miller and Ben Goldhirsh of Reason Pictures.ContentFilm International will handle international sales. Shaun Redick and Nate Bolotin ...
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Patrick Stewart lines up for Damian Harris' Pop
Patrick Stewart is attached to star in Pop, Damian Harris' follow-up to his Berlinale competition entry Gardens Of The Night.Based on Kitty Aldridge's debut novel, Harris wrote the adaptation with the author. Their script has been optioned by Andrew Karsch, who will produce the project with Simon Bosanquet of Generator ...
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Open Graves international rights go to Voltage
Voltage Pictures has taken international rights on the upcoming horror film Open Graves to star Mike Vogel from the US hit Cloverfield and Eliza Dushku.Alvaro De Arminan will direct from a screenplay by father-and-son team Bruce A Taylor and Roderick Taylor about a group of surfers who awaken a centuries-old ...
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Writer's Guild reaches deal with AMPTP
The Writers Guild Of America (WGA) announced last night that it had finally reached a tentative deal with the studios to end its 14-week strike.WGA West and East presidents Patric Verrone and Michael Winship contacted members in the small hours of Saturday morning to alert them.The agreement with the AMPTP ...
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Belgrade Industry Meetings unveils lineup of 12 projects for 2008 event
New feature projects by Albania's Gjergi Xhuvani, Croatia's Rajko Grlic and Israel's Yaky Yosha are among 12 projects selected for this year's B2B Belgrade Industry Meetings which will be held for the third time between February 29 and March 2.The complete lineup of projects are:Euro-Asian section:Frenzy, Emin AlperBulut Film, TurkeyInfiltration, ...
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Arclight Cashes In On Roger Donaldson's Bank Job
Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films has closed a raft of sales ahead of theEFM screening of Roger Donaldson's heist movie The Bank Job starringJason Statham.Deals have closed in Japan (Movie-Eye Entertainment); Germany,Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland (Atlas); Spain (New World Films); Scandinavia (Nordisk); Portugal (Castello Lopes); Canada (Maple Pictures); Greece and ...
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Magnolia's Magnet takes on Cocaine Cowboys 2
Magnolia Pictures' genre arm Magnet has acquired worldwide rights to Billy Corben's drug trade documentary Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin' With The Godmother.Corben's follow-up to his 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys profiles the rise of a street dealer from California who gets in way over his head when he partners with the ...
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After Dark takes North America on horror film Frontier(s)
After Dark Films has taken North American rights to Xavier Gens' horror film Frontier(s) starring Karina Testa and Samuel Le Bihan.The story follows four thieves who flee student riots in Paris and take refuge in a motel run by a family of Neo-Nazis. star. Gens directed from his own screenplay ...
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Francois Ozon's ambitious Ricky lands at Le Pacte
Jean Labadie's newly formed distribution, sales and co-production company, Le Pacte, has acquired worldwide rights to Francois Ozon's next project, Ricky. Claudie Ossard and Chris Bolzi's Eurowide Film Production is producing in association with effects specialist Buf Compagnie.Alexandra Lamy and Sergi Lopez star in the film about an ordinary woman ...
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War of words escalates between Brass Hat and VIP
A war of words is escalating between the British financier Brass Hat Media Avice (BHMA) and the beleaguered German media fund VIP Medienfonds 4 following the refusal of VIP's managing director Peter Riedel to honour a strategic co-investment partnership negotiated with BHMA by his predecessor Dirk Specht last September to ...
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Bleiberg Entertainment takes on Red starring Brian Cox
Bleiberg Entertainment has taken international rights to the Sundance thriller Red starring Brian Cox, as well as spaghetti Western The Legend Of God's Gun and the Jamie Kennedy film Heckler.Red received its world premiere last month and stars Cox as a recluse who seeks justice after his dog is killed ...
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Odd Lot on board for Yann Samuell's The Great Ghost Rescue
Odd Lot International (OLI) is meeting with buyers to discuss YannSamuell's upcoming children's sci-fi romp The Great Ghost Rescue.Samuell will direct from David Solomons' adapted screenplay of EvaIbboston's best seller about an uprooted ghost family who go in searchof a new home.Miriam Segal and Martin Katz will produce the live-action ...
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Ewald's Epic Pictures takes on Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Patrick Ewald's Epic Pictures has picked up international rights to Jon Knautz' Slamdance hit Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer starring Robert Englund and Trevor Matthews.Ewald said he was already in advanced talks with a UK distributor on the tale of a young man whose professor unwittingly causes him to confront an ...
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Sidetrack takes on world rights to Corman doc King Of The B's
Sidetrack Films has acquired worldwide rights to Alex Stapleton's documentary King Of The B's: The Independent Life Of Roger Corman.The New York-based company's Jared Moshe and Richard Lim will serve as executive producers along with Josh Levin of Gallant Films.Stapleton will chronicle Corman's prolific film-making career, a legendary run that ...
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Rainer Grupe named VP of film at Canada's Entertainment One
Rainer Grupe has been named vice president of filmed entertainment at Canadian distributor Entertainment One. The executive reports directly to president Patrice Theroux and will play a key role in the company's international expansion plans while overseeing content strategy in the UK, North America and Benelux. Grupe most ...
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Endeavor to represent Russia's Central Partnership
Central Partnership Group has signed an agreement with the Endeavor talent agency to represent the Group's interests in North America. Under the agreement, Endeavor will act as sales agent for rights to Central Partnership movies and will organize joint production projects with major US studios.Should Endeavor clients film in Russia, ...
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ContentFilm strikes UK, German deals for The Killing Room
ContentFilm International has pre-sold Jonathan Liebesman's The Killing Room to the UK (Momentum), Germany (Square One), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Spentzos), The Middle East (Gulf), Brazil (Paris Filmes), Romania (Media Pro), The West Indies (Caribbean Film Services) and Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia (Continental).The high-concept suspense thriller is Liebesman's follow-up to The ...