All Americas articles – Page 266
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Image pulls out of merger with Bergstein's BTP
US video distributor Image Entertainment has pulled out of its merger with David Bergstein affiliate BTP Acquisition Company and demanded prompt payment of a $4.2m business interruption fee.Image made its move after reportedly growing tired of waiting for BTP to complete the necessary financing on the deal, initially announced early ...
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Match Factory strikes two pictures with Nimbus Film
The Match Factory (TMF) has picked up international rights for Danish filmmaker Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's political thriller What No One Knows which will have its world premiere in the Panorama Special section on February 11.The Nimbus Film production, which stars Anders W. Berthelsen, Maria Bonnevie and Ghita Norby, is the first ...
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Celsius to sell Freakonomics all-star documentary
UK-based Celsius Entertainment has come on board for international sales of the film adaptation of bestseller Freakonomics.The film will be comprised of six segments, each directed by documentary hotshots Morgan Spurlock, Alex Gibney, Rachel Grady & Heidi Ewing, Eugene Jarecki & Jehane Noujaim, and Laura Poitras. Another director will be ...
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Former Cinemavault executive Alvarez launches Forward Motion
Former Cinemavault Releasing executive Paco Alvarez has launched a new world sales outfit, Forward Motion Entertainment, and will unveil two new projects, Six Reasons Why and The Cold Flame, at Berlin's European Film Market. Picked up for North America by ThinkFilm, Six Reasons Why is the debut feature of The ...
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New Toronto-based Arrow takes on Jolliet's Harvest
Newly-launched Toronto sales outfit Arrow Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Nicolas Jolliet's docu-drama Harvest following its screenings at the Rotterdam Film Festival. Arrow is repping both film and soundtrack rights at the EFM.Described as the musical journey of a ganja planter, the film follows a marijuana farmer named Jaweve ...
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Pretty Bird
Dir: Paul Schneider, US, 2008, 97mins.The perennial story of Americans trying to get rich quick on a new invention meets the perennial story of Americans betraying each other over property in Pretty Bird. The look, and feel, of the film sing an ode to American kitsch.Pretty Bird's success in the ...
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ReviewsOperation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Dir: Richard Robbins, USA, 2007, 81mins
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New York Rendez-Vous includes films by Bonnaire, Honore
Organisers at the Rendez-Vous With French Cinema event in New York have unveiled the full line-up of 15 films, which as previously announced will kick off with Claude Lelouch's Roman De Gare on Feb 29.The roster features: Audrey Estrougo's debut drama Ain't Scared (Regarde-Moi) set on a tough Paris housing ...
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Warner Bros boosts post-production with Prime Focus alliance
Warner Bros has broadened the reach of its Motion Picture Imaging post-production division in a strategic alliance with India-based Prime Focus.The agreement allows the companies to work seamlessly across time zones on projects and offers film-makers access to services throughout locations on the sub-continent and London as well as New ...
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Anywhere USA
Dir. Chusy Haney-Jardine, USA, 2008, 124minsThe portentously titled Anywhere USA is a triptych of Americana by debut writer/director Chusy Haney-Jardine - a trailer-trash farce, an uncle/niece meditation on the death of parents, and a clumsy satire on racial anxiety among the rich and White.Haney-Jardine, who says the film draws on ...
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Definitely, Maybe
Director/Scr: Adam Brooks US/UK. 2008. 111 minsAn unusually soulful and appealing romantic comedy, Definitely, Maybe is the perfect antidote to the raucous lowbrow vulgarity that has come to define the genre in the 21st century. There is none of the wild profanity or bad taste humour of the Farrelly brothers ...
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Claudia Bonn to oversee Bronx cultural centre
Executive director of the Film Society Of Lincoln Center Claudia Bonn has been named executive director of the Wave Hill 28-acre public garden and cultural centre in the Bronx. She succeeds Kate French, who led the initiative for the past 17 years.Wave Hill marked its 40th anniversary in 2005 by ...
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Messing joins Overture's family drama Humboldt Park
Debra Messing has joined producer Freddy Rodriguez, John Leguizamo, Alfred Molina, Jay Hernandez, Mercedes Ruehl and Luis Guzman in the cast of Overture Film's family drama Humboldt Park.Production is set to begin in Chicago on Feb 13 on the State Street Pictures and 2DS Productions project. The story revolves around ...
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Beastie Boy pioneer launches film distribution outfit
Beastie Boys founder and film-maker Adam Yauch has launched the full service distributor Oscilloscope Pictures and installed former THINKFilm International vice president David Fenkel to oversee acquisitions, domestic distribution and international sales.Oscilloscope Pictures, an extension of Yauch's music and film production company Oscilloscpoe Laboratories, will handle independent English and foreign ...
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IFC loads up with Sundance double winner Ballast
IFC has picked up North American rights to Lance Hammer's Mississippi Delta-set drama Ballast, which screens in competition in Berlin and won the best director and cinematographer awards at Sundance last month following an enthusiastic reception by critics.Vice president of acquisitions and production Arianna Bocco negotiated the deal with William ...
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Bragman sets up New York arm of LA PR firm 15 Minutes
Howard Bragman's Fifteen Minutes Public Relations has expanded its reach into New York and will be headed up by former vice president of Ogilvy Public Relations' consumer marketing practice Corey R Martin.Broadway, fashion and event publicity specialist Pete Sanders joins Martin and the pair will develop a broad account base ...
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Santa Barbara top honours go to Amal, Beautiful Bitch
The 23rd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) signed off on Sunday night [Feb 3] with the traditional awards ceremony in which the Panavision Spirit Award For Independent Cinema was awarded to Richie Mehta's drama Amal.The Heineken Red Star Award in honour of 'the most progressive and gifted independent ...
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Spain's MediaPro signs to finance three films from Woody Allen
MediaPro will finance the ever-industrious Woody Allen's next three films beginning in 2009.The Spanish company financed and co-produced Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the Spanish-language comedy currently in post-production that Wild Bunch is selling at EFM and The Weinstein Company acquired recently for North America.Allen plans to return to his beloved New ...
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K5 International takes on Wonderful World starring Broderick
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has taken on sales (outside North America) to Joshua Goldin's debut feature Wonderful World.Matthew Broderick and Sanaa Lathan star in this comic fable about 'the most negative man in the world.' Ben is forever fighting 'The Man' until he is inspired by the ...