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American Teen generates early sales buzz at Sundance
While Sundance buyers circled hyped early picks like Sunshine Cleaning and The Wackness, the Saturday nightfocus was on Nanette Burstein's high school documentary American Teen.Fox Searchlight were believed to be among interested parties following the world premiere earlier in the day.Carlos Moreno's Colombian crime saga Perro Como Perro was also ...
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Roman Polanski doc gets international deal at Sundance with TWC
When Harvey Weinstein flies in to Sundance things usually happen and so it proved to be as The Weinstein Comapny (TWC) made the first play of the festival, paying low six figures for all international rights to Marina Zenovich's documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired.The deal excludes North American rights ...
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IMDb buys Withoutabox
Amazon-owned The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has bought global film-maker and film festival resource Withoutabox.Withoutabox was founded in 2000 by David Straus and Joe Neulight and enables film-makers to submit their work online to festivals and provides festival organisers with tools to manage and promote their events online.'For eight years, ...
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Intandem, Radical pitch slate including John Woo's Caliber
Intandem Films and its graphic novel publishing company partner Radical Publishing will be meeting with investors in the UK starting Jan 21 to present their shared business model and preview future projects. UK-based financing and sales company Intandem took an equity stake in 2007 in Los Angeles-based Radical, which is ...
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Cloverfield
Dir: Matt Reeves. US. 2008. 84 mins.An exercise in guerrilla-style genre filmmaking that reframes a classic monster movie conceit as a post-September 11 allegory of big city trepidation, new Internet sensation Cloverfield emerges from the cocoon of its pre-release hype as thrilling piece of terror tailor-made for our times. Skilfully ...
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Greg Mason named vp of marketing for Disney Canada
Greg Mason has been named vice president of marketing for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Canada.Mason will handle marketing duties for all films released under the Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures labels in Canada and reports directly to Brett Dicker, executive vice president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.Mason ...
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Lionsgate UK acquires Conan, Mad Money and Righteous Kill
Distributor Lionsgate UK has struck a three-picture acquisition deal with Nu Image/Millennium Films. Lionsgate UK has taken UK and Ireland rights to Jon Avnet's crime thriller Righteous Kill; Callie Khouri's comedy Mad Money; and the Conan The Barbarian revived franchise set for a new film release in 2009.Righteous Kill stars ...
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HBO Documentary Films buys Sundance doc The Black List
HBO Documentary Films has acquired domestic broadcast rights to portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders documentary The Black List: Volume One, which gets its world premiere here on Jan 22.Film critic Elvis Mitchell interviews 20 high-profile African-Americans about their views on personal identity. Talking heads include Chris Rock, Toni Morrison, Colin Powell, ...
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Lakeshore pacts with Maximum for Canadian distribution
Maximum Films Distribution has signed a sub-distribution deal with Lakeshore Entertainment that will see the Toronto-based distributor release Lakeshore product across Canada. The all-rights deal was negotiated by Mark Musselman for Maximum and by David Dinerstein and Eric Reid for Lakeshore. Maximum has sub-distribution deals with Cinetic Media, IFC, Magnolia ...
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Zeitgeist buys US rights to Sundance doc Up The Yangstze
US distributor Zeitgeist Films has acquired Yung Chang's feature debut documentary Up The Yangstze in advance of its US premiere at Sundance. The film, which had its world premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2007, travels up the famed Chinese river to explore the end of a way ...
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DGA strikes tentative deal with AMPTP in just two weeks
The Directors Guild Of America (DGA) has struck a tentative deal for its contract renegotiation with studio representative the Alliance Of Motion Picture And Television Producers (AMPTP), putting pressure on the writers to resolve their ongoing dispute.In a typically early settlement for the directors thrashed out months before their contracts ...
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Writers' strike: are the Oscars threatened'
Last Friday, US TV network ABC Studios terminated more than 20 writer or producer deals, invoking the force majeure provision allowing termination of such deals six weeks into a strike.LastMonday, four other TV studios followed suit, saving tens of millions of dollars in the process.On February 24, ABC stands to ...
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Video platform blinkx adds content from Future Shorts, YoungCuts
US-based video search engine blinkx has struck deals with 13 new content partners. The new independent content providers are Calon TV, ChannelFlip.com, Channel X, Foothill Entertainment, Future Shorts, jeko.tv, Journeyman Pictures, Looking Glass International, MoMedia, Monster Distributes, Reelport, Wysiwyg Films and YoungCuts.Content will be searchable and playable at blinkx.com using ...
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Relativity, MGM team on Olyphant-starrer A Perfect Getaway
Relativity Media is to produce and MGM will distribute the thriller A Perfect Getaway starring Timothy Olyphant.Production is set to begin in Puerto Rico on Mar 17 on the story of a honeymooning couple in Hawaii who run into a pair of vicious killers while hiking.David Twohy will direct from ...
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Brazilian mini-festival kicks off in New York next week
Latin American cinema promoter Cinema Tropical kicks off the mini-festival Janeiro In New York next week.The event will screen Cao Hamburger's Oscar shortlisted The Year My Parents Went On Vacation, City Of Men produced by Fernando Meirelles and directed by Paulo Morelli and Alice's House by Chico Teixeira.'In recent years, ...
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Amanda Blue joins Myriad as vp, development and acquisitions
Former Inferno Distribution vice president of production and development Amanda Blue has been named vice president of development and acquisitions at Myriad Pictures.Blue will travel to Sundance in her first outing for the company.She previously worked as Capital Films and as an assistant to writers Dana Stevens and Ed Solomon. ...
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Antonellis promoted to president of technical operations at Warner
Darcy Antonellis has been promoted to president of Warner Bros Technical Operations and will lead the studio's efforts to establish new delivery platforms and technical, business and legal standards for digital distribution and copyright protection.Antonellis moves up from her dual role of executive vice president of distribution and technology operations ...
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Mercury Media takes on sales for 9/11 docZero
Mercury Media has taken on worldwide sales (excluding Italy, Belgium and Russia) for Zero.Zero is a $1.5m (Euros 1m) documentary directed by Guilietto Chiesa and Franco Fracassi. Interviewees include Dario Fo and Gore Vidal.Mercury also has world sales (excluding US) for another 9/11 conspiracy documentary, Loose Change Final Cut. As ...
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Atonement leads BAFTA race with 14 nominations
Joe Wright’s Atonementleads the BAFTA nominations with 14 nods, in categories Best Film, Best British Film, Director (Joe Wright), Adapted Screenplay, Leading Actress (Keira Knightley), Leading Actor (James McAvoy), Supporting Actress (Saoirse Ronan), Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair.