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All Americas articles – Page 293
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Palm Springs honours Into The Wild duo
Sean Penn will receive the Director of the Year Award for his acclaimed latest film Into The Wild at the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival awards gala on Jan 5.Past director honourees at this Oscar bellweather include Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel, Anthony Minghella for Cold Mountain, Alexander ...
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Lakeshore unleashes Underworld 3: The Rise Of The Lycans
Lakeshore Entertainment is prepring Underworld 3: The Rise Of The Lycans, the prequel to its $200m worldwide franchise about warring werewolves and vampires that will open in North America through Screen Gems.Lakeshore and Sony Pictures Releasing International hold international rights to the film, which is set to begin production in ...
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Magnolia swoops for Spanish time-travel buzz-film
Magnolia Pictures has picked up worldwide rights excluding Spain from producer Eduardo Carneros to Nacho Vigalondo's sci-fi film Timecrimes.Laird Adamson, head of international sales at Magnolia's sister company HDNet, will screen the film and begin international sales at AFM.Timecrimes centres on a man who inadvertently discovers the perils of time ...
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Control wins further prizes at Chicago festival
Anton Corbijn's Control, which earlier this week picked up 10 British Independent Film Awards nominations, is one of three films to be awarded the Chicago International Film Festival's Audience Choice Award.Control shared the honour with Carlitos Ruίz Ruiz and Mariem Perez Riera's Puerto Rican comedy Lovesickness and Jon Dunham's US ...
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Omega on board for non-US sales of Six Lives Of Henry Lefay
Omega Entertainment is co-financing and handling international sales on the Tim Allen comedy The Six Wives of Henry Lefay. The film, which will be introduced to buyers at the forthcoming AFM, is also financed by Ring Productions and Aramid. Producers are Brillstein Entertainment Partners' David McIlvain and Holly Wiersma. Cassian ...
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Earth to open Brazil's Amazonas Film Festival
Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield's Earth will open the fourth annual Amazonas Film Festival in Manaus, Brazil. The announcement came as the festival unveiled its feature and documentary film competitions as well as its symposium for the 2007 edition which runs Nov 9-15. The UK-Germany co-production, a feature-length companion to ...
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Michael Sheen to host Britannia Awards in LA
Michael Sheen, who portrayed the former British Prime Minster Tony Blair in The Queen, will host the 16th Annual BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 1.Sheen, who recently appeared as a presenter at the Hollywood Film Awards, will next be seen in the drama Music Within and ...
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Miller leads trio of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment promotions
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has promoted three executives in the company's international group, led by T Paul Miller's appointment as senior vice president of international and general manager of emerging markets.Also elevated in the corporate ranks are Claude Borna, promoted to vice president of retail marketing, Europe, and Orrie ...
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Caviezel stars in Arclight's remake of Long Weekend
Jim Caviezel and Claudia Karvan will star in Arclight Films' thriller remake Long Weekend, which is scheduled to begin shooting in Australia in mid-November.The company's genre label Darclight is handling worldwide distribution and will commence pre-sales at AFM.Jamie Blanks, whose credits include Urban Legend and Storm Warning, is directing based ...
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Horrorfest scares up US theatrical outlet for Mulberry Street
Belladonna Productions' Tribeca Film Festival entry Mulberry Street will get a US theatrical release through the After Dark Horrorfest.After Dark acquired rights from Lionsgate, which retains domestic home entertainment rights. Media 8 is handling international sales.Jim Mickle directed the story of a mysterious sickness that turns New York City residents ...
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Little Film Co to unveil Nettlebeck's English-language debut at AFM
Los Angeles-based production and sales company The Little Film Company has begun principal photography in Vancouver on Sandra Nettelbeck's drama Helen starring Ashley Judd, Goran Visnjic and Lauren Lee Smith.Nettelbeck's English-language debut centres on a seemingly happy woman who harbours a dark secret that threatens to disrupt her entire life.Germany's ...
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Image Entertainment shareholders approve BTP deal
North American home entertainment company Image Entertainment announced that its stockholders have approved the amended agreement for Image to be acquired by BTP Acquisition Company. The merger is expected to close by Nov 6. The revised agreement will give shareholders $4.68 per share in cash. In March, Image agreed to ...
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Fortissimo takes on Chorus Line doc Every Little Step
Fortissimo Films has taken worldwide sales rights (excluding North America and Japan) to Every Little Step: The Journey Of a Phenomenon from Endgame Entertainment. The deal was negotiated between Fortissimo's co-chairman Michael J. Werner and Greg Schenz of Endgame Entertainment. Fortissimo will start pre-sales at next week's American Film Market. ...
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City Of Men (Cidade Dos Homens O Filme)
Dir: Paulo Morelli, Brazil, 106minsA touching coming-of-age story set against the violence and poverty of Rio's favelas, City of Men is the final instalment in a cycle of work inspired by Fernando Meirelles' City of God. Featuring characters from the three-year-running TV series City of Men that was commissioned following ...
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Handpicked lines up financing for 11 films with Ginepri
Michel Shane and Anthony Romano's Los Angeles-based Handpicked Films has secured multi-year financing for several slates backed by New York based hedge fund Ginepri Capital Partners. The initial Ginepri Motion Picture Slate of 11 films is valued at approximately $110m and Shane and Romano will act as executive directors and ...
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National Geographic creates global media group
National Geographic has created a new Global Media group encompassing its film, magazine, book publishing, television, music, radio, and digital media and maps units.National Geographic Ventures president and chief executive officer Tim Kelly has been named president of Global Media, and will continue to report to National Geographic Society president ...
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Arsenal beefs up AFM slate with LA street-fighting drama
Principal photography has started in and around Los Angeles on the sub-$10m street fighting drama Blood & Bone from producers Arnold Rifkin and Christopher Eberts of Rifkin-Eberts. Remarkable Films' Nick Simunek and Matthew Binns are also producing along with Michael Mailer. Yarek Danielak's Arsenal Pictures holds exclusive international sales rights ...
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NFI takes on Day Zero, Intervention and Sex and Breakfast
New Films International (NFI) has picked up three titles ahead of AFM including the psychological drama Day Zero with Elijah Wood and addiction drama Intervention with Andie MacDowell.Day Zero imagines the lives of three friends in New York at a time when the military draft has been reinstated and the ...
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American World takes on Alan Cumming's Ghost Writer
Los Angeles-based American World Pictures (AWP) has boarded international rights to Alan Cumming's solo directorial debut Ghost Writer (aka Suffering Man's Charity) and will begin sales at AFM. Cumming stars in the comedy-horror film as a predatory music teacher who attempts to take the credit for a book written ...
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Capitol bolsters AFM slate with new films from Redford, Hackford
Capitol Films has announced several high-profile new projects on its slate for next week's American Film Market.Capitol will introduce buyers to Robert Redford's next directorial project, Against All Enemies, which will star Bruce Willis; as well as Taylor Hackford's next film Love Ranch, starring his wife, Oscar winner Helen Mirren ...