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Picturehouse promotes Crain to VP of acquisitions
Lindsay Crain has been promoted to vice president of acquisitions at Picturehouse.Crain will continue to report to senior vice president of acquisitions Sara Rose and will work closely with her and president Bob Berney on all acquisitions and developments.'Lindsay has been an instrumental part of our team for close to ...
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Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish join the fight for Viking epic
Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish and Sean Bean have come on board Menno Meyjes' next film Last Battle Dreamer.The $20m Viking epic adventure will shoot starting Nov 19 for eight weeks in the UK and Germany, backed by Future Films with Handmade Films International handling international sales.Phillippe stars as Thorfinn, a ...
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Jim Harvey takes Media 8 VP post after leaving Element
Jim Harvey has joined Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Media 8 as vice president of worldwide distribution after exiting the now defunct Element Films International (EFI).Harvey will be in Toronto to oversee all sales, licensing and distribution on a slate that includes the historical drama Eichmann starring Thomas ...
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Gone Baby Gone
Dir: Ben Affleck. US. 2007. 114mins.In Gone Baby Gone, an earnest but inexperienced young man plunges headfirst into deep waters, only to discover how much he still has to learn. That description could apply to the film's main character, a headstrong private detective hunting for a missing child, but it ...
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The Hunting Party
Dir: Richard Shepard USA 2007. 100mins A textbook study in the dangers of trying to have one's cake and eat it, The Hunting Party mixes earnest sentimentality and black comedy in an unlikely yarn about the search for a Bosnian Serb war criminal by a maverick TV news crew. On ...
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Slingshot strikes 12-film development deal with BBC Films
The UK's new low-budget digital studio Slingshot Studios is workingwith BBC Films to co-develop and co-finance four projects in 2007 and afurther eight projects in 2008.The projects will be shot using Slingshot's micro-budget model, with UK theatrical release through Slingshot and a TV platform on the BBC.BBC Films and Slingshot ...
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McGuckian starts shoot for A.R.T In Las Vegas
Mary McGuckian has started a five-week shoot this week in London for A.R.T. In Las Vegas, a drama set in the world of fertility treatment. The shoot will move to Las Vegas for two weeks in mid September. The fly-on-the-wall fertility clinic story is the final film in McGuckian's amorality ...
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Maximum, Seville strike co-distribution deal with Magnolia and HDNet
Canadian distribution startup Maximum Films and Entertainment One'srecently acquired Seville Entertainment have signed a multi-pictureco-distribution deal with Magnolia Pictures and HDNet films. The slate pick-up, which covers all of Canada in all media, includes Michael Radford's period heist picture Flawless, starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore; Brian De Palma's Iraq ...
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Little Film Company takes international rights to The Secrets
The Little Film Company has picked up international rights to Avi Nesher's drama The Secrets, which makes its international premiere in Toronto in the Contemporary World Cinema section on Sept 8.Robbie Little negotiated the deal with Ronna Wallace, who is retaining domestic rights.David Silber produced the story of two Jewish ...
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Atopia snaps up Quebec features
Montreal-based Atopia Distribution has picked up four new Quebec-based titles, including Marc-Andre Forcier's Nemesis, Denis Cote's Elle Veut Le Chaos and Who Is K.K. Downey', the debut feature of actor Darren Curtis. Nemesis, Forcier's 12th feature, will feature Remy Girard, Roy Dupuis and Celine Bonnier in a family drama set ...
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Spengler to kick off Humanoides slate with Luchadores 5
Superman producer Pierre Spengler has announced plans for his next comic book adaptation, Luchadores 5. The film is the first in Spengler's previously announced 12-film slate with the European comic book/graphic novel publisher Les Humanoides Associes.Former Humanoids chief executive and Spengler's producing partner in Clubdeal, F Alexander Giger, will also ...
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Publicist Robert Garlock dies in New York at 41
Robert Garlock, the well-known New York-based publicist has died at the age of 41 of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was most recently head of the talent division at 42West where he represented clients including Penelope Cruz, Hugh Grant, Clive Owen, Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver, Hilary Swank and Kate Winslet,Garlock ...
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Lumina sells German-speaking Europe on Donkey Punch to Universum
London-based Lumina Films has sold German-speaking rights to Olly Blackburn's British thriller Donkey Punch to Universum Film.The film, produced by Warp X, is now in post-production and is scheduled for a summer 2008 release in the UK by Optimum Releasing.Produced by Angus Lamont, Mark Herbert and Robin Gutch, the film ...
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Halloween
Dir: Rob Zombie US 2007 110mins Rob Zombie's're-imagining' of the original Halloween replaces the atmospheric suspense of John Carpenter's 1978 slasher classic with plodding gonzo horror that offers plenty of blood but not much of the rocker-turned-filmmaker's usual gory flair. Still, the combination of Zombie with one of the horror ...
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Into The Wild
Dir: Sean Penn. US. 2007. 148mins.Sean Penn's fourth feature as a director is as exhilarating as it is unwieldy, a sprawling hymn to nature, humanity and personal freedom which firmly establishes the much-feted actor as a film-maker of vision. Shining an affectionate light on the drifters and counter-culturalists living in ...
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Nic Balthazar's Ben X conquers Montreal
Nic Balthazar's Belgium-Netherlands coproduction Ben X was the toast of Montreal as the debut film-maker took the audience award, the Ecumenical Prize and shared top competition honours with Claude Miller's A Secret as the 31st Montreal World Film Festival wrapped on Monday night. The story of a young autistic man's ...
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GreeneStreet sells The Nines on back of Venice Critics Week screening
Ariel Veneziano of GreeneStreet Films International has closed a slew of sales in Venice on John August's feature directorial debut The Nines.Rights have gone to: Argentina (Telexcel), Brazil (Playarte), Eastern Europe (Blue Sky), Greece (Village Roadshow), Iceland (Sena), Israel (Forum Film), the Middle East (Italia Film), Portugal (Castelo Lopes), Scandinavia ...
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Halloween has biggest Labor Day opening ever for MGM/Dimension
Rob Zombie's reinterpretation of John Carpenter's horror classic Halloween brought a record-breaking summer to a close as it opened number one with an estimated $31m four-day haul over Labor Day Weekend.The result surpassed The Transporter 2's 2005 $20.1m launch with ease to become the biggest Labor Day debut in history.In ...
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Ben X, Un Secret share top competition honours at Montreal
Nic Balthazar's Belgium-Netherlands coproduction Ben X was the toast of Montreal as the debut filmmaker took the audience award, the Ecumenical Prize and shared top competition honours with Claude Miller's A Secret as the 31st Montreal World Film Festival wrapped on Monday night. The story of a young autistic man's ...