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THINKFilm International boards Schmidt's horror Bad Meat
THINKFilm International has boarded Tiger Aspect Pictures' upcoming tongue-in-cheek horror film Bad Meat and is commencing sales here in Cannes.Rob Schmidt is attached to direct the story based on Paul Gerstenberger's screenplay about a group of teenage delinquents who get more than they bargained for when they arrive at a ...
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Voltage takes on Alan Rickman starrer Nobel Son
Voltage Pictures has acquired international rights to the crime caper Nobel Son starring Alan Rickman that premiered recently at Tribeca. Director Randall Miller and CAA's Roeg Sutherland negotiated the deal with Voltage sales chief Nicolas Chartier, who will commence sales on the Croisette. Chartier also announced that James Cromwell has ...
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American World Pictures adds One Long Night and Triloquist
American World Pictures (AWP) has spiced up its Cannes sales slate with the comedy-thriller One Long Night starring Alison Eastwood, Karen Black and Ed Begley Jr, along with horror title Triloquist. David Siqueiros directed the tale of a young Mexican-American businessman from California whose life is transformed during a night ...
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Becker rocks on Elijah Wood's Iggy Pop story
Becker International has come on for international sales on Nick Gomez's The Passenger, based on Iggy Pop's life during the 1960s and 1970s.Elijah Wood will play the lead, with a script written by Eric Schmid.This Is That Corporation and Traction Media are executive producing, with Traction representing North American rights. ...
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Arthouse, Red Envelope buy Danny Williams doc
Arthouse Films and Red Envelope Entertainment have partnered to acquire North American rights to Esther B Robinson's documentary A Walk Into The Sea: Danny Williams And The Warhol Factory. The film won the best New York documentary award at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this month as well as the ...
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Magnolia, Red Envelope acquire Hallam Foe for North America
Magnolia Pictures and Red Envelope Entertainment have teamed up to acquire North American rights to David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe which had its world premiere in competition at Berlin this year. The film, which stars Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles and Ciaran Hinds, is the story of a young man searching the ...
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Lucas signs to direct GreeneStreet's Laws Of Motion
Writer-director Craig Lucas has signed on to the satirical comedy Laws Of Motion, which GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) will begin selling in Cannes.Lucas previously directed the 2005 Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee The Dying Gaul and wrote the 2002 drama The Secret Lives Of Dentists.Matthew Perry, Ben Foster and Hilary ...
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Capitol takes on new films from Don Roos and Joshua Marston
Capitol Films has added Don Roos' Love And Other Impossible Pursuits and Joshua Marston's The Fortress Of Solitude to its Cannes slate.The Roos project, which he also wrote, stars Jennifer Lopez in the exploration of a woman's moving and funny relationship with her young stepson. Marc Platt of Legally Blonde ...
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Jack Black goes medieval with Kimmel's Ye Olde Times
Kimmel International chief Mark Lindsey will commence sales in Cannes this week on the upcoming romantic comedy Ye Olde Times starring Jack Black. Shooting is scheduled to begin in September in Gilroy, California, with Michael Mendelsohn producing and Rob A White making his feature directorial debut. Tim Robbins, Will Arnett ...
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Omega takes international rights to Anna Nicole
Swiss and UK-based financing, production and sales company Omega Entertainment has acquired international rights from Montage Films to the Anna Nicole Smith biopic Anna Nicole.Filming is underway in Los Angeles with US singer Willa Ford starring as the late model and TV personality who died last February from an accidental ...
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Kassar, Feitshan form Magnetik, sign three from Relativity
Mario Kassar and Erick J Feitshan's recently formed sales and consulting outfit Magnetik Media has signed three projects from Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media which it is selling in Cannes - James Mangold's 3:10 To Yuma starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, Rob Minkoff's Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan and Jet ...
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Whitaker and Biel line up for Powder Blue
Forest Whitaker and Jessica Biel will star in Eleven Eleven Films' ensemble drama Powder Blue, which QED International will begin selling here this week. Whitaker will produce the project - made in association with Spirit Dance Entertainment and financed by Grosvenor Park - alongside Bobby Schwartz, Ross M Dinerstein, Tracee ...
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Meistrich resurfaces with Nehst Media Enterprises
Film Movement and Shooting Gallery founder Larry Meistrich has launched the New York-based production, financing and distribution company Nehst Media Enterprises.Meistrich has partnered on the venture with homedelivery.com and Chemical Records creator Ari D Friedman. The initial roster of titles and products will be announced shortly.Dana Offenbach is named president ...
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Silverdocs unveils 10 Sterling award entries
Organisers at the Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival have announced the 10 entries in the Sterling Award Feature Film Competition at the upcoming festival, which runs in the Washington DC area from Jun 12-17.The films are: Doug Pray's long-haul trucking tale Big Rig (USA); Eva Mulvad's profile of Afghanistan's first ...
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The Edge signs distribution deal with Echo Bridge
The Edge, the US financing, production and worldwide distribution company launched by John Travolta's longtime producer Jonathan Krane and Beau Rogers, has struck a distribution deal with Echo Bridge Entertainment.Echo Bridge will handle worldwide sales and distribution excluding North American theatrical on two of The Edge's initial slate and will ...
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Spidey on top in US, in spite of 60% drop
Spider-Man 3 took a 60% hit in its second weekend at the North American box office, but it still ruled the marketplace, leaving slimmer than expected pickings for three new releases. After re-writing the record books last weekend with its $151m domestic debut, Sony's Spider-Man 3 grossed ...
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Spider-Man still dominates after 50% international drop
Spider-Man 3 once again dominated the international box office this weekend, falling a respectable 50% from its record-shattering opening to gross $85.5m. International debutant 28 Weeks Later came a very distant second with an estimated $4.7m. With no new competition in most markets, Spider-Man 3 stayed top in all major ...
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Schrader's Walker strolls to THINKFilm for North America
THINKFilm has swooped on all North American rights to Paul Schrader's thriller The Walker starring Woody Harrelson and Kristin Scott Thomas.The third part in Schrader's 'lonely man' trilogy following American Gigolo (1980) and Light Sleeper (1992), The Walker stars Harrelson as an escort in Washington DC who covers up for ...
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Magnolia picks up US rights to Ira And Abbey
Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to Ira & Abby and will slot the romantic comedy into the 2007 release slate along with Sundance pick-ups The Signal and Crazy Love.Ira & Abby charts the tumultuous relationship between two people whose hasty marriage descends into a cycle of affairs, therapy and ...
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Palm takes US rights to Pineyro's Method from Latido
Palm Pictures has taken US rights from Latido Films to Marcelo Pineyro's Argentinian-Spanish psychological thriller The Method (El Metodo).Palm plans a summer theatrical release followed by DVD roll-out for the story of a company that employs a brutal interview process to whittle down a pool of job applicants. Mateo Gil ...