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Vallee to direct Queen Victoria picture for King, Scorsese
Initial Entertainment Group's Graham King and regular collaborator Martin Scorsese have announced the follow-up to their Oscar nominated crime thriller The Departed, lining up a portrait of the early years of the life of Queen Victoria.The partners will serve as producers on The Young Victoria, with Jean-Marc Vallee of C.R.A.Z.Y. ...
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Glue picked up by Picture This!
Picture This! Entertainment has picked up North American rights from Lumina Films to first-time director Alexis Dos Santos' film Glue: Historia Adolescente En Medio De La Nada (Adolescent Story In The Middle Of Nowhere). The comedy-drama traces the coming-of-age antics of three bored small-town teenagers and stars Nahuel Viale Munoz, ...
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Cry Of The Owl picked up by Myriad
Myriad Pictures has picked up worldwide sales on the upcoming UK-Canadian Patricia Highsmith adaptation Cry Of The Owl starring Sarah Polley and David Morrissey. Jamie Thraves adapted the screenplay and will begin filming in Canada in June. Julia Sereny of Canada's Sienna Films and MACT Production's Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre will ...
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Contender strikes UK deal for Weirdsville
Contender Entertainment Group has taken all UK rights from Shoreline Entertainment for Weirdsville. The black comedy recently opened the Slamdance Film Festival. Pump Up The Volume and Empire Records veteran Allan Moyle directed. Nicholas Tabarrok of Darius Films produced and Morris Ruskin of Shoreline executive produced. Weirdsville follows two slackers ...
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20 features selected for Sundance grants
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Programme has announced its second round of grants for 2006 with 20 feature-length documentaries receiving a total of $600,000. The grants were selected by a committee of human rights experts and film professionals from more than 300 global projects. 'The films funded in this round ...
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Richard Branson to star in global warming awareness expedition
Arctic and Antarctic explorer and environmental campaigner Will Steger has begun production on the documentary Baffin Island Expedition '07: The Explorers featuring famed Mount Everest mountaineer Ed Viesturs, Richard Branson and his son Sam. The project marks the launch of the newly established Will Steger Foundation's Global Warming 101 education ...
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Wind Dancer to develop two new comedy projects
US-based production house Wind Dancer Films has hired writers for the first two features unveiled in its recently announced development fund. Bear Aderhold and Tom Sullivan will write Fear Less, a comedy about the most fearful man on earth, who loses all his inhibitions following a freak accident. The writers ...
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The Cinema Guild signs marketing, promo deal with Eurocinema
US video-on-demand service Eurocinema has signed an exclusive deal with leading documentary, foreign and independent film distributor The Cinema Guild. New catalogue titles include Frederic Fonteyne's French tale of love and betrayal Gilles' Wife, Per Fly's Danish family drama The Inheritance, and Agust Gudmundsson's Icelandic murder story The Seagull's Laughter. ...
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Screen's Mike Goodridge takes ICG international journalist prize
Screen International and ScreenDaily.com's US editor Mike Goodridge has been named international journalist of the year at the 44th annual ICG Publicists' awards in Los Angeles. Top film honours went to Fox's publicity team for Borat and TV prize to ABC/Touchstone for Ugly Betty. Other awards were the ICG President's ...
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120 features, 180 shorts to screen at Mar del Plata
The 22nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival (March 8-18) has announced its line-up.In his fifth and final year as Argentina's main festival director Miguel Pereira told Screen the event is increasing its focus on Latin America's emerging talents with a new cash award of $50,000 for the best film ...
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Optimum picks up Rocket Science
Optimum has taken UK rights to Jeffrey Blitz's Rocket Science, which won the Directing Award - Dramatic at Sundance 2007.Charles Schreger, president of programming sales for HBO Enterprises, struck the deal for the HBO Films project with Optimum's managing director Will Clarke.Spellbound director Blitz makes his fictional debut with the ...
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Fortissimo to sell LIVE! worldwide
Fortissimo Films is handling worldwide sales rights excluding North America for Academy Award-winning director Bill Guttentag's LIVE! which is produced by Mosaic Media Group. A satire on the modern obsession with reality TV, the film follows an ambitious TV network executive played by Eva Mendes (Training Day, Hitch), who wants ...
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Essential picks up Solomon Kane, Killing Suki Flood
Fledgling US consultancy, financier and sales agency Essential Entertainment has picked up international rights from producer Samuel Hadida to Solomon Kane and Killing Suki Flood.Solomon Kane is an epic adventure based on the classic comic book by Robert E Howard about a mercenary who strives to redeem himself after selling ...
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Koch Lorber wins US rights to U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha
US distributor Koch Lorber Films has picked up all US rights to the 2005 Golden Bear winner U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha.Mark Dornford-May's inventive adaptation transplants Georges Bizet's French opera Carmen, about a femme fatale who leaves a string of devastated men in her wake, to modern-day South Africa.Lorber has set a March ...
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Shoreline bags worldwide rights to Man In The Chair
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights from Elbow Grease Pictures to Michael Schroeder's drama Man In The Chair, set to play on Saturday [10] in the Generation 14plus programme at the Berlinale.The film stars Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, and M Emmet Walsh and tells of an aspiring teenage film-maker who ...
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Occupant starts production on Peep World
Los Angeles-based Occupant Films, whose horror film All The Boys Love Mandy Lane was picked up by Dimension Films at Toronto, is ramping up production on the comedy Peep World. Peter Himmelstein will direct the film and recently wrapped production for Occupant on thriller The Key Man starring Jack Davenport, ...
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Kuyper joins Warner Premiere as vp, physical production
Warner Bros Entertainment's recently formed direct-to-platform unit Warner Premiere has hired Jon Kuyper as vice president of physical production.Kuyper will oversee all aspects of physical production, including locations, construction, transportation, property and crew staffing.He reports directly to division president Diane Nelson and will work closely with other Warner Premiere executives ...
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Massis takes worldwide on Czech comedy Close To Heaven
Alex Massis' The Film Source has made its first acquisition of 2007, taking worldwide rights to Dan Svatek's Czech comedy Close To Heaven.Svatek also wrote and produced the film, which is said to be the first English-language film produced in the Czech Republic.The story centres on a diverse group of ...
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Miami Film Festival takes focus on documentaries
92 documentaries will screen at the upcoming 24th Annual Miami International Film Festival, set to take place in Florida from Mar 2-11.The overall selection comprises 23 non-fiction entries, 21 of which have made it into the world competition category.These include: Carles Bosch's Spanish entry Septembers (Septiembres), about a prison song ...
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Film and TV production output worth $60.4bn in 2005, says MPAA
Film and television production in 2005 generated more than 1.3m American jobs and $60.4bn in output to the US economy, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) chief Dan Glickman told delegates at a symposium in Washington DC yesterday [Feb 6].Glickman was speaking before the start of 'The Business Of Show ...