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Paramount to release Universal home entertainment slate in Spain
Paramount Home Entertainment International (PHEI) has signed an agreement to handle Universal’s entire home entertainment slate in Spain.
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MRC, Shyamalan hire Stamm to direct second Chronicles film
Media Rights Capital (MRC) and M Night Shyamalan have announced the second of the three-film The NightChronicles series ahead of Friday’s release of Devil through Universal.
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CielEcran deal broadens Emerging Pictures' alternative content roster
Emerging Pictures continues to expand its alternative content roster following a deal to become the exclusive North American theatrical distributor of CielEcran’s live ballet programming.
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Perrier's Bounty to open 2010 LAIFF
Ian Fitzgibbon’s Perrier’s Bounty and a musical performance by Colin Devlin bookend the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival (LAIFF), set to run from September 30-October 3.
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Schell moves to Universal to head business development
Universal Pictures has named Jessica Schell to lead the studio’s business development efforts.
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IFC Midnight strikes first partnership with Fantastic Fest
IFC Films’ genre label IFC Midnight has announced its first partnership four months after launching.
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Lionsgate, Televisa target US-based hispanic dollar with Pantelion
Lionsgate and Spanish media company Televisa have launched Pantelion Films, a joint venture targetting the potentially lucrative hispanic audience in the US.
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Cinemavault in discussions with Toronto buyers for Donkey, Citizen Marc
Cinemavault has acquired worldwide rights to the mobster film Donkey and marijuana activist documentary Citizen Marc.
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Hannibal Classics in talks with buyers for Kurt Russell drama Touchback
Principal photography has wrapped on the drama Touchback starring Brian Presley and Kurt Russell, which Hannibal Classics is representing for international sales here.
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Little Film starts talks on Raymond Briggs adaptation Ethel & Ernest
Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn have joined the voice cast of animated project Ethel & Ernest based on the Raymond Briggs book.
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Anchor Bay strikes US deal for Meet Monica Velour
Anchor Bay Films has acquired all English-speaking rights to Gilbert Films’ comedy Meet Monica Velour starring Kim Cattrall.
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Chawz attracts Magnet for North American distribution
Magnet Releasing has acquired North American rights to Jeong-won Shin’s South Korean film Chawz about a giant pig that terrorises an idyllic countryside region.
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FilmNation closes key territory sales on Endgame sci-fi project Looper
Glen Basner’s FilmNation has closed key sales on Endgame Entertainment’s upcoming sci-fi Looper to star Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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Weinsteins take US, UK and multiple territories on Dirty Girl
The Weinstein Company (TWC) is understood to have paid $3.2m for all English and French-speaking rights to Abe Sylvia’s road movie Dirty Girl following its world premiere in Toronto on Sunday [12].
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FeaturesWill Gluck
Director Will Gluck talks about working with rising star Emma Stone on Screen Gem’s high school rom com Easy A, which premieres in Toronto.
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NewsResident Evil: Afterlife storms to top in US on $28m
Sony’s fourth entry in the horror franchise easily dominated the first official weekend of the autumn season as an estimated $27.7m as it demolished the competition.
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NewsDisney crosses $2bn while Sony's Evil rules overseas on $46.2m
Disney crossed $2bn at the international box office for the first time in its history as a weekend of strong holds pushed the company’s combined ticket sales for the year-to-date to $2.015bn.
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Myriad introduces Toronto buyers to Leonard adaptation Freaky Deaky
Myriad Pictures is producing an adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s crime caper Freaky Deaky with Matthau Media and is presenting the project to buyers here.
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NewsIFC takes US rights to Midnight Madness hit SUPER
The first significant on-site sale of Toronto has closed as it emerged this afternoon that IFC had paid seven figures for US rights to James Gunn’s superhero comedy SUPER.