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All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1090
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NewsParlay Films Vamps it up at AFM with Amy Heckerling project
Lisa Wilson’s Parlay Films has acquired all international rights to the romantic comedy Vamps, which will be written and directed by Amy Heckerling.
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NewsInaugural Sundance Film Festival USA mini-tour to launch in January
The Sundance Film Festival will take eight film-makers and their films from the 2010 line-up on the road to eight cities under the Sundance Film Festival USA initiative.
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NewsDas, GreeneStreet hire Miguel Sapochnik to direct Contortionist's Handbook
Sriram Das’ Santa Monica-based Das Films and GreeneStreet Films have hired British film-maker Miguel Sapochnik to direct The Contortionist’s Handbook. Production is due to start in May next year.
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NewsSobini Films boards Hemingway project with Hopkins, Garcia, Bening
Sobini Films has boarded international sales rights to Andy Garcia’s Hemingway & Fuentes, an account of Ernest Hemingway’s years in Cuba.
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NewsBollywood star Mallika Sherawat signs to Nuclear Mango's Love, Barack
Govind Menon and William Keenan’s US-India consultancy and production company Nuclear Mango has bought in New Jack City producer Doug McHenry to direct the romantic comedy Love, Barack. The company has cast Bollywood siren Mallika Sherawat.
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NewsPost-Paranormal IM Global rolls out theatrical genre arm
Red hot following the success of the micro-budget Paranormal Activity, Stuart Ford’s LA-based international sales company IM Global is unleashing its Octane genre label at AFM this week, kicking off with Brad Anderson thriller’s The Vanishing On 7th Street.
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NewsRoadside Attractions takes US rights to The Joneses
Roadside Attractions has acquired US theatrical rights to Derrick Borte’s satire The Joneses, the recent Toronto world premiere starring Demi Moore, David Duchovny and Amber Heard.
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Shoreline boards sales on Victor Nunez drama Spoken Word
Morris Ruskin’s LA-based sales Shoreline Entertainment has acquired international sales rights to Victor Nunez’s drama Spoken Word.
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Epic Pictures boards $10m action-adventure Vikingdom
Patrick Ewald’s Epic Pictures is introducing buyers at AFM to the $10m action-adventure Vikingdom pursuant to its $30m production deal with South-East Asia-based KRU Studios.
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NewsGabriela Tagliavini boards Town Of Widows adaptation
Producer Anthony Moody has hired Gabriela Tagliavini to adapt and direct a film adaptation of Colombian novelist James Canon’s novel TalesFrom The Town Of Widows And Chronicles From The Land Of Men.
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Petzel launches production and sales entity Aura Film Partnership
Entrepreneur and former investment banker Christopher Petzel has launched production, distribution and worldwide sales venture The Aura Film Partnership backed by a $50m fund
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NewsDarclight to tempt buyers with Toronto winner The Wild Hunt
Arclight Films genre division Darclight Films will introduce buyers here to Alexandre Franchi’s thriller The Wild Hunt, fresh from its best Canadian first feature film win in Toronto.
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NewsLA's Artist View agrees three-picture deal with producer Todd Slater
LA-based sales company Artist View Entertainment has struck a three-picture deal with producer Todd Slater and will be screening the trio of projects here.
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NewsPatrick Dempsey, Paul McGuigan unite on Foresight's heist rom-com
Patrick Dempsey will star in an untitled heist comedy for Paul McGuigan based on a screenplay by The Hangover writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore.
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NewsHanWay Films lines up A Single Shot with Michael Fassbender
Hot off his star turn in Inglourious Basterds, rising UK star Michael Fassbender has joined Forest Whitaker, William H Macy and Thomas Hayden Church on the thriller A Single Shot.
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NewsReiko Bradley returns from illness to set up Eclipse International
Reiko Bradley has resurfaced following a near fatal stroke three years ago and arrives at AFM with her new LA-based international sales and distribution company Eclipse International.
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NewsSteve Martin and Alec Baldwin to co-host 82nd Academy Awards
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the 82nd Academy Awards on March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood.
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NewsShowcase boards Experimental Activity, Handsome Harry to AFM
Showcase Entertainment has picked up international sales rights for AFM to Experimental Activity starring Katie Featherstone from the US box office phenomenon Paranormal Activity.
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NewsMPower commences talks at AFM on Hello, I Love You
Steve McEveety’s LA-based Mpower Pictures will produce the tween romantic comedy Hello, I Love You to be directed by Sunu Gonera.
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NewsCory Monteith joins Myriad Pictures' Breaking The Girl
Cory Monteith from the television show Glee has joined Amanda Crew and Adrianne Palicki on Jamie Babbit’s thriller Breaking The Girl, which Myriad Pictures is pre-selling here.