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NewsFocus Features starts sales on Adrift
Focus Features International start sales in Cannes on Heitor Dhalia’s Brazilian sexual awakening tale Adrift, which screens in Un Certain Regard.
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NewsRichard Lorber is re-elected to NY Film Forum
Richard Lorber, president and chief executive of Lober HT Digital, has been re-elected as the chair of New York’s Film Forum’s board of directors.
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NewsAmerican World Pictures picks up Just Peck
Los Angeles-based sales company American World Pictures has picked up international rights to Michael A Nickles’s high school comedy Just Peck ahead of Cannes.
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NewsPublic Enemies named LA Film Festival centrepiece screening
Michael Mann’s Depression era gangster thriller Public Enemies starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard will receive its world premiere as the centrepiece screening for the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs from June 18-28.
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NewsMK2 picks up French rights to Fish Tank
MK2 has acquired French rights to Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank from ContentFilm International.
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NewsMaya acquires rights for La Linea
Maya Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based production and distribution company, has acquired US rights to the crime drama La Linea (The Line) starring Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta and Esai Morales.
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NewsLove Child begins principal photography in Toronto
Love Child, the romantic comedy starring Donald Sutherland, has begun principal photography in Toronto.The Myriad Pictures and Alcina Picture co-production is directed by Michael Melski and produced by Toronto-based Alcina’s Paul Barking and Larissa Giroux, with theSanta Monica-based Myriad Pictures and Toronto-based Alcina Pictures have commenced principal photography in Toronto ...
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NewsMagnolia acquires The Eclipse
Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Conor McPherson’s The Eclipse.
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NewsCity Island wins Heineken Audience Award
Raymond De Felitta’s comedy City Island, starring Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies, has won the eighth annual Tribeca Film Festival Heineken Audience Award.De Felitta will receive a cah prize of $25,000 for his film, which received its world premiere during the festival and tells of a Bronx family riddled with ...
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NewsKristofferson joins Hickory Nation
Kris Kristofferson, Jesse James and Brian White have joined the cast of Velveteen Films’ hit-and-run drama Hickory Nation.They join Molly Sims and Aimee Teegarden, who have already signed up to the project. The films explore the aftermath of an accident in a small costal community, which ...
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NewsMedia 8 snares The Horseman
Media 8 Entertainment has acquired the worldwide rights to Steven Kastrissios’ revenge thriller, The Horseman.
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NewsIFC buys US right for I Hate Valentines Day
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Nia Vardalos’ feature directorial debut I Hate Valentine’s Day, a New York-set romantic comedy in which she is reunited with her My Big Fat Greek Wedding co-star John Corbett.Judah Friedlander, Rachel Dratch and Zoe Kazan, who just won the best actress award at ...
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NewsWolverine storms US box office
The summer season arrived with a bang over the weekend as Fox’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine roared to the top of the charts on an estimated $87m three-day gross.
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NewsWolverine dominates global box office
Fox International’s genre prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine kicked off the 2009 summer blockbuster season with a suitably dominant display, grossing an estimated $73m from 9,234 screens in 101 markets.
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NewsSony acquisitions division has taste for Blood: The Last Vampire
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has picked up all North American rights to East Wing Holdings Corp and SAJ’s Blood: The Last Vampire.
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NEHST Studios boards supernatural thriller The Pale Horsemen
Larry Meistrich’s production, financing and distribution company NEHST Studios has acquired film rights to Sandrunner Entertainment’s supernatural thriller The Pale Horsemen
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NewsFox's Wolverine sinks its claws into global box office
The summer season arrives this weekend with 20th Century Fox’s global release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which has one week to establish itself before PPI/Paramount launches Star Trek across the world the following weekend.
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NewsIn The Loop, Lost In Rio bookend Seattle Film Festival
Armando Iannucci’s political satire In The Loop and Michel Hazanavicius’ spy spoof sequel OSS 117: Lost In Rio bookend the 35th Seattle International Film Festival, set to run from May 21-June 14.
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National Geographic, Imagenation Abu Dhabi join Exclusive, Spitfire on Weir's The Way Back
National Geographic Entertainment and Imagenation Abu Dhabi have joined Exclusive Media Group and Spitfire Pictures to produce Peter Weir’s second world war escape thriller The Way Back.
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Lorber HT Digital picks up US rights to spiritual activism doc Fierce Light
Lorber HT Digital has acquired all US rights to Velcrow Ripper’s spiritual activism documentary Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action ahead of its premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto next week.