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All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1142
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Visit Films buys worldwide rights to Kimjongilia, Little Drizzle
New York-based sales company Visit Films has bulked up its already busy Sundance slate by acquiring worldwide rights to NC Heikin's World Cinema Documentary Competition entry Kimjongilia and David Russo's Spectrum screener The Immaculate Conception Of Little Drizzle.Kimjongilia gets its world premiere here on Sunday [January 18] and examines life ...
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Senator takes Brooklyn's Finest in first Sundance domestic deal
In the first North American deal of Sundance 2009 Senator Distribution swooped on Antoine Fuqua's New York crime drama Brooklyn's Finest, paying more than $3m plus a substantial P&A commitment.Senator president Mark Urman made an initial offer after the film's world premiere here on Friday night and finally sealed the ...
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Eric Kops lands at ID as svp overseeing agency's entertainment team
ID has hired Eric Kops as senior vice president overseeing the agency's entertainment team.Kops will expand ID's film department with additional film release and award campaigns, festival support and production companies. He will also represent a slate of film-makers.The veteran executive has previously served as executive vice president of MGM ...
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CMG takes on martial arts action feature Blood & Bone
Ed Noeltner's Cinema Management Group has taken on international rights to Remarkable Films' just completed martial arts feature Blood & Bone and will introduce the film to buyers at EFM next month.Martial artist Michael Jai White, starring in the Sundance premiere Black Dynamite, leads the key cast along with Julian ...
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Marc Erlbaum launches Jewish production company Nationlight
Film-maker and social activist Marc Erlbaum has announced the launch of Jewish production company Nationlight Productions with the mission of producing positive content for mainstream audiences.Nationlight is supported by a team of experienced Jewish entertainment professionals and the company's advisory board includes Michael Helfant, who served as executive producer on ...
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TLA Releasing hires Derek Curl as head of production and development
TLA Releasing has named Derek Curl as head of production and development in association with Curl's New York-based company Caveat Films.The North American and UK-based distributor will produce six original gay films for 2009 across all genres. TLA Releasing and Caveat Films will also produce two gay short film compilations ...
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Lightning closes multiple deals on La Linea, Trailer Park Of Terror
Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has closed key sales on a slew of titles including the crime drama La Linea and horror tale Trailer Park Of Terror.Rights to La Linea have sold to All-Interactive (Australia and New Zealand), Telepool (Germany), Film Depot (Russia), CCV (Scandinavia), Ster-Kinekor (South ...
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Elle Driver takes international rights to Wintour doc at Sundance
Elle Driver takes international rights to The September Issue.
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Dion, Oakes promoted in development roles at Bold Films
Garrick Dion has been promoted to senior vice president of development at Bold Films while Jon Oakes is promoted to vice president of development at Gary Michael Walters and David Lancaster's Los Angeles-based company.Rounding out the development team is creative executive Naia Cucukov. The promotions reflect the continued growth of ...
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Shoreline picks up worldwide rights to Dada's Dance
Shoreline Entertainment has swooped on another Sundance title as the festival got ready to kick off last night [January 15], taking worldwide rights to Zhang Yuan's Chinese drama Dada's Dance.Shoreline's director of acquisitions Brandon Paine and director of worldwide distribution Sam Eigen signed the deal with Yuan, adding to the ...
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Profile:RandallMiller's Consolidated Picture Group
Randall Miller, who directed the 2008 Sundance entry Bottle Shock, returns to Park City in a different guise as president of acquisitions and film development at the new distributor Consolidated Pictures Group.Backed by equity investors, the company was set up after Miller and his producing partner Jody Savin were approached ...
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United States - Prohibition's era
Ten years after Twin Falls Idaho premiered at Sundance and established Michael and Mark Polish as darlings of independent cinema, the brothers return to Park City this month with Manure, one of two films they shot back-to-back last summer.A satirical riff on the US salesman archetype, Manure, which screens in ...
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Awards Countdown - Golden Globes - Slumdog has its day
Kate Winslet scored a stunning double triumph at the 66th Golden Globes last Sunday, while Slumdog Millionaire upset the form guide to shut out pre-show favourites The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon.Winslet made herself an Oscar front runner after taking home the first two Globes of her career ...
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HBO buys US TV rights to Magic Hour's Sundance doc Burma VJ
As Sundance 2009 prepared to roll into action tonight (January 15) Submarine Entertainment and First Hand Films announced they had closed a deal with HBO for US television rights to Magic Hour Films’ documentaryBurma VJ.Submarine’s Josh Braun and Esther van Messel of First Hand Films brokered the deal with HBO ...
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WBPI exports Indian actioner Chandni Chowk to 35 markets
Warner Bros Pictures International opens the Bollywood kung-fu comedy Chandni Chowk To China day-and-date with North America in more than 35 markets on January 16 as part of a 40-territory release.Chandni Chowk To China will open on more than 125 screens in the US and Canada, making it the biggest ...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films takes US rights to Brothers At War
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights from to Jake Rademacher's documentary and festival winner Brothers At War.Rademacher produced the film with Norman S Powell about his two brothers who are US Army soldiers and have collectively served seven tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gary Sinise and Dave Scantling served ...
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Vietnamese American film-makers launch new US distribution company
Timothy Linh Bui, Stephane Gauger, Ham Tran and Wyn Tran's newly launched distributor Wave Releasing targeting Vietnamese-American and discerning independent audiences and will roll out its maiden title Owl And The Sparrow on January 16.The Vietnamese-American partners have worked in various capacities on each other's projects and were inspired to ...
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Revolver takes UK rights to Slamdance premiere City Rats
Revolver Entertainment has snapped up UK rights from Facefilms and Scanner Rhodes Productions to City Rats ahead of its world premiere in competition at Slamdance.Steve M Kelly directed from Simon Fantauzzo's script about eight individuals who seek to help each other improve their lives. Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, MyAnna Buring ...
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Oscilloscope buys So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain for North America
Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up North American rights to So Yong Kim's South Korean drama Treeless Mountain, which premiered in Toronto and will screen in the Forum section at next month's Berlinale.The new York-based company plans an April 22 theatrical release at the Film Forum in New York City followed ...
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Richard Matson joins Anywhere Road as vice president
Marketing executive Richard Matson has joined San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York-based distributor Anywhere Road as vice president and head of distribution and marketing.Anywhere Road's 2009 release slate includes the drama Sinner starring Nick Chinlund as priest who faces a crisis of faith when a fundamentalist junior colleague clashes ...