All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1161
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The Ghost scares up deals for Summit
Summit International has announced major territory sales on a high-prestige EFM slate led by deals with Pathe in France, Kinowelt in Germany and Rai/01 in Italy on Roman Polanski's thriller The Ghost starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. Eagle Pictures in Italy, which had already taken rights on Twilight follow-up ...
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South By Southwestmakes deal with genre specialists Fantastic Fest.
The South By Southwest Film Festival will introduce its inaugural midnight programme when the event kicks off in March following a deal with genre specialists Fantastic Fest. The full SXSW Presents Fantastic Fest At Midnight will be unveiled towards the end of February. Festival organisers also unveiled that former Picturehouse ...
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Mangold to direct thriller for Bold Films
Los Angeles-based Bold Films is developing an untitled legal thriller with James Mangold and Cathy Konrad's Treeline Films in the vein of The Verdict and All The President's Men. Mangold is attached to direct the true story of a pair of New Orleans lawyer brothers who take on Big Oil ...
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Bleiberg picks up AIDS drama Pedro
Bleiberg Entertainment has picked up international rights to BMP Films' biopic Pedro written by the Oscar nominated Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. Bleiberg is talking to buyers in Berlin about Nick Oceano's story on the life of Pedro Zamora, the young AIDS campaigner who dedicated his life to raise awareness ...
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Milk, Slumdog, Bashir march onwards with WGA Award wins
Milk and Slumdog Millionaire were the big winners at the Writers Guild Of America's 2009 awards at the weekend.Dustin Lance Black took the original screenplay prize for Milk while Simon Beaufoy kept the Slumdog Millionaire bandwagon going with a win in the adapted category based on Vikas Swarup's novel Q ...
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Bleiberg Entertainment closes raft of territories on Adam Resurrected
Bleiberg Entertainment has closed a raft of further territories on the Holocaust drama Adam Resurrected, including German-speaking territories to 3L Filmverleigh and Brazil to Flashstar.Deals have closed in Israel (United King Films), Portugal (Valentim), Greece (Village Roadshow), Turkey (Horizon), Iceland (Myndform), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and ...
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Shoreline is ata forkin the road
Morris Ruskin's Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights to Jim Kouf's comedy A Fork In The Road. Shoreline will seek to tempt buyers in Berlin with the story of an escaped convict and a murderous farmers wife who go on the run ...
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US sellers get tough on bad buyers
A group of leading rival US sales companies are plotting a post-EFM get-together to share information about - and take steps against - the rising tide of cash-starved buyers who are not honouring contracts. Frustrated by international buyers who they say renege on deals by failing to pay balances on ...
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Rendez-Vous hosts world premiere of Techine's Girl On The Train
The 14th edition of Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York will screen 18 films during The Film Society Of Lincoln Center and Unifrance's annual showcase from March 5-15.The world premiere of Andre Techine's social drama The Girl On The Train is in the line-up, along with the US premiere ...
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AMediaVision announces slate led by Reach For Me
AMediaVision Projects has announced a slate of films led by the recently completed drama Reach For Me starring Seymour Cassel and Alfre Woodard.Cassel stars as a hospice patient who reflects on his decision to live out his life in peace as his roommate chooses to celebrate his dying days. Johnny ...
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Momentum takes UK rights to thriller Burning Bright
Momentum has acquired UK rights from Sobini Films to the thriller Burning Bright, starring Briana Evigan as a girl trapped in a house with her autistic brother and a ravenous tiger during a hurricane.Sobini's vice president of international, Todd Olsson is showing footage here and has also sold rights to ...
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The Greatest sells strongly for Kimmel
Kimmel International has closed key territories on Shane Feste's drama The Greatest starring Sundance breakout star Carey Mulligan alongside Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon. Deals have closed with SND in France, Dea Planeta in Spain, Gussi in Mexico, PlayArte in Brazil, Nordisk in Scandinavia, Nu Metro in South Africa and ...
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Mickey Rourke reteams with Hill
Mickey Rourke's remarkable comeback continues apace as the white-hot Oscar nominee reunites with his Johnny Handsome director Walter Hill on the action thriller St Vincent, set to begin filming later this year.Stuart Ford's IM Global is handling international sales and has reported feverish early interest from buyers in Berlin keen ...
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Cinemavault picks up Canadian, sales on Lovely, Still
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing has picked up international sales and Canadian distribution rights to Nik Fackler's directorial debut Lovely, Still, which premiered at Toronto and stars Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn. Cinemavault is presenting the picture in Berlin as the producers work on a new cut and plans to premiere the ...
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E1 peddles Souls to Madman
E1 Films International has sold Australian rights to Sophie Barthes' comedy Cold Souls to Madman, hot on the heels of Samuel Goldwyn Films' acquisition of US rights following the world premiere at Sundance. Sales chief Charlotte Mickie also announced that Memento has acquired French rights to Cherien Dabis' Palestinian immigrant ...
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Greg MacGillivray shoots documentary about surfing culture
Greg MacGillivray is shooting a documentary examining 50 years of surfing culture in cinema with particular emphasis on the troubled production of John Milius' 1978 Big Wednesday.The untitled project will draw from archival material ranging from Thomas Edison's first Hawaiian surfing footage in 1906 to excerpts from iconic imagery from ...
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Barnz signs on to direct edgy romance Beastly for CBS Films
Daniel Barnz has signed on to direct the edgy romance Beastly for CBS Films.
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Echo Bridge sells far and wide on Ruins, Inhale
Heading in to the EFM Los Angeles-based Echo Bridge Entertainment has closed key territories on My Life In Ruins, Virgin On Bourbon Street and Inhale. Rights to the romantic comedy My Life In Ruins have gone to Warner Bros in the UK, Splendid Films in Germany, Fox Searchlight in Australia ...
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Alien goes international with Little
The Little Film Company has boarded international rights to RW Goodwin's 1950s sci-fi homage Alien Trespass and is commencing talks with buyers in Berlin. Eric McCormack and Robert Patrick star in the story of a benevolent alien that inhabits the body of a Californian astronomer in the hopes of saving ...
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T&C Pictures Internationalpacks Black Dynamite
David Jourdan's fledgling sales agency T&C Pictures International has picked up Scott Sanders' Sundance blaxpoitation pastiche Black Dynamite, while celebrating a North American deal with Summit Entertainment on its first film comedy musical Lock And Roll Forever. Jourdan closed the Black Dynamite deal with Endeavor Independent's Graham Taylor and Mark ...