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Mickey Rourke and Jason Statham among cast for 13 remake
Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Sam Riley and 50 Cent will star in 13, Gela Babluani's remake of his 2005 French thriller 13 Tzameti that Paramount Vantage will begin to pre-sell at AFM. Endeavor represents North American rights on the story of a young man who steals a mysterious package ...
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Laurence Fishburne to be honoured at Bahamas festival
Laurence Fishburne will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Career Achievement Award in Nassau in December 7. Festival patron Sean Connery will present the honour, which was set up to recognise film-makers whose work has had a 'major impact and has advanced the frontiers of cinematic artistry around ...
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Ron Perlman joins cast of Season Of The Witch.
Ron Perlman has joined Nicolas Cage in Relativity Media and Atlas Entertainment's supernatural thriller Season Of The Witch. Mandate International will commence pre-sales at AFM on the story of a 14th century knight who escorts a suspected witch across Europe. Production is set to begin in Austria and ...
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Ballast earns four nominations atGotham Independent Film Awards
Lance Hammer's Ballast is nominated for best feature, director, breakthrough actor and ensemble performance at IFP awards, 22 films nominated in six categories. Lance Hammer's Ballast leads the pack in the 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards with four nominations for best feature, director, breakthrough actor and ensemble performance.Six titles ...
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Troubled Water wins Hamptons' Golden Starfish
Erik Poppe's Norwegian-Swedish film Troubled Water won the 16th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival's Golden Starfish Best Narrative Feature and an awards package of more than $185,000 of in-kind production services. Megumi Sasaki's US entry Herb And Dorothy took the documentary award and a $5,000 cash prize while special ...
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Captain Abu Raed wins Heartland's grand prize
Amin Matalqa's Jordanian foreign-language Oscar submission Captain Abu Raed won the 17th Heartland Film Festival's grand prize at the weekend for best dramatic feature and a $100,000 prize. Click here for review. The annual Crystal Heart Awards Gala anointed Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker's Pray The Devil Back To ...
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North American box office soars with Max Payne
The US economy may be in dire straits but Hollywood remains recession-proof as the North American box office climbed for the fourth consecutive weekend against the same period last year after Fox's videogame adaptation Max Payne starring Mark Wahlberg opened top on an estimated $18m. Fox Searchlight's Civil Rights ...
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Mamma Mia! crosses $400m international mark
Abba musical adaptation Mamma Mia! passed another milestone in a phenomenal run in international markets, crossing the $400m mark. Universal's dancing queens added $5.9m this weekend through UPI from 3,789 locations in 49 territories to reach $400.1m.In so doing became it became Universal's second biggest international release behind Jurassic Park. ...
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Eagle Eye perches at top of international box office
Paramount-DreamWorks' paranoia thriller Eagle Eye dominated the international charts with an estimated $12m haul, thought the story of the weekend was Mamma Mia!, which capped a fine overseas run by crossing $400m. Click here for more.Eagle Eye's weekend haul from 3,779 sites in 49 territories through PPI was powered ...
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67 countries submit titles for foreign language film Oscar
A record 67 countries, including first-time entrant Jordan have submitted films for consideration in the foreign language film category for the 81st Academy Awards.Nominations will be announced on January 22, 2009 and the Oscar will be presented on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Centre.Click ...
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Summit signs with Anders, Morris to develop untitled comedy
On the eve of Summit Entertainment's release of the teen comedy Sex Drive, the company has signed a deal with the film's screenwriters Sean Anders and John Morris to develop an untitled comedy.Anders will direct and Morris will produce the film about a wild college sophomore who inherits a stubborn ...
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United States - Social partners
When Social Capital launched three years ago, headed by musician and real-estate entrepreneur Martin Shore and production and finance specialist Christopher Tuffin, its goal was to make two to three films a year in the $15m-$35m range.The company quickly sealed a partnership with The Steel Company, the veteran buyers' representation ...
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Fox looks to lead international as Max Payne shoots into 32 territories
Fox International ruled the roost last weekend with Andrei Kravchuk's The Admiral and will look to hold on to its winning ways with the wide day-and-date launch of the video game adaptation Max Payne starring Mark Wahlberg.The action film breaks into 32 territories this weekend, among them Australia, New Zealand, ...
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Ricci, Neeson to star in After.Life for Lleju Productions, Plum Pictures
Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson will star in the psychological thriller After.Life for venture capitalist Bill Perkins' new LLeju Productions and Plum Pictures.ICM packaged and arranged financing for the project through Perkins and represents Ricci and writer and first time director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. ICM holds North American rights and IM ...
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Oscilloscope takes worldwide on Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie
Oscilloscope Laboratories has taken worldwide rights to Jay Delaney's documentary Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie and will release it today [October 17] at the Pioneer Theater in New York and on DVD in winter 2009.The film is styled as a buddy movie about Bigfoot researchers Wayne Burton and Dallas Gilbert ...
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Eurocinema's Namer to give keynote at China conference
VOD service Eurocinema's head of North American operations Larry Namer will give the keynote speech along with News Corp Europe chairman I Martin Pompadur at China's first International Media And Technology Conference, which runs from October 22-25.The symposium is co-sponsored by the China Radio And Television Association (CRTA) and the ...
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LongTale International picks up international on Strathairn drama
LongTale International has acquired international rights to Eithor/Or Films' off-beat drama The Sensation of Sight starring David Strathairn.Aaron J Wiederspahn directed the story about a middle-aged English teacher's search for meaning amid the ache of despair.Jane Adams, Ann Cusak, Elisabeth Waterston, Joe Mazzello, and Scott Wilson round out the key ...
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Taraji Henson takes lead in No More Bloodshed
Taraji Henson, who recently starred in Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys, will star in the quirky thriller No More Bloodshed that is set to begin shooting in Los Angeles in March 2009.The film centres on a paroled hit man determined to change his life and reclaim the son he's ...
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New York Critics to announce annual awards on Dec 10
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) will hold its annual vote on the year's best in film on December 10 and the awards ceremony will take place at Spotlight in New York City on January 5 2009.The group's outgoing chair and Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum also announced that ...
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Twilight's Rathbone joins cast of Clive Barker adaptation Dread
Twilight cast member Jackson Rathbone has joined the cast of UK-based Matador Pictures and LA-based Midnight Picture Show's Clive Barker adaptation Dread, which has begun five-week principal photography in the UK.Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment holds worldwide rights and will commence sales at AFM in Santa Monica next month on the ...