All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1176
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UPIE acquires majority stake in Dentsu's DVD outfit Geneon
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) is acquiring a majority stake in Japanese media conglomerate Dentsu's DVD company Geneon to create a home entertainment marketing and distribution entity in Japan.The transaction is expected to be completed by early 2009. Under the terms of the agreement, Geneon will merge with UPIE subsidiary ...
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Warner's Richard Fox to receive honour from Italian government
Warner Bros' executive vice president of international Richard Fox will receive the honorary title Commander Of The Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic at a ceremony in Rome on November 17.Fox will receive the honour from Gianni Letta, Undersecretary Of State for the Prime Minister, during an event at ...
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Epic sells Blood River to Germany, Russia, Brazil and Argentina
Epic Pictures has closed key sales at AFM on Leonidas Films' horror tale Blood River from director Adam Mason.Rights have gone to MIG Film for Germany, Vox for Russia, Five Stars for Brazil and Argentina, Spentzos Films for Greece and Carisma Films for Poland.Further deals closed with Ster-Kinekor for South ...
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Arthouse picks up worldwide rights to Cajori's Chuck Close
Arthouse Films has picked up worldwide rights to the late Marion Cajori's documentary Chuck Close and will release in early 2009.Arthouse will distribute through its output deals with Mongrel Media in Canada, Revolver Entertainment in the UK and Ireland, Madman Entertainment in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and on ...
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here! takes on domestic rights to Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5
here! Films has acquired North American rights from Svensk Filmindustri to Swedish director Ella Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5.here! sister company Regent Releasing plans a limited release next summer on the adaptation of Michael Druker's stage play about a gay married couple who accidentally adopts a homophobic teenager.Patrik, Age 1.5 premiered ...
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Paris Hilton, Charlotte Rampling join cast of new Solondz picture
Charlotte Rampling, Allison Janney, Ciaran Hinds and Paris Hilton have joined the cast of Werc Werk Works' upcoming Todd Solondz companion piece to his dark comedy Happiness.The 'part-sequel, par variation' to the 1998 release will also star Shirley Henderson, Renee Taylor, Michael Lerner, Michael Kenneth Williams, Chane't Johnson, Paul Reubens, ...
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Wall-E, Panda, Bashir among 14 films on animated feature Oscar shortlist
Fourteen features will vie for the animated feature Oscar when the 81st Academy Awards are announced on February 22.The contenders are Bolt, Delgo, Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who!, Dragon Hunters, Fly Me To The Moon, Igor, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, $9.99, The Sky Crawlers, Sword Of ...
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O'Shaugnessy, Bond launch production & sales outfit Mission Pictures
American Cinema International president Chevonne O'Shaughnessy and Promenade Pictures president and COO Cindy Bond have launched the faith-based production, marketing and sales company Mission Pictures.The partners plan to release six to eight films a year and have been talking to AFM buyers about the initial slate, headed by the CGI ...
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Maya to produce American Tragic to star America Ferrara
Maya Entertainment has boarded the drama American Tragic starring America Ferrera, Melissa Leo and newcomer Ryan O'Nan.Ryan Piers Williams will direct from his own screenplay about a disillusioned veteran who goes on a road trip in search of happiness. June Diane Raphael also stars. Production is set to begin in ...
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First Independent takes US rights to Aselton's Gigantic
Gary Rubin's First Independent Pictures has acquired US rights to Killer Films and Epoch Films' offbeat comedy Gigantic.Matt Aselton directed the film starring Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel as a mattress shop worker and his foul-mouthed girlfriend who try to adopt a baby. John Goodman, Ed Asner and Jane Alexander ...
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Richard Jenkins joins Tatum, Seyfried in Relativity's Dear John
Richard Jenkins, attracting Oscar buzz for his performance in The Visitor, has joined Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried on the cast of Relativity Media's romance Dear John.Lasse Hallstrom has started principal photography in South Carolina on the project based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, whose work has spawned the ...
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Buyers, sellers navigate perils at quiet AFM
Caution has been the watchword of the AFM as buyers and sellers navigated a course through a perilous landscape in the wake of the global financial collapse.As the market headed into its final stages, only the bigger US sales agents were selling out as buyers sought to fill 2010 slots ...
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Image takes US rights to Jennifer Aniston-starrer Management
Image Entertainment has acquired US rights to the Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy Management following its world premiere at Toronto.Image plans to release the Sidney Kimmel Entertainment film on approximately 200 prints. Kimmel International pre-sold overseas rights.Sidney Kimmel, Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen produced and Aniston served as executive producer with ...
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Madagascar 2 has powerful $63.5m opening in North America
DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa dominated the North American landscape after launching in a super-wide 4,056 sites and grossing an estimated $63.5m through Paramount.Approximately 6% of that amount, accounting for roughly $3.6m, came from 130 North American IMAX screens, which IMAX chairman and president Greg Foster highlighted as a ...
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Sensational Solace soars for SPRI with $106.5m weekend
MGM's Quantum Of Solace left the overseas market shaken and stirred as it expanded into 60 markets and grossed a stunning $106.5m estimated weekend for $160.3m after ten days through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).Playing in 9,870 screens, the James Bond action saga ranked number one everywhere and scored the ...
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Sergei Bodrov to direct Marco Polo movie for Endgame, Hollywood Gang
After bringing the life of the Asian warrior Genghis Khan to the big screen, Mongol director Sergei Bodrov is training his sights on Marco Polo for Hollywood Gang Productions and Endgame Entertainment.Hollywood Gang's Gianni Nunnari and Endgame's James D Stern will produce The Silk Road: The Adventures Of Marco Polo ...
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Phillip Noyce makes Bold move with Above Suspicion
Bold Films has signed Phillip Noyce to direct the true crime thriller Above Suspicion about the only FBI agent to be convicted of murder after an affair with an informant threatens to destroy his marriage and career.The LA-based company holds worldwide rights and worldwide distribution president Stephanie Denton is talking ...
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Myriad Pictures signs output deals with Turkey, Portugal
Kirk D'Amico's production and sales outfit Myriad Pictures has signed output deals with D Productions in Turkey and VC Multi-Media in Portugal.The first titles include Bruno Barreto's Brazilian foreign language Oscar entry Last Stop 174, the Simon Baker and Paz Vega thriller Not Forgotten, drama The Cry Of The Owl ...
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Media 8 makes AFM sales on Dali biopic, A Film With Me In It
LA-based production, finance and sales company Media 8 Entertainment has completed sales on several key titles led by Simon West's upcoming Salvador Dali biopic.MGN/Paradis took rights for Russia, Horizon for Turkey and Revolutionary Releasing for Eastern Europe. Horizon also took A Film With Me in It and Everybody Wants To ...
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New financing outfit MMG boards Gela Babluani's 13 remake
New Beverly Hills financing outfit Magnet Media Group (MMG) has boarded the crime thriller remake 13 that Paramount Vantage International is pre-selling here.13 is the first project to be co-financed by Barbarian Films, Oceana Media Finance and MMG and stars Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Sam Riley Ray Winstone, Ray Liotta ...