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Strand acquires US rights to Pablo Trapero's Lion's Den
Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Pablo Trapero's Brazil-Argentina-South Korea co-production Lion's Den, which played in competition at Cannes and has been selected as Argentina's foreign language Oscar submission.The drama follows a college student who is imprisoned after being convicted for murder and discovers she is pregnant while ...
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Samuel Goldwyn acquires US rights to American Violet
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Uncommon Productions' American Violet starring Alfre Woodard and newcomer Nicole Beharie following its world premiere at Telluride.Director and producer Tim Disney and his screenwriter and Uncommon Productions partner Bill Haney are meeting with international buyers at AFM.Samuel Goldwyn plans a March release ...
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Anna Faris to receive rising star tribute at Bahamas festival
Anna Faris will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Chopard Award rising star tribute on December 8.Faris recently starred in the hit Sony comedy The House Bunny and her credits include the Scary Movie series, Smiley Face and Lost In Translation.She will star next spring opposite Seth Rogen in ...
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Sundance, NHK name 12 finalists for International Filmmakers Award
The Sundance Institute and Japanese broadcaster NHK have announced the 12 finalists for the 2009 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award.One recipient each from Europe, Latin America, the US and Japan will be selected by members of an international jury to receive $10,000 and a guarantee from NHK to purchase Japanese TV ...
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Deepa Mehta teams with Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children
Deepa Mehta is lining up a feature version of Midnight's Children with author Salman Rushdie, whose masterpiece of magic realism about the birth of modern India has remained untouched by film-makers for nearly 30 years.The film-maker announced the film with Rushdie today, at the eighth annual Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council ...
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NeoClassics takes on Captain Abu Raed from Fortissimo
Canada and US-based NeoClassics Films has picked up North American, UK,Australian and South African rights from Fortissimo to Jordan's firstforeign language Oscar submission Captain Abu Raed.Amin Matalqa's film stars Nadim Sawalha as an airport janitor whoenchants children from his poor neighbourhood who believe he is anairline pilot with tall stories ...
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Goldwyn takes US rights to American Violet
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Uncommon Productions'American Violet starring Alfre Woodard and newcomer Nicole Behariefollowing its world premiere at Telluride.Director and producer Tim Disney and his screenwriter and UncommonProductions partner Bill Haney are meeting with international buyersat AFM.Samuel Goldwyn plans a March release for the story of ...
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Lightning dives into Prodigy's The Reef
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has acquired worldwiderights excluding Australia and New Zealand to Prodigy Movies' survivalthriller The Reef.Lightning co-presidents Rich Goldberg and Richard Guardian are takingtheir first executive producers on Andrew Traucki's tale of a group ofholidaymakers in Australia who are terrorised by a giant shark aftertheir boat capsizes. Principal ...
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Stallone reunites with Nu Image/Millennium for Expendables
Following their successful collaboration on the global hit Rambo, Sylvester Stallone and Nu Image/Millennium Films are reuniting on action thriller The Expendables. Stallone wrote and will direct and star alongside Jason Statham with Jet Li in final negotiations to join the story of mercenaries who embark on a ...
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Winther to direct Arclight's Speed Demon
Peter Winther has signed to direct Arclight's creature feature Speed Demon, set to begin principal photography next spring and dedicated to the late Oscar-winning effects guru Stan Winston.Special effects creature designer Patrick Tatopoulos, whose credits include I Am Legend and 10,000 BC, will bring to life the last designs developed ...
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Echo Bridge boards Baltasar Kormakur-directed thriller Inhale
Echo Bridge Entertainment has picked up international rights from 26 Films to Baltasar Kormakur's new Engish-language thriller Inhale and will commence pre-sales this week at AFM.Production just wrapped on the story starring Dermot Mulroney as a rising LA District Attorney who gets involved with a Mexican criminal medical ring in ...
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Entertainment takes five pack for UK from The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has sold a five-picture package to the UK's Entertainment Film Distributors, marking the first time that Nigel and Trevor Green have done business with Harvey and Bob Weinstein.The move follows the closure of former Entertainment supplier New Line International. The package contains Stephen Daldry's drama The ...
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Relativity Media lines up output deals in nine key territories
Ryan Kavanaugh has slotted the latest pieces into Relativity Media's single-picture international distribution jigsaw after announcing its first tentative steps at Cannes.The company has signed multi-year output deals with nine key buyers as it attempts to fill the vacuum left by the demise of New Line International.Relativity has signed output ...
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Katapult's Jourdan leaves to head up T&C Pictures International
Former Katapult Films Sales chief David Jourdan has jumped ship and will be talking to buyers about three films in his new role as managing director of T&C Pictures International.The company is part of production and finance entity T&C Pictures, run by founding president Arata Matsushima, a former vice president ...
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Serafinowicz joins cast of Universal's Couples Retreat
British actor-comedian Peter Serafinowicz has joined Jason Bateman,Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn on the cast of Universal Films' CouplesRetreat directed by Peter Billingsley.The story centres on a couple on the verge of separating who convincetheir friends to go with them on holiday at a couples resort on atropical island.Filming is ...
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UCLA's Formato takes Goldwyn Writing Awards top prize
UCLA student Austin Formato has won the first prize of $15,000 in the53rd annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards for his project Self Help.Robyn Paris took the $7,500 second prize for Odd Man Out and J JNelson and Richard Rapoza tied for the $4,000 third prize for Out OfRoad and The ...
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Cast lines up for Mario Van Peebles' thriller Kerosene Cowboys
Cam Gigandet, Shane West, Rachael Leigh Cook and Troy Garity havejoined the cast of Svarog-Afterburner Films' upcoming action thrillerKerosene Cowboys.Offers are out to Richard Dreyfus and Val Kilmer to round out the full cast, which includes Jason Gray-Standford, Jacob Vargas and J C Chasez.Mario Van Peebles will direct from a ...
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TLA Releasing takes North America on Finding Me
TLA Releasing has acquired North America and Caribbean basin rights to OmeProductions' drama Finding Me from first-time director Roger S Omeus Jr.The distributor plans a spring 2009 release on the story of a browbeaten gay man with a homophobic father who gets a chance to find true love.RayMartell Moore, Ronald ...
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Wolfe Video picks up North America on two before AFM
Wolfe Video has announced it has acquired North American rights ahead of AFM to the gay titles Whirlwind and Mulligans.Whirlwind explores non-monogamy, commitment and friendship in New York.Richard Le May directed and Bryan West, Alexis Suarez, Desmond Dutcher, Brad Anderson and Mark Ford star. The film won the audience award ...
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Sony Classics takes North and Latin America on Soul Power
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has picked up North American and Latin American rights from Submarine Entertainment to Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's documentary Soul Power following its world premiere at Toronto.Soul Power chronicles the 12-hour Zaire '74 R&B concert in Kinshasa, Zaire, in 1974 that played concurrently with the infamous Rumble In The ...