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Arclight, Escape Factory and Infinity team up for Altitude
Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films, Vancouver-based Escape Factory and Infinity Features will produce the supernatural thriller Altitude.Short film-maker Kaare Andrews will direct the story of a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends who battle a malevolent force when their plane malfunctions. Paul A Birkett wrote the screenplay.Principal photography is set ...
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DeVito, Winkler, Zwick honoured by Israel Film Festival
Danny DeVito, Irwin Winkler and Edward Zwick will be honoured at the 23rd annual Israel Film Festival, which runs in New York from October 29-November 13.DeVito will receive the Lifetime Visionary Award, Winkler the Lifetime Achievement Award and Zwick the Outstanding Achievement In Film award. Zwick's second world war Resistance ...
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IFC Films picks up North American rights to Everlasting Moments
IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Jan Troell's pan-Scandinavian co-production Everlasting Moments screening here and will release the film next year through IFC In Theatres.Troell wrote the screenplay with Niklas Radstrom and Agneta Ulfsater Troell; the story depicts cultural shifts told through the history of a late ...
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Fox Searchlight pays $4m for US rights to The Wrestler
After a cautious start sorely lacking in buzz and domestic deal-making, TIFF sprang into life yesterday as Fox Searchlight paid $4m for US rights to Darren Aronofsky's Venice Golden Lion winner The Wrestler.Searchlight beat out bids from Lionsgate, Sony and Overture Films before it closed the deal with CAA in ...
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Finneran named senior consultant at Sundance DFP
SILVERDOCS festival director Patricia Finneran will move over to the Sundance Institute as the Documentary Film Programme's senior consultant, New York, commencing on November 1.Finneran replaces Bruni Burres, the long-time executive director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, who is moving to a full-time position as executive producer at ...
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Jessica Alba to star in Marilyn Agrelo's Invisible Sign
Jessica Alba will star in Silverwood Films and iDeal Partners Fund's modern fable An Invisible Sign Of My Own, which Kimmel International chief Mark Lindsay will introduce to buyers here and Endeavor is representing for North America.Marilyn Agrelo, who scored a hit with the 2005 Sundance documentary Mad Hot Ballroom, ...
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CMG seals three-picture deals with Poland, Turkey
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group has closed sales on its key Toronto sales titles Zambezia, Killer Bean Forever and The People Speak.Poland's Vison Film and Turkey's Film Pop acquired rights to the trio. The animated feature Killer Bean Forever is based on Jeff Lew's short Killer Bean 2: The Party, ...
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Bangkok Dangerous is top of lacklustre domestic weekend
Nicolas Cage stands atop the domestic box office charts following a typically lacklustre post-Labor Day weekend that saw the action thriller Bangkok Dangerous launch at number one through Lionsgate on an estimated $7.8m.There were no other new entries in the top ten as DreamWorks-Paramount's comedy Tropic Thunder ranked second on ...
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Strong international weekend for Universal led by Mamma Mia!
Universal's musical adaptation Mamma Mia! led the international pack at the weekend and is nearing $300m following an estimated $15m haul through UPI from 3,493 sites in 39 territories that raised the tally to $280.1m.Mamma Mia! overtook The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian to become the fifth biggest grossing international ...
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Millennium comes on board Norton-starrer Leaves In The Grass
Millennium Films has boarded the $9.5m Edward Norton comedy Leaves InThe Grass after the financing deal set up through New York-based Barbarian fell apart in the summer.Tim Blake Nelson will start shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, on September 22 to take advantage of state tax incentives and Millennium's facility in the ...
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Celluloid takes international to Soul Power, Ocean buys France
Celluloid Dreams has acquired all international rights from Submarine to Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's documentary Soul Power following its world premiere here and has concluded a deal in France with Ocean.Celluloid is weighing up other offers from the UK and Australia, among others, and expects to close further deals this week. Submarine ...
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Visit Films closes five-picture deal with Australia's Beyond
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's New York-based Visit Films has closed a five-film deal here with Beyond Entertainment in Australia.Beyond has acquired rights to Hannah Takes The Stairs, LOL and Kissing On The Mouth by Joe Swanberg and Dance Party USA and Quiet City by Aaron Katz.'With deals like this, ...
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US buyers mull two films for sale - again
As domestic buyers scoured the festival ahead of a slew of anticipated screenings over the coming days, the tempestuous North American distribution scene offered up its latest twist.Both the star-studded portmanteau New York, I Love You and Nigel Cole's road movie $5 A Day received their world premieres in the ...
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Essential takes international to Zucker's Big Fat Important Movie
Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment has picked up international rights to David Zucker's political satire Big Fat Important Movie, known as An American Carol in North America.Essential will introduce the film to buyers here and screens the film on September 6 and 7 at Deluxe Postproduction. Vivendi Entertainment holds domestic rights ...
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Shoreline picks up worldwide rights to Routh-starrer Stuntmen
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Eric Amadio's comedy Stuntmen starring Brandon Routh, Dominique Swain and Joel Moore as Toronto gets underway.The story centres on an old rivalry that is awakened between two of Hollywood's biggest stuntmen when an ambitious documentary film-maker follows them in the ...
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Ted Hope to deliver keynote address at Filmmaker Forum in LA
Producer Ted Hope will deliver the keynote address at Film Independent's fourth annual Filmmaker Forum, which takes place from September 26-28 in Los Angeles.The forum will kick off on September 26 with a sneak preview of Summit Entertainment's The Brothers Bloom, which gets it world premiere here and stars Adrien ...
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PorchLight's Condor takes international on Down To The Dirt
LA-based PorchLight's non-family division Condor Releasing has picked up international rights to Justin Simms' drama Down To The Dirt, screening here in Canada First!President of worldwide distribution Ken DuBow and vice president of acquisitions Robert Yu brokered the deal with Nicholas Tabarrok of Darius Films and Anna Petras of Newfound ...
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Image takes North American rights to $5 A Day
Image Entertainment has picked up North American rights (excluding theatrical) from Capitol Films to Nigel Cole's comedy $5 A Day, which gets its world premiere tonight [September 6] in Toronto's Contemporary World Cinema strand.Alessandro Nivola and Christopher Walken star in the tale of a conservative man who grudgingly joins his ...
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Denzel Washington to star in Hughes Brothers' Book Of Eli
Denzel Washington will star in Alcon Entertainment and Silver Pictures' post-apocalyptic thriller The Book Of Eli that Allen and Albert Hughes will direct.Based on an original story by Gary Whitta and a rewrite by Anthony Peckham, the story takes place in the near future in an American wasteland where a ...
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Spike Lee launches second Babelgum Online Film Festival
Spike Lee, in Toronto for the world premiere of Miracle Of St Anna, launched the second Babelgum Online Film Festival today [September 5] and unveiled details about the competition.Web TV platform Babelgum set up the festival to support international short film and Lee will return as honourary judge alongside the ...