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Koch Lorber picks up Rohmer's Astree And Celadon for North America
Koch Lorber has acquired North American rights from Rezo Films to Eric Rohmer's The Loves Of Astree And Celadon (Les Amours D'Astree Et De Celadon).Richard Lorber plans an autumn release in New York on the story of an illicit affair between a shepherd and a shepherdess.Koch Lorber previously acquired Rohmer's ...
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After Dark to screen Sean Ellis' The Broken in Horrorfest
After Dark has signed a deal with Gaumont International to screen Sean Ellis' The Broken in its upcoming Horrorfest: 8 Films To Die For.The psychological thriller premiered at Sundance earlier in the year and stars Lena Headey, Richard Jenkins, Asier Newman and Melvil Poupaud. Lene Bausager of Left Turn Films ...
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Sundance Channel picks up US TV rights to Madonna Malawi doc
Sundance Channel has acquired US television rights to I Am Because We Are, Madonna's documentary about the impact of the AIDS pandemic on Malawi.Senior vice president of acquisitions, scheduling and programme planning Christian Vesper negotiated the deal with CAA.Madonna is featured in the film which was directed by Nathan Rissman.
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Demme replaces Scorsese on Bob Marley documentary
Jonathan Demme has replaced Martin Scorsese as director on Tuff Gong Pictures and Shangri-La Entertainment's Bob Marley documentary.The untitled film will be released worldwide on February 6 2010, marking the 65th anniversary of the reggae icon's birth. Fortissimo is handling international sales. Shangri-La is in talks on a North American ...
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Demme replaces Scorsese on Bob Marley doc
Jonathan Demme has replaced Martin Scorsese as director on Tuff Gong Pictures and Shangri-La Entertainment's Bob Marley documentary.The untitled film will be released worldwide on February 6 2010, marking the 65th anniversary of the reggae icon's birth. Fortissimo is handling international sales.The producers are in talks on a North American ...
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Essential Entertainment takes world rights on Clive Barker's Dread
Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Clive Barker's Dread, its second collaboration with the horror guru after Book Of Blood. Anthony DiBlasi will direct the psychological thriller from his own adapted screenplay of the short story from Barker's Books Of Blood collection. Production is set ...
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TLA picks up North American rights to Gutterballs, Chef's Special
TLA Releasing has picked up a slew of titles including North American rights on the 80s slasher movie Gutterballs.Ryan Nicholson's feature will be released through TLA's Danger After Dark label.TLA's vice president of acquisitions Jennifer Arndt-Johns finalised the deal at Cannes with DC Medias president David Cholewa.The company has also ...
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Screen Gems promotes Glenn Gainor to head of physical production
Screen Gems has promoted Glenn Gainor to head of physical production as it ramps up production to approximately eight titles a year.Gainor will report to Gary Martin, the president of production administration for Columbia Pictures, and will oversee all Screen Gems films from pre-production onwards.He recently oversaw production on Screen ...
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Jaman.com signs distribution deals with Magnolia, First Look
Entertainment website Jaman.com has signed distribution deals with Magnolia Pictures and First Look Studios.Under the terms of the deal, titles from both companies will be available to rent or purchase over the internet.First Look Studios titles include The Contract starring John Cusack and Morgan Freeman, Little Fish with Cate Blanchett ...
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CBS Films buys spec script Permission from Karen McCullah Lutz
CBS Films has purchased the speculative script Permission from Karen McCullah Lutz, whose credits include Legally Blonde and 10 Things I Hate About You.Jaret Entertainment's Seth Jaret will Lutz will produce and Maria Faillace will oversee the comedy about marriage for CBS Films.CBS Films was established in 2007 and plans ...
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Summit Entertainment to remake 1986 hit Highlander
Summit Entertainment will remake the 1986 sci-fi thriller Highlander and has hired Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway to adapt the story of battling immortals who pursue a mysterious prize.Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery starred in the original. Peter Davis, one of the original producers, who also produce ...
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Beta Films buys two new features from National Lampoon
National Lampoon has sold National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son and National Lampoon's The Legend Of Awesomest Maximus Wallace Leonidas to Beta Films.German-based Beta previously acquired two other National Lampoon films including National Lampoon's Bagboy and handles the films in Germany, Spain, Italy, and Eastern Europe. Beta has just broadened ...
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Gaga steps up to buy Reeker and sequel from CMG
Ed Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has closed a two-film deal with Gaga in Japan on Dave Payne's horror titles Reeker and No Man's Land: The Rise Of Reeker.Noeltner brokered the deal with Gaga's senior executive vice president Nick Morumo. LMK also acquired Portuguese rights to Reeker.CMG's upcoming animated title ...
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Inferno's The Women goes to Entertainment, Constantin, TF1
Bill Johnson and Jim Siebel's Inferno Entertainment has reported a strong market and virtually sold out two of its marquee titles, comedy The Women and drama Hachiko: A Dog's Story.Inferno is also in advanced negotiations with a pan-European buyer on its uncast thriller An Unfinished Country, about a medical student ...
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Voltage does big business on 100 Feet, Love N Dancing
Voltage Pictures has closed numerous territory sales on the thriller 100 Feet starring Famke Janssen, which is now completed, and romance Love N' Dancing with Amy Smart and Tom Malloy.Rights to 100 Feet went to Universum for German-speaking Europe, Antena Tres (Spain), Quality (Mexico), Ukraine DVD (CIS), Culture Makers (South ...
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Dutch investment group buys Spitfire and merges it with Hammer
Dutch investment group Cyrte Investments has acquired Nigel Sinclair and Guy East's LA-based Spitfire Pictures and merged it with legendary British studio Hammer to form the global entertainment company HS Media.Sinclair and East will run HS Media with Hammer co-chief Simon Oakes. HS Media is backed by $100m in equity ...
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Paul Bateman Davis-Miller named svp at Peace Arch
Paul Bateman Davis-Miller has been appointed to the newly created post of senior vice president of US distribution and development at Peace Arch Entertainment.Davis-Miller will be based at the company's Marina Del Rey offices in California and reports to Peace Arch Entertainment Group president and COO John Flock in Los ...
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Madonna's Filth And Wisdom sells to Germany, Australia, Scandinavia
LA-based Katapult has sold Madonna's Filth And Wisdom to Ascot Elite in Germany, Kojo in Australia, Pan Vision in Scandinavia, Hollywood in Greece and MCF in the former Yugoslavia.Drama The Caller, which premiered in Tribeca last month, has sold to Hollywood in Greece, which also took Death In Love.Australia's Kojo ...
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Medavoy's Phoenix to make film of Grisham's Playing For Pizza
Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures will adapt John Grisham's sports romance Playing For Pizza about a washed-up American football star who joins a team of semi-pros in Italy.Medavoy, whose credits include Zodiac, Holes and the in-production Shanghai, will produce with colleagues Arnie Messer and David Thwaites.Grisham is represented by longtime editor-agent ...
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IFC Films takes North American rights to PVC-1
IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Spiros Stathoulopoulos' one-take thriller PVC-1, which premiered at Cannes last year.Merida Urquia, Daniel Paez and Alberto Zornoza star in the story, which is inspired by the real-life terrorist incident in which a rural Colombian woman was killed by a collar bomb ...