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The Grocer's Son goes to North America with Film Movement
Film Movement has picked up North American rights to Eric Guirado's drama The Grocer's Son.The story centres on a 30-year-old city dweller who is forced to return to Provence to look after his ailing father. Nicolas Cazale and Clotilde Hesme star.'We are so happy to be distributing this incredibly charming ...
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IFC picks up domestic rights to Fear(s) Of The Dark
IFC has picked up all North American rights to Fear(s) Of The Dark, a collection of nightmarish visions by six graphic artists and cartoonists.Blutch, Marie Caillou, Pierre DiSciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire and Charles Burns directed and Valerie Schermann and Christophe Jankovic produced the French-language animated film.IFC Entertainment's vice president ...
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Burn After Reading set for Sept 12 opening in the US
Focus Features will release Joel and Ethan Coen's upcoming comedy Burn After Reading on Sept 12.The dating gives the film prime positioning for premieres at the Venice and Toronto film festivals.George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton star in the story of an ousted CIA agent ...
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New Films International extends Latin American deal with MGM
New Films International (NFI) and MGM Television Group have extended their Latin American output deal by five years.Under the deal MGM will have the right to distribute 70 films from NFI's library as well as any titles produced or acquired during the life of the agreement.The two most recent NFI ...
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Film Source acquires Urban's Preaching To The Perverted
Alex Massis' Florida-based Film Source has acquired Stuart Urban's cult 1998 film Preaching To The Perverted.Preaching To The Perverted is an erotic romp though the underground world of British fetish clubs and tells of a computer geek who is dispatched by moral crusaders to infiltrate and gather evidence against London's ...
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TWC pacts with Bob Marley's widow for reggae biopic
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has teamed up with Rita Marley and producer Rudy Langlais on the adaptation of Marley's autobiography No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley.Production will most likely begin in the first quarter of 2009 in Jamaica and other locations in time for a late 2009 ...
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Alison Lohman takes lead role in Raimi's Drag Me To Hell
Alison Lohman has replaced Ellen Page in Ghost House Pictures and Mandate Pictures' upcoming supernatural thriller Drag Me To Hell.Page exited the project at the weekend due to scheduling conflicts. Lohman will now star as an ambitious career woman who gets cursed by a witch.Sam Raimi will begin directing on ...
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Vantage Point takes $11.5m for SPRI, but Fox's Jumper is still top
Fox International's sci-fi adventure Jumper triumphed over a strong challenge from Sony's assassination thriller Vantage Point to stay atop the overseas charts for the third consecutive weekend as a $12.8m estimated haul saw the tally vault to $81.9m.Jumper remains active on 4,067 screens in 44 markets and the weekend highlight ...
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Ellen Page drops out of Raimi's Drag Me To Hell
Ellen Page has exited Ghost House Pictures and Mandate Pictures' upcoming horror film Drag Me To Hell due to scheduling conflicts caused by a change in the production start date.Sam Raimi is preparing to direct the tale he co-wrote with his brother Ivan about an ambitious career woman who gets ...
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US box office down with lacklustre Semi Pro opening for New Line
Box office fell for the third consecutive week as the Will Ferrell comedy Semi Pro, New Line's final release before it merges with Warner Bros, launched at number one on a lacklustre $15.3m.This wasn't as good as openings for Ferrell's previous sporting spoofs- Blades Of Glory last year ($33m) and ...
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Bohm promoted at NBC Universal International TV Distribution
Pauline Bohm has been promoted to senior vice president of marketing at NBC Universal International Television Distribution (NBC UITD).Rachel Mansson has been promoted to vice president of the marketing for the division's international new media unit. She is based in London and reports to Los Angeles-based Bohm.Bohm will continue to ...
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Dano and Deschanel star in Gigantic for Killer, Epoch
Principal photography on the Killer Films and Epoch Films comedy Gigantic starring Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman and Jane Alexander is set to commence in New York on Mar 3.Mindy Goldberg of Epoch and Christine Vachon of Killer Films are producing and first-timer Matt Aselton will direct from a ...
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Jason Isaacs joins Damon, Kinnear in Greengrass' Iraq thriller
Jason Isaacs has joined the cast of Paul Greengrass' untitled Green Zone thriller for Working Title Films and Universal Pictures.Based on the non-fiction book Imperial Life In The Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the film is set in and around the Green Zone, the base of operations for US troops ...
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Mike Leigh to receive Directing Award at San Francisco in May
Mike Leigh, riding high following the enthusiastic critical response to Happy-Go-Lucky at the Berlinale, will receive the inaugural Founder's Directing Award at the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from Apr 24-May 8.The Founder's Award will be presented to Leigh at the Film Society Awards Night benefit gala ...
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Noeltner's CMG picks up Mexican drug cartel doc Drug Wars
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has acquired worldwide sales rights to Renavatio Productions' Drug Wars.Gary A Fleming Jr's documentary explores the world of Mexican drug cartels and features first-hand accounts from victims, law enforcement officers, border patrol guards and former FBI agents.Noeltner brokered the deal with producer's rep Page ...
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Highmore signs to voice Astro Boy for Imagi Studios
Freddie Highmore has signed to voice the title character in Hong Kong and Los Angeles-based Imagi Studios' CGI animated feature Astro Boy.Based on Osamu Tezuka's manga creation, which was serialised on television in the 1960s, 1980s and again in 2003, Astro Boy centres on a young robot's odyssey to gain ...
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Universal strikes four year financing deal with Relativity Capital
Relativity Capital, a brand new investment partnership between Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media and New York-based hedge fund Elliot Associates, has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to co-finance a significant portion of Universal's slate - approximately 45 films - through 2011.This will be the first deal in which Relativity acts ...
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Magnolia buys worldwide rights to Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Magnolia Pictures has picked up worldwide rights to Christopher Bell's steroid abuse documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster*. The film, which premiered at Sundance in January, explores the use of steroids among competitive sportsmen and women against the backdrop of America's win-at-all-costs culture.The film features interviews with athletes whose careers have been ...
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First Cinema Eye Nonfiction Filmmaking Awards set for March 18
The inaugural Cinema Eye Nonfiction Filmmaking Awards will take place in New York at the IFC Center on Mar 18.The event has been put together by online distributor IndiePixFilms.com, producer A J Schnack and Toronto International Film Festival documentary programmer Thom Powers to celebrate what they call the new wave ...
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Then She Found Me, American Teen bookend Cleveland
Helen Hunt's feature directorial debut Then She Found Me and Nanette Burstein's hit Sundance documentary American Teen bookend the 32nd Cleveland International Film Festival, which runs from Mar 6-16.John Sayles, whose first film Return Of The Secaucus Seven screened at the fifth Cleveland International Film Festival in 1981, will receive ...