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CineVegas honours career of Anjelica Huston
The 10th CineVegas Film Festival will honour the career of Anjelica Huston with the Marquee Award and present Don Cheadle, Rosario Dawson, Viggo Mortsensen and Sam Rockwell with a Half-Life Award for their careers-to-date.James Caan will receive the festival's Vegas Icon Award, presented to an actor 'who embodies the spirit ...
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Veteran publicist Friedkin dies at 81
John Friedkin, a veteran publicist and studio executive who started out as an adman and moved into publicity to represent Tony Bennett, died of respiratory failure on May 11 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81.Friedkin was born in New York on December 9, 1926, and graduated ...
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IFC makes another Cannes killing with Italian Mafia tale
IFC Films has swooped on US rights to Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone's Cannes Grand Jury Prize winning Italian Mafia tale that drew wide acclaim following its competition screening.For more Cannes sales click hereThis is IFC's fifth acquisition of Cannes 2008 entry following last week's deal for Steve McQueen's Un Certain Regard ...
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Oscilloscope gushes over FLOW documentary
Beastie Boys founder Adam Yauch and ex-THINKFilm executive David Fenkel's Oscilloscope Pictures has picked up North American rights to Irena Salina's environmental documentary FLOW: For Love Of Water.The New York-based company, which was in Cannes scouting for titles for its inaugural slate and selling rights to Yauch's documentary Gunnin' For ...
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Indiana Jones is second biggest US Memorial Day hit ever
Indiana Jones' fourth outing scored the second biggest Memorial Dayholiday weekend launch in North America as Paramount's nostalgicadventure brand rang up $311.1m in worldwide ticket sales.The four-day $151.1m domestic haul has only been bettered over thesame holiday period by last year's $153m launch of Pirates Of TheCaribbean: At World's End, ...
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Lionsgate picks up Adam Sachs' satire
Lionsgate has picked up worldwide rights to Adam Sachs' satiricalscript Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.The story charts the unlikely friendship between an alcoholicmiddle-aged reporter and an outspoken teenage boy who bond whilefinding themselves somehow pitted against a group of fanaticalprotesters.Brooklyn Weaver of Energy Entertainment will produce along with ToddGarner of Broken ...
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SILVERDOCS announces 2008 programme
James Marsh's Man On Wire, Karim Chrobog's War Child and Yung Chang's Up The Yangtze are among the anticipated highlights of the SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, set to run in the Washington DC area from June 16 to 23.As previously announced, Adrian Wills' All Together Now and JohnWalter's Theatre ...
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Gainsbourg, Yelchin and Common among cast for Terminator Salvation
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anton Yelchin, Kate Connor, Moon Bloodgood andrapper Common have joined the cast of Halcyon Company's sci-fi epicTerminator Salvation: The Future Begins, which started production inAlbuquerque, New Mexico, on May 5.Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the leader of the humanresistance and sworn enemy of the tyrannical Skynet organisation ...
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McQueen's Hunger lands in US with IFC Films
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Steve McQueen's Maze Prison drama Hunger starring Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham.The film, whichopened Un Certain Regard at Cannes, interprets events during the 1981 hunger strike by incarcerated IRA terrorists led by Bobby Sands. Enda Walsh wrote the screenplay.Laura Hastings-Smith and Robin Gutch ...
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Liberation takes US rights to Just Buried
Liberation Entertainment has picked up US rights from Submarine Entertainment to Chaz Thorne's horror tale Just Buried.The fledgling distributor plans an autumn release for the Trilogy Entertainment and Standing 8 Productions film, which premiered at Toronto last year.Jay Bucharel and Rose Byrne star in the story of a man who ...
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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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Music Box Films takes US rights to Mouret's Shall We Kiss
New US distributor Music Box Films has acquired all US rights from TF1 to Emmanuel Mouret's romantic comedy Shall We Kiss and plans a late summer release.Mouret wrote, directed and co-stars in the film, which stars Virginie Ledoyen, Julie Gayet, Michael Cohen, Frederique Bel and Stefano Accorsi. Music Box partner ...
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Kimmel International sells major territories on Motherhood, Synecdoche
Mark Lindsay's Kimmel International has closed key territories on its slate, led by Killer Films and Ideal Partners' comedy Motherhood starring Uma Thurman and Charlie Kaufman's competition entry Synecdoche, New York.Sales on Motherhood closed with Telepool (Germany), Leone (Italy), Sponge (South Korea), Nordisk (Scandinavia), Paradiso (Benelux), Sun (Latin America), Village ...
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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 ...