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Lightning adds Forever Strong to Cannes sales slate
Santa Monica-based sales agency Lightning Entertainment has added Ryan Little's sports drama Forever Strong to its Cannes slate.Sean Faris stars as a brash rugby talent who winds up in detention centre following a DUI and joins a rival team under the guidance of a counsellor. Sean Astin and Neal McDonough ...
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Pagliuca leaves Nu Image/Millenium for The Film Department
Inc Pagliuca has joined The Film Department from Nu Image/Millennium as vice president of international business affairs and will report to international president Steve Bickel.Pagliuca will assume responsibility for the company's foreign distribution agreements and related documents and will work closely with international clients as well as finance, business and ...
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Filmax takes international rights to Colombian hit Paraiso Travel
Filmax has acquired international sales rights and Spanish theatrical rights to Simon Brand's Colombian smash Paraiso Travel, which had its US premiere at Tribeca at the weekend.The Paraiso Pictures and Grand Illusions Entertainment production was adapted from Jorge Franco's novel of the same name and centres on a lovelorn teen ...
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Summit options sci-fi script Arena by Wagstaff, Howell
Summit Entertainment has optioned the rights to the speculative sci-fi script Arena from first-time writers Toby Wagstaff and Darren Howell.Benderspink will produce along with the writers' manager Jim Thompson, who recently produced War and the hip-hop documentary Diamonds In The Rough.Arena follows a unit of soldiers as they are mysteriously ...
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Sarah Marshall is queen of international with $7m weekend
Universal's Forgetting Sarah Marshall led the international market through UPI thanks to an estimated $7m haul from 1,000 sites in nine territories.The three-day result elevates the comedy's early running total to $9.3m and was driven by an excellent number one UK launch on $4.1m from 393 for producer Judd Apatow's ...
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Baby Mama, Harold & Kumar 2 lead domestic box office
Two new comedies dominated the North American charts as Universal's Baby Mama launched at number one on estimated $18.3m followed by New Line/Warner Bros' Harold And Kumar sequel on $14.6m.Box office was up for the second consecutive weekend as the top 12 titles combined for $91m and climbed 17% against ...
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Shane Meadows leads UK delegation at Tribeca
BAFTA winner Shane Meadows gave a masterclass to Tribeca Film Festival attendees including graduates of the UK Skillset academies on Saturday [April 26].Meadows, whose latest film Somers Town received its North American premiere here, spoke to an audience that included film-makers from seven UK projects selected under the auspices of ...
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Documentaries stir up heat at Tribeca Film Festival
In its short history the Tribeca Film Festival has been slow to trigger buying sprees and sure enough as the event reached the first weekend's halfway mark no major deals had closed.However by Saturday interest had coalesced around Keif Davidson's World Documentary Competition entry Kassim The Dream, which recounts the ...
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Natalie Sakai promoted in film acquisitions at IFDC
Natalie Sakai has been promoted to manager of worldwide acquisitions and operations at entertainment consultants IFDC Inc.Sakai joined IFDC Inc in 2007 and continues to work alongside president Jerome Bliah in international film acquisitions.Sakai began her professional career as an assistant to Academy Award winning documentarian Robert Amram.She moved into ...
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CEC hires Yann Le Quellec as European chief
Citi affiliate Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC) has hired EWB Finance co-founder Yann Le Quellec as managing director.Le Quellec will head the company's new European operation CEC Europe in Paris and will report directly to CEC's president and CEO, Benjamin Waisbren.CEC Europe will provide structured financing solutions to European media and ...
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Tribeca All Access awards narrative prize to Chatmon's $Free.99
Pete Chatmon won the fifth annual Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Awards narrative prize for $Free.99 at the weekend [April 25].Chatmon co-wrote the screenplay with Candice Sanchez McClaren about a bank robber who is more than he appears.In the emerging narrative section screenwriter Leigh Dana Jackson and producer Moira Griffin ...
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Duran named svp at Warner Channel Latin America
Alfredo Duran has been named senior vice president of branded services and general manager of The Warner Channel Latin America.Duran will be based in Miami and will report to Malcolm Dudley-Smith, who as executive vice president of sales and business development for Canada, Latin America and Asia, oversees WBITD's branded ...
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Del Toro to direct Hobbit double bill
Guillermo Del Toro has landed his 'dream' job as the confirmed director of TheHobbit for New Line and MGM, the studios and executive producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh announced on Thursday.The move was widely expected after it emerged four months ago that Jackson would serve as executive producer on ...
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Sarah Marshall hopes 8 territories won't forget this weekend
The start of the blockbuster season is almost upon us and with one week to go before Paramount Pictures International (PPI) unleashes Marvel's Iron Man around the globe, the release schedule is predictably subdued.Universal's comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall gets a push this weekend with eight launches through UPI including Russia ...
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Air drumming comedy Adventures Of Power berths at Shoreline
Shoreline Entertainment has picked up international rights ahead of Cannes to Ari Gold's air drumming comedy Adventures Of Power, which premiered at Sundance.Gold's feature directorial debut stars himself as a small-town dreamer who tries to become the world's greatest air-drummer.Adrian Grenier from the hit HBO series Entourage also stars with ...
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Film Source acquires screwball sci-fi comedy Fingerman...
Alex Massis' The Film Source has acquired AJ Rickert-Epstein's screwball sci-fi comedy Fingerman, Dr London And The Triangle Project.Rickert-Epstein and Stephen Murray produced the story of an ordinary suburban man who has to thwart a plot by evil scientists from the future. Christopher Clark and Dan Davidson star.Film Source's vice ...
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Silverdocs to honour Spike Lee at June event
Silverdocs will honour Spike Lee at the Charles Guggenheim Symposium, the centerpiece of the eight-day documentary festival that takes place in June just outside Washington DC.Lee was selected for his 'unyielding commitment to telling stories that challenge America's consciousness of social injustice, while also celebrating the resilience and power of ...
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Cloud Ten signs domestic distribution deal with Koch, CNI
Cloud Ten Pictures, the Los Angeles producer of faith-based content, has signed a distribution deal for its library titles and upcoming features with New York-based Koch Entertainment and Nashville's CNI Distribution.Koch will replace Sony Pictures Home Entertainment as Cloud Ten's North American DVD and video retail distributor of the existing ...
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Connecticut company launches campaign to attract international producers
The Connecticut Film Center (CFC) will reach out to international producers at Cannes next month in a bid to strengthen its claim to be one of the most attractive production locations on the East Coast.CFC representatives will be on the Croisette to promote the company's facilities, the state's aggressive 30% ...
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Bold Films hires Joseph Ruben to direct thriller Jack
Bold Films co-presidents Gary Michael Walters and David Lancaster are preparing the thriller Jack in time for an early autumn start of production.Worldwide president of distribution Stephanie Denton of the newly formed sales arm Bold Films International will introduce the project at Cannes.Joseph Ruben, whose credits include Sleeping With The ...