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Right Angle Studios launches production arm with Sequence
Right Angle Studios has launched its production arm Right Angle Pictures, which will focus on socially relevant projects and kicks off with the thriller Sequence.Ron Vignone wrote and will direct and the project is being fast-tracked for production in 2009 and follows a genetic researcher who discovers a giant conspiracy.Right ...
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Sanford Panitch to run Fox's new international production arm
Fox Filmed Entertainment is launching Fox International Productions (FIP) to produce and acquire local language films for key territories.Sanford Panitch, a long-time executive at New Regency and Fox, has been brought in to run the company, which will corral all of Fox's existing and future indigenous productions under one banner.FIP ...
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Platinum teams with Top Cow, Arclight on feature of Witchblade
Los Angeles-based Platinum Studios has partnered with Top Cow Productions and film sales company Arclight Films on the adaptation of Top Cow's fantasy thriller comic book franchise Witchblade.The producers expect begin shooting in September in Australia. Plot details are being kept under wraps although what is known that the property ...
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Flueger, Perlman, Manning, Pantoliano star in The Job
Principal photography is set to begin this week in Detroit on the darkly comic thriller The Job starring Patrick Flueger, Ron Perlman, Taryn Manning and Joe Pantoliano.Shem Bitterman will direct from his own screenplay adaptation of his stage play of the same name about a young man who undertakes a ...
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Xenon Pictures buys domestic rights to Amexicano
Xenon Pictures has paid mid-six figures for North American rights to Matthew Bonifacio's Amexicano starring 2008 Grammy nominee Jennifer Pena.Xenon plans a late spring or summer release on the story of an illegal immigrant who bonds with a blue-collar worker from Queens, New York.The drama premiere at Tribeca 2007 and ...
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The Film Sales Company takes on Pierce's horror thriller Victim
Andrew Herwitz' Film Sales Company has boarded several new titles heading in to Cannes including the horror thriller Victim.Michael Pierce's film concerns a shadowy man who is abducted and transformed into something he never believed he could become. Pierce produced through his company Pierce Williams along with Mark Williams.The line-up ...
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PorchLight takes on Tribeca audience winner Emmanuel Jai: War Child
PorchLight Entertainment has taken on international rights to Wilson Coneybeare's children's tale Gooby and Christian Karim Chrobog's recent Tribeca Film Festival audience award winner Emmanuel Jal: War Child.The Los Angeles-based production and distribution company will also arrive on the Croisette with James Moll's documentary Running The Sahara, on which Matt ...
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Iron Man continues to rule in international with $32.5m in PPI grosses
Paramount Pictures International's (PPI) Iron Man went head-to-head with two new potential blockbusters in the overseas arena at the weekend and emerged relatively unscathed as the clear winner despite scorching heat across many parts of Europe.The comic book adaptation added an estimated $32.5m from 5,557 sites in 57 PPI territories, ...
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Iron Man soars above competition at North American box office
Iron Man battered the competition for the second consecutive weekend as an estimated $50.5m haul through Paramount Pictures raised the running total to $177.1m.The result consolidated the Marvel Studios adaptation as the season's first bona fide blockbuster and relegated new openers Speed Racer from Warner Bros and What Happens In ...
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Arclight buys Conquistador, names Borno head of sales and acquisitions
Arclight Films International has acquired Conquistador Worldwide Media and installed Pascal Borno as its new president of sales and acquisitions.Borno will lead the Arclight sales team in Cannes with a slate that includes the official selection screening Surveillance.'Pascal is a very experienced and innovative executive with a long history in ...
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Racer, Vegas enter box office fray against Iron Man
Three tentpole releases will vie for supremacy this weekend as the overseas arena enters the second weekend of the summer blockbuster season with a bang.Iron Man dominated the charts with a near-$200m global launch last weekend and Marvel Studios' comic book adaptation, released through Paramount in North America and PPI ...
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Participant names five film-makers to receive short film grants
Participant Media will award $5,000 grants to five film-makers as part of its involvement with the Pangea Day one-day short film global showcase on May 10.In addition to the Outstanding Filmmakers Awards Programme, Participant is sponsoring the Filmmaker Development Grant Programme in which all 34 film-makers whose films will be ...
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Almereyda, Knighton win Sloan grants from Sundance Institute
Michael Almereyda has received the Sundance Institute's 2008 Sundance/Sloan Commissioning Grant for The Stanley Milgram Project and screenwriter Ryan Knighton has been awarded the 2008 Sloan Fellowship for his script Cockeyed.Both the Fellowship and the Grant are part of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation's collaboration with the Institute's Feature Film ...
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Palm takes North American rights to Patti Smith: Dream Of Life
Palm Pictures has acquired North American rights to Steven Sebring's directorial debut Patti Smith: Dream of Life, which premiered at Sundance earlier in the year.Palm and Celluloid Dreams' Pierre Menahem brokered the deal, which encompasses North American theatrical, home video and VOD distribution rights.The company anticipates a late summer 2008 ...
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Senator to finance Gregor Jordan's thriller Unthinkable
Marco Weber's Senator Entertainment will produce and finance Gregor Jordan's thriller Unthinkable starring Samuel L Jackson.Weber and Caldecot Chubb are producing and principal photography is set to begin on September 2 in Michigan on the story of a secret serviceman and FBI agent who team up to locate three nuclear ...
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McElhone, Purefoy take lead roles in Gorris' Heaven & Earth
Natasha McElhone and James Purefoy have joined Marleen Gorris' $15m period romance Heaven & Earth, which is set to begin shooting in the UK on December 10 before moving to Cape Town in January 2009.Cinema Management Group is handling international pre-sales.McElhone will play Dr James Miranda Barry, Britain's first female ...
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Myriad greenlights Aussie horror tale
Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures will produce, finance and handle worldwide sales for the horror film Drive The Night, its latest project under its deal with comic book publisher Studio 407.Bill Bennett wrote and will direct the tale of a couple that gets lost on a haunted road in the Outback. ...
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Kingsley to receive outstanding achievement award at Seattle
Ben Kingsley will receive the 34th Seattle International Film Festival's (SIFF) 2008 Golden Space Needle for Outstanding Achievement in Acting.The tribute ceremony on May 25 will include a clip reel an on-stage interview following the North American premiere of Elegy, Isabel Coixet's Philip Roth adaptation that also stars Penelope Cruz.Kingsley ...
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Overture picks up domestic to Constantin/Impact thriller Pandorum
Overture Films has picked up North American rights to Constantin Film and Impact Pictures' sci-fi thriller Pandorum starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster.Constantin is financing the project under its joint venture with subsidiary Impact. Summit Entertainment is handling international sales and will introduce to buyers at Cannes.Filming is set to ...
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Inferno signs James McTeigue to direct sci-fi thriller Revelation
Inferno partners Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel have hired James McTeigue to direct the sci-fi thriller Revelation and will commence pre-sales at Cannes.New president of international sales Pamela Pickering will introduce the project to buyers on the Croisette. Pickering's arrival, along with that of head of development and production Tracee ...