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Australia shoot for Myriad horrorproject Drive The Night
Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures will produce, finance and handleworldwide sales for the horror film Drive The Night, its latest project under the deal with comic-book publisher Studio 407.Bill Bennett wrote and will direct the tale of a couple that gets loston a haunted road in the Outback. Principal photography is ...
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Profile: The Film Department
For a while, people were starting to wonder if Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's finance and production company The Film Department would ever greenlight a film.There was a long gap between the announcement of the company last June and follow-up details about any productions. But as anyone familiar with the ...
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Profile: IM Global
Stuart Ford has a specific mandate at Los Angeles-based sales company IM Global. 'The primary goal of the business at the moment is to establish ourselves as one of the top-tier US sales agencies,' he says.'For now we're not focused on producing our own movies or financing movies and we're ...
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Horn slashes both Picturehouse and Warner Independent
Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) will both cease operations, it was announced today by Alan Horn, president & chief operating officer of Warner Bros. Instead of merging the two operations, which came under the same Warner Bros umbrella following New Line Cinema's absorption into the company recently, it has ...
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24 frames buys North American rights to Mexico's Partes Usadas
US-based distributor 24 frames has acquired North American rights to Aaron Fernandez' Mexican crime drama Partes Usadas (Used Parts).The film won the 2007 Mayahuel Award for first time film-makers at Guadalajara last year.Partes Usadas was released in Mexico on April 18 through Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna's Canana Films ...
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After Dark to produce two original horror films, Foresight to sell
Courtney Solomon's After Dark Films will produce and distribute the horror films Faithless and Perkins' 14, marking the first time After Dark will produce films released as part of its annual 8 Films To Die For horror series.Both films will shoot consecutively in Romania starting in May and Mark Damon's ...
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Jim Harvey joins Denton at Bold Films International
Jim Harvey has joined president of worldwide distribution Stephanie Denton at the fledgling Bold Films International in the role of executive vice president of international sales.The two executives previously worked together at Lakeshore International. Harvey arrives from Media 8 and previously served at Element Films International, where he handled sales ...
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Terrence Malick's Tree Of Life planted at Summit
Summit Entertainment has acquired international rights to Terrence Malick's modern-day drama Tree Of Life starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain.River Road is financing Tree Of Life, currently shooting in Texas from Malick's original screenplay. River Road founder Bill Pohlad is producing alongside Malick regularsSarah Green and Grant Hill ...
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Shoreline travels West Of Brooklyn and to Serbian Stars
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment acquired worldwide rights ahead of Cannes to the comedy West Of Brooklyn and action adventure Serbian Scars.West Of Brooklyn is directed by Danny Cistone and stars Ronnie Marmo, Natalia Livingston and Joe Mantegna in the fish-out-of-water story of an Italian American who moves from New York ...
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LA property owners now responsible for piracy on their premises
Hollywood's ongoing war on piracy took another step forward in the wake of a ruling that will hold property owners in Los Angeles liable for the manufacture and sale of counterfeit music and videos on their premises.The Los Angeles County Board Of Supervisors approved the new ordinance on May 5, ...
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Cinema Libre doc The End Of Poverty' added to Critics Week
Cinema Libre Studio's documentary The End Of Poverty has been added to the Critics Week line-up in Cannes.Cinema Libre founder Philippe Diaz' film will premiere on May 19 and explores the theory that poverty is a deliberate ploy by wealthy nations to exploit and subjugate the poor. Martin Sheen has ...
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Peter Cattaneo's The Rocker will open tenth annual CineVegas
The world premiere of Peter Cattaneo's comedy The Rocker starring Rainn Wilson and Christina Applegate will open the 10th annual CineVegas Film Festival and Sean McGinly's The Great Buck Howard with John Malkovich will close the event, set to run in Las Vegas from June 12-21.World premieres in competition include ...
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David Maisel, Kevin Feige boosted at Marvel Entertainment
Marvel Entertainment has extended the contract of Marvel Studios chairman David Maisel until 2010 and promoted Kevin Feige to president of the film studio.The move follows the successful global launch last weekend of Iron Man, Marvel Studios' first project as an autonomous financing, development and production entity.Paramount distributed the film ...
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The Spirit takes Dec 25, 2008 slot for Lionsgate
Lionsgate has moved Frank Miller's The Spirit into a 2008 slot and will release the classic comic strip adaptation on December 25.The film was originally set to open on January 16, 2009 and stars Garbiel Macht as a former police officer who returns as an avenging angel to protect the ...
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Matrix signs with Wong Fu to produce Sleepwalker in China
Matrix Capital Entertainment has signed a deal with Wong Fu Productions to produce the tentatively titled Sleepwalker in China.Philip Wang, Ted Fu and Wesley Chan will direct the project, the first feature to emerge from the recently launched Matrix.Sleepwalker follows a young man who tapes his sleepwalking and learns his ...
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Savanna Films to produce documentary Madame Presidents
Konda Mason and Eva Georgia's US-based Savanna Films, a production company set up to create socially conscious films and television, will produce the documentary Madame President about the world's female heads of state.Los Angeles-base FilmBankers International (FBI) will assist in seeking financing and distribution for the project, which is planned ...
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Hamptons Festival screenwriters lab sets participants for 2008 event
The Hamptons International Film Festival will host its 8th Annual Screenwriters' Lab co-sponsored by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation from May 9 to 11 in East Hampton.Over the course of one weekend emerging screenwriters will benefit from the expert tutelage of mentors who will advise them on how best to ...
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Wanted to open Los Angeles Film Festival, Hellboy II to close it
A Universal Pictures double bill of Timur Bekmambetov's graphic novel adaptation Wanted starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy and Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army bookend the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs from June 19-29.Sacha Gervasi's Sundance hit Anvil! The Story Of Anvil is the centrepiece ...
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Lightning launches US distribution outfit Lightning Media
Santa Monica-based international sales agency Lightning Entertainment has launched US distribution company Lightning Media and hired Paul Gardner to head it up.The long-in-the-works move will see the new unit selectively target and acquire rights to commercial titles across multiple platforms in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.Gardner will serve as ...
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Visit Films takes international on Quinzaine closer Pleasure
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's boutique New York-based sales company Visit Films has acquired international rights to Josh Safdie's Director's Fortnight closing night film The Pleasure Of Being Robbed.The film stars Eleonore Hendricks as a young woman who often brings joy to strangers' lives while robbing them of their possessions.Kampe ...