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Kao promoted at Paramount Digital Entertainment.
Shane Kao has been promoted to vice president of business affairs atParamount Digital Entertainment.Kao will negotiate domestic and international deals to exploitParamount's features across digital distribution platforms. He reportsto executive vice president of business and legal affairs Ron Sufrin.Kao joined Paramount in 2005 as senior attorney, business and legalaffairs for ...
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Cinema Libre acquires worldwide rights to Bloodline
Cinema Libre Studio has acquired worldwide rights to Bruce Burgess' hot-button Holy Grail documentary Bloodline and has set the US premiere for May.The film-makers interviewed archaeologists and members of secret societies and investigated a tomb that some say could prove the existence of a Jesus Christ-Mary Magdalene bloodline.The subject of ...
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David Alcade to direct The Seeing For Leomax
Los Angeles and Berlin-based Leomax Entertainment has optioned the screenplay The Seeing (formerly 27 Times) and set Spanish effects supervisor and commercials director David Alcade to direct.Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Regina, Canada, in the early summer on the story of a 14-year-old boy haunted by visions of ...
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here! picks up North American rights to Holding Trevor
here! Films has picked up North American rights from Stray Films to Rosser Goodman's relationship drama Holding Trevor.here! plans a May release on the story of a gay man whose life is turned upside-down by his drug addict boyfriend, a new lover and jealous friends.Brent Gorski wrote and produced and ...
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Big titles at EFM overshadow festival selection in Berlin
The Berlinale kicked off in fine style with Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary Shine A Light but after several days the general consensus was that - at least for buyers - the festival line-up was in danger of being upstaged by the market.Focus inevitably turned to the EFM following a ...
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Jewison to receive ACE Filmmaker Of The Year Award
Norman Jewison will receive the American Cinema Editors' (ACE) Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award at the 58th Annual ACE Eddie Awards in Los Angeles on Feb 17.'Norman Jewison is an industry treasure,' a statement from the ACE board of directors read. 'Over the course of his 50-year career, ...
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Hayes, Coolidge join cast of Dimension's Soul Men
Sean Hayes and Jennifer Coolidge have joined Samuel L Jackson and Bernie Mac on Dimension Films' road movie Soul Men.The story centres on two estranged soul legends who reunite for a tribute concert and are forced to bury their differences on the long drive to the gig from Los Angeles ...
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Mischa Barton thriller Homecoming sells to Russia, Latin America
Principal photography has wrapped on the Mischa Barton thriller Homecoming, which Voltage Pictures is pre-selling here at EFM.Deals have closed in Russia and Eastern Europe (EEAP), Latin America (IDC), the Middle East (Gulf), Turkey (Grandview), Israel (Forum), Indonesia (Blitz) and the Philippines (Pioneer).Morgan J Freeman directed the tale of a ...
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Cinemavault polishes thriller Artefacts
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International has picked up international rights excluding Benelux to English-language thriller Artefacts.Mary Stockley and Felix Scott star in the Title Films and Bad Fourteen Pictures production as former lovers who try to survive a wave of murders by doppelgangers.Brussels-based film-makers Giles Daoust and Emmanuel Jespers directed. Grindstone ...
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Key US sellers stir up debate over EFM
The heads of two of the biggest US sales companies have challenged the business viability of EFM and called for a return to the two-market calendar.The fact that the Berlin market follows hot on the heels of Santa Monica's AFM in November, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the Sundance festival in the ...
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Francois Martin named senior vp of marketing at Dimension
Francois Martin has been appointed senior vice president of marketing at Dimension Films.Martin will continue to work closely with Gary Faber, executive vice president of marketing for TWC, on media planning and media promotions for all TWC titles as well as remain involved in media buying for home video distributor ...
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Renee Zellweger is Essential's One And Only
Renee Zellweger is in final negotiations to star in Richard Loncrane's 1950s-set comedy My One And Only, which is set to begin filming in the US in mid-April.Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment is handing worldwide sales at EFM.The project is based on a true story told by George Hamilton to Merv ...
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IFC takes North America on Kinney's Diminished Capacity
IFC has picked up all North American rights to Terry Kinney's comedy Diminished Capacity following its premiere at Sundance last month.Matthew Broderick plays a former newspaper editor with short-term memory loss who bonds with his aging uncle. Alan Alda and Virginia Madsen also star.Sherwood Kiraly adapted her own novel. Plum ...
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Sony takes Australia, Latin America on Frozen River
Sony Pictures has acquired Australia/New Zealand and Latin American rights fromWilliam Morris Independent (WMI) to Courtney Hunt's drama Frozen River. Sony Pictures Classics had already acquired the film for North America in Sundance where it won the grand jury prize in dramatic competition.Melissa Leo stars in the film as a ...
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SPE buys North America on Leiner's Balls Out
Sony Pictures Entertainment picked up North American rights to Danny Leiner's comedy Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story (aka Gary The Tennis Coach) in an eight-figure deal that closed late on Sunday night [Feb 11].Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group's (SPWAG) Scott Shooman brokered the agreement with UTA acting on behalf ...
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Montage, Quality, MGN among buyers for IM Global's Shelter
IM Global has reporting a storming business on the upcoming $25m supernatural thriller Shelter set to star Julianne Moore. Jonathan Rhys Myers is a recent addition to the cast.Deals have closed in South Korea (Montage), Latin America (Quality), Russia (MGN), Benelux (RCV), the Middle East (Gulf), Greece (Village Roadshow), Turkey ...
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Arsenal Pictures picks up Locarno, CineVegas film Loren Cass
Arsenal Pictures has picked up international sales rights on Chris Fuller's adolescent drama Loren Cass.Fuller and Kayla Tabish produced and star alongside Travis Maynard and Jacob Reynolds in the story of intersecting lives at the time of the 1996 riots in St Petersberg, Florida.The film played at CineVegas and Locarno, ...
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Voltage closes key sales on Kutcher/Pfeiffer drama Effects
Nicolas Chartier's Voltage Pictures has closed key sales on the upcoming Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Pfeiffer drama Personal Effects.Rights have gone to Germany (ARD), Mexico (Gussi), Minerva (Italy), CIS (EEAP), Brazil (Imagem), South Korea (Cinema Valley), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Hollywood) and the Middle East (Gulf).Deals also closed in the Philippines ...
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IFC takes US, Lionsgate takes UK on Maximum's Waiting Room
IFC Films has taken US rights and Lionsgate has acquired the UK from Maximum Films International to Roger Goldby's drama The Waiting Room.Maximum Films Distribution is handling the Canadian release on the interwoven tale of the lives and loves of a group of young Londoners. Anne-Marie Duff and Ralf Little ...
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Paramount Home Entertainment switches to SPI in New Zealand
Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) has assigned its New Zealand license for Paramount and DreamWorks titles to SPI Entertainment NZ with effect from Feb 1.PHE previously distributed its titles in New Zealand through Roadshow.Paramount's 2008 international releases include No Country For Old Men, Iron Man, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of ...