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Maximum takes on international rights to Trouble The Water
Toronto's Maximum Films International has acquired international rights to last month's Sundance Grand Jury Prize documentary winner Trouble The Water.Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's film follows aspiring rapper Kim and her husband as they try to navigate a path to survival in New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane ...
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TWC, Genius launch Third Rail Releasing for 'edgy' films
The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Genius Products have launched Third Rail Releasing to distribute 'inventive and edgy films' and will kick off with George A Romero's Diary Of The Dead on Feb 15.The new venture stems from the recent hire of chief executive officer Lee Solomon, who was brought on ...
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Mortensen, Damon, Penn among players in activism doc
Ed Noeltner's Cinema Management Group is commencing sales here on the social activism documentary The People Speak featuring Viggo Mortensen, Matt Damon and Sean Penn.Based on Howard Zinn's book A People's History Of The United States, the two-hour film chronicles key developments in the US told from the perspective of ...
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Lionsgate picks up North American rights to Bangkok Dangerous
Lionsgate has picked up North American rights from IEG Virtual Studios to Danny and Oxide Pang's action title Bangkok Dangerous starring Nicolas Cage.Lionsgate has scheduled a summer release for the US and Canada and Initial will sell international rights here at EFM.Shot entirely on location in Thailand, the Pang Brothers' ...
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Maximum takes on international to Barrett's South Solitary
Maximum Films International has taken on international rights to upcoming period romantic comedy South Solitary with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Paul Bettany and Sundance entry The Guitar.Shirley Barrett, who won the Camera D'or for Love Serenade in 1996, will begin filming South Solitary from her original screenplay in the second half ...
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Odd Lot International sets out on Road with Bridges, Timberlake
Odd Lot International has boarded Michael Meredith's drama The Open Road starring Jeff Bridges, Justin Timberlake, Kate Mara and Mary Steenburgen.Odd Lot Entertainment is producing the story of a young man must reconnect with his estranged father and get him home to his ailing mother's bedside. Production is set to ...
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SPWAG buys multiple territories on Tortured
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisition Group (SPWAG) has picked up North American and multiple territory rights to the upcoming thriller Tortured starring Laurence Fishburne and Cole Hauser.The deal encompasses the UK, Benelux, French-speaking Europe, Portugal, Spain, Scandinavia, Russia, Hungary and Bulgaria.Nolan Lebovitz directs from his screenplay about an undercover FBI agent ...
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David Slade signs to direct political thriller Unthinkable
Kimmel International has boarded David Slade's political thriller Unthinkable, which is set to go before cameras this summer.Michael Mendelsohn and Caldecot Chubb are producing through their Patriot Pictures and ChubbCo Film Co ventures.The story centres on a race by interrogators to force a man to reveal the location of three ...
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United States - Building an icon
Diversity and synergy are two themes that get a lot of airplay in Hollywood - and more often than not the words are bandied about in an off-hand way that robs them of their currency. Yet they are at the core of what Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey's Icon group ...
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Dutch Oscar entry Duska being sold by Cinemavault
Cinemavault will introduce buyers here to the Dutch foreign language Oscar submission Duska as well as a trio of new documentaries.Sylvia Hoeks won the best supporting actress award at the Netherlands Film Festival for her performance as a cinema cashier in Jos Stelling's dark comedy.Cinemavault vice president of acquisition Michael ...
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First Look takes domestic rights to Buy Borrow Steal
First Look Studios has acquired domestic rights to Eric Styles' comedy Buy Borrow Steal starring Heather Graham as a woman hell-bent on becoming pregnant.The company has set a spring release in Los Angeles following the world premiere at the 25th Miami International Film Festival. Beatrix Wesle and Solveig Langeland's Atrix ...
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Keanu Reeves joins cast for Rebecca Miller's Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
Alan Arkin, Monica Bellucci, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Keanu Reeves have joined the cast of Rebecca Miller's drama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee.Robin Wright Penn stars as the title character, a serene New York-based mother and wife whose former wild life rears its head after her elderly husband embarks on ...
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Cinemavault picks up Pencil, Superhero docs
Cinemavault Releasing International has picked up two documentaries for EFM and will begin sales here on Michele Ohayon's Berlinale Special selection Steal A Pencil For Me and Matt Ogens' Confessions Of A Superhero.Steal A Pencil For Me screens in the festival on Feb 14 and charts the secret love affair ...
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David Mackenzie's Spread seduces Kutcher, Leigh
Ashton Kutcher will play a serial LA womanizer in Spread, the first US movie from Scottish auteur David Mackenzie who was in competition at Berlin last year with Hallam Foe. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a lawyer who is ditched by Kutcher's character in the film which is set to start ...
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Hayden Panettierre to star in Goldbach's Daydream Nation
Hayden Panettiere, star of the smash US series Heroes, will play the lead in the teen comedy Daydream Nation by first-timer Michael Goldbach.Kieran Culkin is in final negotiations to star as Panettiere's gormless boyfriend in the project, which is styled as a coming-of-age tale in the vein of Election and ...
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Albert named vp worldwide ops& business affairs at New Films
New Films International (NFI) has appointed Richard Albert vice president of worldwide operations and business affairs and charged him with overseeing a company restructure.Los Angeles-based Albert has brought on Julie Nong as general counsel and will continue to run his own entertainment law practice. 'We believe that it is essential ...
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Image pulls out of merger with Bergstein's BTP
US video distributor Image Entertainment has pulled out of its merger with David Bergstein affiliate BTP Acquisition Company and demanded prompt payment of a $4.2m business interruption fee.Image made its move after reportedly growing tired of waiting for BTP to complete the necessary financing on the deal, initially announced early ...
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New York Rendez-Vous includes films by Bonnaire, Honore
Organisers at the Rendez-Vous With French Cinema event in New York have unveiled the full line-up of 15 films, which as previously announced will kick off with Claude Lelouch's Roman De Gare on Feb 29.The roster features: Audrey Estrougo's debut drama Ain't Scared (Regarde-Moi) set on a tough Paris housing ...
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Warner Bros boosts post-production with Prime Focus alliance
Warner Bros has broadened the reach of its Motion Picture Imaging post-production division in a strategic alliance with India-based Prime Focus.The agreement allows the companies to work seamlessly across time zones on projects and offers film-makers access to services throughout locations on the sub-continent and London as well as New ...
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Claudia Bonn to oversee Bronx cultural centre
Executive director of the Film Society Of Lincoln Center Claudia Bonn has been named executive director of the Wave Hill 28-acre public garden and cultural centre in the Bronx. She succeeds Kate French, who led the initiative for the past 17 years.Wave Hill marked its 40th anniversary in 2005 by ...