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THINKFilm acquires Ellen Page drama
THINKFilm has acquired all US rights from Corvid Pictures to Bruce McDonald's drama The Tracey Fragments starring Ellen Page.The national release will commence with a May 9 platform release in Manhattan on the heels of its premiere on March 14 as part of New York's Museum of Modern Art's Canadian ...
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Fox's Jumper leaps to top of international chart with $28.2m in 30 markets
The sci-fi adventure Jumper leapt to the top of the overseas charts over the weekend thanks to an estimated $28.2m haul from 2,800 screens in 30 markets through Fox International.The result was all the more impressive given that Jumper launched at number one almost everywhere and only seven of the ...
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US box-office bounces with Jumper; Hannah Montana nears $60m
Fox's sci-fi adventure Jumper starring Hayden Christensen as a globe trotting teleporter stormed to the top of the domestic charts at the weekend on an estimated $27.2m.The film has grossed $33.9m since it opened on Thursday and also stars Samuel L Jackson, Diane Lane and Jamie Bell. Doug Liman directed.Opening ...
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New Line's John Sinayi joins Overture Films as SVP
Overture Films has hired John Sinayi as senior vice president theatrical distribution. Sinayi previously served as vice president/district manager of Western and Central Divisions for New Line Cinema where he worked in both the Los Angeles and Dallas offices. During his 14-year tenure at New Line he oversaw ...
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Picture Entertainment, Plum take on Faulkner's Intruder In The Dust
Picture Entertainment and Plum Pictures are partnering on an adaptation of William Faulkner's 1948 classic Intruder In The Dust.Intruder tells the story of black farmer Lucas Beauchamp who is falsely accused of murdering a white man in Depression-era Mississippi. Locked in jail and facing the imminent arrival of a lynch ...
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Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page flock to Mandate's Peacock
Mandate Pictures has cast Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page in the psychological thriller Peacock. The story takes place in a small Nebraskan town where Murphy's schizophrenic character fools inhabitants into thinking he is man and wife. Page will play a struggling mother who holds the key to his ...
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European film market - Signed, sealed and delivered
Jeremy Kay reports on the key deals at this week's Berlin International Film Festival.lUniversal bought North American, German, Spanish and Latin American rights from Mandate International to Sam Raimi's upcoming horror film Drag Me To Hell starring Oscar nominee Ellen Page.l Miramax paid mid-six figures for North American rights from ...
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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 ...