All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1247
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Josh Lucas takes lead role in Scott Free's Tell-Tale
Josh Lucas has joined Scott Free's upcoming horror film Tell-Tale, which Hyde Park International has been pre-selling at AFM.Meanwhile sales chief Lisa Wilson announced that deals have closed in: South Korea (KD Media), Brazil (Playarte), Mexico and Latin America (Quality Films), Eastern Europe (Pa-dora), Benelux (Dutch Filmworks), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece ...
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THINKFilm, Image take US rights to Stuart Gordon's Stuck
THINKFilm has taken US rights at AFM to Stuart Gordon's drama Stuck starring Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea.The distributor is planning a spring 2008 release in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco among other top markets.Image Entertainment, an equity partner on the film, will release on DVD. Rigel Entertainment ...
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SPWAG takes multiple rights to Crank 2, Punisher 2
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has acquired international rights from Lakeshore Entertainment to Crank 2: High Voltage in Latin America, Japan, Australia and France, among others, and taken all international rights to The Punisher 2: War Zone from Lionsgate.Crank 2: High Voltage sees Jason Statham reprise his role as ...
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Arthouse buys domestic DVD rights to The Cats Of Mirikitani
Arthouse Films has acquired North American DVD rights to Linda Hattendorf's documentary The Cats Of Mirikitani.David Koh and Lilly Bright did the deal on behalf of Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment along with Hattendorf and producer Masa Yoshihkawa.Arthouse plans a DVD release in early 2008 on the Arthouse Films ...
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TLA picks up Living And The Dead, Socket at AFM
TLA Releasing has picked up US non-theatrical and home video rights to Simon Rumley's UK thriller The Living And The Dead and North American and UK non-theatrical, home video and VOD rights to Sean Abley's US genre film Socket.TLA plans a March 25 2008 release through sister company Danger After ...
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Summit signs three-year output deal with Concorde/Tele-Muenchen
Summit International has slotted into place the German piece of its output deal jigsaw with a three-year deal with Tele-Muenchen Group (TMG).The agreement will kick off with Twilight and Sex Drive and covers all rights in Germany and Austria as well as television rights in German-speaking Switzerland through 2010.Going forward ...
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Damon Bryant heads new Arclight Films UK office
Los Angeles-based Arclight Films has launched a UK office and put former ICM agent and Natural Nylon founding partner Damon Bryant in charge.Bryant will head UK production and acquisitions for the company and its two divisions, Darclight and Easternlight.'It is important for Arclight's development to have a European base since ...
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Sony expected to take District 9 rights from QED
Sony was poised last night [Sunday] to strike the biggest deal of AFM and take North America and other territories to Peter Jackson's upcoming sci-fi action film District 9.QED Intl is fully financing District 9 and handles worldwide sales on the project, which Jackson will produce through his Wingnut Films.Neill ...
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Nordisk ties up Summit product until 2010
Summit International and Nordisk Film have signed a three-year output deal in Scandinavia until 2010.The deal begins with Get Some, Push, Step Up 2 The Streets, Twilight and Sex Drive and will also include films that are produced, co-produced and/or acquired by Summit during the output term. The deal excludes ...
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Strike nerves unsettle AFM business
Business at the AFM has painted a picture of a divided market. Tangible top tier product was in demand, as always, but most buyers and sellers were bemoaning one of the slowest markets in years.Pre-strike jitters left their mark as buyers anxious to fill pipelines for 2009 and early 2010 ...
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Purple Violets bloom for Showcase at AFM
Showcase Entertainment has closed a slew of deals at AFM on Edward Burns' romantic comedy Purple Violets starring Selma Blair, Debra Messing, Burns and Patrick Wilson.Rights closed in Russia (Vox Film), Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic/Slovakia and Hungary (Pasatiempo), the Middle East (Teleview) and former Yugoslavia (Programs4Media).Offers from the UK, Italy, ...
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2929 seals big AFM deals on Arriaga's The Burning Plain
Tohokushinsha in Japan, Wild Bunch in France, Medusa in Italy and Dendy in Australia are among the buyers of Guillermo Arriaga's The Burning Plain starring Charlize Theron which is being sold at AFM by 2929 International.The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Costantini Films have also teamed to take Latin American rights ...
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National Lampoon deals two films to Beta Film
National Lampoon has struck a two-film deal with Germany's Beta Film to distribute its original productions in Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe.The deal will kick off with be the company's first in-house production National Lampoon's Bag Boy.'I am delighted to be forging this relationship with Beta,' president of worldwide distribution ...
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Gangster reboots North American box office with $46.3m take
Universal's prestige crime drama American Gangster beat out Paramount-DreamWorks animated family hit Bee Movie as it opened top on an estimated $46.3m.Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe star in the 1970s saga about a detective on the tail of a Manhattan-based heroin kingpin.Bee Movie, voiced by Jerry Seinfeld and Renee Zellweger ...
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Ratatouille still gnaws biggest chunk of international box office
Ratatouille stayed atop the international marketplace for the fifth consecutive weekend and raised its running total by an estimated $14.5m from 4,381 theatres in 29 countries for $371.8m.Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International's (WDSMPI) animated hit is now the second biggest international Pixar release behind Finding Nemo's $524.9m. Ratatouille has ...
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Weinstein Co takes US rights to three from Wild Bunch
The Weinstein Company (TWC) swooped last night [Nov 3] on US rights to three films from Wild Bunch in the first major domestic deal of AFM to be announced.In the evening of Saturday, several hours after Harvey Weinstein had been observed at the Loews deep in conversation with key lieutenant ...
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Cinemavault sells Australia on Canvas to All Interactive
Cinemavault Releasing International has sold key territories on the drama Canvas with Marcia Gay Harden and Joe Pantoliano and horror film Scar 3D.Rights to Canvas have gone to Australia (All Interactive), Greece (Seven Films), the Middle East (Front Row), and Portugal (Lusomundo).Joseph Greco's film won the Alice In The City ...
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New Line takes domestic rights to two Gold Circle films
New Line Cinema has picked up North American rights to Gold Circle's romantic comedy Over Her Dead Body starring Eva Longoria Parker and upcoming thriller The New Daughter with Kevin Costner.Mandate International is selling foreign rights to both titles. The studio has set a February 1 2008 release date for ...
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Danielak sells key territories on Rifkin-Eberts/A-Mark titles
Yarek Danielak's Arsenal Pictures has closed key territories on the Rifkin-Eberts and A-Mark Entertainment titles Stag starring Kip Pardue and Night Train starring Danny Glover.Rights to both films have sold in Germany (Koch Media), Mexico (Gussi), Brazil (Playarte), Greece (Audiovisual), the Middle East (Phars), and Turkey (Umut).Los Angeles-based Danielak said ...
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Constantin takes German rights to Winged Creatures
Peace Arch has sold key territories here on the ensemble drama Winged Creatures, drama The Babysitters, and football story Goal 3!Constantin took German rights to Rowan Woods' Winged Creatures, which stars Kate Beckinsale, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Hudson, and Guy Pearce. Sony will release in the US in 2008.David Ross' drama ...