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Lohan and Dawson join grandma gang
Lindsay Lohan and Rosario Dawson have joined the cast of Poor Things, the upcoming dark comedy inspired by the wave of 'grandma gang' scams in the US.Olympia Dukakis and Shirley MacLaine - together for the first time since 1989's Steel Magnolias - star as elderly con artists in the debut ...
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Larry Charles' Borat follow-up bags sales
Freshly minted sales agency IM Global has closed key territory sales on the Untitled Larry Charles Project following a packed buyers presentation on Friday evening.A torrent of North American acquisitions executives poured into the sales and distribution company's Riviera offices to watch 10 minutes from Charles' highly anticipated Borat follow-up.Within ...
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We Own The Night breaks domestic record for Cannes competition film
In the first North American deal for a competition film here this year, Columbia Pictures has swooped on domestic rights to James Gray's We Own The Night in a record domestic sale for a competition film at Cannes believed to be around $11m. The crime drama, which stars Mark ...
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Little Film Company picks up Shill debut
The Little Film Company has picked up the romance Silky Pink, the feature directorial from The Tudors executive producer Steve Shill.Chris Coen and Kelly McCormick produced with Shill, who has also directed episodes of The Sopranos, The Wire, and Deadwood.Shill's manager Paul Nelson is serving as executive producer with Robbie ...
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Weinsteins closes Cannes sales on Teeth
The Weinstein Company International chief Glen Basner has closed sales on Mitchell Lichtenstein's comedy-horror tale Teeth that premiered at Sundance.Rights have gone to the UK (Momentum), South Korea (Mars Entertainment), Australia and New Zealand (Roadshow), Eastern Europe (EEAP),Greece (Odeon), Portugal (LNK),Indonesia (PT Amero), and Thailand (Major Cinepictures).
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QED takes global rights to Filipino frightener
QED International has acquired worldwide rights to The Echo, Vertigo Entertainment and Dark & Stormy Entertainment's English-language remake of the Filipino horror film Sigaw.Yam Laranas will direct the tale of an ex-con who moves into his recently deceased mother's house and is plagued by supernatural encounters. Casting is underway and ...
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Summit sales soar with deals on hot titles
Summit Entertainment was at the centre of a flurry of deal-making last night for UK rights to the Walden Media's Nim's Island, Constantin's The Baader-Meinhof Complex, and in-house production Get Some.Universal took the UK, Australia, Spain, Latin America and New Zealand to Walden Media's family drama Nim's Island starring Gerard ...
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TLA takes UK rights to boxing drama Poor Boy's Game
TLA Releasing has acquired all UK rights from Montreal-based Seville Pictures to Clement Virgo's boxing drama Poor Boy's Game.The film received its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year and is available for sale in the market here.The story stars Rossif Sutherland as a young white boxer ...
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Mandate launches Grindstone DVD division
Mandate Pictures has launched its home entertainment division Grindstone Entertainment, which will be aggressively sourcing titles here for home entertainment, online and mobile markets.Former president of Lionsgate Home Entertainment Group Barry Brooker has been named chief executive officer and president of the venture, which has acquired 226 first and second-run ...
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Medavoy plans supernatural thriller Mile Zero
Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures, whose competition entry Zodiac screened in competition here on Thursday, is preparing the supernatural thriller Mile Zero.Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brad Fischer and James Vanderbilt will produce and Erik Van Looy will direct from an original screenplay by Holly Brix.The producers are out to casting on the ...
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Gans in the game for fantasy adventure
Christophe Gans has signed to direct the $70m-plus epic adventure Onimusha for Samuel Hadida's Davis Films. Gans previously collaborated with Hadida on the worldwide hits Silent Hill and Brotherhood Of The Wolf and will arrive on the Croisette on Sunday to meet buyers. Several studios are believed to ...
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Fabrication lands Presidio on space station project Almaz
Fabrication Films has sold Christian Johnson’s fact-based space station disaster film Almaz Black Box to Presidio in Japan following the premiere screening on the first day of the market.The film centres on events in 1998 when a Russian military space station carrying three crew members and two Western observers crashed ...
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United States - The Next Chapter
As befits a public company with offices in Toronto, Los Angeles and Vancouver, there have been many cogs in Peace Arch Entertainment's machinery.For years, the company has operated successfully as a producer, buyer and distributor of feature, television and home entertainment programming, and now it is ramping up operations in ...
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Vantage/PPI to handle international distribution on Overture titles
Paramount Pictures has confirmed rumours that Paramount Vantage and Paramount Pictures International (PPI) will handle international sales and distribution of the Overture Films slate. Overture will have access to Vantage's newly installed international sales division as well as PPI's global distribution apparatus. The new deal complements the domestic organisation that ...
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Nguyen promoted to Warner Bros International senior VP of operations
Jack Nguyen has been promoted to senior vice president of operations at Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI). Nguyen is a 17-year veteran of the studio and supervised the studio's distribution activities during a period of intense growth across the Asia-Pacific region. Nguyen joined the studio in 1990 as ...
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Echo Bridge takes on The Cry and The King
Echo Bridge Entertainment has boarded Bernadine Santistevan's thriller The Cry and Riding With The King, an account of life on the road with Elvis Presley.The Cry takes place in New York City and is based on the Latino myth of La Llorona, which holds that men who cheat on their ...
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De Niro, Pacino back together again in Righteous Kill
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino will star together in the crime thriller Righteous Kill, a $60m production that signals Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films' most grandiose project to date.Jon Avnet will begin a two-month shoot in August in Connecticut on the story, which pairs the iconic stars as detectives ...
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Pete Seeger to open, Arctic Tale to close Silverdocs
Jim Brown's Pete Seeger: The Power Of Song and Sarah Robertson's Arctic Tale booked the 2007 Silverdocs festival, which runs in Maryland from Jun 12-17.Pete Seeger: The Power Of Song weaves the life and music of Pete Seeger, and the growing impact of American folk music into an account of ...
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Butler to play in Lakeshore's Game
Gerard Butler, white hot after his starring role in the worldwide smash 300, has signed to play the lead in Lakeshore Entertainment's futuristic thriller Game.The film marks Lakeshore's third collaboration with Crank creators Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, who wrote the screenplay and will direct. Principal photography is set to ...
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Strategic starts Monster conversation on Croisette
Los Angeles-based producers reps Strategic Film Partners are taking meetings on the Croisette to outline their newly expanded remit as foreign sales agents and domestic distributors.The company, headed by Lawrence Silverstein and Alex Barder, is selling the Jeremy Irons horror-thriller Conversation With A Monster, a surfing documentary, and new project ...