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Derek Jacobi joins cast of Schrader's Adam Resurrected
Derek Jacobi has joined Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe on the cast of Paul Schrader's holocaust drama Adam Resurrected.Based on Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk's novel, the story follows a former circus entertainer who was spared the gas chamber to entertain Jews as they marched to their deaths.After the war he ...
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American World Pictures adds One Long Night and Triloquist
American World Pictures (AWP) has spiced up its Cannes sales slate with the comedy-thriller One Long Night starring Alison Eastwood, Karen Black and Ed Begley Jr, along with horror title Triloquist. David Siqueiros directed the tale of a young Mexican-American businessman from California whose life is transformed during a night ...
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Voltage takes on Alan Rickman starrer Nobel Son
Voltage Pictures has acquired international rights to the crime caper Nobel Son starring Alan Rickman that premiered recently at Tribeca. Director Randall Miller and CAA's Roeg Sutherland negotiated the deal with Voltage sales chief Nicolas Chartier, who will commence sales on the Croisette. Chartier also announced that James Cromwell has ...
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THINKFilm International boards Schmidt's horror Bad Meat
THINKFilm International has boarded Tiger Aspect Pictures' upcoming tongue-in-cheek horror film Bad Meat and is commencing sales here in Cannes.Rob Schmidt is attached to direct the story based on Paul Gerstenberger's screenplay about a group of teenage delinquents who get more than they bargained for when they arrive at a ...
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Becker, Binder sign for films at Damon's Foresight
Mark Damon's Foresight Unlimited has boarded the $15-20m serial killer thriller Hangman with Harold Becker set to direct and $9m Franz Kafka adaptation Metamorphosis starring Daniel Bruhl, Anna Paquin and Stephen Rea.The slate includes Mike Binder's upcoming $20m comedy-drama Emperor Of Michigan, $11m horror remake It's Alive, and the $15m ...
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Cinemavault takes rights to Made In Jamaica
Cinemavault Releasing International has acquired foreign rights to Made in Jamaica, which screens in Cannes official selection in the Cinema De La Plage section on May 25. Jerome Lapperousaz directed the Lawrence Pictures and Herold & Family production, which explores the roots of reggae and its rapid growth into a ...
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Morgan's KMI to sell Kevin Costner comedy Swing Vote
Kathy Morgan's Los Angeles-based sales agency KMI arrives on the Croisette buoyed by the acquisition of the Kevin Costner comedy Swing Vote.Costner will play a beer-guzzling layabout whose precocious 12-year-old daughter triggers a chain of events that renders her father's ballot the deciding vote in the upcoming Presidental Election.The situation ...
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Horizon to represent four films from Irreverent Media
Horizon Motion Pictures has signed a deal to represent four projects from Irreverent Media Ltd (IML) in Cannes as executive producer and co-producer seeking sales, distribution and co-production partners.The quartet is headed by The Light-House, a story starring Kevin Zegers and William Hurt that is said to be inspired by ...
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Arthouse, Red Envelope buy Danny Williams doc
Arthouse Films and Red Envelope Entertainment have partnered to acquire North American rights to Esther B Robinson's documentary A Walk Into The Sea: Danny Williams And The Warhol Factory. The film won the best New York documentary award at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this month as well as the ...
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Lucas signs to direct GreeneStreet's Laws Of Motion
Writer-director Craig Lucas has signed on to the satirical comedy Laws Of Motion, which GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) will begin selling in Cannes.Lucas previously directed the 2005 Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee The Dying Gaul and wrote the 2002 drama The Secret Lives Of Dentists.Matthew Perry, Ben Foster and Hilary ...
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Weinstein prepares for controversy over Sicko
Harvey Weinstein arrives in Cannes this week with a battalion of lawyers and PR gurus ahead of a possible legal tow that threatens to overshadow the world premiere of Michael Moore's Sicko.Moore's expose of the US healthcare industry is set to outdo the controversy over his 2004 Palme D'Or winner ...
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Zwick recruits Craig to lead wartime Defiance
Ed Zwick, riding high on the back of his Oscar-nominated global hit Blood Diamond, is preparing the Second World War Polish Resistance epic Defiance and has cast Daniel Craig in the lead.At time of writing several buyers were circling for domestic rights to the Bedford Falls production, which Zwick will ...
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Jack Black goes medieval with Kimmel's Ye Olde Times
Kimmel International chief Mark Lindsey will commence sales in Cannes this week on the upcoming romantic comedy Ye Olde Times starring Jack Black. Shooting is scheduled to begin in September in Gilroy, California, with Michael Mendelsohn producing and Rob A White making his feature directorial debut. Tim Robbins, Will Arnett ...
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Omega takes international rights to Anna Nicole
Swiss and UK-based financing, production and sales company Omega Entertainment has acquired international rights from Montage Films to the Anna Nicole Smith biopic Anna Nicole.Filming is underway in Los Angeles with US singer Willa Ford starring as the late model and TV personality who died last February from an accidental ...
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Whitaker and Biel line up for Powder Blue
Forest Whitaker and Jessica Biel will star in Eleven Eleven Films' ensemble drama Powder Blue, which QED International will begin selling here this week. Whitaker will produce the project - made in association with Spirit Dance Entertainment and financed by Grosvenor Park - alongside Bobby Schwartz, Ross M Dinerstein, Tracee ...
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Meistrich resurfaces with Nehst Media Enterprises
Film Movement and Shooting Gallery founder Larry Meistrich has launched the New York-based production, financing and distribution company Nehst Media Enterprises.Meistrich has partnered on the venture with homedelivery.com and Chemical Records creator Ari D Friedman. The initial roster of titles and products will be announced shortly.Dana Offenbach is named president ...
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Silverdocs unveils 10 Sterling award entries
Organisers at the Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival have announced the 10 entries in the Sterling Award Feature Film Competition at the upcoming festival, which runs in the Washington DC area from Jun 12-17.The films are: Doug Pray's long-haul trucking tale Big Rig (USA); Eva Mulvad's profile of Afghanistan's first ...
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The Edge signs distribution deal with Echo Bridge
The Edge, the US financing, production and worldwide distribution company launched by John Travolta's longtime producer Jonathan Krane and Beau Rogers, has struck a distribution deal with Echo Bridge Entertainment.Echo Bridge will handle worldwide sales and distribution excluding North American theatrical on two of The Edge's initial slate and will ...
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Schrader's Walker strolls to THINKFilm for North America
THINKFilm has swooped on all North American rights to Paul Schrader's thriller The Walker starring Woody Harrelson and Kristin Scott Thomas.The third part in Schrader's 'lonely man' trilogy following American Gigolo (1980) and Light Sleeper (1992), The Walker stars Harrelson as an escort in Washington DC who covers up for ...
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Magnolia picks up US rights to Ira And Abbey
Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to Ira & Abby and will slot the romantic comedy into the 2007 release slate along with Sundance pick-ups The Signal and Crazy Love.Ira & Abby charts the tumultuous relationship between two people whose hasty marriage descends into a cycle of affairs, therapy and ...