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Palm takes US rights to Pineyro's Method from Latido
Palm Pictures has taken US rights from Latido Films to Marcelo Pineyro's Argentinian-Spanish psychological thriller The Method (El Metodo).Palm plans a summer theatrical release followed by DVD roll-out for the story of a company that employs a brutal interview process to whittle down a pool of job applicants. Mateo Gil ...
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Cattaneo to direct first US film, The Rocker
Oscar-nominated Full Monty director Peter Cattaneo is to direct his first US film, The Rocker. Rainn Wilson, who starred in the US version of television hit The Office, is in negotiations to play the lead role as an over-the-hill drummer who gets a second chance at fame with a new ...
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Horizon swims with shark documentary hit
Vancouver-based sales agency Horizon Motion Pictures has picked up international rights to Rob Stewart's animal conservation documentary Sharkwater and will commence sales in Cannes.The film is on course to cross C$1m in Canada after launching there recently, and follows Stewart as he highlights the threats faced by sharks from poachers ...
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MPAA cracks down on smoking in films
The Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) ratings board is getting tough on smoking in film.Until now the ratings board has regarded sex, violence, adult language and illegal smoking among teens as the elements most likely to incur its wrath.However, an edict delivered today stressed than all depiction of smoking ...
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NY-based Visit establishes boutique sales arm
Visit Films, the New York-based production company run by former Focus Features International distribution executive Ryan Kampe and commercials producer and creative executive Sylvain Tron, has launched the boutique sales agency Visit Sales.The company will specialise in finding foreign distribution channels for independent American projects and the partners will attend ...
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You Kill Me to close CineVegas
John Dahl's You Kill Me Starring Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni will close the ninth annual CineVegas Film Festival, which runs at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas from June 6-16.As previously announced, Ocean's Thirteen will open the event, which includes the new Mexican sidebar La Proxima Ola.'Opening with such ...
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Geike promoted to president for Warner Bros Germany & Austria
Willi Geike has been promoted to president and managing director of Warner Bros Entertainment Germany and Austria.In his expanded role the 24-year company veteran will assume general oversight of all the studio's businesses in the two German-speaking territories.The remit covers theatrical and home video production, marketing and distribution, television distribution, ...
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Mexico's The Violin continues awards roll at San Francisco
Francisco Vargas Quemada's The Violin won the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival's SKYY Prize at the closing night awards ceremony on May 10.The FIPRESCI Prize went to Jeanne Waltz's Parting Shot/Pas Douce, while the Chris Holter Humour in Film Award was presented to Pavel Giroud for The Silly Age.In ...
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The Violin strikes chord with San Francisco jury
Francisco Vargas Quemada's The Violin won the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival's SKYY Prize at the closing night awards ceremony on May 10.The FIPRESCI Prize went to Jeanne Waltz' Parting Shot/Pas Douce, while the Chris Holter Humour in Film Award was presented to Pavel Giroud for The Silly Age.In ...
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Danielak's Arsenal loads up with Rifkin-Eberts titles
Yarek Danielak's Los Angeles-based distributor Arsenal Pictures has struck a deal to handle four features from Bruce Willis' regular producer Arnold Rifkin and Lord Of War executive producer Christopher Eberts.The deal with Rifkin-Eberts and A-Mark Entertainment kicks off with the recently wrapped horror title Timber Falls and Night Train, which ...
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Francois Velle to direct The Narrows for Serenade
Serenade Films has signed Francois Velle to direct the drama The Narrows, which is set to begin filming in New York later this month.The Narrows stars Kevin Zegers as a 22-year-old Brooklyn man that dreams of escaping his family's criminal roots and becoming a photographer.Vincent D'Onofrio, Sophia Bush, Eddie Cahill ...
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American World signs international rights to Codeblack slate
Mark Lester's Los Angles-based American World Pictures (AWP) has struck a deal to sell foreign rights to African-American-owned studio Codeblack Entertainment's slate at Cannes.The eight-strong Codeblack roster includes The Hit starring Blair Underwood and James Russo, I Tried starring Bone Thugs and Harmony, Flip The Script starring Robin Givens, and ...
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Roadside deal with Goldwyn/IDP comes to an end
Samuel Goldwyn Films announced yesterday that its three-year deal to provide marketing and distribution servicing to Roadside Attractions through its theatrical releasing arm IDP Distribution has come to an end.IDP Distribution and its staff will continue to distribute Goldwyn's theatrical film releases in the United States.Roadside Attraction co-president Howard Cohen ...
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Pellington to direct Henry Poole Is Here for Lakeshore
Los Angeles-based Lakeshore Entertainment is teaming up for the fourth time with director Mark Pellington on the drama Henry Poole Is Here starring Luke Wilson.Joint senior vice presidents of international sales Jonathan Deckter and Elisabeth Costa De Beauregard will begin sales in Cannes next week on the story of a ...
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Son Of Rambow to open Seattle Film Festival
The 33rd Annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) will kick off with Garth Jennings' coming-of-age drama Son Of Rambow and close with the North American premiere of Laurent Tirard's period comedy Moliere.All in all 405 features will screen during the May 24-Jun 17 festival. Events include the new Planet Cinema ...
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Cotter's Continental signs option to board non-Warner Initial films
Continental Pictures, Colin Cotter's recently announced financing and sales company, has signed a deal with Initial Entertainment Group, in which Cotter is still a partner, whereby Continental will have the option to board Initial projects not taken up by Warner Bros under its first-look studio deal.Continental is Cotter's new initiative ...
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Little, Lightning team up to sell Fan-Demanium
Los Angeles-based sales and distribution companies Lightning Entertainment and The Little Film Company have jointly acquired international sales rights to football documentary Fan-Demanium.The parties will commence sales at Cannes next week on the project, which shot during the 2006 World Cup in Germany and follows 10 fans from around the ...
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Ocean's Thirteen to open ninth annual CineVegas
The ninth annual CineVegas Film Festival that runs in Las Vegas from Jun 6-16 will open with Ocean's Thirteen following the film's out of competition screening in Cannes.Ocean's Thirteen producer Jerry Weintraub will be presented with the Vanguard Producer Award during the opening night festivities at the Palms Casino, the ...
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Smart joins Malloy in swing dance romance Love N Dancing
Amy Smart will join Tom Malloy and a cast of swing dancing champions in Trick Candle Productions and Dolger Films' West Coast swing dance romance Love N' Dancing.Robert Iscove will direct from a screenplay by Malloy about a bored English teacher and her swing dancing instructor who fall in love ...
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Sundance Channel takes Film Movement's Man
North American distributor Film Movement has licensed Jose Henrique Fonseca's Brazilian crime caper Man Of The Year (O Homem Do Ano) to the Sundance Channel.Man Of The Year tells the story of an ordinary person who is propelled into destiny after the seemingly innocuous act of dying his hair blond.Murilo ...