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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 ...
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GSFI gets Expired for worldwide sales
GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) will arrive in Cannes buoyed by the acquisition of worldwide rights to Cecilia Miniucchi's Critics Week romantic comedy Expired.Sales chief Ariel Veneziano will introduce to the project to buyers at the market next week. Expired stars Samantha Morton and Jason Patric as diametrically opposed characters who ...
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Robert Forster joins the cast of Fried's Fire Bay
Robert Forster has joined Kuno Becker on the cast of Randall Fried's Bay Of Pigs drama Fire Bay, which is set to begin shooting on Jul 16 in Mexico.Fried's Los Angeles-based DragonFire Films will produce with Structured Capital Group Inc from New York City. Hector Lopez and Tony Mark are ...
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Sony Acquisitions Group signs pact with Inferno
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has signed a multi-year, co-financing and domestic distribution deal for all-media rights to films produced by Inferno Distribution.The non-exclusive agreement is structured as a first-look deal that effectively turns Inferno into a producer on certain projects for the studio with the ability to sell ...
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Wind Dancer names first two thrillers from development fund
US-based Wind Dancer Films has announced the first two thrillers from its recently established development fund.Crescendo is based on a story by Wind Dancer's Matt Williams and will be written by Andrew Klavan and centres on a traumatised concert violinist plagued by visions of her late father.House Of War is ...
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2929 takes on international sales to Gracie
2929 International will commence sales in Cannes on Davis Guggenheim's true-life drama Gracie based on a tragedy that struck the family of actress Elisabeth Shue.Set in 1978, Gracie tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who won the right to play competitive football on her high school boy's team after ...
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Screen Media Ventures to sell three at AFM
New York-based distributor Screen Media will introduce three new theatrical projects to buyers in Cannes through its new sales arm Screen Media Ventures.Walker Payne is a small-town drama about a man forced to make heart-breaking choices to save his two daughters and stars Judd Payne, Jason Patric and Sam Shepard.Matt ...
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Screen Gems picks up spoof script Armageddagain
Screen Gems has picked up Robert Moniot's upcoming comedy spoof Armageddagain: The Day Before Tomorrow.Production is scheduled to begin in August and Screen Gems will release in 2008. Screen Gems' Michael Helfand negotiated the deal with Moniot's agents at ICM.Noah Emmerich makes his major producing debut through Sandbox Entertainment, alongside ...
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Talk To Me to open Los Angeles Film Festival
Talk To Me, Kasi Lemmons' biopic of radio DJ Ralph Waldo Greene, and Danny Boyle's Sunshine bookend the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival, which will screen more than 230 features, shorts and music videos between Jun 21 and Jul 1.The eight narrative competition entries will vie for a $50,000 unrestricted ...
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WBITD signs Hong Kong VOD deal with ViDeOnline
Warner Bros International Television Distribution has signed a multi-year video-on-demand and subscription video-on-demand deal with ViDeOnline Communications for the Hong Kong rights to current features and library titles.The agreement will initially cover more than 100 Warner Bros titles that ViDeOnline will offer for download through its recently launched 08Media portal.Films ...
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Mandate to sell Ghost House/Vertigo horror Incident
Mandate Pictures will commence sales in Cannes on the Ghost House Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment horror tale Incident At Sans Asylum.Daniel Calparsoro is directing from a screenplay by S Craig Zahler about volunteer cooks at an insane asylum who get trapped inside the building with the cream of the criminally ...
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Warner Bros ceases all preview screenings in Canada
Warner Bros Canada fired a broadside at Canadian lawmakers yesterday when it announced it was immediately ceasing all preview screenings in the territory as a result of what it regarded as inadequate anti-piracy policy.Citing ongoing state and federal efforts to curb piracy in the US, Warner Bros' anti-piracy chief Darcy ...
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Warner Japan wins government import award for fourth time
Warner Entertainment Japan has received the 2007 Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award for best importer-distributor of the year for the fourth time.The award was handed out at a ceremony on Apr 18 at the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce. Warner Japan president and representative director William Ireton accepted the ...
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Dubinet leaves Myriad and heads to Revelations
Revelations Entertainment partners Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary have hired former Myriad Pictures distribution chief Ann Dubinet to head their new financing arm Global Revelations.The new venture will nurture a 'talent inspired' consortium of equity and hedge fund personnel ranging from studios and financiers to international players in Europe, Asia ...
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Spider-Man 3 actual weekend gross higher than estimates
Spider-Man 3 actually grossed more than initial weekend estimates suggested, taking $382m worldwide and $231m internationally in its first six days, and $151m in its first three days in North America.The action epic screened in 4,252 domestic theatres for a $35,540 per-theatre average, and played in 8,900 overseas venues.It opened ...
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Intrepid buys rights to graphic novel The Expendable One
Los Angeles-based production and financing company Intrepid Pictures has acquired Jason M Burns' graphic novel The Expendable One and has hired Shane Kuhn and Brendan Cowles to co-write the screenplay.The Expendable One is an action-comedy about an ordinary man who realises after accidentally drinking his friend's scientific experiment that his ...