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Boll to start production on Bloodrayne 2 on Nov 22
Uwe Boll is preparing to commence shooting on the adventurefantasy sequel and video game adaptation BloodRayne 2.Production on the Brightlight Pictures project is set to begin onNov 22 in British Columbia, Canada, starring Natassia Malthe as a vengeful vampire who runs amok in the1860s Wild West.Christopher Donaldson and Neil ...
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RoboCop, Red October composer Poledouris dies at 61 in LA
Basil Poledouris, the composer whose credits included Starship Troopers,The Blue Lagoon and FreeWilly, has died ofcancer in Los Angeles. He was 61.Best-known for his powerful music for action-adventure films like TheHunt For Red October, Conan The Barbarian and RoboCop, the Missouri-born composer forged strong working relationshipswith directors like Paul Verhoeven, ...
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Shadow buys North American theatrical on Romany music doc
Shadow Distribution has picked up North American theatrical rightsfrom Fortissimo Films to Jasmine Dellal's Romany music documentary When TheRoad Bends...Tales Of A Gypsy Caravan.Independent documentary DVD distributor Docurama is handling DVDand VOD rights. Fortissimo Films financed the project with the IndependentTelevision Service (ITVS).Shadow plans a mid-2007 release on the title, ...
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Slamdance, Angel Baby team to produce annual horror feature
Slamdance has teamed up with Angel Baby Entertainment andexecutive producer Michael Malagiero to produce an annual feature based on the year'swinner of the fledgling Slamdance Horror Screenplay Competition.The winning writer will also receive an upfront payment of $10,000against 5% of the film's budget, as well as net profits participation on ...
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Inconvenient Truth wins IDA's Pare Lorentz award
An Inconvenient Truth will receive the 2006 International Documentary Association's(IDA's) Pare Lorentz AwardDirector Davis Guggenheim, will accept the honour at the 2006 IDADistinguished Documentary Achievement Awards Gala on Dec 8 in Los Angeles.'This recognition is for the film that best represents theactivist spirit and lyrical vision of Pare Lorentz,' IDA ...
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Wong Kar-wai reunites with Weinsteins on Blueberry
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has swooped on all US, Australian andNew Zealand rights to Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights.StudioCanal is handling international sales on the auteur's first English-languagefilm, which stars Norah Jones as a lovelorn young woman who meets a series ofmemorable characters while traveling across America.Jude Law, David Strathairn, ...
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MPAA creates new rights management division under Saunders
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has established adepartment to manage and promote rights management and copyright royalty policyworldwide on behalf of its members.Jane Saunders has been named senior vice president and will headthe new Rights Management Policy and Relations department.The division consolidates several existing MPAA programmes, andwill promote ...
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First Look scores major sales on Diamond, Crime
A rejuvenated First Look International has closed major sales atAFM on Tennessee Williams' rare play Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond starring Lindsay Lohan and true-lifedrama American Crime starringCatherine Keener.Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond sparked multiple deals after it was announced during themarket. CAA is handling the Constellation Entertainment project in ...
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TWC takes US rights to Death Defying Acts
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has picked up US rights to Gillian Armstrong's Harry Houdini drama Death DefyingActs.The project stars Guy Pearce as the master escapologist who goeson tour in 1926 and embarks upon an affair with an exotic psychic played byCatherine Zeta Jones.The psychic and her daughter attempt to con ...
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Whitaker, Inconvenient Truth honoured at Santa Barbara
Forest Whitaker will receive the 2007 Santa Barbara InternationalFilm Festival's American Riviera Award and Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim will berecognised for their achievements in nature filmmaking for An InconvenientTruth.As previously announced Will Smith will collect the Modern Master Awardat the event, which runs from Jan 25-Feb 4, 2007.For more ...
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Solo Dios Sabe finds domestic home in Palm
Palm Pictures has acquired North American and Caribbean rights to CarlosBolado's Brazilian feature Solo Dios Sabe.The distributor plans an early 2007 theatrical release followed byDVD roll-out on the Palm Pictures label.Solo Dios Sabe, which premiered at Sundance this year, follows the relationshipof a Mexican journalist who falls in love with ...
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Mandate pre-sells key territories on Horsemen
Mandate Pictures has closed major territory pre-sales on JonasAkerlund's dark crime thriller Horsemen starring Dennis Quaid and Ziyi Zhang.Rights have gone to Icon for the UK and Australia, Concorde forGermany, West Video for CIS, and Sony Pictures Entertainment for Spain,Portugal, South Africa, Latin America and South Korea.Deals also closed in ...
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AFM says it had record attendance levels, 1,573 buyers
The27th AFM, which has been severely affected by sporadic internet service at theLoews Hotel, has announced record attendance levels.OrganisersIFTA claim overall attendance climbed to 8,208, up 2% against last year's8,014.Thecurrent tally of buyers as of today is 1,573 from 61 countries, with mostnotable year-on-year rises coming from Mexico (up 57% ...
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Palm, Curiously Bright jointly acquire Peter Beard doc
PalmPictures & Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment have jointlyacquired worldwide rights to the documentary Peter Beard: Scrapbooks FromAfrica & Beyond.Jean-ClaudeLuyat and Guillaume Bond's picture profiles the celebrated diarist, artist andphotographer and is narrated by Charlotte Rampling.Theproject features rare and never-before-seen footage of Mick Jagger, AndyWarhol, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John ...
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PorchLight picks up international rights to VC Andrews pic Rain
PorchLight Entertainment has picked up international theatrical,broadcast and DVD rights to Rain starring Faye Dunaway and Robert Loggia.Based on the novel by VC Andrews, Rain follows the story of a witness to acrime who discovers the identity of her true mother while in protective custodyand goes on to become a ...
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UK effects house The Mill to open Los Angeles facility
UKadvertising and visual effects group The Mill is planning to open a majorfacility in Santa Monica, California.Thecompany, founded in London in 1990, recently opened a facility in New York andwill become the first post-production agency to operate in the three key globallocations for advertising production.Thenew office is due to open ...
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Strand buys US rights to Golden Bear winner Grbavica
StrandReleasing has acquired all US rights to Jasmila Zbanic's Grbavica: The LandOf My Dreams from Match Factory Films.Thepicture won the Golden Bear at Berlin earlier this year and has been selectedas Bosnia and Herzegovina's official entry for the foreign language Oscar. Italso received European Film Award nominations this week for ...
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MPD/Arclight joint venture Union Station buys Dark Corners
UnionStation Media has picked up all domestic rights from Shoreline Entertainment toRay Gower's psychological thriller Dark Corners. Thepicture stars Thora Birch and Toby Stephens in the story of a troubled youngwoman who wakes up one day as a different person and discovers she is beingstalked by malevolent creatures.Gowerwrote the screenplay ...
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BVI, SPRI extend relationship with joint venture in Russia
BuenaVista International, Inc. (BVI) and Sony Pictures Releasing International(SPRI) have formed a joint venture to distribute their respective films inRussia.Themove follows a similar agreement for South Korea struck by the parties lastmonth and takes effect on Jan 1, 2007.Russiabecomes the 15th territory in which the two companies are partners. The ...
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Scorsese signs four-year, first-look deal with Paramount
Martin Scorsese and Paramount Pictures have signed a four-yearfirst-look deal under which the filmmaker will direct and produce features,made-for-DVD, digital content and television for the studio and specialty labelParamount Vantage.The deal marks Scorsese's first overall pact in several years, andwill commence on Nov 1. Paramount will have the opportunity co-finance ...