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First Independent takes slew of territory rights on Green
GaryRubin's First Independent Pictures is extending its global reach and has pickedup US, Australian/New Zealand and South African rights from ShorelineEntertainment to the comedy Everything's Gone Green.FirstIndependent plans a spring 2007 US release for the project, based on the firstscreenplay by Generation X writer Douglas Coupland.Thestory centres on a slacker ...
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All the buyers love Mandy Lane
The Weinstein Company has closed multiple territories on Jonathan Levine'shorror title All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, which recently received its world premiere at Toronto.Rights have gone to the UK (Optimum), Germany (Senator), France(TFM), Australia and New Zealand (Village Roadshow), and Russia (West Film Group).Deals also closed in South Korea ...
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Black Sheep continues sales frenzy
Hot New Zealand horrorcomedy Black Sheep has stirred upa bidding frenzy in several territories including Germany, where rightshave gone to Ascot Elite. Kathleen Drumm and James Thompson of NZFilm negotiated the deal with Stephan Giger for Ascot Elite.Jonathan King wrote anddirected the story of a reckless genetic experiment that transformsinnocent ...
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GreeneStreet reunites with producer Katz on Adverbs
GreeneStreet Films (GSF) andproducer Ross Katz are partnering up to adapt Lemony Snicket novelist Daniel Handler's romance Adverbs.Katz, who worked with GSF on InThe Bedroom, approached the New York-basedcompany with the project about a series of characters who come and go in eachother's lives under an atmosphere of impending doom."We ...
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Borat make glorious box office benefits for Fox
Sacha Baron Cohen'soutrageous faux Kazakh journalist Borat had too much chutzpah for the competition at the weekend and opened topthrough Fox on an estimated $26.4m.The result is remarkablegiven that Fox only launched the picture on 837 screens for a stunning $31,511average. Larry Charles directed.Borat's domestic resultovershadowed Buena Vista's comedy sequel ...
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Borat, Prada give Fox international leadership
Fox International scored a one-two punch at the weekend as Borat and The Devil Wears Prada ruled the roost.Boratcrushed the competition as it grossed an estimated $17.7m from 993 screens in17 markets, powered by a stunning $11.5m number one debut in the UK.The comedy, which dominated the North American charts ...
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TWC buys North American rights to Klaus Barbie doc
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has bought North American rights fromWild Bunch to Kevin MacDonald's upcoming Klaus Barbie documentary My Enemy'sEnemy.My Enemy's Enemy investigates the legacy of the former Gestapo commander known as'The Butcher Of Lyon' who terrorised Lyon and the surrounding region fromNovember 1942 to August 1944.The project follows Barbie ...
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THINKFilm closes sales on three titles with distributor trio
THINKFilm is drawing stronginterest on its sales slate at AFM and has closed a number of deals on threetitles.Rights to Ripple Effect have gone to Luxor in Russia, HollywoodEntertainment in Greece, and Front Row in the Middle East.Ripple Effect stars Forrest Whitaker, who is earning rave reviewsfor his portrayal of ...
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Kimmel sells multiple territories for Death At A Funeral
Sidney KimmelEntertainment's foreign sales arm Kimmel Internationalhas closedmultiple territories on comedy Death At A Funeral starringMatthew Macfadyen, Peter Dinklage andEwen Bremner.Rights have gone to Germany(Concorde), Italy (Mikado), Spain (DeaPlaneta), Scandinavia (Scanbox),and South Africa (Nu Metro).Frank Oz directed the project aboutdysfunctional British relativeswho attend the riotous funeral of afamily patriarch. Alan ...
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Sony goes for Untraceable starring Diane Lane
Sony Pictures has made itssecond major buy here with the acquisitionof North American and LatinAmerican rights to Gregory Hoblit's FBIcybercop thriller Untraceable starring Diane Lane.Screen Gems will release theproject in North America and SonyPictures Releasing International willdistribute in Latin America. Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper did the dealwith LakeshoreInternational, which ...
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Lindsay Lohan to star in Tennessee Williams project
Lindsay Lohan will star in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' previously unpublished play The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond.Ellen Burstyn, David Strathairn, Chris Evans and Ann-Margret are also believed to be attached to the project, which has fast become one of the most hotly pursued titles at AFM.Brad Gilbert of ...
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Basinger-starrer sells to Optimum, Manga, Square One
Voltage Pictures has closed key territories at AFM on the upcomingKim Basinger thriller While She Was Out which has Guillermo del Toro serving as executive producer.Rights have gone to Optimum in the UK, Manga Films in Spain, andSquare One in Germany. Sales chief Nicolas Chartier also reported stronginterest from Japan ...
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Andrew Niccol to direct Dali & I for Room 9
Andrew Niccol is attachedto direct Dali & I: The Surreal Story for David Sacks' Room 9 Entertainment.Room 9 originally acquiredJohn Salvati's speculative screenplay based on Stan Lauryssen's book Daliand I.Niccol is working on arewrite of the biopic, which will cover the life of Salvador Dali told throughthe eyes of Lauryssens, ...
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Sony goes on aggressive acquisitions spree at Element
Sony Pictures has swooped on multiple territory rights to twoprojects from John Fremes' Element Films International as it seeks tore-establish a major acquisitions profile on the international circuit.In a pre-emptive move before the AFM kicked off earlier this week,the US major snapped up US and a host of international rights ...
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Peace Arch picks up thriller Never Forget
Peace Arch EntertainmentGroup has picked up worldwide rights to the thriller Never Forget starring Lou Diamond Phillips.Phillips portrays a man whofights to clear his name after he awakens to find himself covered in blood andaccused of murder without any recollection of what has happened.Leo Scherman is directingfrom as screenplay by ...
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Madman buys Court Of Lonely Royals for Australia
Wendy Reeds' FabricationFilms has sold the dystopian tale Court Of Lonely Royals to Madman Pictures in Australia.First-timer Rohan MichaelHoole's story centres on a future where alienated youngsters are hired to killfor the police has also closed in a number of other territories.Rights have gone to Brazil(Alpha Filmes), the former Yugoslavia ...
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Weinsteins and IFC make joint buy of Black Sheep
The Weinstein Company (TWC)and IFC Entertainment have jointly acquired all North American rights toJonathan King's horror-comedy Black Sheep on the back of its popular world premiere screening at Toronto.IFC will release through itsFirst Take day-and-date distribution label and TWC will release on DVD throughGenius Products. Philippa Campbell produced the saga ...
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Myriad takes on romantic comedy Jack and Jill
Myriad Pictures has acquiredworldwide rights to romantic comedy Jack And Jill Vs The World starring Freddie Prinze Jr and Taryn Manning.Myriad is introducing buyersto the story of a bored 30-year-old advertising executive called Jack who fallsfor Jill, a free-spirited girl, following a chance rooftop encounter.However after Jack learnsthat Jill hasn't ...
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Rowlands and Deneuve sign on for Persepolis
Gena Rowlands and CatherineDeneuve have signed on to the voice cast of the English-language adaptation ofIranian author Marjane Satrapi's award-winning autobiographical comic books Persepolis and Persepolis 2.The animated feature iscurrently in production in France and will be released through Sony PicturesClassics in North America. Deneuve will voice the role of ...
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Becker acquires international rights to Cobain doc
London and Sydney-basedBecker International has acquired foreign rights from Sidetrack Films to AJSchnack's documentary Kurt Cobain About A Son.Becker has been introducingthe picture to buyers here at AFM in tandem with its US premiere at AFI FEST.Dendy Films has taken Australian and New Zealand rights.Produced by Brooklyn-basedproduction and financing outfit ...