All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1307
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Myriad takes on sales for The Trailer Park Boys
Myriad Pictures has securedworldwide rights excluding Canada to Mike Clattenburg's Canadian smash TrailerPark Boys: The Movie. The raucous comedy arriveson a wave of publicity following screenings at the Toronto International FilmFestival and is based on Clattenburg's long-running Canadian television serieson Showcase Television.Ivan Reitman served asexecutive producer on the feature-length version, ...
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Kathy Morgan takes on Mackenzie's Camille
Kathy Morgan International(KMI) has picked up international rights to the fantasy romance Camille starring Sienna Miller and James Franco.KMI will show buyers a promoreel on the project, which is in post-production and is being produced by AlRuddy and directed by Gregory Mackenzie.Miller plays an idealisticyoung bride who goes on honeymoon ...
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Grand Illusions teams with Steiner for equity, sets initial slate
Jonathan Sanger, Ed Elbertand Sarah Ryan Black at Los Angeles-based Grand Illusions Entertainment haveannounced they will independently develop, package and fund feature andtelevision projects in the $5m to $30m range.David Steiner, owner ofSteiner Equities Group and Brooklyn-based Steiner Studios is on board asfinancial partner.Projects in the pipelineinclude the Fred Schepisi ...
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Lampert and Mazgedian Anna take top roles at Village Roadshow Pictures
Village Roadshow Pictures has named Jeffrey Lampert executive vice president of worldwide feature production and Melissa Mazgedian Anna senior vice-president of worldwide distribution and marketing.Lampert will report to Village Roadshow Pictures Entertainment (VRPE)president of production Dana Goldberg.She will oversee a slate that includes the upcoming Music And Lyrics starring Hugh ...
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Cruise, Wagner team with MGM to revive United Artists
In a deal intended to capture the spirit of Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and D W Griffith, Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner are reviving the United Artists (UA) label with MGM. Nine weeks after Cruise Wagner parted company with Paramount Pictures, the producing partners have bounced back with ...
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Torres to direct Sense & Sensibilidad for Camelot, Odd Lot
Fina Torres will direct a Latino version of Jane Austen's SenseAnd Sensibility entitledSense And Sensibilidad forCamelot Pictures and Odd Lot Entertainment.Torres co-wrote with Luis Alfaro the screenplay to the LosAngeles-set tale, which is being produced by Camelot principal Gary Gilbert andOdd Lot founders Deborah Del Prete and Gigi Priztker.'Fina and ...
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Media 8 boards George Gallo's Local Colour
Media 8 Entertainment haspicked up all international rights to George Gallo's drama Local Colour starring Ray Liotta, Armin Mueller-Stahl and TrevorMorgan.Local Colour is based on a true story about a troubled18-year-old art student and his disillusioned Russian mentor who help eachother see life anew. Samantha Mathis, Charles Durning and Diana ...
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Arclight seals two year sales, co-financing deal with Silver's Zinc
Arclight Films and Joel Silver's Zinc Pictures have signed amulti-picture two-year co-financing and sales agency deal.Under the terms of the arrangement Arclight will co-finance anddistribute Zinc Pictures titles across all media worldwide that areproduced outside its exclusive theatrical relationship with Warner Bros.The first two pictures will go out under Arclight's ...
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Weinsteins and BBC Films find meerkat love
The Weinstein Company (TWC)and BBC Films will co-finance African wildlife feature The Meerkats, which is scheduled for a November shoot inthe Kalahari Desert.TWC holds worldwide rightsand international chief Glen Basner and his team will introduce the projectto buyers here at AFM. For the first time BBC Films will collaborate withthe ...
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CMG picks up Legend library and strikes Benelux deal
Edward Noeltner's CinemaManagement Group (CMG) has picked up international sales on the Legend FilmsLibrary and has already sold the entire library to RCV Entertainment for DVDand TV rights in Benelux.The library encompasses morethan 50 newly restored titles by San Diego-based Legend Films, including GeorgeA Romero's Night Of The Living Deadand ...
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Focus picks up international to Meireilles' thriller Blindness
Focus Features International has picked up international rights toFernando Meirelles' upcoming thriller Blindness and will commence sales at AFM this week.Niv Fichman of Toronto-based Rhombus Media, Sonoko Sakai of BeeVine Pictures in Tokyo, and Andrea Barata Ribeiro of O2 Filmes in Sao Paulowill produce.Riberiro and his O2 partner Meirelles recently ...
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Lightning gets rights to Weitz's college comedy
LA-based sales agencyLightning Entertainment has picked up international rights to VulcanProductions' college comedy Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas produced by the Weitz Brothers.Bickford marks the directorial and writing debut of Scott Lewand stars Patrick Fugit as a nerd who is forced to venture into the outsideworld after his book of cool ...
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QED takes on sales for The Girl In The Park
Bill Block's BeverlyHills-based sales company QED International has added psychological thriller TheGirl In The Park to its AFM slate.Keri Russell, AlessandroNivola and Elias Koteas have joined Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth onthe project, which is set to begin principal photography in New York onNov 13.Sean Furst, Bryan Furst and Chip ...
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GreeneStreet's Veneziano moves to LA office
GreeneStreet FilmsInternational (GSFI) president Ariel Veneziano has moved to Los Angeles to joinGreeneStreet Films (GSF) partner Tim Williams in the new West Coast office.Veneziano will head up GSFIoperations and oversee its acquisitions activities. He will seek growthopportunities and increase the volume of GSF third-party acquisitions, whilebroadening GSFI's slate by finding ...
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BAFTA/LA mourns the passing of Peter Henton at the age of 60
Peter Henton, a former member of the board of directors atBAFTA/LA who served as producer of the Britannia Awards for the past 15 years,has died aged 60.Henton arrived in Los Angeles from the UK in 1984 and spent hisentire career in the film and television business. For several years he ...
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Odd Lot takes on rights to Cary's Ira & Abby
Odd Lot International haspicked up foreign rights to Robert Cary's2006 Los Angeles Film Festivalaudience award winner Ira & Abby.The film will screen at AFMand stars Chris Messina and JenniferWestfeldt as a couple that getmarried on a whim and must endure thetumultuous consequences.Westfeldt wrote thescreenplay and Brad Zions produced. Westfeldt,Ilana Levine, ...
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Garbus Krupa starts action picture Brooklyn To Manhattan in NYC
James Garbus and RobertKroupa's Garbus Kroupa Entertainment has started production on the actionpicture Brooklyn To Manhattan,which takes place primarily on the New York City subway. The company is nearingcompletion on Save Me, a dramaabout a gay man who quits his wayward lifestyle and checks into a Christianministry where he confronts ...
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Danielak's Arsenal picks up Ungodly, Ghosts
Yarek Danielak's international sales company Arsenal Pictures haspicked up thriller The Ungodly starring Wes Bentley and the documentaryGhosts, both of whichmake their market premieres here.Thomas Dunn directed The Ungodly, in which Bentley plays a photographerwho unwittingly catches a serial killer in the act and develops a symbioticrelationship with the ...
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Renegade Worldwide takes on Euro thriller Stone Merchant
Crystal Sky's genre label Renegade Worldwide has acquired allrights to Renzo Martinelli's European thriller The Stone Merchant starring Harvey Keitel, Jane, March,Jordi Molla, and F Murray Abraham.Renegade, which is run by Patrick Ewald, will introduce the filmto buyers at AFM. The film is a co-production between Martinelli Film CompanyInternational, Medusa ...
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Sex And Death 101 tops Arclight AFM lineup
ArclightFilms has boarded the black comedy Sex And Death 101 starring Simon Baker and Winona Rider and comedy How ToRob A Bank starring Nick Stahl and ErikaChristensen.Theprojects join Rawson Marshall Thurber's previously announced drama TheMysteries Of Pittsburgh starring SiennaMiller and Peter Sarsgaard as general manager Gary Hamilton ramps up his ...