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Rogue picks up the world on Cameron's 3-D caving thriller
RoguePictures has picked up worldwide rights to James Cameron's upcoming andas-yet-untitled 3-D cave diving thriller.Thestudio is producing with Cameron's Earthship Productions, which the filmmakerset up to advancing his underwater expeditions and documentary work.GaryJohnstone will direct from a script by John Garvin. Cameron and Rogue willdevelop the script and the project ...
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CMG sells Ever Again to Rocky Mountain Pictures in US
EdNoeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has sold domestic rights to MoriahFilms' anti-semitism documentary Ever Again to Rocky Mountain Pictures.EverAgain is the eighth documentary featureproduced by Moriah Films, a division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, andexplores the resurgence of violent anti-semitism across Europe.Thedistributor plans a Dec 8 limited release in Los ...
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Kramer's Rive Gauche picks up Cuban Oscar submission El Benny
Jon Kramer's Rive Gauche Films has acquired worldwide rightsto Cuban smash and foreign-language Oscar submission El Benny and will bring the picture to AFM.Jorge Luis Sanchez's picture recounts the life of Cubanmusic legend Benny More, whose Afro-Cuban jazz big band sound took the nationby storm in the pre-Castro 1950s and ...
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Dublin-set tale wins Final Draft's Big Break contest
TomCosgrove's The Sea Devils beat off3,000 competitors to win Final Draft's seventh annual Big Break InternationalScreenwriting Competition in Hollywood.Cosgrove'sDublin-set tale centres on the world-weary crew of an Atlantic trawler thatbecomes locked in a fight for survival after the fisherman winch a monster fromthe ship's hold into the ocean's dark zone.YehudiMercado's ...
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Film Sales Company picks up Somebody Like You
AndrewHerwitz's New York-based Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide rights tothe romantic comedy Somebody Like Youstarring Vanessa Williams.RichardSchenkman makes his feature directorial debut on the story of a successfulcareer woman who unknowingly falls in love with the man who donated the spermto father her son. Eartha Kitt, newcomer Kevin ...
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Silverman's Reveille signs movie deal with Universal
Reveille,the TV production company behind US remake hits The Office and Ugly Betty, haslaunched Reveille Motion Pictures (RMP) and entered into a first-look deal withUniversal Pictures.RMPwill create, acquire and develop a broad slate of diverse films and has alreadypurchased and put together a slate of unannounced projects.ProducerGraham Larson, who serves ...
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Hyde Park teams with Capcom for new Street Fighter movie
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and video gamesdeveloper and publisher Capcom have set up a joint venture to adapt anotherfilm version of the hit game Street Fighter.Thefeature will focus on Chun Li, the game's most popular character who embarks ona quest for justice.Details of the story are being kept under ...
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Prada maintains international lead with $16.7m weekend
The Devil Wears Prada remained the number one overseas picture this weekend, adding anestimated $16.7m through Fox International from 4,400 screens in 53 markets fora $130m tally.Thecomedy opened top in South Korea and Belgium on $2.9m from 241 screens and$807,000 from 60 respectively.Strong holds saw the picture add $2.7m from ...
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Eisenberg joins Nu Image/Millenium as producer, consultant
Elyse Eisenberg has joined Nu Image/Millennium Films as a producerand consultant as Avi Lerner and Danny Dimbort's production and distributioncompany steps up its bigger budget projects.Eisenberg will work closely with co-chairman Lerner and head of production Boaz Davidson and her first project willbe Body Clock.She will produce the thriller with ...
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Saw III wreaks havoc at North American box office
Saw IIItore into the competition with all the relish of an unleashed serial killer atthe weekend, dominating the North American box office with an estimated $34.3mthree-day haul that marked a record debut for the franchise. Lionsgate's $10m horror sequel once again stars Tobin Bell as themaniacal Jigsaw whose ingenious games ...
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Mudge's WWE gets Isolated for AFM
BarbaraMudge's Worldwide Film Entertainment (WFE) has picked up worldwide rights toEric Nichols' thriller Isolated andwill commence sales at AFM next week.Isolated, which will screen in Santa Monica, stars Peter Quartaroliand David Newham.WFEis also bringing family titles For Heaven's Sake to AFM. Nat Christian's picture stars Florence Henderson,Stephanie Patton and Joseph ...
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Germany braces for Seven Dwarfs 2 from Universal
Now that Fox International's The Devil Wears Prada is officially part of the One HundredClub the name of the game is crossing $150m.Fox International executives will be looking for strong holds anda decent launch in South Korea on Oct 26 as the comedy improves on its $111.7moverseas tally.Fox International holds ...
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Rhys Meyers, Mitchell, Chow join Yeoh in Children
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell and Chow Yun Fat will joinMichelle Yeoh in the 1930s set romantic adventure The Children Of Huang Shi.Roger Spottiswoode will direct from a screenplay by Jane Hawksley,and Hyde Park International will commence pre-sales at AFM next week.Filming on the Chinese-Australian-German co-production is set tobegin on ...
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Lightning picks up international rights to genocide doc Screamers
Los Angeles based sales and distribution house LightningEntertainment has swooped on international rights prior to AFM to CarlaGarapedian's genocide documentary Screamers.The picture features the participation of the rock band System OfA Down and explores how the denial of the Armenian genocide contributed toother international crises including the ongoing situation in ...
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Optimum in UK, Square One in Germany take Storm
Darclight Films has closed a number of sales on the thriller StormWarning, which iscurrently in post-production and stars Nadia Fares, Robert Taylor and JohnBrumpton.Deals have concluded with Optimum in the UK and Square One inGermany. Rights previously went to Manga (Spain), Dutch Filmworks (Benelux), Noble(Scandinavia), Imagem (Brazil), Spenzos (Greece), CLMC ...
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Mexican wrestler Misterio to star in horror movie Wrestlemaniac
Los Angeles-based Lightning Entertainment has picked up international sales on the horror title Wrestlemaniac and will introduce the project to buyers at AFM next week.Jesse Baget wrote and makes his feature directorial debut on Wrestlemaniac, which follows a crew of amateurfilmmakers who stumble upon a hidden ghost town in Mexico ...
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Kingsley, Mortimer, McGregor to star in Number Thirteen
Ben Kingsley and Emily Mortimer have joined Dan Fogler and EwanMcGregor on Beverly Hills-based production and finance company Union SquareEntertainment's drama Number Thirteen.Chase Palmer makes his feature directorial debut on the imaginedstory of the mystery surrounding Alfred Hitchcock's lost and unfinished firstfilm, Number Thirteen.Fogler will play the young director, who ...
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Lowe promoted to vp, production, at Universal Pictures
Kristin Lowe has been promoted to vice president of production atUniversal Pictures.Lowe joined Universal Pictures in 2004 as director of developmentfollowing a stint as director of development at Warner Bros Pictures.She oversees day-to-day production on many of the studio'spictures, including the upcoming trio of Children Of Men, The Kingdom and ...
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Echo Bridge adds three new titles to AFM sales slate
Massachusetts-based Echo Bridge Entertainment has added threetitles to its AFM slate of seven pictures -- the thriller Memory, horror story Hatchet, and the action comedy Fifty Pills.Memorystars Billy Zane, Ann-Margaret, and Dennis Hopper and takes place in the worldof medical research.Robert Englund stars in Hatchet, which centres on a group ...
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AFM unveils lineup of panel discussions
Panel discussions on equity financing, writing and pitchingprojects are among the line-up of events at AFM, which kicks off in Santa Monicaon Nov 1.The eclectic roster of participants includes Yari Film Groupfounder Bob Yari, China Film Group Corporation general manager Han Sanping, andBee Season executive producer Peggy Rajski.Panellists include filmmaker ...