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Eli Roth joins cast of Tarantino's Death Proof
Quentin Tarantino has cast Hostel director Eli Roth, Michael Bacall and newcomer Omar Doom in Death Proof, his half of the Grindhouse horrordouble-bill he is preparing with Robert Rodriguez.Death Proofstars Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson and Zoe Bell and is currently shooting in Austin, Texas.Rodriguez' contribution Planet Terror recently completed filmingin ...
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Jim Harvey joins Element Films as VP of sales
Element Films International,the sales arm of Sam Nazarian's Los Angeles-basedElement Films, has hired Jim Harvey as vice president of sales. Harvey arrives from Myriad Pictures and will reportdirectly to Element Films International chief John Fremes.Since 2002 he has served as executive director of sales and distribution atMyriad Pictures, where he ...
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Amazon kicks off US download service with every studio but Disney
Amazon has launched its US download service Amazon Unbox, whichwill offer features, television and video games from more than 30 studios.The service is supported by all the US majors with the notableexception of Disney, whose major shareholder Steve Jobs is expected to launch asimilar service through Apple on Sept 12.Most ...
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MGM swoops on Rescue Dawn
MGM has bought North American rights on Werner Herzog's VietnamPOW drama Rescue Dawn,in advance of its world premiere in the Masters section here in Toronto today.It's an unusual move for MGM to acquire a picture since itre-emerged under the guidance of chief operating officer Rick Sands primarilyas a distributor for ...
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First Toronto weekend set for big US deals
As North American buyers flooded into Toronto yesterday, the firstweekend of Toronto offered some enticing prospects, namely modern-day fairytale Penelope whichscreens on Friday night and teen horror picture All The Boys Love Mandy Lane and Tarsem Singh's The Fall tomorrow night. Indeed after a Venice Film Festival which has so ...
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Lionsgate closes worldwide sales on Toronto premiere Fido
Lionsgate has closed worldwide sales on Andrew Currie's comedyhorror Fido, whichstars Billy Connolly as a pet zombie and gets its world premiere here as theopening night of the Canada First! Programme. Carrie-Anne Moss and Tim BlakeNelson also star.Rights have gone to Japan (Toshiba), France (Metropolitan), Italy(Rai), Mexico and Central America ...
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CMG goes wide with Treatment
EdwardNoeltner's Los Angeles-based Cinema Management Group has concludedmulti-territory sales on comedy The Treatment, starring Famke Janssen and IanHolm.Rightshave sold to Russia (JRC Group), Greece (Village Roadshow), Poland (MonolithFilms), the Czech and Slovak Republics (Bonton Films), the former Yugoslavia(Blitz Film), Hungary and Israel (Forum), Bulgaria (Alexandra Film), andRomania (Television Inc). AndreBoisser ...
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Dead Man's Chest ready to plunder $1bn
Pirates Of The Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest will join an eliteclub when it crosses $1bn at the global box office this weekend and may evenreach the milestone today [8].Disney's blockbuster has amassed $998.5m worldwide and currently ranks as theseventh biggest international release of all time through Buena VistaInternational (BVI) on $584.1m.It ...
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Peace Arch signs 24-title deal with Movie Central in Canada
Peace Arch Entertainment has signed a multi-picture content dealwith Corus Entertainment's Western Canadian pay television service MovieCentral.Over the next three years, Movie Central will pre-license 24 newtitles from Peace Arch, including movies-of-the-week and feature-lengthproductions.In addition to the 24-title roster, Movie Central has pre-licenseda series of six features under the title ...
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NGF comes aboard God Grew Tired Of Us
National GeographicFilms (NGF) has taken a partnership stake in Christopher Quinn and Tommy Walker'sSundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner God Grew Tired Of Us.The company will provide finishing funds ahead of the North American releasethrough Newmarket Films and will integrate its programme resources, audienceoutreach and multiple media platforms ...
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IFC gets North American rights to Requiem
IFC Entertainment has picked up North American rights toHans-Christian Schmid's exorcism tale Requiem, the true story that inspiredlast year's release The Exorcism Of Emily Rose.IFC will open the picture through its multi-platformlabel First Take on Oct 20 following its North American premiere here in the ContemporaryWorld Cinema section.The film premiered ...
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Bavaria Film International picks up Brazilian Fish Dreams
Bavaria Film Internationalhas taken worldwide rights on Kirill Mikhanovsky's Fish Dreams (Sonhos De Peixe) about the struggles of daily life in a remoteBrazilian village.The Unison Films productionscreened in Critics Week at Cannes and features a mostly untrained cast ofactors with the exception of Phellipe Haagensen from City Of God.Bavaria will ...
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Brit pics Grace, Queen bookend Heartland Film Festival
The US premiere of MichaelApted's slavery abolition drama Amazing Grace starring Ioan Gruffudd, and Stephen Frears' TheQueen starring Helen Mirren bookendthe 2006 Heartland Film Festival.The festival, which is setto run from Oct 19-27 in Indianapolis, will also present the world premiere ofthe CGI animated children's feature Air Buddies.Festival organisers havedoubled ...
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Optimum buys UK rights to GreeneStreet's Tennis Coach
Optimum Releasing has picked up UK rights from GreeneStreet FilmsInternational (GSFI) to the upcoming comedy Gary The Tennis Coach.Seann William Scott stars as ahigh school janitor and former tennis pro who rediscovers his interest in thesport when he coaches a team of misfits to the Nebraska state championships.Danny Leiner will ...
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KOCH Lorber picks up domestic rights to Chabrol's Comedy Of Power
New York-based KOCH Lorber Films has picked up domestic rightsfrom Wild Bunch to Claude Chabrol's thriller A Comedy Of Power (L'Ivresse Du Pouvoir).The distributor plans an initial limited release in New York Cityin January 2007 followed by major market expansion and DVD release later in theyear.A Comedy Of Power stars ...
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CMG picks up international rights to Greenwald's Iraq For Sale
Edward Noeltner's CinemaManagement Group has picked up international rights to Robert Greenwald'sdocumentary Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers.Greenwald's latest volleyexposes the culture of corporate greed that has permeated US reconstructionprogrammes in Iraq and looks at how political and economic forces have impactedthe lives of citizens in the country.Noeltner will commence ...
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Stranger Than Fiction to open 42nd Chicago festival
Marc Forster's StrangerThan Fiction will openthe 42nd Annual Chicago InternationalFilm Festival, which is running from Oct 5-19.Columbia Pictures and Mandate Pictures' comedy receivesits world premiere as a Special Presentation here tomorrow at Toronto and starsWill Ferrell as a man who hears the voice of an author inside his head anddoesn't ...
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IFC takes North America on ...So Goes The Nation
IFC Entertainment has picked up North American rights to thepolitical documentary ...So Goes The Nation, which receives its world premiere in Toronto. The film isdirected by Endgame Entertainment founder James Stern and Adam Del Deo....So Goes the Nation explores America's tumultuous electoral process and focuses onthe infamous Ohio vote count ...
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Skoll hires former Hard Rock Cafe chief Berk as Participant CEO
Former Hard Rock Cafe International president and chief executiveofficer James Berk has joined LA-based Participant Productions as chiefexecutive officer.The appointment ends a lengthy search by Participant chairman andfounder Jeff Skoll and president Ricky Strauss to find a suitable executive toreplace Skoll as chief executive officer.Berk will assume day-to-day executive leadership ...
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Quaid, Weisz, Haden Church star in Groundswell's People
Filming is set to begin on Nov 6 in Pittsburgh on Groundswell Productions'comedy drama Smart People starring Dennis Quaid, Rachel Weisz and Thomas Haden Church.Michael London's Groundswell isproducing the project along with Bill Block's QED International and GrosvenorPark. QED's Kim Fox is handling international sales.Quaid stars as a curmudgeonly professor ...