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Picturehouse takes Lopez/Anthony starrer El Cantante
Picturehouse has swooped on North American rights to ElCantante following itsworld premiere at Toronto in what sources close to negotiations said was thebiggest deal of the festival so far.The distributors' senior vice president of acquisitions Sara Roseand New Line's executive vice president of business affairs and co-productionsCarolyn Blackwood concluded marathon ...
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Fox, MySpace launch preview screenings programme with Borat
Twentieth Century Fox and corporate sibling MySpace have teamed upon a new promotional tool that will enable MySpace users to see previewscreenings of upcoming features.The Black Carpet scheme will kick off with the preview screeningof Toronto hit Borat.MySpace users in six countries Ð the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany andCanada ...
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Bunny Chow's Dv8 renews slate deal with South Africa's NFVF
Joel Phiri and Jeremy Nathan's Dv8 Films, the production companybehind John Barker and Dog Pack's Toronto world premiere comedy Bunny Chow, have renewed their slate deal with theSouth African government's entertainment industry agency NFVF.The deal commits to the production of at least fourfeatures over the next 18 months, with a ...
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Cruz, Williams, Bullock added to lineup of Oct Hollywood Film Awards
The Hollywood Film Awards has added Robin Williams, Penelope Cruzand Sandra Bullock to its line-up of honorees at its annual bash on Oct 23 inBeverly Hills.Williams stars in drama The Night Listener and will receive the Hollywood CareerAchievement Award, while Cruz will appear later this year in the Spanish drama ...
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BVI's Pirates has final territorial opening in Italy
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest will cross the $600m international markthis weekend as it launches in its final market of Italy.Buena Vista International's (BVI) adventure yarn has taken$594.6 to date and will surely pass $600m with the Sept 13 Italian release.Meanwhile Cars,which overtook its BVI stablemate as the ...
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Sachar to oversee financing, development at Kindred Media Group
Filmmaker and actor Jonathan Sachar has joined USdistribution outfit Kindred Media Group as executive vice president and willoversee development and financing.Sachar has been working with Kindred on One Part Sugar starring Danny DeVito, Dylan Walsh andJustin Long; Southern Gothic; and Superheroes.Kindred Media Group president Jeffrey D Erb said:'We're very happy ...
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Bside takes on documentary Before The Music Dies
Bside Entertainment hasacquired North American rights to Andrew Shapter's documentary Before TheMusic Dies which will be its firsttheatrical release.The innovative distributorwill ally itself with companies like MySpace and chipmaker AMD and deployonline marketing and innovative exhibition models. Further details will beunveiled in due course.Before The Music Dies premiered at the ...
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Netflix takes domestic rights to Prisoner doc at Toronto
Netflix-owned Red Envelope Entertainment snapped up North Americanrights yesterday [Tuesday] to North American rights on Michael Tucker and PetraEpperlein's documentary The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair.The picture will be released theatrically with additionalfootage in 2007, and will also be released across a number of platforms in ...
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Netflix takes domestic rights to Prisoner doc at Toronto
Netflix-owned Red Envelope Entertainment snapped up North Americanrights yesterday [Tuesday] to North American rights on Michael Tucker and PetraEpperlein's documentary The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair.The picture will be released theatrically with additionalfootage in 2007, and will also be released across a number of platforms in ...
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Penelope cruises into international markets
Hyde Park International has closed multiple territory deals onMark Palansky's fantasy drama Penelope, which has been in play with domestic buyers since itsworld premiere screening last week.Rights have gone to Australia (Magna Pacific), Mexico(Gussi), Brazil (Paris Films), CIS (MGN), Taiwan (CMC), and Portugal(Lusomundo).Deals also closed in Benelux (RCV), Greece (Village ...
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Sony Classics pre-buys British memoir drama
Sony Pictures Classics has bought North America and Latin Americanrights to And When Did You Last See Your Father'Anand Tucker will direct the film, whose production is set tobegin in October. The project has been developed under the UK Film Council's Super-Slateinitiative in association with Film4, Intandem Films and the ...
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Lionsgate swoops for Polley's directorial debut
Lionsgate has bought US rights to Sarah Polley's directorial debutAway From Herfollowing its world premiere earlier in the festival.The company plans to release the picture, which stars JulieChristie and Gordon Pinsent, in spring 2007. The adaptation of Alice Munro's short story The Bear Came OverThe Mountain deals withrevelations that emerge ...
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Puerto Rico confirms 40 percent tax break
ThePuerto Rico Film Commission revealed full details of its 40% tax credit schemeat an official industry launch here yesterday.Thescheme, which is believed to be the second-largest in the world behindManitoba's 65% facility, will offer a rebate of local spend on features,television productions, miniseries and soundtracks.Qualifyingproductions will need to shoot 50% ...
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Ruby Tuesday gets animated with Jagger, Europa
EuropaCorp and Mick Jagger's Jagged Films are preparing a late2006 start on the animated feature Ruby Tuesday in time for a winter 2008 release.The partners are jointly producing the project and EuropaCorp isfinancing and ...
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Kim moves up at Lionsgate
ElizabethKim has been promoted to Lionsgate's senior vice president of internationalsales as the company continues to bolster its international operations.Kim, whois in Toronto with the entire international sales team and handling The USVs John Lennon andworld premiere Fido, oversees sales for Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and keyEuropean territories.Her ...
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Apple announces US download service for iTunes, iPod
Apple will start selling downloads of feature-length WaltDisney titles that can play on any computer loaded with iTunes software as wellas the new 80GB iPod.The company will offer features from Buena Vista, Pixar, Miramaxand Touchstone, priced at $12.99 in the first week and rising to $14.99 afterthat.Speaking at a conference ...
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BME chooses not to renew first-look deal with Samaha's Gibraltar
Bauer Martinez Entertainment (BME) has decided not toexercise its option to extend its first look deal with Elie Samaha's Gibraltar Entertainment,which expired on Jun 1.Under Samaha's deal with Bauer Martinez the company producedthriller The Flockstarring Richard Gere and Claire Danes and set to open next year in NorthAmerican, and acquired ...
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Newmarket boards US rights to Death Of A President
Newmarket Films has snappedup US rights to Death Of A President as a flurry of territory deals collectively worth $3m closed on the George W Bush assassination drama last night [11].Gabriel Range's hotly anticipated picture sold within 24 hours of its Sundayworld premiere, with rights also going to Maple Pictures ...
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Magnolia, Optimum, Madman reteam to buy To's Exiled
Magnolia Pictures in North America, Optimum in the UK and MadmanEntertainment in Australia and New Zealand have jointly bought allEnglish-language rights to Hong Kong director Johnny To's action thriller Exiled.The distributors recently teamed up to buy the South Korean boxoffice smash The Host and Magnolia plans to release in North ...
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Schumacher to direct Gold Circle's Town Creek
Joel Schumacher willdirect Gold Circle's upcoming supernatural thriller Town Creek, with Lionsgate on board for domestic and MandatePictures handling international rights.Production is set to begin on Mar 1 2007 on the story of former abductee andhis brother who return to the site of the kidnapping and become trapped in anoccult ...