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Peace Arch takes on Roberts' In Tranzit
Peace Arch Films has boardedthe post-war drama In Tranzit,starring John Malkovich, and the drama How To Change In Nine Weeks.In Tranzit is currently in post-production and centres on agroup of German soldiers accidentally sent to a female-run prisoner of war campin Leningrad after the second world war.Thomas Kretschmann andDaniel Bruhl ...
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Katapult takes on sales for Puccini For Beginners
Thomas Mai's Katapult FilmSales begins international sales in Cannes on Maria Maggenti's comedy PucciniFor Beginners, which premiered at Sundance.The film receives itsinternational market debut screening and charts the exploits of a commitment-phobicNew York lesbian.Elizabeth Reaser, JustinKirk and Gretchen Mol star.Maggenti wrote thescreenplay, and Eden Wurmfeld produced with InDigEnt's Gary Winick ...
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Goldwyn strikes US deal for Conversations With God
Samuel Goldwyn Films hasacquired US theatrical rights from Lightning Entertainment to the spiritual filmConversations With God.Fox Home Entertainment hastaken North American video rights to theadaptation of Neale DonaldWalsch's bestselling series of books about his transformation fromhomeless person to spiritual guru.Henry Czerny stars as Walschalongside Ingrid Boulting.Goldwyn plans an autumnrelease.Stephen Simon ...
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Vision Music takes world rights to Punk's Not Dead
Vision Music has picked upworldwide rights excluding Japan (King Records) and Scandinavia (FutureFilm) to Susan Dynner's documentary Punk's Not Dead.The film explores theorigins of punk and features interviews and footage of such luminariesof the genre as The Ramones, Black Flag, and current super group GreenDay.Punk's Not Dead is set to ...
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Schamus and Karpen promoted in Focus reshuffle
James Schamus has been promoted to Focus Featureschief executive officer in the wake of David Linde's appointment twomonths ago as Universal Pictures co-chairman.Schamus, who shared the role of Focus co-presidentsince he founded the company with Linde in 2002, assumes oversight ofFocus, Rogue Pictures and Focus Features International (FFI).Meanwhile Andrew Karpen ...
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Lionsgate partners with Lakeshore for Midnight Train
Lionsgate and LakeshoreEntertainment are partnering up on the horror thriller Midnight Train based on a short story by Clive Barker.Patrick Tatopoulos willdirect the tale of a New York photographer who tracks down a serial killer andunearths a devastating secret. Jeff Buhler adapted the screenplay.Lakeshore is producing theproject, its second collaboration ...
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Screen Media buys domestic rights to Disaster!
Screen Media Films has acquired North American theatrical and video distributionrights to the claymation adventure spoof Disaster!Los Angeles-based Dream Entertainment and Bleiberg Entertainment sold therights to the story of a crack team assembled to thwart an earth-boundplanetoid.Screen Media plans an October release followed by DVD launch in February2907 through its ...
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Seven Arts to start sales for Henry Bean's Noise
Los Angeles-based Seven ArtsInternational will commence sales here on 'a slate of new work fromdirector Henry Bean, John Malkovich and Burt Reynolds.Seven Arts is in productionin New York on Bean's black comedy Noise about a frustrated New Yorker who declares war on the city's noise. WilliamHurt, Tim Robbins and Bridget ...
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here! picks up comic strip adaptation Ethan Green
here! Films has picked up worldwide rights to George Bamber's romanticcomedy The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life Of Ethan Green.Based on Eric Orner's cult comic strip, the project stars Daniel Letterle as asocially inept 'professional assistant' who spins a web of lies in order tohold on to the new man in ...
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Grodnik signs five-year domestic distribution agreement with Genius/TWC
Genius Productshas signed an exclusive five-year distribution agreement with Dan Grodnik'sGrodfilm Corporation giving Genius first right of refusal on all futureproductions.Genius expects torelease six to 12 films each year under the agreement, which includes NorthAmerican home video, digital, television and theatrical rights.Theatricalreleases will be distributed through The Weinstein Company under ...
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Element closes slew of deals for Mr Brooks
Element Films International(EFI) has closed a raft of deals on thepsychological thriller MrBrooks starring Kevin Costner in theunlikely role of a compulsive killer. The co-production of LosAngeles-based Element Films, Costner's TIGProductions and ThomasAugsberger's Eden Rock Media is currentlyshooting in the US.Bruce A Evans directs thestory of a jaded killer pursued ...
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Tillinger named production president at Scorsese's Sikelia
Emma Tillinger has been named president of production for MartinScorsese's New York-based Sikelia Productions.Tillinger will oversee all aspects of Scorsese's production operation and workwith him on the development of projects.Scorsese is currently in post-production on The Departed starring LeonardoDiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg, which will be releasedby ...
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Masterson to make feature directorial debut on Cake Eaters
Mary StuartMasterson will make her feature directorial debut on drama The Cake Eaters starringKristen Stewart and Aaron Stanford.The 57th &Irving Productions project is scheduled to begin filming this summer in the US;it centres on a prodigal son who returns to his smalltown homestead aftertrying to make his fortune in the ...
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CMG gets Tribeca favourite The Treatment for Cannes
Edward Noeltner'sCinema Management Group (CMG) has acquired all international rights to OrenRudavsky's romantic comedy The Treatment starring ChrisEigeman, Ian Holm and Famke Janssen.The story of anerdy schoolteacher who falls for a sensuous Manhattan socialite was one of themost talked about titles at the recent Tribeca Film Festival and won the ...
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Hooper named national publicity chief at Fox Searchlight
Michelle Hooper has joined Fox Searchlight as senior vice president ofnational publicity.The former vice president of entertainment publicity at Fox Broadcastingbegins her new post on May 31 and will report to Searchlight chief operatingofficer Nancy Utley.At Fox Broadcasting Hooper oversaw national publicity campaigns for suchpowerhouse shows as American Idol, Prison ...
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Liberty Media moves in on IDT Corporation
US entrepreneur John Malone's Liberty Media isplanning to buy IDT Corporation for $186m in cash and the assumption ofundisclosed existing debt.The strategic move marks an ideal marriage between carrier and content.Under a five-year output deal Liberty-owned cable operator Starz EntertainmentGroup will carry select IDT Entertainment CG animated releases and live ...
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TWC seals multi-year deal with Roadshow
Roadshow Filmshas become the exclusive distributor of The Weinstein Company's (TWC) upcomingfeatures in Australia and New Zealand under a multi-year deal announced todayon the eve of Cannes.TWC recentlyclosed a similar exclusive deal in France with TF1, an investor in the companywhich was previously partnered with the Weinsteins when they ran ...
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Massis picks up worldwide rights to Upstaged
Alex Massis' FilmSource Company has picked up worldwide rights to Andrew Walkington's US teencomedy Upstaged.Walkington alsoproduced the story of a hapless group of youngsters who stage a production of Macbeth thatturns into a triumphant journey of self discovery.Newcomer WillForster stars alongside Hildegard Neil and British comedian Phil Cool.Upstaged ispart of ...
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High-flying Snakes director claims Asylum
LosAngeles-based Hyde Park Entertainment has signed David Ellis to direct the darkthriller Asylum, which becomes the latestproject to join Hyde Park International's (HPI) dynamic Cannes slate.Thedeal represents a coup for Hyde Park as Ellis' upcoming thriller Snakes On APlane is tracking at a phenomenal level months ahead of itsUS release ...
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David Ellis to direct Asylum for Hyde Park
Los Angeles-based Hyde ParkEntertainment has signed David Ellis to direct the dark thriller Asylum, which becomes the latest project to join Hyde ParkInternational's Cannes slate.The deal represents a coup for Hyde Park as Ellis' upcoming thrillerSnakes On A Plane istracking at a phenomenal level months ahead of its US release ...