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Caan heads up Maverick Global's debut Cannes slate
Maverick Global, thefledgling international arm of Miami-based domestic home entertainmentdistributor Maverick Entertainment Group (MEG), arrives in Cannes with aseven-strong slate headed up by the gangster drama This Thing Of Ours.The picture stars James Caan as a mob family godfather and centres on anaudacious heist. Frank Vincent and Vincent Pastore also ...
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Caan heads up Maverick Global's debut Cannes slate
Maverick Global, thefledgling international arm of Miami-based domestic home entertainmentdistributor Maverick Entertainment Group (MEG), arrives in Cannes with aseven-strong slate headed up by the gangster drama This Thing Of Ours.The picture stars James Caan as a mob family godfather and centres on anaudacious heist. Frank Vincent and Vincent Pastore also ...
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Hopkins and Dunoyer launch Griot with Chevalier and Minion
Thomas Hopkins andproducing partner Tony Dunoyer haveformed New York and LosAngeles-based production anddevelopment company GriotPictures Entertainment (GPE) andhave announced their first two projects.Period drama Chevalier takesplace in pre-RevolutionaryFrance and charts the real-lifeexploits of fencing and musical maestro Chevalier de Saint George, who becamea hero during the Revolution. Paris Qualles Winnerwrote ...
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Hopkins and Dunoyer launch Griot with Chevalier and Minion
Thomas Hopkins and producingpartner Tony Dunoyer have formed New York and Los Angeles-based production and developmentcompany Griot Pictures Entertainment (GPE) and haveannounced their first two projects.Period drama Chevalier takes place inpre-Revolutionary France and charts the real-life exploits of fencing and musical maestroChevalier de Saint George, who became a hero during ...
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Lightning Entertainment gobbles up rights to Grimm Love
Santa Monica-based international sales anddistribution house Lightning Entertainment hasacquired international rights to Atlantic Streamline's controversial German/US thriller Grimm Love.Lightning partner RichardGuardian will begin sales at Cannes on thestory inspired by the true-life cannibal case that rocked Germany and caused a worldwide mediasensation.German distributor Senatorwas blocked by a court injunction on ...
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Universal buys spec heist script with 50 Cent attached as star
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Charley and VlasParlapanides' speculative heist script Live Bet and has attached Curtis '50 Cent'Jackson to star.Mary Parent and Scott Stuber will produce, under their exclusive termdeal with the studio, along with Chris Lighty and 50 Cent through his G UnitFilms label.Universal Pictures' president ...
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Peace Arch funnels genre titles through Genius Products
Toronto-based Peace Arch Entertainment Group has signed anexclusive deal with ambitious Genius Products for Genius to distribute fivehorror and thriller titles from Peace Arch's genre label Archetype Films.Genius now holds exclusive US DVD distribution rights to thebiotech horror project Warriors Of Terra starring Ed Furlong; supernatural tale 5ive Girls starring ...
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Ptak leaves CAA, sets up Arsenal with VIP's Elway
John Ptak is leaving CAA after 15 years and teaming up with film industry executive Philip Elway to form the strategic consultancyArsenal.Arsenal will adviseproducers, equity funds and distributors on business growth and financing and distribution arrangements onprojects.The initial client rosterincludes Exception-Wild Bunch, Endgame Entertainment, Spitfire Pictures,Kadokawa Pictures USA, and Davis ...
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Ptak leaves CAA, sets up Arsenal with VIP's Elway
John Ptak is leaving CAA after 15 years and teaming up with film industry executive Philip Elway to form the strategic consultancyArsenal.Arsenal will adviseproducers, equity funds and distributors on business growth and financing and distribution arrangements onprojects.The initial client rosterincludes Exception-Wild Bunch, Endgame Entertainment, Spitfire Pictures,Kadokawa Pictures USA, and Davis ...
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Ptak leaves CAA, sets up Arsenal with VIP's Elway
John Ptak is leaving CAA after 15 years and teaming up with film industry executive Philip Elway to form the strategic consultancyArsenal.Arsenal will adviseproducers, equity funds and distributors on business growth and financing and distribution arrangements onprojects.The initial client rosterincludes Exception-Wild Bunch, Endgame Entertainment, Spitfire Pictures,Kadokawa Pictures USA, and Davis ...
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Ptak leaves CAA, sets up Arsenal with VIP's Elway
John Ptak is leaving CAA after 15 years and teaming up with film industry executive Philip Elway to form the strategic consultancyArsenal.Arsenal will advise producers, equity funds and distributors on business growth and financing and distribution arrangements onprojects.The initial client roster includes Exception-Wild Bunch, Endgame Entertainment, Spitfire Pictures, Kadokawa Pictures ...
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Darclight's Stanley's Girlfriend to play in Cannes shorts programme
Stanley's Girlfriend, a segment from Darclight Films' Trapped Ashes horror anthology, has been selected to play in official selection at Cannes in the short film programe.Directed by Monte Hellman, Stanley's Girlfriend is one of five stories in Trapped Ashes alongside offerings from Joe Dante, Ken Russell, Sean Cunningham and JohnGaeta.Darclight ...
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Darclight's Stanley's Girlfriend to play in Cannes shorts programme
Stanley's Girlfriend, a segment from DarclightFilms' Trapped Ashes horror anthology, has been selected to play inofficial selection at Cannes in the short film programe.Directed by Monte Hellman, Stanley's Girlfriend isone of five stories in Trapped Ashes alongside offerings from Joe Dante, Ken Russell,Sean Cunningham and JohnGaeta.Darclight Films will be in ...
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Darclight's Stanley's Girlfriend to play in Cannes shorts programme
Stanley's Girlfriend, a segment from DarclightFilms' Trapped Ashes horror anthology, has been selected to play inofficial selection at Cannes in the short film programe.Directed by Monte Hellman, Stanley's Girlfriend isone of five stories in Trapped Ashes alongside offerings from Joe Dante, Ken Russell,Sean Cunningham and JohnGaeta.Darclight Films will be in ...
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Polly Cohen installed as new Warner Independent chief
Warner Bros executive vice president of production Polly Cohen (pictured) hasbeen named as the new president of Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) followingMark Gill's abrupt departure last week.The widely expected move puts in place a key lieutenant of WarnerBros production chief Jeff Robinov, to whom Cohen will report when sheofficially starts ...
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Reverse Shot picks up Sundance doc Lion In The House
Online film journal Reverse Shothas announced its first foray into theatrical distribution withthe acquisition of Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert's documentary A LionIn The House.Reverse Shothas scheduled engagements in 10 markets including New York, Boston, San Francisco andSeattle, and plans to add up to 20 more before and after the ...
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Line-up revealed for Human Rights Watch Fest
Michael Caton-Jones' Rwandan genocide drama Shooting Dogs and Michael Winterbottom's The RoadTo Guantanamo willscreen at the upcoming 17th Human Rights Watch International FilmFestival in New York.Other titles include Zach Niles' and Banker White's Refugee AllStars, about displacedSierra Leonean musicians who form a band in a refugee camp, and AnthonyGiacchino's Vietnam ...
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Mission accomplished as Paramount, UIP gross $70.3m
Paramount's Mission: Impossible III swept across the international landscapeover the weekend as it grossed an estimated $70.3m from 7,390 sites in 57territories.Combined with the $48m domestic tally, the third instalment in theaction series took $118m worldwide to register the biggest global launch for thefranchise to date.The strength of the result ...
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Mission sequel underperforms domestically with $48m
Paramount's Mission: Impossible III was the runaway winner over the weekendas expected but the estimated $48m three-day total fell far below expectations.JJ Abrams' feature directorial debut averaged $11,872 on anextremely wide 4,054 screens yet didn't take as much as the previous instalmentin 2000, which opened on $57.8m. The 1996 original ...
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Focus acquires Kimmel biopic for US release
Focus Features has picked up domestic rights to Sidney KimmelEntertainment (SKE) and Mark Gordon Company's biopic Talk To Me, starring Don Cheadle and ChiwetelEjiofor.Kimmel International will commence sales at Cannes later thismonth on the true story of Ralph Waldo 'Petey' Green, an outspoken ex-con whobecame an iconic radio personality and ...