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First Look International closes pre-sales on Araki film
First Look International has closed a raft of pre-sales onGregg Araki's upcoming comedy Smiley Facestarring Anna Faris. Rights have gone to Momentum in the UK,Quality in Latin America, Nordiskin Scandinavia, LNK in Portugal,Hollywood in Greece,and Falcon in the Middle East.Production is set to begin this spring in Los Angeles ...
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Weinsteins board CG-animated Escape From Planet Earth
The Weinstein Company has picked up rights to the CG-animated pitch EscapeFrom Planet Earth from Hoodwinked creators by Tony Leech and CoryEdwards.Leech will direct and Preston Stutzman of Blue Yonder Films will produce alongwith Jonathan Shestack, Brian Inerfeld and Gregory R Little of animation studioMainframe Entertainment.Escape From Planet Earth centres ...
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Hyde Park gets sales rights to Chaos and America
Hyde Park International has boarded Roland Emmerich's human trafficking project Welcome To America and the comedy Chaos Theory starring Ryan Reynolds,Stuart Townsend and Emily Mortimer.Welcome To America is one of the first productions to emergefrom Reelmachine, which Emmerichformed in late 2004 with VIP Medienfonds' Andreas Schmid andis partly backed by ...
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GreeneStreet sells rights on Black's comedy
GreeneStreet Films International(GSFI) has sold a raft of rights on Michael Ian Black's comedy The Pleasure OfYour Company headed up by Pathe in the UK.GSFI has been entertaining buyers with a promo of theproject, which is in post-production and stars Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher, who won plaudits for her ...
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Lionsgate and Lakeshore Crank it up
Lionsgate International andLakeshore International have finalised a slew of major sales on the JasonStatham revenge saga Crank, currentlyin post-production in Los Angeles.Lakeshore completed sales to Universal in the UK,Aurum in Spain,TF1 in France,and Rai in Italy.Lionsgate concluded sales in therest of the world, including Hoyts in Australiaand New Zealand,Presidio/Movie Eye ...
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Frigo assumes management reins at BVI Europe
Daniel Frigo hasbeen promoted to senior vice president and general manager of Europe, MiddleEast and Africa for Buena Vista International (BVI).As of Feb 1,Frigo assumed responsibility for BVI's European operations, replacing BVIexecutive vice president and general manager of Europe Stuart Salter, who isretiring after shepherding BVI Europe for 14 years. ...
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Lightning strikes on Heaven And Hell
Los Angeles-based Lightning Entertainment has pickedup worldwide'sales, excluding India, to Rahul Dholakia's controversialdrama'Parzania: Heaven & Hell On Earth, andJonathan Stack and Jeff'Swimmer's documentary Secrets Of The Code.''Parzania is based on real events surroundinganti-Muslim violence in India that'eventually led to the overthrow of theruling party. The picture was initially banned in'India ...
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Franka Potente to star in Arclight Film's Romulus, My Father
Franka Potente,who is showcasing her directorial debut DiggingFor Belladonna in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme, has joined the cast of Arclight Film's Australia-set drama Romulus, My Father.The German star will appear opposite Eric Bana in the adaptation of philosopher RaimondGaita's award-winning memoir about the strong bondwith his Yugoslavian emigre father ...
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Michael Caine and Demi Moore to reteam for Flawless
Michael Caine and Demi Moore are set to star in the London-set 1960s diamondheist thriller Flawless for SantaMonica-based Pierce/Williams Entertainment and London'sFuture Films.Il Postinodirector Michael Radford is ready to begin shooting on March 27 in London andLuxembourg froma screenplay by first-timer Edward Anderson loosely based on real events.Caine will play ...
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Nicole Kidman to narrate Simon Wiesenthal doc
Nicole Kidman will narrate a documentary about SimonWiesenthal that is scheduled to open this autumn to mark the first anniversaryof the Nazi hunter's death.Funded by a grant from the US-based Simon Wiesenthal Centreboard members Roland and Dawn Arnall, directorRichard Trank and his crew will trawl the globe for interviewswith long ...
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WiP picks up North American rights to Chen Kaige's The Promise
Warner Independent Pictures (WiP)has picked up North American rights to Chen Kaige's The Promise ahead of its Europeanpremiere at Berlin.WiP plans a May release on theepic fantasy, which last December became the third biggest grossing releaseever in mainland China behind Titanicand Hero.The picture had originally been acquired for North America ...
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Arclight puts spotlight on Asia
Arclight Films has launched Easternlight, a sales, marketingand distribution division dedicated to Asian cinema.The division will encompass all genres, with Arclight managing director Gary Hamilton serving asmanaging director and chairman.Easternlight will commence salesat Berlin on its first two titlesfrom China:cinematographer Hou Yong's cross-generational familysaga Jasmine Women starring Zhang Ziyi and ...
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BD Fox & Friends signs picture deal with Noble House
Hollywood-based marketing firm B D Fox & Friends'freshly minted sales divisionhas signed a three-picture deal with producer Mark Roemmich's Noble House EntertainmentPictures.In addition to Roemmich'spreviously announced dark romance Taylor, B D Fox & Friends will handlethe $65m Snow Princessand the $54m The Lost Gold Of Khan.Snow Princess isset to go ...
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Bill Block to launch sales, financing and production company
Producer and former Artisanpresident, Bill Block has teamed up with threeentertainment industry veterans to launch the Beverly Hills-based international sales, financing and production house QED International.Block is joined in the newenterprise by senior vice president Kimberly Fox, the former head of international sales at Kathy Morgan International; chief operating officer ...
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Casting complete for Douglas Buck's remake of Sisters
French star AnnaMouglalis, Chloe Sevigny and Stephen Rea will head the cast of Sisters, Douglas Buck's remake of BrianDe Palma's cult 1973 thriller which Voltage Picture is selling here.Production is scheduledto begin on March 13 in Vancouver on the first title from Ed Pressman's Pressman &Company and Image Entertainment's genre ...
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SPRI sets Capote international release schedule
Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) has finalised key releasedates for Capote, which earned five Oscar nominations last week andgets its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on Feb 17.The picture will open in Italy, Switzerland, Poland and New Zealand onFeb 18, followed by Australia, the UK, Spain, Brazil, Finland ...
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Samuel L Jackson to star in Myriad's The Shadow Chaser
Samuel L Jackson has signed on to play the lead in The Shadow Chaser, a $30m actionthriller that is being put together by LA-based Myriad Pictures.Myriad is producing the project with Michael Mailer andcompany president and chief executive officer Kirk D'Amico and his sales teamwill commence worldwide sales at Berlin.Filming ...
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Focus takes international on $45m Zhang epic
Focus Features has boardedthe Untitled Zhang Yimou Epic, the Chinese master's$45m upcoming period romance starring Gong Li and Chow Yun-fat.President of internationalsales and distribution Alison Thompson will commence sales in Berlin this weekon the project, which is set to begin shooting in China at the end of the monthin time ...
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Darclight gets on board horror Dark Ride
Arclight Films has bulked up itsgenre division Darclight Films in preparation for Berlin'sEFM and boarded the serial killer thriller DarkRide.Directed by Craig Singer from a screenplay he co-wrote withRobert Dean Klein, Dark Ride is aboutan escaped serial killer who returns to the theme park ride where he slaughteredtwo girls 10 ...
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Block launches sales and financing outfit QED
Producer andformer Artisan president Bill Block has teamed up with three entertainmentindustry veterans to launch the Beverly Hills-based international sales,financing and production house QED International.Block is joinedin the new enterprise by senior vice president Kimberly Fox, the former head ofinternational sales at Kathy Morgan International, chief operating officer PaulHanson, the ...