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Dark Lot Entertainment starts work on new horror feature
Stephen Susco, who adapted the English languagescreenplay of J-horror hit The Grudge,is getting into business with Odd Lot Entertainment's fledgling genre bannerDark Lot Entertainment.Odd Lot is producing Zero Dark Thirty, Susco's tale of a returning war veteran whosetranquil hometown is transformed by a series of bizarre events.Media 8 will commence ...
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Production started on Kamala Films' debut feature Anamorph
Production has begun on new York-based KamalaFilms' debut feature and psychological thriller Anamorph, starring Willem Dafoe and Scott Speedman and directed byH S Miller.Anamorph,which takes its name from a Renaissance painting trick involving perspective,centres on a damaged detective who investigates a series of killings that maybe the work of an ...
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Linda Abrams promoted at Warner Bros Domestic Cable Distribution
Linda Abrams has been promoted to senior vicepresident of Marketing and Maury Leitner to vicepresident of marketing at Warner Bros Domestic Cable Distribution (WBDCD).Abrams will continue to report directly to divisionpresident Eric Frankel and work closely with Warner Bros Television Group'sexecutive vice president of worldwide marketing Lisa Gregorian. Leitner will ...
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Magnolia Pictures acquires rights to The Pusher Trilogy
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North Americanrights to Nicolas Winding Refn's Danish underworld The Pusher Trilogy.The trio comprises Pusher, With Blood On My Hands, and The Angel Of Death. The first filmwrapped in 1999 and the trilogy first played together as a complete work at Toronto lastyear.The story interweaves gangster tales ...
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Media 8's Lovewrecked swims into Weinstein Co fold
The Weinstein Company hasacquired North American rights to Media 8's romantic comedy Lovewrecked starring Amanda Bynes and Chris Carmack.Randal Kleiser directed thestory of a teenager who finds herself stranded on a desert island with a rockstar and in order to win his heart neglects to tell him that she works ...
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THINKFilm steps in for worldwide rights to Candy
THINKFilm has moved in forall worldwide rights to Paul Dinello's Strangers With Candy and plans a limited summer release for the filmwhich is based on a cult TV series from US cable channel Comedy Central.Warner Independent Pictureshad originally acquired domestic rights to the film at Sundance 2005, butreturned it to ...
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Miramax, ESPN team for domestic rights to Lifetime
Miramax Films and ESPN havejointly acquired North American rights to GreeneStreet Films, Passion Picturesand Cactus Three's football documentary Once In A Lifetime, which will receive its world premiere in theBerlinale Special programme.Paul Crowder and JohnDower's film chronicles the heady rise and fall of the New York Cosmos, ascratch team that ...
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Paul Smith gets top international theatrical job at Sony Pictures
Paul Smith has been namedpresident of worldwide theatrical operations for the Columbia Tristar MotionPicture Group.Effective immediately,Smith (pictured) will oversee Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) andwill continue overseeing worldwide administrative operations for the studio'smarketing and distribution divisions. "Paul has been mychief lieutenant in managing the day-to-day administration of the internationaldivision for ...
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Zorich, Paolillo join Kimmel International
Former Miramax andPicturehouse executive Stefan Zorich has joined Kimmel International as vicepresident of marketing and servicing and Italian market specialist MarcelloPaolillo has come aboard as director of acquisitions and distribution.Both will report to KimmelInternational chief Mark Lindsay. Zorich arrives from Picturehouse andpreviously served as manager of domestic marketing and post-production ...
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Warner Bros and Alcon Entertainment sign new agreement
Warner Bros and AlconEntertainment have signed a new agreement continuing their eight-yearrelationship under which Warner Bros distributes features developed andfinanced by Alcon.The new deal will include a minimum of six pictures over thenext three years, starting with Richard Donner'sthriller 16 Blocks starring BruceWillis, and Neil LaBute's remake of The Wicker ...
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New president, Andrew Cripps, to start at Paramount International Theatrical January 2007
Andrew Cripps' start date as president of ParamountInternational Theatrical has been confirmed as January 2007.UIP's president and chiefoperating officer will be responsible for the marketing, distribution andoperations of the company's new global structure.As Paramount'stake-over of DreamWorks officially closed this week, it emerged that former president of Paramount Home Entertainment Tom ...
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Voltage Pictures picks up international rights to Hector Lavoe biopic El Cantante
Voltage Pictures has picked up international rights to MarcAnthony and Jennifer Lopez's Hector Lavoe biopic El Cantanteand will commence sales at Berlinnext week.Anthony will play the celebrated salsa singer and Lopez willplay his wife Puchi. Leon Ichasodirected the story set in New York'ssalsa scene during the 1960s and 1970s.Production is ...
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Bleiberg Entertainment acquires rights to Danny Lerner's Frozen Days.
Los Angeles-based Bleiberg Entertainment has acquiredinternational rights to Danny Lerner's psycho-thriller Frozen Days.The picture won best film at the Haifa 2005 InternationalFilm Festival and centres on a woman who assumes the identity of her blind dateafter he falls into a coma following a bomb blast. AnatKlausner, Uli Sternberg andSandra Sade ...
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High hopes for Walk The Line as it begins its international run this weekend
Buoyed by five Academy Award nominations, 20th Century Fox'sWalk The Line begins itsinternational run this weekend.The acclaimed Johnny Cash biopic launches in 23 territoriesincluding Germanyon February 2, followed a day later in the UK,Mexico and Spain.Fox International chiefs will be relying on the picture'sstrong reputation to ensure solid debuts in ...
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Katapult Film Sales heads to Berlin with impressive slate
Katapult Film Sales will arrive atnext week's European Film Market in Berlin with its most prestigious slate ever.Heading up the roster are Sundance acquisitions TV Junkie and Destricted,as well as the Brazilian smash hit TwoSons Of Franciscoand BalthasarKormakur's LittleTrip To Heaven.Katapult holds internationalrights to TV Junkie, Michael Cain and Matt ...
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Jeff Pryor appointed MGM's executive vice president of corporate communications
Jeff Pryor has been appointed to the new post of MGM'sexecutive vice president of corporate communications.Pryor reports directly to MGMChairman Harry E Sloan and will direct communication and public relationsstrategies for all MGM's operating divisionsincluding United Artists and MGM TelevisionEntertainment.He will also be involved in the communication and publicitystrategies and ...
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Rothman and Gianopulos sign new deals with Fox Filmed Entertainment
Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE)chairmen Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos have signed new five-year deals withthe company and been named joint chief executive officers.The pair assumed their posts in2000, in which time 20 of the studio's pictures have grossed more than $100m atthe domestic box office and 26 have reached the ...
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Lightning picks up Conversations With God adaptation
Lightning Entertainment haspicked up international sales rights to Stephen Simon's adaptation of thebestselling book series ConversationsWith God and will commence sales in Berlin next week.Lightning enjoyed strongbusiness with the spiritually themed WhatThe Bleep Do We Know, which grossed more than $11m from selectinternational markets in 2005, and will be looking ...
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Rogue to release Fearless in North America
Rogue Pictures will handlethe North American release of Fearless,which Jet Li has said will be his final martial arts picture, following itsmighty international launch in Asia last weekend.Ronny Yu directed theaccount of martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia's rise to fame and power inturn-of-the-century China. Veteran filmmaker Bill Kong produced.Li's credits ...
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Turney appointed European sales director Fox TV
Steve Turney has beenappointed director of sales for Twentieth Century Fox Television Distributionin Europe, effective immediately.Turney will oversee sales offeatures and scripted television programming to free and basic broadcasterswithin European territories. Based in the company's London office, he will report to vice president of salesYoni Cohen."We are delighted to haveSteve ...