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Georgia Lee's Red Doors sold to Imagine in Australia
Imagine Entertainment has picked up Australian and New Zealandrights to Georgia Lee’s RedDoors from ForwardEntertainment.As previously announced, Polychrome will release the picture inMay in the US. The story follows a dysfunctional Chinese-American family withthree overachieving daughters. Tzi Ma, Jacqueline Kim, Elaine Kao, KathyShao-Lin Lee, Freda Foh Shen, and Rossif Sutherland ...
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First Independent picks up The Great New Wonderful for North America
First Independent Pictures has picked up North American rights toSerenade Films' The Great New Wonderful and plans an early summer release.Danny Leiner's picture weavestogether five vignettes set against the backdrop of an uncertain post-9/11 NewYork City.Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tony Shalhoub, Edie Falco and Tom McCarthy areamong the ensemble cast in the ...
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Warner's Fox gets French Chevalier honour
Warner Bros International executive vice president Richard Fox (pictured) wasdue to receive the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France onFeb 20.The executive flew to aceremony at the French Cultural Ministry in Paris to receive the award in recognitionof his "lifetime commitment to cultural diversity, as exemplified ...
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Les Bronzes 3 tops international marketplace
French smash Les Bronzes3: Amis Pour La Vie led theinternational marketplace over the weekend in just one territory as it added$10.3m through Warner Bros France.The Les Films ChristianFechner, TF1 Films Productions and TPS Cinema title drew more than 1.4millionadmissions on 950 screens, bringing its third weekend total to a staggering$57.8m ...
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Disney's Eight Below wins Presidents Day weekend
Disney/Spyglass' snowbound adventure Eight Below was the top ranking domestic releaseover three days on Presidents Day Weekend as it launched on an estimated$19.9m.Fox's comedy Date Movie opened close behind in second place on $18.9m, while lastweekend's champion The Pink Panther ranked third on $16.5m for $42.2m. Sony/Revolution's newthriller Freedomland disappointedin ...
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Lionsgate doc First Descent sweeps up deals
Lionsgate Films International hasclosed multi-territory sales here on MD Films' snowboarding documentary First Descent.Rights have gone to Tiberius in Germany,Tohokushinsha in Japan,Metropolitan in France,Rialto in Australiaand New Zealand,Sandrew Metronome in Scandinavia,and California Filmes in Brazil.Deals also closed with Modus Vivendi/Blue Sky Media in Eastern Europe excluding Russia,Myndform in Iceland,Viva in ...
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Mandate Pictures secures major sales for Mr Magorium
Mandate Pictures hasfinalised major territory sales on fantasy drama Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium starringDustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman.Deals have closed with Iconin the UK, Kadokawa in Japan and Hong Kong, Village Roadshow in Australia, DeAPlaneta in Spain, Nordisk Films in Scandinavia, and Two Tube in South Korea.Further rights have gone ...
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Dream Entertainment picks up rights on Kedzierzawska's I Am
Dream Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights on Dorota Kedzierzawska'sPolish drama I Am, which screens inthe Kinderfest section at the Berlinfilm festival. Agnieszka Nagorzyckaand Janusz Chabior star inthe story of a boy who escapes from an orphanage andreturns to his hometown.Plans are currently underway for the picture's NorthAmerican release. Dream's ...
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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 ...