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Sundance wakes up with Sleep, Tired deals
In the second major acquisition at this year's Sundance, WarnerIndependent Pictures has paid $6m for North American and UK rights to Michel Gondry's surreal romance The Science Of Sleep.WiP chief Mark Gill and his team swooped after the French-producedpicture's world premiere here on Sunday night, which drew rapturousapplause for attending ...
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Screen Gems tops US with Underworld sequel
The Sony stable enjoyed an excellent weekend at the North Americanbox office as Screen Gems' supernatural sequel Underworld: Evolution romped to the top of the charts andColumbia's Fun With Dick And Jane crossed $100m in its fifth weekend.Underworld: Evolution opened number one far ahead of the competition on an estimated$27.6m, ...
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THINKFilm strikes US marketing partnership with MySpace.com for Beastie Boys doc
North American distributorTHINKFilm is partnering with the online lifestyle portal MySpace.com to promoteits upcoming Beastie Boys concert film Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That.The process began prior toSundance, when MySpace users were invited to make a music video for one of twoBeastie Boys songs - "Sabotage" and "Shake Your Rump". The ...
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Sundance deals heat up with a ray of Sunshine
In the first big play ofSundance 2006 Fox Searchlight has taken worldwide rights to Little MissSunshine in a deal believed to be inthe region of $10.5m.The deal is also reported, by the New York Times, to have given the participants 10% of all gross revenues on the film, a total ...
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Icon enjoys brisk sales on Winona Ryder comedy
Icon Entertainment International has closed a raft of sales onFinn Taylor's dark comedy The Darwin Awards, which premieres next week at the SundanceFilm Festival.Rights have gone to Concorde/Tele-Muenchen in Germany, PresidioCorp in Japan, Dea Planeta in Spain, Nordisk in Scandinavia, LumiereDistribution in the Benelux, and EEAP in Eastern Europe.Additionally, Odeon ...
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Picturehouse, New Line Int'l take Silk road together
Picturehouse and New Line International have snapped up themajority of the world on Francois Girard's dark romantic adaptation Silk, which will stars Keira Knightley,Michael Pitt, Koji Yakusho and Alfred Molina.Filming is due to begin at the end of February in Matsumoto, Japan,and will end in late May in Italy, as ...
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IFC Films announces Sex Addict, Dolls buys
IFC Films maintained its concerted acquisitions drive byannouncing two new pick-ups this week, Caveh Zahedi's I Am A Sex Addict and Cedric Klapisch's Russian Dolls.The autobiographical comedy I Am A Sex Addict chronicles the life of an insecure youngman who becomes addicted to prostitutes at the expense of his friendships. ...
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Bello, Butler join Brosnan in Butterfly On A Wheel
Maria Bello andGerard Butler have joined Pierce Brosnan in the thriller Butterfly On AWheel, which is beingproduced by Brosnan and Beau St Clair's Irish Dreamtime, Infinity and IconEntertainment. Shooting isscheduled to begin in March in Vancouver on the story of a couple whose idylliclife is shattered when their daughter is ...
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Narnia, Kong set to continue box office domination
TheChronicles Of Narnia should remainthe one to beat this weekend despite no new launches. The blockbuster nowstands at $326m through Buena Vista International (BVI). Narniawill cross $600m in worldwide ticketsales this weekend - it reached $590.6m at time of writing - and will becomethe fifth Disney Company title to achieve ...
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Sony, Universal hatch co-financing pacts with Relativity
Seeking new ways to offset their production risks while holding onto global distribution rights, Sony Pictures Entertainment and UniversalPictures have each signed separate co-financing deals with investors groupsconnected to Relativity Media.The Los Angeles-based Relativity, which structured a similar $528m dealwith Warner Bros last year, retained Deutsche Bank to raise in ...
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Mandate options film rights to The Ghouly Boys
Mandate Pictures has optioned the film rights to The GhoulyBoys, based onChristopher's children's comic books that were initially published by SlaveLabor Graphics Publishing in 2004.The stories track the fortunes of four misfit young monsters whofind it hard to integrate with human children and embark upon an adventure oftheir own.Los Angeles-based ...
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Marshall joins Marvel Studios as senior vp, legal and business affairs
Marvel Entertainment has hired Michael Marshall as senior vicepresident of business and legal affairs for its Marvel Studios division.Marshall will oversee all business and legal affairs issuesrelating to development and production, as well as character licensing fortheatrical, direct-to-video and television projects.He will work closely with Marvel Studios president and chiefoperating ...
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Pioneering technologist Demos to receive Gordon E Sawyer Award
Gary Demos, a pioneering motion picture technologist in the motionpicture industry, will receive the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesGordon E Sawyer Award in recognition of his scientific contributions to film.Demos, along with John Whitney Jr, established the Motion PictureProject at Information International to produce computer-generated simulatedscenes for such ...
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IFC Films takes domestic rights to Drawing Restraint 9
MatthewBarney's experimental Drawing Restraint 9 has found a US home at IFC Films and is scheduled to open at the IFCCentre in New York on Mar 29 before expanding to other regions. Thepicture stars Barney and his longtime partner Bjork as passengers aboard aJapanese whaling ship, and features a soundtrack ...
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Walden acquires Allende trilogy about teen adventurer
WaldenMedia has acquired the rights to Isabel Allende's young adult trilogy featuringthe teenage adventurer Alexander Cold. Thefirst story in the series, City Of The Beasts, will be produced by Barrie Osborne of The LordOf The Rings fame. DavidRothenberg will adapt the screenplay from Allende's novel and serve asco-producer. HarperCollins, which ...
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THINKFilm buys North American rights to Down In The Valley
THINKFilmhas acquired all North American rights from Element Films to David Jacobson'scontemporary western Down In The Valley starring Edward Norton and Evan Rachel Wood. THINKFilmplans a spring release for the San Fernando Valley-set story of a young girlwho falls for a charismatic stranger who is not all he appears to ...
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CineVegas to give $11,000 cash prizes for the first time in June
The fast-rising CineVegas film festival in Las Vegas will awardcash prizes to two films for the first time this year.The grand jury award winner for feature film will receive $10,000,while the winner of the grand jury award for best short will collect $1,000.The list of films accepted into the festival ...
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Payne, Vinterberg, Rudolph among jurors at this year's Sundance
The six Sundance 2006 competition juries have been announced,comprising 24 jurors including Alexander Payne, Terrence Howard, ThomasVinterberg and Alan Rudolph.The jurors are:Dramatic Competition: Miguel Arteta, Terrence Howard, AlanRudolph, Nancy Schreiber and Audrey Wells.Documentary Competition: Joe Bini, Zana Briski, Andrew Jarecki,Alexander Payne and Heather RaeWorld Cinema Dramatic Competition: Irene Bignardi, Lu ...
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Narnia continues to rule international box office
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe remained the international champion forthe fourth consecutive weekend as an estimated $20m haul raised the cumulativetotal to $319m.The children's adaptation is now Buena Vista International (BVI)'sixth biggest release of all time and became the first international title togross $100m ...
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Buffalo Boy and Love + Hate share Palm Springs jury prizes
Minh Nguyen-Vo's Vietnamese coming-of-age story Buffalo Boy won the FIPRESCI Award and DominicSavage's hard-hitting UK tale of love across racial divides Love + Hate won the New Voices/New Visions Award atthe 17th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival.Both titles were directorial debuts and were joined on the winner'spodium by another ...