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Pathe, Medusa among big-ticket Breed buyers
First Look Internationaldivision has closed major territory sales on horror picture The Breed, which is directed by Wes Craven'sprotege Nick Mastandrea.Rights have gone to Pathe in the UK, Medusa in Italy,Europa Films in Brazil, Nordisk in Scandinavia, Lizard Cinema Trade in CIS,Falcon Films in the Middle East, and Hollywood Entertainment ...
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Warner sends digital Corpse Bride to Japan
Warner Bros TechnicalOperations subsidiaries Motion Picture Imaging (MPI) and Global Digital MediaXchange (GDMX) have created the first ever 4K digital cinema package of apicture for commercial exhibition.The version of TimBurton's Corpse Bride, created incompliance with the recently announced Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI)specifications, was sent from California to Japan by secure ...
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BVI lands Flightplan in major territories
Buena Vista International's (BVI) thriller Flightplan sets course for what could well becomeits biggest weekend to date with major launches scheduled in Australia, France,Spain, South Korea and Russia.The picture is currentlycruising at $43.9m and should fly past $50m this weekend with strong debutsexpected in each of the above major markets.It ...
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Entertainment lawyer Jesuele joins Hogan & Hartson in LA
Internationalentertainment lawyer Robert R Jesuele has joined law firm Hogan & Hartson'sLos Angles office as partner.Jesuele bringsto the firm nearly 20 years of experience handling cross-border transactions onbehalf of clients in media and other industries.He representsmajor US, European and Asian media, as well as entertainment, consumerproducts, manufacturing and automotive companies ...
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IFC Films acquires domestic rights to Duane
IFC Films hasacquired North American rights to Matt Mulhern's drama Duane Hopwood starring David Schwimmer and JaneaneGarofalo.Mulhern directed from his own screenplay about a casinoworker who embarks upon an emotional personal journey after an arrest for drunkdriving jeopardises his visitation rights with his two daughters.Lemore Syvan of Elevation Filmworks produced ...
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Huston joins Brosnan, Neeson in Seraphim Falls
Anjelica Hustonhas joined the cast of Icon Productions' American Civil War revenge saga SeraphimFalls.As previouslyannounced Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson will star in the story of an armycolonel at the end of the conflict who resolves to settle a grudge with a manat whatever cost.David Von Ancken is directing based ...
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Strand picks up US rights to Akin's Bridge
Strand Releasinghas picked up all US rights from Bavaria Film International to Fatih Akin's CrossingThe Bridge.The picture,which premiered in official selection at Cannes this year, portrays the musicscene in Istanbul, which Akin has long regarded as his second home.CorazonInternational, the production company founded by Akin, Andreas Thiel and KlausMaeck, produced ...
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Universal buys Blink for Gaghan, DiCaprio
Universal has won out a keenly fought bidding war and acquiredfeature rights to Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller Blink: The Power OfThinking Without Thinking.The studio paid $1m forthe rights and has paid a further $2m for Stephen Gaghan to write and directthe adaptation that has Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star.Gaghan will also ...
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MGM commits to Blu-Ray high-definition DVD format
MGM has joinedthe Blu-ray Disc camp and plans to begin releasing film and television titlesfrom its library on the new high definition DVD format.Yesterday'sannouncement hardly came as a surprise given that Sony led the consortium thatacquired MGM and is one of Blu-ray's chief backers.Blu-ray iscurrently locked in an emerging technology ...
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ITVS to support international documentary film-makers
US publictelevision provider The Independent Television Service (ITVS) has launched ascheme that for the first time supports non-US documentary filmmakers whosework will be broadcast on US television.TheInternational Media Development Fund will offer production financing, as wellas distribution, promotion and educational outreach support.The aim is tosupport a dialogue between the US ...
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IDT's animated Yankee Irving sells well at AFM
IDT Entertainment Sales hasclosed multiple territory deals at AFM on the CG-animated family title YankeeIrving.Rights have gone to LNK inPortugal, Luxor Group in CIS, Baltic States and Bulgaria, Tuck International inthe former Yugoslavia, J-Bics in Thailand, and Sam Film in Iceland, amongothers."We weren't planning onselling Yankee Irving until earlynext year," ...
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Arclight's Ohio logs key territory sales
Arclight Films has closed araft of deals at AFM on Ambush Entertainment's comedy The Oh In Ohio, which stars Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Danny DeVito,and Liza Minelli.Rights have gone to Telepoolin Germany, Nordisk in Scandinavia, Dutch Film Works in Benelux, Castello Lopezin Portugal, Gulf Films in Middle East, and SPI ...
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THINKFilm, Starz begin production on slasher doc
THINKFilm and StarzEntertainment Group (SEG) have begun principal photography on Jeff McQueen'sdocumentary Going To Pieces: The Rise And Fall Of The Slasher Film.Based on Adam Rockoff's bookof the same name, the picture will explore the roots and cultural associationsof the horror genre, with particular reference to slasher films.THINKFilm holds worldwidetheatrical ...
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Lions Gate scores big Catacombs deals
Lions GateInternational has closed a slew of sales at AFM on the horror project Catacombs.Rights were sold to Redbus for the UK, Universum forGermany, Metropolitan for France, Eagle for Italy, Paradiso for Dutch andFrench Benelux, CMC for Taiwan, and LNK for Portugal. As previously announced,the picture has sold to Digital ...
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Braddel promoted to senior vp distribution at SPRI
Mark Braddel has beenpromoted to senior vice president of distribution in Eastern Europe, the MiddleEast and Africa at Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).Braddel will continue toreport to SPRI senior executive vice president Mark Zucker and assumesresponsibility for all theatrical distribution operations in his assignedterritories.'It's a true pleasureto recognise Mark's role ...
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Sony Classics picks up EV Confidential
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC)has picked-up North American and English speaking rights to ElectricEntertainment and Plinyminor's politically charged documentary, EVConfidential. SPC plans a 2006 release onthe picture, which explores the development and demise of the electric car andpresents the story in the style of a murder-mystery. Dean Devlin's ElectricEntertainment financed the ...
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MonteCristo seals pre-sales on Apartment 1303
Michael Taverna'sMonteCristo Entertainment has completed a raft of pre-sales on horror title Apartment1303, which centres on theterrifying circumstances surrounding a rental apartment. Rights have gone to UniKoreain South Korea, DNC Entertainment in Italy, Flins y Pinniculas in Spain, NewWorld in Thailand, Ram Indo in Singapore/Malaysia, and Noble Entertainment inScandinavia. Amuse ...
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Shoreline acquires rights to Sudden Storm
Shoreline Entertainment hasacquired worldwide rights to Sudden Storm Productions' erotic thriller BarstoolWords. Jeff Glickman's directorialdebut centres on two high school friends who become ensnared in a web ofintrigue when they encounter a femme fatale from their past. Vincent Kartheiser, SarahCarter, Geoffrey Arend, Colm Feore and newcomer Krystin Pellerin star in ...
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Wolper acquires rights to story of Palestinian would-be suicide bomber
Wolper Organization hasacquired feature rights to Love And Terror, based on David France's true story about a teenage Palestinian girl'sarrest and conviction for conspiring to carry out a suicide bombing. Wolper is ramping up forproduction in association with Pterodactyl Productions and Plain Brown WrapperProductions. Mark Wolper and KevinNicklaus are producing ...
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AFM hails all-time record attendance numbers
Overall attendance at theAFM reached an all-time high of 8,014, market organisers said this week. Attendance is up 13% againstlast year's comparable figure of 7,064. The final tally of buyers is 1,583 from62 countries, with France, Brazil, Italy, South Korea and Hong Kong reportingsignificant rises in the number of buyers ...