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Sundance Cinemas names first US arthouse multiplex site
Sundance Cinemas, the specialized theatre chain concept which wasfirst abandoned by Robert Redford's Sundance Group in 2001, then revivedearlier this year, has set its first Sundance Cinema Centre multiplex forMadison, Wisconsin in autumn 2006.The six-screen theatre will be located in the Hilldale Mall andinitial stage of renovation is due to ...
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Dream picks up international on Sorry, Haters
Dream Entertainment has picked up international rights fromCinetic Media to Jeff Stanzler's psychological thriller Sorry, Haters starring Robin Wright Penn.The InDigEnt production was produced by Stanzler, Jake Abraham,Karen Jaroneski and Gary Winick, and received its world premiere at Toronto.The post-9/11 tale stars Penn as an anxious professional whoselife takes a ...
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Becker Films takes Control
Becker Films International (BFI) has picked up worldwide rights toControl, AntonCorbijn's project about the life of the late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.The project is currently out to casting and is scheduled to beginshooting in early 2006 in Manchester, Macclesfield and surrounding areas innorthern England.Orian Williams and Todd Eckert are ...
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Cruz, DeVito join the cast of Paltrow's The Good Night
Penelope Cruz and Danny DeVito have joined the cast of InfernoDistribution's $15m New York-set romantic comedy The Good Night.As previously announced Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin Freeman and SimonPegg star in the story of a former pop star relegated to writing advertisingjingles who lives through his dreams.Cruz will play the female lead ...
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Paramount Classics goes North with nature doc
Paramount Classics has picked up US, UK and Latin American rightsto Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson's hot documentary Call Of The North, which follows a polar bear and a walrusover the course of five years as they battle for survival on a disappearingcontinent.The $7m National Geographic Feature Films production is ...
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Pressman horror duo goes to Voltage
Voltage Pictures has picked up worldwide sales on two horrorpictures to be produced by Ed Pressman, a remake of Brian De Palma's 1973 Sisters and The Hill.Both projects are set to begin production in February 2006 throughNew York-based Pressman & Company's No Remorse genre label and will beco-financed by Grosvenor ...
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Hopkins, Gosling star in Fracture for New Line
Anthony Hopkins and RyanGosling have signed to star in Castle Rock's crime drama Fracture that New Line is handling worldwide.Gregory Hoblit will directthe story of an assistant District Attorney who takes justice into his ownhands after an assailant tries to murder his wife and leaves her in a coma.New Line ...
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MK2, Rialto take Tsotsi from Little Film Company
Robbie Little's Little Film Company has closed more sales on GavinHood's Toronto Film Festival's People's Choice Award winner Tsotsi.Rights have gone to MK2 in France, Rialto in Australia and NewZealand, Castello Lopes in Portugal, and Rosebud in Greece.The picture will be released through Miramax in North America,Kinowelt in Germany, and ...
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Baldwin to star opposite Gellar in Odd Lot/Media 8's Guide
Alec Baldwin has been cast opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in OddLot Entertainment's upcoming adaptation of international bestseller TheGirls' Guide To Hunting And Fishing. Media 8 is handling international rights on the project, whichcharts the romantic travails of an ambitious Manhattan book editor who is tornbetween her boyfriend and a notorious ...
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Chicken Little goes big in Mexico, Russia & South Africa
Impressive holds during the All Saints Day holiday in manyterritories this week means that The Legend Of Zorro stands at more than $41m going into theweekend.Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) licensed the majorityof international rights from the picture's co-financier Spyglass Entertainmentand executives expect strong holds in all territories following last ...
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Andreas Klein joins BMD board of directors
Splendid Medien managementboard chairman Andreas Klein has joined the board of directors of BauerMartinez Distribution.“Philippe Martinez is putting together one of the mostexciting entertainment companies in the business and I’m thrilled to be part of it,” Klein, who served as executive producer on Traffic and the Agent Cody Banks franchise, ...
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Wolf Creek finally gets teeth into Australian market
Greg McLean's horror title WolfCreek has finally opened in its Australian home territory, scoring a numberone opening on Thursday on an estimated $142,639 (AU$193,045).The film had been delayed because of its similarities with a murder trial still in progress. It is still barred from opening in the Northern Territory, where ...
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Push Worldwide moves into production with Cold Cream
Mike Elliott, Rob Kerchnerand Joe Genier's fledgling international distributor Push Worldwide is movinginto production with the aim of releasing three to four features a year,kicking off with Richard Halpern's horror thriller Cold Cream. Elliott and Genier willproduce the story, set to begin production in autumn 2006, about an overweightwoman whose ...
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2929 sells Soderbergh's six to France, Japan, Italy
Celebrating its firstanniversary at AFM, 2929 International is reporting brisk sales on its slate ofsix Steven Soderbergh features commissioned earlier this year by 2929Entertainment chiefs Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban.Headed up by the small townmystery Bubble, the package ofotherwise as yet untitled pictures that Soderbergh will make over the next ...
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Aja signs on to Gold Circle, Craven, Rogue horror
HotFrench horror director Alex Aja has signed to direct The Waiting, a supernatural horror thriller that is being puttogether by Gold Circle and Wes Craven and set to open in North America throughRogue Pictures in March. MandatePictures is handling international sales on the Gold Circle Films andCraven/Maddalena production about a ...
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Hyde Park to sell Warner Independent's Astronaut Farmer
Warner Independent Pictures has appointed Hyde Park Internationalexclusive sales agent on the Polish brothers' drama Astronaut Farmer starring Billy Bob Thornton, VirginiaMadsen and Bruce Dern.Currently in production and directed by Michael Polish from ascreenplay he co-wrote with his brother Mark, Astronaut Farmer centres on a retired astronaut whobuilds a rocket ...
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Myriad boards Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl
Myriad Pictures has picked up all international rights to GeorgeHickenlooper's Edie Sedgwick drama Factory Girl with Sienna Miller attached to play thelead and Guy Pearce in talks to star as Andy Warhol.Shooting is expected to being next month in New York andShreveport, Louisiana, with Holly Wiersma and Richard Galub serving ...
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Initial boards Revolution sci-fi thriller Next
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group has fulfilled itspromise to bring buyers product outside the company's new deal with Warner Brosand boarded Revolution Studios' sci-fi action thriller Next.Initial is offering international rights to the film, which willbe released by Revolution partner Sony Pictures in the domestic market, andwhich has Nicolas Cage ...
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Damon's Foresight Unlimited deals in Captivity
Mark Damon'sproduction and distribution company Foresight Unlimited has closedmulti-territory sales on its first feature Captivity starring Elisha Cuthbert.Damon has concluded deals with TFI for France, FilmAuro for Italy,Al Munteanu and SquareOne for Germany, and New World Film for Spain.Roland Joffe directed the project, which shot at the Moscow-basedMosfilm Studios and ...
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Lesher to head up Paramount Classics
Endeavor partner John Lesherhas been hired to head up Paramount Classics in a move that Paramount isexpected to officially announce this week.Lesher has been one of several contenders linked with the job in recent monthsas the tenure of former co-chiefs David Dinerstein and Ruth Vitale lookedincreasingly shaky.The appointment of the ...