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TriStar takes English-speaking world on Wedding Daze
TriStar Pictures has picked up worldwide rights inEnglish-speaking territories to the romantic comedy Wedding Daze.Media 8 is selling the rest of the world at AFM on itsco-production with Handprint Entertainment that takes place during a marriageceremony.Jeff Pollack, Benny Medina, Jane Berliner and Sammy Lee areproducing the project, which is out ...
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New Films strikes three-picture deal with Highland Myst
Continuing its thrust into filmmaking, Los Angeles-based New FilmsInternational will co-produce three projects from writer-director Jon Keeyesand his producing partner Brandon Baker through Keeyes' Highland MystEntertainment.New Films will retain all worldwide distribution rights to theprojects, which kick off with Keeyes' previously announced thriller Living& Dying, whichwrapped recently in Dallas and ...
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LGI secures raft of sales on Fierce People
Lions Gate FilmsInternational has completed a raft of sales on Griffin Dunne's drama Fierce People, which makes its premiere market screening at AFMand stars Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland and Elizabeth Perkins.Lions Gate International president Nick Meyer announced sales to Filmax forSpain, Video Film for Italy, Showbox/Milestone for South Korea, Applause ...
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THINKFilm takes on worldwide rights to Penguins spoof
THINKFilm is selling international rights to Bob Saget's spoofdocumentary Farce Of The Penguins, featuring comedic voice-overs and an R-rated theme andsoundtrack set to wildlife photography.The picture is in production for a spring 2006 North Americanrelease through THINK and is being represented to AFM buyers through thecompany's sales consultant Mark Horowitz.Saget ...
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Kimmel International takes on South African Drum
Kimmel International has picked up international rights to ZProductions' South Africa-set drama Beat The Drum and is offering to buyers at AFM.Directed by David Hickson from a screenplay by W David McBrayer,Karen S Shapiro, and Richard Shaw, the story centres on a young orphan who setsout to Johannesburg with his ...
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IFTA overhauls licensing agreements
Embracingsweeping changes in the international marketplace, the Independent Film &Television Alliance (IFTA) has modified all its standard licensing agreementsand included a stand-alone internet rider.Therevision will run as a matter of course on all of IFTA's Model InternationalLicensing Agreements and will offer buyers the chance to address internetrights distribution and revenue ...
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John 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 ...
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Lions Gate international sales soar before AFM
Riding high on Saw II's one-two punch following record North American and UK weekendlaunches that generated $31.7m and $3.8m respectively, Lions Gate FilmsInternational has announced a slew of major territory sales on three otherhorror pictures heading into AFM.The company has closed sales on most territories for James Isaac'swerewolf feature Skinwalkers ...
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Echo Bridge takes domestic rights to The Big White
Echo Bridge Entertainment has picked up all North American rightsfrom Capitol Films to Mark Mylod's black comedy The Big White starring Robin Williams, Holly Hunterand Woody Harrelson. Williams plays a desperate travel agent in Alaska who fakes areport of his brother's death as part of an insurance scam. Ascendant Pictures'Christopher ...
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Cinemavault spins into SJP's butter
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International is bringing a line-upof 10 titles to AFM including Sarah Jessica Parker's first feature producercredit in Spinning Into Butter and the high school sports drama 30 Days starring Ellen Burstyn and Taye Diggs.Directed by Mark Brokaw, Spinning Into Butter stars Parker as the dean of a ...
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New Films International takes Folks overseas
NewFilms International has picked up international rights to Raymond de Felitta'sroad movie The Thing About My Folks,which stars Reiser, Peter Falk, Olympia Dukakis and Elizabeth Perkins. NewFilms is commencing sales at AFM this week on the story of a father and son whoembark upon a road trip in search of ...
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THINKFilm picks up worldwide rights to Beastie Boys doc
THINKFilm has picked up worldwide rights to the Beastie Boysconcert documentary Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That and plans a spring 2006 theatricalrelease.Nathaniel Hornblower aka band member Adam Yauch directed thepicture, which features 50 difference audience perspectives from an October2004 concert in Madison Square Garden after the band handed out cameras ...
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Rizvi, Merrill Lynch finance recapitalisation of ICM
US talent agency ICM has recapitalized as part of its expansionstrategy in a deal financed by Connecticut investor Suhail Rizvi's RizviTraverse Management and Merrill Lynch's Asset Based Finance Group.Terms of the deal remain confidential. What is known, however, is thatthe deal will allow agency chief Jeff Berg to develop ICM's ...
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Horizon sources new supplier in Stadium
Rob Straight's Vancouver-based Horizon Entertainment has signed a dealwith Randy Purcell's Stadium Entertainment under which the partners will bringfour to six new pictures to world markets in 2006.The alliance will announce in due course their upcoming roster of English-languagetitles and promise pictures with worldwide appeal, name cast and globallyrecognisable directors.Horizon ...
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Scorsese, Kiarostami to teach workshops in Morocco
Martin Scorsese and Abbas Kiarostami will teach filmmakingworkshops in Morocco as part of an educational initiative between the TribecaFilm Institute and the Marrakech International Film Festival Foundation.Sixteen Moroccan and New York film students will participate inthe Marrakech/Tribeca Filmmaker Exchange set to take place from Nov 6-20 inconjunction with the fifth ...
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Dimension picks up 2929 remake Black Christmas
Dimension Films has swoopedon US rights to 2929 Productions' remake of the 1974 horror thriller BlackChristmas, which will be made byJames Wong and Glen Morgan, the filmmaking team behind Final Destination and The One. 2929 International will becommence pre-sales at AFM on the project, which is scheduled to beginproduction in ...
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Weinstein Co creates multi-year marketing alliance with L'Oreal
The Weinstein Company hasentered into a multi-year marketing alliance with L'Oreal Paris that paves theway for a raft of product placement and promotional opportunities. L'Oreal's makeup and hairteams will support all promotion of titles on The Weinstein Company slate, andthe cosmetic brand will be the official exclusive beauty sponsor of ...
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Trio of German stars joins cast of Amiel's Angel Makers
Germanstars Daniel Bruhl and Benno Furmann - who both appear in ChristianCarion's French foreign language Oscar entry Merry Christmas - and Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run, DasExperiment) have joined the cast ofJon Amiel's Angel Makers. FilmBridge International is handling worldwide distribution on the picture, whichas previously announced stars Helen Mirren, ...
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Seidelman to embark on black comedy That Loving Feeling
Susan Seidelman, whose latestdrama Boynton Beach Bereavement Club recently had its world premiere at the Hamptons International FilmFestival, is to direct the black comedy That Loving Feeling. Seidelman with reunite withher Boynton Beach Bereavement Club screenwriterJonathan Brett on the story of a mild-mannered Manhattan dentist whose plan tokill his wife ...
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Newman named executive director of National Board Of Review
Eileen Newman has been namedexecutive director of the National Board of Review, which traditionally kicksoff the awards season and will announce its winners on Dec 6. Newman most recently servedas senior director of programming at IFP/New York and will work closely withthe board of directors in all matter, specifically in ...