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Arclight picks up Brooks' Looking For Comedy
Arclight Films has acquiredinternational rights to Albert Brooks' comedy Looking For Comedy In The Muslim World and will commence sales atthe AFM next week.Brooks stars as a comedianworking for the US government who travels to India and Pakistan to discover what makes Muslims laugh.Brooks directed and wrotethe project, which is ...
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De Niro to star in Levinson's What Just Happened'
Robert De Niro will star inBarry Levinson's comedy What JustHappened' for 2929 Productions which is based on Art Linson's book andscreenplay about his experiences in Hollywood.2929 will fully finance theproject and the company's sales chief Shebnem Askin will commence internationalsales at the AFM next week. No domestic distributor is attached ...
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Drum is audience favourite at Mill Valley
The Mill Valley FilmFestival's inaugural audience award for dramatic feature went to Zola Maseko'sApartheid drama Drum.The strong audience response to the picture has prompted producer ChrisSievernich to begin discussions with North American distributors for a platformrelease.Sievernich's Armada Pictures International holds worldwide rights to theproject starring Taye Diggs and Jason Flemyng.Lisa ...
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Warner Bros restructures home entertainment divisions
Adopting a streamlinedapproach to the global multi-media delivery of its properties, Warner Bros hasconsolidated its home video, online, wireless, games, anti-piracy and emergingtechnologies divisions under Warner Bros Home Entertainment Group (WBHEG).Kevin Tsujihara, a highlyregarded new media strategist at Warner Bros, will head up the division aspresident, reporting directly to studio ...
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Lions Gate lines up stellar voice cast for Foodfight!
Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria,Wayne Brady, Chris Kattan and Christopher Lloyd have joined the voice cast ofThreshold Animation Studios and Lions Gate Family Entertainment's upcominganimated comedy Foodfight!As previously announced,Hillary and Haylie Duff have committed to the project set after hours in asupermarket populated by talking products.Lions Gate FamilyEntertainment has scheduled an ...
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Lions Gate checks into Hostel with Screen Gems
Lions Gate has come on boardas domestic distributor on Screen Gems' upcoming horror picture Hostel from Eli Roth and will launch itwide on Dec 21.Quentin Tarantino served as executive producer on the picture, which stars JayHernandez as an American tourist who becomes ensnared in an underground torturering.Lions Gate, which distributed ...
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Film Sales Company heads for Middletown
Andrew Herwitz' The FilmSales Company has bulked up its AFM slate after picking up worldwide rightsexcluding the UK to the sibling drama Middletown starring Matthew Macfayden.Macfayden, currently starring as Charles Darcy opposite Keira Knightley in PrideAnd Prejudice, will star in theIreland-set tale about the torrid relationship between two brothers.Brian Kirk ...
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Mayhem Project signs first two screenwriter deals
The Mayhem Project, the independent production and financecompany launched in June 2005 by executive Anthony Mosawi, has signed its firsttwo screenwriter deals.Todd Farmer will write the screenplay to the feature version of the survivalhorror video game franchise Clock Tower, while Ronnie Christensen will the supernatural story Sanctuary.Both projects will be ...
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Summit, Mandalay enter the Twilight Zone
Summit Entertainment andMandalay Pictures have jointly acquired feature rights to Richard Matheson'sshort story and classic 1963 TwilightZone extended episode Deathship.Michael Brandt and Derek Haasare co-writing the project - renamed Countdown- based an original draft by Scott Burn and Stephen Gregg.The story centres on a groupof astronauts on a mysterious planet ...
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Focus taps into Mexico with Canana Films deal
Focus Features has signed atwo-year term deal with Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and producer Pablo Cruz'fledging Mexico City-based Canana Films.The agreement, which includes an option for a third year, grants Focusworldwide rights to Canana's upcoming slate of mid-budget Spanish-languagefilms shot in Mexico and higher-budget English-language titles.Focus chiefs David Linde ...
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Platinum, Valhalla joins forces on Magdalena
Los Angeles-based Platinum Studios is teaming up with Aeon Flux and The Terminator producer Gale Anne Hurd on Magdalena, the first religious-themed comic bookadaptation.Kevin Taft has been hired to write the screenplay about a young woman wholearns she is part of a lineage of female warriors descended from MaryMagdalene.Set in ...
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Jamie Foxx turns producer for MTV, Paramount
Jamie Foxx and producing partners Jaime Rucker King and MarcusKing have signed a two-year first-look deal with MTV Films and Paramount Pictures.Foxx, Rucker King and King will offer their servicesin developing, supervising, producing and consulting a slate of projects, withFoxx set to appear in certain MTV and Paramount titles where ...
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Jamie Foxx turns producer for MTV, Paramount
Jamie Foxx and producing partners Jaime Rucker King and MarcusKing have signed a two-year first-look deal with MTV Films and Paramount Pictures.Foxx, Rucker King and King will offer their servicesin developing, supervising, producing and consulting a slate of projects, withFoxx set to appear in certain MTV and Paramount titles where ...
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Brokeback Mountain, Capote head up Gotham nominees
Ang Lee'sVenice Golden Lion winner Brokeback Mountain will contest IFP's best featureGotham Awards in New York on Nov 30 with Bennett Miller's Capote, David Cronenberg's A History OfViolence, LodgeKerrigan's Keane,and Miranda July's Me And You And Everyone We Know.Miller and July are is two of five nominees in the breakthrough ...
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Jamie Foxx turns producer for MTV, Paramount
Jamie Foxx and producing partners Jaime Rucker King and MarcusKing have signed a two-year first-look deal with MTV Films and Paramount Pictures.Foxx, Rucker King and King will offer their servicesin developing, supervising, producing and consulting a slate of projects, withFoxx set to appear in certain MTV and Paramount titles where ...
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Jamie Foxx turns producer for MTV, Paramount
Jamie Foxx and producing partners Jaime Rucker King and MarcusKing have signed a two-year first-look deal with MTV Films and Paramount Pictures.Foxx, Rucker King and King will offer their servicesin developing, supervising, producing and consulting a slate of projects, withFoxx set to appear in certain MTV and Paramount titles where ...
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Weinsteins hustle for Kung Fu High School
The Weinstein Company (TWC) haswon a fierce bidding war to develop and produce Kung Fu High School, based on RyanGattis' acclaimed novel about youth gang culture.Ernesto M Foronda will adapt the screenplay and Neal Edelstein and Mike Macariwill produce the Romeo And Juliet tale, which is setin a high school ...
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Skouras picks up US rights to Swimmers
Skouras Films has picked upUS rights to Doug Sadler's award winning drama Swimmers and plans an early 2006 release in the majormarkets.Since it launched at Sundance Swimmers has played at numerous festivals, winning the Seattle InternationalFilm Festival's grand jury prize award for best new American film.Cherry Jones, Shawn Hatosy, Robert ...
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Weinsteins secure $490m equity backing
Harvey and Bob Weinsteinhave slotted into place a major piece of the financing jigsaw behind theirfledgling company with today's announcement of a $490m private placement ofequity.Ever since the brothers unveiled plans for The Weinstein Company (TWC) earlierthis year ahead of their split from Miramax, speculation has centred on theprovenance of ...
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Focus hires Timothy Collins as vp business affairs
TimothyCollins has joined Focus Features as vice president of business affairs,effective immediately.Collins will be based in Los Angeles and his duties will include negotiatingtalent deals for Focus and Rogue titles. He reports to Focus' senior vice presidentof business affairs Howard Meyers.He most recently served as MGM's director of businessaffairs and ...