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Slow Burn sells to North America, UK
GreeneStreetFilms and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment have sold North American and UK rights onWayne Beach's upcoming thriller Slow Burn to DEJ Productions.GreeneStreetInternational has sold Slow Burn, which stars Ray Liotta as a district attorneywho confronts a gang leader, to Eagle in Italy and is expecting to close Francetoday [18]. Deals for ...
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Arclight, Cineclick team for Uekrongtham's Coffin
Arclight Films is teaming up with Korea's Cineclick Asia to co-produceEkachai Uekrongtham's upcoming supernatural thriller The Coffin.Based onUekrongtham's personal experiences in Thailand, the story centres on a youngman who faces a series of terrifying incidents after lying in a coffin for onenight, an old Thai custom that is meant to ...
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America Theatrical gets Childstar
Fledgling theatrical salesventure America Theatrical is busily assembling its initial slate and haspicked up international rights to Don McKellar's Childstar.Launching here under theaegis of Argentina-based America Video Films, the company is targeting 12commercial titles for sale each year.Childstar earned Jennifer Jason Leigh a best supportingactress Genie in March for her ...
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Hayden strikes back with first-look Bauer Martinez deal
Philippe Martinez' BauerMartinez Studios has struck a first-look deal with Hayden Christensen's ForestPark Films.Hayden, in Cannes for StarWars, runs the production outfitwith his brother Tove.The 18-month deal will cover projects in the $10m-$40m range and bothparties are currently discussing which titles to take into development.All productions in the partnership will ...
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New York Doll ready to rock festivals
Gary Rubin's First LookIndependent is planning a high-profile festival berth for Greg Whiteley'sdocumentary New York Doll aheadits October US release.Rubin has been fieldingstrong interest from festival organisers on the picture, which charts the upliftingstory of former New York Dolls bass player Arthur 'Killer' Kane, a reformedalcoholic and Mormon church librarian ...
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Oliver Stone drops out of Night Watchman
Uncertainty surrounded thefuture of James Ellroy adaptation The Night Watchman last night after it emerged that Oliver Stone hasdropped out of the Keanu Reeves-starrer due to problems with the screenplay.Stone came on board todirect the story of a disgraced policeman who launches a crusade againstcorrupt officers after Spike Lee dropped ...
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Summit climbs the heights with Cannes slate
Summit Entertainment has reported brisk business on its Cannes slate,virtually selling out on Atom Egoyan's competition entry Where The TruthLies,Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's ensemble piece Babel, Tony Gilroy's dramaticthriller Michael Clayton, Nick Goossen's comedy Nana's Boy, and David Ayer's SouthCentral set drama Harsh Times.Where TheTruth Lies has sold toMomentum in the ...
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Myriad tunes up Copying Beethoven deals
Kirk D'Amico's MyriadPictures has concluded sales on Copying Beethoven to Japan's Tohokushinsha, Brazil's VideofilmCorporation, Portugal's LNK Home Entertainment, Greece's PCV, Eastern Europe'sParadise/MGN, Iceland's Myndform and Singapore's Shaw Renters. Ed Harris and Diane Krugerstar in the Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Film & Entertainment VIPMedienfonds co-production, which is produced by Kimmel, Michael ...
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Global Cinemas takes world rights to Mortal Kombat: Krusades
Peter Elson'sGlobal Cinema Group has picked up worldwide rights to the upcoming $35m actiontitle Mortal Kombat: Krusades and is pre-selling the project here. LarryKasanoff's Threshold Entertainment holds the rights to the video game franchiseand the producer expects to start production later this year.Paul W SAnderson directed the franchise curtain-raiser Mortal ...
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New Films takes the world for Prodigy, Last Run
Nesim Hason's LosAngeles-based production and distribution company New Films International haspicked up worldwide rights to William Kaufman's assassination thriller TheProdigy and Jonathan Segal's comedy-drama The Last Run.Both pictures have been soldas part of a package deal to Brazil's Conquest Films.The Last Run, starring The Wonder Years' Fred Savage as a ...
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Lexi Alexander signs to direct Life 'N' Lyrics
German filmmakerLexi Alexander, whose award-winning drama Hooligans is being pursued by a number of Hollywoodstudios, has been confirmed to direct Life 'N' Lyrics. As reportedearlier this week, the project will star UK rapper Ashley Walters in the storyof rival DJ crews from North and South London. The project isthe first ...
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Gibraltar takes on sales for Magnoli's horror Scream
Shooting on Albert Magnoli's horror-thriller PrimalScream is scheduled to begin in New Brunswick, Canada, onJun 13.Gibraltar International is handling allrights on the Gravity Pictures production about five youngsters who areterrorised by a mallet-wielding killer during a 15-hour weekend rampage.Victor Webster, Stark Sands, Charity Shea and TrentFord star and Gravity's Philip ...
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Arclight strikes US deal for Story, gets All Together
ArclightFilms has sold US rights for Benny Chan's action drama New Police Story to a combination ofMiramax, The Weinstein Company and Lions Gate for an undisclosed sum.JackieChan (no relation) stars as a Hong Kong police inspector who breaks down when histeam is wiped out by a vicious gang and eventually ...
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Constantin on the Edge with Applebaum
Germany's Constantin Filmwill finance and co-produce commercials director Chris Applebaum's featuredebut Water's Edge with SidGanis' Out Of The Blue Entertainment. Set for a September star inArizona's Lake Powell and Los Angeles, the horror-thriller stars JordanaBrewster and follows a group of holidaymakers whose lake trip turns sour when abrutal serial killer ...
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Focus strikes deals on Jarmusch's Broken Flowers
Focus Features has closed major territory sales on Jim Jarmusch's BrokenFlowers ahead of the comedy's competition screening on Tuesday Rights have been sold to Roadshow in Australia, Momentum Pictures in theUK, Tobis in Germany, Bac Films in France, Mikado in Italy, Vertigo in Spain,Europe Films in Brazil, and Nordisk Film ...
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Millenium strikes three picture deal with Eclectic
Avi Lerner's Millennium Pictures has signed a three-picture deal withHeidi Jo Markel's fledgling development and production outfit EclecticPictures.The exclusive arrangement provides Los Angeles-based Eclectic with fundsto attach talent and make films with foreign distribution being servicedthrough Millennium's Nu Image.Markel, whose producing credits include the Val Kilmer thriller BlindHorizon and Snoop ...
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Myriad packs trunk with Elephant Tales pre-sales
Kirk D'Amico's Myriad Pictures has notched up pre-sales on MarioAndreacchio's live-action family adventure Elephant Tales, which is set togo into production in South Africa on Jun 13.The French/Australian co-production has sold to LNK for Portugal, Prooptikifor Greece, Myndform for Iceland, Box Office for Thailand and Wild World forthe Philippines.As previously ...
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Germans build transatlantic link
Seeking to consolidate ties with Hollywood, Germany's VIP Media Grouphas set up VIP Media USA and installed former Ascendant Pictures chief PhilipElway as president.TheBeverly Hills hub will serve as a conduit between the US production anddistribution community and European filmmakers and develop co-productionopportunities.VIPMedia USA will also provide creative and financial ...
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Lightning strikes for Israeli drama
Los Angeles-based Lightning Entertainment has picked up international rights to Giddi Dar's award-winning Israeli feature Ushpizin.Set in the cloistered worldof ultra-Orthodox Jews, Ushpizin is about a married couple in financial direstraits whose prayers for salvation are answered by the arrival of twomysterious strangers.Shuli Rand, Michal Bat-ShevaRand, Shaul Mizrahi, and Ilan ...
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2929 International sales on the Fast Track
ShebnemAskin's 2929 International sales division has closed its first deals at Canneson new titles Black Christmas, Prey and Fast Track.Horror remake BlackChristmas has gone to TF1, inFrance, Pathe in the UK, MediaFilm in Italy, Paradiso in Benelux, MGN inEastern Europe, and Avsar in Turkey. Prey has been snapped up by ...