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Me, You..., Last Days bookend Seattle
Miranda July'squirky drama Me And You And Everyone We Know and Gus Van Sant's tale of a rock starin despair Last Daysbookend the 31st Annual Seattle International Film Festival, which runs fromMay 19-Jun 12.The 347-strongline-up includes pictures from more than 59 countries and boasts 10 world, 18North American and 10 ...
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Lakeshore teams with DreamWorks for Byrnes comedy
LakeshoreInternational has added Andy Fickman's She's The Man starring Amanda Byrnes to its Cannesslate, alongside Tony Goldwyn's The Last Kiss and Katja von Garnier's Blood AndChocolate.She's The Man is a DreamWorks production and, like TheLast Kiss, will bereleased in the US through DreamWorks with Lakeshore handling international inwhat is the ...
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Lightning takes on Mexican hit Matando Cabos
Santa Monica-based saleshouse Lightning Entertainment has added Alejandro Lozano's hit Mexican comedy MatandoCabos to its slate and will beginselling international rights excluding North America and Mexico at Cannes.In a related development,Televisa Cine USA, the US distribution arm of Mexico's Televisa Cine, willrelease the picture in June following a storming Mexican ...
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Wolfe picks up US rights to Show Me, Unveiled
Wolfe Releasinghas acquired North American theatrical and home video rights to CassandraNicolaou's psychological thriller Show Me and Angelina Maccarone's Middle East political drama Unveiled (previously In Orbit).Both titles are scheduled to screen at the summerfestivals Frameline29 in San Francisco and Outfest in Los Angeles, before anautumn theatrical release, followed by ...
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Skoll's Participant finds corporate and community affairs executive
Former eBaypresident Jeff Skoll's Los Angeles-based production company ParticipantProductions has named Meredith Blake senior vice president of corporate andcommunity affairs.Blake, whopreviously served as chief executive officer of the domestic violence nonprofitorganisation Break The Cycle, will help define the company's social sectoraction campaigns around the company's projects."Integral to ourmandate to make ...
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Keaton, Armstrong to reteam on Gold Circle comedy
Diane Keaton anddirector Gillian Armstrong are attached to team up on Gold Circle Films'romantic comedy Because I Said So, marking the first time the pair will have collaborated on filmsince the 1984 drama Mrs Soffel.Joe Drake'sMandate Pictures will begin selling international rights at Cannes under itssales arrangement with Gold Circle. ...
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Former Wellspring executives form new sales outfit
Former Wellspring Mediaexecutives Michael Thornton and Sheri Levine will launch their worldwide salesand distribution company Forward Entertainment at Cannes and will be offeringthe documentary Unknown White Maleto international buyers.Rupert Murray's picturepremiered at Sundance and tells the remarkable story of a Briton in New Yorkwho during the course of several hours ...
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IFP/Los Angeles to rebrand as Film Independent
IFP/Los Angeleshas broken off from the IFP umbrella group and has relaunched as FilmIndependent [FIND], in a move that executive director Dawn Hudson said wouldallow the group to better serve its booming Southern California membership.FIND willcontinue to produce both the Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles FilmFestival, and work ...
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George, Duhamel to star in 2929's Turistas
RisingAustralian actress Melissa George, who stars in the current North Americanremake of The Amityville Horror, has signed on to play the female lead in John Stockwell'sthriller Turistas.2929 Productionsand Stone Village are teaming up on the project, which is due to beginprincipal photography in Brazil on May 25, and are currently ...
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Spyglass seals four year free-TV deal in Italy with RTI
SpyglassEntertainment has signed a four-year free-TV output deal with RTI, thetelevision arm of Italian communications giant Mediaset, that will include theupcoming Memoirs of A Geisha and The Legend Of Zorro.It's another direct relationship engineered by Spyglass followingthree existing long-term TV output deals in Europe with Canal Plus in France,with ...
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Depp, Initial, Heyday team on Hornby adaptation for Warner
Johnny Depp, Graham King and David Heyman are to produce NickHornby's latest novel A Long Way Down for Warner Bros, the studio announced yesterday [2].King will produce for InitialEntertainment Group, Depp for his production company Infinitum Nihil, andHeyman for Heyday Films. Kevin McCormick is overseeing the project for WarnerBros.Initial, which ...
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Bishop charged with integrating MGM assets into Sony
David Bishop has been named president of worldwide brandintegration strategy for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), effectiveimmediately. He comes to Sony from MGM where he spent 15 years, most recentlyas president and chief operating officer of MGM Home Entertainment Group. In his new post Bishop, who will be located at SPE'sheadquarters ...
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Menemsha to sell Midnight Movies in Cannes
Stuart Samuels'documentary Midnight Movies, which screens in official selection in thefestival, is among four market premieres that Neil Friedman's Los Angeles-basedMenemsha Films will offer to buyers at Cannes.Midnight Moviescharts the rise of the late-night film craze that started with AlejandroJodorowsky's El Topo atthe Elgin Theatre in New York in December ...
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Strand gets US to Tribeca favourite Simon from Fortissimo
Strand Releasinghas picked up North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Eddy Terstall's Simon, the story of a gay man and a straightman whose lifelong friendship is challenged when one of them faces a terminalillness.The picture,which received its North American premiere at Tribeca last week, was theofficial Dutch entry for ...
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New Line International boasts 10 new films to presell
New Line International has unveiled a powerful new slate for itsdistribution partners and Cannes buyers which boasts directors as varied as JanDe Bont, Todd Field and Shekhar Kapur and stars ranging from Bruce Willis, JackBlack and Samuel L Jackson to Kate Winslet and John Cusack.The studio's president of worldwide distribution ...
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Hitchhiker's Guide a bestseller in US movie theatres
Spyglass Entertainment's adaptation of The Hitchhiker's GuideTo The Galaxy opened topof the North American charts through Disney over the weekend on a estimated $21.7m, whileSony/Revolution's XXX: State Of The Union was a crashing disappointment in third place on $13.7m.Of more significance, however, was the fact that box office fellfor the ...
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XXX leads in international, but Hitchhiker's soars
The first day-and-date launch of the year propelled XXX: TheNext Level (theinternational title of the film, as opposed to XXX: State Of The Union in North America) to the top of theinternational charts over the weekend, but the estimated $15m gross on 4,800prints in 64 territories was a disappointing result ...
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...while Hitchhiker's trounces XXX in US
Spyglass Entertainment's adaptation of The Hitchhiker's GuideTo The Galaxy opened topof the North American charts through Disney over the weekend on a estimated $21.7m, whileSony/Revolution's XXX: State Of The Union was a crashing disappointment in third place on $13.7m.Of more significance, however, was the fact that box office fellfor the ...
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XXX: The Next Level set to storm the world
The international blockbusterseason kicks off this weekend as Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) rollsout XXX: The Next Level onapproximately 5,000 screens in 70 markets, including six Revolutionterritories.The action sequel, called XXX: State Of The Union in North America, was due to open in France on Apr 27 on 450 screens, ...
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Soderbergh bursts theatrical Bubble with 2929
Todd Wagner and Mark Cubanhave taken a step closer to their cross-platform day-and-date releasing visionas it emerged that the 2929 Entertainment founders have signed a mould-breaking six-picturedeal with the ever-adventurous Steven Soderbergh.Soderbergh will directthese low-budget high definition video features for 2929's HDNet Films bannerin a deal finalised at the Tribeca ...