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Warner Bros deepens its Italian connection
Marking the studio's first collaboration with one ofItaly's top producers, Warner Bros Pictures Italy has teamed up with MaurizioTotti's 20-year-old Colorado Film on a local language black comedy that startsshooting in Milan next week.The Bodyguard's Cure (La Cura Del Gorilla) stars Italian comedian Claudio Bisio and Stefania Rocca in astory ...
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Miranda July wins top prize at San Francisco fest
Ahead of its Critics Week unveiling next week in Cannes, MirandaJuly's quirky relationship drama Me And You And Everyone We Know has won the top narrative feature prizeat the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival, which ended yesterday .A joint production of the UK's Film Four and New York's IFC ...
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Lindsay to spearhead Kimmel International
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment(SKE) is launching its international sales house Kimmel International withformer Miramax executive Mark Lindsay (pictured) heading up the division.Lindsay, who most recentlyserved as senior vice president of sales and distribution for Miramax, willhandle sales on all future SKE titles, excluding the company's current slate offour titles.The executive, who ...
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Saw 2 starts shooting in Toronto for Twisted, LGE
Production began in Torontothis week on Saw 2, the follow-upto Twisted Pictures/Lions Gate's 2004 smash that grossed more than $100m at theworldwide box office.Lions Gate FilmsInternational will begin selling international rights at Cannes on the picture,which is being produced by Evolution Entertainment's genre arm Twisted Picturesand Lions Gate Films.Lions Gate ...
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IFP/New York rebrands itself IFP, adds two chapters
Not to beoutdone by this week's decision by IFP/Los Angeles to rename itself FilmIndependent [FIND], IFP/New York announced yesterday [4] that it wasimmediately returning to its original name of IFP (Independent FeatureProject).IFP board chairman Ira Deutchman also announced that twonew IFP chapters will launch in Santa Fe and Austin, headed ...
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Mandeville to produce, Armada to sell Heaven
David Hobermanand Todd Lieberman's Mandeville Films and Television will produce John Glenn'sthriller The Heaven Project for Wall Street-based film equity fund D H Blair Film CapitalFund.Beverly Hills-based ArmadaPictures International is handling international rights and head of sales YarekDanielak will introduce the project to buyers in Cannes.Written anddirected by Glenn, The ...
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IFC Films boards Hart Sharp's Listener
IFC Films hasteamed up with Hart Sharp Entertainment and come aboard as executive producerand domestic distributor on Patrick Stettner's The Night Listener, which has just wrapped production. Itstars Robin Williams and Toni Colette. Fortissimo Films is handling sales at Cannes. A late 2005 festivalpremiere is anticipated on the Armistead Maupin ...
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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 ...