All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1398
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Bauer Martinez moves into US distribution
Philippe Martinez' BauerMartinez Studios has launched a US distribution venture with a high profileslate that boasts the $40m John McTiernan actioner Riders Of The Storm, £30m thriller The Flock from Andy Lau, as well as Bauer Martinez'co-production Modigliani andfirst acquisition The Groomsmenfrom Ed Burn's Black and Tan Productions.Backed by an ...
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Goldwyn, Lecker promoted at Samuel Goldwyn Films
Peter Goldwyn has been promoted to vice president of acquisitions andTamara Lecker to director of acquisitions and development at Samuel GoldwynFilms.Goldwyn will continue to pursue projects from the company's Los Angeles officeand will work closely with president Meyer Gottlieb in negotiating pre-buys andbringing completed projects to the company.Lecker will continue ...
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Goda's FilmMates hits Croisette with 10 titles
Alan Goda's Los Angeles-basedfinance, production and distribution outfit FilmMates Entertainment is hittingthe Croisette for the first time with 10 titles that feature the likes of SusanSarandon, Jeremy Irons, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Shirley MacClaine. The company plans to finance,produce and release eight to 10 pictures a year budgeted at up ...
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Zeitgeist takes US rights to Ballets Russes
New York-based ZeitgeistFilms has picked up all US rights from Geller/Goldfine Productions to DanielGeller and Dayna Goldfine's dance documentary Ballets Russes, which premiered in Sundance.Los Angeles-based sales anddistribution house Lightning Entertainment has acquired international rights onthe picture, announcing key sales to Xanadeux in Japan and Hopscotch Films inAustralia and New ...
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Street racers on track for Cannes
Bill Johnson and JimSeibel's Los Angeles-based sales and distribution house Inferno Distributionwill be revving up interest at Cannes on Joey Curtis' street racing drama 4NOZA, which played in official selection at Berlinearlier this year.Inferno has acquired allinternational rights to the picture, which won the best cinematography award atSundance 2003 and ...
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Hyde Park, Odd Lot team for multi-picture deal
Hyde Park Entertainment and Odd Lot Entertainment have struck a deal toco-produce and co-finance a raft of features over the next 12 to 18 months,starting with the erotic thriller Trap For Cinderella to be directed byIain Softley. Hyde ParkInternational, the new sales division headed up by Lisa Wilson, will handlesales ...
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Strand shells out on turtle drama
NewYork-based Strand Releasing has acquired US rights for Tim Kirkman's Loggerheads from Andrew Herwitz's Film SalesCompany.Strandco-presidents Jon Gerrans and Marcus Hu are now planning a November release for the familydrama which premiered in official selection atSundance earlier this year.Herwitz has also sold Israeli rights toShani Films and expects to ...
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Polo, Kilborn, Electra join Nothing But The Truth
Teri Polo, Craig Kilborn andCarmen Elektra have joined Ryan Pinkston on the cast of New Line's upcomingcomedy Nothing But The Truth,which started production in Winnipeg this week.Atmosphere Entertainment and Relativity Media are teaming up on the story abouta habitual liar who is overrun with problems when his tall stories suddenlybecome ...
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Firth, Kingsley enlist in The Last Legion
Colin Firth andBen Kingsley have been cast in Doug Lefler's upcoming Fall of the Roman Empireadventure and Dino De Laurentiis presentation The Last Legion.Martha De Laurentiis and Raffaella De Laurentiis will produce the project inpartnership with Quinta Communications' Tarak Ben Ammar and Britishco-producers Chris Curling and Phil Robertson of Zephyr ...
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Storm Entertainment takes world for Foolish Things
Michael Heuser's StormEntertainment has picked up worldwide sales rights on Julia Taylor-Stanley's TheseFoolish Things starring TerenceStamp, Lauren Bacall, Anjelica Huston and Joss Ackland.Taylor-Stanley's directorialdebut, which will receive its first market screening at Cannes, is a pre-warstory centring on a young actress' efforts to emulate her mother's glitteringstage career.Taylor-Stanley wrote thescreenplay ...
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Brody, Affleck embark on American Way for Focus
Production has begun on AllenCoulter's Truth, Justice And The American Way, the real-life Hollywoodmystery starring Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Diane Lane. Focus Features will handlethe North American release and international sales on the picture, which alsostars Bob Hoskins and marks Sopranos director Coulter's feature directorialdebut. Brody stars as a ...
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Sales execs board Chartier and Devlin's Voltage Pictures
Nadine de Barros and EricChristenson have joined Nicolas Chartier and Dean Devlin's fledgling sales andfinancing outfit Voltage Pictures as sales executives.The former Crystal Sky and Tentpole Pictures executives come aboard as Voltageheads into its first Cannes market with a strong slate of titles boasting suchtalent as Julie Delpy, Elisha Cuthbert, ...
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Sharon Stone signs for Eslinger's Cannes project
Sharon Stone has signed on tostar in Ryan Eslinger's When A Man Falls In The Forest, one of 18projects by young filmmakers beingshowcased in the inaugural Cannes sidebar L'Atelier du Festival."I think that Ryan Eslingeris enormously talented and I look forward to our collaboration," Stone said ina statement.The star added ...
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Romero's Dead to world premiere at CineVegas
George ARomero's Land Of The Deadwill receive its world premiere as the closing night picture at the upcomingCineVegas Film Festival in Las Vegas on Jun 18.Romero will also receive thefestival's 2005 Vanguard Director Award from Atmosphere Entertainment chairmanMark Canton, who produced the picture with Peter Grunwald and Bernie Goldmann.Horror fans ...
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Howard to receive Musuem of Moving Image salute
Ron Howard will be honoured by New York's Museum of the Moving Image atits 21st annual black tie salute on Dec 4, when friends andcolleagues will present highlight footage from the filmmaker's career."Ron Howard has played an essential role in the world of the moving image since he was a ...
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Kingdom Of Heaven embarks upon global crusade
The Kingdom Of Heaven global crusade begins this weekend as FoxInternational rolls out the historical epic on more than 7,000 prints in 97territories.Ridley Scott's picture opens in South Korea on May 4 on 289 prints, followed byGermany, Mexico and Australia on May 5 on 851, 540 and 365 respectively.Kingdom Of ...
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Walden lights up with The Dark Is Rising
For years Susan Cooper'sfantasy series The Dark Is Rising Sequencehas held young readers in its thrall, and now the property is bound for the bigfollowing an announcement by Walden Media that it has bought the rights.Marc Platt, whose credits include Legally Blonde and the Broadway musical Wicked, will produce the ...
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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 ...