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Japan's Artport snaps up heist thriller Chaos
Mobius International has sold the heist thriller Chaos starring Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe and WesleySnipes to Artport in Japan.Written and directed by Tony Giglio, the story involves twodetectives who team up to solve a $1bn-plus bank robbery and uncover a powerfulconspiracy.The company's president of international distributionMimi Steinbauer and Artport's James ...
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Christopher Lambert set for Day Of Wrath
Christopher Lambert is set to star as a 16th century Spanishdetective in the thriller Day Of Wrath,which Mark Lester's American World Pictures has acquired for worldwidesales.'I play this sheriff whoinvestigates a series of murders that are going on around the time of theSpanish Inquisition,' Lambert told Screen duringa brief stop ...
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Tartan, TLA team on Skin flick
Tartan Films USA and TLA Releasing have jointly acquiredNorth American rights to Gregg Araki's drama Mysterious Skin.The deal for the controversial film was brokered by TartanFilms USA chief executive officer M J Peckos and John Sloss of Cinetic Media.Tartan and TLA plan a May 2005 theatrical release with DVDset to ...
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First-look deal puts Focus on Africa
Focus Features has signed a first-look deal with independentproducer Kisha Imani Cameron and her Completion Films.Focus has also announced an initiative to nurture African cinema,with Cameron, currently in post production on HBO Films' Rwandan drama SometimesIn April, serving as aproject consultant.Focus president of production John Lyons and his team will ...
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Lions Gate locks up trio for North America
Lions Gate Films has finalized its deal for North American theatrical and pay TV distribution rights to A Good Woman. In separate deals, the noticeably acquisitive indie also secured all North American rights to Uwe Boll's video game horror adaptation Alone InThe Dark as well as to Gianni Amelio's Le ...
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Comic veterans take on animation series
IDT Entertainment's New Arc Films and comic book legendStan Lee, Gill Champion and Arthur Lieberman's POW! Entertainment have signedtwo veteran comic book writers for the first two animated features in asix-title deal.Marv Wolfman will write El Lobo, the story of a physically handicappedheir to a billion-dollar fortune who is protected ...
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Paris Hilton goes Bottom's Up for Blue Collar
Paris Hilton is in talks tostar in the satire BottomC;s Up, which actor Paul Walker isproducing with his Blue Collar Films partner Brandon Birtell along with HalfMoon Bay and Cameo FJ Entertainment.The story centres on aseemingly witless Midwestern bartender whose Hollywood connections confoundeveryone he encounters.Walker will take a cameorole in ...
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Paris Hilton goes Bottom's Up for Blue Collar
Paris Hilton is in talks tostar in the satire Bottom's Up,which actor Paul Walker is producing with his Blue Collar Films partner BrandonBirtell along with Half Moon Bay and Cameo FJ Entertainment. Gibraltar International is selling the film at AFM.The story centres on aseemingly witless Midwestern bartender whose Hollywood connections ...
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Echo Bridge enters US distribution
Los Angeles-based independent Echo Bridge Entertainment isentering the domestic distribution market with two titles, the family drama WhenZachary Beaver Came To Town and the Tobe Hooper horror feature Mortuary.Echo Bridge plans to release four to six wide andspeciality titles a year, with managing partners Michael Alexander, DougHamilton, Michael Rosenblatt and ...
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Lightning strikes on documentary hit
Los Angeles-based sales and distribution house LightningEntertainment has acquired international rights to What The Bleep Do WeKnow'Bleep centres on a woman's Alice in Wonderland-like journeythrough the molecular portals of life and is a Captured Light presentation of aLord of the Winds Films Production.Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, Barry Newman and Robert ...
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Bogeydom takes worldwide sales on Canadian hit Camping Sauvage
Toronto-based international sales company Bogeydom Licensing ishanding worldwide sales on the comedy Camping Sauvage, Canada's biggestrelease of 2004 that grossed CA$4.3m ($3.6m) in Quebec since opening in 100theatres on Jul 9.Produced by Tony Roman for Cine Roman and Lyse Lafontaine forLeyla Films, Camping Sauvage opened in Quebec through Alliance AtlantisVivafilms ...
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The Grudge embarks upon wide UK debut
Horror remake The Grudge, which opened in the US through Columbia Pictures, goes out wide through UIP in theUK on Nov 5 on 400 prints in what looks likely to be a muscular debut following its strong Stateside launch.Thepicture also opens in Mexico on the same day and can expect ...
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LGFI handles international sales on Frankenstein
Lions Gate Films International will handle international sales on Frankenstein,which makes its market screening premiere at AFM and stars Thomas Kretschmann, ParkerPosey and Vincent Perez.The project was directed by Marcus Nispel, whose recent creditsinclude the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.The Mary Shelley adaptation relocates the action to present-dayNew Orleans, where a ...
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Studios target individuals in war on piracy
The MPAA fired its latestvolley in the war against piracy yesterday, announcing that it will commence legalaction against individuals who trade in illegal digital copies of films overthe internet."Illegal movie traffickingrepresents the greatest threat to the economic basis of moviemaking in its110-year history," MPAA president and chief executive officer Dan ...
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Leon named consumer marketing czar for Columbia
George Leon has been promoted to executive vice presidentof worldwide consumer marketing for Columbia Tristar Motion Picture Group in amove that consolidates theatrical licensing, merchandising, product placement,consumer products and worldwide promotions under one division.In his new capacity Leon will take on the additionalresponsibility of supervising licensing, merchandising, and consumer products,a ...
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US' Millennium strikes deal with producer Haft
Avi Lerner's MillenniumFilms has signed a five-picture production deal with veteran producer StevenHaft, whose credits include Dead Poets' Society, Tigerland and Emma.The non-exclusive agreementprovides his Haft Entertainment with funds to attach talent and producepictures with foreign distribution through Millennium's Nu Image. Titles areexpected to be in the $15m-$45m range."We are ...
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Samuel Goldwyn picks up Saint Ralph for US
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquiredUS distribution rights to Michael McGowan's comedy Saint Ralph, produced by Alliance Atlantis and Amaze Film +Television Production. The US release is scheduled for spring 2005.Campbell Scott, AdamButcher, Jennifer Tilley and Gordon Pinsent star in the bittersweet comedyabout a Catholic schoolboy who attempts to save his ...
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Plague to start with Barker, Armada
CliveBarker's Midnight Picture Show label (MPS) and Armada Pictures are teaming upto produce the horror picture Plague, which is set to begin shooting inFebruary 2005.Barker,Jorge Saralegui and Tim O'Hair will produce and Armada's Chris Sievernich andMatt Milich will serve as executive producers with MPS's Joe Daley and AnthonyDiblasi and D ...
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US' Millennium strikes deal with producer Haft
Avi LernerC;s MillenniumFilms has signed a five-picture production deal with veteran producer StevenHaft, whose credits include Dead PoetsC; Society, Tigerland and Emma.The non-exclusive agreementprovides his Haft Entertainment with funds to attach talent and producepictures with foreign distribution through MillenniumC;s Nu Image. Titles areexpected to be in the $15m-$45m range."We are ...
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fox21 to sponsor Slamdance Teleplay Competition
Slamdance Film Festival hasannounced the year-round sponsorship of fox21, 20th Century Fox'sboutique production, kicking off at the upcoming festival in January with theBlind Script Deal award for the winner of the Teleplay Competition Grand Prize.Slamdance set up theoriginal Teleplay Competition to discover new voices in television writing. Therecipient of the ...