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AFM: Southwick, CDI team up for international businessAFM: Southwick, CDI team up for internaitonal business
BradSouthwickC;s Southwick Pictures anddistributor Chris Davis International have teamed up to produce and distributepictures worldwide, kicking off with five projects at AFM.Leadingthe slate are the $1m horror titles Final Curtain and Perfect Face, which areboth in pre-production and are currently out to casting.FinalCurtain takes place in a small town where ...
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Genre house New Arc launches
Live action and animationgenre production house New Arc Entertainment launches at AFM with a slate ofpictures including an anthology of 13 one-hour titles from horror veteransincluding John Carpenter and George Romero.John W Hyde is named chiefexecutive officer of New Arc. Hyde is also chief operating officer of IDTEntertainment, which will ...
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Armada sells domestic rights to teen horror pic to Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films has picked up North American distribution rightsto Armada Pictures and D H Blair Pictures' teen horror project Drive Thru, which is due to begin principalphotography in January.Armada Pictures International will begin international sales at AFMthis week on the project, which is being directed and is written by ...
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Hotel Rwanda booked into Spain, other territories, by Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films International has announced a raft of sales on HotelRwanda, Terry George'sToronto Audience Award winning drama starring Don Cheadle.Thepicture has sold to On Pictures in Spain, LNK for Portugal, Audio Visual forGreece, Shaw Renters for Singapore, Eagle Films for the Middle East, Box OfficeEntertainment for Thailand and New ...
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Southwick, CDI team up for international business
BradSouthwickC;s Southwick Pictures anddistributor Chris Davis International have teamed up to produce and distributepictures worldwide, kicking off with five projects at AFM.Leadingthe slate are the $1m horror titles Final Curtain and Perfect Face, which areboth in pre-production and are currently out to casting.FinalCurtain takes place in a small town where ...
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Myriad takes worldwide rights to true-life drama Dark Matter
Myriad Pictures has picked up worldwide rights in all mediato the true-life drama Dark Matter starring Meryl Streep,Greg Kinnear and Chinese star Liu Ye, who stars in Chen Kaige's ThePromise .Filming is scheduled to begin in spring 2005 in Utah andChinese opera director Chen Shi-Zheng will make his feature directorial ...
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New Films turns producer on The Mermaids Singing
LosAngeles-based distributor New Films International is moving into productionwith the announcement that it is co-producing an adaptation of Lisa CareyC;sromantic novel The Mermaids Singing starring Jessica Lange,Neve Campbell and Evan Rachel Wood.New FilmsInternational will retain all worldwide distribution rights to the $10mproject, which is due to begin filming in Eastern ...
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Kaplan named as US rep for Romanian studio
Monella Kaplan, who recently served as associate producer on Edison, has been named US representative ofKentauros Studios and Production, the new Romanian full-service productionfacility backed by a group of international investors.Kentauros, which will accommodate features, television andcommercial shoots, has aligned itself with such industry partners as Italy'sPanalight/Panavision, Phillip Tellez Construction ...
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fox21 to sponsor Slamdance's Teleplay Competition
SlamdanceFilm Festival has announced the year-round sponsorship of fox21, 20thCentury FoxC;s boutique production, kicking off at the upcoming festival inJanuary with the Blind Script Deal award for the winner of the TeleplayCompetition Grand Prize.Slamdanceset up the original teleplay competition to discover new voices in televisionwriting. The recipient of the Blind ...
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Genre house New Arc launches at AFM
Live action and animationgenre production house New Arc Entertainment launches at AFM with a slate ofpictures including an anthology of 13 one-hour titles from horror veteransincluding John Carpenter and George Romero.John W Hyde is named chiefexecutive officer of New Arc. Hyde is also chief operating officer of IDTEntertainment, which will ...
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AFM: New Films turns producer on The Mermaids Singing
LosAngeles-based distributor New Films International is moving into productionwith the announcement that it is co-producing an adaptation of Lisa CareyC;sromantic novel The Mermaids Singing starring Jessica Lange,Neve Campbell and Evan Rachel Wood.New FilmsInternational will retain all worldwide distribution rights to the $10mproject, which is due to begin filming in Eastern ...
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Southwick, CDI team up for international business
BradSouthwick's Southwick Pictures anddistributor Chris Davis International have teamed up to produce and distributepictures worldwide, kicking off with five projects at AFM.Leadingthe slate are the $1m horror titles Final Curtain and Perfect Face, which areboth in pre-production and are currently out to casting.FinalCurtain takes place in a small town where ...
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Lions Gate, Twisted set Saw 2 for Halloween 05
Lions Gate Filmsand Twisted Pictures have announced plans to release Saw 2 over Halloween 2005 following the horrorpicture Saw's mighty$18.3m weekend debut.Saw opened in third place and averaged morethan $7,900 on 2,315 screens, ranking behind the second place opening of Ray and Columbia's The Grudge, which stayed top in its ...
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Alien Vs Predator has strong French opening for Fox
Fox International's AlienVs Predator raised its internationalrunning total by an estimated $6.9m on 1,780 screens in 18 markets to $40.5m atthe weekend.The action horror pictureopened on $3.3m on 568 in France for an unconfirmed top five ranking, and openedtop in at least four markets including South Africa, Finland, Venezuela andIceland.The ...
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Neverland scores in UK, The Village in Italy for BVI
Finding Neverlandopened in fourth place in its first international market of the UK at theweekend, grossing an estimated $1.4m on 324 screens through Buena VistaInternational (BVI).Mystery TheVillage opened top inItaly on $3.2m on 302. Overall it amassed $3.5m at the weekend for a $136.1minternational running total.The PrincessDiaries 2 opened top ...
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UIP local pickup Seven Dwarfs a smash with $12.5m opening
UIP's German pick-up and family comedy Seven Dwarfs dominated the German market at theweekend, opening top on a superb estimated $11.3m on 752 screens for 53% marketshare.UIP executives said yesterday (31) this was the third biggestopening weekend of the year in Germany behind (T)Raumschiff Surprise's $15.4m and Harry Potter And ...
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Horizon brings One Missed Call 2 to AFM
Vancouver-basedinternational sales company Horizon Entertainment is handling worldwide saleson Kadokawa Pictures' Japanese horror feature One Missed Call 2.Horizon is bringing firstfootage of the film to next week's AFM in Santa Monica. The picture is currentlyin post-production and will open in Japan in early 2005.One Missed Call 2 picks up from ...
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White Chicks raises international total by $2.6m in 24 markets
Revolution Studios' comedy White Chicks raised its international running totalby $2.6m on 1,500 screens in 24 markets to $24.2m at the weekend throughColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI). The picture hasgrossed $25.3m to date through all distributors.Mystery The Forgotten added $1.8m on 718 in eight markets for $6.5m through CTFDI ...
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Jeunet's Engagement dominates French box office with $8.7m
Following its mighty opening day last Wednesday (27), A VeryLong Engagement remainedtop throughout the French holiday weekend as it grossed an estimated $8.7m(Euros6.8m) through Warner Bros Pictures International and drew 1.1millionadmissions.The film, co-produced by Warner Bros France, TapiocaFilms and TF1 Films Production, went out on roughly 700 prints.The wartime epic ...
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Shimizu follows US hit The Grudge with The Death
Takashi Shimizu, riding highafter the sensational US launch of his English-language horror feature TheGrudge, will begin filming LionsGate International's third J-Horror picture The Death in March 2005 in JapanLions Gate Internationalretains worldwide distribution on The Death and launched the J-Horror franchise with Japaneseproducer Taka Ichise in Cannes this year.The first ...