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Kino Lorber picks up Radio Unnameable
The North American deal predates the Sept 19 North American premiere at New York’s Film Forum, after which time the film will expand throughout the US and Canada.
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A24 takes US rights to Roman Coppola comedy
The first announced title on the fledgling company’s roster is A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III starring Charlie Sheen, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and Patricia Arquette.
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Casting round-up: Heat on The First, The Lost Tree
Michael Pitt and Ryan Simpkins have joined Poverty Row’s Mark Pickford biopic The First, which is set to begin shooting in 2013.
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Drafthouse Films acquires North American rights to Graceland
Ron Morales wrote and directed the Filipino crime saga about a desperate man at the centre of a kidnapping plot.
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TIFF unveils 16 participants for inaugural STUDIO initiative
The year-round programme for Ontario-based producers received more than 200 applications and participants will work with Canadian and international contacts to develop their film, television, interactive or transmedia projects.
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Telluride to screen Hyde Park On Hudson, Midnight’s Children
The 39th annual Colorado event has announced its annual line-up featuring the customary list of unofficial world premieres prior to or around the same time as their official outings in Venice and Toronto.
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Logan Mulvey, GoDigital
The CEO of digital distributor GoDigital talks to Screen about striking deals with film-makers to make the fast-evolving online space pay.
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CMG closes sales for Canadian 3D animation Sarila
Cinema Management Group chief Edward Noeltner announced the deals on Wednesday (29) heading into Toronto.
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Spidey adds $5.3m on second day in China
Sony Pictures Releasing International’s superhero stayed strong in his second day as the territory tally climbed to $10.7m.
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CBS Films prioritises The To Do List for Feb 14 2013
The company financed Maggie Carey’s comedy starring Aubrey Plaza from the acclaimed Sundance entry Safety Not Guaranteed. Sony will distribute in the UK, Mexico, Brazil and Scandinavia and Lionsgate handled remaining territory sales.
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Mister Smith carves out DreamWorks agency deal
David Garrett’s fledgling sales and financing entity has scored a major coup in its first year of operation, signing a pact to handle sales on the studio’s product for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Ryan Gosling to direct How To Catch A Monster
The star reunites with Bold Films and Marc Platt Productions from Drive and will direct that film’s co-star Christina Hendricks in the lead role. Sierra/Affinity will introduce to buyers in Toronto.
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Phase 4 takes North American rights to Eden
Megan Griffiths’ drama stars Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges and Matt O’Leary. Cinema Management Group handled international sales.Eden charts the story of a young woman kidnapped and forced to become a sex slave. It premiered at SXSW earlier this year.Griffiths and Richard B Phillips Jr co-wrote the screenplay based on a ...
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Michael Keaton cast as RoboCop villain
The actor will play Raymond Sellars in the upcoming reboot from MGM and Columbia Pictures.
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Scott Steindorff, Exclusive Media strike sales pact
Steindorff’s Stone Village Productions affiliate Scott Pictures has launched Scott Pictures International (SPI) under an exclusive three-year partnership with Exclusive Media and announced Natalie Portman action project Jane Got A Gun.
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BiteSize Entertainment options Elvis Presley project
The film will be called Growing Up Graceland based on David E Stanley and Dr David Gruder’s book Conversations With The King: Journals Of A Young Apprentice.
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Double Dutch International enters House Of Last Things
The Canadian-based sales agency and international sales division of Double Dutch Media has boarded worldwide rights to Michael Bartlett’s thriller.
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Spidey, Batman make waves on shared opening day in China
Both films launched on Monday (Aug 27) and the results are strong: The Amazing Spider-Man grossed an estimated $5.46m through Sony Pictures Releasing International while Warner Bros Pictures International reported a $4.45m debut for The Dark Knight Rises.
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Warner Bros signs first-look deal with Gulfstream Pictures
Mike Karz and Bill Bindley’s new production and financing company leads off with The Nut Job and is backed by what the studio said was a “multi-million-dollar” development fund from South Korean 3D stereoscopic Redrover Ltd and US private equity.
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DKR climbs to $520m at international box office
Warner Bros top brass confirmed weekend results on Monday (27) and said The Dark Knight Rises grossed $16m from 7,200 screens in 62 markets for a $520m international running total.