All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 993
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Bleiberg closes UK, China on There Be Dragons
Bleiberg Entertainment has licensed Roland Joffe’s epic There Be Dragons to key territories including Stealth Media in the UK and HIG in China.
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NewsPhase 4 picks up Canadian rights to Red State
Kevin Smith’s genre thriller premiered at Sundance and centres on a group of teenagers who fall into the clutches of an evangelist and his sinister army of followers.
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FeaturesLiza Johnson
Artist turned film-maker Liza Johnson makes her feature debut with Return, a portrait of her hometown in Ohio starring Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon and Tim Blake Nelson, which is screening in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.
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NewsATO signs North American deal for Moll thriller The Monk
EXCLUSIVE: Memento Films International handles sales.
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NewsBeyond The Black Rainbow attracts Magnet for US
EXCLUSIVE: Magnet has picked up US rights and Mongrel Media has acquired Canada from XYZ Films to Panos Cosmatos’ sci-fi thriller Beyond The Black Rainbow.
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NewsCannes buyers flock to Pompeii, End Of Watch, Great Hope Springs
A revitalised Cannes market has translated into sell-outs on key titles as buyers flocked to Summit International’s Pompeii and Tarzan 3D, Exclusive Films International’s End Of Watch and Lionsgate’s Great Hope Springs.
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Salzgeber gets the Jitters for Germany
Raven Banner has licensed German rights to Baldvin Z’s teen drama Jitters to Salzgeber, which plans to release the film in 50 cities.
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CommentMoney talks
Screen chats to director Roger Donaldson, who is in Cannes to promote his new film, Cities, which begins shooting in September.
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Industrial prepares J-horror shoot Haunted Temple
Eric Bassett’s LA-based Industrial Entertainment is lining up a Japan shoot with Neal Edelstein and Mike Macari and Shinya Egawa formerly of Kadokawa Pictures on horror project Haunted Temple, which genre specialist J T Petty will direct.
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Recreation Media, DPS form post-production alliance
Los Angeles-based sales company Recreation Media has signed a partnership with post-production laboratory Digital Post Services (DPS) to offer complete post finding for select projects.
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NewsNu Image cuts German deals for Texas Chainsaw, Wedding
EXCLUSIVE: Nu Image has licensed all German-speaking rights on Constantin Film to Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D and closed a deal with Telemunchen for Robert De Niro comedy The Big Wedding.
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Magnet Media signs three-film deal with Prime Focus
Jeanette Buerling’s LA-based finance and production house Magnet Media Group has closed a three-film deal with effects company Prime Focus and will shoot all three in Germany in association with MMC Studios.
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NewsCross Creek hires Russell Gewirtz to write Black Mass
EXCLUSIVE: Brian Oliver’s Cross Creek Pictures has hired Inside Man screenwriter Russell Gewirtz to write Black Mass, a $35m project about the unholy alliance between the FBI and the Boston mob.
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Summit swoops on Snitch for US rights
Summit Entertainment will release Snitch starring Dwayne Johnson in the US, it emerged in Cannes on Monday afternoon [16].
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NewsWeinsteins circling domestic deal on The Wettest County
The Weinstein Company is understood to be close to acquiring domestic rights on John Hillcoat’s The Wettest County.
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Summit, RCR team up to co-finance Highlander
Summit Entertainment and Beverly Hills-based RCR Media Group will co-finance the Highlander reboot, it emerged today [16].
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NewsMiramax, Netflix unveil streaming agreement
Miramax CEO Mike Lang has wasted little time cutting deals to exploit the library here on the Croisette and has announced a streaming agreement with Netflix to start in June.
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NewsDominic Purcell joins cast of Vikingdom, Epic Pictures closes deals
Patrick Ewald’s Epic Pictures Group licenses a host of deals on slate
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NewsJuno Temple joins Brass Teapot for Northern Lights
EXCLUSIVE: White hot Juno Temple and Michael Angarano will star in The Brass Teapot, a darkly comic morality tale packaged by Gersh Agency that TF1 is selling internationally and is being fast-tracked for a July start in New York.
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CMG hits stride on Croisette with diverse slate
EXCLUSIVE: Ed Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has closed deals on zombie slacker film Deadheads with Eagle for Australia and New Zealand, Splendid for Germany and Benelux and Front Row for the Middle East.