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NewsGerry Noble steps down as Peace Arch Group CEO
Gerry Noble has resigned as Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc’s CEO, effective immediately.
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NewsPeace Arch to bring Oh My God to Cannes
Peace Arch Entertainment has acquired international rights to Oh My God, Peter Rodger’s documentary in which celebrities, religious leaders and ordinary people discuss their perception of god.
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SPC chiefs Michael Barker and Tom Bernard extend Sony contracts
Sony Pictures Classics co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard have extended their contracts with Sony Pictures Entertainment for a further four years.
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E1 expands first-look deal with Christian Larouche
E1 Entertainment is expanding its first-look deal with Montreal production and distribution executive Christian Larouche through the launch of a new subsidiary, Les Films Christal.
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NewsRachel Weisz to star in political thriller The Whistleblower
Rachel Weisz will star as a Mid-Western police officer who exposes a United Nations cover-up in post-war Bosnia in the political thriller The Whistleblower.
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NewsMatch Factory picks up Cannes-bound Kinatay
Germany’s The Match Factory has picked up international rights to Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay, which has been selected to screen in competition at Cannes.
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NewsJavier Diez de Polanco leaves Prisa
Javier Diez de Polanco, head of film and TV at Spanish media group Prisa, has left the company.
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Features
The Infidel
An identity crisis comedy centered on Mahmud Nasir, successful business owner and salt of the earth East End Muslim who discovers that he’s adopted - and Jewish.
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NewsScreen Australia agrees to finance Reef, Swerve
Screen Australia has agreed to finance Andrew Traucki’s thriller The Reef, about four friends being stalked by a Great White shark, and Swerve from writer-director Craig Lahiff.
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NewsImagina picks up new Woody Allen for Cannes
Spanish sales outfit Imagina has obtained the sales rights to Woody Allen’s new project and will present it for the first time to distributors at Cannes.
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NewsAV Pictures boards Freight
AV Pictures has taken on international sales of Stuart St. Paul’s Freight, which is currently in post production.
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Content picks up The Details
ContentFilm International has picked up international sales rights to The Details.Written and directed by Jacob Estes, The Details stars James McAvoy, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney and Anna Friel. Content will be introducing the film to buyers at Cannes next week.The Details tells the story of a couple whose domestic strife ...
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Bavaria completes Cannes slate
Bavaria Film International has added genre titles Ole Bornedal’s Deliver Us From Evil and Jonathan auf der Heide’s Van Diemen’s Land to its sales slate for this year’s Cannes.
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NewsLocarno reveals 2009 jury line-up
The Locarno International Film Festival has announced the first names for this year’s official juries. The Swiss festival takes place between August 5 – 15 this year.
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Image, Universal Music Group sign distribution deal
Image Entertainment has signed a five-year deal with Universal Music Group to distribute music and music-related urban programming in Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
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Jonathan Hensleigh to direct mob story The Irishman for Code
Code Entertainment has hired Jonathan Hensleigh to direct the true-life crime story The Irishman starring Ray Stevenson, which Lightning Entertainment will introduce to buyers in Cannes next week. ICM and Jonathan Dana represent North American rights.
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Fantastic Films boards Michael Madsen thriller Outrage for Cannes
Roxane Barbat and Fred deWysocki’s Fantastic Films International have boarded worldwide rights to the thriller Outrage starring Michael Madsen.
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NewsMPCA adds Tim Allen comedy Crazy On The Outside to Cannes slate
Los Angeles-based MPCA has added Tim Allen’s directorial debut Crazy On The Outside to its Cannes slate in which Allen stars alongside Sigourney Weaver, Ray Liotta and Jeanne Tripplehorn.
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NewsIM Global bulks up for Cannes with Protection, The Company Men and Bitch Slap
Stuart Ford’s IM Global continues to assemble a diverse Cannes slate with three new titles headed by the action thriller Protection starring Paul Walker.