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NewsLightning strikes on The Pack
Lightning Entertainment has come on as financing and production partner on Nick Robertson’s Australia horror The Pack and will introduce in Cannes.
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NewsFortissimo takes Last Summer, Atlantic
Fortissimo Films has added two Last Summer from Italy and Atlantic from the Netherlands to its Cannes slate.
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NewsFilm4 unveils diverse Cannes slate
Upcoming features starring Michael Fassbender and Jude Law will be taken to market alongside a wave of titles that include first time filmmakers, documentaries and shorts.
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NewsKano names NYAFF centrepiece
The North American premiere of Umin Boya’s Kano has been selected as the Centerpiece selection for this year’s New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), set to run from June 27–July 14.
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NewsCinedigm picks up Bunyan And Babe
The distributor has acquired North American rights to Exodus Film Group and Toonz Entertainment’s film featuring the voice talent of John Goodman, Kelsey Grammer and Jeff Foxworthy.
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NewsIndustry moves: Legendary, Sundance Selects
Legendary Entertainment has announced three promotions, while separately Steven Cardwell has joined Sundance Selects/IFC Films.
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NewsSierra to produce Highsmith thriller
Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel, Imogen Poots and Toby Jones have joined the cast of the Untitled Patricia Highsmith film that Sierra/Affinity will take to Cannes. CAA represents US rights.
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NewsMax Steel sells for Dolphin, IM Global
Dolphin Films International and IM Global have announced sales for Max Steel, the live-action feature based on Mattel’s superhero property that launched at the EFM in Berlin.
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NewsEmptying The Skies sells for Submarine
Submarine has sold all US rights excluding TV to Douglas Kass’ documentary Emptying The Skies to Music Box Films and has licensed Canadian rights to Films We Like.
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NewsDianne Wiest, Rosie Perez board Maine
Dianne Wiest and Rosie Perez have joined David Oyelowo in the upcoming Five Nights In Maine. CAA represents US sales.
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NewsOccupant’s The Woods starts shoot
Joseph Mawle (pictured) and Bojana Novakovic star in the horror tale that has begun production in Ireland. Altitude Films Sales will introduce the project in Cannes.
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NewsRon Perlman launches Wing
Seeking to create “a haven for the artists that I love and admire”, the actor has launched production company and film fund Wing And A Prayer Pictures and will attend Cannes to introduce the venture.
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NewsSND boards A Perfect Man
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based SND is reuniting with Yves Saint Laurent producer Wassim Béji and star Pierre Niney on Yann Gozlan’s psychological thriller A Perfect Man, about a writer who rips off a dead soldier’s diary as his own work.
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NewsOpen Road acquires The Gunman
Open Road has taken a major independent production off the table, acquiring US rights to StudioCanal’s action thriller by Pierre Morel starring Sean Penn.
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NewsThe Exchange sparks to Electric Sky
CEO Brian O’Shea has added 3D documentary Under The Electric Sky to his Croisette war chest and will start talks with buyers next week.
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NewsHistory Of Fear triumphs at SFIFF
Benjamín Naishtat’s History Of Fear (pictured) won the New Directors Prize and a $10,000 cash prize as the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival came to a close (7).
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NewsWitherspoon, Vergara in MGM, New Line caper
The studios will partner on the upcoming Untitled Reese Witherspoon/Sofia Vergara Comedy.
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NewsTWC acquires 'Sunshine Girl'
Weinstein Books and The Weinstein Company have acquired the film and publishing rights ton adapted from the hit YouTube web series of the same name.
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NewsContent’s Speeds moves ahead
Leif Tilden’s Life At These Speeds starring Douglas Booth, Billy Crudup, AnnaSophia Robb and Sam Rockwell will start production in autumn and Content will introduce to Cannes buyers.
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NewsDavid Reckziegel to leave eOne
The president of North American Films will depart effective May 31 to launch a media finance venture.