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Milk, Slumdog, Bashir march onwards with WGA Award wins
Milk and Slumdog Millionaire were the big winners at the Writers Guild Of America's 2009 awards at the weekend.Dustin Lance Black took the original screenplay prize for Milk while Simon Beaufoy kept the Slumdog Millionaire bandwagon going with a win in the adapted category based on Vikas Swarup's novel Q ...
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Costa gets into Brazilian rhythm with Anderson, Barreto
Eduardo Costantini's Buenos-Aires-based Costa Films is making a concerted push into Brazil, mounting a $9m music drama to be directed by Brad Anderson and co-produced by Spain's Filmax and Rio-based Bananeira Filmes, as well as partnering with the Barreto family to make a biopic of current Brazilian president Lula Da ...
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White Lightnin' team sign with WMA for worldwide
The team behind Sundance hit and Berlin Panorama title White Lightnin' - UK director Dominic Murphy and producers Mike Downey and Sam Taylor - have signed a worldwide representation deal with William Morris Agency for themselves and their associated companies. Aside from sourcing material for Murphy, the agency's independent division ...
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Rendez-Vous hosts world premiere of Techine's Girl On The Train
The 14th edition of Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York will screen 18 films during The Film Society Of Lincoln Center and Unifrance's annual showcase from March 5-15.The world premiere of Andre Techine's social drama The Girl On The Train is in the line-up, along with the US premiere ...
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AMediaVision announces slate led by Reach For Me
AMediaVision Projects has announced a slate of films led by the recently completed drama Reach For Me starring Seymour Cassel and Alfre Woodard.Cassel stars as a hospice patient who reflects on his decision to live out his life in peace as his roommate chooses to celebrate his dying days. Johnny ...
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Greg MacGillivray shoots documentary about surfing culture
Greg MacGillivray is shooting a documentary examining 50 years of surfing culture in cinema with particular emphasis on the troubled production of John Milius' 1978 Big Wednesday.The untitled project will draw from archival material ranging from Thomas Edison's first Hawaiian surfing footage in 1906 to excerpts from iconic imagery from ...
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Celluloid to handle sales on Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut
Celluloid Dreams has signed on to handle international sales of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut,Jack Goes Boating,billed as an unconventional romantic comedy.
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Pathe seals deals on Frears' Cheri with Lumiere, Nordisk
On the eve of EFM, Pathe International announced deals on two major territories for Stephen Frears' Cheri which screens in competition here on Feb 10. Lumiere has taken the film for Benelux and Nordisk for Scandinavia.The film, written by Christopher Hampton from Colette's novel stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Felicity ...
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Barnz signs on to direct edgy romance Beastly for CBS Films
Daniel Barnz has signed on to direct the edgy romance Beastly for CBS Films.
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Wild Bunch arrives in Berlin with auteur-packed sales slate
Wild Bunch comes to Berlin this year boasting new projects from both seasoned and fresh talent - and has a few special events up its sleeve.In casting news, Kate Hudson, Elias Koteas, Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty have joined the previously announced The Killer Inside Me, a $13m adaptation of ...
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IM Global Acclaim seals 26 presales on Miller's Pippa Lee
As US specialty buyers prepare for the world premiere of Rebecca Miller's official selection comedy drama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee on February 9, IM Global Acclaim has reported strong international sales.Icon has taken rights for the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Tri Pictures has acquired in Spain, CDI ...
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NewsBenjamin Button strides into major markets two weeks before Oscars
MGM/UA’s wartime thriller Valkyrie has been the leading Hollywood export through Fox International for the past two weekends and has raced past $40m, but without any new releases Fox Internationalwill look to strong holdover business to maintain momentum.
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Ewan McGregor, Carey Mulligan team for The Electric Slide
Myriad Pictures has come aboard to finance and handle international sales on Killer Films and Di Bonaventura Pictures' The Electric Slide with Ewan McGregor and Sundance discovery Carey Mulligan in talks to play the leads.Tristan Patterson will direct from his screenplay based on Timothy Ford's article The Yankee Bandit: The ...
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Kunath promoted to evp, general manager at Screen Gems
Screen Gems has promoted Pamela Kunath to executive vice president and general manager and charged her with overseeing all operations and administration across all areas of the studio's business.In her expanded role Kunath, who joined Screen Gems shortly after its inception in 2001, will continue to head the company's business ...
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Fichman to be key instructor at TAP in Berlin and Halifax
Canadian producer Niv Fichman (Blindness, Silk) will be on hand as the senior resource instructor at Trans Atlantic Partners International Coproduction: Focus Europe and Canada (TAP), scheduled for June and September in Berlin and Halifax.The two-part training program for Canadian and European producers is a joint initiative of Halifax's Strategic ...
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Wild Bunch launches 3D label kicking off with Oceans
Wild Bunch is going 3-D. The French sales, distribution and financing outfit will create a new label, Wild Bunch 3-D, under which 3-D films will be distributed and sold. The new arm is to kick off with Oceans 3-D Into The Deep from filmmaker brothers Jean-Jacques and Francois Mantello and ...
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Robert Redford and TerryGilliam projects spark up at Voltage Pictures
Nicolas Chartier's high-flying Los Angeles financing and sales company Voltage Pictures arrives at EFM with its most prestigious slate to date led by new work from Robert Redford and Terry Gilliam.Chartier is in Berlin to introduce buyers to Robert Redford's romantic thriller The Company You Keep that is ready to ...
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Vantage International gets lucky with 13 sales
Paramount Vantage International has closed major sales on 13, Gela Babluani's star-studded English language remake of his 2005 French crime picture 13 Tzameti that just wrapped principal photography in and around New York.Senior vice president of international sales Alex Walton arrives at the EFM having completed sales to Icon for ...
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AFI Dallas hosts three documentary world premieres
Fifteen features will screen at the AFI DALLAS 2009 set to run from March 26-April 2, including three documentary world premieres of Justin Wilson’sOne Nationabout human rights, Libby Spears’ sex trafficking talePlaygroundand and John Chester’sRock Propheciesabout an obsessive concert photographer.The US premieres are Robert Keener’s documentary Food Inc, Matt Aselton’s ...
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Sundance Channel buys packages of docs from Arthouse Films
The Sundance Channel has acquired a package of arts documentaries for broadcast from Arthouse Films' current and upcoming slate.David Koh, Lilly Bright, and Stanley Buchthal negotiated the deal on behalf of Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment with Sundance Channel's senior vice president of acquisitions and programming Christian Vesper and ...