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Focus promotes Kujawski, Stewart as Spencer steps down
Focus Features has promoted Peter Kujawski (pictured) to senior vice president of international sales and Gabrielle Stewart to manager of international sales.Kujawski steps up from vice president to replace Tim Spencer - who is leaving the film business to pursue other opportunities - and has been with the company since ...
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Insurer Fireman's Fund opens new London office
Feature film insurance company Fireman's Fund is expanding by opening a London office. The office will offer film underwriting to European production companies.Ian Mercer, an insurance executive with 20 years of experience in the UK and US, will head the new office, located on Leadenhall Street.Fireman's Fund will work with ...
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Children's Orchestra, Enemigos Intimos among LALIF official lineup
The North American premieres of Paulo Thiago's Brazilian drama The Children's Orchestra and Fernando Sarinana's Mexican drama Enemigos Intimos are among the line-up at the 12th annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF), set to run from September 12-19.The roster includes the US premieres of Issa Lopez' Mexican comedy ...
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Jamie Babbit to direct Breaking The Girl for Myriad
Principal photography is set to commence in Vancouver in November on Myriad Pictures' erotic thriller Breaking The Girl with Brittany Snow in talks to star.Jamie Babbit will direct from a story by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner about a young college woman's disastrous plot to kill a rival student.Myriad is ...
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Strand takes US rights to Terence Davies' Of Time And The City
Strand Releasing has picked up US rights from Hanway Films to Terence Davies' Of Time And The City.The Hurricane Films production premiered at Cannes and receives its North American premiere here on Sunday [Sept 7]. Davies narrates a deeply personal tribute to his home town and uses archival footage and ...
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Paul Allen's Vulcan to make film on life of George Washington
Paul G Allen's Vulcan Productions has signed Nicholas Meyer to write a screenplay about the life of George Washington.Nick Wechsler is attached to produce with Richard Hutton and Michael Caldwell on behalf of Vulcan.'Washington was the indispensible man, the physical embodiment of America's revolutionary ideals and identity,' Allen said. 'As ...
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Fiennes to direct River Road's Coriolanus in Serbia
River Road Entertainment will film a modern-day version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus in Serbia. Ralph Fiennes will direct and play the lead in the film and was part of a USAID group that evaluated Serbia as a location for shooting this film in July.The film is a tragedy based on the ...
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Regent buys Mendoza's Serbis for US from Fortissimo
Regent Releasing has acquired North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Filipino film-maker Brillante Mendoza's drama Serbis, which will get its North American premiere here.Serbis follows the exploits of a Filipino family that runs a dilapidated porn theatre and was the first Filipino film to play in competition in Cannes ...
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Production begins on The Butterfly Effect: Revelation
Production has begun in Detroit on BenderSpink, FilmEngine and After Dark Films' sci-fi thriller The Butterfly Effect: Revelation.Chris Carmack stars as a young man who travels back in time to track down the killer of an old love and winds up unleashing a serial killer on an unsuspecting world. Rachel ...
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Paramount Vantage picks up sales rights to Jordan's Ondine
Paramount Vantage has boarded international sales on Neil Jordan's fantasy romance Ondine starring Colin Farrell, Stephen Rea and Alicja Bachleda and will commence pre-sales here.The film is currently shooting in Ireland and stars Farrell as a fisherman who catches a woman from the sea whom his daughter believes is a ...
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Goldwyn acquires US rights to Rachel Samuels' Dark Streets
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Rachel Samuels' stage adaptation Dark Streets, which won a special jury prize at CineVegas earlier this year.Gabriel Mann, Bijou Phillips, Izabella Miko, Elias Koteas and Toledo star in the tale of a 1930s playboy and nightclub owner caught in a love triangle ...
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Toronto International Film Festival news and reviews
The latest news and reviews from Screen's team at the Toronto International Film Festival.Updated daily Toronto StoriesUpdated daily Toronto Reviews Updated daily Toronto Sales
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North American premieres of Lake Tahoe, Desert Within at AFI FEST
The world premiere of Danny Ledonne's Playing Columbine and the North American premieres of Margarita Jimeno's Gogol Bordello Non-Stop, Rodrigo Pla's The Desert Within and Fernando Eimbcke's Lake Tahoe are among the first 15 titles announced for the AFI FEST 2008, set to run in Los Angeles from October 30-November ...
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Lisa Wilson moves from Hyde Park to Graham King's GK Films
Lisa Wilson has segued from Hyde Park International to a new role as president of international distribution at Graham King's GK Films.Wilson will commence work spearheading the company's worldwide sales operations on September 22 and will begin talking to international buyers about the Emily Blunt costume drama The Young Victoria, ...
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David Glasser joins Weinsteins as president of international
David Glasser has left Syndicate Films International to join The Weinstein Company (TWC) as president of international, filling the slot vacated by Glen Basner who departed the company recently after a three-year stint.Glasser joins and will oversee the recently promoted duo of Michael Rothstein, executive vice president of international sales ...
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Vadim Perelman to direct MGM's relaunch of Poltergeist
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) has signed Vadim Perelman to direct its forthcoming relaunch of the Poltergeist franchise.Perelman previously directed House Of Sand And Fog and The Life Before Her Eyes and is currently working on AMC drama pilot Ice.Cale Boyter, Executive Vice President, Production and Luke Ryan, Vice President, Production, are overseeing ...
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Arthouse strikes multi-territory deal for Rem Koolhaas documentary
New York-based distributor Arthouse Films has acquired all English-speaking territories and French rights to documentary Rem Koolhaas - A Kind Of Architect.Markus Heidingsfelder and Min Tesch direct the feature-length film about the famed architect.The deal was negotiated by David Koh and Lilly Bright on behalf of Arthouse Films and Curiously ...
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Mazur, Mitchell Kaplan option Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Society
Nim's Island writer-producer Paula Mazur (pictured) and Miami-based bookseller Mitchell Kaplan have launched The Mazur/Kaplan Company by optioning feature rights to Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows' drama The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Society.The story takes place in the island of Guernsey in 1946 after liberation from the Nazis ...
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Papamichael's From Within joins After Dark Horrorfest in Jan 2009
After Dark Films' CEO Courtney Solomon has unveiled the fifth entry in next year's third annual After Dark Horrorfest and said the event will run from January 2-9, 2009.Phedon Papamichael's horror tale From Within joins the preliminary 8 Films To Die For line-up following its world premiere at Tribeca last ...
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Freestyle Releasing acquires domestic rights to Delgo
Freestyle Releasing has acquired North American rights to Fathom Studios' CG animated film Delgo and will release in theatres on December 12.Delgo takes place in a fantasy world where an adventurous teenager and his friends rally to save their planet from internecine warfare. Fathom Studios president Marc F Adler co-directed ...