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New Films International extends Latin American deal with MGM
New Films International (NFI) and MGM Television Group have extended their Latin American output deal by five years.Under the deal MGM will have the right to distribute 70 films from NFI's library as well as any titles produced or acquired during the life of the agreement.The two most recent NFI ...
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Film Source acquires Urban's Preaching To The Perverted
Alex Massis' Florida-based Film Source has acquired Stuart Urban's cult 1998 film Preaching To The Perverted.Preaching To The Perverted is an erotic romp though the underground world of British fetish clubs and tells of a computer geek who is dispatched by moral crusaders to infiltrate and gather evidence against London's ...
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TWC pacts with Bob Marley's widow for reggae biopic
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has teamed up with Rita Marley and producer Rudy Langlais on the adaptation of Marley's autobiography No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley.Production will most likely begin in the first quarter of 2009 in Jamaica and other locations in time for a late 2009 ...
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Away From Her sweeps the board at Canada's Genie Awards
Debut filmmaker Sarah Polley wore out her boots at the 2008 Genie Awards Monday night. The director and screenwriter of Away From Her and her collaborators made their way to the podium seven times in the evening, picking up every major award including Best Picture for producers Daniel Iron, Simone ...
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Alison Lohman takes lead role in Raimi's Drag Me To Hell
Alison Lohman has replaced Ellen Page in Ghost House Pictures and Mandate Pictures' upcoming supernatural thriller Drag Me To Hell.Page exited the project at the weekend due to scheduling conflicts. Lohman will now star as an ambitious career woman who gets cursed by a witch.Sam Raimi will begin directing on ...
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Canadian filmmakers denounce proposed law as censorship
Canada's film and television community is up in arms amidst the revelation of proposed federal legislation that could potentially retract a production's tax-credit eligibility after the fact. Under changes to Bill C-10 introduced by the minority Conservative government, the Income Tax Act would deny a production company its tax credit ...
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LA distributors rep Orange launches film finance division
Mirjam Wertheim's LA-based distributors' rep Orange Entertainment is branching out into film financing through a new division called Orange Film Finance and a first-look deal with Goldcrest Independent.In addition to its existing business, Orange will also serve as a consultant to independent producers helping them secure finance for films by ...
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Vantage Point takes $11.5m for SPRI, but Fox's Jumper is still top
Fox International's sci-fi adventure Jumper triumphed over a strong challenge from Sony's assassination thriller Vantage Point to stay atop the overseas charts for the third consecutive weekend as a $12.8m estimated haul saw the tally vault to $81.9m.Jumper remains active on 4,067 screens in 44 markets and the weekend highlight ...
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Ellen Page drops out of Raimi's Drag Me To Hell
Ellen Page has exited Ghost House Pictures and Mandate Pictures' upcoming horror film Drag Me To Hell due to scheduling conflicts caused by a change in the production start date.Sam Raimi is preparing to direct the tale he co-wrote with his brother Ivan about an ambitious career woman who gets ...
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US box office down with lacklustre Semi Pro opening for New Line
Box office fell for the third consecutive week as the Will Ferrell comedy Semi Pro, New Line's final release before it merges with Warner Bros, launched at number one on a lacklustre $15.3m.This wasn't as good as openings for Ferrell's previous sporting spoofs- Blades Of Glory last year ($33m) and ...
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Telefilm Canada greenlights new films from Villeneuve, Scott
New films from Denis Villeneuve, Sylvain Guy and Ken Scott have been approved through Telefilm Canada's French-language arm. In all seven pictures received a total of $7.13m (C$7m) out of 31 applications. Villeneuve, who has not made a feature since 2000's Maelstrom, returns to the screen with Incendies, his adaptation ...
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Bohm promoted at NBC Universal International TV Distribution
Pauline Bohm has been promoted to senior vice president of marketing at NBC Universal International Television Distribution (NBC UITD).Rachel Mansson has been promoted to vice president of the marketing for the division's international new media unit. She is based in London and reports to Los Angeles-based Bohm.Bohm will continue to ...
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Dano and Deschanel star in Gigantic for Killer, Epoch
Principal photography on the Killer Films and Epoch Films comedy Gigantic starring Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman and Jane Alexander is set to commence in New York on Mar 3.Mindy Goldberg of Epoch and Christine Vachon of Killer Films are producing and first-timer Matt Aselton will direct from a ...
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Jason Isaacs joins Damon, Kinnear in Greengrass' Iraq thriller
Jason Isaacs has joined the cast of Paul Greengrass' untitled Green Zone thriller for Working Title Films and Universal Pictures.Based on the non-fiction book Imperial Life In The Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the film is set in and around the Green Zone, the base of operations for US troops ...
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SPRI opens Vantage Point in 12 markets including Germany, Italy
Fox International's sci-fi romp Jumper will be looking to stay on top of the overseas charts but the film will face stiff competition this weekend.The film launches in Italy on 250 screens and currently stands at more than $61m internationally.The biggest threat to Jumper's reign will come from Sony Pictures ...
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Mike Leigh to receive Directing Award at San Francisco in May
Mike Leigh, riding high following the enthusiastic critical response to Happy-Go-Lucky at the Berlinale, will receive the inaugural Founder's Directing Award at the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from Apr 24-May 8.The Founder's Award will be presented to Leigh at the Film Society Awards Night benefit gala ...
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Shaye & Lynne quit as New Line is folded into Warner Bros
New Line's run as an autonomous production, marketing and distribution entity came to an end today as Time Warner announced that going forward the studio would operate as a slimmed down unit of Warner Bros and that New Line's co-chairmen and co-CEOs Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne were leaving the ...
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Noeltner's CMG picks up Mexican drug cartel doc Drug Wars
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has acquired worldwide sales rights to Renavatio Productions' Drug Wars.Gary A Fleming Jr's documentary explores the world of Mexican drug cartels and features first-hand accounts from victims, law enforcement officers, border patrol guards and former FBI agents.Noeltner brokered the deal with producer's rep Page ...
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Highmore signs to voice Astro Boy for Imagi Studios
Freddie Highmore has signed to voice the title character in Hong Kong and Los Angeles-based Imagi Studios' CGI animated feature Astro Boy.Based on Osamu Tezuka's manga creation, which was serialised on television in the 1960s, 1980s and again in 2003, Astro Boy centres on a young robot's odyssey to gain ...
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Universal strikes four year financing deal with Relativity Capital
Relativity Capital, a brand new investment partnership between Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media and New York-based hedge fund Elliot Associates, has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to co-finance a significant portion of Universal's slate - approximately 45 films - through 2011.This will be the first deal in which Relativity acts ...