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MercuryMedia on board for How Ohio Pulled It Off
UK-based MercuryMedia has added documentary How Ohio Pulled It Off to its sales slate.Ohio Filmmakers LLC produced the 57-minute documentary about election fraud in the US in 2004.Mercury's head of acquisitions Jason McGeown said: 'The relevancy of this film cannot be underestimated.'Mercury's slate also includes 9/11 conspiracy documentaries Loose Change: ...
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THINKFilm Intl boards Blue Valentine with Gosling, Williams
THINKFilm International has come on board to sell international rights to Blue Valentine, which will star Oscar nominees Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling.THINKFilm will introduce the film to buyers at Berlin's European Film Market next week. The project is set to shoot in June 2008.US-based sister company THINKFilm will handle ...
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Barker's Book Of Blood to be filmed by Matador, Midnight Picture Show
Matador Pictures and Midnight Picture Show are giving Clive Barker's horror story Clive Barker's Book Of Blood the big screen treatment.The project is the first in a series of planned collaborations between Midnight Picture Show and Matador Pictures to turn other Book Of Blood stories into features.Los Angeles-based Essential Entertainment ...
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Bersch takes over from Schlessel as president of SPWAG
Steven Bersch has been named president of Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) after the promotion of Peter Schlessel to president of worldwide affairs for SPE.Bersch, who comes to the studio from his position as chief operating officer at Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, will report to Schlessel.He will oversee ...
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Hartnett to take the lead in Snoot's martial arts action pic Bunraku
Snoot Entertainment, the four year-old LA-based production company behind Toronto Film Festival premiere Terra, has cast Josh Hartnett in martial arts action film Bunraku.The live action film is written and will be directed by Guy Moshe (Holly) and is the story of a a young man who has spent his ...
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Summit, Walden team on youth music drama Will
Walden Media and Summit Entertainment are continuing their long-standing relationship by agreeing to co-finance the fish-out-of-water story Will starring Liam Aiken, Vanessa Hudgens, Lisa Kudrow, Aly Michalka and Scott Porter. David Bowie is also in talks to join the film's cast.The music-oriented film, to be directed by Todd Graff (Camp) ...
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Gandolfini joins Jesse Martin in the cast of Sexual Healing
Sopranos star James Gandolfini will star with Jesse L Martin in in Sexual Healing, the story of the last years of singer Marvin Gaye which Gandolfini's company Attaboy Films.Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films will executive produce the film and handle international sales on the film which is budgeted in the $15m ...
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Nu Image/Millenium brings Conan, Dolph to Berlin
Nu Image/Millennium Films heads to next week's EFM in Berlin intent on drumming up international sales on the recently announced Conan The Barbarian, as well as the action thriller Direct Contact starring Dolph Lundgren.The slate includes the crime thriller Righteous Kill starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino that Overture ...
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IM Global takes on Michael Cera-starrer Not Our Class Dear
Michael Cera, red hot after the success of Juno and last summer's sleeper hit Superbad, will star opposite Sigourney Weaver in the comedy Not Our Class Dear.The $10m production is set to begin filming in Manhattan in April and is being produced by Denise Di Novi and Flagrant Films. Los ...
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Myriad picks up sales on Durst's feature debut Charlie Banks
Myriad Pictures has added Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst's feature film directorial debut The Education Of Charlie Banks to its EFM slate and will introduce it to buyers in Berlin next week.Jesse Eisenberg stars as a university student who is pursued by the bully who tormented him at high school. ...
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Jackson George joins Overture as vp of creative advertising
Jackson George has joined Overture Films as executive vice president of creative advertising and will oversee theatrical creative campaigns for the studio.Prior to Overture, George served as creative director at the theatrical advertising agency In Sync Advertising.During his eight-year tenure he worked on campaigns for more than 100 films, among ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes international on Sundance doc Flow
Celluloid Dreams has acquired international rights to Irena Salina's Sundance documentary Flow: For Love Of Water and will commence sales at EFM next week.Salina shot the film in 12 countries over the course of five years and explores water privatisation, hygiene and the impact of dam construction on local communities. ...
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Kristin Gallagher leaves Warner Bros for New Wave
Former Warner Bros Home Entertainment executive Kristin Gallagher has been appointed vice president of international development at marketing and production services company New Wave Entertainment.Based in Europe, Gallagher will act as international liaison between New Wave's US-based studio clients, while introducing the company's suite of services to the European community.New ...
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PPI's Cloverfield goes on rampage in 15 territories
Paramount's monster movie Cloverfield took a big hit in its second weekend in North America but has everything to gain overseas as it goes on the rampage in 15 territories through PPI this weekend. The film lands in Germany on Jan 31, followed by the UK, Mexico, Italy, Spain and ...
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Smith names evp of production finance at Paramount Pictures
Roderick Smith has been appointed executive vice president of production finance at Paramount Pictures and will report to president of feature production management Mark Bakshi.Smith will oversee day-to-day management of the production finance department including budgeting and cost estimating and will analyse production incentives and tax rebates for worldwide productions.Prior ...
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Linklater to shoot Me & Orson Welles starting Feb 24
Richard Linklater will start shooting Me & Orson Welles in England (Pinewood Studios and London locations), the Isle of Man and New York from February 24.Zac Efron and Claire Danes lead the ensemble cast for the coming-of-age romantic comedy set in the theatre world. The story follows a teenager who ...
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Ron Gell launches production and sales outfit G-Machine
Longtime producer, sales and acquisitions executive Ron Gell has launched Los Angeles-based sales and production outfit The G-Machine.Gell will arrive at next week's EFM with seven titles, among them the Cannes 2007 Directors Fortnight entry PVC-1 from Spiros Stathoulopoulas, which was shot in one continuous take. A terrorism thriller, it ...
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American Teen gets post-Sundance play at Miami Film Festival
Nanette Burstein's Sundance hit American Teen will get its first major screening outside Park City when it plays at the Miami International Film Festival on Mar 8.Paramount Vantage paid approximately $1m for worldwide rights excluding the UK to the story of four high school students who endure the ups and ...
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Lightning takes on sales for Pinkett Smith's directorial debut
Santa Monica-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment will introduce Jada Pinkett Smith's directorial debut feature The Human Contract to buyers at EFM next week.The Human Contract stars Jason Clarke and Paz Vega in the tale of a repressed advertising executive who embarks on a passionate affair that forces him ...
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New York Rendez-Vous with French cinema opens with Lelouch
The US premiere of Claude Lelouch's thriller Roman De Gare will open the 13th Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York on Feb 29.Fanny Ardant stars opposite Dominique Pinon as a bestselling author who is questioned by the police over similarities between her novels and the activities of a serial ...