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Pop star Rain drops into Speed Racer cast
Pan-Asian pop star Rain has joined the cast of the Wachowski brothers' upcoming Speed Racer, Warner Bros announced here.Rain, aka Jung Ji-hoon, made his big screen debut in Park Chan-wook's Berlinale competition title I'm a Cyborg but That's Okay. He is to play an young contender in Speed Racer, which ...
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Bold, The Orphanage to produce supernatural action thriller Legion
Bold Films, the LA-based production company behind Bobby, is teaming with visual effects outfit The Orphanage to produce Legion, a supernatural action thriller about a group of strangers stranded in a desert truck stop that bands together to stop an army of demonic creatures bent on fulfilling an age-old prophecy ...
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Vantage/PPI to handle international distribution on Overture titles
Paramount Pictures has confirmed rumours that Paramount Vantage and Paramount Pictures International (PPI) will handle international sales and distribution of the Overture Films slate. Overture will have access to Vantage's newly installed international sales division as well as PPI's global distribution apparatus. The new deal complements the domestic organisation that ...
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Nguyen promoted to Warner Bros International senior VP of operations
Jack Nguyen has been promoted to senior vice president of operations at Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI). Nguyen is a 17-year veteran of the studio and supervised the studio's distribution activities during a period of intense growth across the Asia-Pacific region. Nguyen joined the studio in 1990 as ...
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Zodiac, Shrek open in pre-Pirates international lull
The lull between the global assaults of Spider-Man 3 and next week's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End continues this weekend, though the debut of Zodiac and the Russian opening of Shrek The Third could produce some new action in the international marketplace. David Fincher's acclaimed Zodiac, with ...
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Echo Bridge takes on The Cry and The King
Echo Bridge Entertainment has boarded Bernadine Santistevan's thriller The Cry and Riding With The King, an account of life on the road with Elvis Presley.The Cry takes place in New York City and is based on the Latino myth of La Llorona, which holds that men who cheat on their ...
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De Niro, Pacino back together again in Righteous Kill
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino will star together in the crime thriller Righteous Kill, a $60m production that signals Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films' most grandiose project to date.Jon Avnet will begin a two-month shoot in August in Connecticut on the story, which pairs the iconic stars as detectives ...
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Universal launches ambitious international production division
Universal Pictures has formally announced its international production plans, confirming the appointment of Christian Grass as president, production for Universal Pictures International (UPI) and signing a local production and distribution deal with Russian director Timur Bekmambetov and his Bazelevs Productions.In addition, the studio has announced the first Brazilian title in ...
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Pete Seeger to open, Arctic Tale to close Silverdocs
Jim Brown's Pete Seeger: The Power Of Song and Sarah Robertson's Arctic Tale booked the 2007 Silverdocs festival, which runs in Maryland from Jun 12-17.Pete Seeger: The Power Of Song weaves the life and music of Pete Seeger, and the growing impact of American folk music into an account of ...
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American World Pictures adds One Long Night and Triloquist
American World Pictures (AWP) has spiced up its Cannes sales slate with the comedy-thriller One Long Night starring Alison Eastwood, Karen Black and Ed Begley Jr, along with horror title Triloquist. David Siqueiros directed the tale of a young Mexican-American businessman from California whose life is transformed during a night ...
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Cinemavault takes rights to Made In Jamaica
Cinemavault Releasing International has acquired foreign rights to Made in Jamaica, which screens in Cannes official selection in the Cinema De La Plage section on May 25. Jerome Lapperousaz directed the Lawrence Pictures and Herold & Family production, which explores the roots of reggae and its rapid growth into a ...
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Foundas and Hoberman join NYFF selection committee
The 45th New York Film Festival, which will take place Sept 28 to Oct 14 this year, has added two new members to its selection committee - US critics Scott Foundas and J Hoberman. They join The Film Society Of Lincoln Center's Richard Pena and Kent Jones and Entertainment Weekly ...
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Voltage takes on Alan Rickman starrer Nobel Son
Voltage Pictures has acquired international rights to the crime caper Nobel Son starring Alan Rickman that premiered recently at Tribeca. Director Randall Miller and CAA's Roeg Sutherland negotiated the deal with Voltage sales chief Nicolas Chartier, who will commence sales on the Croisette. Chartier also announced that James Cromwell has ...
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CMC boards Chen Kaige's biopic of opera singer Mei Lanfang
Taiwan's CMC Entertainment has boarded Chen Kaige's upcoming biopic of Chinese opera singer Mei Lanfang as co-producer alongside China Film Group. Leon Lai and Zhang Ziyi are being lined up to star in the $15m film which is tentatively scheduled to start shooting in July. Mei, who was famous for ...
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Horizon to represent four films from Irreverent Media
Horizon Motion Pictures has signed a deal to represent four projects from Irreverent Media Ltd (IML) in Cannes as executive producer and co-producer seeking sales, distribution and co-production partners.The quartet is headed by The Light-House, a story starring Kevin Zegers and William Hurt that is said to be inspired by ...
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Morgan's KMI to sell Kevin Costner comedy Swing Vote
Kathy Morgan's Los Angeles-based sales agency KMI arrives on the Croisette buoyed by the acquisition of the Kevin Costner comedy Swing Vote.Costner will play a beer-guzzling layabout whose precocious 12-year-old daughter triggers a chain of events that renders her father's ballot the deciding vote in the upcoming Presidental Election.The situation ...
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Killer unveils production slate, first project with THINKFilm
Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler's Killer Films, which produced tomorrow's Quinzaine entry Savage Grace, has unveiled its new project slate including its first title with THINKFilm following the two companies' recent finance and distribution partnership.THINKFilm will handle international sales on The Electric Slide, the story of Eddie Dodson, one of ...
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Becker, Binder sign for films at Damon's Foresight
Mark Damon's Foresight Unlimited has boarded the $15-20m serial killer thriller Hangman with Harold Becker set to direct and $9m Franz Kafka adaptation Metamorphosis starring Daniel Bruhl, Anna Paquin and Stephen Rea.The slate includes Mike Binder's upcoming $20m comedy-drama Emperor Of Michigan, $11m horror remake It's Alive, and the $15m ...
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THINKFilm International boards Schmidt's horror Bad Meat
THINKFilm International has boarded Tiger Aspect Pictures' upcoming tongue-in-cheek horror film Bad Meat and is commencing sales here in Cannes.Rob Schmidt is attached to direct the story based on Paul Gerstenberger's screenplay about a group of teenage delinquents who get more than they bargained for when they arrive at a ...
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Vantage sells first movie Marc Pease Experience at Cannes
Paramount Vantage, which is launching its international sales division in Cannes, has introduced its first picture to buyers - The Marc Pease Experience, a comedy starring Ben Stiller and Jason Schwartzman which has just wrapped. Todd Louiso (Love Liza) directs and co-wrote the film which tells the story of a ...