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NewsW2 boards The Drummer with Aaron Eckhart
The distribution, sales and financing company will commence pre-sales at AFM on the Dennis Wilson biopic after stumping up a seven-figure advance for rights.
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NewsEndgame launches p&a fund to support wide releases
Jim Stern’s financing and production company has announced its long-in-the-works fund, partnering with equity investors, third-party producers and studios to provide marketing and distribution support for wide release Endgame and third party titles such as Rian Johnson’s 2012 sci-fi Looper.
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NewsFilmNation scores major deals on The Raven, House
CEO Glen Basner announced at AFM on Thursday (3) that the company has virtually sold out its first two productions, The Raven and House At The End Of The Street.
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NewsCelluloid's Chicken runs to SPC
Celluloid Dreams has closed a slew of territories on Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Chicken With Plums, including a deal for US and Latin America with Sony Pictures Classics.
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NewsSony strikes multi-territory deal for Winterbottom's Bailout with Ealing Metro
Ealing Metro has struck a multi-territory deal with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) on Michael Winterbottom’s Bailout to star Jack Black [pictured].
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NewsTransformers, X-Men's Tom DeSanto joins Chinese Gods project
Tom DeSanto, whose credits include X-Men and Transformers, has signed on to join the production team of US-China co-produced fantasy trilogy Gods.DeSanto will join Taipei and LA-based producer Steve Chicorel and Beijing-based Chen Baiyi as producer. He will lead produce and have approvals over all creative aspects of the trilogy. ...
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NewsAnchor Bay takes US on Ten Year, Well Go snaps up Taiwan Oscar bid
Anchor Bay has paid low seven figures for all US rights to the high school reunion film Ten Year starring Channing Tatum and Rosario Dawson.
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NewsPeter Webber to direct Emperor for Fellers, Krasnoff/Foster
Webber is in pre-production on the story which takes place in the days after the Japanese surrender in world war two.
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NewsFreestyle Releasing launches VoD platform at AFM
Freestyle Digital Media will offer filmmakers a new digital platform and through a cloud-based service will enable DVD distribution across retail rental sites, kiosks, by-mail, subscription streaming, pay-TV and specialty markets like airlines, hotels and cruise ships.
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NewsWild Bunch picks up Geoffrey Fletcher debut Violet & Daisy
Wild Bunch is introducing the film to buyers this week at the AFM.
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NewseOne takes over Vivendi's home entertainment business in Canada
Labels include Navarre, Classic Media, National Geographic boosting doc and genre share.
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Alexandra Cocean promoted to Lightning vp of int’l sales
The executive previously served as director of international sales and will now handle sales for Asia, Eastern Europe, CIS, Turkey, Greece, Australia and New Zealand and Africa.
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King, American Idiots on Eclipse slate for Bradley Reiko
Reiko Bradley is at the AFM representing a packed sales slate for Eclipse International let by Eyes Of The King and American Idiots.
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NewsForesight Unlimited to sell Nicole Kidman-starrer My Wild Life
Mark Damon’s sales and financing company will kick off talks with international buyers this week on Mandalay Pictures’ $35m My Wild Life starring Nicole Kidman and to be directed by Phillip Noyce.
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NewsMarket gets underway with slew of hot sales prospects
AFM kicks off today [Nov 2] with a number of commercial draws led by heavyweights like Summit’s Louis Leterrier heist project Now You See Me, IM Global’s gangster thriller Dead Man Down with Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace and Lionsgate’s supernatural shocker Flight 7500.
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Weinsteins closing on domestic rights to Song For Marion
Vanessa Redgrave, Terence Stampl, Gemma Arterton and Christopher Eccleston star in the story about a grumpy old man who joins an unconventional choir and in the process learns to embrace life.
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NewsVillage Roadshow's China venture working with Zhang, Chow
Village Roadshow Entertainment Group (VREG) has unveiled details of its new China operation, including a slew of partnerships and projects with talent including Zhang Ziyi and Stephen Chow [pictured].
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NewsBusan West Asian Festival to be bookended by The Host 3D, AfterShock
North American premieres for Korean hit Leafie and Filipino drama Nino, Bong Joon-ho to attend
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NewsFilmNation adds two more Malick projects to AFM line-up
Lawless will star Ryan Gosling, currently drawing heat for his performances in Drive and The Ides Of March, alongside Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Bale and Blanchett will also star in Knight Of Cups.
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Universal announces first-look deal with Angle Films
Angle Films is the new company jointly owned and operated by Paul Brooks’ Gold Circle Films and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions.