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Martha Marcy producers ready drifter tale The Low Road
Maybach Cunningham, the California-based production company behind with Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene, is preparing its third feature to shoot this year.
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CBS leaps for Salmon Fishing; buyers hot on Next, Oranges
Lasse Hallstrom’s well received Toronto premiere Salmon Fishing In The Yemen appeared bound for CBS Films on Sunday night after the distributor reportedly put an MG of around $4m on the table and not more than $5m as originally believed.
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The Day collaborators to adapt Afraid for Gold Circle
Producer Guy Danella and writer Luke Passmore, whose Midnight Madness entry The Day screens for press and industry on Monday at 10am, are adapting Jack Kilborn’s action horror novel Afraid for Gold Circle Films.
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Myriad adds Rob Lowe political satire Knife Fight to sales slate
Myriad Pictures has come on board to handle international sales on Bill Guttentag’s political satire Knife Fight starring Rob Lowe, Julie Bowen and Jamie Chung.
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One-two for Participant as Contagion opens top on £23m
Participant Media were celebrating a one-two punch this weekend as the company co-financed both the number one opener Contagion and ongoing hit The Help.
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Los Angeles office head Dana Archer promoted to evp at DDA
Dana Archer has been promoted to evp of publicity powerhouse DDA PR as she moves closer to a full partnership at the company.
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Crime Scene unites with Nick Wechsler on Man With A Gun
Gambit producers Adam Ripp and Rob Paris of Crime Scene Pictures and Wechsler will produce the Western thriller about an enigmatic loner on the road to redemption.
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Take Shelter takes top prize at Deauville
Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter wins Grand Prize. Matthew Gordon’s Dynamiter picks up Jury Prize. Tony Kaye’s Detachment nabs festival’s new Revelation award.
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The G-Machine broadens distribution platform with GoDigital pact
LA-based production and sales company The G-Machine has signed a deal with digital platform GoDigital Media Group.
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Baxter Brothers, Cinemad Presents launch distribution partnership
The micro independent distributors will distribute features and documentaries in theatres, museums, universities festivals “and any other venue that can project images on a screen.”
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Sammy Hadida eyes Golgo 13 manga franchise
Hadida’s Davis Films is lining up a potential manga franchise after acquiring film rights to the iconic Japanese property Golgo 13 from master Takao Saito.
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Robert Zemeckis to direct Denzel Washington in Flight for Paramount
Shooting on the redemption drama is scheduled to start in October in Atlanta, Georgia
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TIFF co-founder Henk Van der Kolk sets up new festival in Panama
TIFF co-founder Henk Van der Kolk has started work on the new International Film Festival Panama (set to kick off April 11-17, 2012).
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Angel Entertainment takes stake in Union Pictures
Saskatoon-based Angel Entertainment Corporation acquired a minority ownership in Toronto-based Union Pictures.
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Sundance Selects takes North American rights to Beloved
Christophe Honore’s Cannes closing night gala screens inToronto and stars Catherine Deneuve, Ludivine Sagnier, Paul Schneider and Milos Forman.
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CMG, Triggerfish lure Samuel Jackson, Jeff Goldblum to Zambezia
Samuel L Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Abigail Breslin and Leonard Nimoy have joined the voice cast of Triggerfish Animation Studios and Cinema Management Group’s (CMG) 3D film Zambezia.
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Universal acquires UK rights from Little Film to Spud
The Little Film Company has closed deals on its children’s film Spud led by Universal acquiring all UK rights.
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Searchlight takes US rights to Steve McQueen's Shame
Toronto 2011’s first domestic acquisition is for the acclaimed sex addiction drama starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan.
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Image swoops on Beneath The Darkness, All Things Fall Apart
Image Entertainment has announced a pair of acquisitions in Toronto, taking all North American rights to thriller Beneath The Darkness and all US on All Things Fall Apart. The distributor plans theatrical releases on both followed by ancillary roll-out.
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Samuel Goldwyn acquires North American rights to Vreeland doc
The distributor is eyeing a 2012 release for Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, the wife of late icon’s grandson