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Eric Lagesse takes control of Pyramide Films
Eric Lagesse has taken a majority stake in French sales and distribution outfit Pyramide Films and will henceforth be the company's president.Fabienne Vonier, who owns the entirety of production company Pyramide Productions, will maintain a minority share in Pyramide Films.In mid-2005, Lagesse became managing director of Pyramide Films after having ...
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Eagle Pictures reveals first slate since Ben Ammar takeover
Eagle Pictures has announced the first titles to make up the 2008-2009 slate of the company since its take over last year by Franco-Tunisian financier Tarak Ben Ammar.Eagle Pictures head of acquisitions Maria Grazia Vairo told Screen the titles announced will be released in Italy, and in some cases will ...
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Universal Pictures ties up Family Bond
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Marc Platt Productions and Millar/Gough Ink's action comedy Family Bond.Jeff Lowell, who wrote John Tucker Must Die, will write the screenplayabout a spy and his relationship with his daughter.Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are producing for Marc Platt Productionsalong with Alfred Gough and ...
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Universal Pictures ties up Family Bond
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Marc Platt Productions and Millar/Gough Ink's action comedy Family Bond.Jeff Lowell, who wrote John Tucker Must Die, will write the screenplayabout a spy and his relationship with his daughter.Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are producing for Marc Platt Productionsalong with Alfred Gough and ...
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Gigantic picks up Dews documentary
Gigantic Releasing, the new distribution arm of New York-based Gigantic NYC, has acquired all North American and English-speaking rights to Morgan Dews' documentary, Must Read After My Death.The film will receive its US premiere on June 20 at the Los Angeles Film Festival and Gigantic Releasing plans to open it ...
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Lightning takes international rights to Shortcut
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has picked up internationalrights from Leomax Entertainment to the recently announced thrillerShortcut.Ingo Vollkammer's Leomax Entertainment is financing the film andco-producing with Adam Sandler's newly launched production label ScaryMadison.Nicholaus Goosen will direct from a script by Scott Sandler and DanHannon about two brothers who discover a strange ...
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Fortissimo picks up Baksy; Rezo sells Everybody to France
Fortissimo Films will handle international distribution on Guka Omarova's second feature Baksy (Native Dancer) which had its world premiere in competition at the Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Thursday night.The Russian-Kazakh-French-German co-production between the CTB Film Company, Kazakhfilm, Les Petites Lumieres, Kinofabrika, ...
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Icon takes UK, Australiarights to Transporter 3 from Europa
Icon Film Distribution (IFD) has acquired all UK and Australian rights to Transporter 3 from EuropaCorp.This third instalment of the franchise again stars Jason Statham in the lead, with Francois Berleand and Robert Knepper. Transporter 3 is directed by Olivier Megaton from a script written by Luc Besson and Robert ...
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Ealing's Cannes deals include Dorian Gray to Alliance Films
Ealing Studios International has reported a number of deals closed during Cannes Market.Oliver Parker's Dorian Gray, which was announced during Cannes, has been sold to Alliance Films for Canada, the UK, Spain, Italy and Scandinavia (releases will be handled by respective subsidiaries Alliance, Momentum and Aurum and partners Eagle and ...
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The Film Source picks up horror movie Deadwood Park
Alex Massis' Florida-based sales and marketing company The Film Source has acquired international rights to Eric Stanze's horror title Deadwood Park.William Clifton stars as a young man who returns to his home town in the hope of solving a decades-old mystery surrounding the killing of 26 children, one of whom ...
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Splendid's Cannes buys include Swing Vote, Unshakable
German distributorSplendid Film has acquired German-language rights for a raft of US features currently in postproduction or production.The Cologne-based company's spending spree at the market in Cannes saw Splendid picking up, among others:Joshua Michael Stern's family comedy Swing Vote, starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper and Kelsey Grammer Romantic comedy I ...
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German distributors announce Cannes sales
German distributors Kool Filmdistribution, Arsenal Filmverleih and Piffl Medien have unveiled a number of deals concluded during at the Cannes Film Festival.Freiburg-based Kool Filmdistribution acquired German rights to Belgian actor-director Bouli Lanners' tragicomic roadmovie Eldorado, which screened in the Directors' Fortnight and won the Europa Cinemas label for Best European ...
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EEAP acquires Saw 5, new Schweiger comedy
Berlin-based EEAP has secured Eastern European rights to Saw 5, the latest edition of the horror franchise, the Hilary Swank-starrer Betty Ann Waters, and Mike Judge's comedy Extract starring Jason Bateman.This is in addition to previously announced deals in Cannes for Last Chance Harvey, Traitor, and Love N'Dancing, among others.Meanwhile, ...
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Constantin dances with Step Up 3-D; Ascot takes Revolver
Constantin Film has secured the German-speaking rights toStep Up 3-D from Summit Entertainment after successfully releasing StepUp (over 620,000 admissions in Germany) and Step Up 2 The Streets (over900,000).The dance sequel is again being produced by Summit with TouchstonePictures, anf Offspring Entertainment and will be directed by Step Up2's Jon ...
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Icon takes UK rights forKen Loach's Looking For Eric
Icon Film Distribution has acquired UK theatrical and home entertainment rights to Ken Loach's new feature, Looking For Eric, shooting now on location in Manchester.Wild Bunch is selling the film, which came about through a series of conversations between Loach, writer Paul Laverty, footballer Eric Cantona and producer Rebecca O'Brien. ...
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Odeon Sky Filmworks takes on The Stone Of Destiny
Odeon Sky Filmworks has taken all UK rights to Charles Martin Smith's Stone Of Destiny from Arclight Films.Odeon Sky Filmworks head Tony Miller signed the deal with Arclight president Gary Hamilton.The comedy drama premieres at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on June 21.The cast features Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Robert ...
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CJ Entertainment wraps further Good Cannes deals
South Korea's CJ Entertainment has announced a raft of further deals from a busyCannes, led by the UK deal for Kim Jee-woon's 'Oriental Western' The Good, The Bad, The Weird to Icon Film Distribution.(Theformerly announced UK deal with Tartanwhen Cineclick Asia was handling the titlehadpreviously beencancelled.)Kim's homage to Sergio Leone's ...
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Focus creams off Cannes sales for Milk, Mendes comedy
Focus Features International has closed key UK deals at the tail end of a successful Cannes market for the sales operation.Sales chief Alison Thompson concluded business with Momentum on Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk feature Milk, which is in post-production and stars Sean Penn as the slain gay rights activist.Contender ...
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Lionsgate delivers Transporter 3 to North America
Lionsgate has picked up North American rights to Transporter 3 in which Jason Statham will reprise his action role as the tenacious former Special Forces operative turned delivery man Chev Chelios.The Transporter films, which launched in 2002, have to date grossed more than $130m worldwide and close to $75m in ...
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Bavaria takes on new Gronenborn, Haussmann films
Bavaria Film International has picked up worldwide distribution rights to new films by Esther Gronenborn and Leander Haussmann.Gronenborn's Kaifeck Murder, which is headlined by Benno Fuermann and Cannes competition jury member Alexandra Maria Lara, is a fictional story based on a real murder case from the small Bavaria village of ...