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Payne moves Sideways
Alexander Payne's next project will see the acclaimed director move from Nebraska, where his first three films were set, to California. Payne is adapting an as-yet unpublished novel called Sideways by Rex Pickett and will direct the ensuing film which as yet is not set up at any company. A ...
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Hartnett moves into L'Appartement remake
Josh Hartnett will star in and Paul McGuigan will direct Lakeshore Entertainment's Wicker Park, the remake of Gilles Mimouni's French drama L'Appartement which starred Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci and Romane Bohringer. Brandon Boyce has written the screenplay to the film. The long-gestating film is now scheduled to start production in ...
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First Look takes Luther International
First Look Media has acquired international rights excluding Germany to Luther, a biopic of Martin Luther currently shooting in central Germany, Bavaria, Italy and the Czech Republic with Joseph Fiennes playing the title character.Alfred Molina, Peter Ustinov and Bruno Ganz co-star in the film which is directed by Eric Till ...
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UA bowled over by Bowling For Columbine
United Artists (UA) has acquired US rights to Michael Moore's gun control documentary Bowling For Columbine, marking the first domestic deal of this year's festival. The studio division of MGM beat out a clutch of distributors bidding for the film including Miramax and Fine Line, paying a reported $1.5m.The deal ...
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Miramax, TF1 play up European film push
"We're not coming here to make Spider-Man," said an ebullient Harvey Weinstein, as he unveiled a ground breaking alliance with France's TF1. "This is about fostering European film and European talent."Patrick Le Lay, TF1 chairman and chief executive, presented the partnership as a two step-deal involving the creation of a ...
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Miramax, TF1 play up European film push
"We're not coming here to make Spider-Man," said an ebullient Harvey Weinstein, as he unveiled a ground breaking alliance with France's TF1. "This is about fostering European film and European talent."Patrick Le Lay, TF1 chairman and chief executive, presented the partnership as a two step-deal involving the creation of a ...
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Kidman's Pleasure project tops MDP/Neverland deal
Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide and its investor/partner Neverland Pictures have entered into a first look production deal with hot LA management and production outift Handprint Entertainment which numbers Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez among its clients.The first film under the arrangement is The Sixteen Pleasures which will star Kidman as ...
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Kidman's Pleasure project tops MDP/Neverland deal
Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide and its investor/partner Neverland Pictures have entered into a first look production deal with hot LA management and production outift Handprint Entertainment which numbers Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez among its clients.The first film under the arrangement is The Sixteen Pleasures which will star Kidman as ...
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Menemsha takes on controversial Turkish film Hejar
LA-based Menemsha Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights excluding Turkey to the controversial Turkish film Hejar directed by Handan Ipekci. The film, which was the Turkish submission for last year's Academy Awards, was a breakthrough hit and scored 100,000 admissions before being banned for its "chauvinistic portrayal of the Turkish-Kurdish relationship."The ...
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Sony Pictures Classics takes US on Owning Mahowny
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US rights to Owning Mahowny, the new film from Richard Kwietniowski from Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group. The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver and John Hurt. The film is inspired by the true story of a junior level bank executive with a secret ...
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Hollywood majors wade into indie buying territory
The Hollywood majors are wading into the marketplace to pick up the slack left by the TV crisis in Europe, with a slew of deals closed in recent days that leaves sales companies sighing with relief but independents out in the cold.Paramount Pictures alone has just acquired rights in Italy ...
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Hollywood majors wade into indie buying territory
The Hollywood majors are wading into the marketplace to pick up the slack left by the TV crisis in Europe, with a slew of deals closed in recent days that leaves sales companies sighing with relief but independents out in the cold.Paramount Pictures alone has just acquired rights in Italy ...
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Buyers plunge into Cameron's Abyss
Summit Entertainment has concluded a wave of sales on Walden Media's Ghosts Of The Abyss, James Cameron's ground-breaking 3-D large screen documentary exploring the wreckage of the Titanic. Telepool took the film for Germany, Buena Vista International (BVI) for the UK, UGC for France and Belga Films for Benelux. Gaga ...
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Vortex takes international rights to Scala's Leopold
Vortex Pictures, the international sales and finance outfit, set up by Nicolas Chartier and Dean Shapiro, has acquired international rights to Leopold, the latest picture from Nik Powell's Scala Productions directed by Mehdi Norowzian and starring Joseph Fiennes, Elisabeth Shue, Sam Shepard, Dennis Hopper, Deborah Kara Unger, Mary Stuart Masterson ...
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Raimi teams with Senator for low-budget genre label
Sam Raimi, whose Spider-Man is set to become one of the biggest grossing films in history, has teamed with Joe Drake's Senator International to launch a genre label producing "intelligently budgeted" horror, sci-fi and fantasy movies - returning Raimi to his low-budget horror roots of The Evil Dead.Senator will fully ...
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Raimi teams with Senator for low-budget genre label
Sam Raimi, whose Spider-Man is set to become one of the biggest grossing films in history, has teamed with Joe Drake's Senator International to launch a genre label producing "intelligently budgeted" horror, sci-fi and fantasy movies - returning Raimi to his low-budget horror roots of The Evil Dead.Senator will fully ...
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Korenberg quits Fox to set up Traction Media
Rosanne Korenberg, the well-known acquisitions executive from 20th Century Fox, has left the studio to form repping, production and consulting company Traction Media with LA-based entertainment boutique law firm Stone, Meyer & Genow.The venture will represent finished films seeking North American distribution as well as packaging and producing projects. "We're ...
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Hartnett signs onto FilmEngine pair
Superstar-in-waiting Josh Hartnett has signed to two new films from FilmEngine, the production and finance outfit set up by AJ Dix, Anthony Rhulen and Bill Shively, which made previous Hartnett-starrer O. He will star and co-produce action/adventure Wish You Were Here and has joined Johnny Depp, Nick Nolte and Benicio ...
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Taewon six-picture deal kicks off busy market for Miramax
Miramax International closed a six-picture deal with Taewon Entertainment in Korea at the end of last week, kicking off a Cannes market which worldwide distribution chairman Rick Sands is anticipating as a busy one.Sands's sales drive is focused around a new package of pictures including Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things, ...
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Taewon six-picture deal kicks off busy market for Miramax
Miramax International closed a six-picture deal with Taewon Entertainment in Korea at the end of last week, kicking off a Cannes market which worldwide distribution chairman Rick Sands is anticipating as a busy one.Sands's sales drive is focused around a new package of pictures including Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things, ...