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Fabrication lands Presidio on space station project Almaz
Fabrication Films has sold Christian Johnson’s fact-based space station disaster film Almaz Black Box to Presidio in Japan following the premiere screening on the first day of the market.The film centres on events in 1998 when a Russian military space station carrying three crew members and two Western observers crashed ...
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Black Book producer Maltha plans new WWII project with Isabella
Following his success with Black Book, producer San Fu Maltha is tackling another World War II-themed project. Maltha's company Fu Works is to partner with Els Vandevorst's Isabella Films on a film adaptation of bestseller, Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter), by former Dutch politician Jan Terlouw.The film tells the story of ...
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Lumina strikes The Workshop deal with UK's Revolver
In the run-up to Cannes, increasingly aggressive UK distributor Revolver has been on a buying spree.Among a handful of titles it has picked up in recent weeks is Jamie Morgan's provocative documentary The Workshop, one of the buzz titles at last month's Tribeca Festival. (Lumina is selling the film in ...
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Carnaby crawls into the Doghouse with Jake West
London-based Carnaby International has picked up worldwide rights to Jake West's comedy horror picture Doghouse, it was announced in Cannes.The company will introduce the project, due to shoot in the autumn, to buyers during the Cannes market.Also making its market debut is Welsh comedy, Bridge Of Lies, from Bafta-winning director ...
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Lionsgate bites Jinga's werewolf film Wild Country
New UK sales company Jinga Films has closed a North American deal with Lionsgate for Craig Strachan's Scottish horror project Wild Country.Creative Axa has taken Japanese rights. Peter Capaldi and Martin Compston star in the film, which twists the werewolf genre with a teen pregnancy angle.Jinga's slate also includes thriller ...
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Intramovies takes on sales for Olmi's One Hundred Nails
Italy's Intramovies has picked up international sales rights to One Hundred Nails, Palm d'Or winning director Ermanno Olmi's last feature to which is being represented in Cannes Tribute section.Olmi, who has now presented five films at Cannes won the Palme d'Or for The Tree of Wooden Clogs in 1979.One Hundred ...
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Heavyweight sales for KM's 200 Pounds Beauty
Korean sales company KM Culture has sold cosmetic surgery romantic-comedy 200 Pounds Beauty to Amuse, Inc. for Japan, M Pictures for Thailand, Vietnam Media for Vietnam, and AOE for Malaysia. The Amuse deal in particular is good news after last year's huge slump in Korean sales to Japan. Lee Sang-mi, ...
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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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First Sun takes shine to remake of Argento's Suspira
New Italian production outfit First Sun has acquired remake rights to Dario Argento gothic horror classic Suspira.The company is led by Italian director Luca Guadagnino (Melissa P), Fendi group fashion designer Silvia Venturini Fendi with producers Carlo Antonelli, Marco Morabito and Massimilano Violante.The English-language remake will have an international cast ...
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Fortissimo ties the knot with Iceland's Country Wedding
Fortissimo Films has acquired all rights outside Scandinavia to Icelandic comedy Country Wedding, currently shooting in Snaefellsness, Iceland. The brainchild of editor-turned-director Valdis Oskarsdottir, the film is a road movie about two busloads of Icelanders attending a wedding in a small church in the country. Completion is scheduled in time ...
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Thailand's GMM Tai Hub sells Alone to UniKorea
Thailand's GMM Tai Hub (GTH) has sold Korean rights to horror hit Alone to UniKorea. The company also sold to a string of other territories including France, Benelux and Brazil. Alone stars Thai pop singer-model-TV actress Marsha Wattanapanich as an expat wife living in Korea. The second film from the ...
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Joffe takes Corsan passage to India
Roland Joffe is India-bound. The Oscar winning British director (The Killing Fields, The Mission) is to direct $35 million epic Singularity with Aishwarya Rai (Provoked, Bride and Prejudice) in the leading role. The film, due to begin production early next year, is being produced and co-financed by Belgian outfit Corsan ...
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Bridges steps up to join cast of $25m Weide film
In a move which is already whetting buyers' appetites, Jeff Bridges has joined the cast of Bob Weide's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, the $25 million adaptation of Toby Young's bestselling satirical memoir about his time as a British journalist abroad, working in Manhattan. Bridges will be playing ...
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Olivier Assayas springs Binoche for $6m drama
MK2 will produce the next effort from French director Olivier Assayas, Springtime Past. The $6m (Euros 4.5m) drama will star Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling and Jeremie Renier and will be ready for Berlin. Assayas is in competition at Cannes this year with Boarding Gate. ...
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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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Relativity spies franchise potential in Clancy adaptation
Relativity Media has lined up an adaptation of the Tom Clancy thriller Without Remorse and is eyeing a potential franchise centered on the character of CIA operative John Kelly/John Clark. Lionsgate is believed to have acquired North America, the UK, Australia and several other territories on the project, which ...
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Barunson producer team to support foreign shoots in Korea
South Korean production house Barunson has announced it is launching a consortium of Korea's hottest producers and line producers to work on productions from overseas.Lewis Kim, head of international at Barunson, has drawn together a stellar group which includes Lee Sung-hoon (Taegukgi, Shiri), Han Jae-duk (Old Boy), Park Bong-soo (The ...
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More cast lines up for Wrathall's Good shooting in Budapest
Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker and Mark Strong have joined Viggo Mortensen in the cast of Good, John Wrathall's screen adaptation of the CP Taylor stage play, directed by Vicente Amorim.Principal photography has begun in Budapest on the film, in which Viggo Mortensen plays the lead role of John Halder, a ...
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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 ...