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Two of a Kind Productions signs on Frances Fisher and Dominique Swain
Frances Fisher (Titanic, The Kingdom) and Dominique Swain (Lolita) have signed on to Two of a Kind Productions' paranormal thriller Dead Whisper, set to begin production in November in Louisiana. New Orleans native Oley Sassone will direct and John Kersey will produce. Showcase Entertainment will distribute Dead Whisper.Written by Jennifer ...
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Wild Bunch AFM slate mixes major buzz titles and new film-makers
Wild Bunch is heading into the AFM with a series of new projects from young film-makers; the first images from Woody Allen's latest; and at least one film that could spark a bidding war among US distributors. The company will screen Largo Winch, its $35.6m (Euros 28m) comic book adaptation ...
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Imagenation Abu Dhabi strikes $250m financing deal with Hyde Park
Ambitious Middle Eastern producer Imagenation Abu Dhabi has closed a $250m financing deal with Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment to develop, produce and distribute up to 20 films over seven years.The deal will cover broad Hollywood entertainment and the parties expect to announce the first titles within the next several ...
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High School Musical 3 leads lacklustre weekend at domestic box office
High School Musical 3: Senior Year stayed top of the class for Buena Vista in its second weekend as an estimated $15m raised the running total to $61.8m.The family musical was one of the few highlights of a muted weekend that saw overall box office take $75.2m and drop approximately ...
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MSNBC takes North American TV on documentary Witch Hunt
MSNBC Films has acquired North American television rights from Submarine Entertainment to Dana Nachman and Don Hardy's documentary Witch Hunt, which gets its US premiere at AFI FEST on November 2.Witch Hunt chronicles the story of eight parents in Bakersfield, California, who were falsely accused and convicted of child molestation ...
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Hemdale's John Daly dies at 71 after long battle with cancer
The British-born producer John Daly who made 13 Oscar winning films including Platoon and The Last Emperor has died. He was 71.Daly, who was chairman of Film and Music Entertainment Inc, died on Friday morning [October 31] at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from cancer, said his daughter Jenny ...
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Bond smashes UK opening record, takes $38.6m from three markets
Sony Pictures Releasing International chiefs were toasting a weekend rich in rewards last night as the division crossed $1bn in receipts for the year-to-date and the new James Bond release Quantum Of Solace dominated the overseas chart with a whopping $38.6m estimated gross from 2,123 screens in the UK, France ...
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Locarno's Finzi named director of Miami International Film Festival
Tiziana Finzi, who has spent the last nine years at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, serving as deputy director for the last three years, has been named director of the Miami International Film Festival in Florida, US. She will officially begin at the festival, which is held under the ...
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Emily Atef's The Stranger In Me wins top prize at Sao Paulo
Emily Atef's The Stranger in Me, a drama about a mother who suffers from post-natal depression and becomes a threat to her child, won the best film award at the 32nd Sao Paulo International Film Festival. The jury presided by UK director Hugh Hudson made an exception at the festival ...
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Slumdog, Striped Pyjamas win Audience Choice Awards at Chicago
Danny Boyle's UK-US adventure romance Slumdog Millionaire and Mark Herman's UK-US Holocaust tale The Boy In The Striped Pajamas were awarded the 44th Chicago International Film Festival's Audience Choice AwardsAudiences chose the winners after more than 170 films from more than 45 countries screened at the festival.The festival ran from ...
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Wysocki to receive 2008 Sundance screenwriting fellowship
Sundance Institute Feature Film Programme has announced that Jonathan Wysocki will receive the 2008 Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellowship with his project All Fall Down.Wysocki developed All Fall Down in June at Sundance Institute's 2008 Screenwriters Lab. The story takes a satirical look at the post-9/11 zeitgeist and explores the fallout ...
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Rousselet launches Vendome Pictures with $115m credit facility
Longtime French producer Philippe Rousselet has formed Vendome Pictures to develop, produce and finance roughly 15 features over the next five years in the $10-40m range.Vendome is backed by a $115m revolving credit facility funded by a consortium of banks led by CIT and RBS Greenwich Capital, a mezzanine facility ...
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The Rainmakers
High School Musical's (HSM) third instalment lived up to its billing as the right film for the right time: pure escapism in a global recession.High School Musical 3: Senior Year set a new opening record for a musical in the US with a three-day debut of $42m. Internationally, it opened ...
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Icon takes UK and Australian rights to Karl Golden's Pelican Blood
Icon has acquired UK and Australian rights to Karl Golden's second feature film Pelican Blood. The Honeymooners (2003) was his first feature.The film is based on the cult novel by Cris Freddi with the screenplay by Cris Cole. The film is a collaboration between Magna Films, P&C Arcade Film Fund, ...
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Cinemavault takes on sales for Where God Left His Shoes
Toronto-based Cinemavault has picked up from Paul Allen's Vulcan Productions the drama Where God Left His Shoes starring John Leguizamo.Salvatore Stabile directed the take of a down-and-out boxer who takes his young son on a journey around New York City to look for a home on Christmas Eve.The film premiered ...
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Shoreline takes on worldwide rights to Tom Cool
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights ahead of AFM to director Ron Carlson's comedy Tom Cool.Mila Kunis, Clifton Collins Jr, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Michael Rapaport, Jason Mewes and Tony Todd star in the story of a young man who lands his dream job as a driver for an escort ...
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Berlin to showcase German film industry to Bollywood
The German film industry will showcase its services and funding opportunities to Bollywood in a special presentation to the Indian film industry in Mumbai.The event will be organised by Berlin-Brandenburg Film Commission (BFFC) and inward investment agency Berlin Partner on November 2.India 's burgeoning film industry has recently been building ...
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Rotterdam International film festival unveils new forward looking logo
The Rotterdam International film festival has unveiled a new logo to support its recently announced changes to programming. A reworking of the Rotterdam festival's famous tiger, the festival has introduced the logo to support the proactive and forward looking approach it wishes to promote.The logo comes a few months after ...
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Gomes receives FIPRESCI at Viennale for Aquele Querido Mes De Agosto
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes received the FIPRESCI Critics Award at this year's Viennale for Aquele Querido Mes De Agosto. In a statement, the critics' jury said that Gomes' film 'brings to life a world of music, passion, romanticism and tragedy.' Miguel Gomes was also the subject of a special homage ...
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Summit International takes on Tornatore's $30m Baaria
Summit International has boarded worldwide rights excluding Italy ahead of AFM to Giuseppe Tornatore's $30m epic Italian drama Baaria.Italy's Medusa Film and Tarak Ben Ammar's France-based Quinta Communications produced the story and Quinta had previously handled sales.Medusa holds Italian rights to the Sicilian-set comdy spanning three generations from the 1930s ...