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Content rides with Hugo Weaving Aussie drama
ContentFilm International has come on for international sales on Glendyn Ivin's The Last Ride. Ivin won the Palme d'Or for his 2003 short Cracker Bag. The drama will star Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, Transformers) and will start shooting this summer in the Australian outback.The story follows an emotional road trip ...
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Halcyon crowns Delpy's Countess for UK
Chris Coen's new UK distribution company Halcyon Pictures has taken UK rights to Julie Delpy's The Countess sold by Celluloid Dreams. The film stars Delpy, William Hurt, Daniel Bruhl and Anamaria Marinca in the story of Countess Bathroy. Halcyon have also bought David Auburn's The Girl In The Park, starring ...
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Elephant Eye takes on Thanks Maa; MTV lands on Planet B-Boy
New York-based production/sales/distribution company Elephant Eye Films has taken on Irfan Kamal's Thanks Maa for international sales. The Quantum Films production is a Hindi-language independent film about a 12-year-old boy on the run from reformatory who finds an abandoned baby in Mumbai.Separately, MTV has confirmed their acquisition of Elephant Eye's ...
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Metrodome strikes deal for MediaPro to become major investor
Romanian powerhouse MediaPro has agreed to buy 50.1% of shares in UK distributor Metrodome.The deal was done with Germany's TV-Loonland, which was formerly Metrodome's parent company.'They want to move into Western Europe and the UK,' says Metrodome CEO Peter Urie told Screen about Metrodome's new backer.Each share was bought for ...
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Mythic International Entertainment kicks off with Ironclad
Rick Benattar, Jonathan English and Andrew Curtis' Mythic International Entertainment has teamed with Zephyr Films and Picture Park for its first feature, the $30m medieval action film Ironclad directed by English.Set in 13th Century England, the film tells the story of a Templar Knight who defends Rochester Castle against the ...
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Weinstein Company buys North America on UK horror film Eden Lake
The Weinstein Company has picked up North American rights from Pathe to the thriller Eden Lake from first-time director James Watkins.Eden Lake stars Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Thomas Turgoose and Bronson Webb in the story of a young couple on a romantic weekend break who get terrorised by a group ...
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Sarde, Siritzky partner for $50m Emannuelle prequel
Roman Polanksi's longtime producer Alain Sarde is lining up a $50m prequel to Emmanuelle with the erotic franchise's rights holder Alain Siritzky.What Else Emmanuelle' will be the first theatrical release in the series since Emmanuelle IV came out in 1984 and is scheduled to begin shooting at various exotic locations ...
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Shin Rockenwagner takes top corporate comms role at Paramount
Patricia Shin Rockenwagner has been named executive vice president of corporate communications at Paramount Pictures.Rockenwagner will assume her new role on May 19 and fills the gap left by Janet Hill, who departed last June.The new arrival most recently served as vice president of communications of the Southern California Region ...
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King Of Fighters lands at Inferno
Inferno Entertainment has commenced pre-sales on the $12m English-language video game adaptation King Of Fighters.Gordon Chan (The Medallion) will direct the Matrix-like sci-fi action title and filming is scheduled to start in Taiwan on September 15.Taiwan's Double Edge Entertainment, LA-based Convergence Entertainment, US outfit Axis Entertainment and China's Enlight Pictures ...
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Myriad takes on international sales rights to Take
Myriad Pictures has picked up Charles Oliver's directorial debut Take and is introducing the drama to buyers on the Croisette.Minnie Driver and Jeremy Renner star in the story of two apparent strangers who discover they actually crossed paths years ago with devastating results.Former DreamWorks executive Chet Thomas produced and Tyler ...
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Lightning picks up sales rights to Pierce-Williams thriller Shuttle
Lightning Entertainment has added Pierce-Williams Entertainment's thriller Shuttle to its sales slate here.Mark Williams and Michael Pierce produced the story of two girls who board an airport shuttle bus that turns into a nightmare ride.Tony Curran, Peyton List, Cameron Goodman, James Snyder, Dave Power and Cullen Douglas star. Edward Anderson ...
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Cam Galano remains at New Line as head of international
Highly respected 20-year New Line veteran Camela Galano has been confirmed as president of New Line International Releasing after the studio's international sales operation was closed down by Warner Bros recently.Galano will continue to oversee and manage the release of New Line films in more than 120 territories for Warner ...
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South Australian Film Corporation upgrades to new home
South Australian Premier Mike Rann formally announced today in Los Angeles that the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) will move to a site in Adelaide, best known for housing psychiatric patients. The site is in the south-east Adelaide suburb of Glenside and is being redeveloped for a range of ...
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MD introduces Cannes buyers to Indonesian record-breaker
Islamic love story Signs Of Love (Ayat Ayat Cinta), produced and sold by Jakarta-based MD Pictures, has become the highest-grossing film ever in Indonesia with four million admissions. The film, which MD Pictures released on Feb 28, touches on the sensitive subject of polygamy, but rather than courting ...
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Shanghai turns spotlight on co-production
The Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has announced the line-up of projects for its Co-production Film Pitch and Catch (Co-FPC) initiative, which aims to stimulate co-production with an emphasis on the Asian region. The three-day event (June 16-18), at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Shanghai, will bring together potential ...
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Darabont to direct $40m crime thriller for The Film Department
Frank Darabont will direct the thriller Law Abiding Citizen starring Gerard Butler for The Film Department, which is selling international rights here.Production is set to begin on August 18 in Detroit on the low-$40m range story of a criminal mastermind who controls a city from the confines of his prison ...
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Duvall and Spacek Get Low with K5, Zanuck
UK- and Germany-based K5 International has taken on world sales for Get Low, which the sales outfit is also co-financing.The Zanuck Company production will star Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek. Oscar winner Aaron Schneider, who shot films including Titanic and Kiss The Girls, will direct and producers will be Richard ...
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Halcyon crowns Countess for UK
Chris Coen's new UK distribution company Halcyon Pictures has taken UK rights to Julie Delpy's The Countess sold by Celluloid Dreams. The film stars Delpy, William Hurt, Daniel Bruhl and Anamaria Marinca in the story of Countess Bathroy. Halcyon have also bought David Auburn's The Girl In The Park, starring ...
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Ed Blum signs on for two $15m F&ME features
Mike Downey and Sam Taylor's UK-based production company Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has signed on Scenes Of A Sexual Nature director Ed Blum for two new features, FAKE! and The Laughter Clinic.Blum's Tin Pan Films will co-produce the films, each budgeted around $15m.Previously announced art heist movie FAKE! is ...
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Fassbender signs on as Heathcliff for Wuthering Heights
Michael Fassbender, star of Un Certain Regard opener Hunger, has been confirmed for the role of Heathcliff in Ecosse Films' new Wuthering Heights.HanWay films is handling internationals sales. John Maybury is directing the project, which is now searching for a new Cathy after Natalie Portman pulled out last week.Fassbender previously ...