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Cruise, Wagner team with MGM to revive United Artists
In a deal intended to capture the spirit of Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and D W Griffith, Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner are reviving the United Artists (UA) label with MGM. Nine weeks after Cruise Wagner parted company with Paramount Pictures, the producing partners have bounced back with ...
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Torres to direct Sense & Sensibilidad for Camelot, Odd Lot
Fina Torres will direct a Latino version of Jane Austen's SenseAnd Sensibility entitledSense And Sensibilidad forCamelot Pictures and Odd Lot Entertainment.Torres co-wrote with Luis Alfaro the screenplay to the LosAngeles-set tale, which is being produced by Camelot principal Gary Gilbert andOdd Lot founders Deborah Del Prete and Gigi Priztker.'Fina and ...
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Don Letts signs development deal with Fremantle
UK director Don Letts hassigned a first-look development deal with FremantleMedia Enterprises, toprimarily develop music and pop culture documentaries. Fremantle gets the rightsto develop and exploit Letts' ideas across its TV, home entertainment andancillary businesses. The deal was brokered by Pete Kalhan, the company'ssenior vice president, home entertainment & archive ...
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McAuley joins Paramount Home Entertainment UK
Charlie McAuley has beenappointed managing director for Paramount Home Entertainment UK and Ireland.Based in London, he will oversee marketing, sales and distribution in thoseterritories and will report to Don Hunton, senior vice president of Paramount HomeEntertainment, Asia Pacific, UK and Ireland.McAuley previously worked atUniversal Pictures International where he served as ...
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Ewan McGregor on board for HanWay's Franklyn
Ewan McGregor will star inGerald McMorrow's Franklyn, whichwill shoot on location in the UK in summer 2007. UK stalwart Jeremy Thomas isproducing McMorrow's feature film debut based on his original screenplay. Thestory is about four lost souls in a futuristic London society where there is noseparation between church and state. ...
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MK2 starts shoot for Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park
French outfit MK2 hasannounced the beginning of principal photography on the latest film from GusVan Sant. Filming begins this weekin Portland, Oregon on Paranoid Park, a project adapted from the book of the same name by Blake Nelson,which was released in the US in September.MK2 will produce with NeilKopp and ...
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M6 racks up sales on Siri's Intimate Enemies
Following the success of Rachid Bouchareb's Days Of Glory, another French film dealing with thetrauma of the Algerian experience has been piquing buyers' interest. In therun-up to the AFM, Florent Siri's Intimate Enemies has been racking up deals.Since M6 began pre-sales on the project in Cannes in May with onlya ...
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Latido sells Your Life In 65 Minutes to Strand in US
Madrid-based Latido Filmshas snared a US buyer for Maria Ripoll's comedy, Your Life In 65 Minutes. Strand Releasing has taken North American rights tothe film, which is on Latido's AFM slate. "It gives us impetus goinginto the AFM. That's why we wanted to close it as soon as possible," a ...
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Media 8 boards George Gallo's Local Colour
Media 8 Entertainment haspicked up all international rights to George Gallo's drama Local Colour starring Ray Liotta, Armin Mueller-Stahl and TrevorMorgan.Local Colour is based on a true story about a troubled18-year-old art student and his disillusioned Russian mentor who help eachother see life anew. Samantha Mathis, Charles Durning and Diana ...
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IFC strikes US deal for Brisseau's Exterminating Angels
In the run up to the AFM ithas become clear that the controversy surrounding veteran French filmmakerJean-Claude Brisseau hasn't hurt his appeal in the marketplace. Brisseau'slatest feature The Exterminating Angels, which deals in dramatized form with incidents that later landed thedirector in court, has now been sold to IFC Films ...
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Applause teams with Ruddy Morgan to launch sales outfit ARM
Hong Kong productionoutfit Applause Pictures has teamed up with the Ruddy Morgan Organization tocreate an international sales company, ARM Distribution, which is making itsdebut at the AFM. The new outfit is beingassisted by Robbie and Ellen Little's The Little Film Company.Two of the company'sexecutives, Robbie Little and Clay Epstein, will ...
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Arclight seals two year sales, co-financing deal with Silver's Zinc
Arclight Films and Joel Silver's Zinc Pictures have signed amulti-picture two-year co-financing and sales agency deal.Under the terms of the arrangement Arclight will co-finance anddistribute Zinc Pictures titles across all media worldwide that areproduced outside its exclusive theatrical relationship with Warner Bros.The first two pictures will go out under Arclight's ...
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Weinsteins and BBC Films find meerkat love
The Weinstein Company (TWC)and BBC Films will co-finance African wildlife feature The Meerkats, which is scheduled for a November shoot inthe Kalahari Desert.TWC holds worldwide rightsand international chief Glen Basner and his team will introduce the projectto buyers here at AFM. For the first time BBC Films will collaborate withthe ...
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CMG picks up Legend library and strikes Benelux deal
Edward Noeltner's CinemaManagement Group (CMG) has picked up international sales on the Legend FilmsLibrary and has already sold the entire library to RCV Entertainment for DVDand TV rights in Benelux.The library encompasses morethan 50 newly restored titles by San Diego-based Legend Films, including GeorgeA Romero's Night Of The Living Deadand ...
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Focus picks up international to Meireilles' thriller Blindness
Focus Features International has picked up international rights toFernando Meirelles' upcoming thriller Blindness and will commence sales at AFM this week.Niv Fichman of Toronto-based Rhombus Media, Sonoko Sakai of BeeVine Pictures in Tokyo, and Andrea Barata Ribeiro of O2 Filmes in Sao Paulowill produce.Riberiro and his O2 partner Meirelles recently ...
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Wild Bunch boards new films from Macdonald, Roeg, Gordon Green
Ever-aggressive Frenchoutfit Wild Bunch has added new films by Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald, veteranBritish auteur Nicolas Roeg, US indie darling David Gordon Green and Frenchmaster Alain Corneau to its AFM slate.Macdonald's new featuredocumentary My Enemy's Enemy,which follows his dramatic debut The Last King Of Scotland, promises to be especially controversial. It ...
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Lightning gets rights to Weitz's college comedy
LA-based sales agencyLightning Entertainment has picked up international rights to VulcanProductions' college comedy Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas produced by the Weitz Brothers.Bickford marks the directorial and writing debut of Scott Lewand stars Patrick Fugit as a nerd who is forced to venture into the outsideworld after his book of cool ...
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High Point takes on sales for Tom Collins' Kings
High Point Films has takenon international sales for Tom Collins' Kings, the big-screen adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play TheKings Of The Kilburn High Road.The project stars ColmMeaney in the story of a group of Irish men who emigrated to London but returnto their hometown after 25 years for a friend's ...
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Scorsese's Stones doc goes to Paramount, Fortissimo
The long-gestating RollingStones documentary, which Martin Scorsese recently joined as director, hasstarted shooting in New York with Paramount Pictures on board as domesticdistributor and Fortissimo Films handling international rights.Scorsese, hot off thebiggest box office hit of his career in The Departed, is working with an award-winning camera team tocapture The ...
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HanWay takes on sales for Winterbottom's Genova
HanWay Films has acquired worldwide rights outsidethe UK for Michael Winterbottom's forthcoming Genova,which now has Colin Firth attached to star.Winterbottom and Andrew Eaton's London-basedproduction company Revolution Films is producing with co-financing from Film4(which holds UK rights). Winterbottom will shoot the project in spring 2007 onlocation in Italy with post-production will ...