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QED takes on sales for The Girl In The Park
Bill Block's BeverlyHills-based sales company QED International has added psychological thriller TheGirl In The Park to its AFM slate.Keri Russell, AlessandroNivola and Elias Koteas have joined Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth onthe project, which is set to begin principal photography in New York onNov 13.Sean Furst, Bryan Furst and Chip ...
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GreeneStreet's Veneziano moves to LA office
GreeneStreet FilmsInternational (GSFI) president Ariel Veneziano has moved to Los Angeles to joinGreeneStreet Films (GSF) partner Tim Williams in the new West Coast office.Veneziano will head up GSFIoperations and oversee its acquisitions activities. He will seek growthopportunities and increase the volume of GSF third-party acquisitions, whilebroadening GSFI's slate by finding ...
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BAFTA/LA mourns the passing of Peter Henton at the age of 60
Peter Henton, a former member of the board of directors atBAFTA/LA who served as producer of the Britannia Awards for the past 15 years,has died aged 60.Henton arrived in Los Angeles from the UK in 1984 and spent hisentire career in the film and television business. For several years he ...
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Odd Lot takes on rights to Cary's Ira & Abby
Odd Lot International haspicked up foreign rights to Robert Cary's2006 Los Angeles Film Festivalaudience award winner Ira & Abby.The film will screen at AFMand stars Chris Messina and JenniferWestfeldt as a couple that getmarried on a whim and must endure thetumultuous consequences.Westfeldt wrote thescreenplay and Brad Zions produced. Westfeldt,Ilana Levine, ...
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Garbus Krupa starts action picture Brooklyn To Manhattan in NYC
James Garbus and RobertKroupa's Garbus Kroupa Entertainment has started production on the actionpicture Brooklyn To Manhattan,which takes place primarily on the New York City subway. The company is nearingcompletion on Save Me, a dramaabout a gay man who quits his wayward lifestyle and checks into a Christianministry where he confronts ...
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Danielak's Arsenal picks up Ungodly, Ghosts
Yarek Danielak's international sales company Arsenal Pictures haspicked up thriller The Ungodly starring Wes Bentley and the documentaryGhosts, both of whichmake their market premieres here.Thomas Dunn directed The Ungodly, in which Bentley plays a photographerwho unwittingly catches a serial killer in the act and develops a symbioticrelationship with the ...
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Baseball comedy beats Flags at Japanese box office
Local baseball comedy Kisarazu Cats Eye: Sayonara Game grabbedthe number one spot at the weekend box office in Japan, out-grossing Clint Eastwood's WWII drama Flags Of Our Fathers. The sequel in the popularsports comedy franchise grossed $2.57m (Y302m) on 244 screens, for a strong $10,532per screen average. Flags Of Our ...
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Bavaria sells Sweet Mud to Canada, Brazil
On the eve of the AFM, Bavaria Film International has sold IsraeliOscar entry Sweet Mudto Mongrel Media in Canada and Imovision in Brazil. The deals were concludedduring the Business Street Days of the Rome Film Festival earlier this monthSweet Mud,directed by Dror Shaul, is the story of a 12-year-old boy ...
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Thailand's Five Star to start shooting Muay Thai Chaiya this month
Thailand's Five Star isunveiling its latest project at AFM - Muay Thai Chaiya, a $2m action drama written and to be directed byKongkait Komesiri.Shooting is scheduled tostart in the second week of November for delivery next May.Set in both Chaiya insouthern Thailand and Bangkok, the picture follows three close friends ...
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Dragon Tiger Gate's Yip, Yen reteam on City With No Mercy
The team behind Hong Kongaction hit Dragon Tiger Gate- director Wilson Yip and action director Donnie Yen - arereteaming in action adventure City With No Mercy, which Hong Kong's Mandarin Films Distribution islaunching at the AFM. Yen, Louis Koo and CollinChou star in the $8m film which is scheduled to ...
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Renegade Worldwide takes on Euro thriller Stone Merchant
Crystal Sky's genre label Renegade Worldwide has acquired allrights to Renzo Martinelli's European thriller The Stone Merchant starring Harvey Keitel, Jane, March,Jordi Molla, and F Murray Abraham.Renegade, which is run by Patrick Ewald, will introduce the filmto buyers at AFM. The film is a co-production between Martinelli Film CompanyInternational, Medusa ...
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Groening's Into Great Silence takes EFA Prix Arte
The European Film Academy'sdocumentary Prix Arte will be awarded to Philip Groening's Into GreatSilence (Die Grosse Stille). The jury for the award wascomprised of director/producer Adela Peeva from Bulgaria, director ThomasRiedelsheimer from Germany and producer Dorota Roszkowska from Poland.The jury said: "PhilipGroening's thoughtful film touches on the mystic quality of ...
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TF1 AFM slate includes Paquet-Brenner double
Heading into the AmericanFilm Market, French sales outfit TF1 International will be featuring an eclecticslate of new films including a one-two punch in very different styles fromdirector Gilles Paquet-Brenner. The first, a follow up to2003's successful action-comedy Gomez&Tavares, is Payoff 2, directed byPaquet-Brenner and Cyril Sebaswith a cast that includes ...
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Marmot appointed as Skillset director of film
Janine Marmot has been named as the new director of film of UK training organisation Skillset.Marmot will oversee the body's five-year strategy for film, A Bigger Future, a joint initiative with the UK Film Council.The plans includes a UK-wide network of Skillset Screen Academies and the mentoring scheme Guiding Lights. ...
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Eva Dahr to direct Gaarder adaptation The Orange Girl
Norwegiandirector Eva Dahr - currently in post with her new film, Mars andVenus - has been signed to directThe Orange Girl, a $3.8m (Euros 3m) feature from Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder's latest novel. His Sophie'sWorld was published in 45 languages to become the world's bestsellingfiction book in 1995.Norwegianproducer Axel Helgeland, ...
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Sex And Death 101 tops Arclight AFM lineup
ArclightFilms has boarded the black comedy Sex And Death 101 starring Simon Baker and Winona Rider and comedy How ToRob A Bank starring Nick Stahl and ErikaChristensen.Theprojects join Rawson Marshall Thurber's previously announced drama TheMysteries Of Pittsburgh starring SiennaMiller and Peter Sarsgaard as general manager Gary Hamilton ramps up his ...
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Rogue picks up the world on Cameron's 3-D caving thriller
RoguePictures has picked up worldwide rights to James Cameron's upcoming andas-yet-untitled 3-D cave diving thriller.Thestudio is producing with Cameron's Earthship Productions, which the filmmakerset up to advancing his underwater expeditions and documentary work.GaryJohnstone will direct from a script by John Garvin. Cameron and Rogue willdevelop the script and the project ...
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CMG sells Ever Again to Rocky Mountain Pictures in US
EdNoeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has sold domestic rights to MoriahFilms' anti-semitism documentary Ever Again to Rocky Mountain Pictures.EverAgain is the eighth documentary featureproduced by Moriah Films, a division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, andexplores the resurgence of violent anti-semitism across Europe.Thedistributor plans a Dec 8 limited release in Los ...
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Welsh student festival Ffresh gets backing from new Film Agency for Wales
The Ffresh Student MovingImage Festival, held annually in Aberystwyth, Wales, has received backing fromthe newly established Film Agency for Wales.The agency has set up an $85,840(£45,000) funding package for the festival, which will be held Feb 15-16 at AberystwythArts Centre. The event is now in its sixth year, and it ...
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Northern Lights sets industry summit attendees
The Northern Lights Film FestivalIndustry Summit is firming up plans for its Nov 17-18 event in Newcastle uponTyne. The summit will includepanel discussions, case studies, lectures, pitching sessions, speed meetings andnetworking opportunities. The festival will alsoannounce a winner of the Orange North Star Short Film Award 2006, which comeswith a ...