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CAA advances on Asia with Loehr hire, WEB alliance
Hollywood talent powerhouse CAA has confirmed itsaggressive moves into Asia,bringing China's Hengdian Group to the Croisette to meetwestern players, unveiling an alliance with start-up Korean entertainmentcompany WEB, and advising both Taiwan's private equity fund Double Edge andJapanese giant Kadokawa.The agency'slatest international hire, Beijing-based Peter Loehr, is working with CAA'sexisting Asian ...
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Arclight strikes US deal for Story, gets All Together
ArclightFilms has sold US rights for Benny Chan's action drama New Police Story to a combination ofMiramax, The Weinstein Company and Lions Gate for an undisclosed sum.JackieChan (no relation) stars as a Hong Kong police inspector who breaks down when histeam is wiped out by a vicious gang and eventually ...
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Universal plucks North American rights for Black Dahlia
Universal Pictures has paidan estimated $10m for North American rights to Brian DePalma's film of JamesElroy's The Black Dahlia starringJosh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank fromSignature Pictures.The studio plans a 2006 releasefor the 1940s-set thriller about the two cops investigating the brutal murderof Elizabeth Short. The film ...
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Ben Ammar moves into Besson's Cinema City
Producer-businessman Tarak Ben Ammar hasannounced plans to move most of his post-production facilities into Frenchfilmmaker Luc Besson's Cinema City complex just outside Paris.In the past few years, Ben Ammar has beenon a buying spree of most of the post-production and sound facilities in Franceincluding LTC, Ex-Machina, Les Audis de Joinville ...
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Constantin on the Edge with Applebaum
Germany's Constantin Filmwill finance and co-produce commercials director Chris Applebaum's featuredebut Water's Edge with SidGanis' Out Of The Blue Entertainment. Set for a September star inArizona's Lake Powell and Los Angeles, the horror-thriller stars JordanaBrewster and follows a group of holidaymakers whose lake trip turns sour when abrutal serial killer ...
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Weinstein Company boards Bodrov's Nomad
The WeinsteinCompany has acquired a second film from French sales and finance outfit WildBunch this week. Bob and HarveyWeinstein have taken North American, UK, Australian/New Zealand and SouthAfrican rights to Nomad, starring Jason Scott Lee, Kuno Becker and Jay Hernandez. Directedby Sergei Bodrov and Talgat Temenov, it was written by ...
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Rainmaker unveils fresh slate following Bomb success
With its debut film Diameter Of TheBomb picked up by THINKFilm for North America andRedbus for the UK, fledgling UK financing and production outfit Rainmaker Filmshas unveiled a fresh slate of projects.The London-based company, which funds development and,increasingly, production, is backing Chinese Wall, asuspense thriller by US writer Mark Wheaton ...
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Focus strikes deals on Jarmusch's Broken Flowers
Focus Features has closed major territory sales on Jim Jarmusch's BrokenFlowers ahead of the comedy's competition screening on Tuesday Rights have been sold to Roadshow in Australia, Momentum Pictures in theUK, Tobis in Germany, Bac Films in France, Mikado in Italy, Vertigo in Spain,Europe Films in Brazil, and Nordisk Film ...
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France's Pretty Pictures embarks on doc buying spree
Frenchdistributor Pretty Pictures is on a documentary buying spree with threebrand-new pick ups.Marc Levin's Protocols OfZion will have a big autumn releasesaid Pretty Pictures' James Velaise, who bought the film from THINKFilm. Zion is a look at anti-semitism which uses 9/11 as adeparture point and traces the roots of the ...
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Fortissimo ices Snow Cake, Shanghai sales
Fortissimo Films has closeda string of sales on Competition title Shanghai Dreams and drama Snow Cake, starring Sigourney Weaver, and racked up furtherdeals on The Night Listener and U-CarmeneKhayelitsha.Shanghai Dreams, directed by China's Wang Xiaoshuai, has gone toItaly's Teodora, Brazil's Imagem, A Films for Benelux and Roadshow for Greece.A drama ...
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Gold Circle snaps up remake rights to Soundless
Gold Circle Films hasacquired remake rights to Mennan Yapo's Soundless which screened in the German Cinema section of theBerlin Film Festival in 2004.The film is a thriller/lovestory about a pensive hired gun trying to get out of the business. Soundless also won the Jury Prize at the recent CognacThriller Festival ...
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Momentum signs up for football comedy The Other Half
Momentum Pictures has pickedup all UK rights to football romantic comedy The Other Half from UK-based seller AV Pictures.The film, which stars DannyDyer and footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones, is Momentum's second deal withAV this market after the UK distributor picked up horror thriller Wilderness.The Other Half joins WW2-set drama The Aryan ...
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Millenium strikes three picture deal with Eclectic
Avi Lerner's Millennium Pictures has signed a three-picture deal withHeidi Jo Markel's fledgling development and production outfit EclecticPictures.The exclusive arrangement provides Los Angeles-based Eclectic with fundsto attach talent and make films with foreign distribution being servicedthrough Millennium's Nu Image.Markel, whose producing credits include the Val Kilmer thriller BlindHorizon and Snoop ...
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Max Films plots English-language Seducing Dr Lewis
Montreal-based Max Films issetting up an English-language remake of its 2003 Quinzaine hit Seducing Dr.Lewis, with director Jean-FrancoisPouliot and screenwriter Ken Scott onboard to reprise their roles. The new version is one offour-pictures being prepared by producers Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal toshoot over the next 18 months. Pouliot and ...
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Myriad packs trunk with Elephant Tales pre-sales
Kirk D'Amico's Myriad Pictures has notched up pre-sales on MarioAndreacchio's live-action family adventure Elephant Tales, which is set togo into production in South Africa on Jun 13.The French/Australian co-production has sold to LNK for Portugal, Prooptikifor Greece, Myndform for Iceland, Box Office for Thailand and Wild World forthe Philippines.As previously ...
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Four Horsemen ride with lads mag icon Ellison
British lads' mags iconJennifer Ellison is to star in The Cottage, one of four new horror films being launched in Cannes by Four HorsemenFilms (the genre horror label of UK production company Random Harvest.)Ellison, aged 21, leaped tofame aged 14 when she joined the long-running UK soap opera Brookside. Ellison ...
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MK Pictures sells Last Bang to France
Korea's MK Pictures has soldIm Sang-soo's Directors' Fortnight title The President's Last Bang to France's CIPA and also revealed details of thedirector's next project. CIPA is planning an Octoberrelease for The President's Last Bang, a creative retelling of the assassination of president Park Chung-heein 1979. The company handled Im's previous ...
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Monster-in-Law beats Kicking to top US box office
New Line Cinema's Monster-in-Law made a strong debutin North America this weekend, grossing an estimated $24m and beatingUniversal's rival family comedy Kicking & Screaming, which took asolid $20.9m, to the top chart spot. Action thriller Unleashed, from Focus Features' Roguelabel, opened well with an estimated $10.6m and took third place.The ...
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Monster-in-Law beats Kicking to top US box office
New Line Cinema's Monster-in-Law made a strong debutin North America this weekend, grossing an estimated $24m and beatingUniversal's rival family comedy Kicking & Screaming, which took asolid $20.9m, to the top chart spot. Action thriller Unleashed, from Focus Features' Roguelabel, opened well with an estimated $10.6m and took third place.The ...
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Bristol Media handles Greek drama
MatthewModine, Richard Griffiths and Greek billionaire-turned-actor Alki David are toheadline new UK-Greek co-production OPA! Directed by Udayan Prasad (My SonThe Fanatic.)Sales for OPA!, which recently started shooting in Patmos,are being handled by Tony Manne's Bristol Media International.Modine plays anarchaeologist who comes to Greece and falls under the spell of a ...