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Paris Hilton goes Bottom's Up for Blue Collar
Paris Hilton is in talks tostar in the satire Bottom's Up,which actor Paul Walker is producing with his Blue Collar Films partner BrandonBirtell along with Half Moon Bay and Cameo FJ Entertainment. Gibraltar International is selling the film at AFM.The story centres on aseemingly witless Midwestern bartender whose Hollywood connections ...
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Echo Bridge enters US distribution
Los Angeles-based independent Echo Bridge Entertainment isentering the domestic distribution market with two titles, the family drama WhenZachary Beaver Came To Town and the Tobe Hooper horror feature Mortuary.Echo Bridge plans to release four to six wide andspeciality titles a year, with managing partners Michael Alexander, DougHamilton, Michael Rosenblatt and ...
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Oscar Moore winner teams with Secretary director
Oscar Moore prize winnerLindsay Shapero is adapting Tibor Fischer's award-winning novel Under TheFrog for American director/producer Steve Shainberg (Secretary).The film, which is currentlyin development, will be produced by Shainberg and directed by US-basedHungarian director Dezso Magyar.Under the Frog is a black comedy set against the backdrop of theHungarian uprising of ...
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Lightning strikes on documentary hit
Los Angeles-based sales and distribution house LightningEntertainment has acquired international rights to What The Bleep Do WeKnow'Bleep centres on a woman's Alice in Wonderland-like journeythrough the molecular portals of life and is a Captured Light presentation of aLord of the Winds Films Production.Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, Barry Newman and Robert ...
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London Film Festival wraps on a high
Asthe London Film Festival closed last night with a screening of David O.Russell's I Heart Huckabees, the festival organisers were claiming thatthis has been the best attended LFF yet.There were around 150 sell-outs and ticket sales, at over 102,000, were up 3% on last year's figures. LFF artistic director Sandra ...
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Grudge star Gellar signs to Kapadia's Revolver
Sarah Michelle Gellar, whosestar is on a high after the success of The Grudge, has signed to star in another supernatural thrillercalled Revolver (not to beconfused with Guy Ritchie's film of the same name for EuropaCorp) which isbeing produced by Aaron Ryder's Raygun Pictures for Focus Features' RoguePictures label.The UK's ...
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Bogeydom takes worldwide sales on Canadian hit Camping Sauvage
Toronto-based international sales company Bogeydom Licensing ishanding worldwide sales on the comedy Camping Sauvage, Canada's biggestrelease of 2004 that grossed CA$4.3m ($3.6m) in Quebec since opening in 100theatres on Jul 9.Produced by Tony Roman for Cine Roman and Lyse Lafontaine forLeyla Films, Camping Sauvage opened in Quebec through Alliance AtlantisVivafilms ...
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Insurance group buys Milstein's completion bond outfit
HCC Insurance Holdings haspaid an undisclosed sum to acquire cineFinance, Fred Milstein's LA-based movieunderwriter that also brought Hollywood-style completion bond financing to HongKong and Korean cinema.Based in Houston, HCC is aninternational insurance holding company with offices across the US, and inBermuda, England and Spain. HCC has assets of more than ...
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Clarification: Shark Tale box office figures
Due to the All Saints Day holiday in many internationalterritories on Monday November 1, certain territories did not report figuresfor the weekend Oct 29-31 on UIP's Shark Tale.At time of posting the international chart and commentary ScreenInternational/ScreenDaily.com had not beenmade aware that figures were omitted for the weekend on Shark ...
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The Grudge embarks upon wide UK debut
Horror remake The Grudge, which opened in the US through Columbia Pictures, goes out wide through UIP in theUK on Nov 5 on 400 prints in what looks likely to be a muscular debut following its strong Stateside launch.Thepicture also opens in Mexico on the same day and can expect ...
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LGFI handles international sales on Frankenstein
Lions Gate Films International will handle international sales on Frankenstein,which makes its market screening premiere at AFM and stars Thomas Kretschmann, ParkerPosey and Vincent Perez.The project was directed by Marcus Nispel, whose recent creditsinclude the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.The Mary Shelley adaptation relocates the action to present-dayNew Orleans, where a ...
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Studios target individuals in war on piracy
The MPAA fired its latestvolley in the war against piracy yesterday, announcing that it will commence legalaction against individuals who trade in illegal digital copies of films overthe internet."Illegal movie traffickingrepresents the greatest threat to the economic basis of moviemaking in its110-year history," MPAA president and chief executive officer Dan ...
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MKB readies Shiri 2 and mega-budget Kang action flick
A sequel to Shiri anda new action film by the director of Shiri and record-breaker Tae GukGi give Korean sales company MKB plenty of leverage on what is its marketdebut.The company emerged from the merger earlier this year of production houses KangJegyuFilms and Myung Films which were acquired by local ...
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Dutch distribs press ahead with Van Gogh release plans
The Dutch distributors ofmurdered director Theo van Gogh's latest film, 06/05, are pressing aheadwith plans to release it in the next two months.06/05, which deals with the assassination on Dutchpolitician Pim Fortuyn in 2002, was finished just before van Gogh was shot andstabbed yesterday by a 26-year old Moroccan with ...
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It's all gone UK, US for Pete Tong
Rapidly building areputation for its innovative approach to commercially-oriented low-budget filmmaking,the UK's Vertigo Films has secured suitably unusual UK and US distributiondeals for its Toronto title It's All Gone Pete Tong.Vertigo has partnered withdistributor Redbus in the UK for a hefty 300-screen release next April. The twocompanies will collaborate on ...
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Arclight gets Duff sisters in Material Girls
Arclight Films closed a dealon Tuesday to handle international sales on Maverick Films' teen comedy MaterialGirls which will team US teen starHilary Duff with her sister Haylie Duff for the first time in a movie.The Duffs play two siblingheiresses who lose their fortune because of a scandal and have to ...
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Rotterdam wins cash injection for Hubert Bals Fund
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs will is to investEuros 2.5m in the Hubert Bals Fund, part of the International Film Festival ofRotterdam (IFFR).Between 2005 to 2008, the money will be shared betweenprojects from film-makers in developing countries.In its autumn round of funding, the fund says it will back22 film ...
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Becker's Love secures female lead
Canadianactress Sarah Gadon (Siblings, FastFood High) has been cast in the keyrole of Sabina opposite Armin Muller Stahl in the forthcoming Where LoveReigns, a drama about psychoanalystCarl Jung.Thefilm, which is to be executive produced by Martin Scorsese, is soldinternationally by Australian seller Becker Films International, headed byReiko Bradley.Itis a psychodrama ...
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German comedy tops international box office chart
For the first time since its launch in April, Screen'sexclusive international box office chart is headed by a non-US producedfilm.Germancomedy 7 Dwarfs topped the chart, led by its $11.7m (Euro 9.2m) openingon its home turf. It also receivednumber ones in Austria and Switzerland.Itwas the third highest opening of the year ...
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IFTA chief optimistic over US tax break
The US tax break just signedinto law by returning President George W Bush could prove to be a windfall forindependent producers worth up to 16% of their movie budgets, claim the organisersof the American Film Market.The production incentive,which was written into the Jumpstart Our Business Strength Act(JOBS), allows films of ...