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Duelling pre-strike Pablo Escobar projects race to production
Bob Yari and Oliver Stone are locked in a race to bring their rival Pablo Escobar projects about the infamous Colombian drug lord to the screen.Both projects are being sold at AFM in Santa Monica and reportedly registering strong interest ahead of their potential pre-strike shoots in early 2008.In one ...
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Moviehouse, Ipso Facto and Soda team for new UK micro-studio
UK producer Christine Alderson (who co-produced Berlinale hit Irina Palm) has spearheaded the launch of a new UK micro-studio. Moxie Makers joins together Alderson's production company Ipso Facto Films with sales company Moviehouse Entertainment and UK distributor Soda Pictures to work on a slate of up to four low-budget features ...
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Magnolia's Magnet takes on Toby Wilkins' Splinter
Magnolia Pictures' new genre label Magnet has swooped on its second acquisition in the last couple of days and taken North American rights to Toby Wilkins' directorial debut Splinter. The film is nearing completion and centres on a young couple on the run that finds themselves besieged in a ...
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High Point sells Extraordinary Rendition to North America and Latin America
High Point Media Group has kicked off AFM with two new sales for Jim Threapleton's Extraordinary Rendition. The film was sold to North America (BFS Entertainment) and Latin America (LAPTV). Extraordinary Rendition, starring Andy Serkis and Omar Berdouni, is about an innocent man abducted from London and interrogated abroad.'We are ...
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Peace Arch handles sales on Goal 3
Peace Arch Entertainment Group is to handle international sales on the football drama Goal 3 starring Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola and Anna Friel.The final episode in the rags-to-riches sporting trilogy follows two English players as they travel with the team to the World Cup in Germany. Director is Andrew Morahan.Peace ...
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TWC closes major AFM pre-sales on Richard Kelly's The Box
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has closed major pre-sales on Richard Kelly's $30m horror project The Box with Cameron Diaz, which is set to begin shooting in Boston at the end of November.Deals closed for the UK, Australia and New Zealand (Icon), South Korea (Eureka), Eastern Europe (EEAP), Greece (Odeon), the ...
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Grindstone takes North America on Left For Dead
Grindstone Entertainment Group has picked up North American rights to Sofia Films' gothic spaghetti Western Left For Dead starring Victoria Maurette.Albert Pyun's centres on a woman's vengeful quest to find her lost husband in turn-of-the-century Mexico. Michael Najjar produced and the film was fully financed by Sofia Films.Sofia's Michael Najjar ...
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Lars von Trier's Antichrist pre-sells widely for Trust
Lars Von Trier, the ageing enfant terrible of European cinema, clearly hasn't lost his allure for the international buyers. His new project Antichrist isn't cast yet.It hasn't been decided where the horror picture will shoot and the financing has still to be put together but that hasn't stopped distributors from ...
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Sobini launches international sales arm under Todd Olsson
Mark Amin's Sobini Films has launched a sales division and installed recent hire Todd Olsson to run it.Olsson, who previously handled sales with Mark Damon at Behaviour Films and worked at American World Pictures, among others, is at AFM to meet buyers.Sobini Films International's first projects is Damien Harris' kidnapping ...
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Curzon Artificial Eye expands product scope with Hunt buy
Signaling its increasing appetite for mainstream fare, UK distributorCurzon Artificial Eye has taken UK rights to Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me, starring Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler and Matthew Broderick.Then She Found Me is one of five new titles that Curzon Artificial Eye has picked up on the autumn ...
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UK's Boulevard signs exclusive Fox deal for UMD format for PSP
Boulevard Entertainment, the UK DVD distributor, has branched out into the Universal Media Disc (UMD) format, used for PlayStation Portable, and signed an exclusive three-year UK deal for UMD releases for Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The deal covers new and library titles from Fox, Pathe and MGM. New releases ...
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New buyers have a taste for Roissy's Caramel
Early in the AFM, Paris-based Roissy Films has confirmed new deals on its Cannes hit Caramel.Deals signed include Argentina & Chile (Alfa Films), Mexico (Cine Video Y TV) and India (Alliance). A deal is pending with South Korea. and Roissy is also in advanced negotiations with Japan & Taiwan.Directed by ...
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Magnolia's Magnet buys domestic on Vestiel's French Eden Log
Magnolia Pictures' genre label Magnet has acquired North America rights including French Canada to Franck Vestiel's sci-fi horror epic Eden Log and will release in 2008.Currently in post-production, the film is about a man who finds himself at the bottom of an underground maze and must navigate his way out.Magnolia's ...
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Focus reteams with Jim Jarmusch for The Limits Of Control
Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights to Jim Jarmusch's tentatively titled The Limits Of Control, which has been set for a pre-strike shoot in Spain early next year.Focus Features International commences sales hereon the story of a loner who operates outside the law and works on a mysterious assignment. ...
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Ondamax picks up world rights to English-language Coyote
In its first English-language pick-up, Miami-based Latin American specialist Ondamax has taken world rights to Brian Petersen's Coyote. The film, a Grand Jury Award winner at the Big Bear Lake Film Festival and an Audience Award Winner at the San Diego Film Festival, is about two young Americans who try ...
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Gilliam reunites with Ledger for Doctor Parnassus
Terry Gilliam will reunite with his Brothers Grimm star Heath Ledger on fantasy adventure The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus. Mandate International is commencing sales here on the project, which has been lined up for a pre-strike December shoot in London and Vancouver. Christopher Plummer plays a travelling magician who owes ...
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Pfeiffer, Kutcher get together for romance Personal Effects
Michelle Pfeiffer and Ashton Kutcher will star opposite each other in the romance Personal Effects, which is set to begin filming in Vancouver on Nov 26.Los Angeles-based Voltage Pictures will commence sales at AFM after company chief Nicolas Chartier acquired rights from Vancouver-based Insight Film Studios.Kutcher will play a young ...
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Harrelson joins Michaels' The Other Side with Myriad
Woody Harrelson has joined Myriad Pictures' ghost story The Other Side, which has been scheduled for a pre-strike shoot in January 2008 in Nova Scotia. Giovanni Ribisi and Jason Lee have already signed and Myriad is expected to announce the female lead and more casting shortly. David Michaels will ...
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Celluloid sells North America, Germany on Miike's Django
Celluloid Dreams has announced the sale of Takashi Miike's western Sukiyaki Western Django in North American and German speaking territories. The North American deal was signed with Gary Hirsch of First Look Studios and brokered by Celluloid president Hengameh Panahi. Walter Rehm's Universum picked up the German speaking territory rights. ...
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Cumming and Romijn reteam go mad for AV's Hatter
Alan Cumming and Rebecca Romijn will reunite after X2 to star in Hatter.James Killough wrote the script and will make his feature film directorial debut.Killough will also produce with Angad Paul; Paul's UK-based company AV Pictures is handling sales. Cumming and Romijn will play Matt Hatter and Alice Allyson in ...