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Horn slashes both Picturehouse and Warner Independent
Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) will both cease operations, it was announced today by Alan Horn, president & chief operating officer of Warner Bros. Instead of merging the two operations, which came under the same Warner Bros umbrella following New Line Cinema's absorption into the company recently, it has ...
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Australia shoot for Myriad horrorproject Drive The Night
Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures will produce, finance and handleworldwide sales for the horror film Drive The Night, its latest project under the deal with comic-book publisher Studio 407.Bill Bennett wrote and will direct the tale of a couple that gets loston a haunted road in the Outback. Principal photography is ...
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Inferno signs James McTeigue to direct sci-fi thriller Revelation
Inferno partners Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel have hired James McTeigue to direct the sci-fi thriller Revelation and will commence pre-sales at Cannes.New president of international sales Pamela Pickering will introduce the project to buyers on the Croisette. Pickering's arrival, along with that of head of development and production Tracee ...
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Overture picks up domestic to Constantin/Impact thriller Pandorum
Overture Films has picked up North American rights to Constantin Film and Impact Pictures' sci-fi thriller Pandorum starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster.Constantin is financing the project under its joint venture with subsidiary Impact. Summit Entertainment is handling international sales and will introduce to buyers at Cannes.Filming is set to ...
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Kingsley to receive outstanding achievement award at Seattle
Ben Kingsley will receive the 34th Seattle International Film Festival's (SIFF) 2008 Golden Space Needle for Outstanding Achievement in Acting.The tribute ceremony on May 25 will include a clip reel an on-stage interview following the North American premiere of Elegy, Isabel Coixet's Philip Roth adaptation that also stars Penelope Cruz.Kingsley ...
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Carlton, JAM team for Archer adaptations
A series of TV movies based on novels by best-selling author and politician Jeffrey Archer are to be made under a deal between Michael Braham and Jane Walmsley's UK production outfit JAM Pictures and the US' Carlton America.JAM will develop and produce movies and mini-series for the US market under ...
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McElhone, Purefoy take lead roles in Gorris' Heaven & Earth
Natasha McElhone and James Purefoy have joined Marleen Gorris' $15m period romance Heaven & Earth, which is set to begin shooting in the UK on December 10 before moving to Cape Town in January 2009.Cinema Management Group is handling international pre-sales.McElhone will play Dr James Miranda Barry, Britain's first female ...
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Senator to finance Gregor Jordan's thriller Unthinkable
Marco Weber's Senator Entertainment will produce and finance Gregor Jordan's thriller Unthinkable starring Samuel L Jackson.Weber and Caldecot Chubb are producing and principal photography is set to begin on September 2 in Michigan on the story of a secret serviceman and FBI agent who team up to locate three nuclear ...
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Palm takes North American rights to Patti Smith: Dream Of Life
Palm Pictures has acquired North American rights to Steven Sebring's directorial debut Patti Smith: Dream of Life, which premiered at Sundance earlier in the year.Palm and Celluloid Dreams' Pierre Menahem brokered the deal, which encompasses North American theatrical, home video and VOD distribution rights.The company anticipates a late summer 2008 ...
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Almereyda, Knighton win Sloan grants from Sundance Institute
Michael Almereyda has received the Sundance Institute's 2008 Sundance/Sloan Commissioning Grant for The Stanley Milgram Project and screenwriter Ryan Knighton has been awarded the 2008 Sloan Fellowship for his script Cockeyed.Both the Fellowship and the Grant are part of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation's collaboration with the Institute's Feature Film ...
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Participant names five film-makers to receive short film grants
Participant Media will award $5,000 grants to five film-makers as part of its involvement with the Pangea Day one-day short film global showcase on May 10.In addition to the Outstanding Filmmakers Awards Programme, Participant is sponsoring the Filmmaker Development Grant Programme in which all 34 film-makers whose films will be ...
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Racer, Vegas enter box office fray against Iron Man
Three tentpole releases will vie for supremacy this weekend as the overseas arena enters the second weekend of the summer blockbuster season with a bang.Iron Man dominated the charts with a near-$200m global launch last weekend and Marvel Studios' comic book adaptation, released through Paramount in North America and PPI ...
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Arclight buys Conquistador, names Borno head of sales and acquisitions
Arclight Films International has acquired Conquistador Worldwide Media and installed Pascal Borno as its new president of sales and acquisitions.Borno will lead the Arclight sales team in Cannes with a slate that includes the official selection screening Surveillance.'Pascal is a very experienced and innovative executive with a long history in ...
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Endgame to produce, finance A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
LA-based Endgame Entertainment is to produce and finance A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, a comedy to star Jason Sudeikis and Will Forte from US TV's Saturday Night Live, and Leslie Bibb.Pete Huyck and Alex Gregory will make their directorial debut on the film which is based on their screenplay.Endgame CEO ...
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Natalie Portman drops out as Cathy in Wuthering Heights
Natalie Portman has dropped out of John Maybury's new adaptation of Wuthering Heights.Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae's UK-based Ecosse Films is producing. HanWay Films is handling sales. Bernstein confirmed to ScreenDaily.com on Thursday that Portman had pulled out of the project on Wednesday.The move comes as a surprise as she ...
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NewsSan Sebastian to honour Japanese film noir, Monicelli
Preparations for this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18 - 27) got underway as organisers revealed two retrospectives on the works of Italian maestro Mario Monicelli and a dedication to the Japanese film noir genre.
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Jacquot, Diaz Yanes score Eurimages funding
Council of Europe-backed finance body Eurimages is to plough Euros3.075m into eight European co-productions in its third funding round of this year, including new projects from Benoit Jacquot and Agustin Diaz Yanes.Eurimages has two schemes for production funding, both with distinct cultural objectives. The first scheme's awards are based on ...
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Wild Bunch takes on sales for James Toback's Tyson
Wild Bunch will handle international sales on James Toback's Tyson. The documentary, which looks at the prize fighter's life in and out of the ring, is running in competition in the Un Certain Regard sidebar.The film begins with Tyson's earliest memories of growing up in Brooklyn and traces his rise ...
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Kinowelt CEO Bertil le Claire to leave at end of month
The Kinowelt Group's CEO Bertil le Claire has announced his plans to leave the company at the end of May. His duties will be overseen by Romain Bessi, Directeur General of the group's new owner StudioCanal, until a successor has been appointed.Le Claire joined Kinowelt in 1998 as the managing ...
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K5 takes on world sales for Yu's Ping Pong Playa
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has taken on world sales rights to Jessica Yu's Ping Pong Playa.The film premiered at Toronto.Oscar winner Yu wrote and directed the comedy, about an Asian-American suburbanite who unexpectedly has to take over his family's ping-pong dynasty. Jimmy Tsai, Elizabeth Sung and Rodger ...