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Jean-Claude Van Damme sales pack punch
The UK's Revolver has picked up rights to J.C.V.D. , the latest Jean-Claude Van Damme film being sold by Gaumont. The film has been generating a lot of buzz on the Internet and is a hot seller for the French studio. A mix of reality and fiction, the ...
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Bruce Beresford named jury president of Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Bruce Beresford will be president of the international jury for the second Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs), to be held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia on Nov 11, 2008. Beresford is currently filming Mao's Last Dancer, an adaptation of the book of the same name, which is partly ...
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Imax Corp issues profit warning
Imax Corporation will post a third-quarter loss, according to a release issued late Wednesday. The news will further complicate the company's search for a buyer. The giant screen entertainment company has been hit by the downturn amongst theatrical exhibitors in North America. Since August three US circuits - Edwards Theatres, ...
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Fortissimo climbs on board Magic Bus
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights, excluding the US and UK, to Jigsaw Film's upcoming documentary Magic Bus. The film charts the LSD-fueled 1964 bus journey of author Ken Kesey and his cohorts, including Jack Kerouac's notorious sidekick Neal Cassady. Directed by Alex Gibney (Gonzo: The Life And ...
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India's Reliance Big Entertainment sets out $1bn ambitions
Reliance BIG Entertainment, owned by India 's massive Reliance ADA Group, is poised to become one of the most aggressive players in the global film business. The upstart studio unveiled its debut slate of 69 pictures in nine languages at Cannes yesterday, along with plans to invest $1bn in ...
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Thai Studio GTH sells Body to Germany, Indonesia
Thai studio GMM Thai Hub (GTH) has sold suspense thriller Body to Germany 's I-On New Media and Indonesian distributor PT Cakarwala Pesona Jaya Film. Meanwhile, horror portmanteau 4bia has been pre-sold to a string of Asian distributors including Panasia for Hong Kong and Taiwan, Golden Screen for Malaysia and ...
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Pyramide International to handle next Bruno Dumont
Pyramide International will handle the next film from Palme d'Or winning director Bruno Dumont. Hadewijch stars Julie Sokolowski, Yassine Salime and Davis Dewaele in a story about Celine, a young woman dismissed from the convent for her shockingly blind, ecstatic faith. Returning to her life as the daughter of ...
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After box-office boost, Norwegian film looks to future
Norwegian films have reached a record high of 32% market share in the first quarter of 2008. The figure was announced in Cannes this week by Wiegard Harsvik, deputy minister in Norway's Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs. 'The first quarter was way beyond target,' Harsvig commented of figures that ...
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Fox buys Che for Spain as two separate films
Steven Soderbergh's competition title Che will be released by Fox in Spain as two separate films.The deal was done by Spanish company Telecinco with Fox directly. The remaining territories are being sold by Wild Bunch.'The first film [The Argentine] will be released by Fox in September, and the second [Guerrilla] ...
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Footage from Moodysson's Mammoth set for Cannes screening
Producer Lars Jönsson of Memfis Film has revealed further details of Swedish wunderkind Lukas Moodysson's $12m English-language debut Mammoth (on TrustNordisk's Cannes slate.) On Sunday, there will be a closed screening for selected distributors of the first footage from the film, which stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Michelle Williams. Veteran ...
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Troubled German VIP fund back in business
VIP Medienfonds, the financier of such hits as Monster, Black Book and Perfume, is back in the film production business, says Thierry Potok, who took over as CEO of the German private media fund at the beginning of this month.VIP has more than $31m (20m Euros) in funding from VIP ...
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Celluloid Dreams gets Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer
Celluloid Dreams has acquired Mao's Last Dancer for international sales. Bruce Beresford's film is the inspirational story of ballet dancer Li Cunxin and was adapted from Li's autobiography by Jan Sardi. Sardi was nominated for an Oscar for Shine in 1997Budgeted at $25m, the film is ...
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Latido sells key titles to UTV
Latido Films has sold several of its films to major Indian distributor UTV, including veteran Spanish director Manuel Gutierrez Aragon's Basque terrorist drama Who's Next. The other films are Max Lemcke's comedy Casual Day, which Walt Disney Motion Pictures International released in Spain last week; Gerardo Olivares' drama 14 Kilometros, ...
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April Captains to open Huelva fest
Portuguese actress Maria de Medeiros' directorial debut, April Captains (Capitaes De Abril), will inaugurate this year's 26th annual Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva, Spain (Nov 10-18).Medeiros will also sit on the festival's official jury alongside Spanish director Juan Pinzas, Spanish critic Mirito Torreiro, and Brazilian producer Esdras Rubim, among others.The ...
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Columbia buys Goosebumps books for feature with Original
Columbia Pictures has acquired from Scholastic Media the right to adapt Scholastic's bestselling Goosebumps series of books into a feature.Deborah Forte and Neal H Moritz of Original Films will produce the children's horror novellas. The first story was published in 1992 and the series has gone on to sell more ...
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MGM acquires rights to children's book The Facttracker
MGM has acquired rights to Jason Carter Eaton's children's book The Facttracker and attached Monsters, Inc co-director David Silverman to direct.Eaton and writing partner Ian Lendler will adapt the live-action film based on the story of a town that gathers all the facts in the world and comes under threat ...
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Jonathan Miller takes 100% control of First Run/Icarus Films
First Run Features has sold its interest in First Run/Icarus Films back to the company with the result that First Run/Icarus Films is now wholly owned by Jonathan Miller, who will continue as president of the company.First Run/Icarus Films will change its name to Icarus Films from June 1 and ...
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Lionsgate takes worldwide rights to The Perfect Game
Lionsgate has acquired worldwide rights excluding Mexico from LA-based HighRoad Entertainment to William Dear's The Perfect Game.The true story centres on a lowly Mexican Little League team that became the first non-American team to win the league's World Series. Clifton Collins, Cheech Marin and Louis Gossett Jr star.W William Winokur ...
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Screen Capital International, WMA launch $100 production fund
Screen Capital International (SCI) and William Morris Agency have launched Incentive Filmed Entertainment, a $100m production and financing vehicle that will fully fund up to ten features a year budgeted up to $15m.William Morris Independent's Cassian Elwes and Rena Ronson will represent worldwide sales on the slate on behalf of ...