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Coffin Joe to get English-language update
One Eyed Films is developing English-language horror feature based on the classic Coffin Joe character.The film is being planned as a Brazil/Canada/Spain co-production.The film has the working title of Santo Amaro The Bitter Garden and it would be the first Coffin Joe (Ze do Caixao) film in English. The cult ...
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Initialize producers sign two new co-producers; deal with SDI
UK consultancy Initialize Films, which held its first Co-Production Meeting Day at Berlin, is now seeing its group of producers confirming deals in Cannes.Paul Largan of Bandigital is now working with Gia Muresan of Cinemarket Productions for Largan's $6m The Undefended. Also, Swiss producer Christophe Neracher of Hugo Films has ...
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Jaman launches 100 free ad-supported movie downloads
US-based online film distribution portal Jaman.com has launched free ad-supported streamed downloads of 100 independent and international films in high definition quality. The films which include award-winners like Theo Van Gogh's Cool and Shake Hands With The Devil, classics like Charade and a slew of Bollywood titles, are free with ...
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White Male Heart beats with THINKFilm International
THINKFilm International is taking on international sales for White Male Heart, which will star Cillian Murphy and Eddie Redmayne.Both actors are riding high at the moment, with Redmayne's projects including The Other Boleyn Girl and Savage Grace and Murphy's The Dark Knight, Hippie Hippie Shake and The Edge Of Love.THINKFIlm ...
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FCC suspends AOL TW decision
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has suspended its review of the AOL Time Warner merger, declaring it more productive to let its sister agency, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), pass judgement on the issue. However, by stating that it was "stopping the clock" on its proceedings, the FCC reserved ...
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F&ME goes fishing for English-language Icelandic horror film
The Icelandic Film Company is working with UK-based producers Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME) for new English-language horror/thriller Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre.The film will start shooting in August with director Julius Kemp. Financing was closed here in Cannes.The film is described as a splatter movie laden with black comedy. Ingvar ...
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Jinga signs two-pic deal with Spain's Notro
Jinga Films has closed all rights in Spain for two of its titles with NotroFilms. The deal includes Julian Richards' coming-of-age thriller Summer Scars and Craig Strachan's werewolf horror film Wild Country.Notro will release both through its Amazing label with Warner Bros.Jinga's sales slate also includes Penny Woolcock's Exodus and ...
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Palm Tree readies three biopics; screens Seven Crosses in Cannes
Robbie Moffat and Mairi Sutherland's UK-based production and sales company Palm Tree Entertainment has a slate of three historical biopics in development: the $10m Chopin, about the composer; $20m Secret Image about the hidden homosexual love life of Leonardo Da Vinci; and the $15m Voyage Of Dream about the Canadian ...
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Nancy Spungen doc now fully financed
Double D Productions has come on board to invest in a new slate of feature documentaries, starting with Moxie Makers' Who Killed Nancy'.Moxie, the low-budget arm of UK's Ipso Facto, is now complete with financing for the documentary about the life and death of Sid Vicious' girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Alan ...
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K5 takes on world sales for with Gillies' The Disposables
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 continues to build its sales slate with a world sales deal for The Disposables.Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling is executive producing. Daniel Gillies is directing and producing. Gillies also stars in the film with Rachael Leigh Cook and Seymour Cassel.Other producers are Darryn Welch from ...
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High Point scares up Splintered world rights
High Point Films has picked up world rights (excluding UK) to Splintered, which marks Simeon Halligan's directorial debut. Rachel Richardson-Jones of Not A Number will produce, while Clive Parsons will serve as executive producer.The British horror film is about a teenage girl held captive by a man who claims to ...
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ReviewsIt's Hard Being Loved By Jerks (C'est Dur D'etre Aime Par Des Cons)
Dir. Daniel Leconte. 2008.France. 119 minsFreedom of speech and freedom of the press versus religious grievances are explored to edifying effect in It’s Hard Being Loved By Jerks. This lively, intelligently-structured documentary chronicles the suit brought by Muslim organisations against French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo after ...
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Warner Home Video buys Seville's doc Globe Metal
Warner Home Video has acquired US, UK and Mexican rights from Seville International to Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn's documentary Globe Metal.The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Dunn as he trawls through the underbelly of the extreme music scene in Asia, South America and the Middle East. The film ...
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Shoreline signs five-picture deal with Gaga for Japan and South Korea
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment is reporting a strong market and has signed a five-picture deal with Gaga Communications for Japan and South Korea.The package includes zombie action film Automaton Transfusion, which Shoreline acquired from William Morris for international distribution and Dimension Films will release in the US.Writer-director Steven C Miller ...
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Yari Film Group to finance and co-produce Kerosene Cowboys
The Yari Film Group will finance and co-produce the action thriller Kerosene Cowboys to be produced by Dave Riggs and Nickolai Suslov through their Svarog-Afterburner Films banner and Bob Yari.David Glasser of Yari's sales arm Syndicate Films is talking to buyers here on the Top Gun-style story about hard-living Naval ...
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Italy's Pablo snaps up Turin trio
Fledgling Italian distributor Pablo has hoovered up local rights to three films set to screen at next month's Turin Film Festival: I Nostri Anni, directed by Daniele Gaglianone, Corso Salani's Occidente and documentary I Fantasisti. I Nostri Anni, about two World War II veterans tormented by their war memories, and ...
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Epic Pictures closes multiple deals on Finding Amanda
Patrick Ewald's Epic Pictures has closed multiple territory deals on Finding Amanda starring Matthew Broderick, Brittany Snow and Steve Coogan.Rights have gone to Australia (Eagle), CIS (Film Depot), Scandinavia (CCV), South Africa (Ster Kinekor), Middle East (Front Row) and Romania and the former-Yugoslavia (Programs 4 Media). Magnolia holds US rights.Epic ...
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Cinemavault picks up worldwide rights to action epic Kinta
Cinemavault has picked up worldwide rights excluding Malaysia to the martial arts action epic Kinta.CL Hor's film boasts performances by leading Malaysian martial artists including former World wushu champion Robin Ho and former Tai Chi world champion David Bao.The story takes place against the background of the Chinese migration to ...
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Padilha signs on for untitled action thriller with Nunnari's Gang
Gianni Nunnari's Warner Bros-based Hollywood Gang Productions and Management 360 have hired Elite Squad director Jose Padilha to direct an untitled action thriller.The story revolves around a US Federal agent who goes undercover in South America's dangerous tri-border area to dismantle a terrorist funding network.360 and Hollywood Gang plan to ...
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Ghost House Underground picks up The Rise Of Reeker
Ghost House Underground has picked up Dave Payne's horror title No Man's Land: The Rise Of Reeker, which Cinema Management Group (CMG) is selling here and screens in the market today [May 18].Lionsgate's home entertainment division will release the film in autumn as part of Ghost House Underground's inaugural October ...