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First-look deal puts Focus on Africa
Focus Features has signed a first-look deal with independentproducer Kisha Imani Cameron and her Completion Films.Focus has also announced an initiative to nurture African cinema,with Cameron, currently in post production on HBO Films' Rwandan drama SometimesIn April, serving as aproject consultant.Focus president of production John Lyons and his team will ...
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Romanian studio backs down from DiCaprio boast
Romania's Castel Film Studios has backed down from claims made earlier this week that Leonardo DiCaprio would be appearing in Librium, the sci-fi thriller that is due to shoot in Bucharest this Summer for Dimension Films.Admitting to the same wishful thinking that makes casting credits so non-contractual at film markets, ...
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Comic veterans take on animation series
IDT Entertainment's New Arc Films and comic book legendStan Lee, Gill Champion and Arthur Lieberman's POW! Entertainment have signedtwo veteran comic book writers for the first two animated features in asix-title deal.Marv Wolfman will write El Lobo, the story of a physically handicappedheir to a billion-dollar fortune who is protected ...
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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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Celluloid Dreams enjoys AFM sales spree
Powerhouse French sellerCelluloid Dreams has enjoyed a muscular start to the autumn AFM with strongsales in the US and Japan.It closed the last majorterritory on Francois Ozon's Venice competition title 5x2 when it closeda US sale with THINKfilm. The company will open it stateside in spring,2005 "What 5 X 2 ...
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Wild Bunch in the Ascendant
Wild Bunch, the ambitiousFrench sales and distribution group, has begun what it hopes is the beginningof a beautiful friendship with fast-rising US indie producer AscendantPictures. In a last minute dual addition to its autumn AFM slate,Wild Bunch has added the $40m heroic fantasy Outlander and the quirky$10m romantic drama The ...
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Universal, Paramount among Domino buyers for Summit
Summit Entertainment isclose to completing its international sales patchwork on Tony Scott's KeiraKnightley-starrer Domino, thetrue life story of actor Laurence Harvey's daughter Domino who abandoned hercareer as a model to turn bounty hunter.Universal Pictures hasbought Latin America and Japan, Paramount Pictures has bought Australia and NewZealand, Entertainment has bought UK ...
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Lions Gate locks up trio for North America
Lions Gate Films has finalized its deal for North American theatrical and pay TV distribution rights to A Good Woman. In separate deals, the noticeably acquisitive indie also secured all North American rights to Uwe Boll's video game horror adaptation Alone InThe Dark as well as to Gianni Amelio's Le ...
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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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Paris Hilton goes Bottom's Up for Blue Collar
Paris Hilton is in talks tostar in the satire BottomC;s Up, which actor Paul Walker isproducing with his Blue Collar Films partner Brandon Birtell along with HalfMoon Bay and Cameo FJ Entertainment.The story centres on aseemingly witless Midwestern bartender whose Hollywood connections confoundeveryone he encounters.Walker will take a cameorole in ...
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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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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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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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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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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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River Queen's DoP takes over directing duties
River Queen directorof photography Alun Bollinger has stepped up to replace director Vincent Wardon the UK/New Zealand co-production, which is on track to complete principalphotography in late November.Bollinger has had a chequered history with River Queen himself, relinquishing his role to John Cavillbecause of a back injury before Samantha Morton's ...
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Magnolia takes US rights to Somersault
Magnolia Pictures has secured North American rights towriter/director Cate Shortland's Somersault, which late last week broke all records with its clean sweep of theAFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards in Melbourne.Sydney-based producer Anthony Anderson, principal of RedCarpet Productions, said he was very pleased it has gone to the New York-baseddistributor, which ...
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Choice few set AFM buying pace
Buying interest among studiodistributors and leading territorial indies is starting to coalesce around aprized handful of projects being touted here by script packages and promoreels.Acquisition appetites have beenwhetted by a remake of the 1966 crime caper Gambit, scripted by the Coen brothers, which GrahamKing's Initial Entertainment Group is fully financing ...
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Clooney readies McCarthy era drama
George Clooney will direct and star in McCarthy era drama Goodnight.And Good Luck. for Section Eight and ToddWagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Entertainment.Clooney's directing follow-up to Confessions Of ADangerous Mind is being set up at WarnerBros Pictures for domestic and sold to overseas buyers through 2929International, 2929's new sales arm ...