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    Costa gets into Brazilian rhythm with Anderson, Barreto

    2009-02-08T06:00:00Z

    Eduardo Costantini's Buenos-Aires-based Costa Films is making a concerted push into Brazil, mounting a $9m music drama to be directed by Brad Anderson and co-produced by Spain's Filmax and Rio-based Bananeira Filmes, as well as partnering with the Barreto family to make a biopic of current Brazilian president Lula Da ...

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    In The Electric Mist

    2009-02-07T23:50:00Z

    Dir: Bertrand Tavernier. US-France. 2009. 117mins.

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    Rendez-Vous hosts world premiere of Techine's Girl On The Train

    2009-02-07T16:36:00Z

    The 14th edition of Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York will screen 18 films during The Film Society Of Lincoln Center and Unifrance's annual showcase from March 5-15.The world premiere of Andre Techine's social drama The Girl On The Train is in the line-up, along with the US premiere ...

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    Marin Blue

    2009-02-07T11:10:00Z

    Dir: Matthew Hysell. US. 2009. 77mins.

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    AMediaVision announces slate led by Reach For Me

    2009-02-07T07:49:00Z

    AMediaVision Projects has announced a slate of films led by the recently completed drama Reach For Me starring Seymour Cassel and Alfre Woodard.Cassel stars as a hospice patient who reflects on his decision to live out his life in peace as his roommate chooses to celebrate his dying days. Johnny ...

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    The Exploding Girl

    2009-02-06T21:00:00Z

    Dir: Bradley Rust Grey. US. 2009. 79mins.

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    Greg MacGillivray shoots documentary about surfing culture

    2009-02-06T17:19:00Z

    Greg MacGillivray is shooting a documentary examining 50 years of surfing culture in cinema with particular emphasis on the troubled production of John Milius' 1978 Big Wednesday.The untitled project will draw from archival material ranging from Thomas Edison's first Hawaiian surfing footage in 1906 to excerpts from iconic imagery from ...

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    Defamation

    2009-02-06T17:15:00Z

    Dir: Yoav Shamir. Israel-Austria-US-Denmark. 2009. 93mins.

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    Celluloid to handle sales on Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut

    2009-02-06T17:14:00Z

    Celluloid Dreams has signed on to handle international sales of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut,Jack Goes Boating,billed as an unconventional romantic comedy.

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    Pathe seals deals on Frears' Cheri with Lumiere, Nordisk

    2009-02-06T08:10:00Z

    On the eve of EFM, Pathe International announced deals on two major territories for Stephen Frears' Cheri which screens in competition here on Feb 10. Lumiere has taken the film for Benelux and Nordisk for Scandinavia.The film, written by Christopher Hampton from Colette's novel stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Felicity ...

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    Barnz signs on to direct edgy romance Beastly for CBS Films

    2009-02-06T07:49:00Z

    Daniel Barnz has signed on to direct the edgy romance Beastly for CBS Films.

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    Wild Bunch arrives in Berlin with auteur-packed sales slate

    2009-02-06T06:00:00Z

    Wild Bunch comes to Berlin this year boasting new projects from both seasoned and fresh talent - and has a few special events up its sleeve.In casting news, Kate Hudson, Elias Koteas, Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty have joined the previously announced The Killer Inside Me, a $13m adaptation of ...

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    IM Global Acclaim seals 26 presales on Miller's Pippa Lee

    2009-02-06T06:00:00Z

    As US specialty buyers prepare for the world premiere of Rebecca Miller's official selection comedy drama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee on February 9, IM Global Acclaim has reported strong international sales.Icon has taken rights for the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Tri Pictures has acquired in Spain, CDI ...

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    The International

    2009-02-05T20:45:00Z

    Dir: Tom Tykwer. US-Ger. 2008. 118mins.

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    Benjamin Button strides into major markets two weeks before Oscars

    2009-02-05T15:42:00Z

    MGM/UA’s wartime thriller Valkyrie has been the leading Hollywood export through Fox International for the past two weekends and has raced past $40m, but without any new releases Fox Internationalwill look to strong holdover business to maintain momentum.

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    Ewan McGregor, Carey Mulligan team for The Electric Slide

    2009-02-05T15:00:00Z

    Myriad Pictures has come aboard to finance and handle international sales on Killer Films and Di Bonaventura Pictures' The Electric Slide with Ewan McGregor and Sundance discovery Carey Mulligan in talks to play the leads.Tristan Patterson will direct from his screenplay based on Timothy Ford's article The Yankee Bandit: The ...

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    Kunath promoted to evp, general manager at Screen Gems

    2009-02-05T10:38:00Z

    Screen Gems has promoted Pamela Kunath to executive vice president and general manager and charged her with overseeing all operations and administration across all areas of the studio's business.In her expanded role Kunath, who joined Screen Gems shortly after its inception in 2001, will continue to head the company's business ...

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    Fichman to be key instructor at TAP in Berlin and Halifax

    2009-02-05T08:08:00Z

    Canadian producer Niv Fichman (Blindness, Silk) will be on hand as the senior resource instructor at Trans Atlantic Partners International Coproduction: Focus Europe and Canada (TAP), scheduled for June and September in Berlin and Halifax.The two-part training program for Canadian and European producers is a joint initiative of Halifax's Strategic ...

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    Robert Redford and TerryGilliam projects spark up at Voltage Pictures

    2009-02-05T06:00:00Z

    Nicolas Chartier's high-flying Los Angeles financing and sales company Voltage Pictures arrives at EFM with its most prestigious slate to date led by new work from Robert Redford and Terry Gilliam.Chartier is in Berlin to introduce buyers to Robert Redford's romantic thriller The Company You Keep that is ready to ...

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    Wild Bunch launches 3D label kicking off with Oceans

    2009-02-05T06:00:00Z

    Wild Bunch is going 3-D. The French sales, distribution and financing outfit will create a new label, Wild Bunch 3-D, under which 3-D films will be distributed and sold. The new arm is to kick off with Oceans 3-D Into The Deep from filmmaker brothers Jean-Jacques and Francois Mantello and ...