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    Goalpost starts sales on Jean Charles de Menezes story Brazuca

    2008-11-05T06:00:00Z

    Brazuca, the Jean Charles de Menezes project formerly known as Leave To Remain or Jean Charles, has finished principal photography after shooting in both the UK and Brazil.UK-based Goalpost Film is launching international sales here at the AFM, and Imagem Group will handle Latin American sales. The film will be ...

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    Echo Bridge boards Baltasar Kormakur-directed thriller Inhale

    2008-11-05T06:00:00Z

    Echo Bridge Entertainment has picked up international rights from 26 Films to Baltasar Kormakur's new Engish-language thriller Inhale and will commence pre-sales this week at AFM.Production just wrapped on the story starring Dermot Mulroney as a rising LA District Attorney who gets involved with a Mexican criminal medical ring in ...

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    High Point strikes North American deal with BFS for The Race

    2008-11-05T06:00:00Z

    High Point Films is kicking off AFM with a North American pre-sale for its new family feature The Race. BFS Entertainment has pre-bought all North American rights. Colm Meaney, Susan Lynch and Niamh McGirr star in the story of the young daughter of poor farmers who dreams of becoming a ...

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    Intandem signs on for $25m supernatural thriller Mortis Rex

    2008-11-05T06:00:00Z

    UK-based Intandem Films has taken on world rights for and will executive produce supernatural action thriller Mortis Rex.The film will mark the directorial debut of Peter Briggs, who was one of the writers on Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy and has been a writer-for-hire for studio films.The $25m project will shoot ...

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    AFM Briefs Nov 5

    2008-11-05T04:00:00Z

    Diffusion Pictures has acquired all UK rights from Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's Visit Films to the drama Momma's Man following its London Film Festival screenings.The film premiered at Sundance and tells of a man who visits his parents' loft apartment in Manhattan on a business trip and decides not ...

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    Serafinowicz joins cast of Universal's Couples Retreat

    2008-11-05T02:18:00Z

    British actor-comedian Peter Serafinowicz has joined Jason Bateman,Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn on the cast of Universal Films' CouplesRetreat directed by Peter Billingsley.The story centres on a couple on the verge of separating who convincetheir friends to go with them on holiday at a couples resort on atropical island.Filming is ...

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    UCLA's Formato takes Goldwyn Writing Awards top prize

    2008-11-05T02:16:00Z

    UCLA student Austin Formato has won the first prize of $15,000 in the53rd annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards for his project Self Help.Robyn Paris took the $7,500 second prize for Odd Man Out and J JNelson and Richard Rapoza tied for the $4,000 third prize for Out OfRoad and The ...

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    Cast lines up for Mario Van Peebles' thriller Kerosene Cowboys

    2008-11-05T02:12:00Z

    Cam Gigandet, Shane West, Rachael Leigh Cook and Troy Garity havejoined the cast of Svarog-Afterburner Films' upcoming action thrillerKerosene Cowboys.Offers are out to Richard Dreyfus and Val Kilmer to round out the full cast, which includes Jason Gray-Standford, Jacob Vargas and J C Chasez.Mario Van Peebles will direct from a ...

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    Donald Sutherland to preside over Whistler jury

    2008-11-05T01:08:00Z

    Veteran actor Donald Sutherland will be the president of the jury at the eighth annual Whistler Film Festival, December 4 to 7. Joining Sutherland on the jury are Canadian directors Patricia Rozema and Sturla Gunnarsson.Held in the British Columbia ski resort, the festival will be presenting a number of world ...

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    TLA Releasing takes North America on Finding Me

    2008-11-05T01:06:00Z

    TLA Releasing has acquired North America and Caribbean basin rights to OmeProductions' drama Finding Me from first-time director Roger S Omeus Jr.The distributor plans a spring 2009 release on the story of a browbeaten gay man with a homophobic father who gets a chance to find true love.RayMartell Moore, Ronald ...

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    StudioCanal takes on sales for Yorkshire Ripper trilogy

    2008-11-04T22:23:00Z

    StudioCanal has announced the acquisition of two new English-language projects which comprise four films in total. The first, The Red Riding Trilogy, is based on a series of cult British crime novels by David Peace inspired by the true story of the Yorkshire Ripper. The second, Cotton, is a faux-documentary ...

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    Wolfe Video picks up North America on two before AFM

    2008-11-04T21:54:00Z

    Wolfe Video has announced it has acquired North American rights ahead of AFM to the gay titles Whirlwind and Mulligans.Whirlwind explores non-monogamy, commitment and friendship in New York.Richard Le May directed and Bryan West, Alexis Suarez, Desmond Dutcher, Brad Anderson and Mark Ford star. The film won the audience award ...

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    6 Sales enters Narrows, surfs Wave

    2008-11-04T21:36:00Z

    On the eve of the AFM, 6 Sales has taken international rights to The Narrows, directed by François A Velle and starring Kevin Zegers (Transamerica), VincentD'Onofrio, Sophia Bush and Eddie Cahill. Deals already closed after the film's Toronto world premiere include to Movie Bank in Benelux and Koba Films in ...

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    Sony Classics takes North and Latin America on Soul Power

    2008-11-04T21:32:00Z

    Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has picked up North American and Latin American rights from Submarine Entertainment to Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's documentary Soul Power following its world premiere at Toronto.Soul Power chronicles the 12-hour Zaire '74 R&B concert in Kinshasa, Zaire, in 1974 that played concurrently with the infamous Rumble In The ...

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    Voltage enters The Bubble Factory's Tomb

    2008-11-04T21:21:00Z

    Nicolas Chartier's Voltage Pictures has boarded international rights to The Bubble Factory and Ringleader Studios' supernatural action title The Devil's Tomb starring Cuba Gooding Jr.Jason Connery directed the story of a team of mercenaries hired by a mysterious CIA operative to rescue a scientist from an archaeological site in the ...

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    Warner strikes innovative digital VOD plan in China

    2008-11-04T20:37:00Z

    Warner Bros announced that it will become the first Hollywood studio to release films digitally in China in a pioneering transactional VOD initiative that also marks the latest strike in the war on piracy.Studio titles such as I Am Legend, Fool's Gold and Speed Racer will be made available to ...

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    Focus announces five film-makers selected for Africa First

    2008-11-04T05:46:00Z

    Focus Features announced the first five film-makers to benefit from the company's Africa First initiative announced earlier this year.The five film-makers of African nationality and residence arrived in New York last weekend to take part in workshops with the likes of Focus CEO James Schamus and production chief John Lyons.The ...

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    Hurd to receive first career award at new LA Women's Showcase

    2008-11-04T02:09:00Z

    Producer Gale Anne Hurd will receive the first career achievement award from the Women's International Film & Television Showcase (The WIFTS) which is holding its first event in Los Angeles from Dec 4-7.The award will be presented on the final night of the four-day showcase which will present ten films ...

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    AFM: Artist View embraces Brothers War

    2008-11-04T01:49:00Z

    Artist View Entertainment has taken on international rights heading into AFM to the action thriller Brothers War from producer Tino Struckmann.Jerry Buteyn directed the story set in the closing days of the Second World War as a German and a British officer join forces to save Europe from a new ...

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    Cinemavault acquires international to The Hammer

    2008-11-04T01:46:00Z

    Cinemavault has acquired international rights to the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival comedy The Hammer starring Adam Carolla and will introduce to buyers at AFM.Charles Herman-Wurmfeld directed the story of a 40-year-old underachiever who works on a construction site and lands a chance to try out for the US Olympic team.Heather ...