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Moviehouse takes on sales for Lopez and Antony's El Cantante
UK-based Moviehouse Entertainment is now handling international sales for El Cantante starring Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony.The film is about Puerto Rican salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe (and wife Puchi) following his tumultuous life from the 1960s to the 1980s.Producers are Julio Caro, Lopez and Simon Fields, who did the deal ...
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Weinstein Co takes US rights to three from Wild Bunch
The Weinstein Company (TWC) swooped last night [Nov 3] on US rights to three films from Wild Bunch in the first major domestic deal of AFM to be announced.In the evening of Saturday, several hours after Harvey Weinstein had been observed at the Loews deep in conversation with key lieutenant ...
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Weinsteins closes Attenborough's Ring with Content
The Weinstein Company has taken US rights to Richard Attenborough's Closing The Ring from ContentFilm International.The film had its world premiere in Toronto. The epic love story, set in the present day and World War II, is about an American woman who looks back on a wartime promise. Shirley MacLaine, ...
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Brittany Murphy Wakes Up For 3:30am with Future
Brittany Murphy has come on board to play the lead in psychological horror film 3:30am, which will be written and directed by Mick Davis (Modigliani). Future Films is backing the project. Ellen Wander at Film Bridge International is handling world sales. Costa Theo and Joy Mellins at Milcoz Films are ...
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Intandem to finance and sell $25m thriller Tatua
Intandem Films has taken on rights to action thriller Tatua and will raise and structure the financing of the $25m project.The sci-fi action thriller is written by comic book veterans Rob Prior and Paul Jenkins. Todd Breau and Kari Hollend will produce.Gary Smith, chief executive of Intandem Films, said: 'This ...
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Image takes US home video rights to Numb with Matthew Perry
Image Entertainment has taken US home video, pay-per-view, VOD and digital rights to Numb starring Matthew Perry.Harris Goldberg directed the feature, which also stars Lynn Collins, Kevin Pollak, Bob Gunton, Mary Steenburgen, Helen Shaver and William B Davis.The deal with Numb Productions Inc, Lantern Lane Entertainment and Fries Film Group ...
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Fissures sold to Lifesize in US by Wide Management
Midway through the AFM, Loic Magneron's Paris-based Wide Management has closed a raft of deals on its market line-up, including an all rights US sale on Atlante Kavaite's Fissures starring Emilie Dequenne to Lifesize Entertainment. Fissures, produced by Antoine Simkine of Les Films D'Antoine, is a psychological drama about a ...
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Danielak sells key territories on Rifkin-Eberts/A-Mark titles
Yarek Danielak's Arsenal Pictures has closed key territories on the Rifkin-Eberts and A-Mark Entertainment titles Stag starring Kip Pardue and Night Train starring Danny Glover.Rights to both films have sold in Germany (Koch Media), Mexico (Gussi), Brazil (Playarte), Greece (Audiovisual), the Middle East (Phars), and Turkey (Umut).Los Angeles-based Danielak said ...
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Cry Of The Owl starts in Toronto with Considine, Stiles
Principal photography has begun in Toronto on Jamie Thraves' Cry Of The Owl with Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles and Caroline Dhavernas in the lead roles. Adapted by Thraves from the novel by Patricia Highsmith, the Canada-Germany co-production follows the tortured path of a voyeur who become entangled with the object ...
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New Line takes domestic rights to two Gold Circle films
New Line Cinema has picked up North American rights to Gold Circle's romantic comedy Over Her Dead Body starring Eva Longoria Parker and upcoming thriller The New Daughter with Kevin Costner.Mandate International is selling foreign rights to both titles. The studio has set a February 1 2008 release date for ...
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Belgium's MMG plans Alzheimer Case sequel The K File
Belgian production outfit MMG is hatching a follow-up to its smash hit The Alzheimer Case aka The Memory Of A Killer. The new film, titled The K File, will again be directed by Erik Van Looy. MMG's Erwin Provoost has confirmed that The K File, based on the novel by ...
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Cinemavault sells Australia on Canvas to All Interactive
Cinemavault Releasing International has sold key territories on the drama Canvas with Marcia Gay Harden and Joe Pantoliano and horror film Scar 3D.Rights to Canvas have gone to Australia (All Interactive), Greece (Seven Films), the Middle East (Front Row), and Portugal (Lusomundo).Joseph Greco's film won the Alice In The City ...
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Media Luna seals AFM deals on Vitus, Bog Of Beasts
Ida Martins' Media Luna Entertainment has closed an all rights Scandinavian deal for Fredi Murer's Vitus with Sunrise.Meanwhile, early in the AFM, the German sales outfit has also confirmed a sale of Rotterdam Festival Tiger award winner Claudio Assis' Bog Of Beasts to Deusfilm for Italy.Just prior to the market, ...
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San Fu Maltha lays out Fu Works production slate
San Fu Maltha, the Dutch producer of Black Book, has unveiled his upcoming production slate through his Amsterdam-based production outfit Fu Works.In post-production and likely to be ready for Cannes is The Real Life, the latest film from Robert Jan Westdijk (Siberia, Little Sister) which stars Loes Haverkort and Ramsey ...
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Kampe & Tron's Visit Films sells Severed Ways to Madman
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's New York-based production and sales company Visit Films has sold Tony Stone's adventure Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery Of America to Madman in Australia and New Zealand.Stone produced the account of two stranded Vikings who try to return home from North America after a bout ...
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NBA star Robertson develops basketball feature
Figaro Films is working with NBA star Oscar Robertson to develop a feature based on Betsy Blankenbaker's documentary Something To Cheer About.The story follows Indiana's 1955 Crispus Attucks High School Tigers, the first all-black high school basketball team to win a state championship. Robertson himself played for the team. Aaron ...
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Gold Circle strikes multi-year output deal with Canada's Maple
US production and financing company Gold Circle Films and Canada's second-largest distributor, Maple Pictures, have signed a multi-picture, multi-year output deal. The pact kicks off with Chilled In Miami starring Renee Zellwegger and Harry Connick Jr, and The New Daughter starring Kevin Costner.The deal was announced by Maple co-presidents Laurie ...
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Lumina swims with Maringouin's Big River Man
Lumina Films has taken on worldwide rights (excluding the UK) for John Maringouin's documentary Big River Man.The film is now in post-production, and Lumina is helping with finishing funds. A Sundance launch is possible.Big River Man follows eccentric Slovenian endurance swimmer Martin Strel as he attempts to swim the Amazon.'It's ...
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Image strikes US home video deal for Lumet's Devil
Image Entertainment has taken US home video, broadcast and digital rights to Sidney Lumet's Before The Devil Knows You're Dead.Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke and Albert Finney star in the story of two brothers who hatch an ill-fated plan to rob their own parents.The deal was struck with ...
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Little Film books sales for Stone's War and Satanas
The Little Film Company has closed key territories on Lithuania Film Studios' supernatural action thriller Stone's War and Dynamo & Rionegro Producciones' Colombia's foreign language Oscar submission Satanas. Deals on Stone's War closed in Italy (Media One), Mexico (Quality Films), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Canada (Equinoxe), and Greece (Spentzos). Marko Makilaakso's film ...