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John Smith's $6m Love And Savagery rolls in Ireland
John N. Smith's Canada-Ireland coproduction Love And Savagery begins shooting today in County Clare, Ireland. The $6.3m (C$6.5m) production reunites Smith, screenwriter Des Walsh and director of photography Pierre Latarte, the creative team behind the acclaimed 1992 production The Boys Of St. Vincent.Set in 1968, Love And Savagery follows a ...
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Denton to head new sales arm for Bold Films
Stephanie Denton has resurfaced as president of worldwide distribution at Bold Films following her former employer Lionsgate's merger with Mandate Pictures.Effective immediately, Denton will head Bold's newly formed international division and oversee domestic, marketing, business affairs, delivery and collection.She is assembling her team and reports to Bold co-presidents Gary Michael ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes world rights to Kuras doc The Betrayal
Celluloid Dreams has acquired worldwide rights excluding North America to award-winning film-maker Ellen Kuras' The Betrayal. The film, which ran in the documentary competition at Sundance, recently took the top prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.The epic odyssey follows a family from war-torn Laos to New York over the ...
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Canet's Tell No One gets US distribution deal with Music Box
Music Box Films has acquired all US rights to Guillaume Canet's French box office hit Tell No One, based on the bestseller by Harlan Coben.The thriller earned Canet the best director Cesar and brought the best actor trophy to Francois Cluzet.Tell No One centres on a doctor who gets implicated ...
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Jeff Sakson joins Participant as vice president of publicity
Jeffrey Sakson has joined Participant Media as vice president of publicity and will report to executive vice presidents of marketing Buffy Shutt and Kathy Jones.Sakson will oversee publicity on all Participant releases and social action campaigns related to its films and will also take charge of corporate communications.Sakson is a ...
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Borshell succeeds Greenwald as president of Image Entertainment
Image Entertainment's chief operating officer David Borshell has succeeded Martin W Greenwald as president of the home entertainment producer and distributor.The board of directors has made the title of president the top executive position of the company and does not plan to seek a CEO. Borshell will report directly to ...
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IMAX signs three separate deals in Russia
IMAX Corp. has signed three separate deals with Russian firms to install large-format digital projection systems in three cities: Sochi, Nizinhy Novogorod and in Siberia's Novosibirsk. All three cinemas, the first of their kind in the nation, are expected to be installed between 2009 and 2011.The Sochi facility will be ...
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Contender, Seville buy Franklyn and Eddie from HanWay
Growing UK distributor Contender Films, now owned by Canada's Entertainment One, has acquired all UK rights for features Franklyn and Eddie The Eagle, both sold by HanWay Films.Also, Entertainment One's Seville Pictures took Canadian rights to both titles.Gerald McMorrow's feature debut Franklyn is a story of four lost souls in ...
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Canana picks up five films for distribution in Mexico
Canana, the production company founded by actors Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and producer Pablo Cruz, has lined up five films for release in Mexico through its new distribution arm. Most of the titles are first films by local film-makers. The first to be released is Aaron Fernandez's directorial debut ...
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Veteran international executive Sandy Cobe dies in Los Angeles
Veteran international sales executive Sandy Cobe died on Feb 20 in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 79.Cobe's varied career included work in exhibition, sales and production and he served on the board of directors of the AFMA (now IFTA) from 1982 to 1992.Born in New York City, ...
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Cinema Libre picks up worldwide rights to disFIGURED
Cinema Libre Studio has picked up worldwide rights to Glenn Gers' disFIGURED, which makes its world premiere at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival on Apr 1.disFIGURED stars Deidra Edwards and Staci Lawrence as strangers who meet through a California-based Fat Acceptance group and become firm friends. Launchpad Productions' David ...
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Slavoj Zizek to preside as guest director at Telluride in Aug
Slavoj Zizek will preside as guest director of the 35th Telluride Film Festival, which is scheduled to run from Aug 29-Sept 1.The Slovenian-born political philosopher and academic has written more than 50 books covering a diverse array of subjects ranging from Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch to Wagner and cyberspace. ...
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James E Curry joins LA law firm Sheppard Mullin
James E Curry has joined the Century City office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP as partner in the law firm's entertainment and media group.Curry most recently practised as a founding partner with White O'Connor Curry in Century City.Curry is an experienced trial attorney who specialises in business lawsuits ...
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Fortissimo takes on Tribeca world premiere Chevolution
Fortissimo Films has acquired all rights outside North America for the documentary Chevolution.Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment financed the film.Trisha Ziff and Luis Lopez directed the documentary about Alberto Korda's iconic photograph of Che Guevara. The film's interviewees include Gael Garcia Bernal, Antonio Banderas, Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine ...
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Horton takes over international lead
Fox's Horton Hears A Who! edged into the lead at the international box office over the weekend, grossing an estimated $13.2m from 52 markets while Warner's 10,000 BC, leader for the last three weekends, took $12m from 62. The weekend's biggest new opening, meanwhile, came from Fox's 27 Dresses, which ...
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21 wins the weekend hand at US box office
Sony's card-counting drama 21 came up trumps at the North American box office this weekend, opening at the top of the domestic chart with an estimated three-day gross of $23.7m. Last week's leader Horton Hears A Who! held up well in its third weekend, but three other new releases had ...
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Mos Def, Gabrielle Union join the cast of Cadillac Records
Mos Def has been cast as Chuck Berry and Gabrielle Union will play Geneva Wade in Sony BMG Film's Cadillac Records, a music drama set in 1950s Chicago and following the turbulent lives of legends like Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess and Elvis Presley.Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyonce Knowles, Columbus Short, ...
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Cast assembled for Ti West's The House Of The Devil
Jocelin Donahue, Greta Gerwig, Tom Noonan, Mary Waronov, AJ Bowen and Dee Wallace head the cast of Ti West's horror thriller The House Of The Devil which has started shooting in northern Connecticut.In the film, which West also wrote, Donahue plays a broke college student who answers an ad seeking ...
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Seven Arts strikes investment deal with UK's Zeus Partners
Los Angeles-based Seven Arts Pictures has struck a deal with Manchester, UK-based financial services company Zeus Partners to raise investment capital for Seven Arts' production and distribution activities.The first part of the investment closed March 19 and the rest is expected to close by the end of June.The investment covers ...
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Lionsgate acquires film rights to Einstein thriller The Last Equation
Lionsgate has acquired film rights to The Last Equation, the debut novel by screenwriter Stuart Gibbs.The novel is about the mystery surrounding Albert Einstein's last equation which he named Pandora. The Pandora equation had the potential to solve the world's energy problems but Einstein either hid or destroyed the equation ...