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AWP closes deals on The Poet starring Hannah, Scheider
Los Angeles-based American World Pictures (AWP) has closed key territories at AFM on Damian Lee's The Poet starring Darryl Hannah, Roy Scheider, Kim Coates and Colm Feore.Rights have gone to the UK (High Flyers Films), Germany (More Films), Russia (Vox), France (Emylia), Spain (Tot Media), Brazil (Ocean Pictures), Scandinavia (CCV), ...
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Ron Henderson to step down as head of Denver Film Festival
Ron Henderson, one of the founders and the artistic director of the Denver Film Society (DFS) and the Starz Denver Film Festival, is to step down as artistic director and will relinquish his day-to-day leadership responsibilities at the end of the year.After 30 years of service, Henderson will maintain ties ...
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Arthouse strikes exclusive UK/Ireland output deal with Revolver
Arthouse Films has struck an exclusive output and distribution deal for the UK & Ireland with Revolver Entertainment.Revolver will handle all rights to Arthouse titles in those territories and also launch the label in the UK and Ireland.The multi-year deal covers more than 10 titles per year. The initial slate ...
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Lumina strikes North American deal for Lovesickness with Maya
UK-based sales company Lumina Films has sold North American rights to Puerto Rican comedy Lovesickness (Maldeamores) to Maya Releasing.Maya is the new distribution and acquisitions company that is part of vertically integrated Latino entertainment company founded by Moctesuma Esparza. Maya Releasing will distribute 8-10 films per year theatrically.Lovesickness interweaves three ...
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Arthouse Films takes worldwide rights to documentary Obscene
Arthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O'Connor's documentary Obscene following its world premiere at Toronto.Obscene chronicles the life of American publisher Barney Rosset who fought censorship and worked with writers such as Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Che Guevera, among others.David Koh and ...
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Film Movement launches US VOD channel Film Festival channel
North American distributor Film Movement has launched nationwide VOD channel Film Festival Channel.The service launches with a roster of more than 100 films that previously screened at Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca.Every month the channel will present four features and four shorts, with early titles including Alexandra's ...
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Rob Scheidlnger joins TWC as evp of business affairs and production
Producer and former CAA agent Rob Scheidlinger has joined The Weinstein Company (TWC) as executive vice president of business affairs and production.Scheidlinger will work closely with executive vice president and co-head of business affairs Eric Roth and co-president of production Michael Cole.He will be based in TWC's Los Angeles offices ...
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Josh Lucas takes lead role in Scott Free's Tell-Tale
Josh Lucas has joined Scott Free's upcoming horror film Tell-Tale, which Hyde Park International has been pre-selling at AFM.Meanwhile sales chief Lisa Wilson announced that deals have closed in: South Korea (KD Media), Brazil (Playarte), Mexico and Latin America (Quality Films), Eastern Europe (Pa-dora), Benelux (Dutch Filmworks), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece ...
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THINKFilm, Image take US rights to Stuart Gordon's Stuck
THINKFilm has taken US rights at AFM to Stuart Gordon's drama Stuck starring Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea.The distributor is planning a spring 2008 release in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco among other top markets.Image Entertainment, an equity partner on the film, will release on DVD. Rigel Entertainment ...
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SPWAG takes multiple rights to Crank 2, Punisher 2
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has acquired international rights from Lakeshore Entertainment to Crank 2: High Voltage in Latin America, Japan, Australia and France, among others, and taken all international rights to The Punisher 2: War Zone from Lionsgate.Crank 2: High Voltage sees Jason Statham reprise his role as ...
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Arthouse buys domestic DVD rights to The Cats Of Mirikitani
Arthouse Films has acquired North American DVD rights to Linda Hattendorf's documentary The Cats Of Mirikitani.David Koh and Lilly Bright did the deal on behalf of Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment along with Hattendorf and producer Masa Yoshihkawa.Arthouse plans a DVD release in early 2008 on the Arthouse Films ...
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TLA picks up Living And The Dead, Socket at AFM
TLA Releasing has picked up US non-theatrical and home video rights to Simon Rumley's UK thriller The Living And The Dead and North American and UK non-theatrical, home video and VOD rights to Sean Abley's US genre film Socket.TLA plans a March 25 2008 release through sister company Danger After ...
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Spottiswoode's Devil crosses C$1m at Canadian box office
Powered by strong audiences in Quebec, Roger Spottiswoode's Shake Hands With The Devil has passed the C$1m ($1.07m) at the Canadian box office, according to distributor Seville Pictures. Starring Roy Dupuis as the Canadian general rendered powerless to prevent the Rwandan genocide, the C$15m production opened on September 28 on ...
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Summit signs three-year output deal with Concorde/Tele-Muenchen
Summit International has slotted into place the German piece of its output deal jigsaw with a three-year deal with Tele-Muenchen Group (TMG).The agreement will kick off with Twilight and Sex Drive and covers all rights in Germany and Austria as well as television rights in German-speaking Switzerland through 2010.Going forward ...
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Damon Bryant heads new Arclight Films UK office
Los Angeles-based Arclight Films has launched a UK office and put former ICM agent and Natural Nylon founding partner Damon Bryant in charge.Bryant will head UK production and acquisitions for the company and its two divisions, Darclight and Easternlight.'It is important for Arclight's development to have a European base since ...
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Tigerlily starts shooting Jeanie Finlay's Goth Cruise
UK-based Tigerlily Films has started production on Goth Cruise, its feature length documentary backed by the Independent Film Channel and EM Media (via European Regional Development Funds).Jeanie Finlay, a Screen International 2007 Star of Tomorrow, is directing. Natasha Dack and Nikki Parrott of Tigerlily are producing, with New York-based Cactus ...
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Hollywood writers' strike begins
Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA)are now on strike after the failure of last-minute negotiations.The union met for 10 hours with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP)on Sunday but there were still major sticking points, particularly onpayments forDVD releases.The current contract between the WGA's 12,000 ...
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Sony expected to take District 9 rights from QED
Sony was poised last night [Sunday] to strike the biggest deal of AFM and take North America and other territories to Peter Jackson's upcoming sci-fi action film District 9.QED Intl is fully financing District 9 and handles worldwide sales on the project, which Jackson will produce through his Wingnut Films.Neill ...
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Nordisk ties up Summit product until 2010
Summit International and Nordisk Film have signed a three-year output deal in Scandinavia until 2010.The deal begins with Get Some, Push, Step Up 2 The Streets, Twilight and Sex Drive and will also include films that are produced, co-produced and/or acquired by Summit during the output term. The deal excludes ...
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Cinema Epoch closes multi-film deal with 8 Star
Cinema Epoch has signed a multi-picture distribution deal with 8 Star Entertainment.LA-based 8 Star has North American DVD rights to Tolga Ornek's threedocumentaries Gallipoli, The Hitites and Mount Nemrud. Gallipoli isnarrated by Sam Neill and Jeremy Irons.The other films in the deal are Ochir Mashbat's My Beautiful Jinjimaa;Amauri Tangara's The ...