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Gaumont sells Natali's Splice to Senator, Seville
Gaumont has sealed deals early at AFM on its horror movie Splice with Senator in Germany and Seville/Entertainment in Canada.Directed by Vincenzo Natali, Splice stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley. The producer is Steven Hoban (Black Christmas, Ginger Snaps). The executive producers are Guillermo del Toro and Don MurphyThe $26 ...
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Harrelson joins Michaels' The Other Side with Myriad
Woody Harrelson has joined Myriad Pictures' ghost story The Other Side, which has been scheduled for a pre-strike shoot in January 2008 in Nova Scotia. Giovanni Ribisi and Jason Lee have already signed and Myriad is expected to announce the female lead and more casting shortly. David Michaels will ...
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Perrier promoted to vice president at Odd Lot International
Delphine Perrier has been promoted to vice president of worldwide distribution of Odd Lot International.Perrier previously served as director of legal affairs and will work on sales and help executive vice president of worldwide distribution Brian O'Shea, to whom she will report, expand the foreign sales business.Odd Lot International's AFM ...
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National Geographic Entertainment taps Beal as president
National Geographic Global Media (NGGM) has launched National Geographic Entertainment, an umbrella company that combines the group's film, home video, music and radio divisions. David Beal has been named president of National Geographic Entertainment, hot on the heels of Tim Kelly's appointment as NGGM president last week. Beal ...
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Scheckel joins Christie in new international business post
George D Scheckel Jr has been appointed to the new position of director of international business development of digital projection pioneer Christie's entertainment solutions business division. Scheckel will spearhead business development, identify new market opportunities for digital cinema, and develop relationships in the exhibition and distribution sectors. ...
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Celluloid sells North America, Germany on Miike's Django
Celluloid Dreams has announced the sale of Takashi Miike's western Sukiyaki Western Django in North American and German speaking territories. The North American deal was signed with Gary Hirsch of First Look Studios and brokered by Celluloid president Hengameh Panahi. Walter Rehm's Universum picked up the German speaking territory rights. ...
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Cumming and Romijn reteam go mad for AV's Hatter
Alan Cumming and Rebecca Romijn will reunite after X2 to star in Hatter.James Killough wrote the script and will make his feature film directorial debut.Killough will also produce with Angad Paul; Paul's UK-based company AV Pictures is handling sales. Cumming and Romijn will play Matt Hatter and Alice Allyson in ...
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K5 International picks up sales on McCarthy's The Visitor
Germany- and UK-based K5 International has taken on world sales rights to The Visitor.Groundswell Productions and Participant Productions backed the Tom McCarthy drama, his follow-up to The Station Agent.The Visitor had its world premiere in Toronto to solid reviews. Overture Films picked up North American rights in September and plan ...
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T&C, Sony Music Japan team for Japanese girl band comedy
T&C Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan has begun shooting the comedy Lock And Roll Forever in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Japan.Chris Grismer is directing the story of an all-girl teenage band from a working class industrial city in Japan that travels to America in search of fame ...
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Tribeca promotes David Kwok, adds La'Bassiere and Terranova
The Tribeca Film Festival has promoted David Kwok to director of programming and added Genna Terranova as senior programmer.The festival is creating a year-round industry department, with Julie La'Bassiere coming on board as director of industry relations.Terranova and Kwok will both concentrate on core festival programming (with artistic director Peter ...
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Southland Tales
Dir: Richard Kelly, USA, 2007, 144minsSouthland Tales, re-cut since its world premiere at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, is apocalyptic vaudeville, as politicians, cops, Iraq veterans porn stars and an amnesiac actor scramble to fulfil or forestall conspiracies in Los Angeles, culminating in a world-ending Fourth of July. It's an ...
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Grindstone checks into Nordisk's Room 205
Grindstone Entertainment Group has acquired all North American rights for Nordisk's ghostly thriller Room 205.Grindstone will be working in partnership with Ghost House Pictures on the release.Neel Ronholt and Mikkel Arndt star in Martin Barnewitz's chiller about a woman's frightening journey into the occult. The film will be dubbed into ...
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Morrissette joins cast of Philip K Dick adaptation Radio Free Albemuth
Principal photography has begun on John Alan Simon's Philip K Dick adaptation Radio Free Albemuth starring Alanis Morissette.Jonathan Scarfe, Shea Whigham, Katheryn Winnick and Hanna Hall also star in the Discovery Productions and Open Pictures story about an extra-terrestrial plot to bring down a corrupt regime through the power of ...
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Ewald's Epic kicks off The Good Life with busy AFM slate
Patrick Ewald's newly launched Epic Pictures Group makes it market debut at AFM with a slate of nine films that includes the Sundance selection The Good Life with Zooey Deschanel and horror tale Blood River from The Devil's Chair director Adam Mason.Former Renegade Worldwide president Ewald set up the finance, ...
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Japan's Gaga Films arrives at AFM with co-production ambitions
Gaga's production and sales arm, Gaga Films, is attending the AFM with a slate of co-productions, underscoring the Japanese outfit's strategy to become active in pan-Asian as well as international co-productions.Cyborg She, financed by a Japanese production consortium and Korea's Centurion Movie & Knowledge 3rd Investment Fund, is being directed ...
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Fortissimo dives in with Callahan's Against The Current
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights to US drama Against The Current, directed by Peter Callahan and starring Joseph Fiennes. Callahan previously directed 2001 award-winning indie title Last Ball. His new project stars Fiennes as a man coping with grief who sets out to swim the 150 mile-long Lower Hudson ...
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Regent takes North America for Paris Hilton's Hottie
Regent Releasing has picked up North American rights to the romantic comedy The Hottie And The Nottie starring Paris Hilton.The company has also acquired Central American, Caribbean and Greenland rights from Purple Pictures and will commence sales at AFM.Regent has set a Feb 14 2008 North American release on the ...
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Ghost House inks North American deal for The Tattooist
Ghost House Pictures has acquired North American rights to The Tattooist, the supernatural thriller starring Jason Behr and Mia Blake.Sony, who has a longstanding relationship with Ghost House, will handle the North American theatrical release. Ghost House Pictures is owned by Robert Tapert and Spiderman's Sam Raimi, who recently visited ...
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Icon, Telepool, Showbox among buyers for Gold Circle's Chilled
Mandate International president Helen Lee-Kim has announced major pre-sales on Gold Circle's romantic comedy Chilled In Miami starring Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr.Deals have closed in Australia (Icon), Germany (Telepool), South Korea (Showbox), Taiwan (CMC), Greece (Audiovisual), Poland-Czech-Hungary (SPI), Turkey (Fida), Philippines (Viva), Romania-Bulgaria (Mediapro), Middle East (Gulf), and ...
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TLA romances US, UK rights to Bangkok Love Story
TLA Releasing has acquired all North American and UK theatrical, home video, television and VOD rights to Poj Arnon's Thai film Bangkok Love Story.The company plans a summer 2008 release on the story of an assassin who falls in love with the man he is sent to execute.Rattanaballang Tohssawat, Chaiwat ...