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UK producer Sutherland works with Lenz on The Little Prisoner
UK producer Mairi Sutherland, long-time collaborator with Robbie Moffat, is working with lauded Canadian film composer and music supervisor Jack Lenz, veteran of The Passion Of The Christ.Lenz who has written a script, The Little Prisoner, about the killing of Mona Mahmudnizhad and 9 other Baha'i women in 1980s Iran.Sutherland, ...
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THINKFilm strikes $3m deal for Hunt's Then She Found Me
In the first major deal to be struck at the festival, THINKFilm isbelieved to have paid just under $3m for US rights to Helen Hunt'sdirectorial debut Then She Found Me.The distributor was among a pack of buyers chasing rights after theKiller Films production's world premiere on Friday, finally closingthe deal ...
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After whirlwind Toronto, Nair heads to Mumbai for Shantaram
New York-based director Mira Nair left Toronto Saturday night after a short 24-hour visit to the festival - she's now in Mumbai preparing for her largest film yet, Shantaram.The $100m project, for Warner Bros with Graham King's GK Films producing and Plan B on board, starts shooting Jan 19 for ...
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Myriad takes on rights to Farlinger's All Hat
Los Angeles-based financing, production and sales company Myriad Pictures has picked up international rights on Leonard Farlinger's Toronto entry All Hat.Based on the book by Brad Smith, the comedy Western centres on the exploits of an ex-con who struggles to stay on the straight and narrow after he returns to ...
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Arts Alliance takes North America for Never Forever
Arts Alliance America, formerly Hart Sharp Video, has picked up North American rights to the Vera Farmiga drama Never Forever and will co-distribute with South Korea's Prime Entertainment.The company plans a theatrical release in the first quarter of 2008 followed by DVD rollout.Never Forever premiered at Sundance and stars Farmiga ...
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Louisiana ex-film comissioner faces bribery charges
Louisiana's former film commissioner Mark Smith faces up to 15 years in prison and a $350,000 fine for taking bribes to entice film production into the state.Smith pleaded guilty on Friday to accepting approximately $60,000 in bribes while he led the state's film development efforts, a role he carried out ...
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Canadian doc makers nervous as Burns exits Documentary Channel
Canada's documentary filmmaking community is up in arms as one of the nation's top commissioning editors, The Documentary Channel's programming director Michael Burns, has been let go.Driving the controversy is the role of national broadcaster CBC in the firing. The CBC purchased majority control of The Documentary Channel having given ...
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Clement Virgo plans The Collectors with Conquering Lion
Poor Boy's Game director Clement Virgo is setting up his next project, the $9m thriller The Collectors, as a Canada-UK co-production.The screenplay is written by Annmarie Morais, who wrote the Paramount Vantage pickup How She Move. Virgo and producing partner Damon d'Oliveira of Toronto-based Conquering Lion Pictures will be taking ...
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Joshua Jackson to star in McGowan's One Week
Principal photography beings Monday on Michael McGowan's One Week starring Joshua Jackson and Liane Balaban.The film is produced by Nicholas de Pencier, Jane Tattersall and Michael McGowan under the Mulmur Feed Company banner with Richard Hanet and Jackson serving as executive producers.Mongrel Media will distribute in Canada.The story follows the ...
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Miramax takes on US rights to Meirelles' Blindness
Miramax announced last night that it had picked up US rights to Fernando Meirelles' thriller Blindness in a deal believed to be in the $4m-5m range.Meirelles is currently shooting his adaptation of Jose Saramago's novel, about a doctor's wife who becomes the only person in a town who can see ...
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THINKFilm takes on US rights to Hunt's Then She Found Me
In the first major deal to be struck at the festival, THINKFilm has paid just under $3m for US rights to Helen Hunt's directorial debut Then She Found Me. The distributor was among a pack of buyers chasing rights after the Killer Films production's world premiere on Friday, finally closing ...
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Lust, Caution is surprise winner of Venice's Golden Lion
Ang Lee won the Golden Lion - again - at the 64th Venice International Film Festival yesterday for Lust, Caution, a surprise win for the Taiwanese auteur over the critical favourite Le Graine Et Le Mulet directed by Abdellatif Kechiche from France.Lee won his first Golden Lion two years ago ...
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Weinsteins take world rights to John Crowley's Boy A
The Weinstein Company (TWC) made the first big play of the festival as it announced on Friday it had swooped on worldwide rights excluding UK TV for Boy A. John Crowley's UK drama centres a young ex-con after he is released from prison for committing a murder as ...
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Redacted goes worldwide with HDNet
HDNet Films sealed most territorial deals on Brian De Palma's Iraq war drama Redacted ahead of its Venice world premiere.The film, which screens here on Monday and goes on to play the New York Film Festival, sold to TFM in France, New Select in Japan, AE/Eagle Pictures in Italy, On ...
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Revolver strikes DVD deal with Image for new US operation
UK distributor Revolver Entertainment has opened a US home-video division, based in Los Angeles, and has signed an exclusive distribution deal with Image Entertainment.Image will have exclusive home video and digital distribution rights to Revolver's North American releases, and expects to distribute about 12-15 titles during the deal's first year.The ...
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Toronto's financing forum recruits 36 international producers
36 Canadian and international producers have been lined up to take part in the second annual International Financing Forum (IFF) organised by the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) in partnership with TIFF.The selected producers will have one-one-one brokered meetings and round tables with producers, executives and financiers during the event ...
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IFC takes North America for Kormakur's Jar City
IFC Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Baltasar Kormakur's crime thriller Jar City, which started screening here on Thursday. Vice president of acquisitions and production Arianna Bocco and director of acquisitions and production Lizzie Nastro did the deal with ICM and Trust Films' sales executive Natja Noviani Rosner at ...
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Gavin Hood eyes December shoot for Wolverine
Gavin Hood, in town to attend last night's world premiere of Rendition, has lined up a December start in Australia and New Zealand for the X-Men spin-off Wolverine.Hood said he planned to make a profound origins story that would bear the hallmarks of Greek tragedy.'We all mutate after trauma, in ...
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Voltage electrifies buyers with Diary Of The Dead
Zombie film George A Romero's Diary Of The Dead has already proved a major draw to international buyers ahead of its world premiere in Midnight Madness tonight.Voltage Pictures has sold rights to the UK (Optimum), Japan (Presidio), Germany (Legend), France (Bac), Twister (Russia), Italy (Sharada), Brazil (Imagem), and Argentina (Pachamama).Further ...
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Preity Zinta to star in Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth
Bollywood starlet Preity Zinta is set to star in Deepa Mehta's new film Heaven On Earth.Written and to be directed by Mehta and produced by long-time producing partner David Hamilton, the $3m feature goes to camera on November 5 in Toronto followed by filming in India. Mongrel Media will be ...