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Anagram heats up global warming project The Thaw
Vancouver-based Anagram Pictures, production company behind zombie comedy Fido, is setting up global warming horror picture The Thaw for production in spring 2008.Mark Lewis (Ill Fated) is attached to direct the screenplay he cowrote with Michael Lewis. Anagram's Mary Anne Waterhouse and Trent Carlson will produce with Rob Neilson. Maple ...
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Content on board for Liebesman's Manbreak starring Sevigny
ContentFilm International has taken on foreign sales for suspense thriller Manbreak, directed by Jonathan Liebesman. CAA has domestic sales rights.Liebesman previously directed 2006 hit The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.Chloe Sevigny is attached to star and further casting will be announced soon.Manbreak is about four people who sign up for ...
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Equinoxe joins Future Films and Arcadia on Purple America
Jorge Torregrossa's Purple America is now going ahead with a Canadian co-producer, Equinoxe Productions. The $6.3m (Euros 4.5m) production was developed by Spain's Arcadia Films with the help of El Deseo and London-based Future Films. Future's Stephen Margolis has led the financial arrangements. The project is set to go ahead ...
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IM Global takes world rights to 44 Inch Chest with Winstone
Los Angeles-based IM Global has acquired worldwide rights to Anonymous Content's $8m ensemble UK kidnap drama 44 Inch Chest.IM Global managing director Stuart Ford will commence pre-sales here on the project, which reunites Ray Winstone with his Sexy Beast co-star Ian McShane and also stars John Hurt.Steve Golin is producing ...
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Fiennes and Pearce join cast of Iraq drama The Hurt Locker
Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, Jeremy Renner and David Morse have boarded Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, which is currently filming in Jordan.Brian Geraghty and Anthony Mackie also star in the ensemble drama, Bigelow's first feature since 2002's Russian submarine thriller K-19: The Widowmaker.The Hurt Locker follows the ...
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Montreal's Park Ex readies Jacob Tierney's The Trotsky
Montreal-based Park Ex Entertainment, producer of Canadian smash Bon Cop, Bad Cop, is readying Jacob Tierney's follow-up to Twist.Written and to be directed by Tierney, The Trotsky dives into the mind of a 17-year-old high schooler who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky. Twist producer Victoria Hirst ...
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Soderbergh plans Girlfriend Experience with HDNet
Steven Soderbergh, who directed Bubble for HDNet, has committed to making another digital film for the company. He will start shooting The Girlfriend Experience, set in the world of high-class escorts, in February 2008.Details remain skimpy on the new project. Soderbergh is currently in Latin-America filming his two Che Guevara ...
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Dir: Sidney Lumet, 2007 , US , 123mins.Sidney Lumet is back on familiar territory with this caper gone awry. This time it's a plot by two desperate adult brothers, Andy and Hank (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke), to rob their parents' suburban jewellery store, which ends up killing their ...
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Disengagement
Dir. Amos Gitai. France / Israel / Germany / Italy , 2007. 115 mins.Amos Gitai's systematic chronicle of modern Israeli history reaches one of its more sensitive and inevitable points in this dramatised version of the recent crisis generated by the unilateral decision, taken by the Sharon government, to dismantle ...
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AFI FEST line-up include world premiere of Public Enemy doc
AFI FEST 2007 has unveiled 15 official selections for November including the world premieres of documentaries Public Enemy: Welcome To The Terrodome and 1,000 Journals. Robert Patton-Spruill's Public Enemy: Welcome To The Terrodome charts the 20-year history of the hip hop legends, while Andrea Kreuzhage's 1,000 Journals examines a ...
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Andi Isaacs takes production job at Summit Entertainment
Andi Isaacs has joined Summit Entertainment as senior vice president of physical production and will oversee all aspects of in-house productions for the fledgling studio. She reports to chief operating officer Bob Hayward. Isaacs recently served as a production executive for Walt Disney Pictures from 2004-06 and before that ...
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Travolta to receive Santa Barbara's Douglas award
John Travolta will receive the Kirk Douglas Award For Excellence In Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) on Nov 15. Douglas himself with present the honour to Travolta, whose film roles include this summer's North American hit Hairspray, Pulp Fiction, Urban Cowboy, Grease, and Saturday Night ...
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Hollywood Film Festival to honour Affleck and Hampton
Casey Affleck will receive the Hollywood Breakthrough Actor of the Year Award, and Christopher Hampton the Hollywood Screenwriter Of The Year Award at the upcoming Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles on Oct 22. Brad Bird's Ratatouille will receive the Hollywood Animation Of The Year Award and ...
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Goldwyn acquires Lelouch's thriller Roman De Gare
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights for Claude Lelouch's new thriller Roman De Gare, which premiered in Cannes and opened in August in France.Dominique Pinon and Fanny Ardant star in the story of a popular novelist who does unusual research to find new characters. Lelouch wrote, directed and produced. ...
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Bart Walker joins Cinetic Media as partner
Bart Walker has joined Cinetic Media as a partner as the company announced it was expanding to allow film-makers and financiers to 'take greater control' of the film-making process.Walker joins Cinetic founder John Sloss and Robert Nathan on the partnership, at the same time as the company announced it has ...
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Jeff Daniels turns Traitor in Toronto
Overture Films' spy thriller Traitor, which begins filming in Toronto with writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff gets added boost from Jeff Daniels who joins Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce in the cast.Neal McDonough, Archie Panjabi, Alyy Kahn and Said Taghmaoui also star in the tale of a rogue operative who helps terrorists, ...
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Margot At The Wedding
Director/Scr: Noah Baumbach US . 2007. 91minsBaumbach's ambitious follow-up to the much admired The Squid And The Whale (2005) has echoes of Rohmer and vintage Woody Allen in its depiction of the affairs of the heart but lacks the laser-like precision, economy and easy approachability of his earlier hit. A ...
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The Brave One
Dir: Neil Jordan. US. 2007. 122 mins.Jodie Foster delivers a performance far superior to her material in Neil Jordan's self-consciously provocative and largely absurd vigilante drama - which has its world premiere as a Special Presentation in Toronto. Attempting to hit the same hot buttons as other audacious studio movies ...
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The Brothers Solomon
Dir: Bob Odenkirk. US. 2007. 94mins.Coming only three months after another mainstream R-rated comedy revolving around an impending birth, The Brothers Solomon will likely enjoy neither the critical accolades nor the bountiful box-office that greeted the arrival of this summer's Knocked Up. Though not without its screwball charm and occasionally ...
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Maximum and Fortissimo strike Canadian-Asian partnership
Robert Lantos' new Toronto-based distribution and sales company Maximum Films has created an unusual partnership with Hong Kong-based Fortissimo Films whereby Maximum will distribute Fortissimo's films in Canada and Fortissimo will represent the sale of Maximum's projects in Asia. The deal, for an initial term of two years, was unveiled ...