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NewsParamount acquires Leslie Mann comedy
The studio has swooped on US rights to the untitled Lucas & Moore Project in a timely move for international rights holder Bill Block on the eve of Cannes.
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FeaturesWorld of Locations: Louisiana
Louisiana was one of the first US states to offer film tax incentives and has become one of the country’s most important production hubs, with a long-established 30% credit, a strong crew base and a good infrastructure.
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FeaturesWorld of Locations: California
Rather than international projects, most US state incentives are accessed by film and television projects that may otherwise have shot in California. But from May 2015, California’s own offering makes it one of the world’s most attractive places to shoot.
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NewsCannes: HanWay boards ‘A Storm In The Stars’
Douglas Booth will portray the poet Percy Shelley in pioneering female Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour’s anticipated follow-up to Wadjda. HanWay will start international sales in the south of France next week.
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NewsJoseph Infantolino acquires rights to Orson Welles saga
The producer has acquired film rights to Josh Karp’srecently published book Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making Of The Other Side Of The Wind.
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NewsCannes: Concourse Film Trade boards five
EXCLUSIVE: Concourse Film Trade, a division of Matthew Shreder and Andrew Felts’ freshly minted Concourse Media, has bulked up its slate heading into Cannes.
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NewsFortitude lines up football biopic ‘Robin Friday’
CANNES: Nadine de Barros and her team will kick off talks on the Croisette on the upcoming Sam Claflin starrer about one of the great cult heroes of English football.
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NewsAutomatic brings ‘Western Religion’ to Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: The Los Angeles-based sales agent will start talks with buyers on the Western starring Claude Duhamel.
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NewsUni anchors ‘By The Sea’ in awards season
The studio has secured a November 13 US slot for Angelina Jolie Pitt’s Unbroken follow-up, weighing anchor firmly in awards season.
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Newsmonterey media wrangles ‘Cut Snake’
The crime thriller stars Sullivan Stapleton, Alex Russell and Jessica De Gouw and will open theatrically in late summer.
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NewsImage snaps up ‘Return To Sender’
ROUND-UP: Image Entertainment has acquired all US rights from Voltage Pictures to the thriller Return To Sender starring Rosamund Pike.
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NewsIM Global to sell ‘Fifty Shades Of Black’
CANNES: The collaborators on the A Haunted House franchise have found another property to lampoon. Separately, the company has found the actor to play Barack Obama in Southside With You.
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NewsXYZ Films to sell ‘The Oath’
EXCLUSIVE: Baltasar Kormákur is lining up an autumn shoot on the Icelandic and English-language crime-thriller, a late addition to the LA-based company’s Croisette sales slate.
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News‘Captain America’ writers board ‘Infinity War’
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely will follow their writing gig on the Captain America series with Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War – Part 1 and Part 2.
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NewsHFG adds 'Savva', 'LaMotta' to Cannes slate
Highland Film Group (HFG) has come on to handle sales on animated family adventure Savva and biopic LaMotta: The Bronx Bull.
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News‘Tig’, ‘The New Girlfriend’ bookend Outfest
Festival organisers announced its gala screenings ahead of the Los Angeles event set to run from July 9-19.
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NewsKate Hudson joins ‘Deepwater Horizon’
The actress will appear on screen for the first time with her father Kurt Russell in Summit Entertainment and Participant Media’s upcoming oil rig disaster thriller.
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NewsFernando Coimbra among Sundance June 2015 Lab fellows
The Sundance Institute has announced the 13 projects selected for the 2015 June Directors and Screenwriters Labs.
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NewsExpression Entertainment to launch in Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Bort heads to the Croisette with an inaugural slate as president of the rebranded boutique international sales and distribution company.
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NewsPremiere Entertainment picks up ‘Good Ol’ Boy’
EXCLUSIVE: Heading into Cannes the Los Angeles-based sales agent has acquired international sales right to the retro family comedy from Brittany House Pictures and Emedia Films.