All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 153
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NewsIndependent takes on sales for Sundance hits Safety Not Guaranteed, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
EXCLUSIVE: Independent is continuing its collaboration with Cinetic by taking on two hot titles from Sundance: Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly’s time-travel comedy Safety Not Guaranteed and Alison Klayman’s documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, about the Chinese artist.
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NewsExclusive starts sales at EFM for Robot & Frank, Quiet Ones
EXCLUSIVE: Robot & Frank to screen for EFM buyers on Sunday and Monday.
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NewsStudioCanal sees Double deal with Protagonist
StudioCanal has struck a UK/Ireland deal with Protagonist Pictures for Richard Ayoade’s comedy The Double.
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NewsContent adds up sales for Numbers Station
EXCLUSIVE: Content is showing the first promo of The Numbers Station, currently in post, to buyers in Berlin.
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NewsSchwarzenegger joins Stallone in The Tomb, sold by Summit
Mikael Hafstrom directs the Emmett-Furla Films/Mark Canton production.
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NewsForesight gets Emmett/Furla pair 2 Guns and Rule #1
Foresight Unlimited has added two new Emmett/Furla productions to its slate: Courtney Hunt’s romantic comedy Rule #1 starring Reese Witherspoon and Baltasar Kormakur’s action comedy 2 Guns starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg.
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NewsPhilip Seymour Hoffman in final talks for Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man
FilmNation Entertainment handling international sales on the John le Carre adaptation.
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NewsWeinsteins Company's Radius-TWC takes North American rights to Bachelorette
The Weinstein Company’s new label Radius-TWC has acquired North American rights to Leslye Headland’s comedy Bachelorette, fresh off its world premiere at Sundance.
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NewsPray For Japan gets 14-city with AMC Theatres
Filmmaker Stu Levy is partnering with exhibitor AMC Theatres to release his feature documentary Pray For Japan in 14 cities across North America.The film will be released as a one-night special event on March 14, honouring the anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.Profits will be donated to charity Japan ...
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NewsWolfe picks up North American rights to Mosquita y Mari
Theatrical launch planned for 2012; VOD/DVD release in 2013.
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NewsAmy Adams signs on for Object of Beauty
Adams will star and also produce alongside Maven Pictures’ Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray.
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NewsRaven Banner acquires Manborg ahead of EFM
Toronto-based genre sales company Raven Banner Entertainment has picked up world rights to Steve Kostanski’s Manborg.
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NewsGoodwin joins UK production company Western Edge; busy slate includes golf, Dumas projects
EXCLUSIVE: Third Star production company lines up adaptation of Dumas novella The Corsican Brothers.
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NewsSoda's New British Cinema Quarterly gets BFI investment, launches 2012 slate
BFI’s P&A fund backs the programme with £50,000.
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NewsHungarian Fund backs Balint Kenyeres project; brings animated Tragedy of Man to EFM
The New Hungarian National Film Fund has backed another project, Balint Kenyeres’ debut feature Hier.
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NewsVisit Film takes on Berlin titles Arcadia, Dollhouse
Visit Films has taken on two new films ahead of their world premieres at Berlin: Arcadia in Generation and Dollhouse in Panorama.
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NewsDolph Lundgren to star in Battle of the Damned for Bleiberg's Compound B
Christopher Hatton will direct the sci-fi action title.
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NewsNew Regency strikes first-look deal with Israel's ADD
New Regency Productions has finalised a first-look deal with ADD, the largest content agency in Israel.
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NewsW2 Media moves into The Killing House
Jonathan English (pictured) will direct from his own screenplay.