All AFM articles – Page 108
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NewsSchumacher's Twelve flies for Gaumont
Joel Schumacher’s new film Twelve is proving a hot seller for Gaumont based on a promo reel being screened in Santa Monica.
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NewsMedem's Room In Rome finds US home with IFC
IFC has acquired US rights to Julio Medem’s Room In Rome from Wild Bunch. The film is a remake of Chilean film En La Cama which was that country’s foreign language Oscar submission for 2007.
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NewsWhite Lightnin' strikes US deal with Sundance Selects
Sundance Selects, a new label from Rainbow Media, has picked up US rights to Dominic Murphy’s White Lightnin’, a winner of the Hitchcock D’Or at the Dinard Film Festival and the winner this week of the international competition at the Mumbai Film Festival.
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NewsFortissimo strikes up partnership with CJ Entertainment
Fortissimo Films has entered into a strategic partnership with Korea’s CJ Entertainment that covers co-production and library sales, and gives CJ a first-look deal for Fortissimo’s upcoming titles.
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NewsVoltage charged up by Val Kilmer superatural thriller Mr Nobody
Nicolas Chartier’s LA-based Voltage Pictures, here selling the Milla Jovovich psychological thriller Faces In The Crowd, has boarded sales on the supernatural thriller Mr Nobody starring Val Kilmer.
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NewsRupert Friend heads cast on Renny Harlin's Georgia
Shooting is underway in the former Soviet state of Georgia on Renny Harlin’s contemporary drama Georgia starring Rupert Friend, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Andy Garcia and Val Kilmer.
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NewsKMI boards international sales on Soderbergh's Liberace
Kathy Morgan International has picked up Liberace, Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming project.
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NewsEminem returns to big screen in Shady Talez for John Davis, Dallas Jackson
Eminem will star in the 3D film Shady Talez, his first feature for seven years. The film will be produced by D.J. Classicz/Davis Entertainment, a genre partnership between I, Robot producer John Davis and writer-producer Dallas Jackson.
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NewsFormer ICA chair Ivan Massow to direct Joan Collins in Banksy comedy
Producers’ representative Circus Road Films has acquired worldwide rights from August 8 to Banksy’s Coming To Dinner starring Joan Collins.
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NewsKevin Bacon joins British ensemble on Essential's Whole Lotta Sole
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Kevin Bacon, Sophie Okonedo and James Nesbitt will star in the comedy Whole LottaSole, which Essential Entertainment is selling here.
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NewsK5 takes worldwide sales on Hideo Nakata's Voice From The Stone
Munich and London-based K5 International has boarded worldwide sales on Hideo Nakata’s supernatural thriller Voice From The Stone.
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NewsHyde Park, Imagenation, MDA partner with Dave Stewart on Street Dancing
Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group and Imagenation Abu Dhabi have unveiled the first project under their strategic alliance with Singapore-based MDA, teaming up with songwriter Dave Stewart’s Weapons Of Mass Entertainment on Street Dancing.
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NewsFilms Distribution closes US, Japan deals on The Horde
Films Distribution has sold French zombie movie The Horde to IFC Films in the US and to Showgate in Japan
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NewsExam gets UK deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has picked up UK rights to Stuart Hazeldine’s directorial debut, the UK thriller Exam, and is collaborating with the producers on a theatrical release for the film in January.
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NewsImage takes domestic rights to Accidents Happen
Image Entertainment, Inc. has snapped up all North American rights to Bankside Films’ bittersweet drama Accidents Happen starring Geena Davis.
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NewsTF1 buys Media Asia’s Chen Zhen for France
Hong Kong’s Media Asia Distribution has sold The Legend Of Chen Zhen, directed by Andrew Lau and starring Donnie Yen, to France’s TF1.
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NewsWe Distribution sells Bodyguards to E1, CJ
Hong Kong’s We Distribution has sold Cinema Popular’s $23m action thriller Bodyguard & Assassins to E1 Entertainment for the UK and Canada, CJ Entertainment for Korea and Gulf Films for the Middle East.
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NewsMDA unveils first project from International Film Fund
Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) has announced the first project under its International Film Fund (IFF), a Singapore-China-Korea co-production, Neon Sign, to be directed by Korea’s Pil Gam-Sung.
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Magic Lantern, TF2 Ventures sign $10m development deal
Magic Lantern Entertainment has concluded a $10m development funding deal with TF2 Ventures via its Innovation Entertainment label for up to 20 films over the next three to five years.
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Buyers snap up rights to Arclight's Bait 3D
Arclight Films has closed multiple territory sales on its shark thriller Bait 3D that Russell Mulcahy is set to direct in Queensland in April 2010.