All AFM articles – Page 109

  • News

    Buyers snap up rights to Arclight's Bait 3D

    2009-11-06T01:40:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Fitzgerald teams with Chang on BackNine

    2009-11-06T00:14:00Z

    Right Angle Studios founder Jon Fitzgerald and design industry veteran Bobby Chang have launched the entertainment company BackNine Studios aimed at creating inspirational stories for global audiences.

  • Krysten Ritter
    News

    Parlay Films Vamps it up at AFM with Amy Heckerling project

    2009-11-05T07:57:00Z

    Lisa Wilson’s Parlay Films has acquired all international rights to the romantic comedy Vamps, which will be written and directed by Amy Heckerling.

  • British director Julien Temple (The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle)
    News

    Julien Temple to direct F&ME’s Fake!

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    British director Julien Temple has joined forces with Film & Music Entertainment (F&ME), the London-based production company run by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor, to direct the company’s long-gestating $15 million art heist movie Fake!

  • Jude Law
    News

    Das, GreeneStreet hire Miguel Sapochnik to direct Contortionist's Handbook

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    Sriram Das’ Santa Monica-based Das Films and GreeneStreet Films have hired British film-maker Miguel Sapochnik to direct The Contortionist’s Handbook. Production is due to start in May next year.

  • Argentinean director Pablo Trapero
    News

    Finecut unveils second collaboration with Trapero

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    Korea’s Finecut is co-producing and handling international sales on Argentinean director Pablo Trapero’s new film, tentatively titled Carancho, marking their second collaboration following Lion’s Den.

  • Josh Harnett
    News

    SC closes key Euro deals on Gunslinger

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    Simon Crowe’s ambitious new sales outfit SC Films closed a slew of deals on its Josh Hartnett vehicle Gunslinger ahead of AFM.

  • Good Morning President
    News

    CJ sells Good Morning President to Japan

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    Korea’s CJ Entertainment has had a busy start to the AFM, scoring sales on new titles White Night and Killer Bride’s Perfect Crime and selling Good Morning President to SPO Entertainment for Japan.

  • Anthony Hopkins
    News

    Sobini Films boards Hemingway project with Hopkins, Garcia, Bening

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    Sobini Films has boarded international sales rights to Andy Garcia’s Hemingway & Fuentes, an account of Ernest Hemingway’s years in Cuba.

  • Belgrade Phantom
    News

    Wide Management embraces The Belgrade Phantom

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    Paris-based sales outfit Wide Management has snapped up rights to The Belgrade Phantom, the docufiction that is being described as the “Serbian Mesrine.”

  • Bollywood star Mallika Sherawat
    News

    Bollywood star Mallika Sherawat signs to Nuclear Mango's Love, Barack

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    Govind Menon and William Keenan’s US-India consultancy and production company Nuclear Mango has bought in New Jack City producer Doug McHenry to direct the romantic comedy Love, Barack. The company has cast Bollywood siren Mallika Sherawat.

  • Helen Mirren
    News

    Istvan Szabo’s The Door lands at Bankside

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    London-based Bankside Films has taken worldwide rights to The Door, the new feature from Academy Award-winning director Istvan Szabo. It will star Helen Mirren.

  • Stuart Ford
    News

    Post-Paranormal IM Global rolls out theatrical genre arm

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    Red hot following the success of the micro-budget Paranormal Activity, Stuart Ford’s LA-based international sales company IM Global is unleashing its Octane genre label at AFM this week, kicking off with Brad Anderson thriller’s The Vanishing On 7th Street.

  • Alexandre Arcady
    News

    Other Angle brings Five Brothers to buyers

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    After a strong start earlier this year, newcomer Other Angle has announced three fresh projects for the AFM. The first is a thriller directed and produced by Alexandre Arcady, Five Brothers.

  • Juno Temple
    News

    Stars align for Abe Sylvia's Dirty Girl

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    Juno Temple, Sally Hawkins and Lisa Kudrow are joining William H Macy and newcomer Jeremy Dozier in Abe Sylvia’s debut feature Dirty Girl, which is being sold at AFM by Salt.

  • Heather Graham
    News

    6 Sales closes territories on UTV’s Ex Terminators

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    Spain’s 6 Sales has closed deals with Ascot Elite for Germany, Four Corners in Benelux and Horizon One in Australia for comedy Ex Terminators which stars Heather Graham, Jennifer Coolidge and Amber Heard as three women who meet in an anger management class.

  • News

    Intandem to represent 13 Seven Arts titles

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    London based Intandem Films announced today that it has agreed to act as the sales agent and servicer for a slate of 13 completed films, formerly represented by Seven Arts International.The films, which have combined production budgets of over $100million, include the Keanu Reeves vehicle, Johnny Mnemonic, I’ll Sleep ...

  • AFM
    News

    AFM sellers down by 10%, but buyer numbers up

    2009-11-05T06:00:00Z

    The number of exhibitors selling films at the American Film Market has dropped by 10% on last year – but the number of buyers attending the event has risen slightly, the market’s organiser said today.

  • Emilia Fox
    News

    Intandem takes worldwide on Ways To Live Forever

    2009-11-05T05:59:00Z

    London-based film finance and international sales company Intandem Films has taken worldwide rights to family drama Ways to Live Forever.

  • Taiwanese idol Jay Chou
    News

    Double Edge picks up Chu’s $15m Treasure Hunter

    2009-11-04T18:14:00Z

    Taipei-based Double Edge Entertainment has picked up a slew of rights on Kevin Chu’s $15m Treasure Hunter, starring Taiwanese idol Jay Chou, and sealed a Chinese deal on sci-fi action film The King Of Fighters.