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Sleep Tight goes to MPI Media Group for North America
MPI Media Group has acquired all North American rights to Jaume Balaguero’s award-winning psychological thriller Sleep Tight and will release theatrically in the autumn through its genre arm Dark Sky Films.
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Relativity sets Sept 27 2013 US release for Paranoia
Relativity Media has taken US rights from IM Global to the thriller Paranoia, which will star Liam Hemsworth from The Hunger Games. IM Global has closed a deal with Alliance Films for the UK, Canada and Spain and licensed rights to Gaumont in France and Sun in Latin America.
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NewsCargo takes hold of The Angriest Man In Brooklyn
EXCLUSIVE: Robin Williams, Mila Kunis and Peter Dinklage will star in comedy The Angriest Man In Brooklyn, which Cargo Entertainment sales chief Mark Lindsay is introducing to Cannes buyers.
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NewsFormer Screen editor Colin Brown joins Slated
EXCLUSIVE: Colin Brown joins New York-based Slated, the private marketplace for accredited investors to track and back independent film projects online.
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Film Movement checks into Bar-Ziv’s Room 514
Film Movement has acquired domestic rights to Sharon Bar-Ziv’s directorial debut Room 514 in Cannes.
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NewsWeinsteins close on US rights to Code Name Geronimo
Harvey Weinstein is within grasp of his own version of the Navy SEAL raid that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden after his company was poised to acquire US rights to the Cam Gigandet and William Fichtner starrer on Wednesday night (16).
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Dimension to release Sin City 2 on Oct 4, 2013
Robert Rodriguez is scheduled to start production this summer at his Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas. Aldamisa International is handling sales outside North America.
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Morgan Freeman joins Last Vegas cast
Morgan Freeman will join Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro in the comedy Last Vegas, which Joe Drake’s new company Good Universe represents for international sales.
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NewsFilmDistrict takes US rights to Dead Man Down
FilmDistrict has picked up US rights to Dead Man Down starring Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace and has set an autumn 2013 release.
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NewsJack Black in talks to join Stealth's Wild Oats
Jack Black is in talks to join Shirley MacLaine, Jacki Weaver and Alan Arkin on Howard Deutch comedy shopped by Stealth Media in Cannes.
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NewsJinga sells Gandu to US, Spain
Jinga sells rap musical to Artsploitation for North America and Underground Films for Spain.
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NewsExclusive Media, Cross Creek unveil major partnership
Exclusive Media and Cross Creek Pictures have formalised their relationship with a three-year deal to jointly finance, produce and develop at least two features a year budgeted up to $65m.
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Poverty Row begins casting on Mary Pickford biopic
Julie Pacino and Jennifer DeLia’s production company has cast Lily Rabe to play Mary Pickford in its upcoming biopic.
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Anchor Bay acquires US rights to Andy Garcia's Admissions
Following their collaboration on City Island, Anchor Bay and Andy Garcia’s CineSon Productions are reuniting on the rom-com to star Garcia and Vera Farmiga.
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NewsDogwoof sells Marina Abramovic doc
Dogwoof Global sells doc to Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria.
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Lakeshore sets Fisher Stevens to direct American Pastoral
Lakeshore Entertainment and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment’s drama is based on Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Production is expected to start in early 2013.
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Sundance entry Save The Date lands at Max360 International
New LA sales agency Max360 International has picked up international sales on Michael Mohan’s Sundance rom-com Save The Date starring Lizzie Caplan and Mark Webber.
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Jason Alexander to star in Lucky Stiff remake
Christopher Ashley will direct a remake of the 1988 musical, a farce about an English bachelor who inherits a fortune and must take his uncle’s corpse around Europe to get his hands on the money.
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Worldview Entertainment backs The Green Inferno from Eli Roth
The New York-based production and investment company will finance and produce Roth’s directorial follow-up to the Hostel franchise. Exclusive Media is handling sales here and CAA represents domestic rights.
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VVS takes Canadian rights to thriller Ten
VVS Films has picked up Canadian rights to the Arnold Schwarzenegger thriller Ten in a deal with QED International.