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Lightning gets rights on The Job
Lightning Entertainment has picked up international sales rights on The Job, a recently wrapped crime thriller produced by Dan Levin and Marc Levin's Platform Entertainment. Directed by Kenny Golde, the film stars Daryl Hannah as a cold-blooded contract killer who becomes pregnant and struggles with the choice of whether to ...
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Lions Gate hip hops with urban sales push
Lions Gate International has launched a sales initiative of the urban movies that its parent company produces in an effort to capitalise on the worldwide popularity of hip-hop and US black culture. The company scored sales success with Dr Dre/Snoop Dogg vehicle The Wash, which grossed over $10m in the ...
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Arclight skateboards with Deck Dogz
Arclight Films has added Australian skateboarding movie Deck Dogz to its sales slate. The film is directed by Steve Pasvolsky, who was nominated for a short live action Oscar for his film Inja, and is being produced by Bill and Jennifer Bennett and their b:j films. Bill Bennett is the ...
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Franchise to finance Zeta-Jones-produced comedy
Elie Samaha's FranchisePictures has gone into business with Oscar-nominated superstar CatherineZeta-Jones, agreeing to fully finance her first film as a producer, the rugbycomedy Coming Out in which shewill play a Welsh hairdresser. Alan Cumming is negotiatingto star with Zeta-Jones in the film which was written by Sara Sugarman (VeryAnnie Mary, ...
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Kelley Nichols takes new Latin America distribution job at Warner Bros
KelleyNichols has been named vice president, distribution & marketing, LatinAmerica, at Warner Bros Pictures. The postion is newly created by the studio"due to the increasing complexities and importance of the Latin Americantheatrical marketplace."Basedin Burbank, Nichols will be responsible for distribution strategies, cash flowforecasts, box office tracking, print delivery and working ...
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Off The Map
Dir: Campbell Scott. US. 2003. 108mins.World premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last month, Off The Map feels like a magical realist novel: it is sweet, languorous and full of small, poignant pleasures. But Off The Map does not quite make it as a film. Whereas it might have worked ...
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Theron, Townsend put heads in Duigan's Clouds
Reallife couple Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend have joined Penelope Cruz andThomas Kretschmann in the cast of John Duigan's next film Head In The Clouds which Gary Hamilton'sArclight Films is representing for worldwide sales. NataliePortman was originally attached to star in the lead role with Cruz, but Theronhas taken her ...
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Franchise sells eight to Japan's Artport
ElieSamaha's Franchise Pictures is in aggressive form at the American Film Marketthis year, having already closed an eight-picture deal with Artport in Japan thatSamaha says is worth in excess of $9m.Amongthe titles to which Artport picked up rights are David Mamet's new picture Spartan, which stars Val Kilmerand William H ...
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Artisan enters Ellroy's Dark Places
ArtisanEntertainment has closed on its acquisition of North American distributionrights to My Dark Places, the film of James Ellroy's autobiographical novel, in a deal struck with Myriad Pictures. Thefilm is to be directed by Robert Greenwald and star David Duchovny as Ellroy,who finds himself embroiled in the investigation of his ...
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Imageworks sells UK, New Zealand on Heaven
Just prior to the AFM, Imageworks International closed a UK P&A and distribution deal with Film Financial Services and a New Zealand theatrical deal with Roadshow Film Distributors on The Other Side Of Heaven, the family film which Walt Disney Home Entertainment will release in North America on April 1.Shot ...
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Kamchatka sells to Italy, Denmark, Switzerland
Kamchatka, the critically acclaimed Argentinian film which played in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, has been sold to Mikado Film in Italy, Gloria Film in Denmark, Ascot Elite in Switzerland, United King in Israel and LNK in Portugal by international sales agent Neil Friedman of Menemsha Entertainment. The film, ...
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Gonzalo Marquez joins TM Systems as CFO
TM Systems, the Miami and Hollywood-based designer of a fully integrated dubbing and subtitling service, has named finance veteran Gonzalo Marquez as CFO. Marquez arrives with more than nine years of experience in private equity investing and investment banking and was a principal of Banc of America Equity Partners, a ...
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Wright to direct, Dorff to star in CDI's Mule
Geoffrey Wright has signed on to direct and Stephen Dorff to star in Mule, the $17m actioner about the drug trade in Los Angeles, which is being produced by Tony Ludwig and Alan Riche (The Family Man, Deep Blue Sea) represented here by Chris Davis International. Dorff will also act ...
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Krentzman leaves CAA, forms new movie financier
Adam Krentzman, one of the most well-known Hollywood agents in international packaging and financing, is leaving CAA after 17 years to set up a new film financing entity which already has five producing deals in the bag. Although Krentzman wouldn't be drawn on the name or financial structure of the ...
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Senator boards Bridge Of San Luis Rey with De Niro
Senator International has acquired worldwide sales rights excluding France and Spain for The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, an epic new adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 1927 novel which will star an impressive ensemble led by Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne and Harvey Keitel. Mary McGuckian, the Irish director ...
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MDP to fully finance Spacey's Bobby Darin biopic
Kevin Spacey is going back behind the camera to direct the story of Bobby Darin, the legendary crooner who died tragically of a rheumatic heart in 1973. Spacey will also star as Darin in the film which is being fully financed by MDP Worldwide, Mark Damon's sales and financing outfit ...
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Hyde Park attaches Jackie Chan to high-octane slate
Ashok Amritraj's production and financing outfit Hyde Park Entertainment has added two high-level pictures to its development slate - action adventure The Hidden Kingdom which is being developed as a project for Jackie Chan with MGM and an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs adventure novel The Outlaw Of Torn. Richard ...
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Alcon, Summit team on talking zebra picture
Summit Entertainment has pacted with Alcon Entertainment, its partner on Insomnia and Affair Of The Necklace, to handle international rights on a major new family movie called Racing Stripes which Warner Bros plans to release domestically in the second half of 2004. Summit will pre-sell the film through IS Film ...
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Steven Paul launches genre division Renegade
Steven Paul's Crystal Sky has established a new genre division Renegade Worldwide which kicks off at AFM with Jon Voight-starrer Deadly Course and 3:44, a movie set against the underground music scene with Carrie Ann Moss in the lead role. Run by Paul and Patrick Ewald, Renegade Worldwide is also ...
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Revolution teams with Universal, BVI in Japan
Joe Roth's Revolution Studios has sealed two separate studio deals for distribution of its 2003 slate in Japan. Universal Pictures has taken theatrical and TV rights to six films kicking off with Jennifer Lopez hit Maid In Manhattan, while Buena Vista International (BVI) has taken three films kicking off with ...