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Reliance seals deals with Julia Roberts and Brett Ratner
Reliance Big Entertainment has signed a further two development deals in Hollywood - with Julia Roberts' Red Om Films and Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment - to add to the seven similar deals announced last year at Cannes. As with the other deals, RBE will create a development silo for each ...
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Oscilloscope takes Stephen Kijak's Scott Walker - 30 Century Man
Oscilloscope has acquired North American rights to Stephen Kijak's music documentary Scott Walker- 30 Century Man, currently in release in US theatres. The company will take over the theatrical self-release orchestrated by the producers and expand the run. DVD, VOD and TV roll-outs will follow in the summer and autumn. ...
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Hungary and Ireland to sign co-production agreement
Representatives of the Irish Film Board and the Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation will sign a co-production agreement in Berlin on Sunday, February 8, which is designed to foster co-productions between the two territories. The deal includes a reciprocal feature whereby producers from the two territories will in effect take ...
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Roadside Attractions takes North American rights to The September Issue
Roadside Attractions has picked up North American theatrical and home video rights to R J Cutler's Anna Wintour documentary The September Issue, a popular title at Sundance following its world premiere last month. The A&E IndieFilms production offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Vogue's iconic editor-in-chief in the run-up to the ...
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Fortissimo to represent world sales of Mexican thriller Daniel & Ana
Fortissimo Films has bought international distribution rights (excluding Mexico and Spain) to the upcoming thriller Daniel & Ana from writer/director Michel Franco. The deal was brokered between Fortissimo's executive vice president, international sales Nicole Mackey and producer Daniel Birman. The Spanish language production will be available to buyers at this ...
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TV veteran Poul to direct CBS Films' romantic comedy Plan B
Alan Poul is in final negotiations to direct the romantic comedy Plan B, the first planned release from CBS Films that will star Jennifer Lopez.Shooting is set to begin in May with a theatrical release set for January 2010. The story follows a woman who goes through the process of ...
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Cheung, Tang Wei set to star in Crossing Hennessy
Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung and Chinese actress Tang Wei have been lined up to star in Crossing Hennessy, the second film from Ivy Ho, which she is directing for Hong Kong-based Irresistible Films. Ho, formerly a scriptwriter with credits including Ann Hui's July Rhapsody, made her directing debut last ...
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Sony Pictures Classics acquires US rights to Whatever Works
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US rights from Wild Bunch to Woody Allen's Whatever Works, the director's first feature shot in New York since 2004's Melinda And Melinda. Ed Begley Jr stars in the romantic comedy alongside Patricia Clarkson, Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood. Sony ...
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins Swank in Hammer's The Resident
Watchmen star Jeffrey Dean Morgan has joined Hilary Swank in Hammer Films' thriller The Resident, which will be available at next week's EFM in Berlin.Hammer will produce for parent company Exclusive Media Group, the global company that combines Hammer and Los Angeles-based Spitfire Pictures and is backed by strategic investment ...
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Amanda Seyfried takes the lead in A Woman Of No Importance
Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried has signed on for the leading role of Hester Worley in Myriad Pictures' Oscar Wilde adaptation A Woman Of No Importance.Bruce Beresford is directing and Donald Zuckerman producing, with Myriad president and CEO Kirk D'Amico serving as executive producer.Annette Bening and Sean Bean also star ...
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Myriad sets Puerto Rico shoot for comic book adaptation Hybrid
Principal photography will commence in May in Puerto Rico on Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Myriad Pictures and Studio 407's live-action comic book adaptation Hybrid.The horror story falls under the first-look deal between Myriad and Studio 407 and is being directed by Ernie Barbarash. Myriad is handling worldwide ...
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John Irvin to direct Bosnian conflict action film The Filthy War
New York-based Mozgofilms has hired Briton John Irvin to direct the Bosnian conflict action film The Filthy War.Filming is scheduled to begin in spring on location and studios in Hungary with a yet-to-be announced international star in the lead.The story centres on Eduardo, a footloose journalist who organises an international ...
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Tesela Producciones reveals new slate of projects
Spanish outfit Tesela Producciones will produce local director Achero Manas new family drama Franny & Joe (working title) and Argentinian director Adolfo Aristarain's political project Timote.Both projects are currently at the script stage. Manas is currently on the third version of his script for Franny & Joe about a father ...
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GK Films sets Knightley, Farrell for London Boulevard
Keira Knightley and Colin Farrell have boarded GK Films' crime drama London Boulevard, set to begin shooting in and around London in early summer.William Monahan, who won the 2007 adapted screenwriting Oscar for The Departed that also earned GK Films chief Graham King the best picture award, wrote the screenplay ...
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New distributor enters Russian film market despite credit crunch
Eugene Beginin, UIP Russia's former general director, has set up the new distribution company, Profit Cinema International, a title he might find hard to live up to in today's economic climate. Beginin's initial plan was to create a holding with the classic structure of a troika, combining a production company ...
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Sweden's TV 4 takes first steps into theatrical distribution
Sweden's leading commercial broadcaster, TV4, will enter theatrical distribution with its production of Karin Svärd's drama-documentary, The Way Home-A Film About The Sin, The Guilt And The Shots In Knutby (Vägen Hem - En Film Om Synden, Skulden Och SkottenI Knutby). The film will be premièred on 35 digital screens ...
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M-Line Distribution picks up Scandal Makers and A Frozen Flower
Sales agent M-Line Distribution has picked up international sales rights to top Korean box office hits Scandal Makers (a.k.a. Overspeed Scandal) and A Frozen Flower. Scandal Makers has been an unexpected hit comedy starring Cha Tae-hyun (My Sassy Girl) as a former pop star confronted by not one, but two ...
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Chou and Lin to co-star in adventure film Ci Ling
Chou will reunite with Kung Fu Dunk director Chu Yen-ping in the $14.6m (RMB100m) production. Chinese state-owned China Film Group Corporation, Beijing-based TV production company Joy Media and Taipei-based Chang Hong Entertainment, backer of Kung Fu Dunk, will jointly finance and produce the film. The story of the film tells ...
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Summit, Participant partner for multi-year distribution deal
Summit Entertainment and Participant Media have entered into a multi-title, multi-year non-exclusive distribution deal through 2013.The agreement covers co-financing, international sales and a rent-a-system deal encompassing domestic and international theatrical, home entertainment and pay TV. The companies will combine their marketing prowess on releases.Plans call for as many as four ...
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Reality check needed on film finance procedures and projections
It is not meaningful or helpful to assert that Canada or a particular US state is more attractive than South Africa, the UK, or any other popular location, that’s according to two Australians whose business it is to assist producers to secure financial incentives across the world.‘Circumstances, including financing plans, ...