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Universal, Focus team with CJ on Park's Thirst
Universal Pictures International (UPI) and Focus Features are teaming up with Korea's CJ Entertainment to co-produce award-winning director Park Chan-wook's upcoming vampire thriller Thirst. As part of the deal, Focus will release the film in North America. CJ is handling Korean distribution and international sales.The deal was announced by UPI ...
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In Focus: Grosvenor Park
When Lionsgate released the spoof Disaster Movie in North America in the last weekend of August, Don Starr, the founding partner and chairman of Grosvenor Park, was in his native Canada anxiously waiting for the opening.Disaster Movie represented a departure for the 26-year-old financing company into single-picture full-financing through discrete ...
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In Focus: Galicia
Galicia may be an autonomous state tucked away in the north-west corner of Spain, but that is not stopping a new breed of local film-makers from bursting onto the global scene by working with international film-makers on bigger budget productions.New companies such as Perro Verde and Vaca Films, as well ...
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Andy Tennant to direct Chasing Harry Winston for Universal
Universal Pictures has acquired rights to The Devil Wears Prada author Lauren Weisberger's novel Chasing Harry Winston and attached Andy Tennant to direct.Mandalay Pictures will produce the story of three young women who vow to change their lives over the course of a year.Gina Wendkos will adapt the screenplay, which ...
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Philippe Martinez is back with Cinepro Pictures, directing film
Former Bauer Martinez chief Philippe Martinez has resurfaced with Tampa Bay, Florida-based Cinepro Pictures and commenced principal photography on thriller The Stream Experiment starring Val Kilmer, Armand Assante and Eric Roberts.Martinez himself is directing and producing from a screenplay by Rob Malkani about six people trapped in a Turkish bathhouse. ...
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Coens start A Serious Man shoot for Focus, Working Title
After Burn After Reading premiered in Venice and Toronto and is set for US release tomorrow, Joel and Ethan Coen have started production this week for A Serious Man.The Focus Features and Working Title Films production is shooting on location in Minnesota.The Coen brothers are writing, directing and producing. Executive ...
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New Line options How To Be Single for Flower Films to produce
New Line Cinema has optioned Liz Tuccillo's best-selling novel How To Be Single and will produce with Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore's Flower Films.Tuccillo is a former writer for Sex and the City and co-wrote the book He's Just Not That Into You, which was also acquired and produced by ...
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Johan Kling to follow Darling with Trust Me
Swedish director Johan Kling's Trust Me took $1m (Euros 0.7m) of the $1.8m Swedish Film Institute support for10 local productions.Kling'sfeature debut, Darling, was named Best Swedish Film 2007 by the Association of Swedish Film Critics,Darling went on to win the Nordic Film Prize at the Göteborg Film Festival and to ...
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Newton heats up next projects after Three Blind Mice
Australian actor/writer/director Matthew Newton, here with Three Blind Mice, has two new scripts in development.People People is about a 40-year-old married couple trying to stay together. 'It's about comfort versus freedom,' Newton says. 'It's like an anti-rom-com, about how we relate to each other.'He also has LA-set genre piece about ...
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Ole Christian Madsen plans sex addiction drama
Ole Christian Madsen, here at TIFF with Danish smash hit Flame & Citron (The Match Factory has sold to 25 territories including IFC for the US), has several new projects in the works. The first to shoot will be a film about sex addiction to shoot in Denmark in December ...
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Abu Dhabi's Circle Conference plans new directors showcase
His Excellency Mohamed Khalaf al-Mazrouei and The Circle Director Adrienne Briggs welcomed industry guests to the Film Lounge on Saturday night for the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage Reception, to celebrate the growth of film in the region.The Circle Conference is growing in its second year to a ...
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ContentFilm laughs along with Mike Judge's Extract
ContentFilm International has acquired international sales rights to Mike Judge's comedy Extract starring Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Ben Affleck, Clifton Collins Jr, TJ Miller, Kristen Wiig, Dustin Milligan, JK Simmons and Dave Koechner. The film started shooting Aug 25 in Los Angeles.Bateman stars as a factory worker whose life is ...
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C.R.A.Z.Y.'s Vallee sets up Shoe Business
Jean-Marc Vallee, the multi-award winning filmmaker behind 2005 Quebecois smash C.R.A.Z.Y., is setting up his next production, Shoe Business, a comic drama set at the height of the 1970s disco craze.Vallee will produce the film on an estimated $6.6m-$9.4m (C$7m-C$10m) budget through his C.R.A.Z.Y. Films production shingle, although he is ...
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Ashley Luke leaves Fortissimo for New South Wales FTO
Ashley Luke joins the New South Wales Film and Television Office (FTO) as director of market development on September 29 after seven years with sales agent Fortissimo.'I have been in Australia for four years and now know it pretty well and this move means I can solely concentrate on Australian ...
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3L follows Adam Resurrected with Among Farmers, Hangtime
Germany's 3L Filmproduktion, co-producer of Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected which screens in Toronto's Masters section this week after its world premiere in Telluride, has returned to Germany's recent dark past to back Dutch-born filmmaker Ludi Boeken's latest feature Among Farmers (Unter Bauern).The German-French co-production with Joachim von Mengershausen's FilmForm, Cologne-based ...
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Millennium comes on board Norton-starrer Leaves In The Grass
Millennium Films has boarded the $9.5m Edward Norton comedy Leaves InThe Grass after the financing deal set up through New York-based Barbarian fell apart in the summer.Tim Blake Nelson will start shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, on September 22 to take advantage of state tax incentives and Millennium's facility in the ...
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Carmody plans 3-D project Evil Dead: The Musical
Producer Don Carmody and partners are in negotiations with Spidermandirector Sam Raimi to bring to the screen the musical version of the formerhorror meister's Evil Dead films, Evil Dead: The Musical.Conceived by George Reinblatt, Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris, the camp stage interpretation of Raimi's cult classic horror ...
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JCVD director El Mechri recruits Paradis for Midwife Crisis
As Gaumont racks up major sales on TIFF Midnight Madness opener JCVD, that film's director Mabrouk El Mechri is finalising the original script this month for his next project, offbeat romantic comedy Midwife Crisis.Gaumont will again produce, with New York's Forensic Films also on board. Vanessa Paradis is attached to ...
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Lionsgate UK buys Caine-starrer Harry Brown from HanWay
Lionsgate UK has acquired the distribution rights to Harry Brown, being produced by Matthew Vaughn and Kris Thykier's MARV Films.HanWay Films is selling the project worldwide and handled the Lionsgate deal for MARV.Michael Caine has come on board to play the title role, opposite Emily Mortimer. Gary Young wrote the ...
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Burns gets CTV backing for My Canada feature series
Toronto-based producer Michael Burns has teamed with Canada's largest private broadcaster CTV in the development of My Canada, a series of director-narrated documentary features after the fashion of Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg. Burns, who envisioned the series and commissioned Maddin, has enlisted top Canadian directors to create their own personal ...