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    Arthouse, Red Envelope take Wagstaff and Mapplethorpe doc

    2007-09-11T06:00:00Z

    Arthouse Films and Red Envelope Entertainment will jointly release the documentary Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff And RobertMapplethorpe.James Crump's film premiered at Tribeca and will open theatrically in Los Angeles and New York at the end of the year followed by DVD release in 2008 on ...

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    Sagansky named co-chairman of Peace Arch

    2007-09-11T06:00:00Z

    Jeffrey Sagansky has been elected co-chairman of Peace Arch Entertainment Group, effective Sept 1, 2007.Sagansky will serve alongside Peace Arch's former chairman Drew Craig, currently co-chairman, in executing the company's business model.He previously served as chief executive officer of CBS Entertainment, co-president of Sony Pictures Entertainment, president of TriStar Pictures, ...

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    Santoro may climb Old Mountain for Buena Onda Americas

    2007-09-11T06:00:00Z

    Latin American specialists Buena Onda Americas, in Toronto as a partner with Canana on Cochochi, is in pre-production on The Old Mountain, a $2.7m Brazilian story to shoot in 2008.Producers are talking to actor Rodrigo Santoro about coming on board and Fernando Meirelles may executive produce; Ondamax will handle sales.The ...

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    Podell promoted in acquisitions for Weinstein Company

    2007-09-11T06:00:00Z

    Michal Podell has been promoted to senior vice president of acquisitions and business and legal affairs at The Weinstein Company.Podell, who formerly served as vice president of international business and legal affairs, is based in New York and will report to acquisitions heads Michelle Krumm and Maeva Gatineau and executive ...

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    Price starts Abraham's Point with Mackenzie Crook

    2007-09-11T06:00:00Z

    Writer/director Wyndham Price has started principal photography for Abraham's Point. The project is shooting for five weeks on location in Cardiff and the Pembrokeshire coast.Mackenzie Crook leads the cast and other actors include Joseph Millson, Mariah Gale and Harriet Walter.The film is about a antiques restorer who has strange hallucinations ...

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    ContentFilm takes foreign sales for Coogan's Hamlet 2

    2007-09-11T06:00:00Z

    ContentFilm International has come on board for foreign sales for comedy Hamlet 2, starring Steve Coogan and Catherine Keener. Coogan stars as a high school teacher who tries to save the school's drama department by writing his own sequel to Hamlet.Andrew Fleming (Nancy Drew, The Craft) will direct from a ...

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    Sanchez promoted at NBC Universal Television Distribution

    2007-09-10T21:29:00Z

    Maria Sanchez has been promoted to senior vice president liaison, Latin America, Spain and Portugal at NBC Universal International Television Distribution (NBC UITD).Sanchez most recently served as vice president liaison, Spain and Portugal, and will continue to be based in NBC Universal's Madrid office, reporting to NBC UITD president Belinda ...

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    Weinsteins strike US deal for El Rey De La Montana

    2007-09-10T17:21:00Z

    The Weinstein Company has picked up US and Latin American rights to El Rey De La Montana, a world premiere in Toronto's Discovery section.The film, sold by Paris-based sales house Coach14, also sold to Seville Pictures for Canada after having concluded deals with the UK's Optimum, Madman for Australia and ...

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    Odd Lot's Suburban Girl moves in with Image Entertainment

    2007-09-10T06:00:00Z

    Image Entertainment has taken US theatrical, home video and non-broadcast digital rights to Suburban Girl and Undead or Alive.Both films were sold by Odd Lot Entertainment.Suburban Girl is a romantic comedy starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alec Baldwin. Marc Klein wrote and directed the project based on two short stories ...

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    Joy Division director Grant Gee plans next film

    2007-09-10T06:00:00Z

    As buyers continue to negotiate for hot documentary Joy Division, which had its world premiere here, the creators of the film are already eyeing their next projects.Director Grant Gee, who previously made 1998 Radiohead documentary Meeting People Is Easy, says he isn't ruling out future music related ideas, and would ...

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    Voltage plans six creature features with Insight

    2007-09-10T06:00:00Z

    Los Angeles based financing and sales company Voltage Pictures has announced another six creature feature films to be produced with Vancouver's Insight Films Studios.The first, Odysseus And The Isle Of Mists, is in post-production and will be directed by Terry Ingram and star Arnold Vosloo from The Mummy franchise.Riddles Of ...

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    Paramount Vantage starts buyer talks for Traitor and Harvey

    2007-09-10T06:00:00Z

    Paramount Vantage co-president Nick Meyer has commenced talks here with international buyers on Overture Films' terrorism thriller Traitor and romance Last Chance Harvey.Meyer and Overture chiefs Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett are testing the waters after announcing their partnership in Cannes, under which Overture has access to Vantage's international sales ...

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    New distributor KinoSmith pumps up with Bodybuilder

    2007-09-10T06:00:00Z

    Canada's distribution business has grown by one, as Toronto-based marketing and distribution veteran Robin Smith launches his KinoSmith Independent Films.Freshly greenlit through Telefilm Canada's low-budget independent distribution program, KinoSmith will release Brian Friedman's Hot Docs audience prize winner The Bodybuilder And I. Produced by January Films and the National Film ...

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    Midler, Bergen and Fisher join The Women for Inferno

    2007-09-10T06:00:00Z

    Bette Midler, Candice Bergan and Carrie Fisher have joined the case of Inferno Distribution's comedy The Women, which is currently shooting in New York and Boston.Annette Bening, Eva Mendes and Jada Pinkett Smith also star in the story of a wealthy New Yorker who leaves her cheating husband and bonds ...

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    Strand takes on Jacques Nolot's Before I Forget

    2007-09-10T06:00:00Z

    Strand Releasing has picked up all North American rights from Colifilms Diffusion to Jacques Nolot's Before I Forget (Avant Qur J'Oublie), which gets it world premiere here on Thursday.This is Strand's second acquisition of a Nolot film after Le Chat A Deux Tetes, which was released in the US as ...

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    THINKFilm strikes $3m deal for Hunt's Then She Found Me

    2007-09-09T09:01:00Z

    In the first major deal to be struck at the festival, THINKFilm isbelieved to have paid just under $3m for US rights to Helen Hunt'sdirectorial debut Then She Found Me.The distributor was among a pack of buyers chasing rights after theKiller Films production's world premiere on Friday, finally closingthe deal ...

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    Arts Alliance takes North America for Never Forever

    2007-09-09T09:00:00Z

    Arts Alliance America, formerly Hart Sharp Video, has picked up North American rights to the Vera Farmiga drama Never Forever and will co-distribute with South Korea's Prime Entertainment.The company plans a theatrical release in the first quarter of 2008 followed by DVD rollout.Never Forever premiered at Sundance and stars Farmiga ...

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    Myriad takes on rights to Farlinger's All Hat

    2007-09-09T09:00:00Z

    Los Angeles-based financing, production and sales company Myriad Pictures has picked up international rights on Leonard Farlinger's Toronto entry All Hat.Based on the book by Brad Smith, the comedy Western centres on the exploits of an ex-con who struggles to stay on the straight and narrow after he returns to ...

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    Weinsteins take world rights to John Crowley's Boy A

    2007-09-08T16:25:00Z

    The Weinstein Company (TWC) made the first big play of the festival as it announced on Friday it had swooped on worldwide rights excluding UK TV for Boy A. John Crowley's UK drama centres a young ex-con after he is released from prison for committing a murder as ...

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    Redacted goes worldwide with HDNet

    2007-09-08T16:08:00Z

    HDNet Films sealed most territorial deals on Brian De Palma's Iraq war drama Redacted ahead of its Venice world premiere.The film, which screens here on Monday and goes on to play the New York Film Festival, sold to TFM in France, New Select in Japan, AE/Eagle Pictures in Italy, On ...