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    Libra balances Esposito with Glasser

    2000-10-31T11:33:00Z

    Anthony Esposito, president of Leading Pictures Inc, and independent producer Richard Glasser have formed a production/distribution outfit called Libra Entertainment which has a first-look production deal with David Glasser's Cutting Edge Entertainment. Richard Glasser is also director of acquisitions at Cutting Edge.Libra will concentrate on projects with Canadian content that ...

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    Anna Marsh joins StudioCanal as VP of international sales

    2008-09-05T14:51:00Z

    StudioCanal has employed Anna Marsh as vice president of international sales in charge of English-speaking territories, Scandinavia and Latin America. Toronto will be her first outing with StudioCanal.Marsh, formerly of TF1 International, will be based in both Paris and London and report to StudioCanal international sales executive vice president Harold ...

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    Memento adds sales on Goodbye Solo to Benelux, Switzerland

    2008-09-05T14:54:00Z

    Memento Films International has generated strong buzz on Venice Horizons title Goodbye Solo with sales to Imagine in Benelux and Xenix in Switzerland. Following its premiere in Venice, the film is also being pursued with offers from France, Portugal, Greece and Italy among others.Ramin Bahrani's third feature will hit Toronto ...

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    BackUp launches new funding scheme with indie distributors

    2008-09-05T14:56:00Z

    French film financing agency BackUp Films has created a new funding scheme intended to co-acquire distribution rights alongside independent distributors. The venture, entitled Districup, will share risk with distributors while the distributors will have the opportunity to own all of the co-acquired rights following the first exploitation cycle.In its first ...

  • The Brothers Bloom
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    The Brothers Bloom

    2008-09-10T04:58:00Z

    Dir: Rian Johnson. US. 2008. 109mins

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    Landau, Zahn, Buscemi, Livingston star in ensemble Company Men

    2008-09-05T15:58:00Z

    Martin Landau, Steve Zahn, Steve Buscemi and Ron Livingston will star in Raul Sanchez Inglis' ensemble drama The Company Men, set to begin shooting in Detroit in November.Inglis wrote the screenplay about an aging salesman and his younger colleague who struggle to save an ailing toy company. Matthew Robert Kelly ...

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    Magnolia takes North American rights to Julia from StudioCanal

    2008-09-06T06:00:00Z

    StudioCanal has announced a North American sale on Erick Zonca's Julia. Magnolia Pictures has taken the film which stars Tilda Swinton. Julia was released earlier this year by StudioCanal in France and has sold to some 23 territories including Germany's Kinowelt, Spain's Verigo and the UK's Curzon Artificial Eye. In ...

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    San Sebastian to honour Antonio Banderas and Meryl Streep

    2008-09-05T16:24:00Z

    The San Sebastian film festival has announced that Meryl Streep and Antonio Banderas will receive the Donostia award, which is given to a film personality in recognition of their work and career. A respected Spanish actor and director, Banderas' career spans from his role in Pedro Almodovar's Labyrinth Of Passion ...

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    Spike Lee launches second Babelgum Online Film Festival

    2008-09-05T16:33:00Z

    Spike Lee, in Toronto for the world premiere of Miracle Of St Anna, launched the second Babelgum Online Film Festival today [September 5] and unveiled details about the competition.Web TV platform Babelgum set up the festival to support international short film and Lee will return as honourary judge alongside the ...

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    Denzel Washington to star in Hughes Brothers' Book Of Eli

    2008-09-05T16:55:00Z

    Denzel Washington will star in Alcon Entertainment and Silver Pictures' post-apocalyptic thriller The Book Of Eli that Allen and Albert Hughes will direct.Based on an original story by Gary Whitta and a rewrite by Anthony Peckham, the story takes place in the near future in an American wasteland where a ...

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    Image takes North American rights to $5 A Day

    2008-09-05T18:13:00Z

    Image Entertainment has picked up North American rights (excluding theatrical) from Capitol Films to Nigel Cole's comedy $5 A Day, which gets its world premiere tonight [September 6] in Toronto's Contemporary World Cinema strand.Alessandro Nivola and Christopher Walken star in the tale of a conservative man who grudgingly joins his ...

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    Altadena takes on Andrew van den Houten's Offspring

    2008-09-05T18:48:00Z

    Altadena Films has acquired international rights to director and producer Andrew van den Houten's horror thriller Offspring, which Jack Ketchum adapted from his own best-selling novel. Offspring is the second collaboration between van den Houten and Ketchum after The Girl Next Door, also sold by Altadena (and premiering at Deauville).Offspring ...

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    Film Export to shoot Aranda historical comedy

    2000-10-31T11:40:00Z

    Italy's Film Export Group has announced that it is about to start shooting a new Spanish co-production entitled Locura De Amor and directed by Vicente Aranda.Based on a true story, the $5m historical comedy recounts the trials and tribulations of a young Spanish royal couple in the 15th century. Maria ...

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    The Works rocks with UK rights to Anvil!

    2008-09-06T06:00:00Z

    The Works UK Distribution has taken all UK rights to Sacha Gervasi's rockumnetary Anvil! The Story Of Anvil.The deal was sealed by the Works UK Distribution's managing director Mick Southworth and director of marketing Laurence Gornall, and CAA's Micah Green and Brian Kavanagh-Jones.The film is about Toronto-based metal band Anvil, ...

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    Fichman set for Strategic Partners talk

    2008-09-05T21:22:17Z

    The 28th Atlantic Film Festival and Strategic Partners co-production market will welcome Passchendaele and Blindness producer Niv Fichman as the special guest at their Academy Luncheon on Sept 14. Fichman is a founding partner of Rhombus Media, and he will be interviewed by Super Channel and former Odeon Films executive ...

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    Carmody plans 3-D project Evil Dead: The Musical

    2008-09-07T07:00:00Z

    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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    Burns gets CTV backing for My Canada feature series

    2008-09-06T06:15:00Z

    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 ...

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    ContentFilm laughs along with Mike Judge's Extract

    2008-09-08T06:10:00Z

    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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    Fortissimo strikes Gigantic French deal with La Fabrique De Films.

    2008-09-06T06:40:00Z

    Fortissimo Films has closed an all-rights French deal for Toronto title Gigantic to La Fabrique De Films.Matt Aselton directed the Killer Films and Epoch Films production, which has its world premiere Monday in Discovery.The surreal love story stars Zooey Deschanel, Paul Dano and John Goodman.Fortissimo EVP of International Sales Nicole ...

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    Generator stirs up Ghost Machine in Belfast

    2008-09-06T05:00:00Z

    New UK genre production outfit Generator Entertainment continues to build its busy slate with principal photography starting yesterday (Friday) on Chris Hartwill's debut feature Ghost Machine.The supernatural thriller stars Sean Faris, Rachael Taylor, Luke Ford and Richard Dormer.Anchor Bay Entertainment has US distribution rights and worldwide sales are being handled ...